Display controller variable on a Laravel blade using jQuery

In my laravel app, I have a div on a blade to display total number of daily orders.

<div class="row mt-3" id="shopify_row1">
        <div class="col-md-2" id="shopify_widget1">
            <div class="jumbotron bg-dark text-white">
                <img class="img-fluid pull-left" src="https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/social-media-2092/100/social-35-512.png" width="32" height="32">
                <h6 class="text-secondary mt-2 px-4">Shopify</h6>
                <hr class="border border-white">
                <h5 class="text-white">Total Orders</h5>
                <span class="tot_o" id="tot_o">{{ $tot_o }}</span> 
            </div>
        </div>
</div>

I get this $tot_o via controller.

Following is my index() in the controller

if($request->has('selected_date')){
                $selected_date=$request->selected_date;
                $url = "https://[email protected]/admin/api/2022-10/orders/count.json?status=any&created_at_max=".$selected_date."";
            }else{
                $selected_date = date('Y-m-d');
                $url = "https://[email protected]/admin/api/2022-10/orders/count.json?status=any&created_at_min=".$selected_date."";
            }
            $curl = curl_init( $url );
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json"));
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            $json_response = curl_exec($curl);
            curl_close($curl);
            $result_1 = json_decode($json_response, TRUE);
            $tot_o = $result_1['count'];
  return view('dashboard.index', ['sum' => $sum, 
                'tot_o' => $tot_o]);

Now I’m trying to implement a date picker, so does the value of $tot_o should be changed according to the picked date, on change.

This is my date picker.

<td>
      <input id="date" class="date form-control" type="date">
</td>

And this is my JavaScript.

<script>
        $(document).on('change', '#date', function (e) {

        $.ajaxSetup({
            headers: {
                'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
            }
        });

        $.ajax({
            type: 'GET',
            url : '/home',
            data : {selected_date : $('#date').val()},
            success:function(data){

            $('#tot_o').empty(); 
            var total_orders = JSON.parse("{{ json_encode($tot_o) }}")
            console.log(total_orders);

            },
            timeout:10000
        });

    });    
    </script>

But here when I console.log my output it always gives me 0, even though the total is greater than the 0…

How can I correct my JS to display the value inside the <span class="tot_o" id="tot_o"></span> correctly…