Chapter 36: The First-Rank Market
After Li Luo and Song Yunfeng ended in a draw, his score in this preliminary exam was firmly within the top twenty.
According to the normal process, the top twenty people will usually be ranked again, but Li Luo has no interest in this, because in his opinion, this kind of ranking battle is meaningless, after all, no matter whether he is the second Whether you are ranked tenth or first, you only have the qualifications to take the college entrance examination.
And once too many trump cards are exposed here, when the time comes to meet a strong enemy in the college entrance examination, the opponent will have too much information about him, which will undoubtedly make it more difficult for him.
So, isn’t it good to have low-key development? If he got first place in the preliminaries, the stingy old dean wouldn't give him any reward.
Even in this competition with Song Yunfeng, if the other party hadn't been so determined that he repeatedly jumped on the edge of death, Li Luo would most likely have chosen to admit defeat.
After all, he didn't think there was any shame in giving up if he couldn't beat him. For his improved version of "Water Mirror Technique" to be exposed here, Li Luo now felt a little unworthy.
So when Xu Shanyue came to ask him if he would participate in the competition for the top twenty places, he refused directly. With this time, he absorbed more spiritual water and the strange light, worked harder, and took advantage of the entrance examination before the college entrance examination. Wouldn’t it be delicious if one’s own “Water-Light Aspect” reaches the sixth level?
And Xu Shanyue was not surprised by Li Luo's choice. He just asked him to work hard and prepare for the college entrance examination.
The battle for the top twenty rankings came to an end on the second day. In the end, two people were selected from the second house. It was Li Luo and Zhao Kuo. However, they were both brothers in distress. Li Luo ranked fifteen and Zhao Kuo ten. Six, just at the end.
Li Luo's ranking obviously has a lot of room for improvement. If he wanted to, it would not be a problem to enter the top ten, but because he gave up the competition for ranking, he was finally rated at this ranking.
And these twenty of them will represent Nanfeng Academy in two weeks, participate in the college entrance examination, and win the admission quota of Shengxuanxing Academy.
As the top academic institution in Daxia, Shengxuanxing Academy allocates some admission quotas to each county every year, and these quotas must be competed by all the universities in each county through the college entrance examination. In the past, every year, Nan Fengxuefu has always won the most admissions, which has gradually solidified its reputation as the number one school in Tianshu County.
However, Nanfeng Academy is not completely without opponents. Dongyuan Academy is a strong opponent. Although Dongyuan Academy is not as rich as Nanfeng Academy, its rise is quite rapid. Behind it is the support of Tianshu County Governor's Office. , in the college entrance exams in previous years, it also posed a considerable threat to Nanfeng Academy.
It is said that this year Dongyuan Academy is still eyeing the golden sign of Tianshu County's No. 1 academy. It must be that there will be a fight between dragons and tigers in the entrance examination of that academy.
After the preliminaries, Nanfeng Academy will have more than a week of vacation. Students can choose to go home or continue to practice in the academy, and Li Luo certainly chose the former without hesitation.
Old house, the attic of Luo Li's room.
Li Luo's eyes were closed tightly, and there was a faint light lingering on his body. On the coffee table in front of him, there was a fifth-grade spiritual water strange light that had been used.
The absorption lasted for a long time, and Li Luo just slowly opened his eyes, and blue light flashed across his eyes.
"This is the last bottle of this batch."
He looked at the empty crystal bottle in front of him and couldn't help scratching his head. Until now, Cai Wei had helped him purchase 83 bottles of fifth-grade spiritual water Qiguang. , which consumed more than 400,000 gold, which was a huge amount of money. If Cai Wei hadn't sold off some of Luolan Mansion's properties in Tianshu County, he might not have been able to sustain his consumption.
After absorbing so much fifth-grade spiritual water's strange light, Li Luo's fifth-grade "water-light phase" has indeed improved a lot, but there is still some distance to evolve to sixth-grade.
But he must upgrade his water-light phase to the sixth level before the big exam comes.
Although this battle with Song Yunfeng ended in a draw, Li Luo did not feel complacent because he knew that if it were not for the time mechanism of the pre-examination, the final loser would be him who had exhausted his strength.
In the college entrance examination, this kind of draw will never happen.
If you want to gain admission to Shengxuanxing Academy, you must rely on your true ability.
In the college entrance examination, the top students from all the colleges and universities in Tianshu County will participate. The competition is fierce, which is far from the preliminaries of Nanfeng Academy.
In addition, Li Luo has already selected an energy guidance technique to be converted to in advance. The minimum requirement is that it requires a sixth-grade appearance.
Therefore, these six qualities of water and light are a top priority.
"According to the current progress, if you want to evolve to the sixth level, you should still need the last batch of the fifth-level water-light phase." "
But Sister Cai Wei has been walking around me when she sees me recently, and she doesn't seem to want to see me." Li Luo expressed that he was a little distressed. Cai Wei had not even eaten breakfast at the old house these days, maybe because she was afraid that he would ask for dozens of Ling Shui Qi Guang again.
After all, the fifth-grade spiritual water Qiguang is not a big cabbage. The market price is about 5,000 gold per piece. Fifty pieces will cost 250,000 gold. This is already close to the previous year's profit of Luolan Mansion in Tianshu County. .
So Li Luo understood this very well. He was a good gold-medal butler, but after arriving in Tianshu County, he could only rely on constantly selling off Luolan Mansion's properties to maintain operations. This was simply a huge stain on his career path. ah.
Until now, Cai Wei has not resigned, and Li Luo already feels that her mind is as broad as the sea.
But Li Luo couldn't help it. His acquired appearance was like a gold-eating beast. It was a good thing that his parents had left a Luo Lan mansion for him. Otherwise, he felt that in five years, he would most likely burp.
"Let's go to Xiyang House first."
Li Luo pondered slightly. Now that Luo Lan Mansion is in trouble internally and externally, he can't just sit back and sell off Luo Lan Mansion's properties. Although Jiang Qing'e, the property of Tianshu County, has been left to him as he pleases. He was squandering money, but he couldn't really destroy this place. In that case, the people under Luo Lan Mansion would also have objections to him, the young master.
The most important thing is that this will make people suspect that he, the young master of Luo Lan Mansion, may be a fool, which Li Luo obviously cannot accept.
With some ideas in his mind, Li Luo packed up a little, then left the old house and went to Xiyang House.
When he arrived at Xiyang House, he went straight to Yan Lingqing's refining room. When he pushed the door open and walked in, he saw two familiar figures sitting together, seemingly talking about something. At the same time, on the cheeks of the two women, All with a little worry. It was Yan Lingqing and Cai Wei.
Seeing Li Luo, Cai Wei and Yan Lingqing were startled: "Young master?"
"What are you talking about?" Li Luo walked in with a smile, and then saw the table in front of the two women. There were several bottles of spiritual water with strange light, and one of them was the first-grade blue-green spiritual water that he had refined before.
"We are talking about Xiyangwu's sales performance this year." Regarding Li Luo, Cai Wei did not hide anything and said directly.
"The performance is not very good?" Li Luo frowned slightly when he saw this. Xiyangwu contributed nearly half of Luolan Mansion's annual profits in Tianshu County. If the performance here deteriorates, it will obviously affect his evolution plan. .
Yan Lingqing pointed at the crystal bottles in front of her and said in a cold voice: "Nowadays, there are two main companies competing for the first-grade spiritual water Qiguang on the market in Shu County today. One is our Qingbi Lingshui from Xiyangwu, and the other is One is the "Rizhao Qiguang" produced by Songziwu under the Song family. The quality of Lingshui Qiguang from these two companies is similar. Therefore, in the Yipin market in the past few years, the two together accounted for nearly 80%." "However
, Recently, for some reason, the quality of the "Rizhao Qiguang" produced by Songziwu has improved. The average tempering power has reached about 57%, which is almost close to the highest quality of our Xiyangwu." "So the Song family has been on a rampage recently
. They promoted the "Rizhao Qiguang" of their pine nut house, which led to them taking up most of the market for first-class spiritual water and Qiguang in Tianshu County, and the sales volume of our Qingbi Lingshui decreased significantly. " "If this situation continues,
Xi At this stage of the competition for the first-grade Lingshui Qiguang, Yangwu will be completely defeated by the Song family. This will be a huge loss for Xiyangwu. Of course, the most important thing is that it will affect Xiyangwu’s position in the sky. The reputation of Shu County."
When Li Luo heard this, his face was also slightly solemn, and he said: "What is the yield rate of Xiyangwu's first-grade spiritual water and strange light?"
"Xiyangwu in Tianshu County can produce five bottles of first-grade spiritual water and strange light every day, which is one hundred and fifty bottles a month. The price of first-grade spiritual water and strange light on the market is about fifty pieces of heavenly gold, so one By the end of the year, the total sales of Xiyangwu's First-grade Spiritual Water Qiguang will reach about 90,000 heavenly gold pieces. Excluding all costs, the profit will be 30,000 gold pieces." Cai Wei said without thinking, obviously He is well aware of all Luolan Mansion's properties and data in Tianshu County.
Li Luo first gave Cai Wei a thumbs up to express his appreciation, and then made a slight estimate, and was suddenly a little surprised, because the profit from this product of Lingshui Qiguang alone accounted for ten percent of Luolan Mansion's annual income in Tianshu County. One, it can be seen from this that the market of Lingshui Qiguang has great benefits.
But this is normal, because not everyone can squander high-quality spiritual water and strange light. More people who buy first-grade and second-grade spiritual water and strange light do not mean that their own appearance is only of this grade. , but because they may not be able to consume a large amount of higher-grade spiritual water and strange light, so they can only use low-level spiritual water and strange light as a substitute.
It's just that the efficiency of this improvement will obviously be much lower than that of using high-quality spiritual water and strange light, and the impurities will accumulate faster, but there is no way, not everyone starts with a family fortune like Li Luo.
After knowing this information, Li Luo's first feeling was that Xiyangwu must not be affected, otherwise it would definitely affect the rhythm of his future evolution of the water-light phase.
"Why did the quality of the 'Rizhao Qiguang' produced by the Song Family's "Songziwu" improve this year?" Li Luo asked.
"There are only three things that affect the quality of Lingshui Qiguang: the formula, the experience and strength of the refiner, and the quality of the source water." Yan Lingqing said lightly: "I have checked
the "Rizhao Qiguang", and after I According to the analysis, there should be slight changes to the formula. I think it is most likely that the Song family has spent a lot of money to hire some experts for advice."
Cai Wei crossed her left arm around her chest, supported her right elbow, and then lightly touched her snow-white chin with her right hand. He frowned and said: "In addition, Zhuang Yi has been using this excuse to attack Lingqing recently, saying that this result is because of her, and he wants her to withdraw from Xiyang House."
Cai Wei and Yan Lingqing were standing together, but she didn't know that her unintentional action suddenly made the already turbulent waves a little dazzling. Especially in this comparison, Yan Lingqing next to her could only be described as miserable. .
Yan Lingqing seemed to have noticed something, and stretched out his hand expressionlessly, pulling off Cai Wei's left arm.
Cai Wei didn't react for a while, but soon a blush spread on her gentle and charming cheeks, and at the same time, the hand under the table pinched Yan Lingqing next to her with some embarrassment.
Then, the two women cast their sharp eyes on Li Luo, and the latter was stunned for a moment. Not only did he not panic, but he said with a serious face: "When we are talking about business, don't make some small tricks. You are such a big person. What's more?" Next time, I will criticize you."
Li Luo's serious words finally only attracted a cold snort from the two women, and they both quickly ignored the matter.
"So Zhuang Yi is still causing trouble?" Li Luo asked, returning to the topic.
Mentioning Vice President Zhuang Yi, Yan Lingqing had a look of irritation on her cold cheeks and said, "This guy is looking for trouble all day long, which has caused many conflicts within Xiyangwu. The quality of Xiyangwu's products has declined this year, and he has It doesn't matter."
"It seems like this is a scourge. Can you find a way to get rid of it?" Li Luo grinned and was also very unhappy. I need a lot of money here. If you don't make money for me quickly, you still have to spend money on me. A fire in my backyard?
Cai Wei frowned and said: "Now Xiyang House is leaderless. After all, Lingqing is new and his prestige is not enough. Zhuang Yi is an old man. Some tempering masters in Xiyang House still trust him, so if there is no legitimate Reason, forcibly driving him away may cause people to panic."
"Besides, behind him, there is the support of Pei Hao after all."
Li Luo frowned, Pei Hao's white-eyed wolf was the biggest wolf in Luo Lan Mansion Zhuang Yi is only affecting the sales of Xiyang House, but Pei Hao wants to take away the entire Luo Lan Mansion.
This is simply going to cut off his lifeblood. Luo Lan Mansion has been taken away by you. How can I fill this bottomless pit of acquired talent? Relying on face?
But now that Pei Hao is mature, on the other hand, he is just a fledgling and has no strength to fight with him. Therefore, for the time being, he can only keep a low profile and develop behind Sister Qing'e.
And just as Li Luo was thinking about it, someone suddenly came to report.
"The Young Master, the Chief Steward, Vice President Yan and Vice President Zhuang suddenly summoned all the managers of Xiyang House and said that they have important matters to discuss. Please three of them to participate." Hearing the announcement,
Li Luo and Cai Wei , Yan Lingqing and the three of them were startled, then looked at each other and frowned at the same time.
This guy is causing trouble again.
(End of chapter)