Chapter 43: The First Alchemy
Gui Liao smoked flowers and fruits, and the orchid soup washed the jade skin. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is a poem in Bai Juyi's "Little Years and Joyful Talks about the Full Moon of His Granddaughter", in today's words, it is to describe the smooth skin like a baby.
The refining of the Jade Muscle Pill and the Dingyan Pill is not complicated, and it does not require the alchemist to have a high level of cultivation, except that the raw materials are more precious, there is nothing special about the rest.
Despite this, Su Chen was still cautious and cautious, this was his first alchemy, and it was of great significance to him.
After preparing the raw materials step by step, and moving out a bronze Dan furnace found from Qingliang Temple, Su Chen began to do it.
There are Su An waiting for these things by the side, and when he is tired, he will be replaced by Hao Meng or Cao Xing, Su Chen does not sleep endlessly, and stays in the Dan room all day and night, which is really hard.
Three days later, when it was finally time to unopen the lid of the furnace, he ordered Su An to withdraw the fire, and waited impatiently for the furnace temperature to cool down.
After a long time, he slowly opened the lid of the furnace, as if he was afraid that if his strength was a little stronger, the pill inside would be gone.
Uncover it, a piece of moist jade pills lying in the Dan furnace, the pill is about the size of a pea, the color looks similar to the peeled lychee, just uncover it, there is a strong medicinal fragrance emanating.
"It's done!"
Su Chen was secretly happy in his heart, and probably counted them, a total of twelve, less than he expected, according to the number of pills on the pill, this furnace pill was the weight of thirty.
With a one-third success rate, Su Chen was a little frustrated, but thinking that it was his first time refining pills, he was relieved again, and carefully put the pills into the jade bottle that had been prepared long ago, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, lord, what kind of pill are you refining, why are you putting it all away, let's taste it." Seeing that the pill this time was obviously different from the last time Forging Bone San, Hao Meng said with some greed.
"You want to try?" Hearing this, he turned his gaze to Cao Xuan again, and the two nodded in unison, only then did Su Chen explain: "This elixir is for women, and the effect is to beautify and reshape the ice muscles and jade bones, what, do you also want your skin to become more supple?" ”
"Huh?" Hearing that this was the effect, the two quickly shook their heads, and looked at him as amused, and scolded with a smile: "Two fools! ”
After practicing a furnace of Jade Muscle Pill, Su Chen immediately began to refine the Yan Pill, if there is any difference between the two pills, that is, the effect of the Fixing Yan Pill is greatly discounted compared to the Jade Muscle Pill, but relatively speaking, its cost and difficulty of refining have also been greatly reduced, it can be said that the positioning of the two pills is different.
The Jade Muscle Pill is aimed at the big families and court ladies, and Yan Dan is aimed at ordinary families and even merchant women, and the hierarchical sales can better reflect the difference in identity.
The top priority is to recruit a group of physicians who are proficient in pharmacology to carry out assembly line production, so as to maximize the benefits.
He went to Qingliang Temple, and soon Jiaye sent ten disciples of the Medicine Garden to help, and with these people joining, Su Chen began to work on mass production.
First of all, he divided the ten people into five groups, one group was responsible for the initial preparation of raw materials, the raw materials after the initial processing were further processed by the second group and refined into powder, and finally the third group made the powder into finished products, and the fourth group was packaged.
As for the extra two, in addition to being responsible for the procurement of raw materials, he is also responsible for the supervision of the entire production line, his first task now is to mass-produce Dingyan Dan, and after the market is gradually opened, he will launch the Jade Muscle Pill, in the early stage of opening the market, the Jade Muscle Pill is not sold to the outside world, only as a gift to the dignitaries.
This is a money-making business, but Su Chen doesn't plan to eat alone, this time he doesn't plan to continue to cooperate with the Zhen family's Chamber of Commerce, but has other plans, so he came to Li Su's mansion.
"Brother Li, it has been a few days since I said goodbye last time, and I have been busy with family affairs during this time, and I only came to visit today, and I hope that Brother Li will forgive my little brother for his belated sin."
Entering the Li Mansion, it was Li Su who was responsible for receiving him, now that the head of the Li family is older, Li Su has gradually grown up, and Li Su is taking care of the affairs inside and outside the house on weekdays, and he is only one step away from taking over the burden of the head of the family.
Li Su smiled when he heard this: "Brother Xian's words are serious, but when it comes to saying this, he is incompetent, and he still has no clue about the assassin that night, I originally thought it was ......"
"Don't talk about the past." As soon as Li Su was about to say the surname, Su Chen interrupted him and continued: "Today's visit, in addition to thanking Brother Li for his help that day, there is also a business to cooperate with Brother Li. ”
"Oh? I don't know what kind of business it is? Li Su saw that he didn't want to mention the assassination, so he changed the topic in a timely manner, as for the business that Su Chen said, he was a little interested, and said in his heart Could it be that the other party reciprocated Li and wanted to cooperate with his Li family in Su Wine's business?
If that's the case, then it's really great, now who doesn't know in Wuyuan County, the Su family's Wuyuan Immortal Brew has a price, and the other two kinds of wine are also in short supply, if you can really get the Su family's sales right, this will definitely bring great benefits to the Li family.
Thinking of this, Li Su hurriedly added: "Could it be that Brother Cheng wants to cooperate with me in the business of Su Liquor?" ”
Su Chen shook his head and replied: "Brother Li misunderstood, the Su family's current output is limited, even if I have the heart to cooperate with Brother Li, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, but this business is not bad compared to Su wine, Brother Li might as well listen to me in detail." ”
Li Su was aroused by his curiosity, and then he heard him talk about the business of Dingyan Dan, after listening, Li Su said disappointedly: "Brother Xian, it's not that my brother doesn't believe you, but you seem to be a little ...... this thing."
"It's a little hard to get on stage, right?" Su Chen simply helped him say the latter words.
"Indeed!" Things like rouge gouache are women's things after all, how can he, a big man, manage such a cheap business, so Rao is Su Chen's mouth can be a lotus, and he is also lacking in interest.
Su Chen saw that he didn't believe it, and he wasn't in a hurry, which was in his expectation, if someone really noticed the huge benefits in this, I'm afraid there would be nothing to do with him now, so he asked instead: "Brother Li, I wonder if you are married now?" ”
"Of course!" Li Su is now twenty-eight years old, how could he not be married, so he replied: "Don't hide it from the virtuous brother, your eldest nephew is almost an adult now, how can he not be married as a brother." ”
"Then why don't you invite your sister-in-law to come out and talk about it? Maybe this business sister-in-law has more say. Although this proposal was a bit presumptuous, Su Chen still brought it up.
Li Su pondered for a moment, and then instructed the servant: "Go and invite the lady over, and say that there is something to discuss." ”
After a while, a graceful and luxurious lady came to the front hall, Su Chen hurriedly saluted, and the other party also replied: "The slut Li Yan has seen Su Gongzi." ”
Su Chen got straight to the point, and said the effect of the Dingyan Pill in a few words, and when he heard that he could stay forever after taking it, Li Yan's eyes lit up instantly, and he showed great interest.
Shaoqing Su Chen took out a jade bottle and said: "Sister-in-law, please look, this is Dingyan Dan, a bottle of ten capsules, take one pill every three days, this bottle is enough for Mrs. Sister-in-law for a month, a month later, I will visit again, how about we talk about it then?" ”
The second half of Su Chen's sentence was obviously said to Li Su, although Li Su was not optimistic about this business, but he still agreed: "In this way, it is according to what the virtuous brother said." ”
After Li Su sent him out of the mansion, he returned to the hall, saw the excited lady, and couldn't help asking, "Madam, is this Dingyan Dan really as good as Su Xiaozi said?" ”
Without outsiders present, Li Yan's speech was much brighter, and he said bluntly: "Husband, although the concubine body doesn't know if this Dingyan Pill has the effect of eternal appearance as Su Gongzi said, but the concubine body knows that if it really has an effect, then this business will inevitably bring unimaginable benefits." ”
"Hmm!" Li Su nodded, and his originally disapproving expression also retracted, and began to seriously think about whether the plan Su Chen said was feasible.
After thinking about it for a long time, after all, he still couldn't do anything, and said to his wife with a smile: "Originally, I showed favor to this Su boy just to be able to pass his father's self-high history in a certain position in the army, but I didn't expect that today was an unexpected joy, if this matter is successful, my Li family will no longer be the bottom family in Jiuyuan County in the future." ”
"What the husband said is very true!"
"Hahahaha!" Thinking of the wonderful prospects ahead, the couple smiled happily.
Although Li Su did not agree to cooperate on the spot, Su Chen did not slow down the pace, but ordered to go down, use this month's time, actively stock up, and wait until the Li family agreed to cooperate, the first batch of samples will be launched in Jiuyuan County, and then expand to the Sili area.
For him, Luoyang is the real big market, although Su wine was sold to Luoyang, but it was not the power of the Wuyuan Chamber of Commerce or even the Su family, but the channels of the Zhen family in Luoyang.
This Dingyan Dan's business is a key for the Wuyuan Chamber of Commerce to pry open the gate of Luoyang, and it is also a means to make friends with court officials, in his imagination, the families of those court officials are a force that cannot be ignored.
Since ancient times, the pillow wind is the most powerful, whether it is ancient or modern, taking the lady route is a very practical way. As for this candidate, he also has it, and that is Cai Yan.
Cai Yan is about to become his wife, which is naturally credible, and Cai Yan is not without personal close friends in Luoyang, using this way, I believe that he will soon be able to make friends with the children of the court officials, and then radiate to all the relatives.
Now it's time for the Su family to establish their own social network, blindly relying on a certain big tree will not work, the tree will fall and scatter, don't fancy how powerful the Chang Shi Wang Fu is now, but Su Chen has only heard of Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong in later generations, this Wang Fu obviously didn't live long later, as long as he falls, Wang Zhi will inevitably be implicated, if you want to keep your own status, the Cai family's good move must not be put away.
Just when Su Chen was taking precautions, an undercurrent was also surging in Jinyang City, which in turn affected Jiuyuan County.