Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

"Recently, Philip Dixon, chairman of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, was investigated by the London police on suspicion of accepting bribes..."

"Affected by the coffee scandal, the stock prices of Wellcome, Zeneca, Glaxo Pharmaceuticals and other companies have continued to fall. They have dropped to the limit for a week in a row, and their market value has evaporated by about 300 million pounds..."

"Due to the impact of the stock market crash in October, the market reacted violently to the stock price drops of several companies. Experts interpret that this sharp decline in medical stocks will not cause a chain reaction, and call on investors not to panic..."

Murphy curled his lips and said, "It's bad luck for them."

Just in October of this year, the world had just experienced a major stock market crash. On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Index plummeted 508.32 points in one day, a drop of 22.6%. In more than 6 hours, the New York Stock Index lost 500 billion. Its value was equivalent to one-eighth of the U.S. GDP at the time.

That day was dubbed Black Monday on Wall Street.

Terrible panic immediately swept the world, and stock markets in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other places plummeted.

By the end of October, the British stock market had fallen by 26%, and countless millionaires were impoverished overnight.

Even though a month or two have passed, the terrible memory of the stock market crash still remains in people's minds, and countless people have become frightened.

This time, the stock prices of these pharmaceutical companies fell temporarily due to being framed by Murphy. If they had done a good job in public relations and cutting off the situation in the past, they would have come back soon.

But this time, not only was the pressure from public opinion increasing, but it also caught up with the largest stock market crash in history, which directly drove its stock price to the bottom, and even the entire medical sector was greatly affected.

In this regard, Murphy could only toast with Patrick to express his condolences.

This is not just a matter of gloating. The shrinking of their market prices has also brought substantial benefits to Murphy. For example, a research institute under Wellcome that was originally valued at more than five million pounds has not yet been sold, but now it is directly worth one million pounds. So I asked for an umbrella and bought it.

They are in urgent need of understanding from the umbrella, and they can agree to any conditions, otherwise they will see their home collapse.

Murphy was naturally not polite. He had already packaged and acquired three research institutions. If it hadn't been enough, Murphy would have planned to take over all their pharmaceutical companies as well.

At the same time, taking advantage of the skyrocketing reputation of the umbrella company, Murphy also launched several rounds of financing, splitting 8% of the shares and selling them for nearly 100 million pounds.

The only pity is that the stock market is really not good now. Otherwise, if it were listed at this moment, it would not be difficult to jump into the circle of tens of billions of tycoons with its skyrocketing reputation.

But Murphy is not greedy. This is enough. He does not need to take too big a step, just move forward steadily.

With the money, Murphy's institute plan could finally be launched.

Thanks to the early preparations, a series of issues such as approval, land acquisition, and design were quickly completed. In the spring of 1988, the Umbrella Group's biotechnology R\u0026D base was officially laid and started.

Hertfordshire.

Murphy met Padrick wearing a hard hat.

"How is the progress of the project?"

"Let's go, I'll take you to the mountains to see."

Patrick led Murphy up a hillside and saw a construction site under construction in the middle of the wilderness below.

"A total of 970 acres (about 5,900 acres), divided into six districts. Currently under construction is District 1, which has three main buildings. The largest one is Baiyao Plantation, with seventeen floors and a construction area of ​​about 19 acres (115 acres). The remaining two buildings follow our original plan, one is a Baiyao medicinal material cultivation and optimization base, and the other is a Baiyao R\u0026D center."

According to their previous plan, Area 1 was mainly used for the cultivation and research and development of Yunduan Baiyao.

The plantation adopts the three-dimensional farm design suggested by Patrick. Currently, one building is built to test the water. If the effect is verified, three more three-dimensional farms will be built.

The role of the Baiyao R\u0026D Center is to isolate the core components of Baiyao from Baixian essence, elucidate its molecular biological mechanism, and research more efficient preparation methods.

This is a place that can produce Nobel Prize-level results. Even before construction has begun, there are already a dozen famous scholars who want to join.

The purpose of the medicinal material cultivation and optimization base is to study the botanical aspects of the white berries and combine various breeding technologies such as gene editing, cell engineering, mutagenesis, and hybridization to optimize the active ingredients of the white berries and increase their yields.

In addition to the first area, in the future, Murphy will also open up a research area for magic potions such as beauty potion, bone spirit, blood replenishing potion, etc. The biological mechanism behind each of these extremely magical potions may be one or even Several Nobel Prize-level discoveries.

These are all treasures, and Murphy will never waste them easily.

In his vision, in the future, he will also establish a magic plant breeding base to mass-produce various magic plants. He has even bought a lot of seeds. When Bai Xian cultivation is on the right track, the Umbrella Company will start to produce magic plants in batches. After accumulating some experience in plant cultivation, you can start.

At the same time, there must be a magical animal breeding center. There are so many magical creatures in the wizarding world. Not only their body tissues can be used as potion materials, but the magical abilities of some magical animals themselves are worth studying. This is another extremely rich area. of treasure.

Of course, the Curse Research Institute is also a must. It's just that the accumulation of Muggle technology that can be used in this area is not as much as that of potions. Moreover, if you want to involve Muggle researchers, you must start in-depth cooperation with wizards, which may involve considerable risks. Murphy We are planning to launch it on a small scale in the future and try the water first.

Thinking about the countless exciting projects waiting to be realized in the future, Murphy feels full of energy.

Isn't this more fun than answering those boring letters at a bullshit pest advisory office?

"How long will it take to build the entire first district?" Murphy asked.

"Now the work of leveling the land has been basically completed. It will take about one month to pour the foundation, three months for the main body, and two months for pipe decoration. If it's quick, it should be put into use in half a year."

Different from ordinary simple factories, both R\u0026D centers and three-dimensional plantations are high-rise three-dimensional buildings with much more complex structures, and the amount of work even exceeds that of ordinary residential areas and office buildings.

Half a year is indeed very fast.

This is also the result of the protective umbrella sparing no expense.

But Murphy still felt that it was a bit slow. Although he wanted to use magic to speed up the progress, with his magic power, it could only play a very limited role in such a large-scale construction project, so he could only give up after thinking about it.

"Half a year, just half a year. Before that, let's rent a few places and set up a platform. For the few research institutes we bought, other research that has not made much progress will be stopped first, and we will divide the work among them, and all of them will do white medicine. Research."

"Those scholars who wanted to do research before, as well as those on the list recommended by Rita, will be inspected and communicated with, and we will hire them if they are of similar ability."

"Well, the company also needs to expand its administrative staff. Let's organize a large-scale recruitment." Patrick suggested.

"Do it! Do it with confidence and boldness. If you have money, as long as you are capable, the salary can be generous. After building this 100 million, I will sell some stocks at the worst."

Patrick smiled and said, "It's like our shares are cabbage."

"If you can't exchange it for money, it's just a blank piece of paper, worse than cabbage." Murphy didn't care.

"By the way, one more thing. Since you want researchers to be involved in the research of Baiyao, how do you consider confidentiality?"

Murphy frowned, "Indeed, this is a big problem."

It's not that I'm afraid that the secret of the ingredients of Bai Xian Essence will be leaked to the Muggle world and copied, but I'm mainly worried about wizards.

"First sign a confidentiality agreement that will make them lose everything. I will tell you when there is a better way."

The research on white essence will not produce any major results for a while. This kind of confidentiality agreement is enough, but in the long run, it is safer to use the entire confidentiality type of magic.

I wonder if that guy Wood has found any clues?