Astral Apostle Chapter 71: Keep out and improve formula

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Imperial workshops are divided into different research institutes according to their functions. The most important research on alien blood medicine and alien beast equipment is carried out in the imperial hunter station.

In the Furnace District of the Royal Capital, there is also a branch of the Imperial Workshop, which is responsible for most of the conventional products, such as medicines used by ordinary people, common equipment and weapons, and so on.

It is rumored that there is also a research institute located in a more secret area, closed to study more confidential technology, he has only heard about it.

Zhou Jing wandered around the city, and finally came to the workshop in the capital.

Knowing that this person is another pharmacist who has applied to join the workshop, the guard's face is as usual, and he is proficient in reporting it.

Soon, a little old man in a workshop uniform came out and looked up and down Bill's friendly appearance.

"You want to join the workshop? What's the boy's name? What kind of pharmacist? What formula do you know?"

The little old man didn't even greet him, he just threw out a series of questions, making it look like an interview.

"My name is Bill, I know more than a dozen formulas, most of them are common potions, including two hunter potions..." Zhou Jing introduced himself.

The little old man nodded without any other expression, and asked:

"Looking at your young age, you have been a pharmacist for a few years, right? Who taught you?"

"In the beginning, I studied with a local doctor in my hometown, and occasionally made medicines for the villagers, and accumulated a lot of experience. I came to the capital some time ago and talked with my colleagues before I decided to come to the Imperial Workshop to seek a position. I hope to be able to I have a stable job and can concentrate on my research..." Zhou Jing took a set of speeches.

Honestly speaking, I have only been a pharmacist for a month, and I will definitely be rejected, so I still need to do some artistic processing, at least the "working years" should be raised.

"Well..." The little old man shook his head and said, "Your conditions are relatively ordinary, and it is not enough to join the workshop. We only accept elites."

Zhou Jing was not surprised and asked, "Can you let me make a bottle of potion to show my level?"

"It's not necessary." The little old man still shook his head: "If you have a high level, we will know. Since you have come to the capital soon, let's get acquainted with this place first."

After speaking, the little old man turned his head and went back to the workshop, not wanting to waste his time on Zhou Jing.

Actually, when he came out to deal with Zhou Jing, he just wanted to send people away, and he didn't even bother to tell Zhou Jing his name.

It is not uncommon for many foreign craftsmen to apply to join the Imperial Workshop every year.

Too many craftsmen want to join the workshop. Every year, there are a large number of candidates to be selected. For unfamiliar craftsmen who come to the door, the workshop basically refuses. Outsiders...unless they are well-known in the industry.

The biggest source of new recruits in the workshop each year is actually the students trained internally, as well as the apprentices brought by each workshop member. Because the character and ability are clear, it is more reliable to use.

The normal way for outsiders to join the workshop is actually to find a workshop member and be his apprentice, get the moon first, and become half of the workshop's "own person", while strangers suffer from innate disadvantages, but this is also a human being common sense.

In the eyes of the little old man, the "Bill" who came to the door was just another young guy who tried his luck on a whimsical basis. He was no different from others. necessary test.

Seeing this, the guards came up to chase people, not rude, but persuaded: "Okay, the workshop will not recruit people casually, don't hang around nearby, go back."

Zhou Jing was not too surprised. Joining the workshop was not smooth, which was also one of the expected results.

Even if the level of civilization is quite primitive, the Imperial Workshop is in a sense the National Academy of Sciences, and you cannot enter it as you want. After all, as long as you want to learn pharmacy, you can learn some fur, which is not as high as the threshold of alien hunters.

He rolled his eyes, took out a few silver coins from his arms, quietly stuffed them into the hands of the guards, and said kindly, "Brothers, I want to ask, how can I join the workshop?"

Several guards suddenly lit up.

This person is good, sensible, and able to handle.

The guards silently put away the silver coins, not stingy with information, and chatted with each other.

They have been guarding the gates of the Imperial Workshop all the year round, and naturally they know a lot of things.

"I see a lot of people like you every year. If I feel that I have some skills, I can join the workshop. How can it be so easy."

"Not counting those apprentices, thirteen people who came to the door this year were admitted to the workshop. Sounds like a lot, right? But more people were rejected, at least 200 people."

"The workshop only recruits elites, but what counts as elites? Of course, they are famous in one field. How did this fame come from? Do you think these thirteen people made it out of their own level? Hehe, not yet. When someone speaks from the inside, the more people in the workshop listen, the fame will naturally rise.”

The guards were talking about the mountains. If there was another cigarette, it would be the security guard who was fishing and chatting.

Zhou Jing was thoughtful.

Outsiders want to join the workshop and need fame, and the most feasible way for ordinary people is to get to know some workshop members, build a good relationship with them, get into a good circle, praise each other, and then pass them word of mouth to let people in the workshop More members know their number one person.

As long as your business level is not too high, you can get the qualification for internal recommendation when the time is right.

"The culture of circles is indeed human nature. If there is a relationship, there will be circles. It is impossible to eliminate it at all."

Zhou Jing pouted.

Maybe there will be workshop members who will turn this kind of internal recommendation into an industry, collect money to do things, and make some extra money.

Although I am not poor in money, I have eloquence and aptitude and are not afraid of communication, but I don't like this practice in my heart.

If there is a time for ushering and sending, it is better to study skills, and at least the output will be produced.

"It's better to have some hard stuff."

Zhou Jing touched his chin.

If in the realm of pharmacists in the capital, you can become famous with your skills, the workshop will even invite you to join, which will not only increase your daily income, but also get more attention.

After saying goodbye to the guards and returning to the residence, Zhou Jing began to think about the plan and secretly analyzed:

"If you want to become famous, one is to be innovative in technology, and the other is to let more people recognize it, that is, to have a market... I have the talent of [Pharmacist], the success rate and quality of making medicine are higher, and [Item analysis function], maybe it can improve the formula?"

Zhou Jing rolled his eyes, took out a notebook to write and draw, and silently wrote down more than a dozen formulas he had mastered, pondering in his heart: Gu

"Other pharmacists need constant trial and error to improve formulas, and they fail again and again, and they may not succeed in the end, but my analysis function can grasp the most subtle changes in materials during production, and intuitively obtain the properties of herbs. Directly discover the parts that conflict or merge with each other..."

This kind of feeling is like, others can only feel the way to make potions, but I am like a novice help mode, bubbles constantly pop up during production, prompting what can be put, how much should be put, and the result of the finished product can be adjusted at any time...

As long as you know enough herbs, the prompts will be more detailed, there are a lot of permutations and combinations.

"Accessibility is really magic."

Zhou Jing is happy, if only relying on the [Pharmaceutics] skill, if you want to improve the formula, you must at least upgrade several levels to be eligible.

In the next few days, Zhou Jing went to the market to buy a lot of herbs and stored them at home to study new formulas in retreat.

He focuses on three formulas, two general potions of healing potion and energy potion, and hunter potion for pain relief.

If you want to gain fame quickly, you have to open up the market. The two generic potions he deliberately selected are the most in-demand products for ordinary people.

The royal capital is very big, and there will always be some minor illnesses in life. Everyone likes the medicine for healing. For the sake of the body, it is natural to buy high-quality ones.

And the energy potion, drinking a bottle can be very powerful, and many people who come to buy it are from the wealthy class, and they like to use it to talk about love.

As for the hunter potion, it's to attract the hunter's attention. Although the market for hunters is not large, it can be more "authoritative". After all, it is closely related to the workshop, and it is easier for the reputation to spread to the workshop.

"And with Jason bringing the goods, as long as a high-quality hunter potion is made, it won't be noticed by all the imperial hunters in minutes." Zhou Jing thought to himself, hehe smiled.

…

After a few days of testing, Zhou Jing finally changed the formula of the three medicines and added some catalytic ingredients, which increased the effect of the medicine by more than 30%.

The optimization of the formula not only improves the quality, but also allows the three potions to produce new effects by adding auxiliary herbs.

Healing potion increases healing power, energy potion reduces side effects and increases sensitivity, and pain relief potion increases physical recovery.

However, better effects require more herbs, and the cost goes up, of course.

But he didn't lose at all.

Because normal pharmacists pay attention to the success rate when making potions, even a pharmacist who is a few grades higher than him can't guarantee a 100% success rate.

Moreover, if the quantity is well controlled, the perfect effect can be achieved, and a "potent" potion that is better than ordinary potions can be made, but a normal pharmacist may not be able to make a "potent" potion in ten times... …Although they also have measuring tools, the same type of herbs also have individual differences in years, quality, nutrition, growing environment, etc., and it is difficult to judge carefully. Even if you can control the amount added each time, there will be subtle differences.

However, through the item analysis function, Zhou Jing completely figured out the best material ratio for each formula, almost keeping zero errors, and intuitively discovering the details of the individual differences of each herb, and calculating a more suitable weight.

Not only the success rate of making potions is nearly 100%, but also the probability of making "powerful" potions is more than 50%.

After going back and forth, although the cost of the formula has increased, there is almost no loss of failure, and the profit margin is even greater.

It took "Bill" to repeat the work and prepare a large stock of potions. Zhou Jing went out to the street, inspected the location, and prepared to rent a store.

Residents of the Royal Capital rarely buy potions that are sold privately. Only a store can make people feel at ease.

It costs money to improve recipes, manufacture inventory, and rent shops. The three hundred silver coins that were borrowed at the beginning have been spent, and Zhou Jing asked Jason to get another four hundred silver coins as funds.

Jason, a hunter, rarely has access to money, so he just used it to support the No. 3 Apostle Bill's business.

Because of abundant funds, I didn't need to find a shabby remote place, but rented a shop at a high price directly on a busy street in the furnace district.

Two coolies were temporarily hired to clean the shop, and Zhou Jing put the potion on the shelves.

He resisted the desire to raise the price and set a standard price for the potion.

Although setting a high price can attract attention, the residents of this world have simple intuition and very solid needs. They only consume what they can afford, and do not eat high-priced marketing.

He has studied the market and found that high quality and low price are the mainstream strategies in the pharmacist industry, but good and expensive products have no market.

In other words, the hunter group spends a lot of money, they are a group of good sons, and they only buy good ones.

But in order to open up his fame and avoid being seen as breaking the rules of the industry~IndoMTL.com~ Zhou Jing decided to behave normally.

After tidying up the house, Zhou Jing clapped his hands, looked at the well-ordered pharmacy, nodded with satisfaction, and was quite excited.

"I can open the door to do business... I hope it will sell well."

…

On the lively street of the Furnace District, a new pharmacy has quietly opened. The wooden sign reads "Bill's Pharmacy".

Because the location is very good, on the first day of opening, many nearby residents noticed it. They entered the store curiously and found that the store only sold three kinds of medicines, and the proportion of powerful medicines was large.

Although the traffic is not small, everyone just came in and strolled around, and no one bought the medicine for the time being.

Residents of the Royal Capital are inherently uneasy about the newly opened pharmacy, and take a wait-and-see attitude - a pharmacy that has not accumulated a good reputation has no business, which is the norm in the industry.

The shop owner is a young man who looks quite friendly. He is very enthusiastic and speaks well. The residents of the Royal Capital who come in are willing to chat with him.

But young, it means inexperience, and this is a foreigner, not a familiar pharmacist, so everyone is even more afraid to buy it, and they are all waiting for the first try.

This kind of situation of only watching and not buying has continued for several days.

It wasn't until the fifth day that a turnaround occurred.

A hunter with a seemingly powerful aura becomes the first consumer to buy a bottle of powerful pain relief potion.

The next day, the surrounding residents were surprised to see that dozens of hunters came to the stove area, with excited expressions, heading straight to Bill's pharmacy.

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