Chapter 27 The Time of Waves

The headquarters of the Changfeng Merchant Group is located on top of a 300-meter-high skyscraper in a prosperous area of ​​Yiyang City. The shape of the entire building is like a sailing ship. The outside of the building is covered with shiny glass-steel walls. , the whole building is very stylish, and it is a landmark building in this area.

The Changfeng Merchant Group is a business group directly under the Zhang family. This business group not only extends its business tentacles to every place in Huaiyuan County, but also, even in the entire Weiyi subcontinent, the Changfeng Merchant Group is also well-known, enough to qualify Occupy a place among the top 20 largest business associations in the Hawaiian subcontinent.

The total asset size of the Changfeng Merchant Group is 3.8 billion gold coins. The business group’s operations involve banking, insurance, real estate, industrial and mining, shipping, manufacturing, ports, overseas trade, arms, department stores, medicine, transportation, shipping, armed employment and many other fields. .

There are 870,000 direct employees of the merchant group, which owns the largest armed fleet of the merchant group in the Weiyi subcontinent, and is also the largest arms dealer in the Weiyi subcontinent. One-eighth of the military product market, and the war bows produced by Huaiyuantang Zhang's sold by the Changfeng Merchant Group have monopolized more than 70% of the high-end war bow market in the entire Weiyi subcontinent.

Huaiyuantang Zhang's war bow is famous all over the world. As long as the warriors use war bows as weapons, almost no one does not know Huaiyuantang's war bow. Many people also own a high-end war bow produced by Huaiyuantang. proud of.

From a certain point of view, the Changfeng Merchant Group is a microcosm and a tentacle of the Huaiyuantang Zhang family outside.

To manage such a huge business empire, as the headquarters of the Changfeng Merchant Group, one of its most important functions is to collect and analyze information from all over the world.

The headquarters of the Changfeng Merchant Group has the largest crystal remote sensing communication center in Yiyang City. The number of people working in this crystal remote sensing communication center alone exceeds 1,000 people. Through the crystal remote sensing communication technology, people from various places in the Weiyi subcontinent The information is gathered here through the various communication nodes of the Changfeng Merchant Group, like an invisible big network, allowing the headquarters of the Merchant Group to grasp the dynamics of all aspects at any time.

The information gathered here is all-encompassing, including commodity price dynamics from various places, and various business opportunities

There are special events happening in various places, and news about changes in the current situation in various places. In short, all economic, political, cultural, social dynamics and other news of the places where the Changfeng Merchant Group is located are gathered here.

The news that Zhang Tie ordered 10,000 medicine bottles in Qianlongtang also spread from Qianlongtang to the headquarters of Changfeng Merchant Group later on May 23.

The information sent through the crystal remote sensing communication is just a series of remote sensing communication codes composed of signals of different durations. Such information is first transmitted to the communication center hall of the headquarters communication center of the Changfeng Merchant Group, and the remote sensing information is sent and received on a certain communication position. After the auditor completely recorded the long and short signals on the recording paper, he sent a receipt communication over there, and then handed the recording paper to the auditor next to him.

Although it was late in the evening, the Crystal Remote Sensing Communication Center of the Changfeng Merchant Group Headquarters was still very busy with people coming and going. The auditor reviewed the communication code for a few seconds and found no problem, so he took the recording paper and came quickly. Arrived at the decoding office of the communication center.

"The information from Qianlong Island is sent using the third-level encryption code of Fengxin B, please translate it as soon as possible!"

The staff at the decoding office translated the message without delay after getting the communication record paper. The message was just a very common sentence.

"Zhang Tie, a student of Lingtian Institute, registered his own private pharmacy logo, and ordered 10,000 pharmacy bottles at one time. He said that there will be a large number of pharmacy bottles ordered in the short term, and the preliminary estimate is that the number will not be less than 100,000! His order The number of potion bottles is abnormal, please pay attention to the business group!"

After the people at the decoding office translated this sentence, they didn't delay for half a minute, but quickly passed the information to the information center according to the procedure. After receiving this information, the staff of the information center immediately In time, the information is stored in the super brain in the information center.

The brain of Changfeng Shangtuan Information Center is a Xuanyuan 7 large-scale steam computer from the Eastern Continent. The computer has 1.54 million ultra-high-precision calculation gears and parts, with a total weight of 53 tons. The circumference of the calculation gears can be accumulated to circle Yiyang City twice. The whole steam computer adopts three separations of calculation, storage and I/O At the same time, it can also realize various output methods such as printing and drawing, punching cards-in this era, this steam computer can undoubtedly symbolize the pinnacle of human achievements in the field of mechanical manufacturing.

Just a few minutes after the piece of information about Zhang Tie was input into the storage device of the steam computer, an information analyst at the information center of the Changfeng Merchant Group immediately discovered from the information feedback output by the steam computer Within a few days, the Changfeng Merchant Group received three chains of intelligence information related to "Zhang Tie" and "Full Potion".

Of these three intelligence information chains, the earliest one is the information sent by Zhang Guanshi of the Changfeng Merchant Group at the Changfeng Bead Field on Qianlong Island—the Lingtian Academy student Zhang Tie can make a special solution, which is effective for rheumatism, arthritis, etc. It has miraculous effects on stomach ulcers and other diseases, and has great medicinal and promotional value. Zhang Guanshi suggested that the business group send people to contact Zhang Tie. They can buy Zhang Tie’s secret method of brewing that special solution or cooperate directly with him. , develop together, and use the business group channel to market that solution after mass production, for a win-win cooperation.

The second piece of information is two days later than the first piece of information, and it was sent from Qianlongtang—Lingtian Institute student Zhang Tie has produced a full-effect potion, which has been evaluated by Master Suyun for its potion effect. The result is as follows... (omitted)

The third piece of information is just received - Zhang Tie, a student of Lingtian Academy, has registered his own private pharmacy logo and ordered 10,000 pharmacy bottles at one time. He said that there will be a large number of pharmacy bottles in the short term. , the preliminary estimate is not less than 100,000 pieces! The quantity of medicine bottles it ordered is abnormal, please pay attention to the business group!

When Zhang Guanshi's first information came, he didn't know that the solution Zhang Tie made was a super enzyme and a full-effect potion, but the second information from Qianlongtang confirmed that The true identity and efficacy of Zhang Tie's solution The intelligence that came out today indicated that Zhang Tie would later push his full-effect potion to the market.

If there is no endorsement of the number of potion bottles, the value of these three pieces of information is not very great for the Changfeng Merchant Group. Of course, the value of this value is relative to the size of the Changfeng Merchant Group.

For a superpower like the Changfeng Merchant Group, it does not lack the alchemists who cooperate with it. Even the Changfeng Merchant Group and the Zhang family have trained many alchemists. These alchemists are all skilled in making various medicines. Ability, many people can even make advanced potions.

Although the full-effect potions made by Zhang Tie have various miraculous effects, these effects are all based on the physiological functions of the human body itself. Antidote potion, its level is only between E-class potion and D-class potion, it is better than the first-order antidote potion, and it has many effects, but those effects are slightly insufficient compared with other professional potions, which determines The price of this potion is at most seven gold coins and less than ten gold coins, and it cannot be sold more expensive.

In the eyes of many pharmacists, they look down on potions of this price level, and usually don't even bother to spend time refining such "cheap" things. Taking first-level antidotes for example, they like to refine The ones who make money by making this kind of potion are the pharmacists of Xuan Gourd Pill who are not very high-level. If the level is higher, after the pharmacist of Belt Pill, they can refine more valuable things.

But anything or anything, when its quantity accumulates to a certain level, it can produce a leap from quantitative change to qualitative change.

If an ordinary Xuan Gourd Pill pharmacist can devote all his energy and time to refining the first-order antidote in a year, the number of first-order antidote he can refine is estimated to be 300 to 500. between branches.

Even if a higher-level pharmacist came to refine these first-level antidotes, even if Master Suyun came in person, the number of first-level antidotes he could refine in a year would not exceed 1,000. This is the reason why many high-level pharmacists are unwilling to refine low-level potions—even if they spend the same amount of time, the benefits are not as high as refining high-level potions.

It's like using a high-end machine tool that can process precision gears for steam computers to process a few hoes and hammers. The same time and effort are used, but the processed things cannot be sold at a price.

But how many medicine bottles did Zhang Tie order in the first batch?

Ten thousand, and there will be more in the future, which may reach the scale of 100,000!

What kind of concept is this? If this is the speed at which Zhang Tie can make full-effect potions, even if the full-effect potions refined by Zhang Tie are only used as first-order antidotes, Zhang Tie's ability and speed to make first-order antidotes have already exceeded The efficiency of hundreds of Xuanhu Dan pharmacists working overtime to manufacture the first-order antidote.

Although the first-order detoxification medicine is not expensive among all kinds of medicines, it is a very important strategic material just like crystal, rice, white flour and steel, and it is also one of the necessary combat materials for the armies of all ethnic groups.

In the past six months, with the increasingly tense situation in the mainland, the market prices of various medicines including first-order antidotes, especially the prices of some basic strategic materials, have increased by at least 50%, and many forces have already We are increasing and speeding up the reserve of "winter supplies".

Not to mention Huaiyuan Hall, but even the entire Jinyun Kingdom, although they have been stepping up their purchases of various strategic materials, the number of first-order antidotes they store is probably less than 100,000.

The information analyst who saw the last of these three pieces of intelligence almost suspected that he had misread it at first. How could someone need so many potion bottles? After the information analyst confirmed that he was not mistaken , The man's face immediately changed, he stood up all of a sudden, and rushed into his supervisor's office.

Only two minutes later, the director of the information center left his office in a hurry.

The director of the information center who left the office did not go to the other managers of the business group, but directly took the elevator, and went directly to the office of the duty director of the business group on the 99th floor of the building as quickly as possible.

"You mean, the young man named Zhang Tie in Lingtian Courtyard has a very high possibility that he has mastered a method of producing full-effect potions on a large scale. His speed of making full-effect potions is not like other pharmacists. Manufactured one by one or in small batches, and possibly large-scale production?"

In the nearly 1,000-square-meter office of the director on duty of the business group, a man in his 50s with a fair complexion but a very dignified temperament stared at the director of the information center and asked seriously.

"It's like this. According to the initial information sent by the manager of our business group at Changfeng Zhuchang on Qianlong Island, that Zhang Tie generously donated this medicine in large quantities to several sick Xunhai in Zhuchang. The staff of Yasha and Zhuchang weighed at least ten kilograms, and if converted into medicine, it would be more than a hundred sticks. If he hadn’t been able to make this kind of medicine easily, he wouldn’t have sent out so many things at one time!”

"are these all?"

"Also, before this potion was confirmed as a full-effect potion, Zhang Tie used this kind of thing as a drink, and drank a lot of this potion every day for a long period of time. From all aspects of the situation, plus Zhang Tie has ordered so many potion bottles this time, it is almost certain that Zhang Tie has at least 80% chance of mastering the method of mass-producing this potion!"

The director of the information center stood in front of the man's desk, bent slightly, and replied respectfully.

The man in his fifties narrowed his eyes slightly, tapped the information on the table with his fingers, and fixed his eyes on the evaluation data of Zhang Tie's school-wide medicine by Master Suyun, slowly dignified.

"Large scale..." The director on duty of the Changfeng Merchant Group said the word softly, as if a lightning flashed in his eyes.

Massive steel manufacturing capacity ... mass food production capacity ... mass army ... mass funding ... mass slaughter ...,', mass population ... even mass ants - Anything, anything, as long as it can be associated with the three words "large-scale", anything added after these three words will have a shocking power.

At this moment, what may be added after the word "large-scale" is a medicine above grade E that no one has ever thought of—large-scale production capacity of full-effect medicine...

"It seems that I will go to Qianlong Island in person tomorrow!" The director of the Changfeng Merchant Group said lightly, "As for Zhang Tie's order of so many medicine bottles, the business group will keep it a secret first, and no director of the business group will let me know." Approved, no one is allowed to check the intelligence information related to this!"

"Yes!" After answering, the director of the information center seemed to have thought of something, "Qianlong Island has sent Zhang Tie's registration of private logo and the information of ordering the first batch of 10,000 medicine bottles to Jinyun Kingdom's medicine Teachers union!"

Hearing this, the director of the Changfeng Merchant Group frowned slightly...

At the same time, in a place outside Huaiyuan County, in a deep basement, there were also two people talking. The voices of the two interlocutors were very cold, and the content of the conversation was very simple.

"Suddenly someone ordered 10,000 medicine bottles with a unified logo on Zhang's Qianlong Island in Huaiyuantang!"

"Ten thousand? Is it the few people we know?"

"No, the new logo is used on the potion bottle - Manshushahua!"

"check!"

"Yes!"

……(to be continued [this text is provided by the dawn update group x-on:为早生生]. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )