Chapter 103: Love Potion Perfume

The method of a wizard brewing a pot of potion from start to finish is too slow and can no longer meet the growing demand for Beauty Potion in the Venus series. More importantly, the effects of potions brewed by different wizards vary, making it impossible to control quality, resulting in subtle differences in the effectiveness of each batch of the Venus series.

In order to solve these problems, Murphy had long planned to industrialize the production of Beauty Potion.

However, unlike White Medicine, Beauty Potion involves many materials, complex brewing steps, and it is difficult to find the true active ingredients, making it difficult to carry out de-wizardized industrial production.

So it could only be done through this assembly line method, breaking down the brewing steps, with each person responsible for a specific step, and through standardized simple operations, finally forming a more unified and efficient output.

"How many pots of Beauty Potion can be brewed here every day now?" Murphy asked.

"About six hundred pots. If we adopt a three-shift working method, we can get two hundred more pots."

Eight hundred pots, which is more than 1,500 liters, is more than five times the previous daily output of about 300 liters.

And the quality is more stable.

"Recruit more people and add another production line," Murphy said.

After inspecting the factory, Murphy and Isaac returned to the front.

"Isaac, do you know about Love Potion?"

"Of course," Isaac said. "Although generally speaking, it is not allowed for potion shops to sell Love Potion publicly. But almost every pharmacy will sell it secretly, and Aurors generally won't care about this kind of thing. Occasionally, the Law Enforcement Squad will check, but just hide the potion when the time comes. If the inspection is indeed very strict, just turn the potion into water."

The laws of the Wizarding World are like this: there are many regulations, but the execution is mostly not very good.

"I want to build another Love Potion production line. Of course, not here, but in that shop in Knockturn Alley. But that side is not very skilled in this production line method, so you may need to go and guide them occasionally."

"Hmm, also, the workers... cough, I mean pharmacists, also need to be recruited through you here, and then let them go to work there, which can reduce some trouble."

"No problem, Boss."

"Very good. Later, just like with Beauty Potion, break down the production steps of Love Potion. I have already greeted them over there, and Ms. Zorini will cooperate with you."

Zorini is the female shopkeeper of the Supreme Potion Shop in Knockturn Alley and the younger sister of Halima, the shopkeeper of "Toad Cellar," a shop selling potion materials in Knockturn Alley. The latter is now Murphy's material supplier.

"Is the brewed Love Potion to be sold here, or all exported?" Isaac asked.

The so-called "export" is actually a statement Murphy gave to the clerks.

These large quantities of potions brewed were not filling the shelves of Supreme Potion. Murphy's explanation was: they were all sold abroad.

France, Germany, Italy, even the United States, Mexico, etc., wherever you think, anyway, they were bought by foreign wizards.

The clerks were required to keep it secret. Although they didn't believe Murphy's statement, most of them just thought Murphy was doing things like smuggling.

No one wanted to verify it. Anyway, the boss paid enough wages. Who cares if it's smuggling? If something really happened, the Aurors would only arrest Murphy, and it wouldn't have anything to do with them, these pharmacists who were kept in the dark and just focused on brewing medicine.

Only Isaac had heard some vague rumors and probably knew the true destination of these potions.

However, he still pretended not to know.

Who the boss makes money from has nothing to do with a worker like him.

Don't you see that even the Director of the Auror Office was brought down by the boss?

"Export," Murphy said.

The money needed to engage in chips in the future is by no means a small amount. Even with Umbrella's profitability, it is very likely that it will not be able to carry it.

Not to mention that he can't just have chips. In order to exert the performance of the chips, existing storage technology and software systems must be eliminated. He also needs to develop memory and hard drives himself, and even develop computer systems and basic applications.

What he wants to do is actually a whole set of products from chips to desktops.

He is preparing to smash the rice bowls of Intel, Apple, and Microsoft all at once, and maybe even enter the Internet and smash Google's future rice bowl.

The money he needs to burn is simply immeasurable.

Just letting two subsidiaries go public may not be able to fill this huge hole.

Murphy has already begun to prepare to open up a few more ways to make money.

Love Potion perfume is one of them.

There are quite a few useful potions, such as Wound-Cleaning Agent, Blood-Replenishing Potion, Skele-Gro, etc., but the first two have good substitute products in Muggle society, and the application range of Skele-Gro is also narrow. It is difficult for their combined value to exceed White Medicine.

Others such as Draught of Living Death, Veritaserum, etc., are also like this.

But Love Potion is very different. Its effect does not exist in the Muggle world, and its secondary effect that "everyone will smell their favorite scent" is enough to become a hit perfume.

In this world, who can refuse the scent of love?

After arranging the production of Love Potion, Murphy met with the goblin Locke.

The latter took him to see several shops that had already been bought and gave him a stack of files.

"These are all applicants for the Wizard Security Shop, most of them are from Hogwarts, and there are also several graduates from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang."

"How many people are there?"

"..."

Murphy flipped through the list casually. Most of them looked familiar because they were basically his juniors, and some were even classmates who graduated in the same year as him.

"Recruit all those with more than six O. W. L. s in the Wizarding Ordinary Level Examinations."

The Wizarding Ordinary Level Examinations are just basic assessments. You can get a certificate for a course just by passing, so the requirement of six certificates is really not high. Most Hogwarts graduates can do it.

Then he selected thirty people from the list who had an E or above in Transfiguration. "These people, after being hired, let them brew Animagus Potion."

"Animagus?" Locke was a bit confused. He also knew that kind of powerful transformation, and there were not many wizards in the whole magic world who knew it.

Murphy wants to let more than thirty wizards become Animagi?

"Don't require them to succeed, just let them start from the first step of Animagus Potion. I will take away their potion regularly for inspection."

The Transformation Research Group needs to get the potion for Animagus transformation to start the next step.

It just so happens that the security shop doesn't have much business now. Since they have recruited these wizards, they are idle anyway, so it's better to let them do some work.

Animagus transformation requires potion cooperation, and the first step of this potion is to keep a single leaf of a Mandrake in the mouth for a full month (from full moon to full moon).

Murphy wants to know what changes happened to the leaf in this process, so he plans to take away the leaf in a wizard's mouth every once in a while and send it to the Potion Research Institute.

"You continue to recruit people. In addition to recruiting some retired Aurors as coaches, this time help me recruit some young wizards who are good at the Enlarge Spell and the Shrinking Charm."

"Okay, Boss," Locke agreed. "There is one more thing, what kind of name are you going to give these security shops?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 104 =====