Chapter 217 The Establishment of the Cecil Chamber of Commerce

Before today, Patrick had never thought that the packaging unit of such a thing as an alchemy potion could be a "box".

How are alchemy potions packaged and sold? Ordinary small merchants don’t even think about this at all, because all alchemy items are the product of ordinary power, and the so-called magic items loaded on the carriage by the bottom-level merchants are just a few pieces of iron with runes and stems. Sheepskin - the main function of this kind of thing is psychological comfort, the propaganda word is "my grandma said this is useful" - the real alchemy potion is a business that only middle and upper-level businessmen can do.

And even the middle- and upper-class merchants can get at most a dozen bottles of alchemy potions at a time when trading or hoarding goods-they will be packed in exquisite crystal bottles, filled with velvet and high-grade silk wool, and then individually Served in an exquisite wooden box, it is almost the same price as the most expensive red wine.

It is said that there was once a famous mercenary master who was ordered to destroy a mutant beast that endangered the border. The master mercenary relied on his extraordinary skills and a dozen bottles of alchemy potions to grind to death a man three times stronger than himself. The enemy, but after the victory, he looked back at the potion bottle he had thrown on the ground, and he was pumped to death on the spot...

This story is of course exaggerated. The merchants used overly ornate packaging to hold the alchemy potion to raise the price of the potion in front of the ignorant nobles and rookie mercenaries, but the value of the alchemy potion itself is still evident, but Now, Gawain had people bring in several large boxes—the boxes were opened, and they were full of alchemy potions, and the neat little crystal bottles were stuffed with sawdust to prevent collisions.

"There are three layers in each box, with 233 bottles per layer. This box is a potion of weak mana, this box is a mixture of healing diseases, and the rest of the boxes are rejuvenation potions," Gawain pointed to the large boxes and asked Padrik Introduction, and then took out a piece of paper, "The specific price and distribution method are here, you can take a look. The price I initially set for the rejuvenation potion is 60 copper Cecil coins, or an Ansu shield silver coin, and the mana potion is It is two silver shield coins, and the price of the medicine for healing and the medicine for rejuvenation is the same."

Patrice took the price list a little confused, and blinked after hearing the number reported by Gao Wen, as if he didn't understand for a while what the price had to do with the potion in front of him.

It wasn't until half a minute later that he asked hesitantly, "Sir Duke...you...are these potions real?"

"Do you think I'll be 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 potions at a very low cost."

"Sir, of course I don't doubt your character!" Patrick said nervously immediately, a huge doubt arose in his heart, in all fairness, no one can tinker with a lot at such a low price and with Gawain casually. Keep calm in the face of the fact that the potion of alchemy means incredible wealth, but Patrick is a smart man, although he is bold in money, he is cautious when it comes to life, so he did not ask Any in-depth secret, but to analyze the 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 these words came out, not only Gawain was stunned, but even Amber, who followed him in as the background board, was stunned. After a while, the half-elf lady looked up and down with an expression of admiration at Patrick: "This Sir, you are talented..."

"Don't make trouble," Gawain glared at Amber, then into Patrick's eyes, "You should know that this suggestion is not made by an honest businessman, you should have something else to say."

"Yes, my lord, add water to the rejuvenation potion and change its name to 'secondary healing potion' or 'inferior healing potion'. The disease-removing mixture can also be treated in the same way, and it can be renamed to 'secondary healing potion' or something like that. You think this is not in line with the spirit of chivalry, then the big deal is to make the price a little cheaper, you lower the price, and you declare that the effect of those potions is not as good as the real alchemy potion, this is not cheating. For the injuries that most civilians can encounter on a daily basis In terms of disease, even such a low-quality medicine is enough to save their lives, and the alchemy potion mixed with more water is stronger than the stinky ointment mixed with mud and rotten grass roots that they can buy from rural herbalists."

Patrick carefully watched Gawain's expression change, while the latter just nodded: "Go ahead, I'm listening."

"Selling alchemy potions like Rejuvenation Potion at a very low price will inevitably impact the existing market and the groups who make profits from it - of course, the 'New Chamber of Commerce' backed by your Duke can despise those small businessmen And the little alchemist, but the gutter rat will be disgusting even if it can't kill a person; in addition, for civilians, it is not necessarily a good thing to be able to buy alchemy potions at a low price, at least in the beginning. People may not be able to do anything to you, but they can turn to hatred of poor people who 'pass', they can threaten people who want to buy medicine, attack people who have already bought it, or even simply mix poison into the market and spread rumors-- For most ignorant and ignorant people, they can't tell who they have been victimized by."

Having said this, Patrick lowered his head slightly and added carefully: "Sir, you are very powerful, but the brave lion also has to be careful of poisonous insects."

Gawain kept his expression unchanged, but 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 'camouflage'."

"Yes, it's not very clever disguise, as long as it is declared that it is a by-product of inferior or even failed alchemy potions, the eyes staring at them will be reduced by more than half, and you can also sell real rejuvenation potions and Healing Potion, but the price has to go up a bit - 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 temporarily paralyzed, and they will only think that you want to To grab a market at a low price temporarily, or to find a cheap herbal source, and when they react...they can't do anything about it.

"In this way, you have successfully established a trade route and avoided attracting the attention of unscrupulous people prematurely, and even the commoners who bought the water-infusion potion, they also bought the potion that works at a price they can afford, That's so much better than the mud and rotten grass roots they usually use, and they'll be grateful to you."

Gao Wen did not respond, but whispered to himself with emotion: "Is it a sin for a poor person to even buy a bottle of good medicine..."

He thought of the famine in the East that he had read in the history books and was born in Ansu in 476, and thought of the disaster of starvation. In that year, the severe insect plague that affected several counties led to a major disaster. There was a shortage of food in the area, and a few nobles who still had sympathy organized the distribution of food for disaster relief, but more than half of the food went into the belly of the knights, treasurers, and village bullies and robbers who oversaw the matter, even if the food was allocated. The disaster victims could hardly keep the life-saving food they had on hand - the one who finally solved the problem was a volunteer food merchant. His solution was beyond everyone's imagination:

Add sand, sawdust or even maggots to the grain.

This kind of food can finally be safely in the hands of 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 Ansu 477, he was hanged on the tallest tower in the Earl of Tamas in the east, on charges of "embezzling grain and poisoning the people".

"I take your advice," 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 takes this method as his fortune Then the law of Cecil's territory will be slaughtered."

Patrick stood up, put one hand on his chest and bent down to Gawain: "Just as I will faithfully treat every piece of copper left by Viscount Kant, I will also faithfully execute every order you give."

Gawain smiled: "In addition, I would like to remind you one thing in advance: the new business organization I set up is not just to sell medicines, although in the initial stage, alchemy potions will be its main commodity, but in the future Sisi There will be new output in Erling, and there are still more things I want to sell."

Patrick nodded: "This is natural. A business group formed by a duke himself cannot have only one commodity."

"You should have understood the organizational structure of this new business organization. I hope you can first select sincere and astute people from the businessmen you are familiar with as the grassroots distributors. They can establish regional sales points by themselves, but 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. In terms of higher-level regional agents and general managers... you are the general manager. To build everything, but I will also send my clerks and liaisons at every level of agency to supervise and help, I hope you can understand."

"It's natural - you provide all the funding and supply, and of course the organisation must be under your control."

Gawain stood up with a smile and held up the teacup in his hand: "Then let's toast to the establishment of the 'Cecil Chamber of Commerce' - Mr. Patrick, would you mind substituting tea for wine?"

Patrick also stood up and held up the teacup. He actually wanted to say that he didn't care about substituting tea for wine at all - now he minds anything that needs to be drunk, but in the end he bites the bullet and accepts the Duke's offer. Invited, picked up the teacup and said, "I... hiccup..."

After the meeting, Patrick went straight to the toilet, while Gawain returned to his room.

A drawing was quietly spread out on his desk.

There is a machine with a symmetrical structure that gives people a sense of advanced. It has a rotating structure with a fan blade baffle, and a ring-shaped magic device located around the fan blade baffle, and next to the drawing, There is also a schematic diagram of the expanded rune array.

"Dear lord, I have completed the rune array design of the rotor-type magic energy engine, and found that it can be adjusted 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. "

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