Chapter 3146 — The Exorbitant Pill Cauldrons
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Liu Jinghan had not expected first-day sales to reach one point nine billion—a spectacular opening, to be sure! The money from this first day alone was enough to repay the bank loans that had been pressing them, so at least the Liu family's debt was no longer a problem; and the sales of tomorrow and the day after would be more than enough to pay off the debts of Lai Pangzi's pharmaceutical company as well.
At once, Liu Jinghan happily phoned Wei Zhao!
"Wei Zhao, do you know? On the first day, our revenue hit one point nine billion!" Though Liu Jinghan was the Liu family's genius daughter, even she was shaken by such a terrifying, heaven-defying turnover. What kind of business could rake in so much money at a stroke?
The cost of a first-grade automatic cauldron was not low, either—the titanium alloy and the specialized single-chip microcontroller were extremely expensive—but set against the sale price, it was a drop in the bucket, negligible, even.
"One point nine billion?" Wei Zhao was startled out of his wits; he too had never imagined so many could be sold on the first day. Back when he had been trying to get the pharmaceutical company running again, he had strained every nerve to scrape together a bit of capital—and yet Liu Jinghan had sold this much in a single day: "How many cauldrons did you sell?"
"Five—two five-in-one, three single-version," Liu Jinghan said. "But the cost of the two kinds is the same; there's no difference."
Wei Zhao understood what Liu Jinghan meant: the only difference between the two was the program in the microcontroller, while the cost of manufacture was identical. What astonished him was that five cauldrons had sold for one point nine billion?
"How is that so much? What price did you set?" Wei Zhao was utterly aghast; the price truly shocked him.
"Twenty million for the single-version cauldron and eighty million for the five-in-one—that's the price Vice President Ouyang and I agreed on together, because I had to price them according to the estimates from their auction and couldn't undercut the market," Liu Jinghan said. "But for now, the momentum looks good—no empty seats, at least. From tomorrow on, more people will come to buy; plenty are still watching, waiting to see whether the others who bought one find the same effects as the ones at the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce."
"Good—then keep selling, and report to me whenever there's news!" Wei Zhao felt one burden lift from his mind. The company's troubles had plagued him for a long while, and now at last they were settled.
The Five Luminaries Sect.
Kang Jingming presented the two cauldrons he had obtained directly before Patriarch Xuanchen and said with a wince of pain, "The Liu family of the secular world is truly black-hearted beyond words—these two pieces of junk actually cost a billion! If the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce hadn't settled some of the payments for pills we'd already sold, I wouldn't even have had the money to buy them!"
The Five Luminaries Sect's liquid funds had all been poured into refining first-grade pills, so they were nearly cleaned out; fortunately, there were still unsettled payments for pills sold earlier—otherwise Kang Jingming truly could not have afforded these two first-grade automatic cauldrons. After all, these two first-grade cauldrons were priced at a fortune! (To be continued