Chapter 371: Millennium Sycamore Wood(2/3)
"At least it must be over 100 billion, right?" Bingyun asked guessfully. The Bing family is rich, with assets worth more than one billion, and super families like the four major aristocratic families are worth this number!
Which of the four major families has assets exceeding 100 billion yuan? Without this number, there is no face to be qualified to be ranked among the four major families. Thousands of years of savings are not just a joke.
The girl Chen Yu once calculated the calculation in front of Xiao Han. The four major families, the most powerful financial resources were the Ouyang family in the south. The fixed assets exceeded 500 billion yuan, and the second was the Ye family, with assets of more than 400 billion yuan. The remaining two families, Ike and Situ were equivalent, with assets of more than 350 billion yuan. This is a figure obtained by Xiao Han and Chen Yu for the economic estimates of the major forces before the auction of the magic paper management rights. As for the three major forces, they are all big guys with more than 1 trillion yuan, I won’t mention this!
But why are the major forces of the aristocratic families with assets exceeding 100 billion only willing to bid for the operating rights at a price of hundreds of millions or even no more than one billion? First, the operating rights have a time limit, only five years, and second, they have also estimated that the market has a market that if the bid is too high, they will lose considerable profits, and they cannot make money, and no one is willing to do things that are paid for. Moreover, they have big families and big businesses, and real estate accounts for a large proportion. The hot money that can be used for circulation cannot be poured into a business, so the money that can be used for auction will naturally be less.
Take the Ike family as an example. Rong Xin. Ike only brought so much money when participating in the auction, so she was able to move around and move around. In addition, she had to ensure the operation and circulation of other businesses in her family. In addition, a previous invasion of the Orc Empire caused the Ike family's industry to be damaged by a trace of vitality, so others can bid with sufficient working capital, while she had to try her best.
Moreover, the Ike family's total assets have shrunk by one-third compared to the previous war, and are already at the bottom among the four major families.
Moreover, many of the Ike family's businesses were in a loss-making state. If it weren't for the sales of magic papers that maintained this high profit, the Ike family would have been in a situation where they could not make ends meet.
Now Rong Xin Ike plans to sell a large number of different products, such as shops and manors. The prices of these different products are at least twice as different than those after the war. The losses alone are enough to hurt the vitality of the Ike family, so many elderly people in the family disagree with Rong Xin. Ike's plan to move south even prevented her from selling these ancestral properties. Of course, many of them took advantage of the situation and found an agent to desperately lower the price, and then bought it again. From the outside, the Ike family is still a whole, but in fact it is already full of holes inside.
Although the power seizure plan launched by Rubin Ike was almost shot to death by his ancestor Longqin Ike, many people in the family still supported Rubin Ike, Longqin Ike could not execute him without authorization, so they could only lock him up and support Rubin Ike's people demanded to agree to a marriage with the Situ family, and use the power of the Situ family to stabilize the collapse of the Ike family, sacrifice a woman and save an Ike family. This is worth it.
Long Qin Ike knew very well who was the most suitable candidate to take charge of the Ike family, but Rong Xin Ike was a girl, and the people in the family supported Rubin Ike were also very powerful, which could be said to represent the power of nearly half of the family. He could not ignore the opinions of these people. He did not want the Ike family to be divided into two and became a second-rate family.
If you can really marry the Situ family and use the external forces of the Situ family to stabilize the family's instability, it is also a good choice. Anyway, women from a noble family do not have the right to choose marriage. Whoever is not married, as long as the interests are appropriate and the other party has enough status, it is nothing even if they marry an incompetent person. As a direct child of the family, they should sacrifice for the family!
The interests of the family are above everything else!
Rong Xin Ike just received the news that his ancestors had quelled the family rebellion. Before the joy had passed, the three major families actually united to force her to marry.
If she hadn't taken the post of the head of the family for a while, these people might have taken action and snatched the people directly!
To be honest, Xiao Han has no good impression of the so-called four major families. These people are all pretentious old stubborn people, and they are the best at finding some high-sounding excuses to seek personal gain for themselves. These are the decayed things that have been kicked by donkeys in the head.
"Miss Rongxin, what are your plans?" Xiao Han asked after hearing what happened.
Rong Xin Ike thought for a while and said, "I want to go back first. The three of them clearly want to annex my Ike family. I think our ancestors will support me."
"Miss Rongxin, I would like to remind you that men's ideas are sometimes different from women. Although your ancestor loves you very much, he will still put the family first at critical moments." Xiao Han said solemnly.
These men from aristocratic families have been working hard for the existence of aristocratic families throughout their lives, and always work hard to defend and maintain the existence of aristocratic families. The sacrificing women to ensure the safety of a family is not new in history, but most of the time they suffer the consequences and there is no good ending!
"Our ancestors don't know." Rong Xin Ike's tone was no longer as firm as before.
"If you want to go back, I won't stop you, but for your safety, I will let Ju Ren and Zhu Yinggu escort you all the way back, how about it?" Xiao Han said.
"Thank you!" Rong Xin Ike said gratefully. Xiao Han was able to send two masters to accompany her, so the safety of her business was much more guaranteed.
Rong Xin Ike stood up and said goodbye and left.
"Sister Rong Xin will probably be in a situation when she goes back this time." Ning Xiner said with some concern.
"That Long Qin Ike will definitely sacrifice her for the family, and this is a result without any suspense." Xiao Han sighed.
"Why don't you remind her?" Ning Xiner asked with a frown.
"She knows better than anyone else. I'm afraid the one who feels most uncomfortable now is her." Xiao Han said.
"Then we won't let her go back. What if she really wants to marry that Situ Jun when she goes back?" Ning Xiner said.
"This is someone else's freedom, we have no reason to stop it. Besides, maybe things are not as we expected?" Xiao Han said, "And, Rong Xin and Ike were in a strange poison. Although there was no attack, once it occurred, it would be only 49 days old!"
"Ah!" Ning Xiner said in surprise.
"Master, since you know that she is in a strange poison, don't you know how to treat her?" Ning Xiner asked anxiously.
Xiao Han smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I do know how to relieve the poison in her body, but I don't have the medicine to interpret!"
"We can buy medicine, and we can offer a reward!" Ning Xiner said.
"Other herbs are easy to deal with, but it is very difficult to deal with. It grows next to the flame magma, with a high temperature of thousands of degrees. It is called Lieyanghua. If you can find this herb, there should be no problem in treating her before the toxicity occurs. However, once the toxicity occurs, it will become an unsolvable poison!" Xiao Han explained.
"This, this is too difficult!" Ning Xiner's eyes widened and said in disbelief.
"It's not difficult, how can we solve the strange poison of the seven-star begonia?" Xiao Han smiled.
"Master, she doesn't know yet?" Ning Xiner asked.
Xiao Han shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be known, it's better than knowing."
"Go to bed, I have something to do tonight." Xiao Han urged Ning Xiner to say.
"Master, you..."
"Black market, I'll go to the black market to check it out. This time I heard that a thousand-year-old sycamore tree was born. Let's go and take a look." Xiao Han explained.
"Then you come back soon." Ning Xiner smiled and instructed.
"I know, I will come back after the matter is finished." Xiao Han nodded.
The location of the black market tonight is in a valley outside the west of the Orc Empire City. It is the largest black market in this radius of thousands of miles. It will open here at 12 o'clock tonight!
Xiao Han was flying in the air. He had seen hundreds of figures rushing to the location of the black market. Everyone seemed to know each other's destination. Even if they met, they would not say hello. Xiao Han encountered more than a dozen familiar figures, but everyone changed their appearance. The black market only had code names and no real names.
"Stop, who?" Although she could fly directly into the valley, Xiao Han still fell from the air and was stopped by two black market guards before walking to the valley.
"Three friends in the Year Han!" Xiao Han threw out a bronze medal. This was the first time he had obtained a black market pass. With this bronze medal, he could enter the black market in the whole mainland.
"You can introduce your friends to the black market again. According to the rules of the black market, you can bring a friend here next time." The guard returned Xiao Han's bronze medal and said to him.
"Thank you!" Xiao Han took over the bronze medal, changed his tone slightly, and walked into the valley quickly.
To put it bluntly, the black market is a large open-air market, but the things traded here are not something you can see casually. Once you enter the valley, you will sit in a row on the side of the roadside, and place strange things all over the ground, most of which are spread out a piece of animal skin on the ground and then put their own things on it. Most of these are black market merchants. They collect strange things everywhere and then sell them on the black market. Most of them are exchanged for gold and silver, and sometimes they are bartered. If you shop carefully, you may even find a lot of treasures, especially the large black market, where fish are mixed and there is no good eye.
Good things cannot be revealed at the beginning. The black market has just begun. As more and more people pass by, Xiao Han roughly estimated that the black market will reach a scale of tens of thousands of people.
"Brother, what is this?" Xiao Han looked at the stall owner with something like a magic snail in later generations, but it was much larger than the magic snail, and it was very beautiful and very smooth to the touch.
"This is the snail of the sea clan, which is used by the sea clan to command the army. Guest, this thing was discovered by a fisherman inadvertently in the sea when he was fishing. If you like it, there will be a thousand gold coins!" After waiting for a long time, a guest finally came to the door, and the seller said enthusiastically.
"What is the sea clan?" Xiao Han said in surprise.
"Yes, this military snail was identified by the appraiser of the Warriors' Guild. This is its appraisal, and it is still complete and can be blown." The seller explained.
“Can it still blow?”
"Guest, if you don't believe me, I can blow it to you?" The seller picked up the military screw.
"Okay, let's just blow it up, what about the three hundred gold coins?" Xiao Han said after reading the appraisal book.
"Eight hundred gold coins."
"Two hundred gold coins!" Xiao Han said with a smile.
"Six hundred gold coins cannot be missing anymore, the customer!" The seller immediately sweated.
"One hundred and fifty gold coins!" Xiao Han continued to smile.
"Customer, you are too good at bargaining!" The seller's sweat beads as big as soybeans on his forehead were gone. He had never seen a customer bargaining like this, and the fewer the more he had to smile helplessly.
"Actually, even if this thing is a military snail of the sea clan, it is worth fifty gold coins. I will give you three times the price, and you will be considered profitable." Xiao Han threw him 150 gold coins, put away the military snail and stood up with a smile.
Xiao Han walked slowly into the inside, and stopped and bought a lot of things, but most of them were small things. When he bought it, he was to coax women, and the other was to coax his son and daughter. As a father, it was unreasonable not to buy a few toys for his son and daughter.
There are many women among the black market merchants. Most of the things they buy are women's accessories, but they are very practical because the accessories they buy are exquisite and have very good workmanship. But more importantly, their accessories are hidden and can kill people invisibly, and they are very powerful.
Xiao Han was amazed after seeing these things. Some of the gadgets may not be comparable to those so-called agent supplies on the earth.
So Xiao Han chose more than a dozen gadgets to buy. If he gave this kind of thing to Su Hongxiu for research and development and equipped his own intelligence personnel, he might save their lives at a critical moment.
Xiao Han hadn't tried to recruit the women who sold such gadgets, but then he thought about it and let it go. As long as this kind of thing is creative, it will not be difficult to create.
There are also stalls of herbs on the black market, but it is rare to see more than a dozen kinds of herbs that people know about. Even if they don’t know, no one will know them. Unless someone has tried the medicinal properties, they will be taken out. This kind of nameless herb is rare. Xiao Han is lucky and encountered a plant in the black market tonight.
There are still many people who follow it, and four or five people must be interested in this herb.
Others cannot recognize it, but Xiao Han recognizes it. It is a towering grass, with thin leaves and small flowers, with strange fragrance and seven-dimensional scent. It is a main medicinal material for making Tianxiang Yulu Pills.
Tianxiang Yulu Pills are a medicinal herb. It sounds like it is for women. It is not bad. This medicine is indeed for women because it has the effect of inducing pregnancy. It is only one of the good medicines to treat infertility. It can also increase the chance of pregnancy. The effect is much gentler than rosemary. Biluo has always wanted a child to get Xiao Han and has a headache. Logically speaking, it is not his problem, because he already has a son and a daughter, and he has a belly full of pregnancy. It is very likely that the hit rate is not high, so I tried my best to see if I could find some breakthroughs from external forces. The Bee Butterfly Valley was destroyed by Ye Hao, the ancestor of the Ye family. Rosemary was almost cut off from then on, so I could only find another way.
So Tianxiang Yulu Pills appeared in front of Xiao Han, but this was also a magic medicine that was hard to find. A towering grass was searched for him for several months, without any news. Logically speaking, the towering grass is not a particularly precious herb, but no one has seen it. However, the towering grass can treat some women's symptoms of postpartum weakness, and its effect is quite obvious. The businessman fiddling with the herb found that this grass was eaten by the postpartum monster and quickly passed through postpartum weakness and recovered much faster than usual. So he determined that this might be a herb that human pharmacists had not discovered yet, so he took a Dao black market to try his luck.
"I have all these herbs!" One of the onlookers was silent for a while and said loudly.
Xiao Han sniffed a little with his nose. Four of the five people were pharmacists. The smell of medicinal materials they emitted was hard to hide. One of them might be just a little curious.
"Guest, I only have ten gold coins, one gold coin, how about it?" The seller was happy when he heard this. This herb that no one had seen before. The price was not as good as he said. When he accepted the ten herbs, he only spent two copper coins. After replacing the sale, he would have to buy ten gold coins, and the profit increased by 500 times. In the family of the person who purchased, there was a large bundle of such herbs. If he didn't buy them at all, then the ten hundred plants would be sold, and he would not die?
"One gold coin, one plant?" The pharmacist frowned just now. He came to participate in the black market. Who would have ten or eight gold coins? But no matter how much money, no one would want to be cheated for no reason. Then wouldn't he be regarded as a fool?
"Guest, I was able to collect this herb from others with a good idea. This plant costs five silver coins, and with transportation and storage, I have to make some money, don't you think?" the seller said bitterly.
"Okay, just one gold coin, I bought it!" The pharmacist said and wanted to pay.
"Slowly, I'll give out fifteen gold coins!" At this time, another pharmacist suddenly said.
"I'll give out twenty!" Another pharmacist didn't dare to show his weakness and rushed forward.
"I'll give out twenty-two!"
"You, you..." The pharmacist who was the first to bid just now was trembling all over.
"Brother, I haven't said I want to sell it to you. According to the rules that those who are at higher prices will get, these ten herbs are mine." The one who released the most, threw down twenty-two gold coins, took the ten herbs from the seller and ran away.
As soon as he left, the remaining three pharmacists were still here for what they did. They all pulled their feet and left. The person who watched the fun shook his head and sighed and left, but Xiao Han stood in front of the stall without moving a single step away.
The seller happily collected the twenty-two gold coins. Now that he made a fortune, he only collected two copper coins and sold the things at a sky-high price of twenty-two gold coins. He couldn't even get rich.
"Guest, just take whatever you like." The seller said generously when he saw Xiao Han who had not left. There was nothing worth a lot of money on the herbs on the stall. It was just a signboard. He didn't feel sorry for taking them all away.
To be continued...