Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 9 Cloud Medicine

After emptying all the white pills in the pharmacies in Diagon Alley, Murphy spent most of his gold coins. He then purchased a large quantity of raw materials for various medical potions, such as Bone Regeneration Elixir, Blood Tonic, and Wound Cleanser, for future research. Finally, he spent all the Gallon he had just acquired.

More than 6,000 Galleons were gone before I could even warm them in my hands.

But Murphy wasn't bothered at all.

Money is meant to be spent, anyway.

Next, Murphy bought a large quantity of Muggle herbs such as Dictamnus dasycarpus and Panax notoginseng from a Muggle herbal shop.

In fact, Murphy had long discovered that although the scientific names were the same, many medicinal ingredients in the magical world, such as white cinnamon and aconite, were not the same as their counterparts in the Muggle world.

For example, while White Licorice is very similar in appearance to White Licorice in the Muggle world, the latter can never produce the same healing effects as Magic White Licorice, and the essence extracted using the same method has no effect either.

Murphy could only guess that wizards of the past cultivated the magical white lily through magic or some other means, turning it into a different kind of plant.

Back at the old mansion in Darkholm, Murphy used magic to crush both types of white peony into powder, mixed them together, and added various Muggle herbal powders such as Muggle ginseng and kudzu root powder, creating a powder that no one could reverse-engineer and analyze to find the original ingredients.

The production method of white umami essence is too simple. If you want to keep its formula secret, you have to start with the raw materials.

Murphy has made up his mind that from now on, the raw materials used to produce White Dessert Essence will appear to others in the form of this mixed powder.

Murphy then divided the powder into several large bags, and then stuffed them into seamless stretch bags.

Then he went out to register the company.

Two days later, Murphy Apparated to the Patrick's house and, led by Mrs. Duncan, entered Patrick's study. Patrick was on the phone and, upon seeing him, simply nodded, indicating that Murphy should wait a moment.

Murphy didn't stand on ceremony, found a sofa to sit down, and casually flipped through a few Muggle books on the bookshelf.

Patrick's collection of books is mostly about the medical and biological industries, and he also subscribes to many academic journals, which shows that he has indeed devoted a lot of energy and effort to this field.

With this spirit of continuous learning, it's no wonder he became one of London's leading pharmaceutical salesmen.

A moment later, Patrick finished his call and looked at Murphy with a smile. "Good news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?"

Murphy smiled. "Let's start with something good."

"I've looked into five pharmaceutical companies, and the one I'm most optimistic about is Isis Pharmaceuticals. They made a bad investment last year, and I have inside information that they're preparing for restructuring. I estimate that I can buy them for around £900,000, which is much cheaper than I expected."

"That's certainly good news, but what's the bad news?"

"Drug approval is a bit of a hassle. The head of the review committee, Douglas, is a friend of mine, but he was just transferred elsewhere, and the new guy is a shareholder of Blue Mountain. He's demanding the formula to guarantee the drug's safety."

Murphy frowned.

Patrick has already submitted his resignation to Blue Mountain Pharmaceuticals, and it's understandable that Blue Mountain's shareholders don't want him to have an easy time.

"What are your thoughts?" Murphy asked.

This wasn't a problem for Murphy; at worst, he could just use a Soul Stealing and Oblivion Spell on that guy.

Murphy didn't have much of a mental block about using the Unforgivable Curse to achieve his goals, as long as it didn't become public knowledge and get out of control.

"The formula is absolutely impossible to provide," Patrick said. "His demands are against the rules for herbal medicines. I will work with several companies to put pressure on him, and getting a temporary production permit will not be a problem."

"However, we need to produce the product and launch it to the market as soon as possible. As long as the market response is good enough, he won't be able to stop us."

"I don't understand this, you just operate it," Murphy said.

"There's one more thing," Patrick said. "The method you told me before was lab-based, which is different from industrial production. We need to find someone to design an industrial production process. You need to tell me the complete experimental steps."

After Patrick finished speaking, he looked at Murphy.

Some drug manufacturing processes may reveal parts of the formula, but Patrick did not elaborate, hoping his employer would trust him enough.

Murphy didn't ask any more questions. He took out a notebook from the small bag behind him, tore out a page, and handed it to Patrick.

"It's all here."

Patrick breathed a sigh of relief, solemnly took the notebook, read it carefully, and then nodded. "The production process is very simple; I can find a few graduate students to do the industrial production design. What about the raw materials?"

"It's all ready."

"Judging from these steps, the raw materials are indeed the key to Yunnan Baiyao. You must find a way to keep the materials confidential," Patrick reminded.

"rest assured."

As Murphy spoke, he handed a seal to Patrick. "I've already registered the company. This is the company seal. The registered capital is one million pounds, which has already been deposited into the account. It should be enough to buy the factory you mentioned."

Patrick took the official seal and saw at the bottom: "For Umbrella Industrial Property Only".

"A protective umbrella?" Patrick nodded. "That fits Bai Xian's image perfectly. It's a good name."

Murphy blushed; he had really been making things up when he went to register the company.

Fortunately, the Resident Evil series hadn't been released yet at this time, and Umbrella was still a fairly normal name. Moreover, the word also had meanings such as umbrella, protective umbrella, and shelter, which was indeed very suitable for a pharmaceutical company.

"So, is Baiyao's official name just Baiyao?"

"Let's call him Yun... cough, Yun Duan Bai Yao (a traditional Chinese medicine for treating ailments)."

Memories of his past life made him unable to resist spouting nonsense again.

"Clouds, umbrellas..." Patrick nodded approvingly. "Consistency, very good."

Not bad at all!

Ever since he came across the white succinate essence, this guy seems to have started to become like Di.

"I'll contact Isis Pharmaceuticals tomorrow," Patrick said enthusiastically. "Boss, I'll have some graduate students help you design the industrial process. With that, we can decide what kind of production line we need."

Leaving Patrick's house, Murphy couldn't help but feel a little sentimental. It's true that it's better to leave professional matters to professionals.

If he were to start a pharmaceutical company from scratch, he would be completely clueless and would never have made such rapid progress, with seemingly endless tasks every day.

This also served as a reminder to him.

Even if his goal is to be omniscient and omnipotent, he is far from reaching that level now. With his current abilities and knowledge, he is still a novice in many fields.

We must never be overly ambitious or stubborn!

In his previous life, he was just an undergraduate computer science student. The experiment of creating white succinate essence without magic had already exhausted his knowledge of biochemistry from his previous life.

Therefore, he was unable to carry out further purification of euphorbia pekinensis extract, as well as the determination of its effective substances.

That's why he needs the Muggle world.

He needs talented people.

A wealth of talent!

There were too many things to do, and his energy and ability were insufficient to cover all aspects.

Therefore, he needs to leverage external resources and gather a large number of professionals like Patrick to utilize their strength in order to achieve his goals.

Muggles, work your butts off for my immortality!

Hmm, I'll have to give Patrick some shares later.

As he said, a good boss needs to know how to make promises.

(End of this chapter)