After emptying all the white mulberry from all the pharmacies in Diagon Alley, Murphy spent most of his gold coins. He also bought a large number of raw materials for various medical potions such as bone spirit, blood tonic, wound cleanser, etc. for future research, and finally spent all the galleons he had just received.
More than 6,000 galleons were gone before they were even warm in his hands.
But Murphy didn't feel bad at all.
Anyway, money is meant to be spent.
Then, Murphy bought a large number of Muggle white mulberry, Panax notoginseng and other herbs in the Muggle herbal medicine store.
In fact, Murphy had long discovered that although the scientific names are the same, many medicinal raw materials in the magical world, such as white mulberry and Aconitum, are not consistent with the drugs of the same name in the Muggle world.
For example, although white mulberry is very similar to white mulberry in the Muggle world in form, the latter can never produce the therapeutic effect of magic white mulberry, and the essence extracted using the same method has no effect.
In this regard, Murphy could only guess that the wizards in the past cultivated the magic white fresh through magic or some other means, making it another kind of plant.
Back at the old house of Darkholm, Murphy used magic to crush all the two kinds of white fresh into powder, mixed them together, and added various Muggle herbal powders such as Muggle Panax notoginseng and Pueraria powder to make it a kind of powder that no one could reversely restore and analyze the raw materials.
The production method of white fresh essence is too simple. If you want to keep its formula secret, you can only start with the raw materials.
Murphy has made up his mind that the raw materials used to produce white fresh essence in the future will appear in front of others in the form of mixed powder.
Then Murphy divided the powder into several large bags and stuffed them into the traceless stretch bag.
Then he went out to register a company.
Two days later, Murphy Apparated to Patrick's house and walked into Patrick's study under the guidance of Mrs. Duncan. The latter was on the phone. Seeing him coming, she just nodded and asked Murphy to wait.
Murphy was not polite. He found a sofa and sat down, flipping through several Muggle books on the bookshelf.
Most of Patrick's books are about the pharmaceutical and biological industries. He also subscribes to many academic journals. It can be seen that he has invested a lot of energy and effort in this industry.
With such a spirit of continuous learning, it is no wonder that he can become the leading drug salesman in London.
After a while, Patrick finished his call. He looked at Murphy and smiled. "One good news, one bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Murphy smiled and said, "Let's hear the good news first."
"I have inspected five pharmaceutical companies. Among them, Isis Pharmaceuticals, which I am most optimistic about, made a mistake in investment last year. There are internal sources saying that it is preparing for restructuring. I estimate that it can be bought for about 900,000 pounds, which is a lot of money less than expected."
"This news is indeed good. What about the bad news?"
"Drug approval is a bit troublesome. Douglas, the director of the review committee, is a friend of mine, but he has just been transferred to another place, and the new guy is a shareholder of Blue Mountain. He asked for the formula to ensure the safety of the drug."
Murphy frowned.
Patrick has already submitted his resignation report to Blue Mountain Pharmaceuticals. It is understandable that Blue Mountain's shareholders don't want him to have an easy time.
"What do you think?" Murphy asked.
This matter is not a problem for Murphy. At most, he can cast a set of soul-stealing and forgetting spells on that guy.
Murphy does not have too many psychological barriers to using the Unforgivable Curse to achieve his goal, as long as it is not known to everyone and out of control.
"The formula will never be provided," Patrick said, "His request is not in line with the rules for herbal medicines. I will unite several companies to put pressure on him, and it will not be a problem to get a temporary production license."
"But we must produce the product and put it on the market as soon as possible. As long as the market response is good enough, he will not be able to stop us."
"I don't understand this, you can do it." Murphy said.
"There is another thing." Patrick said, "The production method you told me before is laboratory preparation, which is different from industrial production. Someone has to design an industrial production process. This requires you to tell me the complete experimental steps."
After Patrick finished speaking, he looked at Murphy.
The laboratory preparation process of some drugs may leak part of the formula, but Patrick did not explain more. He hoped that his employer would have enough trust in him.
Murphy didn't ask any more questions. He took out a notebook from the small bag behind him, tore off a page and handed it to Patrick.
"It's all here."
Patrick breathed a sigh of relief, took the notebook solemnly, read it carefully, and then nodded, "The production process is very simple. I can find a few graduate students to do industrial production design. What about the raw materials?"
"It's ready."
"From these steps, the raw materials are indeed the key to Baiyao. You must find a way to keep the materials confidential." Patrick reminded.
"Don't worry."
Murphy said, handing a seal to Patrick, "I have registered the company. This is the property seal. The registered capital is one million pounds. It has been received. It should be enough to buy the factory you mentioned."
Patrick took the seal and saw that the bottom read: "Umbrella Industrial Property Only".
"Umbrella?" Patrick nodded, "It fits the positioning of Baixian. It's a good name."
Murphy blushed. He was really talking nonsense when he went to register the company.
Fortunately, the Resident Evil series had not been released at this time, and Umbrella was still a fairly normal name. Moreover, this word also has the meanings of umbrella, protection umbrella, and shelter, which is indeed very suitable for a pharmaceutical company.
"So is the official name of Baiyao called Baiyao?"
"It's called Yun... Ahem, Yunduan Baiyao."
The memory of his previous life made him talk nonsense again.
"Yunduan, Umbrella..." Patrick nodded approvingly, "It's consistent, very good."
Not a bad ghost!
Since seeing the Baixian essence, this guy seems to have started to become a genius.
"I will contact Isis Pharmaceuticals tomorrow," Patrick said enthusiastically. "Boss, I will arrange for a few graduate students to help you design the industrial process. With this, we can decide what kind of production line we need."
Leaving Patrick's house, Murphy couldn't help but sigh. It's better to let professionals do professional things.
If he were to build a pharmaceutical company from scratch, he would be completely in the dark. He would never make such a fast progress as he is now. It seems that there are a lot of things to do every day.
This also reminded him.
Even if the goal is to be omniscient, he is still far from that level. With his current ability and knowledge, he is still a novice in many fields.
Don't be too ambitious and stubborn!
In his previous life, he was just an undergraduate student majoring in computer science. The experiment of making white fresh essence by non-magic has exhausted his knowledge of biochemistry in his previous life.
Therefore, he is not capable of doing things like the improvement of white fresh essence, purification, and determination of effective substances. That is why he needs the Muggle world. He needs talents. A lot of talents! There are too many things to do, and his energy and ability are not enough to cover all aspects. Therefore, he needs to borrow strength and needs to gather a large number of professionals like Patrick and use their strength to achieve his goals. Muggles, work hard for my longevity! Well, I have to give Patrick some shares later. As he said, a good boss must learn to draw cakes.
(End of this chapter)