Jia Lan walked into the bustling market. Instead of rushing to the pharmacy, he first strolled around the stalls outside the market. With two baskets of valuable ointments, he felt much more relaxed and began to enjoy this night market, which was much more lively than the morning market, and tried to integrate himself into this era.
Although he was just strolling around, Jia Lan had already spent a lot of money, so he did not go shopping. Instead, he took out a portable notebook and a feather pen, looked at the goods on the stalls while walking, and asked the girls around him from time to time what the goods were called in this era, and then wrote down the names and prices of the goods he liked, and asked his two girl apprentices to write down the location of the stalls.
After walking around the periphery of the market, Jia Lan had written down the names and prices of more than a hundred kinds of goods. Although everyone around him was a little confused, Jia Lan was excited.
In the eyes of ordinary people, these things may be very ordinary, and no one even wants them, but Jia Lan regards them as treasures. Looking at those piles of materials, he felt that they were all shining!
It turned out that after this era experienced the dark apocalypse disaster more than 1,700 years ago, many civilizations disappeared. Although civilization began to recover, nature's resilience is much stronger than humans.
In Jia Lan's time, these materials were common but valuable. However, because humans didn't know how to use them, they became useless things, growing wildly in nature like weeds.
But for Jia Lan, these things would become big money in his hands! Whether it was used to study magic or do other things, he would never have to worry about money again.
Walking into the market, he began to see some regular shops, and the types were similar to those of his time, which showed that civilization was still developing.
Because it was late, Jia Lan was worried that the Browns would be worried if they found out that their daughter was not at home, so he did not continue to visit unrelated shops, but went directly to the pharmacy to check the prices.
Jia Lan was surprised to find that there were very few types of potions in this era, and even some things that had nothing to do with potions were sold, such as spices, perfumes, and dried fruits. Moreover, most of the potions here were potions, and the prices were still very expensive.
When he asked about the efficacy of a hemostatic potion, he was shocked!
A bottle of potion with only a small effect, and no accelerated healing effect, was sold for five silver gins! In his era, potions of the same quality could only be sold for two silver coins at most, and they also had the effect of accelerating healing!
The price difference was more than doubled!
Jialan did not see any potions that could treat moderate injuries or above in the pharmacy. After asking, he found out that the potions of this era had very slow hemostasis and recovery effects. Once injured above level three, people usually seek treatment from professions such as water magicians, wood magicians, or holy light priests.
Note: Levels 1-3 are minor injuries, levels 4-6 are moderate injuries, levels 7-9 are serious injuries, and level 10 is near death.
Water magicians have good hemostasis effects, wood magicians have long-lasting recovery effects, and holy light priests have the fastest healing effects. These professions are the medical system of this era. And those potions with poor effects, slow recovery, and unclear effects can only be used as auxiliary means.
It is very costly to ask these magicians to treat. Even if it is a minor injury, they will not easily take action if it is less than five gins. So once ordinary civilians are injured, they can't afford to treat them at all. Either they stop bleeding and wait for recovery, or they can only wait to die.
Although potions are relatively cheap, for those civilians who only earn three silver jims a day and can't save up ten gold tarans a month, those potions that can only treat minor injuries are also luxury goods.
Jia Lan has a headache. He doesn't know how to price his "violet ointment". A bottle of "recovery potion" that he thinks is only "a little useful" costs five silver jims, and this potion can't even cure minor injuries, and has no continuous treatment effect.
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But the worst of the five ointments he made are all "very useful" quality. If the tools are better, he can even make higher-level ointments!
In fact, the quality of "very useful" is already good, which is considered to be below average. There are eight quality levels of potions, from low to high: somewhat useful, weak, ordinary, very useful, more than very useful, especially useful, super useful, and best useful.
In his time, pharmacists priced their own rudimentary medicines at three times the price of the raw materials, which meant one-third cost, one-third labor, and one-third profit.
Sometimes, because the formula is rare, difficult to make, time-consuming, and there is a possibility of failure, the price will be a little higher, but generally not more than five times the raw materials!
So how much does the "Violet Cream" he made cost?
Alan helped him buy sixty-eight thirty-year-old "Blood Mistletoe Vine" and used two silver jims. He made a lot of ointments: one hundred and four cans of "very useful", fifty cans of "very useful or more", thirty cans of "especially useful", twenty cans of "super useful", and ten cans of "best useful". Calculated, the average cost of each can of "Violet Cream" is only one-tenth of a copper danding!
However, the times are different now, and Jialan will not really sell these ointments at three times the cost. That would be too stupid. If someone gave him a copper danding, he couldn't even make change. So, he decided to refer to the "recovery potion" sold in the pharmacy to set the price.
A bottle of "recovery potion" can only be used once, and can only treat minor injuries below level 3, and the effect is "a little useful". And this potion costs five silver jims.
The bottle of "Very Useful Violet Cream" in his hand is much higher in quality than the "Recovery Potion". Even if the price is doubled, a bottle of "Very Useful Violet Cream" should be sold for four gold talans.
But a bottle of "Violet Cream" can cure mild injuries and can be used at least three times. That's 12 gold talans. Moreover, "Violet Cream" can not only cure mild injuries, but also stop bleeding, heal, and have the effect of follow-up treatment. Therefore, it is reasonable to charge three more gold talans.
In other words, the cheapest of these ointments in his hand must be sold for 15 gold talans to be cost-effective!
Jia Lan was a little worried. In this era, with everyone's impression of potions, is there really anyone willing to spend 15 gold talans on a bottle of ointment?
He shook his head and decided to try it first.
He chose a potion store that looked the largest in the magic market and walked in. In the store, a dozen people who looked like adventurers or mercenaries were divided into several groups and were picking the potions they needed at the counter. Two or three shop assistants were serving them.
Seeing Jia Lan and the others come in, one of the shop assistants came up with a smile on his face. He quickly glanced at them, especially seeing the dark blue "identification robe" on Jia Lan, he knew who was the leader.
In "Kolan City", it is not uncommon to see magicians. Every year, there are more than 3,000 undergraduate freshmen in the "Main Department", and tens of thousands of junior college freshmen in the "Auxiliary Department"!
In this way, with more and more students every year, the number of students in "Komo University" from the first to the ninth grade may be hundreds of thousands! Among them, the first-year freshmen alone account for more than half!
The reason why there are so many first-year students is that the school is upgraded according to credits. If the credits are not enough, you can't be promoted to the next grade.
Therefore, it is not uncommon to see young magic apprentices playing around in "Kolan City". The residents of "Kolan City" have also become accustomed to dealing with these young magicians. As long as you are respectful and polite to them, they are actually no different from ordinary people.
However, residents usually only see first and second graders wearing light blue magic robes. There are very few magic apprentices wearing dark magic robes, because they are all quasi-mages.
Jia Lan did not wear a badge on his chest, but his dark blue magic robe was obviously not simple, so the clerk respected him very much.