Chapter 40 Are you afraid of the tenth-order minion?
Back in Qifeng County, Bai Yu first reported to Tao Yulian that he was safe.
Then he went to the workshop, and Gu Fei took him on a tour.
Bai Yu was very satisfied when he saw a large number of workers making perfume in an orderly manner. The "core" part was still controlled by the government officials.
Gu Fei was a little worried and said, "Sir, although the workshop is strictly guarded, I heard from Lao Changtou that there are still imitation perfumes on the market. Although the quality is very poor, the price is much cheaper than Tianxiang Yulu, which has caused harm to Tianxiang Yulu.
There is a little threat, and this threat will continue to grow.”
Bai Yu was not surprised.
The production technology of perfume is not very advanced. As long as he takes the lead, it will be copied sooner or later.
He had already thought about this problem and how to deal with it.
One is that Tianxiang Yulu has drastically reduced its price by virtue of its "scale advantage", lowering the price to an extremely low level, making imitation products unprofitable or even losing money, so no one will imitate it.
But in this way, perfume has lost its characteristics as an expensive luxury product and has become a product with small profits but quick turnover.
Second, let perfume become a "specialty" like salt and iron. Except for Tianxiang Yulu, anyone who dares to produce and sell perfume will have their homes confiscated and beheaded.
"Okay, I will find a way to solve this problem."
Of course Bai Yu chose the second option, which was simple, direct and unreasonable.
He asked Chang Jiuyan to be found.
Chang Jiuyan reported to him the business situation of the shop.
Bai Yu said, "You can ask people to go to various pharmacies in the Imperial City to see if there are medicinal materials of a higher age. The older the better, the price is not an issue."
"yes."
Chang Jiuyan didn't know what the adults wanted to do, so he didn't ask questions that he shouldn't have.
Bai Yu asked, "Do you know where there is a black market? It's best to be a relatively high-end black market."
Chang Jiuyan said, "I heard that there is a very powerful black market at the east gate of the Imperial City. Everything is priced at ridiculous prices, but I have never been there."
Bai Yu said, "Send someone to find out the specific location."
Chang Jiuyan nodded.
Bai Yu also asked someone to find the accountant sent by the Right Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and asked the accountant to count the total amount of money. The four families would "dividend" the money first. His Majesty the Emperor had 80%, he had 10%, and the Right Minister and the Marquis of Jinnan each had 10%.
Half percent.
"OK."
Mr. Accountant smiled happily. As an accountant, the most fulfilling thing is undoubtedly living in a mountain of gold and silver.
Bai Yu's purpose in doing this was to let His Majesty the Emperor see the money first, so that it would be easier for him to do things.
After doing this, he went to the Ministry of Justice. He was not in a hurry to report the case. Instead, he went to the Right Assistant Minister and told him about someone imitating perfume. He begged the Right Assistant Assistant Minister to report to His Majesty the Emperor and list perfume as a specialty.
"Okay, I will go to the Marquis of Jin Nan to report this matter to Your Majesty."
The right servant smiled and said, "The Marquis of Jin Nan said that from now on every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, we will go to his house once to discuss matters related to Tianxiang Jade Dew. Last time someone smashed the shop, you tell me and I will report it."
His Majesty solved the problem and bypassed him, and he was a little dissatisfied."
"All right."
Bai Yu couldn't help but think of that beautiful girl named Jinhua who often went to the Jinnan Hou Mansion... You know, he was still single and had not married a wife yet.
Returning to the workshop from the Ministry of Justice, some people sent by Chang Jiuyan to buy medicinal materials have returned and are working very efficiently.
Seeing that the medicinal materials he bought were only ten or twenty years old at most, Bai Yu was a little disappointed. Sure enough, things were not as simple as he thought. The high-ranking officials had a firm control over the older medicinal materials, and they did not flow into the market at all.
"Are you injured, sir, or have some illness?"
Chang Jiuyan took out a betel nut and chewed it.
Bai Yu looked at his trousers and wondered where he hid so many betel nuts. "I'm not injured or sick. I just want to make up for it."
The yamen servants laughed heartily, with expressions of understanding.
Bai Yu didn't bother to explain and took the medicinal materials to his own courtyard.
I don’t know if medicinal materials that are ten or twenty years old are useful, so I can only give it a try.
Regardless of the nature of the medicine, let’s suffer together...
After staying up for a few hours, I looked at a dark mass.
Bai Yu switched to accomplice mode, took a spoonful, put it into his mouth, and squirted it out.
He took another spoonful and swallowed it while resisting nausea.
It was nothing at first, but after a while, he started to have a stomachache and his whole body felt numb. He knew he had been poisoned...
Fortunately, the tiger's minions have 30% of the tiger's body strength, so they are not afraid of this poison and can resist it.
It's just that the Minion character card didn't react at all. Obviously, this doesn't work.
"Either the medicinal materials are not old enough, or the combination of medicinal materials is wrong."
"If we can't get old medicinal materials for the time being, we'll have to solve the problem of matching medicinal materials."
Bai Yu switches character cards.
He found Chang Jiuyan and said, "Invite ten famous doctors to me."
With money, you can speak with dignity.
The government officials looked strangely at Bai Yu, wondering if he was failing in some way, poor madam.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up."
Bai Yu glanced at the government officials, not wanting to see the servants being lazy.
Chang Jiuyan did not dare to neglect and sent someone to find a famous doctor.
Spending money was very efficient. Within an hour, famous doctors came one after another.
They looked at each other and were a little dissatisfied. Famous doctors are all arrogant. One is enough. What does it mean to invite ten, but for the sake of money, they didn't say anything.
They checked Bai Yu's pulse one by one and came to the conclusion that he was very healthy. They couldn't help but suspect that Bai Yu was mentally ill.
Bai Yu didn't care about this and let them prescribe prescriptions to keep fit.
Taking a large stack of prescriptions, he went into his separate yard again, mixed the medicinal materials, and cooked.
After a few hours, the medicine was ready, and I changed into the state of the slave and drank it.
[Character Card 1 is advancing: 66%, 67%, 68%...]
Bai Yu was very happy. Although the experience bar grew slowly, it was good to see it grow.
He came to an astonishing conclusion: You really can't take medicine randomly, you must have a prescription...
He drank about seven or eight bowls, and he couldn't remember the exact number.
【Character Card 1 Advanced!】
[Name: Bai Yu]
[Race: Tiger]
[Identity: Second-level tiger minions (with 50% of the tiger main body strength)]
[Skills: Transformation (transform into a tiger temporarily); Tiger Roar (while shocking the enemy, temporarily increase one's own physical strength by 20%); Claw attack (includes tearing effect)]
[Props: None]
"I now have 50% of the tiger body's physical strength. When I use Tiger's Roar, it will be superimposed by 20%, which is 70%. If I upgrade it to another level, it should be the same as the tiger. In other words, the level 3 tiger minions can beat the tiger."
Bai Yu clenched his fist, happily feeling the change in power.
"It's not too much to beat up a big demon with a fifth-level minions."
"It shouldn't be difficult for an eighth-level Minion to defeat the Demon King."
"Two more steps up, I have to go to the wasteland and ask the Beast King: Are you afraid of the tenth-level minions?"
Bai Yu continued to take drugs.
Unfortunately, compared with the first level, the second level seems to be a qualitative change, forming a barrier. These medicines that are ten or twenty years old have completely failed.