Chapter 527 Holy Will

Si Linglong exchanged glances for a moment, then quickly continued as usual.

He cleared his throat, turned around and asked, "The Emperor offers 10,000 taels. Is there anyone who can offer a higher price than 10,000 taels?"

Everyone in the hall was as quiet as a chicken.

You said it all, he is the emperor, who dares to bid against the emperor? ?

"Is there no one here?" Si Linglong asked again.

The hall was still quiet.

Si Linglong simply raised the small hammer and said seriously, "Well, 10,000 taels for the first time, 10,000 taels for the second time, 10,000 taels..."

Before she could finish, Mrs. Shi carefully raised a sign at the right seat, "11,000 taels?"

Almost everyone present looked towards her instantly.

Helian Yue also raised his eyebrows slightly, but there was no sign of displeasure on his face.

Shi Yongfan almost knelt down on the spot, turned his head and winked at his wife, "My wife, that's the emperor! The emperor! The emperor! How dare you snatch things from the emperor?!"

Mrs. Shi felt a little aggrieved.

She just wants it.

Besides, in an auction, the highest bidder wins.

Besides, this is charity.

The emperor can't force people to do charity.

Si Linglong affirmed Madam Yu Shi's bold move, and raised her voice again, "Madam No. 15 has made another bid! She bid 11,000 taels! Family, 11,000 taels, is there a higher bid than 11,000 taels?!"

Perhaps it was because they were the first to speak out, the people behind them saw that the emperor did not react, and their courage was once again piqued by Si Linglong's passionate applause.

Number 15 is the lady of the merchant clan who won the first prize. The officials have been secretly keeping a close eye on her for a long time, and it is impossible for them to let her be the only one to shine at this moment. Therefore, the palace, which had just been quiet, was once again filled with the sounds of clapping and applause.

Because the price of this mink fur coat was already over ten thousand taels, it would seem stingy to bid one hundred taels more. So the lady, who was determined to get the mink fur coat, directly bid one thousand taels.

"Twelve thousand taels!"

"Fourteen thousand taels."

"Fifteen thousand!"

"Eighteen thousand!"

The price he was bidding, which was like a number, made his husband next to him feel nervous.

The merchants didn't care. Everyone knew that merchants were rich, and those who were invited into the palace were even richer.

But the ministers are different.

Even though their family was indeed wealthy, they were worried that the emperor would suspect them of corruption if they openly treated money as nothing. Especially the Minister of Revenue, who really wanted his wife to stop.

Unfortunately, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager were watching, so he didn't dare to move.

The wife of the Minister of Revenue came from a noble family and had never lacked money, and her dowry was generous. Because she had this confidence, she did not need to consider her father when bidding.

In the end, only the Shangshu's wife and Mrs. Shi were still insisting. Mrs. Shi had been in charge of Zhongfu for so many years, so she was definitely not ignorant.

Although she liked it, she also knew that she couldn't cause trouble for her master. Seeing that the wife of the Minister of Revenue insisted, she simply stopped bidding.

The final price was set at 19,000 taels for the wife of the Minister of Revenue.

Si Linglong thought that the price was about right, so she raised the hammer again, but she didn't expect Helian Yue to speak again and directly bid the price.

"30,000 taels."

The wife of the Minister of Revenue did not expect that the emperor would raise the price again, and increased it by more than ten thousand in one breath. This time she really dared not to argue.

But she did not dare to argue, but the other ministers present began to think about it.

Why did the emperor make repeated bids?

After all, today is a charity auction, and people are not here for the items.

Ultimately, all the silver auctioned today will be donated to the people of Chuanlin. If the bid is too low, the amount of donated silver raised will be less, and the emperor will definitely be unhappy.

That's right! The emperor must have seen that the amount of donations set earlier was too little, so he personally raised the price twice. This was not really to compete with them, but to warn them!

Otherwise, the emperor wouldn't have come out to bid in person just because he didn't want them to bid for Lang Zhaoyi's winter fur coat, haha.

The Minister of Finance thought he understood the emperor's intention, and took the sign from his wife and bid again, "33,000 taels."

Everyone in the hall was shocked.

Looking at the Minister of Revenue, he smiled and bowed to Helian Yue who was sitting on the main seat, and said with a chuckle, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. It's rare for my wife to like something, so I can only be presumptuous."

Helian Yue always knew that Chen Kaiyuan was a cunning old man, so he just said, "It's a charity auction, regardless of status, bid freely."

When Helian Yue said this, he tacitly approved the behavior of the Minister of Revenue, and also dispelled some concerns in the palace caused by unequal status.

This can be considered as complying with the silent shooting rules originally set by Si Linglong.

With Helian Yue's words, those present in the hall, especially the wealthy merchants on the right seat, were obviously relieved of some of their tension. On the left seat, some ministers and royal family members also realized belatedly what the Minister of Revenue had realized, and the enthusiasm for the auction rose again.

"Thirty-five thousand taels!"

"Thirty-six thousand taels!"

"Thirty-eight thousand taels!"

Everyone thought they had understood the emperor's intention. Helian Yue had never expected that his price would be raised so much after he had made two bids. His eyes were gloomy as he glanced at the ministers.

He bid again, "Fifty thousand taels."

Without waiting for Si Linglong to ask, he glanced at the ministers and asked casually, "Anyone else want to bid?"

One by one, they vied with each other to take pictures of his concubine's sable fur coat. What did they want to do?