Chapter 40: Sales are booming

After taking over the Gannis Apothecary.

Zhou Ming became the manager of this pharmacy.

Not only that, but the learning notes, pharmacology books, pharmaceutical formulas and other materials left by the store manager Hall are also owned by Zhou Ming.

These valuable books and recipes at least saved him a lot of time, as well as the cost of buying recipes.

There are also those potions on the shelves, most of them have not been taken away, and there are many bottles worth 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

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

There are only one or twenty kinds of potions that Store Manager Hall can dispense himself, and most of them are low-end medicines.

"No wonder he says he's a half-pharmacist. ”

But it's normal to think about it, the Kingdom of Addud is just a small country, and there is actually a powerful senior pharmacist, which means that this kingdom is not a small country, and it can be rated as a "medium small country".

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

But no matter what, in terms of the Kingdom of Adude, Zhou Ming, who is nearly 17 years old, is the most powerful pharmacist in this kingdom, and he is the number one in this industry.

In addition, after the Gannis Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce belonged to Zhou Ming's banner, the Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce in Brno was dug in the corners of the wall under the competition of the Brno Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce, and the Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly replenished its funds and personnel, purchased a number of plots of land, and prepared to enter the "medicinal herb planting industry".

Relying on those nobles to explore the cultivation of medicinal herbs by themselves, the efficiency is too slow, I don't know if it will produce results in three or five years, anyway, it will not be soon...... After all, the aristocrats don't treat the medicine farmers as treasures.

He planned to go into the water himself, spend some time, build a few experimental fields, give them demonstrations, serve as learning specimens, and speed up the industrial production of magic potions.

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

First, he tossed in the test field for more than 20 days.

Back to the royal capital, in the pharmacy production factory, debug the equipment, organize production, and convert a large number of medicinal materials purchased by the Medicinal Materials Chamber of Commerce into magic potions on the assembly line.

I was busy eating and living in the factory for more than 10 days, and I got more than 36,000 bottles of [tranquilizer].

In addition, the trial production of [physical recovery agent] was also a complete success, and more than 27,000 bottles of physical recovery agent were obtained.

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

As for the [Mana Restorer] and [Dragon's Blood Elixir], because the hoarded medicinal materials have not yet reached the standard of starting the assembly line, they have not yet been mass-produced.

Coupled with the batch of more than 32,000 bottles of [Tranquilizing Elixir] produced before, the number of magic potions stored in the warehouse of the potion production plant is 100,000 bottles!

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

So what to do?

Sell!

Takeaway, of course!

After all, what Zhou Ming put in his mouth at the beginning was the "pharmaceutical export industry", and he didn't export to the outside world, why did they make so many medicines?

But how to sell it?

Naturally, there is a planned sale.

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

A kingdom sales agent, with prices ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 gold coins per year.

After obtaining the agency, these families can wholesale magic potions at a lower price, and then ship them to various kingdoms to sell.

For example, the wholesale price of [Tranquilizing Elixir] is 120 to 150 gold coins per bottle (with the price of medicinal materials fluctuates to a certain extent), after being shipped to each kingdom, whether it is sold for 300, 500 or 800 gold coins per bottle, the Kingdom of Adud will not interfere, and each agent has the right to set prices freely.

However, it is strictly forbidden to sell cross-country, and it is strictly forbidden to run to the area of other agents to compete with friends.

For this kind of "cross-border grabbing" behavior, once discovered, waiting for the offender will be severely punished, and even the agency will be revoked.

Of course, Zhou Ming will also limit the wholesale quantity of medicines, so that the "goods" that are wholesaled to the agents will not be too much, just to meet the needs of a kingdom, and pinch out 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", using a large number of "griffin" resources owned by the other party to provide air transportation services and deliver goods to various kingdoms, so that the goods can be delivered quickly, and the letters will be replied within a week.

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

One, the griffon's flight speed is fast, tens of thousands of miles, two or three days can be reached, compared with the three or five months of horse-drawn carriage transportation, saving a lot of time.

Second, the griffin flies at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and will not encounter bandits on the road, and does not need to recruit adventurers to escort it, which is safe and saves money.

Finally, the griffons that walk through the air will not pass through the territories of various lords, do not need to pay heavy commercial taxes and road taxes, avoid countless extortion, or save money.

Of course, the shortcomings of the griffin are also more obvious, that is, the ability to hump is poor, and an adult griffin can carry about 100 kilograms at most.

But excluding a driver, how much does a magic potion weigh? The glass bottle and the potion inside are only 30 grams at most.

1,000 bottles of magic potions, weighing only 30 kilograms.

Hiring a griffin costs 1,000 gold coins, but with a thousand bottles of magic potions worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, the transportation cost is only 12% of the value of the goods.

So it's still a great deal.

As for the storefront, each family that has obtained the right to sell as an agent has already sent people to their respective agency areas, brought gold coins, bought stores, hired people to decorate, and then found a local nobleman to cooperate, and in two months, the shops of various families were opened one after another.

When everything is ready.

Early September.

Large-scale "distribution" began.

Through the two shipments of more than 20 griffins, more than 100,000 bottles of magic potions were sent to more than 20 surrounding kingdoms.

On average, each kingdom received less than 5,000 bottles of magic potions.

And then......

Sold out.

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

Basically, there is not a single bottle left that is sold.

Why?

Cheap.

Quite cheap.

According to the level of economic development of each country and the degree of conscience of the distributor, only [tranquilizer] is taken as an example.

The cost of 180 gold coins per bottle (including transportation costs, store operation fees, business taxes, etc.), some families sell 350 gold coins a bottle, and make about 100% profit.

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

There are also families who sell a bottle of 800 gold coins and make about 350% of the profit.

However, these families who have obtained the right to act as agents, no matter how much profit they make, as long as the price of the [Tranquilizer] is less than 800 gold coins, they will basically attract a large number of customers to buy it.

The cheaper it sells, the faster it sells out.

These more than 20 families, after selling out 100,000 bottles of magic potions, on average, each family earned more than 1 million gold coins.

1,000,000 gold coins, which is an enviable number.

After seeing the financial statement, King Jaime complained, "The big head has been taken away by these families!"

However, everyone knows that the royal family, which owns 70% of the shares of the pharmaceutical production plant, is the most profitable of all the families.

Taking [Tranquilizing Elixir] as an example, after nearly 70,000 bottles of [Tranquilizing Elixir] are wholesaled at the price of 150 gold coins per bottle, excluding the cost of medicinal materials (including workers' wages and machine loss) of 30 gold coins per bottle, the remaining 120 gold coins are all real profits.

120 times 70,000 times and then 70% equals 5,880,000 gold coins.

Coupled with other potions, the royal family's income this month is close to 10 million gold coins...... It is equal to the sum of the income of the three years old.

Therefore, in recent times, King James's face was full of red light, and he was in a happy mood, as if he was ten years younger.

And although he complained, he also had to admit that the cooperation model designed by that kid Lei Lin did maximize the interests of the royal family, and saved a lot of risks and troubles for the royal family in the purchase of medicinal materials and the sale of medicines.

The royal family only needs to guard the factory, keep the factory running in order, and sit and collect money.

Otherwise, you don't need to worry about it.

It also united (or 'bound') dozens of families and sat in the same boat as the royal family.

Thinking of this, King Jaime couldn't help but applaud his hands, and exclaimed, "That kid from Leylin is simply the illegitimate son of God, a rare genius in the world! ”

King Jaime felt that the boy was born too late, or he was born too early, if he could meet such a talent when he was relatively young, what kind of scenery would the current Kingdom of Adud be?

The old fox Roberts asked, "Your Majesty, how should we reward Leylin for such a great contribution to the royal family?"

"Reward?"

King Jaime patted himself on the head, "I almost forgot about it, reward, it must be greatly rewarded!"

It's just that the trouble is coming.

What should he reward for Leylin?