Chapter 40, Alchemy
Hongyuan said: "It depends on the individual's talent, if the talent is good, it may not be able to reach thousands, you can open up the meridians of the whole body, if the talent is poor, tens of thousands can't be stopped, I have practiced for many years for the teacher, and I have used up more than 1,000 Yunmai Pills alone!" ”
Hongyuan has been cultivating for 30 years, and the money he earns is more or less, but he can roughly earn 1,000 taels per year, 30 years is 30,000 taels, and 1,000 Yunmai Pills need 20,000 taels, which means that not counting the time that Xu Haolai came, most of the money earned by Hongyuan was used in this pill.
Xu Hao seemed to have discovered a new way to make money, and he immediately asked, "Teacher, is there a big demand for this elixir?" ”
Hongyuan said with a smile: "How can it not be big, the Yunmai Dan warriors need it, the Taoist priests need it, the generals in the army also need it, and even the demon clan cultivation needs it, it can be said that as long as the cultivators need it, how many monks are there in the whole world?" There are more than a million, and such an elixir can be used up more than 10 million a year. ”
In other words, this is an industry of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and this is only the most common and basic one of the pills, how much output value the entire pill industry has, Xu Hao estimates that tens of billions of can't be stopped!
Xu Hao continued to ask: "Teacher, you are also a Taoist priest, why don't you learn alchemy?" If you learn the Yunmai Pill, you can save 20,000 taels of silver, and you can even sell it to others, so that you don't have to interrupt your cultivation to go down the mountain to make money. ”
Hongyuan smiled bitterly: "Do you really think that the pill is so easy to refine, do you know that there is a saying in the immortal cultivation world called persuading people to make alchemy, and the sky thunders and splits." The price of herbs that can make pills will not be low, but the success rate of alchemy will not be high, especially for new alchemists, ten furnaces of pills may not succeed in one furnace, and supporting an alchemist can make Wanguan's family wealth go up in smoke, and in the entire immortal cultivation world, that is, the gate faction, will have the financial resources to support the alchemist, or it is a specialized alchemy sect, and our ancestor is just a cow herding baby, not to mention where the pill comes from, even if you want to refin, you can't afford to refin! ”
Xu Hao hesitated and said: "The simplest Yun Pulse Pill can't be refined, and the disciple feels that this pill has no aura, so it stands to reason that mortals can refine it!" ”
Hongyuan said: "If you think of a way to be a teacher, you can indeed refine the Yunmai Pill, but it is not cost-effective, firstly, the teacher is a novice, and the price of the refined pill is high, and secondly, it will take too much time, and there is a lack of cultivation time for the teacher, where is there still time for alchemy!" ”
Although Hongyuan said that alchemy is very difficult, what herbs to judge, the choice of Danfang, the temperature control of Danhuo, it is impossible to become a qualified alchemist without decades of experience, it seems that Hongyuan has also studied alchemy, so he will understand these. But he also failed, so he persuaded Xu Hao not to go astray.
However, for modern society, the primitive alchemy technology in this world can only be said to be rough.
Do they have machines to extract the active ingredients?
Is there nanometer accuracy?
Is there a heat that can be controlled with any temperature?
It can be said that in the face of modern technology, the experience of alchemists is not worth mentioning.
It's hard to say about other elixirs with aura, but Yunmai Dan is all refined from ordinary herbs, so as long as Xu Hao opens a pharmaceutical factory, Yunmai Dan can be produced endlessly, and the wealth brought by this is unimaginable.
Xu Hao asked: "Does the teacher have any Dan recipe for Yunmai Dan, the disciple wants to give it a try, maybe the disciple has this talent, if it is really successful, the teacher and the disciple will not have to worry about the pill during the foundation building period." ”
Hongyuan thought that Xu Hao's family was rich and powerful, and he didn't think that his family would be ruined because of the small Yunmai Dan, so he rummaged in his room, and finally found a piece of yellow paper in the Tao Te Ching, and then handed it to Xu Hao: "You can give it a try, but you have to agree to be a teacher, and if you don't succeed, you will give up. ”
Then he found a bunch of yellowed books, and Xu Hao saw that they were all medical books.
Hongyuan continued: "Dan medicine is not separated, without clever medical skills, the pill cannot be refined, these are all books that the teacher read back then, you have to memorize them." ”
After thinking about it, he said: "As a teacher, I should find a way to find a relationship and let you go to a medical hall as an apprentice, so that you can learn real skills!" ”
Xu Hao saw a pile of medical books and said with a bitter face: "Teacher, I just want to do alchemy, not to study medicine!" ”
Hongyuan glared at him and said, "If you don't learn to walk, you want to run!" You don't even know the sexual taste, efficacy, and what diseases can be treated, how to make alchemy, you really think alchemy is to refine according to a pill prescription, and it is impossible to become an excellent alchemist without clever medical skills! ”
Xu Hao did not agree with all of Hongyuan's words, modern pay attention to specialization, and few people in pharmaceutical factories understand medical skills, but they still do not delay them in manufacturing various drugs, and those who study various modern drugs do not see that a few are hospitals, but major laboratories.
If he wants to study Yunmai Dan, it is enough to understand these things, and what kind of medical skills to learn can only be time-consuming.
So Xu Hao said: "The teacher's brilliant medical skills can't be produced in a few decades, and the disciple just wants to refine a pill, and he doesn't need to do it like this."
Hongyuan could only shake his head, he didn't even learn medical skills, what kind of pill could he refine
He said: "Anyway, you have a lot of money, so why not let you try!" ”
Xu Hao thought that he could only cultivate in the past few days, and instead of wasting time here, it was better to go to modern times and see if he could use a modern factory to mass-produce Yunmai Dan.
So he said, "Teacher, I'm going to go home and ask my family to help me get some alchemy items!" ”
Hongyuan thought that Xu Hao was looking for a Dan furnace, and the Dan furnace was not cheap, Hongyuan was just renting a Dan furnace in the medical hall back then, and he also agreed with Xu Hao's words, so he nodded and agreed.
Xu Hao prepared more than 200 ginseng again, and then opened the space door and returned to the country of hope.
Then I quickly bought a ticket back to China and prepared to return to China.
At the airport, Xu Hao sighed: "It's too time-consuming, it seems that it's time to buy a private jet!" ”
If he makes another 200 million this time, private jets are really nothing to him.
But the reality is often disappointing.
When he took out a large handful of ginseng again, the manager could only say to Xu Hao: "Boss, you have brought too much high-quality ginseng during this time, and this time you have brought more than 200 ginseng, and you can't consume so much ginseng in China in a period of time!" ”
In fact, the difference in the efficacy of ginseng will not be very big for a few years or less, but the local tyrant pays attention to a rarity, and the ginseng with a large radish is not valuable, only this kind of wild old ginseng that is difficult to find a mountain is valuable, and the price of a hundred years and a thousand years has broken through the sky.
But Xu Hao sold hundreds of old ginseng in a timely manner, and immediately knocked the old ginseng from the top luxury goods into the ordinary luxury industry, which was naturally low.