Obfuscation

Xiao Yingzhu did not stay in the capital for too long. Except for staying at the Duke's Mansion the night before and the night after the banquet, she set off back to Pingzhou the next day.

After a long night of travel, we arrived at the city gate of Liangdu just as the moon had faded.

On the way to Qishan Mansion, you will pass by Jiang Mansion’s warehouse. It is late at night and it is pitch black all around. Only her warehouse is still lit on the entire road.

Xuan Gui, who was driving, also noticed the light. He lifted the rope to slow the horse down, then turned around and asked Xiao Yingzhu in a low voice.

"Master, should I stay here for a while?"

Xiao Yingzhu glanced at the warehouse casually and refused Xuan Gui's question.

"No need, just go back home."

"yes."

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Jiang Mansion Warehouse

After the conversation with Zhou Jinyu, the five-day profit-sharing festival also came to an end.

Although the customer flow of these Tianliangdu pharmacies is no longer as popular as during the festival, it has increased significantly compared to before the profit-sharing festival began.

Liang Ducheng's business model has undergone subtle changes because of her innovative move -

Shops began to try to use advertising papers and signs to attract customers, but the promotions written on these advertising papers were still in their infancy and failed to fully grasp the essence of the content of the advertising papers distributed by Liangdu Pharmacy.

Seeing that the pharmacy was gradually entering the business track she had carefully planned, Jiang Nian finally had some free time to pay attention to her warehouse.

The previous thief incident has not been solved yet, which makes her always worried.

Compared to the two previous anomalies, the other party's recent actions have been unusually calm. It's unclear whether they are waiting for an opportunity or planning something. This makes Jiang Nian somewhat alert.

Apart from the issue of the thief, the timing of what happened in Yuejiang Pavilion from the next box and Zhou Jinyu's sudden visit was also very coincidental.

It's hard not to be suspicious.

Although Zhou Jinyu did not ask directly about the recipe, he hinted at many details related to the recipe.

For example, I want to know which books can be used to learn relevant knowledge, how to identify which ones can be used in rice fields, and what methods can be used to ensure the quality of insect repellents.

These questions seemed casual, as if they were just out of curiosity about how to successfully develop insect repellent besides discussing the contract.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that what he really wants to explore secretly is to confirm whether this anthelmintic was really developed by Jiang Nian himself.

—

There were still people doing manual work in the warehouse during the day, and Jiang Nian didn't want to interrupt their progress, so he chose to do it at night.

We had previously added patrols outside the warehouse to prevent theft, but now we need to arrange some confusing objects.

After all, she always felt that she couldn't defend herself.

The enemies hidden around seem to be able to follow like shadows. If they really want to find out the recipe, they will definitely start from the warehouse after confirming it.

After all, the recipes she wrote were never taken out of the Jiang residence, and were only kept in a place known only to her. As for Xiao Yingzhu's recipes...

If they could really get it so easily, they would have already checked everything from the warehouse and there would be no need to send anyone to test it.

Now that she had discovered something was wrong, she naturally had to take the initiative.

—

Following her instructions, Fuling was outside supervising the servants in moving the medicinal herbs. She added some other insect repellent herbs such as Quisqualis chinensis, Melia azedarach bark, Hecao buds, mugwort and perilla to the place where Astragalus and Croton were originally placed to confuse the view.

Because the space for medicinal materials at each person's seat was limited, Jiang Nian replanned the space on the workbench.

Moreover, the packaging of these extra medicinal materials is consistent with that of astragalus and croton, and they are mixed in the places where astragalus and croton were originally placed to confuse the sight of people with ulterior motives.

In order to prevent employees from confusing the actual placement of medicinal materials, Jiang Nian also designed a location plan that can be changed regularly, and staggered the employees' work shifts and tasks by day.

After the stagger, she had extra time. It would be boring to just sit there idle, so she naturally had to make use of these medicinal herbs that confused her vision.

Previously, during the profit-sharing festival, the health formulas specially launched to attract buyers were selling like hot cakes.

And these medicinal materials just correspond to it, and can be made into a super value health package——

Quisqualis chinensis, chinaberry bark and crane grass buds can be made into medicinal food, medicinal tea and special ointment prescriptions.

In addition to being made into health-preserving foot bath bags, mugwort, mint and perilla can also be derived into a series of health-preserving daily necessities such as moxibustion sticks, mugwort pillows, mugwort mats, mint ointment, perilla oil, etc.

The functions of these products can be fully combined to provide comprehensive health care for the human body from head to toe, forming a complete set of services, developed into a diversified product line, and inserted into the production line of insect repellents.

Employees responsible for different production links of the insect repellent participate in the production at different time periods, and once in a while they take out some of the medicinal materials to replace them with those used in health products to confuse the sight of those who steal the recipe.

At the same time, these medicinal herbs all have anthelmintic ingredients, just like astragalus and croton. In the eyes of the people of Huan Dynasty, they are not used as anthelmintics but mostly used on the human body.

Among so many medicinal herbs, it is difficult to distinguish the ones that are truly used to make anthelmintics.

I don’t know if this can be considered a blessing in disguise, but I have now found a new marketing path that I had not originally wanted to take.

Although these health products already existed in the Huan Dynasty, she could have innovated on them based on the health products seen in modern times.

With this in mind, Jiang Nian looked towards Fuling who was demonstrating to the servants the order in which to arrange the herbs.

"Bring me the finalized list of employee assignments when you get home."

She needs to look specifically at how to allocate shifts and tasks appropriately to employees without reducing the efficiency of product production for both parties.

Because Fuling is the one who mainly supervises the warehouse, and Jiang Nian is only responsible for the final conclusion.

After hearing this, Fuling agreed without asking any questions.

The lady has her reasons for doing things.

It was getting late and there was still a small amount of medicinal materials in the warehouse that had not been moved out. Fuling glanced at the sky outside the warehouse and asked Jiang Nian.

"Miss, why don't you go back first? The driver is waiting outside."

Thinking that he would have to go to Jiang Mansion to work overtime to plan the big project of employee task allocation table, Jiang Nian nodded, but did not agree with Fuling's words.

"It's really late, and I'm worried about you going back. Besides, I need to watch here too, in case someone is spying somewhere."

Seeing Fuling showing a look that showed that she wanted to stick to her own ideas, Jiang Nian smiled softly.

"But luckily there aren't many left. I'll wait a little longer and we can go back together later."

During this period, Jiang Nian has been taking care of people more and more than before. Fuling felt warm in her heart when she heard it, and her originally tired spirits were refreshed a lot.

"Okay, Miss, please wait a moment. I'll check the location of the remaining herbs and come back soon."

"Um."

On the other side of the warehouse, the servant who had arranged the medicinal materials walked towards Fuling and motioned her to look at the workbench that had already been arranged. Jiang Nian's gaze lingered there for a moment, then lowered its eyes.

In addition to the current confusion in the warehouse, the future launch of health products is also a problem.

In order to avoid people using the elimination method, she also needs to carefully consider the post-IPO layout.

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The transportation work in the warehouse was very fast, and the servants who transported these medicinal materials were trustworthy old men hand-picked by Jiang's mother.

After Guizhi obtained the personal identities and hometown addresses of these servants from Jiang Mu's maid and entered them into the register, it was temporarily kept with Jiang Nian. Every once in a while, Guizhi would update the record of their status changes at Jiang Nian's request.

When Jiang Nian returned home, Guizhi had already prepared the booklet and supervision plan, and was standing in Jiang Nian's room waiting for her inspection.

As if thinking about Jiang Nian's body because he had been busy again in the past two days and had not been eating on time, at the same time Jiang Nian took the information from Fuling and Guizhi, the maid from Jiang's mother brought him a midnight snack made in the kitchen.

"Madam said that the young lady has been busy at the pharmacy lately and has been quite exhausted. She specially ordered the kitchen to make red rice porridge to replenish the young lady's strength."

The food the maid brought was a little larger than usual. The sweet and soft taste warmed her stomach before she even tasted it. After the maid gently closed the door and left, Jiang Nian turned around and looked at Fuling and Guizhi who had been busy with her all day.

"Mom gave me too much soup, why don't we share it?"

Jiang Nian has been giving them special treatment every day recently. The two maids were shocked at first, but now they have quietly begun to learn to accept Jiang Nian's kindness.

Seeing the smiling look in her young lady's eyes, Guizhi couldn't wait any longer. Seeing Fuling still there and thanking her politely, Guizhi followed the usual etiquette and ran to the table to serve the soup, then went to her room to get her own bowl and chopsticks.

The original owner's room did not have a large dining table. It was added later by Jiang Nian because he was busy with the pharmacy and had no time to eat in the main hall. It was blocked by a folding screen.

After sharing the soup with Poria Cocos and Cinnamon Twig, Jiang Nian first persuaded them to go back and rest before sitting back at the desk.

—

Because I was a little full, my thoughts, which were a little tired at the moment, became clearer.

Jiang Nian first read through the servant book that Guizhi brought. In order to prevent any additional accidents, she added a reward and punishment system and implemented a mutual supervision plan.

Although the servants did not know what medicinal herbs they were transporting, there were bound to be some who might leak the information.

It is always good to do things completely.

After resolving the issue of the servants, Jiang Nian prepared to hand over his plan to Guizhi and let Guizhi take it to Jiang's mother for review.

After all, judging from the past few days, Mother Jiang seemed to prefer to be alone. Except for questions she wanted to ask and daily etiquette, she asked the maid to convey her words to Jiang Nian.

As time went on, it became much easier to get along with Jiang's mother in this way. Both parties were in a comfortable position, and Jiang Nian was naturally happy to communicate in this way.

The tasks on the desk that needed to be handled gradually decreased. After Jiang Nian finished arranging the employees' shifts, the night watchman outside had already knocked four times.

The chirping of cicadas outside the house became weaker, and the lit candlestick was half burned out.

The sound of thin paper rustling was faintly heard in the quiet room. When Jiang Nian put the pen back on the pen holder, he had already roughly scheduled the launch of health products and insect repellent.

In order to confuse people, the time when products are launched in the pharmacy must be consistent with the production order of the warehouse, based on the fact that the production order has already been disrupted in the warehouse.

She plans to limit the sale of health products and package them in different unique designs to attract buyers' attention.

As more buyers come, there will be more discussions in the city, and it will be more complicated for those who are interested to find out the recipe.

Because he can't tell which ones are health products and which ones are insect repellents.

In order to be more safe, Jiang Nian plans to add one more step to the basic medicinal materials used to make these health products.

She would regularly extract the concealing herbs and replace them with herbs with similar effects.

This will not only promote the limited sales of health products, but also connect with the insect repellent herbs produced by the shift.

The ingredients used to make the insect repellent are rotated on a rotating basis, and the ingredients used in health products are also changed regularly.

Since the two parties changed at relatively similar times, it is naturally difficult to tell who is right and who is wrong.