Chapter 102 Pharmacy Market War

After the price of herbs entered an upward channel, a situation arose where those selling herbs were unwilling to sell. They hoarded the herbs in their hands, waiting for the price to rise before selling, and those speculators followed Nie Yan, acquiring herbs and sitting and waiting for the price to rise. The price of herbs was driven higher and higher, so Nie Yan no longer needed to invest more funds.

When Qin Han noticed that something was wrong with the herb market, he immediately discovered the problem. In order to block the Niu Ren Tribe, he mobilized the major guilds under the Monee Financial Group to collect herbs everywhere and put all their inventory on the market for sale. His selling did cause some trouble for Nie Yan, causing the herbs on the market to fall back to their original prices for a time, but Nie Yan held on after spending nearly eight or nine million gold coins, and pushed the price back up again. A group of speculators in the market, seeing that the price of herbs had a tendency to skyrocket, also stepped in and took the opportunity to acquire some.

Qin Han saw that he couldn't hold on any longer, and had no choice but to switch from selling herbs to buying them. The price of herbs fell into a very crazy situation, and players began to speculate en masse. The more the price skyrocketed, the more players chose to buy, and basically very few herbs could be seen on the market. The price of herbs on sale was very expensive.

Unexpectedly, this kind of situation would occur. All the major pharmacies except Starry Night Pharmacy were dumbfounded. They couldn't do business. The price of herbs on the market was ridiculously high, and the potions sold by Starry Night Pharmacy were basically the same as the price of raw materials on the market, or even lower. If they continued to buy herbs from the market and make potions to sell for money, they would either not make money or lose money. Before, their inventory had almost been sold out, their warehouses were empty, and the pharmacy counters were out of stock, but they couldn't replenish them. As a result, the business of major pharmacies suddenly became deserted.

Nie Yan's funds had been guarding the side all the time. As soon as the price of herbs on the market fell, he immediately bought in, maintaining the herbs at a very high price. This kind of acquisition was very expensive. Five or six million funds couldn't hold on at all, but Nie Yan's funds became more and more abundant, and quickly broke through ten million.

Nie Yan took a look and saw that in a short period of time, Starry Night Pharmacy's operating income had skyrocketed crazily, selling six or seven million gold coins in just one day, with a profit margin of 70%. In the past, it would have been great if the profit could reach 20%. 70% was a very scary number. The reason for this result was very simple. Currently, all the major pharmacies on the market, except Starry Night Pharmacy, had no potions to sell. Only Starry Night Pharmacy was shipping goods. Whether it was those high-level players or large customers like guilds, they needed a lot of potions to level up or go to dungeons. Without potions, it was impossible to move an inch. They could only go to Starry Night Pharmacy to buy potions.

Currently, the intermediate and advanced potions on the market were too expensive. Many players had to greatly reduce their usage, but some essential places still had to use them. There were also some richer players who didn't care about the money. Even if the price was very high, they would still buy them, so in this way, Starry Night Pharmacy's business not only did not shrink, but was unusually hot.

At this time, everyone could see that everything was done by the Niu Ren Tribe. It was not unprecedented for an item to be speculated on. Scrolls, gems, equipment, and various items had been speculated on before. Prices had soared several times or dozens of times. This was the market. Although this speculation was led by the Niu Ren Tribe, almost everyone had a hand in it. When everyone was speculating, no one could blame the originator of this incident.

The Niu Ren Tribe's pharmacists turned all the herbs they had previously acquired into potions, and the shelves and warehouses of Starry Night Pharmacy were filled. Nie Yan initially estimated that in the future, Starry Night Pharmacy's daily operating income would reach at least six or seven million gold coins, and the accumulated potions were enough for him to sell for a full half month or so. That was nearly 100 million gold coins, which meant that Nie Yan had tripled more than 30 million gold coins in half a month!

After returning part of the money earned to the Niu Ren Tribe and the major branch guilds, a large amount of the remaining money would be used to stabilize the price of herbs and maintain them at a high level, while the other part would be accumulated to deal with unexpected situations.

It was estimated that in less than half a month, those pharmacies would not be able to hold on. On the one hand, they had no business, and on the other hand, they had to pay a lot of wages to their subordinate pharmacists, and they could not see the dawn, because they did not know when the price of herbs would fall back. As long as Nie Yan was willing, his strong financial resources could stabilize the price of herbs.

Being unable to produce potions meant that those pharmacists had no jobs. Nie Yan released some news at the right time. Starry Night Pharmacy began to greatly increase the salaries of all pharmacists. The salaries of most pharmacists had soared by more than 50%, far exceeding the market level. At the same time, they also began to recruit pharmacists on a large scale, and the salaries were frighteningly high.

Those intermediate and advanced pharmacists who were about to lose their jobs because of the herb speculation had two choices, one was to be poor and destitute, and the other was to join Starry Night Pharmacy. The salary offered by Starry Night Pharmacy was really a huge temptation. The salary of Starry Night Pharmacy itself was 20% higher than those pharmacists on the market, and now it had increased by 50%. Not only that, they also provided an unlimited amount of herbs, allowing them to continuously make potions. If the pharmacist's level reached master level or grandmaster level, the treatment would be even more outrageous.

Under the temptation of high salaries, the idle pharmacists on the market began to flow to Starry Night Pharmacy. Every day, many pharmacists signed employment contracts with Starry Night Pharmacy. All of a sudden, the major guilds also realized the seriousness of the problem, and they took various measures to attract pharmacists to join with various favorable conditions.

They did absorb some pharmacists, but an even more serious problem appeared. They gave the new pharmacists very generous treatment, so they had to increase the salaries of the old pharmacists before, right? If they all followed the salary treatment given by Starry Night Pharmacy, they simply couldn't afford such a large expenditure. After all, their pharmacist team was not market-oriented. For example, Angel Corps had to spend two or three hundred thousand more gold coins every day to keep the pharmacists, and their guild's daily net profit could only reach more than half of the Niu Ren Tribe, which was about six or seven hundred thousand gold coins. The expenditure on potions reduced their daily net profit by one-third, which was simply unbearable.

They watched helplessly as Nie Yan's commercial empire, with Starry Night Pharmacy as its mainstay, was slowly forming, but they were powerless, because their financial resources were not on the same level as Nie Yan's at all. Although Angel Corps was very rich, and the fixed assets of the entire guild had exceeded 200 million gold coins, they only had a little over one million gold coins in liquid funds, and they couldn't do anything at all. At this time, Nie Yan's liquid funds reached an astonishing ten million, and his daily income from all aspects could reach seven or eight million gold coins. With such terrifying financial resources, Nie Yan could create huge waves no matter what he did in the market. And their little money was in danger of being swallowed up at any time if they confronted Nie Yan in the market.

Nie Yan's commercial empire was gradually taking shape. As long as Starry Night Pharmacy was there, he would have inexhaustible money!

Nie Yan glanced at his backpack. The numbers displayed on it were dazzling. He showed a smile. Now he could go to the Abernathy Great Prairie and start building his territory.

As long as there was a continuous input of money, building a powerful NPC army was just around the corner! This was different from Nie Yan's mobilization of the armies of various cities as a great prophet. The NPC army in Nie Yan's territory was completely his personal property. Nie Yan could command them to attack any guild or any fortress. Nie Yan's idea was to build a territory with a huge amount of money, recruit an army, and then use the territory to promote commercial development, earn more money, and continuously expand the army. Would there ever come a day when he could lead a mixed force composed of NPCs and players to kill all the enemies standing in front of him?

As this plan was implemented here, Nie Yan felt that realizing this wish was not an unattainable thing.

At the headquarters of the Zhu Shen Zhi Jian guild, Qin Han found that only Nie Yan's Starry Night Pharmacy was selling potions on the market, and cursed in frustration. All of this had become a foregone conclusion and could not be changed. Before, in order to block the Niu Ren Tribe, he sold off a large number of herbs in his hands, all of which were bought by Nie Yan. If calculated according to the current market price, they had lost a full three or four million gold coins, which was a heavy blow to the Monee Financial Group.

"Leader Qin Han, we can't supply the potions of Zhu Shen Zhi Jian anymore. Also, news came from Light and Darkness Empire and Holy Guardians that they have no potions available either." Shen Jian Wu Shuang looked at Qin Han cautiously.

Qin Han looked gloomy. Before, he sold off the herbs stored by several guilds. Although he acquired some later, only less than 10% of the original stock remained, which could not meet the needs of the entire guild at all. If this continued, they would have to purchase potions from Starry Night Pharmacy. They would be buying high-priced potions, and they had to buy them secretly and carefully. If Nie Yan found out, he might not sell them directly. The most depressing thing in life was this.

Seeing that Qin Han did not answer for a long time, Shen Jian Wu Shuang wanted to retreat several times, but he couldn't help but ask, "Leader Qin Han, are we going to purchase potions from Starry Night Pharmacy? There is only his shop selling potions on the market now..."

"Go buy it, but don't let anyone know." Qin Han said. It was impossible not to buy potions, but if people knew that the Monee Financial Group was purchasing potions from Starry Night Pharmacy, he couldn't afford to lose that person!