Chapter 234: Chapter 232: The Middleman Makes a Move
At this mont, the items that these rchants pointed at, lined up, added up to at least several dozens in total.
This imdiately shocked the young shop assistant on the spot.
It could be said that he was instantly stupefied, stuttering as he raised his head to ask uncertainly:
“Al-, al-, al-, all of it?”
However, facing the shop assistant’s astonishnt, the rchant revealed a smiling expression and said:
“Yes, all of it. Not just these, but also those over there as well.
Please calculate roughly how much silver it will be.”
The shop assistant swallowed with a ‘gulp’ sound, his face full of disbelief.
He could have never imagined that these people in front of him would want to buy everything here.
Just a glance and trying to calculate it casually, let alone carefully, was definitely several tens of thousands of taels.
Tens of thousands of taels worth of items, it’s not that he hadn’t seen such sales before; just yesterday, glazed glass Qilins worth a hundred thousand taels each were sold, three of them.
But to purchase so many items all at once, like now, was truly unprecedented for him.
However, this did not diminish his excitent one bit.
Thus, he imdiately started manipulating the abacus beside him, clattering away.
However, when the sales staff who had gone for lunch returned, they were taken aback to find a very strange scene in the shop.
A group of wealthy rchants was standing in front of the shop assistant who had the least sales yesterday.
Not only that, the counter between them was filled with various glazed glass vessels, and the shop assistant’s hands were continuously working on the abacus.
“The total has been calculated for the guests, amounting to 167,500 taels. Would you like to pay with silver or gold?”
As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding salespeople couldn’t help but draw in a breath of cold air.
They could have never imagined that this fellow had sold so many taels right at the start of the day.
And who was this? This was the one with the least ability in sales.
The very one they had pushed to open the store during breakfast ti.
Who would have thought that in just a short while, rely during the ti taken for breakfast, this guy would sell a whopping amount of over a hundred thousand taels.
In one fell swoop, he had outdone most of them.
They had laughed at him for selling so little yesterday, and today they could no longer catch up to him.
Except for the two salespeople called “Great White Rabbits,” none of the others had reached the number of a hundred thousand taels.
He had beco what Mr. Lin often ntioned, the so-called top seller.
This made the surrounding salespeople regret so much they turned green with envy.
If only they had known, they wouldn’t have bothered eating; they should have co straight to open the store – imagine how much commission they could have earned from such a huge deal!!!
However, after all, there were rules in the shop.
Once a sale was taken by one salesperson, no other salesperson was allowed to interfere.
And because of this, they could only watch enviously as this unnoticed fellow earned so much in commission.
Watching the envious glances of the people around, the young salesperson also felt quite proud inside.
Of course, while being proud, he did not forget to provide excellent service to the few big clients in front of him.
In the following process, the clients were very generous and did not settle with silver, but instead directly brought gold.
Watching the full box of gold, all the shop assistants had their eyes glued to it.
Of course, they had no crooked thoughts. After all, they had seen even more gold yesterday, and now they were just envious of this fellow’s good luck.
Besides envy, they even started to grit their teeth and encouraged themselves secretly.
It looked like today was going to be another busy day, and today’s sales were going to be exceptionally hot.
So each of them thought to themselves that they would be more diligent later, provide better service, and attract those wealthy custors to buy glazed glass from them.
Naturally, after the gold was brought out, it was first counted by the shop assistants.
After the shop assistants finished counting, a specialized accountant ca over to count again, and once verified to be correct, soldiers were tasked with escorting it to the back courtyards.
And those rchants, they also got a bunch of wooden boxes.
These boxes quickly filled up several horse-drawn carriages outside.
After receiving the boxes, the rchants also showed a delighted expression on their faces.
Without much delay, they drove the carriages straight out of the Capital City.
After sending off this group of extravagant rchants, the shop assistants inside took deep breaths and adjusted their state, thinking about how they could sell a few more pieces later.
However, to everyone’s surprise, the entire day after the initial purchase of tens of thousands of taels of glazed glass by the rchants, only a few scattered people ca in to take a look before leaving.
It could be said that if not for the mirror orders from a few ladies, they probably would not have sold much today.
When counting the sales in the evening, it was discovered that aside from the large order in the morning and excluding yesterday’s pre-orders, the total sales for the day were a little over 13,000 taels.
Although this number was still considerable, compared to yesterday’s sales, it was nothing.
The surprise was imnse as they couldn’t figure out what had happened today – after kicking off with that large order in the morning, why did no more people co to purchase?
When Lin Yi ca over in the evening and learned about this, he simply smiled and shook his head.
He had anticipated such a situation long ago.
After this morning’s court session, it would be surprising if these officials dared to co buy glazed glass again.
On the contrary, the large order in the morning was what truly surprised him.
Although it was within Lin Yi’s expectations, he never imagined it would co so quickly.
According to Lin Yi’s guess, it would take at least a week for these rchants to make their move.
But he never imagined that soone would react so swiftly and co up with the idea so quickly.
It seems that there are indeed masters within the Capital City.
Without guessing, it was clear that these rchants did not intend to take such a large batch of glazed glass ho to share with their families, as they had claid.
After all, even families of high standing wouldn’t do such a thing.
Their purpose was only one, that was to resell at a higher price.
…End of chapter…
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