Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Consignment Bank
Walking to the consignment shop of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, there are quite a few people here, but everyone's face is a little anxious, and their mouths are still shouting: "Shopkeeper, come and see me!" There are only seven or eight small servants and two shopkeepers in the store, staying at two windows, one east and one west, and there is a long queue in front of the window.
Qin Guan wondered: "What are these people doing?"
"Palace Master, you don't know anything. Song Dongming explained, "Palace Master, please see, these people are holding a lot of good things in their hands, all of which are usually rare spiritual grass spiritual materials, as well as magic weapons and classics found in the cave mansion of which predecessor I don't know. They are now exchanging these things that are pressed at the bottom of the box on weekdays for spirit stones so that they can buy supplies. ”
He saw that Qin Guan seemed to have figured it out, but he was still a little puzzled, so he continued: "The palace master doesn't understand why these people don't just go to barter. To put it simply, these people are not good people in their bones, and they naturally have a lot of suspicion of others, and they will never believe that others will not deceive themselves. Moreover, the spirit stone is easy to identify, and it is not easy to fake, and these fragmentary unique classics, predecessors, and other rare spirit grass and spiritual materials are very convenient to fake. He carefully transmitted the message to Qin Guan again, and said a lot of things about the cheating of the spirit grass that he had encountered before. He opened a Lingcao shop in Danghai City, although the scale is not large, but he is also an old man who has been crawling and rolling for decades, and he knows everything about it, naturally it is not like this from the beginning, it must have experienced many setbacks, and what kind of scam has been experienced.
It is also self-inflicted, although these casual cultivators have no backers, everything has to work hard by themselves, and they will inevitably be infected with a lot of bad habits, such as cheating, abduction, and other things that can be encountered in the rivers and lakes of ordinary people, and the cultivation world is naturally often encountered. Therefore, between casual cultivation, it is easy not to barter, unless it is a person who knows the root and is sure of the transaction will not deceive himself, and will exchange the treasure at hand for other people's good things. But when trading with strangers, it is still the first choice to use spirit stones. If you are not afraid of being deceived, you can also barter, but five or six times out of ten, you must be deceived.
Qin Guan shook his head: "No wonder this consignment shop is so popular. ”
"Yes, this consignment shop of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, Sanxiu can not only consign his treasures here, but also directly sell the things in his hand to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, but the price is lower than when it was consigned, but the time is much faster, you don't have to wait for someone to buy it to receive the money, you can directly collect the spirit stone on the spot, which is a very convenient way." ”
Qin Guan: "Not really, although Elder Song said this consignment method so well, it must be a great disadvantage." If I think about it myself, I can say a few points. For example, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce will definitely not accept those inferior things, so that it can sift out the treasures in the hands of many people. Second, although there are a lot of spirit stones sold directly to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce will definitely not do a loss-making transaction, buying low and selling high is the way to make money, if the goods sold are widely used, and then want to buy from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce in the future, the spirit stones paid are not the price when they were purchased. There are many, many more, just thinking about it, I know that the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce must have made a lot of money this time. ”
They watched at the door for a while, Qin Guan calculated the number of people coming in and out, on average, if a person sold a thousand spirit stones, just for half an hour, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce would have to pay almost 100,000 spirit stones. Qin Guan and the others smacked their mouths, this Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is really rich, and the spirit stones are scattered a lot, and they don't know how long they will be scattered.
After watching for half an hour, Qin Guanguan saw a lot of people selling the treasures in their hands, and rarely saw anyone buying, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange: "Elder Song, do you think this situation is a bit strange? Why don't you see anyone selling it, but not anyone buying it? Don't the monks here care about cultivation? Or is it that the best magic weapons and elixirs are saturated, and everyone has a lot of them in their hands?"
Song Dongming didn't dare to laugh at Qin Guan's wishful thinking directly, this elixir and magic weapon are the two most important things to improve the survivability of monks, one inside and one outside to improve combat effectiveness, it will never be too much, how can it be saturated? He said in a low voice: "Palace Master, I guess you must have guessed correctly, something big will happen in Beihai!" This group of scattered cultivators is estimated to have swept away the elixir and magic weapons in Miaofeng Fang, I think they are selling now, there is no elixir at all, only spiritual grass and spiritual materials, even if there are magic weapons, they are all strange things, they can't improve the combat power at all, they can only be used for research. Otherwise, let's find someone to ask, and we can't guess what's going to happen just by guessing here. ”
The group entered the consignment shop, passed through the crowd without touching the ground, and came to the counter where the goods were purchased, and in it sat a spirited old man, holding an ancient book and reading silently, and a cup of tea was steaming next to it, in stark contrast to the busy scene of the other two windows for buying goods.
"This fellow Daoist. Qin Guan gently tapped on the table top of the counter.
Lao Su glanced up and said, "Consignment and urgent sales are queuing up over there." ”
Qin Guan knew that he had misunderstood himself and the others: "This fellow Daoist, we are not here to sell things, we are here to buy things." ”
Lao Suo changed his smiling face, put down the book, and hurriedly said: "This guest officer is really embarrassed, he is old and confused, and he thinks ...... Hehe, please Haihan! This way, this way, please. "The last one who came to buy something, just came to ask and left, and he didn't even have the idea of looking at the goods, so he thought that he couldn't do business today, who knew that he was still thinking about it, and this is the time to work.
Lao Suo led Qin Guan and the others to a big room, which was full of tables and chairs, and thought it was a room for big customers, but basically no one came now, so Qin Guan and they were cheap, and Lao Suo was also sure that Qin Guan had so many people coming here, and there must be a lot of things to buy, and the more he spent, the more he would draw, so he made a good proposal to let Qin Guan and others come here to negotiate.
The group sat down, and Lao Suo asked, "I don't know what this distinguished guest wants to buy?" Lao Suo doesn't dare to say that he knows everything about the things in the warehouse, but he also knows a lot, you can tell me a rough idea, and I can show it to you to see if you are satisfied. "The treasury of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is now full, and several people in charge are also a little worried, although there are a lot of things collected, and they have paid nearly twenty percent less than usual, but it is not a matter to pile them in the warehouse, at least a part of them must be realized, otherwise in another ten days and half a month, the spirit stones in their hands will not be enough to collect things like now. So I explained it to Lao Suo, and if he had customers, he would sell some things as soon as possible, and as long as the price was not too outrageous, they could sell it, anyway, they had already earned enough, and they didn't care about making a little less, as long as they could come in and have some flowing spirit stones.
Qin Guan didn't know Lao Suo's psychology, he pondered for a while, and said, "I don't know the name of Yougao?"
"Don't dare to be, the old man's surname is Wang, and his single name is a blue character. Regular customers generally call me the old king, and the distinguished guests can call me whatever they want. ”
"Well, then...... The royal road is friendly. Wang Daoyou, I don't know if there are all kinds of spiritual grass seeds here?" Qin Guan first said one of the things that his group wanted to buy in Song Dongming's pure and eager eyes. Spirit grass seeds are something that the Alchemy Hall urgently needs, and although there are more than twenty kinds of elixirs that Sanqing Palace is refining now, they are pitifully few compared to the hundreds or thousands of elixirs that other sects often have. Moreover, the huge spiritual land of Fangcun Mountain has only planted dozens of kinds of spirit grasses, which is really too wasteful, so what they want to buy most now is a batch of high-quality spirit grass seeds, as an experimental reserve for the study of spirit pills.
Lao Su squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and replied: "If you go back to your guests, there are a lot of seeds of this spiritual grass in our store, but I don't know what kind of seeds your guests need?"
Qin Guan handed over the negotiation to Qingjing and Song Dongming, he didn't know much about these things, so it was better to leave them to professional people to negotiate.
"This shopkeeper Wang, what are the spirit grass seeds you have here, and we need a lot of them, can we take out some of them and take a look?"
Wang Qing's blood suddenly surged, he didn't expect a big customer to come, listening to this tone, there are a lot of quantities needed, a spirit grass seed can be worth a low-grade spirit stone, if it can be sold for 10,000, it will be 10,000 low-grade spirit stones, and his tap will have 500 spirit stones. He didn't dare to delay, so he confessed his guilt, saying that he was going out to get the catalog of spiritual grass seeds to show everyone. Song Dongming stopped him: "Please also ask Daoyou to take out a few samples of each one, and I can wait to see the condition." Wang Qing hesitated, it was nothing to take out some of everything, but it took a lot of time, he was afraid that this group of people would be in a hurry, so what should he do if he simply left.
Qin Guan knew his concerns, and said softly: "Wang Daoyou don't have to worry, I can't wait to buy not only spirit grass seeds, but also other things to buy, you go and get samples first, I'll wait here for you, I won't leave early." ”
Wang Qing was relieved, arched to everyone, and walked out of the room. Qin Guan and the others sat on the chairs, not talking to each other, afraid that the wall had ears, and even if it was a sound, it was not so safe, so they were stunned by the furnishings in the room one by one.
Everyone waited for about half an hour before Wang Qing returned to the room with a Qiankun bag and an account book. "Fellow Daoists, please see, this account book is the catalog of spirit grass seeds. In this Qiankun bag are some samples I just took out from the warehouse, and I invite you to check them out. ”
Song Dongming and Qingjing are not modest, one person looks at the account books, and the other looks at the Qiankun bag, and the division of labor is very clear. Song Dongming looked at the account books while discussing with Qingjing in a low voice: "Qingjing, you see, there are quite a lot of cloud fritillary mothers of these five grades, which are just right for us...... of uses. He didn't say anything clearly, but with a look, he understood what he meant. "Well, indeed, I think this cloud fritillary seed is in good condition, with strong vitality, and it is suitable for use. Eh, Elder Song, look, there's also a six-grade stone lotus!
"Where, I'll see! My recipe just lacks a stone lotus flower to become a pill. Song Dongming held the account book and leaned beside Qingjing, and looked at the stone lotus in Qingjing's hand, "Well, this product looks half a point better than the handful of cloud fritillary seeds! It didn't take much effort, and a lot of things had already been outlined on the account book, and Qin Guan couldn't help but feel a little painful: "How many spirit stones do you have to spend here!" Although it won't add up to tens of thousands of spirit stones, they still have other things to buy, and Qin Guan is afraid that the money he brings will not be enough.
"This," Qin Guan put down the teacup, "Two elders, be cautious, I don't know if the spirit stones we brought are enough to buy other things." ”
Qingjing and Song Dongming turned a deaf ear, still sketching by themselves, and a few juniors on the side sneered, sometimes their own palace master really has no prestige. This is what Qin Guan is usually used to, but he doesn't feel offended at all, he just thinks that these two old men are really serious, and it's not that they can't be bought in the future, so they won't buy them all at once now.
After waiting for two hours, the consignment store that walked in early in the morning, and by the time Song Dongming and Qingjing finished tidying up, it was already past noon. "Two, have you finished sketching?" Wang Qing saw that the two of them finally stopped moving, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.
The two nodded, handed back the account book and Qiankun bag to Wang Qing, and began to imagine what should be planted in the spiritual land together. Although Wang Qing only listened to it for a while, he understood that this group of people was a big customer, whose spiritual field was based on a hundred acres as a unit, so many spiritual fields, if these two people didn't brag, it must be those famous people. Wang Qing didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked Qin Guan: "Distinguished guest, I don't know if there is anything else you need?" ”
Qin Guan pondered for a while and said, "Hmm, this, I don't know how much your Chamber of Commerce collects?
Wang Qing said with a little pride: "Don't hide it from your guests, the things of my family's Chamber of Commerce are among the best in this Beihai cultivation world, not only the things of Beihai, but also the products within the four seas and even above Kyushu, I also have a lot here, but if the guests can say it, our Four Seas Chamber of Commerce can take it out for you." ”
Qin Guan: "Oh, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce is really powerful! Then choose a few of them, and bother Daoists to get one or two." Qin Guan mentioned a few things that Dong Xiuzhu told him when he went out, Wang Qing listened to it, and searched in his heart, he knew a lot about the things in the warehouse, and it happened that what Qin Guan said was what he had seen, so he didn't excuse himself, so he directly said goodbye and went out to get something. Qin Guan calculated the price a little, probably these things plus seeds are about 50,000 spirit stones, I don't know what the current market price is, I have to ask Wang Qing again in a while. Take a hundred plating on the latest chapter of "Hello Daozun Claw Book House" to read for free for the first time.