"Your Excellency Lelouch, you're planning to make a move on the Potion Market. ”

"That's right~ That's why I asked you to buy alchemy utensils and equipment related to the preparation of potions. ”

Lelouch nodded to indicate that Alyssa had guessed correctly. All walks of life in the free city are almost saturated, and it is very difficult for new businessmen to gain a foothold in the city, and it is difficult to survive in the free city without a strong backstage and a fixed source of goods behind it.

The original brought from the city of Ulduar all kinds of rare materials and all kinds of precious metals are strange goods, Lelouch supply providers are naturally welcomed by many businessmen, if Lelouch can continue to provide the free city with these super high-quality minerals and materials for a long time, then the free city of commerce will naturally welcome the new chamber of commerce that can bring great benefits to themselves. Of course, if this benefit has reached an extremely terrifying level, then some businessmen will choose to use some means to find out the other party's source channels, and then replace the other party. Of course, considering the mystery of Lelouxiu's identity and the huge forces that may exist behind it, no one dares to use this crooked brain for the time being, and now at most he is only collecting information about Lelouch to prepare for his next move.

On the contrary, if Lelouch stops the supply of goods and wants to become a part of the cake in the free city, then no matter what he does, he will not be popular, not to mention that there is no stable supply channel behind Lelouxiu, even if he can barely become a part of it, he can only be in the embarrassing situation of being squeezed by others for a long time.

Moreover, Ulduar City cannot provide Lelouch with goods continuously, after all, the purpose of Yalin to let Lelouch come to the Free City is not to establish a single outlet channel here to sell things and make money, but to establish a power base that can independently produce a blood circulation mechanism is the ultimate goal.

The main reason for choosing the pharmaceutical industry is that the share of the pharmaceutical market is not yet completely saturated, and a large part of the sales share of the pharmaceutical market in the free city is controlled by the pharmacist association within the free city. Up to now, there are about 300 pharmacists of different grades in the entire pharmacist association, which can supply the market with more than 7,000 bottles of various potions every day. It's just that in the other world, the dispensing of pharmaceuticals has not realized the production of industrial assembly operations, and each bottle of pharmacy needs to be blended by pharmacists hand-in-hand, because each pharmacist has different proficiency in blending, and the purity of the medicine is different, and the yield is therefore very low.

In addition to the common antidotes and treatment agents, the rest of the high-grade drugs are sold in a customized way because there are too few senior pharmacists who can dispense them.

In terms of consumer population, ordinary civilians are probably not able to consume healing potions, and occasionally some hunters have a few bottles of antidotes, which can be regarded as special drugs for preventing poisonous snakes and poisonous insects. In fact, in the free city, the biggest consumption of potions is always mercenaries, and the healing potions that can quickly work and heal injuries after drinking them on the battlefield are almost everyone's must-haves, and there is not much time on the battlefield for you to slowly stitch up the wound and tie the bandage. In addition to mercenaries, the armies of the countries on the mainland will also produce or purchase various potions on a large scale as military reserves, and at the peak of potion consumption, the Free City consumed more than 20,000 bottles of various potions every day, which has long exceeded the output of the pharmacists under the Pharmacists Association.

In addition to the quantity can not be satisfied, the quality is also a big problem, no matter what kind of medicine purity is naturally the higher the better, the treatment potion prepared by the apprentice must not be compared with the medicine prepared by the senior pharmacist, even if the formula is put in front of the two because of the problem of proficiency in terms of output and quality. Healing potions that are too low in purity will also be very slow to recover from injuries, and may also cause some sequelae, both mercenaries and soldiers want to obtain higher purity potions to ensure their superiority in battle, so some countries have very strict purity requirements after purchasing potions from Free City.

Although the Pharmacists Association monopolizes most of the sales, the reason for the monopoly is only because there is no one in the free city to compete with them except them, and many self-employed pharmacists will be suppressed by the Pharmacists Association or simply bought to become a member of the association even if they want to open their own stores in the free city, after all, the power of the entire Pharmacists Association cannot be underestimated in the free city, and the benefits it produces are far stronger than that of individuals doing it alone.

"Pharmacists, don't worry, when we build the infrastructure and equipment here, there will be a group of senior pharmacists coming to Free City. "Lelouch is not worried about manpower at all.

When she learned that the ancient gods of the Arnold Mountains were going to let a group of elven apothecaries go to the Free City, Alisa couldn't help but be stunned: "No wonder the alchemy room that blends potions would choose such a hidden place, and it also spent a lot of money to customize the protective array, Lord Lelouxiu~ Are these all planned from the beginning?"

"Haha! I didn't make this plan on purpose, but there were several different scripts to choose from at the beginning, and I just chose the most suitable one. ”

A group of elf pharmacists in Ulduar City have been cultivated, this batch of frost and snow elves is the first person to be selected for apothecary cultivation, as a system creature, each frost and snow elf's qualifications are very good, especially in learning, with the order of Yalin, almost all of them have forgotten to sleep and eat, frantically learning the knowledge related to potion blending, plus after Medea's special intensive training, there are at least three master pharmacists and one senior master pharmacist in this batch of selected frost and snow elf pharmacists. The purity of the data potion can be blended to a purity of more than 80 per person, and the senior master-level elf pharmacist in the advanced potion can already blend the true agility potion and the true spirit potion with no sequelae at all!

Of course, considering the special identity of the frost and snow elves, Lelouch built the alchemy room used to dispense potions in a hidden basement, which in some ways looks like an underground drug factory built by drug dealers in the original world of Yalin, but fortunately, the AI of the frost and snow elves as a summoning system creature has not yet caused them to have negative feelings such as boredom and despair, as long as Yalin gives an order, the frost and snow elf will obey the order and will never disobey it.

Alyssa nodded: "In this case, I'm afraid there will be some trouble in the Pharmacist Association┉┉"

"I know. Lelouch asked with a strange look on his face that they weren't messing with, "It's just Alyssa, do you know what they might use?"

"It's probably still the same old-fashioned violence or co-optation, and if neither works, it's probably the neck that we owe in terms of materials. Alyssa shrugged her shoulders and said a few of the most common methods used by almost all merchants in Free City.

It's old!

Lelouch didn't care about this way of making trouble at all, and the crystal dragon Buyani also laughed when he heard these methods, and the violent means ~ I am embarrassed to use this method in front of the two dragons, it is purely death. The pharmacists who have already spent a lot of money to win over the other party, it is a pity that Buyani thinks that there should be no elf who dares to serve a mortal against the will of the White Dragon King, not to mention that the Pharmacist Association probably does not even have the opportunity to meet these elves.

As for the economic means, if the elven apothecary could concoct a purer potion, no one in this world would do anything but a fool to buy a defective product at the same price. Not to mention that most of the users of the potion are still mercenaries who live a life of licking blood with knives, who doesn't want to buy a purer potion, which can be used to save their lives on the battlefield. And on the material to pinch their own neck, Buyani and Lelouch's eyes fell on Elisa.

Alisa smiled confidently, "Please rest assured, Lord Lelouch, as long as a small part of the sales of the potion is shared with my family, I can guarantee that the Westphalian family will definitely be willing to supply you with the raw materials you need." ”

"What if the Pharmacists Association pressurizes?"

"There is no merchant who will harm himself for the benefit of others, and our Westphalian family does not run a potion sale not because we are afraid of the power of the Pharmacists Association, but because there is really no stable supply to compete with it, even if the family has trained a few pharmacists, it cannot compete with the Pharmacists Association in terms of output, at most it can only be regarded as adding a little commodity decoration to the family store. ”

The Westphalian family, to which Elisa belongs, is involved in a wide range of industries, and this time, after learning that Lelouch decided to start in the potion market, he won a small part of the potion sales rights for his family by virtue of the advantage of being close to the water, and the price was that Alisa guaranteed that her family would provide sufficient and preferential sources of materials. You must know that the profit of potions is already very high, whether it is a private mercenary group or the kingdom's army, it will be used in large quantities, and the war between the Karlsemon Empire and the Kingdom of Kreses has caused the price of potions to skyrocket, and the Pharmacists Association has taken this opportunity to make a lot of money, which makes many people envious. Even in the current period of relative peace, potions will still be stockpiled as military supplies, and there will never be a large-scale drop in price.

Not only the Westphalian family, but also the entire free city There are many merchants who want to meddle in the pharmacy market, but because the Pharmacists Association firmly controls the control of pharmacists, there are no pharmacists who can dispense potions, and other merchants can only endure the exploitation of the Pharmacists Association and become lower-class sellers. Now, when there was an opportunity to break the monopoly of the Pharmacists' Association, Elisa naturally seized the opportunity as quickly as possible, and while ensuring that the interests of her immediate boss were not damaged, the clever businesswoman still took some care of her family.

Of course, for Lelouch, as long as Elisa's actions did not damage his plans, then he did not need to pour cold water on Elisa's 'enthusiasm'.

In the final analysis, a win-win situation is the best choice for businessmen!R1152