Urban Sims

After taking over Ganis Pharmacy.

Zhou Ming became the manager of this pharmacy.

Not only that, the study notes, pharmacology books, pharmaceutical formulas and other materials left by Store Manager Hall also belong to Zhou Ming.

These precious books and formulas at least saved him a lot of time and the cost of purchasing formulas.

There are also those potions on the shelves, most of which have not been taken away. There are also many potions worth one hundred thousand or hundreds of thousands of gold coins per bottle... Store manager Hall said that these potions are successful samples and he can make reference. .

Only then did Zhou Ming realize that many of the sky-high-priced medicines on the shelves were actually not prepared by Store Manager Hall, but bought by him for research.

Store Manager Hall only has a dozen or twenty types of potions that he can prepare himself, and most of them are mid- to low-end potions.

"No wonder he said he was a half-baked pharmacist."

But it's normal to think about it. The Kingdom of Yadud is just a small country, but there is a powerful senior pharmacist. That means that this kingdom is not a small country anymore, and can be rated as a "medium-sized small country".

Due to old age and lack of energy, store manager Hall had obtained the rank of senior pharmacist when he was young, but now his level has dropped a lot.

But no matter what, as far as the Yadud Kingdom is concerned, Zhou Ming, who is only 17 years old, is the most powerful pharmacist in the kingdom. He is the number one in this industry.

In addition, after the Gannis Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce came under Zhou Ming's banner, the Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce, which was on the verge of bankruptcy after being riddled with holes in its corners due to competition from the Brno Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce, quickly replenished its funds and personnel, and purchased several pieces of Land, ready to enter the "medicine planting industry".

The efficiency of relying on the nobles to explore the cultivation of medicinal materials is too slow. I wonder if the results will be produced within three to five years. Anyway, it will not be very soon... After all, the nobles will not regard the medicinal farmers as their treasures.

He planned to go into the water himself, spend some time, and set up a few test fields to demonstrate to them and serve as learning specimens to speed up the progress of industrial production of magic potions.

So in the next month, Zhou Ming became busy again.

First, I went to the experimental field and spent more than 20 days.

Returning to the royal capital, he debugged the equipment in the pharmaceutical production factory, organized production, and transformed the large quantities of medicinal materials purchased by the Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce into magic potions at the end of the assembly line.

I worked in the factory for more than 10 days with food and accommodation, and got more than 36,000 bottles of [Soothing Potion].

In addition, the trial production of [Physical Strength Restoring Agent] was also a complete success, with more than 27,000 bottles of Physical Restoring Agent obtained.

There is also a more widely used [healing potion], which is also on the assembly line, with more than 14,000 bottles produced.

As for the [Magic Restoration Potion] and [Dragon Blood Potion], they have not yet been mass-produced because the stockpiled medicinal materials have not yet reached the standard for starting the assembly line.

In addition to the previously produced batch of more than 32,000 bottles of [Soothing Potion], the number of magic potions stored in the warehouse of the potion production factory is 100,000 bottles!

100,000 bottles of magic potion, such a terrifying number, may not be able to be used up in ten years given the consumption power of magicians in the Yadud Kingdom.

How to deal with it?

Sell!

Of course, take out abroad!

After all, what Zhou Ming first talked about was the "pharmaceutical export industry". If they don't export it to the outside world, why do they produce so many pharmaceuticals?

But how to sell it?

Naturally, it is sold in a planned way.

As early as the potion production factory successfully mass-produced the first batch of magic potions, Zhou Ming made preparations in advance and sold the potion sales agency rights to 22 families in 22 kingdoms surrounding the Yadud Kingdom.

The sales agency rights for each kingdom range from 5,000 to 20,000 gold coins per year.

After obtaining the agency rights, these families can wholesale magic potions at lower prices and then transport them to various kingdoms for sale.

For example, [Calming Potion], the wholesale price is 120 to 150 gold coins per bottle (the prices of medicinal materials fluctuate to a certain extent). After arriving in various kingdoms, whether it is sold for 300, 500 or 800 gold coins per bottle, the Yadud Kingdom will not sell it. Interference, each agent has free pricing power.

However, cross-border sales are strictly prohibited, and it is strictly prohibited to go to the agency areas of other agents to compete with friends.

For this kind of "cross-border food grabbing" behavior, once discovered, the offenders will be severely punished and even their agency rights will be revoked.

Of course, Zhou Ming will also limit the wholesale quantity of pharmaceuticals so that the "goods" wholesaled to the agents will not be too much, just enough to meet the needs of a kingdom, and eliminate the signs of unruliness from the source.

In addition, in terms of logistics, Zhou Ming has reached a strategic cooperation with the "Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry", using the large number of "Gryphon" resources owned by the other party to provide air transportation services and deliver goods to various kingdoms, so that goods can be delivered quickly, and letters can be delivered within a week. Reply within.

This kind of cooperation is definitely much more expensive than ordinary carriage transportation and ship transportation, but after careful calculation, Zhou Ming found that the actual total cost was much lower.

One, griffins can fly very fast, and can reach a distance of tens of thousands of miles in two or three days, which saves a lot of time compared to the three to five months of carriage transportation.

Second, the gryphon flies at an altitude of 10,000 meters. It will not encounter thieves on the way, and there is no need to recruit adventurers to escort it. It is safe and saves money.

Finally, the gryphons taking the aerial route will not pass through the territories of various lords, and do not need to pay heavy commercial and road taxes, avoiding countless extortions and saving money.

Of course, the shortcomings of the griffon are also relatively obvious. Its ability to hunker down is poor. An adult griffon can carry a maximum load of about 100 kilograms. Too much is not enough.

But excluding a pilot, how much does a bottle of magic potion weigh? The glass bottle and the medicine inside can only contain up to 30 grams.

1,000 bottles of magic potion weigh only 30 kilograms.

Hiring a gryphon costs 1,000 gold coins, but if you bring a thousand bottles of magic potion worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, the transportation fee only accounts for one or two percent of the value of the goods.

So it’s still very cost-effective.

As for the stores, each family that had obtained the sales agency rights had already sent people to their respective agency areas, brought gold coins, purchased the store, hired people to decorate it, and then found a local noble to cooperate. Within two months, each family's store opened one after another. Opened up.

After everything is ready.

Early September.

Large-scale "distribution" began.

Through two trips of more than 20 griffons, more than 100,000 bottles of magic potions were sent to more than 20 surrounding kingdoms.

On average, each kingdom was allocated 5,000 bottles of magic potion.

Then……

Sold out.

On average, in about half a month, all the magic potions in the hands of dealers in the kingdom are sold out.

There is basically no bottle left.

Why?

Cheap.

Quite cheap.

Depending on the level of economic development of each country and the level of conscience of the dealers, we only take [Calming Medicine] as an example.

The cost is 180 gold coins/bottle (including transportation fees, store operation fees, commercial taxes, etc.), and some families sell a bottle for 350 gold coins, making about 100% profit.

Some families sell a bottle for 500 gold coins and make about 180% profit.

Some families sell a bottle for 800 gold coins and make about 350% profit.

And these families that have obtained agency rights, no matter what percentage of profits they make, as long as the price of the [Soothing Potion] is below 800 gold coins, they will basically attract a large number of customers to buy it.

The cheaper you sell it, the faster it sells out.

After these 20 or so families sold out all 100,000 bottles of magic potions, each family made a net profit of more than 1 million gold coins on average.

One million gold coins, this is a number that makes people jealous.

After seeing the financial data report, King James complained: "These families have taken away the big head!"

However, everyone knows that the royal family, which owns 70% of the shares of the pharmaceutical production factory, is the one who profits the most among all the families.

Let’s take [Soothing Potion] as an example. After nearly 70,000 bottles of [Soothing Potion] are wholesaled at a price of 150 gold coins per bottle, after deducting the cost of 30 gold coins per bottle of medicinal materials (including worker wages and machine losses), the remaining 120 gold coins, all real profits.

120 times 70,000 times 70% equals 5.88 million gold coins.

Including other potions, the royal family's income this month is close to 10 million gold coins... which is equal to the total income of three years old.

Therefore, during the recent period, King James's face has been filled with red light, and he is in a happy mood, as if he is ten years younger.

And although he complained, he had to admit that the cooperation model designed by that boy Leylin had indeed maximized the interests of the royal family, and saved the royal family a lot of risks and risks in the purchase of medicinal materials and sales of pharmaceuticals. trouble.

The royal family only needs to guard the factory, keep the factory running in an orderly manner, and sit back and collect money.

There is no need to worry about other aspects.

He also united (or ‘bound’) dozens of families to sit on the same boat as the royal family.

When he thought of this, King James couldn't help but clapped his hands and exclaimed: "That kid Leylin is simply the illegitimate son of God, a rare genius in the world! If only he could be born earlier and be used by me earlier."

King James felt that the boy was born too late, or he was born too early. If he could meet such a talent at a relatively young age, what would the current Yadud Kingdom look like?

The old fox Roberts asked: "Your Majesty, Leylin has made such great contributions to the royal family, how should we reward him?"

"reward?"

King James slapped himself on the head: "I almost forgot about this. The reward must be big!"

But here comes the trouble.

What should he reward Leylin?