Recently, several major events have occurred in Kelan City that shocked the whole city, causing the whole city to be shaken.
First of all, there was the "counterfeit medicine workshop incident" some time ago. I heard that a civilian who did not have the qualifications to be a pharmacist was bold enough to secretly manufacture fake and substandard medicines at home. After being reported, the company was discovered and seized by the city guard.
Then there was a small mercenary group with less than 100 members, and it was almost suppressed and almost disbanded in the competition between mercenary groups. Suddenly the rise of God reversed the situation of being suppressed. With only six
A member challenged the Storm Wolf mercenary group that suppressed them and hung the opponent's group flag in the mercenary guild hall.
There is also the Golden Two-Headed Dragon, the leading large-scale mercenary group in Kelan City, who suddenly announced that it had established a mercenary group headquarters in the cursed abandoned castle complex, Fort Doom. Immediately, the Kelan branch began to send mercenaries to its mercenaries.
They ration their share of precious potions.
These are all interesting stories that the people of Kelan talk about. However, before the popularity of these interesting stories dissipated, a shocking new news once again caused countless topics in the city of Kelan.
The "fake medicine workshop incident" some time ago was actually vindicated. The owner of the medicine workshop produced a legal medicine certificate. The civilians who were innocently detained were just employees of the workshop!
For this reason, several righteous members of the public who spoke for the common people sued the Pharmacists Guild to the Civil Affairs Council of Kelan City, accusing the Pharmacists Guild of maliciously falsely accusing and kidnapping the civilian family in order to obtain the pharmaceutical formula, and also used it for personal gain.
Stealing their special potion production tools.
Just when the righteous members of the public asked the Pharmacists Guild to release the civilian family, news broke that the civilian family had disappeared!
This incident directly aroused public outrage among the people of Kelan City. People from civil society organizations continued to protest/demonstrate/demonstrate in front of the Civil Affairs Assembly Hall, demanding that the Pharmacists Guild release the Brown family, an innocent civilian.
However, according to reliable gossip from within the Pharmacists Guild, the Brown family had been murdered by the Pharmacists Guild, which monopolized the pharmaceutical industry in Coran City, after being forced to reveal the formula of the pharmaceutical. During the interrogation by the Civil Affairs Assembly, they were unable to hand over their names.
Come.
This caused the reputation of the Pharmacists Guild to plummet in Coran City. The president of the Pharmacists Guild and the book management deacon took the blame and resigned. The new president of the Pharmacists Guild publicly stated that he would definitely give an explanation to the people.
But at this time, those members of the public who bravely stood up to seek justice for the common people were brutally murdered at home. The suspects pointed their finger at the former president of the Pharmacists Guild who resigned and others.
This vicious incident suddenly shocked the entire Civil Affairs Assembly. For a moment, all the members were in danger, and the civilians were excited and demanded severe punishment for the murderer.
However, when the former president and deacons of the Pharmacists Guild attended the self-defense and appeal meeting at the public hearing, they stated that they had no reason to deliberately kill the council members despite all the unfavorable testimony pointing to the Pharmacists Guild.
Not only does this not do them any good, it will instead draw all suspicions onto them, claiming that this is a conspiracy against them and against the Pharmacists Guild!
In order to clear up the unfair grievances they had suffered, the former president and deacon of the Pharmacists Guild grieved and committed suicide in front of the public. They used their lives to prove their innocence and committed suicide collectively at the venue of the self-defense and appeal conference.
Got it!
This time, the suspicion has shifted from the Pharmacists Guild to Clark Abigail, the president of the Kelan branch of the Mercenary Guild with vested interests. As the former president of the Pharmacists Guild, who has died, said, in the recent period,
Time, the behavior of the Kelan branch of the Mercenary Guild is indeed a bit strange!
They did not know where they obtained the mysterious source of medicine. Not only did they privately terminate the medicine supply agreement with the Pharmacists Guild, they also aggressively seized the market share of the Pharmacists Guild.
There are good reasons for people to believe that this is the mercenary guild that has obtained the source of the medicine, in order to attack, frame and seize the medicine business of the Pharmacists Guild, and take revenge on the Pharmacists Guild for controlling their share of medicines and inhibiting their development!
President Clark was so troubled by the sudden reversal of wind direction that he almost imitated his opponent and committed suicide to clarify his purpose, which pushed the incident into an even more complicated and confusing situation.
Suddenly, the Pharmacist Guild and the Mercenary Guild's Kelan branch were attacking each other, and the Kelan City Civil Affairs Council was making jokes. The three forces threw Kelan City into chaos, and many forces took advantage of the chaos to carry out crazy activities.
Then, behind a seemingly innocent incident, an undercurrent surged.
At the beginning, the pharmaceutical rationing plan formulated by the Mercenary Guild was to provide a fixed quota only for the mercenaries in the city. The scope of the impact was not too large and would not overly affect the interests of the Pharmacist Guild.
But perhaps because it had already torn its face, the mercenary guild, which was originally considered polite when it came to "eating statues", simply tore off its mask and revealed its ferocious fangs.
As a medium-sized city with a local population of more than 1.7 million (including the population of surrounding towns, villages, farms and plantations) and hundreds of thousands of floating population, Kelan City not only has a seaport terminal and an airship airport, but also is connected to the sea.
On both sides of the Wall Mountains, it is an important transit transportation hub for Zilargo County and Dagon County.
Therefore, on the basis of extremely convenient transportation such as land, sea, and air transportation, commerce has also flourished. The gathering of a large number of merchants has also given rise to the development of the mercenary industry.
The number of mercenaries registered in this city alone is over 35,000, including 7 large mercenary groups with more than 1,000 people, and 16 medium-sized mercenary groups with less than 1,000 people and more than 500 people.
There are 56 small mercenary groups with more than 100 people and less than 500 people. There are also micro mercenary groups, or small mercenary teams, with less than 100 people. There are hundreds of free mercenaries.
In addition, the number of mercenaries from outer cities with temporary orders is even equal to the number of mercenaries in the city during the peak period. It is also considered a large-scale mercenary gathering point in the mercenary community of the seven continents.
As for the high-risk industry of mercenaries, the demand for pharmaceuticals is quite huge. Even if the mercenaries do not care about life and death, who is willing to die if they can? This leads to the fact that in addition to weapons and equipment, there are all kinds of life-saving medicines.
The medicines became the bulk of the consumption of the mercenaries.
When the Mercenary Guild's Kelan branch just started, it only purchased a share of a single type of medicine from the mercenaries registered in the city. This part was less than one-thirtieth of the monthly production capacity of 5,000 bottles of medicine.
The loss of local orders is of no consequence to the Pharmacists Guild.
But now, the Kelan branch has begun to frantically supply all kinds of medicines to its mercenaries in the city. All kinds of medicines that can be purchased in the pharmacy stores under the name of the Pharmacists Guild can be purchased at the pharmacy counter of the Kelan branch.
You can buy it anywhere, and the quality is one level higher than that of pharmacies, and the price is only 40% of similar medicines!
This scale of supply is simply unbelievable. Even if it is calculated based on the mercenary population of 50,000, and 10 bottles of medicine are supplied to each mercenary every month, that is a full 500,000 bottles of medicine, three times the total production capacity of the Pharmacist Guild.
Even more times!
How many pharmacists are needed to prepare such a huge pharmaceutical production capacity?
If it were just the mercenary market in this city, it might not be able to harm the Pharmacists Guild, which has stable sales channels and fixed suppliers.
Although medicines are only useful when life and health are threatened, they are definitely necessities for survival that are always prepared and worry-free.
Therefore, as soon as the Kelan branch relaxed supply restrictions, those who were in need of pharmaceuticals were worried that there would not be many opportunities to obtain sufficient supply of pharmaceuticals, so they carried out a rush to stock up, and the entire city of Kelan was completely destroyed in a short period of time.
The pharmaceutical market has reached a state of saturation.
Potions are not like food that you have to eat every day. Buying them once can often ensure their use for a long time. Many mercenary groups who finally caught the opportunity of unlimited potion sales even snapped up a batch at once.
Reserve a year's worth.
When the Pharmacists Guild realized something was wrong and planned to cut prices to compete for market share, it was already too late. It is estimated that there will be no mercenary groups purchasing pharmaceuticals in the next year, and the consequences of all this are the Pharmacists Guild itself.
Sown.
Who told them that they clearly have the production capacity of 150,000 bottles of pharmaceuticals per month, but they only put 5,000 bottles of pharmaceuticals into the pharmaceutical industry in Kelan City, deliberately creating a market hunger to ensure that their pharmaceuticals can be sold at high prices?
At the same time, it also has the sought-after scarcity.
In this way, no matter how many potions they put on the market and how high the price they sell, they won't have to worry about not being able to sell them. When they need funds, they can harvest Jintallan to their heart's content.
But now, this market that has been managed with great difficulty and has been in a state of hunger for a long time has been plucked by the sudden outbreak of the Kelan branch of the mercenary guild. This pair of pharmacists' guild is involved in the kidnapping and murder of civilians.
To put it bluntly, it's simply a blow that adds insult to injury.
Is the Kelan branch’s crazy pharmaceutical dumping plan limited to this?
of course not!
It's not just mercenaries who need to use potions. The adventurer guild, which is no smaller than the mercenary guild, the various combat professional guilds, and even the city guard under the name of the Civil Affairs Council, these industry guilds with certain risks are all involved in this battle.
Amidst the sudden drug dumping, a year's supply of medicines was stockpiled!
The Pharmacists Guild finally panicked and began to desperately contact the channels in their hands, trying to seize the market before the medicines from the Kelan branch were dumped and spread to surrounding city-states.
But what they never expected was that the pharmacists who were used to being pampered in the seller's market, used to having no say in their territory, and slowly preparing medicines, would be involved in this huge battle for market share of pharmaceuticals.
, there is no resistance at all!
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