Chapter 156

Chapter 156: Low Income from Cheap Products

Chapter 156: Low Income from Cheap Products

Tai Li said confidently, “After testing, this large-scale production line now only requires you to spend one hour, plus a second-class wizard apprentice to be in charge, to produce 10 kilograms of high-grade fast-growing gel every day.”

“Similarly, we need to purchase about 50 kilograms of fluorescent moss as raw material every day.”

Locke frowned slightly. 10 kilograms a day means 100 kilograms can be produced every ten days, and the selling price on the market is about 90 magic stones.

Excluding the extremely cheap fluorescent moss raw material, you can still earn about 80 magic stones.

In other words, if this production line is open to the outside world, it can earn about 240 magic stones a month.

But we also have to take into account my own one hour of consumption every day, which means more than thirty hours of consumption in a month.

We also have to consider the cost of hiring a second-class wizard apprentice.

Although a second-class wizard apprentice, if he is outstanding, can get about 90 magic stones a month, it is normal to get about 50 magic stones a month for this kind of work.

If he wanted to expand the production line, he would have to spend more of his own time and hire more second-class wizard apprentices to assist in the production line manufacturing.

It seems that producing this kind of large-scale fast-growing hormone gel is really not profitable.

Unless it is a pharmaceutical laboratory that specializes in this business and continuously expands production, saves costs, and deepens technology, other pharmaceutical laboratories doing this will not make money, but will make money too slowly and it will be too hard.

Compared to the money-making rate of the three magic plants in his own plantation, and the treatment fees earned from producing the emerald green potion in his own studio and taking it to the treatment center for treatment, the money earned from producing high-grade fast-growing agent gel is really too little.

“Looks like my pharmacy will have to avoid relying on products like high-grade fast-growing gel, shadow agent, high-grade nutrient soil, and pharmaceutical nutrient solution as its main source of income.” Locke pondered, “Making money this way is too hard. Compared to selling my time and working as a therapist, it’s not much better.”

‘It’s just a waste of time.’

“This production line can produce high-quality fast-growing hormone gel, which is self-sufficient.”

“This will save me a lot of money, especially as my plantation grows in size.”

Locke felt a faint regret in his heart. He whispered, “It doesn’t save much money, and it wastes my time. I can only produce this high-grade fast-growing gel myself when I’m free. When I’m busy with research, I’ll just go directly to Li Jin Secret Language to buy it.”

Taking all factors into consideration, although producing high-grade fast-growing hormone gel by myself is not bad, if the time cost is taken into account, it would be a loss, especially for a busy person like me.

However, Locke soon wiped away all the regret in his heart.

This misinvestment is necessary!

After all, there are some things that you can never know the pitfalls of unless you experience them.

For a first-class wizard apprentice like me who is used to growing high-value magical plants, producing high-grade fast-growing agent gel by myself is not only unnecessary, but also a bit of a waste of time and a useless behavior.

But for some first-class wizard apprentices who are very poor, have cheap time, and have few ways to make money, that is another matter.

Therefore, for the same thing, the benefit ratio is completely different for different people.

I made a small mistake in investing when I was setting up my own pharmacy.

However, this is not a loss. Equipping the pharmaceutical room with a production line for large-scale production of advanced fast-growing hormone gel is beneficial and harmless. It can also allow him and his pharmaceutical room employees to experience large-scale production technology in advance.

This is a kind of learning in itself.

Assistant Terry, holding the documents in her hands, looked up at Locke in confusion. “Boss, you don’t look very happy.”

Locke shook his head slightly. “Nothing. Terry, you did great.”

Terry smiled proudly.

As a second-class wizard apprentice, Terry had limited vision and naturally would not understand what she had just calculated, and there was no need for her to tell this to her assistant.

Locke looked at Terry and asked about the truly important matter, which was the production line for the first product the pharmacy was going to sell. “How’s the production line for the memory ointment going?”

Tai Li immediately replied seriously: “It has been debugged and can be put into use at any time.”

Only then did Locke show real admiration for her.

According to his own design, the production line of his own memory ointment can produce twelve bottles every day, but he must personally refine it as a first-class wizard apprentice.

After all, this thing is too difficult.

If you make it yourself, it will take about half an hour to prepare three of them, and it will consume a certain amount of energy and mana.

But if you use an assistant, you can configure six of them in about half an hour, and you can configure twelve of them in one hour a day, and you can also save your energy and mana.

After all, Locke has to manage three plantations at the same time, and be in charge of the cultivation of the magical plant Emerald Iris Lichen and the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus, which also consumes a certain amount of energy and some mana.

He also needs to save a certain amount of energy every day for meditation, so the time spent on refining potions must be controlled within a reasonable range.

In the early stage, Locke set the time at one hour a day because he had to devote some of his energy to the treatment center and refining the secondary emerald potion.

At the same time, a bottle of Concentration Ointment costs about 15 magic stones, and your own Memory Ointment can also be sold for 15 magic stones.

Excluding the material cost, you can earn about 10 magic stones per piece.

My personal pharmacy can produce about 375 memory ointments in a month, and I can earn 3,750 magic stones in a month.

The income from this memory ointment will be more than the income from the Super Mandrake Vine and Iron Wire Grass combined.

And as long as he invested more time, this potion would continue to grow, because its market was very large and every wizard apprentice needed it.

It’s just that in the early stages, before opening up the market, there will be some trouble.

Locke knew that the logic of selling magic potions and selling magic plants was completely different. Magic plants were external objects, while magic potions were to be drunk.

The needs and concerns of customers that the two have to face are different.

Therefore, he is still a novice in selling medicines.

But overall, he had to help his mentor work in the treatment center, refine the secondary emerald potion, continue to develop magic plants, complete orders, pass exams in the process, and participate in competitions held by the White Wizard Association. At the same time, he had to reserve energy and time to meditate.

Therefore, he could only allocate one hour every day to making memory ointment, something like that.

At most, once sales pick up, I can invest another two hours a day in the memory ointment and double the income again.

There is no shortage of market for this thing, as long as we can open up the market in the early stage and gain trust.

“I’m beginning to understand why so many studios require so many assistants. It seems that my pharmacy and plantation will sooner or later need to recruit more assistants as they expand.”

“This way, I will become a first-class wizard apprentice with a large-scale plantation and medicine room, and many projects in hand. It is a significant improvement in rank. Many senior first-class wizard apprentices can only work in different workshops.”

“Others lack the skills to make money, but I have too many things that can make money.” Locke rubbed his nose. “This way, the income and expenditure will be balanced quickly, and my deficit crisis will be temporarily resolved.”

“Although my fixed monthly expenditure on meditation is 8,000 magic stones, my monthly income is around 8,500.”

“I’ve barely solved the problem of food and clothing, but I’m still a long way from financial freedom. To become a formal wizard, you need a lot of resources. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait and see like the other first-class wizard apprentices in the school.”

The key is that others have talent and can spend their time on it. But if my talent really depends purely on hard work, then the chance of becoming a formal wizard will be too low.

(End of this chapter)