The moment those words were spoken.
Silence fell once more, both inside and outside the shop.
Everyone looked at Crown Prince Hou as though they were looking at a fool.
Duanmu Jinhua, in particular, felt his heart pound with excitement.
Recently, in order to expand its business and reduce costs, Haotian Mining had not only swallowed up the Gambling Stone raw ore from the mining districts under the Haotian Divine Hall, but had also invested heavily in competing for raw ore from other factions.
At present, the total value of the rough stones stockpiled in the shop stood at around 2,000 Chaos Spirit Stones.
Of that, only about 1,000 Chaos Spirit Stones came from the shop's own funds. The other 1,000 Chaos Spirit Stones had been raised from the Duanmu clan and Dao Master Baijun.
To be fair, Haotian Mining was highly profitable.
But for many years, the profits Haotian Mining earned had mainly been used to support the development of the Duanmu clan and Dao Master Baijun.
In the eyes of the big shots, this Gambling Stone shop was merely a money-raking tool.
With such a massive stockpile, if everything were sold according to the normal business model of a Gambling Stone shop, the selling price would probably reach around 4,000 Chaos Spirit Stones.
If they added underhanded tricks, passed off inferior goods as superior ones, set traps to fleece customers, and other unconventional methods, it would not be impossible to rake in over 6,000 Chaos Spirit Stones in total!
It certainly looked like an exorbitant profit.
But that was the total price.
In reality, from purchasing this batch of goods to selling it all off, the entire turnover cycle would take at least seventy or eighty years.
If business was sluggish, a turnover period exceeding a hundred years