Chapter 937： Auction 1

In this era, there is no national bank in Europe. Often, the business scope of banks is limited to a certain big city. Of course, there are inter-city banks, but at most a few cities, and all are large cities.

For now, the banking industry in Italy is relatively developed. For example, the size of banks in Venice is relatively large. However, it is also limited to the territory of the Republic of Venice. Out of Venice, the impact will be less.

Of course, there are also some banking families that are relatively large in scale and influential. For example, the Fugger family supporting the Habsburg family has a greater influence on their family's banks. Even the cardinals of Rome recognized the bank drafts of the Fugel family.

However, those big banks often only set up offices in big cities. For example, in Rome, in Vienna, in Milan ...

Small towns like Emden do not have branches of those big banks. Moreover, Marin will not allow outsiders to set up banks in Beihai State to withdraw cash from Beihai State.

In fact, Marin planned to set up his own bank. However, due to various reasons, it has not yet been established. Moreover, even if he formed the official bank of Beihai, it could only be targeted at home at best. It is not difficult to expand to other countries ...

Therefore, in this auction of Emden, the carrying and verification of funds is a big problem. Because Emden does not have branches of those famous banks. Of those who participated in the auction, many people simply brought cash to come to the auction. However, for convenience, Marin invited representatives of some banks of the Hanseatic League from Hamburg and Cologne to provide settlement services to those participants who brought drafts. But many people do not know that Marin invited the bank representatives. In order to successfully capture the goods they wanted, they simply brought a lot of gold and silver coins.

In order to count these gold and silver coins and issue tickets, it also cost the Beihai country a lot of manpower. In order to help count those gold and silver coins, Marin mobilized a large number of tax officials from various places to come and help count the amount of currency.

Actually, it is still very simple to count the number. But the problem is that the value of each country's currency varies!

Not to mention the currency issues of other countries, but the currency inside Shinra is very complicated. Because the emperor was elected, the previous emperor, in order to obtain votes, authorized those princes to coin coins by themselves. Then, Shinra ’s currency was messed up ...

Fortunately, gold coins, everyone uses high-purity gold coins. The silver coins are more chaotic ...

It is also a small Finney silver coin. Some princely coins have a high silver content, while others have a low silver content. For example, in Austria and Bohemia, because there are more silver mines, the cast Finni silver coins have good silver content, which can reach about half. Saxony's silver coins can reach about 40% because of their developed economy. However, some princely countries with poor economy are more chaotic ... For example, Archbishop Trier, they have minted silver coins that are estimated to be less than a quarter of the silver, and it is also better than other countries Nepalese silver coins are lighter ...

Therefore, counting silver coins is the most frustrating thing. Officials involved in the inventory not only need to calculate the amount of currency, but also calculate the exchange rate based on the silver content of each prince ’s silver coin, which is very complicated ...

It was not until the day before the auction that the poor tax officials calculated all the funds of the participants and issued a certificate of proof. Then, these participants took the certificate of proof, went to the auction management office, and received the number plates of the participants.

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The next day, the much-anticipated auction finally began ...

After imitating the professional auction house of later generations, Malint specially found a fair-selling auctioneer and gave him a gavel to make it "final" ...

In fact, there were no formal auction houses in this era. Historically, formal auction houses appear to have only appeared in the 18th century. Of course, the auction asking price appeared very early. It's just that it's not so formal.

Marin gave each participant a number plate with a wooden handle used for "lifting a card." He also assigned seats based on his status and how much the participant had produced. Generally speaking, those with a distinguished status and with more money are arranged in the front row, while those with a lower status and less money are ranked in the back row ...

Then, in the design of the booth, Marin also took a lot of thought-there are no electric lights this year, so the lighting effect is difficult to do. But Marin used the mirror to spread the sunlight outside, and let a special "lighter" hold a copper mirror to shine the light towards the booth and fall on the auction ... And these "lighters" must follow the sun Adjust the angle of the mirror ...

Then, when the auction started, buyers were shocked to find that the porcelain placed on the booth was so dazzling under the sun ...

"This is a piece of exquisite porcelain from the ancient and mysterious Eastern Empire, with a starting price of 10 gold coins and a price increase of 0.1 gold coins each time. Now, please show your enthusiasm and start bidding! Please note that gentlemen, every time you bid, Please lift the sign first. After I counted down the 321, I dropped the mallet to confirm the goods you photographed! So, start bidding now! "The auctioneer shouted excitedly.

In fact, the first pieces of porcelain to be taken out are not fine products, but ordinary civilian articles, each of which costs no more than 0.1 silver (100 text).

But the European turtles present didn't know, they followed the conjecture of the auctioneer and started to get high. Then, they bid one after another:

"I make 10 gold coins!" Cried a fat man in a butler's costume. However, this one forgot to raise a sign. Obviously, he is not yet adapted to this new auction model.

The auctioneer frowned, but said politely:

"This guest, please raise the card first, and then ask for the price!"

When the fat man blushed, he raised the sign and repeated:

"I have 10 gold coins!"

His words just fell, and someone next to him also raised a sign:

"10.1 gold coins!"

"Very good, guest 49 bids 10.1 gold coins, is there any ..." the auctioneer shouted excitedly.

"10.2 gold coins!" Another person also raised the card.

"Guest 36 bids 10.2 gold coins ..."

"15 gold coins!" Said a man sitting in the front row impatiently. For those people, 0.1 gold coins are added slowly, but he has no patience.

"Okay, distinguished guest No. 10 has bid for 15 gold coins. Are there any higher bids?"

"17 gold coins!" Suddenly, another person in the front row also bid. Obviously, the front row is all bigwigs, and there is no decimal point for the price increase.

"17.2 Gold Coins!" Suddenly, some people joined the back row. Obviously, although the person in the back row has a low status and not much money, he really wants to get this porcelain ...

Then, there was an interesting scene at the auction-the front row price increases are all based on integer gold coins, and the rear row price increases are based on decimal points ...

In the end ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The first ordinary porcelain, with a high price of 33.2 gold coins, was better than the average price of the highest-grade porcelain auctioned by Conte in Lisbon, Portugal. However, the porcelains that started the auction are the most common goods ...

Then, with the gradual improvement of the porcelain grade, the price of porcelain also soared upward ... When the 500th piece of porcelain (the best piece of porcelain) was photographed, the unit price actually reached 97 gold coins, which was Lisbon auction The price is more than three times ...

This is probably the effect after the publicity. In short, the average price of this 500-piece porcelain auction is as high as 46 gold coins. The total price reached 23,000 gold coins. In Guangzhou, the purchase price of these 500 pieces of porcelain is definitely not more than 120 gold coins. In other words, if the cost of navigation is not counted, the profit is as high as 191 times. Even excluding the cost of navigation, there are hundreds of times of huge profits!

Next, the silk auction was not as hot as porcelain. After all, silk is also produced in Europe, but the quality is average. Porcelain, which was exclusively supplied by China in this era, is naturally rarer.

In the end, the profit of silk is only about ten times, which is far from comparable to porcelain. However, this also made Marin profitable. Because the amount of silk is larger. Mainly, the shipment of porcelain is troublesome. After all, porcelain is hollow and takes up more space. Moreover, a special wooden box needs to be fixed to avoid breaking. Silk can be packed more densely in the cabin, so the volume is relatively large.

Therefore, this Emden auction made Marin make huge profits of more than 50,000 gold coins. Thinking of the big European cities such as Lübeck, Worms, Rome, Paris, Barcelona and London, as well as airport auctions, Marin has already expected more gold coins ... In short, these auctions come down Lin's money is definitely over 200,000 gold coins ...