Chapter 4823 — Regional Sales
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
He had no intention of buying anything, and he knew no one in a place like this. He was merely an honorary vice-chairman, and the only people he knew within the Hong Clan Trading Company were Hong Zhong and Chai Laoshi. He had never even laid eyes on anyone else. Even so, Wei Zhao found himself walking in without thinking.
"What can I do for you, honored guest?" A shop assistant came up at once to greet him warmly, his manners and bearing impeccable—clearly well trained. In the matter of employee quality alone, this branch outdid the branches on the other Cloud Tier Islands.
"Oh, nothing much. Just looking around." Wei Zhao waved a hand. For the time being, he had no intention of revealing his identity.
His status as honorary vice-chairman might count for something lofty, but that did not mean just any branch would be willing to defer to him. If he rashly sought out the branch manager here to ask for information, it might well stir up complications instead—who knew whether this one might turn out to be another Wei Zhaotong?
"Very well, honored guest. Call on me whenever you need anything. Please, make yourself at home." The assistant smiled and tactfully withdrew.
Scanning the display racks row by row, Wei Zhao's eyes could not help lighting up. He had actually spotted pills of the sixth and even seventh grade here—and not a few of them!
This came as a great surprise to Wei Zhao. These were scarce goods rarely seen on the open market. True, he did not see such heaven-defying seventh-grade pills as the Thunder Mystic Pill or the Beauty Pill among them—by comparison, these were all common stock. But they were sixth- and seventh-grade pills all the same.
Wei Zhao had never once seen pills of such high grade at the North Island branch. Even if there had been any, they would never have been brazenly put out on display racks on the first floor, and there would never have been so many. If these pills were taken to the Central Island, North Island, or even the Far North Island for auction, they would fetch an astronomical sum beyond imagining!
The marked prices here were not low either, but they could not begin to compare with the auction prices on the other Cloud Tier Islands. Wei Zhao immediately spotted a gaping loophole: if someone were to buy up sixth- and seventh-grade pills here specifically, then carry them off to auction on the other Cloud Tier Islands, would that not be an effortless way to pocket a huge margin?!
But once he saw the line of text beneath the display cabinet, Wei Zhao understood at once. A loophole so obvious could not possibly exist, for it was written there plainly: The above pills are for sale within the Yellow Tier sea region of the East Continent only.
"These pills are sold by region?" Though he could work out the reasoning behind it, Wei Zhao still found it rather odd, for this tactic was identical to the practices of the secular world. After all, certain goods in the secular world were also sold by region, and goods could not be freely shuffled between markets. He had not expected the same rule to be laid down here. Truly, merchants the world over were shrewd folk.
The assistant from before had been keeping an eye on Wei Zhao all along. Seeing this, he promptly came over and explained warmly: "Heh heh, honored guest, perhaps you are unaware—the great majority of trading companies here on the East Continent work in partnership with the academy's pill refiners. So to preserve the East Continent's transcendent standing, these pills may circulate only within the East Continent and are not permitted to be taken elsewhere for sale."