Nan Huanuo whispered, "The delivery time is half a month. Are they planning to get the goods during this time?"
Chen Dabao nodded and said, "This trading model is very advanced. Since they can produce goods on a fixed basis, they can collect the money first and then produce. They don't even need to stock up. If the order volume is large, they can let the workers work overtime. If the order volume is small, they can let the workers go home for vacation."
Nan Huanuo said, "Who are the workers?"
Chen Dadan said, "It must be the herbalist!"
He suddenly thought of something and said loudly, "Lord City Lord, the rules shouldn't be just this! There should be more detailed rules. For example, if multiple people negotiate the price for the same product, how will the shipment be arranged?"
Ouyang Ming said, "The default rule in the industry is that customers with large quantities are given priority. No matter how many people negotiate for the same type of goods, customers with large quantities will be given priority."
Chen Dabao nodded and said, "That's good, I have no problem now."
Ouyang Ming continued, "The first item in the negotiation meeting is Red Blood Ginseng. The wholesale price is 800 Spirit Stones per order, 100 stalks per order. Large quantities will be discounted. Please place your orders, shopkeepers."
Zhang Da, the shopkeeper, and the other shopkeepers exchanged a glance, then he said, "We've agreed on a total of 500 orders."
Ouyang Ming didn't mind these shopkeepers banding together to place orders and lower prices. Instead, he encouraged this behavior. Chen Dabing was right. He didn't have much stock, but he had a large number of herbalists under his command. Five hundred red blood ginsengs meant 50,000 plants, which seemed like a lot, but this kind of low-level medicinal material could be easily collected without going deep into the abyss forest.
"Okay, five hundred orders of red blood ginseng, the price is capped at 500 spirit stones per order, a total of spirit stones, and the advance payment is spirit stones."
Manager Zhang handed over a storage bag, which was accepted by someone from the City Lord's Mansion. They wrote a receipt and Ouyang Ming stamped it. The procedure was very standardized.
Then other chamber of commerce shopkeepers also bargained for the price of red-blood ginseng. In contrast, Shopkeeper Zhang Da and Shopkeeper Liu San and others were shopkeepers of small businesses. They placed orders together in order to get the maximum discount, while other large businesses could take 500 orders alone.
There are a total of 2,000 orders for red blood ginseng. Tianya Haijiao City can produce 200,000 plants every month. This output makes Chen Dadan astonished. It is estimated that the whole city is full of herbalists.
In fact, he didn't know that red-blood ginseng is one of the most common medicinal herbs in the Abyss Forest. It can be found everywhere, if not everywhere. If it weren't for the age restriction of more than ten years, it would probably be as abundant as the mushrooms in Yunnan.
Then they negotiated for some other medicinal herbs, and the orders were all taken by the head shopkeepers. Chen Dabing just looked at them without saying anything, as he only needed the Blood Spirit Ginseng.
"Next is the bargaining price for Blood Spirit Ginseng. The wholesale price is one spirit stone per order. Large quantities will be discounted. Please place your orders, shopkeepers."
Zhang Da, the shopkeeper, said, "We want two orders."
Ouyang Ming said, "If you only order two, the price won't be discounted. I suggest you order three, which will give you a 10% discount."
Shopkeeper Zhang shook his head and said, "It's just two orders. The cost of Blood Spirit Ginseng is too high, and the sales volume isn't very good. But as a business, we can't do without it. So let's make less money!"
Ouyang Ming nodded. "Shopkeeper Zhang wants two orders for Blood Spirit Ginseng. Are there any other shopkeepers willing to negotiate the price?"
The price of Blood Spirit Ginseng was high, and it was a large order. He looked expectantly at the shopkeepers of several large trading companies, but they said, "We don't need Blood Spirit Ginseng this month. We needed too much last month, and we haven't digested it yet."
Big businesses always buy the full quantity at one time, giving discounts for larger quantities, and then sell them slowly. Anyway, the goods will not expire if they are not sold. Small businesses cannot do this because their funds do not allow it!
Ouyang Ming was a little disappointed. The two orders of Blood Spirit Ginseng were too few and did not meet his expectations at all.
Suddenly someone said, "I want 15 pieces of Blood Ginseng." It was Chen Dabing who had not placed an order.
Ouyang Ming didn't show any excitement, but instead frowned. He said, "Fellow Daoist Chen, 15 single blood spirit ginsengs are too many. We won't be able to collect them in half a month."
Chen Dabao said, "Then extend the delivery time to one month. I can wait."
Ouyang Ming said, "That's fine, but I apologize for the two orders from Shopkeeper Zhang."
Zhang Da, the shopkeeper, immediately shouted, "That won't do. We were the ones who negotiated the price first. We only want two orders, or one will do."
Ouyang Ming said, "I'm so sorry, our policy is to prioritize large quantities. Fellow Daoist Chen requested 15 orders, which is all we have in stock plus production capacity."
"Fellow Daoist Chen has negotiated for 15 orders of Blood Spirit Ginseng. The price is capped at 20,000 Spirit Stones per order, for a total of 300,000. The down payment is 150,000."
Chen Dabing threw a storage bag on the table. Someone from the City Lord's Mansion came to take it away and left a receipt. The deal was settled. 15 orders meant 1,500 Blood Spirit Ginsengs. In fact, it was far from enough for Chen Dabing, but this was all the money he had.
Several shopkeepers immediately gathered together and whispered to each other.
"I never thought this casual cultivator was so rich. I was wrong."
"We used to dislike him, but now he's bought up all the Blood Spirit Ginseng, and we're going to be out of stock!"
"It doesn't matter if we lose a little money if there's a shortage of stock, but it has a huge impact on our reputation. We're a small business to begin with, and if customers come in and find out this or that thing is out of stock, our business will get smaller and smaller."
"Why don't we ask him to share some of it with us? My small business doesn't sell a lot of Blood Spirit Ginseng, so a few plants would be great to keep things going."
Shopkeeper Liu San directly negotiated with Chen Dadan: "Fellow Daoist Chen, meeting is fate. Although there were some unpleasantness before, please don't mind. Could you spare me a few Blood Spirit Ginseng plants?"
Chen Dadan was quite generous and said, "No problem. Is ten plants enough for you?"
"That's enough," Liu San said. "Thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Chen."
Seeing that Chen Dabao was easy to talk to, other shopkeepers also came over and asked to share a few blood ginsengs.
Chen Dabing agreed to all of them, thinking that he had bought one less order and was not at a loss. For a moment, all the shopkeepers kept saying nice things and flattering him, except for the shopkeeper Zhang, who had a gloomy face and did not say a word.
In fact, if he had asked, Chen Dabing would have agreed. He did not take the previous cold remarks and sarcasm to heart. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and he could understand that. However, what he did not know was that the shopkeeper Zhang had already decided to kill him.
Chen Dabing has a huge amount of money, and he himself does not seem to have any cultivation. He is only accompanied by a beautiful girl in the Qi training stage. This combination of people in the world is a target for some people.
Manager Zhang is a legitimate businessman on the surface, but secretly making a fortune is not just a business.
The negotiation was still going on. Ouyang Ming said, "The negotiation for the medicinal materials project is over. Next up are the demon pills, demon bones, and demon skins."
Chen Dadan asked in surprise, "Are they selling demon pills here?"
Ouyang Ming said, "Yes, if a herbalist ventures deep into the abyssal forest, he or she might be killed by a monster and used as food. If they're lucky, they can hunt down some monsters. Monsters are full of treasures. Monster cores can be used to refine pills, monster bones can be used to refine weapons, and monster skins can be used to refine armor."
"Now, please place your orders, shopkeepers. Monster Pills are 8,000 Spirit Stones each, Monster Bones are 3,000 Spirit Stones each, and Monster Skins are 1,000 Spirit Stones each."
"I want an order of demon pills."
"Two demon bones."
"Demon Skin Ten Singles."
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