All 200 tons of medicinal materials were refined into Peiyuan Dan, but around 20 tons, the production line only completed production at early 13:00 in the afternoon. With the accumulation of experience, the elixir-forming rate of the last ton of medicinal materials even exceeded 99.5%.
The production method of the production line is completely different from that of personal alchemy.
Personal alchemy relies entirely on ‘feeling’. Experience is very important. Experience is not refined.
But the production line has quantified all indicators and no longer relies entirely on experience, but more on numerical values.
No denying it, sometimes experience is important; but in mass production, more accurate numerical values are the core. This numerical value is technology, and it is quantitative technology.
Zhou Shuhai watched the production line slowly stop and watched the last half of the frame of pills being saved. He was still excited. Finally, he slowly squatted next to the frame, holding the pills in both hands and watching the pills rolling.
He was playing like this, as if he had got his favorite toy. There was a circle of people from Xinglin Hall around, and Zhang Hao couldn't squeeze in. Everyone looked at the 20 frames in front of him.
When will elixirs be packed in frames? This was something they never dared to think about in the past, but today... it has come true before their eyes.
"Zhang Hao, thank you." Zhou Jue appeared next to Zhang Hao, his tone low and sincere.
Zhang Hao bared his teeth and smiled: "Thank you, thank you, but business is business. Brothers will settle the score!"
Remember to repay the price of the medicinal materials within one month. If it exceeds one month, interest will be charged according to the loan terms.
In addition, the patented technology of the production line also needs to be paid. Every 100 pills need to pay a patent fee for one pill!"
Zhou Jue:......
Zhou Jue clasped his hands together and stared at Zhang Hao fiercely: "I think you have learned bad things from your senior brother Feng Zhiling recently! How many days do you want to lie down?"
"Hey, hey, I'm just telling the truth, why are you like this?"
The two of them immediately stared at each other.
After a while, Zhou Shuhai came over and patted Zhang Hao's shoulder hard, "Okay, I know you are very proud. The cost of the elixir has been calculated. It will be calculated based on the price of the medicinal materials you gave, and then the tax..."
"Wait a minute!" Zhang Hao spoke, "Uncle, you don't need to tell me the cost price, and don't tell anyone this. It's a business secret. From now on, Xinglin Hall will no longer be a pure elixir holy land.
From now on, Xinglin Hall will be the research base for elixirs, and the technology itself... is a different kind of cost. This cannot be calculated using common sense.
In the future, Xinglintang will also be the production base for elixirs. The final selling price of the elixirs will be decided by Xinglintang.
At present, the price of ordinary Peiyuan Pills in China is still stable at 0.9 Lingshi, which is 90 yuan. If the cost price of Xinglintang's pills is much lower than this price, then congratulations, uncle, you have the pricing power in the market.
This is a very important right and an advantage in business.
If the cost price of Xinglintang is higher than 90 yuan, then you have the responsibility to research better technology and lower the cost price from a technical perspective. Of course, you can also negotiate with Dayang Group to lower the price of medicinal materials, patent prices, etc.
But in any case, the cost price is a commercial secret and cannot be disclosed to anyone.
In business competition, sometimes even if you are complaining about losing money, everyone will smile."
Zhou Shuhai nodded, "I understand. It seems that we still have a lot to learn. But there is a problem now. With so many elixirs, we don't have that many jade bottles. Do you have any good suggestions?"
Zhang Hao suddenly began to think deeply: It is not easy to preserve elixirs, and some high-quality jade bottles are needed.
Jade bottles can preserve medicinal properties and even contain elixirs. There are also porcelain bottles, but they all require the assistance of formations to preserve medicinal properties. The price of such porcelain bottles is no lower than that of jade bottles.
If the elixir is directly exposed to the air, its medicinal properties will continue to be lost. In about a month, the ordinary Peiyuan Dan will become a useless elixir.
To preserve a large amount of elixirs, you can rely on large-scale formations. But for small quantities and retail sales, you obviously need to find another way. It is impossible to preserve every elixir using formations, and the cost is even higher than a jade bottle.
In the past, there were not many elixirs in the Qixia Kingdom and they were relatively expensive, so everyone was willing to use jade bottles to store them. But since the Zhang family's first voyage, there have been problems with the elixirs.
However, in the beginning, most of the people were hoarding elixirs themselves, and not many jade bottles were used for selling to others. There are many ordinary jade stones, and cultivators can polish a jade bottle, which is a matter of minutes, and there is no need to be perfect.
Moreover, most of the better elixirs purchased from the East have been bottled, which also solved many problems.
But it is different for the current Xinglin Tang. In the future, Xinglin Tang will mass-produce elixirs, but it has just begun, and it has already produced 20 tons of elixirs per month.
Later, as the production line increased and the output of elixirs increased, the blooming of elixirs became a problem.
Use jade? I'm afraid that these 20 tons of medicinal materials can consume a small jade mine. This is unrealistic. The polishing process of the jade bottle is very wasteful. A jade bottle containing 10 elixirs requires a piece at least the size of a fist. It is perfect.
When polishing jade, there should be no cracks in the jade.
In fact, jade is a natural stone. It is said that nine out of ten jade are cracked, and there are very few without cracks. Often, one cubic meter of jade can only be used to cut out a hundred or ten small jade bottles, which can only hold 1,000-1,500 pills.
There are also bottles and boxes made from spiritual wood and spiritual bamboo, but the cost is still very high. Moreover, spiritual wood and spiritual bamboo have many uses, so it is too wasteful to use them to make bottles and jars.
Also, although Zhang Hao didn't know the cost price of Pei Yuan Dan this time, looking at Zhou Shuhai's smile and combining it with the information Zhang Hao knew, he could deduce that the cost price should be less than 0.3 spirit stones, or even close to 0.2 spirit stones.
For such a cheap elixir, the packaging cost cannot be too high.
So, what materials are cheap enough and widespread enough? The most important thing is that the production must be convenient enough! Zhang Hao was thinking, and suddenly a name that was almost eliminated jumped out of Zhang Hao's mind:
60% pure black iron!
A box stamped with black iron sheet should be enough to preserve the medicinal properties of the elixir. You must know that the Zhang family’s naphtha oil barrels are made of this iron sheet. For the elixir, the iron sheet can be thinner and the cost is lower.
Low!
Such a production line is already available in the Zhang family and at the Xuantie Factory.
Zhang Hao immediately started discussing with Zhou Shuhai.
"60% black iron..." Zhou Shuhai murmured to himself, "What's your price?"
"Currently, 60% of the Zhang family's black iron costs about 6,000 yuan per ton, which is 60 spirit stones. If it is to be stamped into boxes, we need to charge a processing fee... Well... a total of 9,000 yuan per ton!
Uncle, if you order in large quantities, we will not charge for mold opening, etc. No matter what kind of box you want, if you purchase in large quantities, we will calculate it based on the weight. One ton is 9,000 yuan, and the Xinglintang logo and even writing can be stamped on the box.
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Zhou Shuhai nodded: "90 spirit stones per ton... This is really a bargain price. A year ago, 60% of black iron was used as currency.
But what’s the purpose of stamping Xinglintang’s logo and handwriting on it?”
Young Master Zhang looked at the sky at 45°: "Uncle, subcontracting is a science. Have you noticed the packaging on some items sold by the Zhang family or Dayang Group?
For example, the most common black iron ingot, every black iron ingot shipped from Dayang Group has a steel seal on it.
There is the Dayang Group's logo on it, a sea eagle soaring in the blue sea and sky; although the steel seal is very simple.
In addition, the purity, production time, and even the ore collection location and types of impurities are marked on it.
Therefore, although Dayang Group sells these black irons in a unified way, the prices of black irons in different mines and production times are different on the market.
For example, everyone generally believes that the closer the production time is, the better the quality; many people think that the ore from the south of Luanci Mountain has the best quality and the least types of impurities; the ore from the north of Luanci Mountain has the worst quality and contains certain harmful substances.
substance.
The grade of the ore from the south of Luanci Mountain is indeed better. But after our inspection of the finished black iron, there is no difference at all. But everyone thinks so.
Therefore, the retail price on the market for black iron produced from ores in the south of Luanci Mountain is slightly higher. When we refine important magic weapons, we will specifically look for black iron smelted from southern ores."
Zhou Shuhai frowned slightly: "This is a profiteer! But I don't understand what you want to explain by giving this example."
Zhang Hao smiled: "Uncle, the retailers below may be profiteers, but their publicity like this has invisibly increased the influence of Dayang Group. And this influence has invisibly created a new kind of wealth:
brand!
In other words, brand effect!
Nowadays, with the spread of black iron smelting technology, there are a lot of black iron on the market, and the prices are more or less different. However, everyone’s first choice of black iron is still from Dayang Group. Why?
Because of the brand!
The four words Dayang Group represent quality and trust.
If my uncle goes around the market, he will find that when people buy black iron, or when merchants sell black iron, as long as they say "this is from Dayang Group", people will not ask too many questions. But if it is something else,
If it is produced by a commercial company, everyone will carefully ask about the place of production, impurity content, production time, etc."
Zhou Shuhai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he understood. "Then what do you think, Xinglintang's... packaging should be done?"
"Uncle, I'm just providing a reference. I think Xinglintang should design a logo of its own. From now on, all pills and other medicines produced by Xinglintang will be marked with the logo.
It would be best to imprint this logo directly on the elixir, so as to prevent others from imitating it or using Xinglintang's box to contain fake elixirs.
In addition, since it is an elixir, I suggest that the box should have the production date, shelf life, medicinal ingredients, and if possible, even the place of origin of the medicinal materials. After all, the medicinal properties of medicinal materials from different origins will always be somewhat different.
The properties and effects of the medicine must be made clear, and some of the properties that may be toxic, as well as the contraindications of the elixir, etc. must be marked separately. This thing is not troublesome, but it is not detailed enough.
As elixirs for practice, the effects will be different when taken at different times. This should also be listed. In addition, the suitable levels of practice for different elixirs should also be clearly marked.
Especially in the future, there will be more types of elixirs. Xinglintang's internal elixirs will have to show the relationship between them, whether they can be taken at the same time, or whether they are forbidden to be taken at the same time, or how long the interval should be.
If it's not clear on the box, just use a piece of paper to make an instruction sheet.
What we need to do is to be transparent. We need to give users a feeling: trust!
In fact, brand is trust.
If everyone trusts us, they will give priority to our products, even if they are slightly more expensive.
Unlike Xuan Tie, the elixir... must be eaten, so you can't be careless!"
Zhou Shuhai's eyes gradually brightened, "I will solve the problem of elixirs. But what do you think is better to use as the logo of Xinglin Hall?"
"The apricot tree! Zhang Hao opened his mouth and said, "Uncle, I have heard about the deeds of Xinglin Hall. Nothing represents Xinglin Hall more than the apricot tree.
My uncle asked a painting master to outline the almond tree with the simplest brushwork. But the logo is not a picture, the simpler and more concise the better. My uncle can refer to our logo, which only used a total of twelve strokes. Two strokes outline the sea, and three strokes outline the sea.
One stroke sketches the white clouds, seven strokes sketches the sea eagle."
A smile finally broke out on Zhou Shuhai's face, "Thank you so much. I didn't expect that a small package has so many details. By the way, there is no patent fee for this, right?"
"...Uncle...am I such a stingy person..."
"Haha..." Zhou Shuhai laughed loudly, and suddenly patted Zhang Hao's shoulder so hard that Zhang Hao's face turned blue, "You are good at everything, but this cultivation base... grow up quickly.
The foundation building stage is really not enough. This is the world of cultivation after all, and the Nascent Soul stage is the real introduction!
I have decided that before the Nascent Soul stage, both you and Xue Yao should practice hard and don’t think too much."
Zhang Hao's complexion quickly changed from green-white to purple-black. This is repaying kindness with hatred~