Chapter 720 Before the Auction
"Three artifacts, the Poseidon statue, and the architectural blueprint of the Tongque Tower, these things are bound to be obtained, you prepare!"
"The woman understands that the general is free to bid for all the collections of the Zhen family. As long as the final bidding price is high, the general only needs to pay the starting price. In addition, we will do our best to provide the general with the best price for the auction items that are not owned by the Zhen family. A good bidding environment ensures that the general will win the auction item at the lowest price."
For Shang Ji's domineering request, Mrs. Zhang didn't protest at all, and promised quite submissively.
"Well, that's it for now, let's go down first!"
Seeing that Mrs. Zhang is so upright, the anger in Shang Ji's heart dissipated a lot, he nodded and sent her away.
The official auction will start in five days, and of course Shang Ji will not stay in Madam Zhang City. Mrs. Zhang's city is not far from Lulong Fortress, so Shang Ji simply took people to Lulong Fortress directly to inspect the defense.
Speaking of which, since the last time he "bought" Lulong Fortress from the local defenders at a low price, Shang Ji never visited Lulong Fortress in person.
Leading a thousand fine riders, it took half a day to arrive at Lulong Fortress, and found that compared with before, Lulong Fortress is more magnificent and magnificent, and its defense is even more outstanding!
This is naturally due to Deng Yan.
Although the early Lulong Fortress was in a strategic location, with Emperor Ling's character, it would be good not to deduct the military salary of Lulong Fortress, let alone allocate funds for repairs and maintenance.
After Shang Ji took over, he attached great importance to the west gate of Pingzhou. A large amount of money, food and materials have been allocated here, and after two years of continuous investment, the overall defense capability of Lulong Fortress has been improved to a higher level.
Lulong Fortress is not a single fortress, it is a collective name for a group of fortresses. Relying on the terrain and landforms, forts and arrow towers were built in dangerous places for defense. Hundreds of large and small forts together formed Luronse.
The terrain here is extremely complex and diverse, and it is difficult to launch a large-scale corps attack. Even large siege equipment is difficult to transport up.
With a strong fortress and a forest of arrow towers, coupled with a capable army, if you want to attack Lulong Fortress head-on, don't even try without more than five times the force.
At present, the total number of troops stationed in the Lulong fortress group has exceeded 600,000, and the largest fortress-Lulongsai has a full 200,000 elite troops stationed there.
In addition, there are also heavy troops stationed in Lingzhi, Feiru, Haiyang and other surrounding counties. There are more than one million troops in this small area in western Liaoning.
According to the latest military deployment formulated by Liu Yi, 1.5 million elite troops need to be hoarded around the Lulong Fortress to guard against possible threats from the west.
Naturally, so many troops were not simply used to defend against Gongsun Zan. As far as Gongsun Zan's strength is concerned, placing 500,000 troops in Lulong Fortress is enough to stop Gongsun Zan's eastward advance.
The reason why 1.5 million troops were placed was more to pave the way for the national war.
The duration of the national war is undecided, and no one knows how long this national war will last.
If the fight lasts for three to five years, no one can guarantee where the situation in Huaxia District will go.
Five years later, it is not surprising that there will be an "Eighteen Route Princes Discussing Business" Shangji. Just in case, the defense capabilities of the western part of Pingzhou must be strengthened. Even if the situation really collapses, it will not be beaten. caught off guard.
Stayed in Lulongsai for three days, inspected the mountains and rivers, met with officers above Sima and above who were stationed in Lulongsai's other divisions, and talked to them one by one to encourage them. class rewards.
Of course, the main purpose is to see the loyalty of the officers.
As I said before, if you want to check the loyalty in Fenghuo, even the direct subordinates who have already recognized the master must check it in front of you. Shang Ji hadn't come to Lulongsai for a long time, so he didn't know much about the loyalty of the generals in Lulongsai.
Usually it was nothing, at least Lulongsai's main generals were Shang Ji's hard-core confidantes, but now they were about to participate in the national war, so Shang Ji couldn't rest assured if he didn't find out for himself.
The general in charge of Lulongsai's defense is Fang Yue, the "famous Hanoi general" who was killed by Lu Bu in five rounds in the novel.
In fact, Fang Yue's combat effectiveness is not bad, an A-level general, barely worthy of the title of "Hanoi Famous General". Otherwise, he wouldn't be regarded as a confidant by Wang Kuang. It's just that he was out of luck and met Lu Bu who was at his peak, so he became cannon fodder.
Among the entire Three Kingdoms, there are not many who can take Lu Bu's five moves without any damage!
Although Fang Yue has been with her for a short time, her loyalty is not low. Although it is not as good as Liu Meng, Su Huan and other loyal confidants who have been fixed at 100 loyalty, it is still hovering around 90, which is quite a reliable number.
In addition to Fang Yue, there is also a non-historical general Liu Shan. Liu Shan is one of the many generals trained by Shang Ji himself. He is not as powerful as Fang Yue, but his loyalty is beyond doubt. As Fang Yue's deputy, he assisted Fang Yue in managing Lulong Sai, and it was also a kind of check and balance.
Loyalty probing made Shang Ji very satisfied with the results. There are nearly 200 officers above the Sima level in Lulongsai's other department, and their loyalty is basically over 75, which is already a considerable number.
If the army's stalls are too large, the average loyalty will naturally drop, and Shang Ji is already very pleased with the fact that most of them are above seventy-five.
The inspection results were good, and Shang Ji's mood naturally improved.
Recruit Fang Yue, Liu Shan and others who were stationed in Lulongsai, encourage them, reward them with some property and medicine, encourage them to be diligent in military affairs, guard the border and guard the west gate of Pingzhou.
After inspecting Lulongsai, Shang Ji led the crowd back to Mrs. Zhang's City, and the auction was about to start.
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Time flies, and the auction officially begins.
In the few days after Shang Ji left, several more treasures were sent for consignment, among which the most valuable was the divine artifact Qingyu Sword sent by Lu Zhi.
It seems that Lu Zhi's life is not easy, and all the artifacts are auctioned.
There were many people who came to participate in the auction. Mrs. Zhen had prepared more than 8,000 high-grade items and hundreds of heaven-level items. Of course, such a large-scale auction could not be completed in one day.
According to the plan, the auction will last for three days. According to the valuation of the auction items, more than 8,000 collections were auctioned in the three grades of Tiandiren.
The auction that Mrs. Zhen has been preparing for a long time will naturally not have any cheap goods that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Such things are not shameful enough. There are more than 8,000 pieces in the collection, and the starting price is not lower than 1,000 gold!
And those with a starting price between 1,000 and 10,000 can only appear in the lowest-level character stores. There are ten auction houses of this level. In three days, ten auction houses will be auctioned at the same time, and most of the more than 8,000 collections will find buyers here.
Collections with a starting price between 10,000 and 100,000 are eligible to go to prefecture-level auction houses. There are only three prefecture-level auction houses, and about 20% of the collections will find their owners here.
As for the sky-level auction house, there is only one in the entire venue. Those that are eligible to be auctioned in the heaven-level auction house are all high-end goods, and the prices of many auction items cannot be estimated at all.
The auction items of the three levels of heaven, earth and people are different, and the guests they receive are naturally different.
The lowest human-level auction house has no identity requirements. As long as you can prove that you have more than one thousand gold in assets and spend one gold to buy tickets, you are eligible to participate in the auction.
The prefecture-level auction house has status requirements, such as small and medium-sized families, leaders of large mercenary teams, lord players with small achievements, literati with some prestige, and so on.
The highest level of sky-level auction houses have even higher requirements. The princes themselves or representatives from all walks of life, the famous general Hongru, the leader of the super-large player force, the aristocratic family with a long history, officials of the rank of Qianshi or above, etc.
Anyone who can enter the sky-level auction field is not an unknown person.
Of course, at this critical juncture, few princes were too idle to come to the auction in person.
Usually the confidantes of the princes came here. For example, Yuan Shao sent his nephew, Dong Zhuo sent his brother Dong Min, and Yuan Shu sent his son Yuan Yao directly.
It can be seen from the selection of representatives that the princes of all walks of life have adopted the strategy of "creating cronyism" this time. After all, everyone who participated in the auction held a lot of money, so they had to guard against the possibility of absconding with the money!
But there are not no genuine princes, such as Lu Bu Lu Fengxian!
Although the Wanwan city was destroyed in the end, Lu Bu lost an excellent opportunity to occupy the royal city. But in the Battle of Xianbei, Lu Bu can also be said to have made a lot of money.
Regarding the western Xianbei, Lu Bu knew that he was unable to rule effectively, so he directly adopted the method of killing the chicken and taking the eggs. After finally surviving, the Western Xianbei plundered again.
Although this method was relatively unprofitable in the long run, it allowed him to accumulate a large amount of material goods in a short period of time. Relying on these, several counties in the northern part of Bingzhou were rectified, the army was expanded, and its strength increased greatly.
Even at the suggestion of Chen Gong, he took advantage of the opportunity of the victory over Xianbei to perform the duty of protecting the Xiongnu Zhonglang, and severely rectified the southern Xiongnu who gradually became disobedient.
Under the coercion of Lu Bu's heavy troops, the Southern Huns had to disband their tribal troops and at the same time accept the protection (surveillance) of Lu Bu's army. And Lv Bu also followed Shang Ji's example and dispersed the disbanded Southern Huns to supplement the army, bringing its total strength to 2.5 million.
Backed by Lu Zhi, a big tree, Dong Zhuo has not been mixed with sand. Compared with the princes caught in the power struggle, Lu Bu's small life is quite comfortable. Lu Bu, who was free and free, came to participate in the auction in person.
In addition to Lu Bu, half of the princes came in person. The reason why it is said to be half is because of his special situation. This person is Yanhuang Sharp Blade, the boss on Yanhuang's bright face!
Not only Yanhuang Sharp Blade is here, but all the high-level player forces in Huaxia District are here, and all the faction leaders are here in person!
Of course, Shang Ji or Zhen's didn't have such a big face to recruit all the leaders of the famous player forces in Huaxia District. What really worked was Yanhuang, or Yanhuang's summoning order for the national war!
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