Return of the Ancient Gods

Chapter 035: Serious situation, waiting for the right opportunity

Under the bet, the Wen family immediately received sanctions from the Kang Palace:

Prince Kang’s Mansion stops supplying any medicinal pills to the Wen family!

"As expected. The launch of the new elixir will take at least half a month. The key now is to refine elixirs in large quantities to stock up, so as to avoid being in a rush and missing out on the opportunity."

Chu Nan and Xia Chan kept reading the intelligence sent back by the Wen family's branches across the country. They were almost identical, and the crisis could be suppressed for the time being.

"During this period, Prince Kang's Palace has purchased a large amount of purple spirit grass at a high price. I have to say that Prince Kang is really capable and accurately guessed our intentions.

But in this way, he is also stepping deeper into the trap we set for him in advance."

"The results are out. The Purple Spirit Grass spot is basically divided between us and the Kang Palace. We have three and the other party has seven." Qiu Lu concluded.

Both parties focused their main target of this business war on the Qi-nourishing Pills, which had the highest consumption and the greatest profit, but the Prince Kang's Mansion had always believed that the main ingredients of the pills refined by both parties were the same.

"Well, I didn't expect that they would still take most of it. They are really rich. But it's not bad. Let them bleed a little before the competition. The 63-fold gap is beginning to narrow." Chu Nan smiled knowingly and ordered the head of the Wen family to take action.

"The price of purple spirit grass is good now, so we can start shipping it. It's so satisfying to make the enemy suffer double the loss."

"Double loss?" Xue'er was puzzled.

"It's double that's right. The Kangwang Mansion needs to buy it at a price higher than the market price, which is considered a partial loss; and this money happens to fall into our hands, and we need to spend extra to offset it, so isn't this a double loss?" Chu Nan explained patiently, teasing the silly girl with one hand, which made her look pitiful and even more interesting.

"The key now is how to promote our brand of elixirs and seize the market. And we don't have enough alchemists." The head of the Wen family interjected worriedly. Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner, but the current progress is far from enough. Going forward, the problems will be even bigger.

"I have my own way to deal with this. But I don't know how long our funds can last. Raw materials, labor, and operations are all a waste of money..." In terms of the ability to prepare for a rainy day, Chu Nan is no less than the head of the Wen family, but he has different opinions. After all, this has been a fatal weakness from the beginning.

"I do have a suggestion. You can go to them for help. Not everyone is like King Kang. We all have the same ideals and aspirations, so there was the beautiful story of 'Nine Heroes Coming Down the Mountain'." Chen Hezhi took the initiative to offer advice, while also trying to see how broad-minded he was.

Chu Nan understood what the old man meant and gave them a chance. Princess Jinyang also talked about the attitudes and positions of the seven great families. She nodded and accepted it.

"My nephew understands!"

Chu Nan sent all the alchemists in his mansion to the Wen family to rush to make pills, and with the help of the alchemists sent by Emperor Chu, the manpower problem was solved.

However, the people sent by Emperor Chu were left in the Princess's mansion to refine the Qi-nourishing Pill, and Chu Nan did not let them interfere with the refining of the new type of pill.

At the Kangwang Mansion,

The new accountant reported the situation to King Kang tremblingly:

"According to statistics, we lost money on the purchase of the purple spirit grass..."

"That's enough. No need to say more. Write the loss down as cost and raise the price to make up for it. Just tell me the final result." King Kang stopped him impatiently. He lamented that it was hard to find talented people. He was completely focused on Chu Nan and had no intention of asking about the specific matters.

"What's going on with the little wolf cub recently?"

"Not yet. The Wen family is hiring a large number of alchemists to make pills in batches. Everything else is normal." A secret agent nodded and bowed in response, with cold sweat on his forehead.

"So what is the specific situation? How much inventory is there? What's the quality? What's the actual effect? ​​Are there any physical products coming back?" King Kang asked repeatedly, his tone becoming more and more impatient. He didn't hear what he said with his own ears, so how could he guess it?

"No, the other party's confidentiality work is too strong, and there is no chance for us to investigate..."

Before the spy could finish his words, King Kang was so angry that he slapped him to death, cursing:

"You don't know this, you don't know that, what's the point of keeping you useless people? What are you all standing there for? Why don't you get out of here so I can figure this out for you?"

Seeing these idiots, King Kang was furious and felt even more that it was rare to find someone as capable as Chu Xiu.

Half a month passed, and finally it was the important day that both Chu Nan and King Kang had been looking forward to:

National College of Education Competition!

Both parties want to take this opportunity to demonstrate their strength and do the best and most effective free publicity.

"Okay, the fighting will officially begin after today. It just so happens that we have run out of funds on hand!" Chu Nan let out a long breath. He had been staying in the room. When he suddenly came out, the sunlight was a bit dazzling.

In order to prepare for this college competition, Chu Nan followed a group of alchemists and practiced medicine for half a month without interruption, and quickly grew from a rookie in alchemy to a master.

Prince Kang arrived late, holding a bottle of elixir that had just been refined by the Princess's Mansion. He snorted disdainfully:

"The quality of these pills is slightly inferior to ours. It seems that without a good alchemist, even if the pill formula is excellent, it will be useless..."