Before today, Patrick never thought that the packaging unit of alchemy potions could be "boxes".
How are alchemy potions packaged and sold? Ordinary small businessmen don't even think about this at all, because all alchemy items are products of extraordinary power. The so-called magic items loaded by the bottom-level traveling merchants on their carriages are just a few pieces of iron with runes carved on them and dried Sheepskin - the main function of this kind of thing is psychological comfort, and the promotional slogan is "my grandma said this is useful" - the real alchemy potion is a business that only middle and upper-class businessmen can afford.
And even the upper-middle-class merchants can get at most a dozen bottles of alchemy potions in one trip or stockpiling—they will be packed in exquisite crystal bottles, filled with velvet and high-grade silk around them, and then served separately. In a delicate wooden box, it is almost the same price as the most expensive red wine.
It is said that there was once a well-known mercenary expert who was ordered to destroy a mutant monster that endangered the border. This mercenary expert relied on his extraordinary skills and a dozen bottles of alchemy potions to forcibly grind to death a monster that was three times stronger than himself. The enemy, after the victory, looked back at the potion bottle he threw on the ground, and died on the spot with a "crack"...
Of course, there are exaggerations in this story. The merchants used excessively gorgeous packaging to hold the alchemy potion in order to raise the price of the potion in front of the ignorant nobles and rookie mercenaries, but the preciousness of the alchemy potion itself is still evident, but Now Gao Wen asked someone to bring several large boxes—the boxes were opened, and they were full of alchemy potions, and the neat little crystal bottles were filled with sawdust for collision protection.
"Each box has three floors, and each floor has 233 bottles. This box is for weak mana potions, this box is for healing potions, and the rest of these boxes are all rejuvenation potions," Gawain pointed to those big boxes and told Patrick. Introduction, and then took out a piece of paper, "here is the specific price and sharing method, you can take a look. My initial price for the rejuvenation potion is sixty Cecil copper coins, or one ansu shield-shaped silver coin, and the mana potion is They are two shield-shaped silver coins, and the price of the disease-dispelling mixture and the rejuvenation potion are the same."
Padraic took the price list in a daze, and blinked after hearing the number reported by Gao Wen, as if he didn't understand the connection between this price and the potion in front of him.
It wasn't until half a minute later that he asked hesitantly: "My lord... are you... are these potions real?"
"Do you think I'm a fake drug seller?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "Of course these are true! It's just that I have a special method that can produce medicine at a very low cost."
"My lord, of course I don't doubt your character!" Patrick immediately said nervously, with great doubts in his heart. In all fairness, no one can make a lot of them at such a low price and Gawain casually. Keeping a normal mind in front of the fact of alchemy potion, behind it means incredible wealth, but Patrick is a smart man, although he is bold in money, he is very cautious when it comes to life, so he didn't ask Any in-depth secrets, but to analyze these potions that Gawain took out as an established fact, "Since you can really supply such a large amount of potions... then I actually have some ideas."
Gao Wen nodded: "You said, you have experience in business."
Patrick said straight to the point: "My lord, I hope you can add water to these rejuvenation potions."
As soon as this remark came out, not only Gawain was stunned, but even Amber, who had sneaked in next to him as the background board, was stunned. After a while, the half-elf lady looked up and down Padrik with an admiring expression: "This Sir, you are a talent..."
"Don't make any trouble," Gawain glared at Amber, then stared into Patrick's eyes, "You should know that this suggestion was not made by an honest businessman, so you should have something else to say."
"Yes, my lord, add water to the Rejuvenation Potion, and change the name to 'Secondary Healing Potion' or 'Inferior Healing Potion. If you think this is not in line with the spirit of chivalry, then it is a big deal to make the price a little cheaper. You lower the price and declare that the effect of those potions is not as good as the real alchemy potion. As far as diseases are concerned, even such inferior medicines are enough to save their lives, and alchemy potions mixed with more water are better than the smelly ointment mixed with mud and rotten grass roots they bought from rural herbalists."
Patrick carefully watched Gawain's expression change, while the latter just nodded: "Keep talking, I'm listening."
"The reckless sale of alchemy potions like rejuvenation potions at extremely low prices will definitely impact the existing market and the groups that make profits from it—of course, the 'New Chamber of Commerce' backed by you, the Duke, can despise those small merchants and Little alchemist, but gutter rats are disgusting even if they don't bite to death; in addition, for ordinary people, it is not necessarily a good thing to be able to buy alchemy potions at a low price, at least not at the beginning. Maybe they can't help you, but they can turn to hate those poor people who 'pass over', they can threaten people who want to buy medicine, attack people who have already bought medicine, and even simply mix poison into the market and spread rumors - for everyone For most ignorant people, they can't tell who they have been harmed by."
Having said that, Patrick lowered his head slightly, and carefully added: "My lord, you are very powerful, but a brave lion must also be careful of poisonous insects."
Gao Wen kept his expression unchanged, but he looked at Patrick with a little surprise, and after a few seconds, he nodded slightly: "You are right, in order to avoid this situation, we will Do some 'disguise'."
"Yes, it's not a very clever disguise. As long as you declare that they are all inferior or even failed by-products of alchemy potions, more than half of the eyes staring at them will be reduced. You can also sell real rejuvenation potions and Disease-eliminating potion, but the price should be increased—it can still be cheaper than the potion on the market, but don’t drop it to the point of dozens of copper coins all at once. In this way, traditional merchants will be paralyzed temporarily, and they will only think that you want to Temporarily lower the price to grab a little market, or find a cheap source of herbal medicine, and when they react...they have nothing to do.
"In this way, you have successfully established a trade route, and you have avoided attracting the attention of those with bad intentions too early, and even the commoners who bought water-mixed potions bought effective potions at a price they could afford. That is much better than the mud and rotten grass roots they usually use, and they will be grateful to you."
Gao Wen did not respond, but murmured to himself in a low voice with emotion: "Is it a sin for poor people to even buy a bottle of good medicine..."
He thought of the famine in the Eastern Territory that occurred in Ansu 476, which he read in the history books before, and thought of the disaster where starvation was everywhere. There was a food shortage in the area, and several nobles who still had compassion organized the distribution of relief food, but more than half of the food entered the stomachs of the knights, treasurers, village bullies and robbers who supervised the matter, even those who received the food The disaster victims could hardly keep the life-saving food they had on hand—it was a volunteered food merchant who finally solved this problem. His solution was beyond everyone's imagination:
Add sand, sawdust and even maggots to the food.
This kind of food can finally be safely distributed to the victims, and it is this kind of food that has saved tens of thousands of people.
The grain merchant was called "the benevolent miser". In 477 Ansu, he was hanged on the tallest tower in the Earl of Tamas in the east. He was charged with "eating grain and poisoning the people".
"I take your suggestion," Gawain said slowly after taking a deep breath, looking into Patrick's eyes, "but I hope you can understand that this is temporary, if someone regards this method as his money-making If there is no way, then Cecil's law will start killing people."
Patrick stood up and bent down to Gawain with one hand on his chest: "Just as I will faithfully treat every copper coin left by Viscount Kant, I will also faithfully execute every order of yours."
Gao Wen smiled: "In addition, I would like to remind you one thing in advance: this new business organization I established is not just for selling medicines, although in the early days, alchemy potions will be its main commodity, but in the future Sisi will There will be new output in the future, and I still have more things to sell."
Patrick nodded: "It's natural, a business group formed by a duke himself cannot have only one commodity."
"You should have understood the organizational structure of this new commercial organization. I hope you can first choose sincere and astute people from among the merchants you are familiar with as grassroots consignees. They can establish regional sales outlets by themselves, but the sales The decoration, pricing, import and export process, etc. of the point must follow my rules. Those who cannot accept this should quit as soon as possible. As for the higher-level regional agents and the general person in charge... you come as the general person in charge Building everything, but I'm also sending my clerks and liaisons at every level of agency to monitor and help, and I hope you understand."
"This is natural—you have provided all the funds and supplies, and this organization must naturally be under your control."
Gawain stood up with a smile and raised the teacup in his hand: "Then let's toast to the establishment of the 'Cecil Chamber of Commerce'—Mr. Patrick, do you mind substituting tea for wine?"
Padraic also stood up and picked up the teacup. He actually wanted to say that he didn't care about substituting tea for wine-now he would care about anything that needs to be drunk, but in the end he bit the bullet and accepted the Duke's invitation , picked up the teacup and said a word: "I... hiccup..."
After the meeting, Patrick went straight to the toilet, while Gawain returned to his room.
A blueprint was quietly laid out on his desk.
On it is a machine with a symmetrical structure that gives people a sense of advancement. It has a rotating structure with a fan blade baffle, and a ring-shaped magic device located around the fan blade baffle. Next to the drawing, There is also a schematic diagram of the expanded rune array.
"Dear lord, I have completed the design of the rune array of the rotor-type magic energy engine, and found that it can adjust the speed by increasing or decreasing the number of rune groups activated at the same time or fine-tuning the contact area of the rune trigger. For related information, see back.
— Jenny Perrault. "