Three months later...

"King & Granger Potions Shop, Diagon Alley Branch 4 is officially open, and we are committed to the finest potions, with the best prices."

"After a day of work, do you feel physically and mentally exhausted, don't be nervous my friend, come to a bottle of King and Granger Potions, the refreshing potion from the Potions Shop, now hold a buy five get one free event, what are you waiting for?"

"I'm a former Auror of the Ministry of Magic, and during the Black and White Wizarding Wars, I was arrested by the Death Eaters and brutally abused, which made me suffer from a phobia of loneliness and couldn't sleep all day. Since drinking the sleeping water from the King and Granger Potions Shop, I am now eating soundly, sleeping soundly, and even smiling a lot more than before, the King and Granger Potions Shop is amazing. ”

In the newspapers, Wang and Granger are touting the magic shop, Wang Xu does not ask everyone to sell things, but only wants everyone to know what kind of place he is.

Prompted by the brainwashing magic sound, Wang Xu opened three potion shops in Diagon Alley, plus the flagship store, there are as many as five potion shops in Diagon Alley.

You don't have to think about making money, you can't make a penny, and the more you drive, the more you lose.

Wang Xu didn't care about this, the more he lost now, the more fierce he would scrape in the future, anyway, the wool came out of the sheep.

"Professor Slughorn, what happened to the anti-aging and life-prolonging ointment I asked you to develop?" Coming to the laboratory on the second floor of the flagship store, Wang Xu found Slughorn, who was hired by him to develop anti-aging health products.

Slughorn led more than a dozen assistants to conduct experiments in the laboratory, and said without raising his head after hearing the voice: "The real life-prolonging potion is a grandmaster-level potion, and no one in the current magical world can develop it." It is a weakened version of the anti-aging and longevity ointment, it is not easy to make it, after three months of trying, the anti-aging and longevity ointment I have made at present can only delay aging on the surface, and if you take it for a long time, it can theoretically increase your life span by 3 to 5 years. ”

"Enough, we don't need to make them immortal, it's enough to cause madness. From now on, the product will be put into production immediately, marked on the effect column, which can effectively delay aging, and long-term use can increase the life span of 5-10 years. Wang Xu said and turned his head to look at Hermione: "Invite the reporter of the Daily Prophet to come over, I want to buy tomorrow's front page headlines, remember, the sharpest reporter." ”

"Professor Wang, in theory, our products can only increase the life span of 3 to 5 years at most, isn't it okay to write 5 to 10 years?" Slughorn likes money, but he still has a bottom line and doesn't approve of such behavior.

Wang Xu looked at him with a shocked expression, held his shoulder, and said, "Professor, who can prove that the person who took our potion did not increase his lifespan by 10?" As long as he drinks our potions today and dies in 5 years, that's our success. We can say that he should have died a long time ago, and it was only because of our potions that he lived so many more years. ”

Slughorn wanted to say something, Wang Xu interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and continued to ask, "What about the cost price?" ”

"Anti-aging life extension ointment, is a weakened version of life extension potion, we use the formula of life extension potion, also use longevity grass, unicorn blood, and the evolution potion you provided as the main ingredients, which makes the cost high. After calculation, the cost price of a bottle of anti-aging ointment is about 4500 Galleons, which is not very affordable. The main reason is that the material cost is too expensive. ”

An ordinary employee of the Ministry of Magic can earn a salary of 600 Galleons a month, and the head of the department can only reach 800 Galleons, and only a director-level executive can earn the same salary as a professor at Hogwarts, and get more than 1,000 Galleons.

A potion with a cost price of 4,500 Galleons will cost at least 10,000 Galleons, and it will take a year for a director-level executive who gets a dead salary to buy a bottle of life-prolonging ointment without eating or drinking.

And Wang Xu's positioning of life-prolonging ointment is to use at least one bottle every month, and it is best to use one bottle a week.

In this way, even if the life-extending ointment is released, I am afraid that the sales will not be too high, at least if there is no corruption, the Minister of Magic will not be able to use it.

"It's too expensive, our products have to be for the masses, even if he is a beggar, we have to squeeze Galleon out of his pocket. In this way, the long-lived grass, the blood of the unicorn, the nails of the phoenix, these high-cost materials are all eliminated, and only the cheapest medicinal materials are used, and the cost must be suppressed at 300 Galleons, and then sold for 500 Galleons. ”

Wang Xu knew very well that the thing that made the life-prolonging ointment prolong his life was not the blood of the immortal grass or unicorn, but the crystal nucleus evolution liquid he took out.

In that case, simply don't go retro style, those things are useless anyway.

"If we cut these materials, how do we write them in the ingredients, but we know that adding unicorn blood and longevity grass is one of our big selling points." Slughorn agreed with Wang Xu's statement, but could not help but ask the questions that followed.

Wang Xu frowned and thought for a while, quickly thought of a countermeasure, and said: "Publicly buy the blood of unicorns from the outside world, as well as the longevity grass, and let everyone know that we are scraping the ground to purchase materials related to refining life extension elixirs." The vast majority of these two ingredients are then hoarded and a small portion is made into a powder, with one gram added to each bottle of life-prolonging ointment. Yes, it's one gram, absolutely no more, and then in the content of the product, mark the blood of the unicorn and the ingredients of the evergreen grass. ”

This method was not thought up by Wang Xu, but a domestic health care product company that took the lead in coming up with a big plan to make money.

Those health care product companies have added ginseng, deer antler, Ganoderma lucidum, and snow lotus.

But the general public doesn't know that the addition is added, there is no doubt about it, the amount that can be added is only one or two grams, and then the person who added it participates in the ingredient of Ganoderma lucidum, and it is written in the most eye-catching position.

Of course, this kind of behavior seems unscrupulous, but in fact, it is already very conscientious.

For example, a certain health care product called Chinese soft-shelled turtle essence, the main material is Chinese soft-shelled turtle, and as a result, 3,800 tons of products were produced, and not a single soft-shelled turtle was used up.

On average, only one gram is used for a ton of products, and you just add Taishang Laojun's gold pill to it, so it's useless to dilute it like this.

Compared with those who sell health care products, Wang Xu, who adds one gram to a bottle, feels that he is already a conscientious businessman, who dares to say that he is deceiving consumers.

"Boss, there's a guy named Magiel downstairs looking for you again, and he said he has a cooperation with you to talk about." Just when Wang Xu was talking about business, the clerk downstairs ran up.

Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to Hermione beside him: "See, Magire Potions Store, it's finally going to be unbearable!" ”

"We already have four potion shops now, do we still need to buy his potion shop?" Hermione whispered when she heard that it was Magim coming, and she couldn't help but whisper when she was happy.

"Yes!" Wang Xu took Hermione out, and when he was about to go down the stairs, he said without looking back: "Under our pressure, Magiel can hold out for four or five months, which shows that he is a capable and courageous head of the potions shop." If I can let this person be used by me, even if I buy his potion shop at a premium, it is easy to get, and it will be difficult to find! ”

Walking downstairs, Wang Xu saw Magim again after a few months' absence.

Compared to the day the potion shop opened, Maggill now looks much older, from a tall and fat middle-aged man in his forties to a tall, thin man with half-white hair.

From his gray hair and weathered face, it is not difficult to see that he has not had a good time in the past few months.

"See you again, Mr. Maggire!" Wang Xu took the initiative to greet him and shook Maggie's hand.

Magiel was dressed in a basket, her eyes were bloodshot, and she shook Wang Xu's hand vigorously: "You won, Boss Wang!" ”

"No, it's the capital that wins, and if you have abundant funds, I can't force you to throw in the towel." Wang Xu pointed to the door and said with a smile: "There is a new bar opened in Diagon Alley, how about we go have a drink?" ”

Maggie nodded slightly, and walked out with Wang Xu.

When he came to the bar, Wang Xu asked for a private room, three glasses of rum, and some side dishes with wine.

When asked what she wanted, she asked for a roast goose, a roasted dragon liver, and two cream cakes.

Hermione was surprised by what Maggiel ordered, because as a competitor, she had investigated Magiel before and knew that Magim was a person who paid attention to life taste, and that high-calorie greasy foods such as roast goose and cream cake would not have been eaten by Magiel before.

Faced with Hermione's question, Magie took two sips and said with a slight gloom: "Now I have eaten..."

I didn't eat these greasy things in the past because Maggile was rich and had the ability to pursue a taste for life.

After months of fighting, Magiel was penniless and in debt, and as of yesterday he had no money to buy bread.

From last night when he was hungry to now, what he wants to eat most is roast goose, which he would never eat before, but now he is drooling.

After biting off half of the cake and taking a hard bite from the roast goose that had been baked brown, Magiel wolfed down and asked, "What are you going to do if I can hold on?" ”

"I'll have people go to your store to buy potions, and then use the pretext that the potions aren't up to standard, take you to the wizarding court of the Wizengamot, and have the newspapers show it off." Wang Xu took a sip of wine and replied in a light tone.

Maggill raised her head slightly, and asked, "You should know that my potions are all qualified, and the Wizengamot will prove my innocence." ”

"I know, I just want to make you tired because Gringotts won't give you another loan until you're proven innocent. When the time comes, you lose your loan and credibility, and I think you can only go bankrupt, and in the end you will win the lawsuit, and the newspapers will publicly apologize to you, but that will happen after you go bankrupt. And I'll be generous enough to buy your shop when you're in debt and have nothing but fame. ”

Wang Xu raised his wine glass and touched it with Magiel's cup: "Do you hear the roar of gold coins?" ”

Maggie raised her head slightly, drank the wine in the glass, and slowly closed her eyes: "It's very clear..."