Your Excellency truly lives up to your title!

It's true what they say: comparisons are odious!

This problem, which had been troubling them for a long time, gave them a huge headache, and they had absolutely no clue or idea how to solve it.

For example, they considered using a special technology to make the bottles so that they couldn't be imitated by others.

But this thing only treats the symptoms, not the root cause!

If someone wants to forge something, their goal is based on what's inside the bottle, not the bottle itself.

Refined salt is easy to identify; everyone can tell just by tasting it.

But it's hard to say about the Valley of Forgetfulness. You can't just open the sealing device and let the temperature rise, can you?

People who sell alcohol certainly don't drink it on the spot; they definitely save it!

The most crucial point is that many people now use Forget-Worry Valley as a form of currency, so how can they possibly distinguish between genuine and counterfeit products?

Furthermore, those swindlers are also very clever; they can make the aroma and appearance of the wine look extremely similar to those of the Forget-Worry Valley.

Even in terms of tasting, although the flavors are different, it takes a lot of experience to distinguish them.

In other words, the methods of counterfeiting used by outsiders and in the community have reached a high level of sophistication that users and customers can be easily deceived if they are not careful.

Basically, it could be said that nothing would work, but who would have thought that their lord already had a solution in mind?

In fact, they knew in their hearts that there was no way to completely eliminate such things. The only solution was to suppress the signs and protect the interests of Qiankun Hall to the greatest extent possible.

Seeing the expectant looks in everyone's eyes, Sun Jian didn't beat around the bush and directly told them his thoughts.

"My solution is simple: just put up anti-counterfeiting labels and precautions, and add a product number."

After hearing Sun Jian's words, everyone hesitated. It wasn't that they couldn't understand what he was saying, but rather that they didn't grasp the meaning behind his words.

Sun Jian didn't hold back and directly shared his specific methods for dealing with the rampant counterfeit goods in the market in front of everyone.

There are really only three ways.

The first is the anti-counterfeiting label. This anti-counterfeiting label must be printed on the bottle of each product and there must be a sealing label to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit products.

Using advanced technology, the bottles of Wangyougu products are made unique. Even if counterfeiters wanted to imitate them, it would take them more than ten years to figure it out.

The cost is too high, so they simply won't do it. Even if someone were to put their heart into imitating it, it wouldn't make a difference!

Because Qiankuntang is not static, it has always used this one type of anti-counterfeiting mark and intaglio printing.

As for the issue of the same bottle containing counterfeit liquor, it's quite simple: it's just a matter of the sealing label, as mentioned above.

The seal must be made using Qiankuntang's unique intaglio printing technology. Once the bottle is opened, users should be alerted, as it is very likely to be counterfeit liquor.

Once the bottle is opened, it is impossible to restore it with external technology; even Sun Jian himself could not do it.

Because it uses the principle of internal printing, if you want to imitate it, it will be even more troublesome than the intaglio printing on the bottle body and bottom. It will take you at least thirty years to catch up with this technology!

At this point, Sun Jian also mentioned the method of drilling a hole to extract the wine and then injecting fake wine inside.

They can suck out the real liquor without opening the bottle cap and then put the fake liquor back in.

Sun Jian's solution was that all products, whether it was refined salt, Forget-Me-Not Valley, white sugar, or even the perfumes that would be launched later, had to have bottles made of special materials.

The material is actually quite simple; it's just a glass bottle technique that involves firing and refining sand. It doesn't need to be too sophisticated; as long as each bottle can be translucent under candlelight, that's sufficient.

Although ancient drilling technology was advanced, it was absolutely no match for the drilling technology of the world before Sun Jian traveled back in time.

With such a fragile material, if you try to leave a small hole, it will definitely cause the bottle itself to crack. Even if you cover up the crack, or the crack itself is very small and extremely difficult to see with the naked eye.

Buyers can also check for small holes and cracks under candlelight.

Under candlelight, the bottle itself becomes transparent, and any small holes or cracks will appear as black dots, making them extremely easy to spot.

These are the points mentioned in the precautions.

Sun Jian's second method was to include precautions, which would cover the product's uses, anti-counterfeiting measures, and complex logos. As for the details of the precautions, Sun Jian had already thought them through and had Lao Jiang, Lao Cao, and others write them down on the spot.

"The final step is to create a one-to-one verification code and record the inbound and outbound data!"

As Sun Jian spoke, he also wrote these words on a bottle with a pen.

"For example, the year of Guimao, the month of Jiachen, the day of Guishen, the hour of Mao! 1038!"

"We'll print it on the bottles, and Qiankuntang will also keep a copy for ourselves."

“When buyers are buying and selling secondhand items, they can come to Qiankun to verify the goods, or Qiankun Hall can verify their authenticity. Each bottle of Forget-Worry Valley has its own identification number, which is what I call the verification code.”

"One verification code corresponds to one bottle of Forget-Me-Not Valley. This way, even if counterfeiters have our embossing, imprinting, and intaglio printing technologies, they can't make the verification codes because we've never produced them ourselves..."

As Sun Jian spoke, he suddenly remembered movable type printing.

The technology that is now widely used includes printing, but it is not as flexible as letterpress printing.

When I have more free time, I definitely want to develop a movable type printing method, but now is not the time. I have too many things to do right now. I'll think about inventions later when I have more free time.

Sun Jian is the kind of person who will postpone something indefinitely if it doesn't benefit him much.

Take letterpress printing, for example. Even if it were available now, the only benefit it would bring would be printing anti-counterfeiting labels on products under the Qiankuntang brand. It would be useless in other aspects.

Moreover, even without letterpress printing, it wouldn't be too difficult for the artisans in the new workshop to produce verification codes, since they only needed to carve ten stamps from one to ten and add a zero to them.

For example, the 99th bottle of Forget-Worry Valley produced today has a code consisting of a 9, a 10, and another 9, in addition to the year, month, and day.

Nine can be used repeatedly.

The same principle applies to the thousands or even tens of thousands of bottles; it's actually not complicated.

Having fully explained the three anti-counterfeiting methods, everyone's admiration for Sun Jian was like a surging river, never-ending.

Such ingenious ideas are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people like them; perhaps only a genius like Sun Jian could have conceived of them.