In the alchemy laboratory, Phil stared at the two pieces of solid matter in front of him, looking thoughtful.

The two solids have exactly the same shape, size and color, and they look like the same thing. However, when Phil reached out and pinched hard, one of the solids left Phil's fingerprints, while the other solid was intact.

"Alchemy in this world is really a wonderful thing. I thought I could explain alchemy through chemical knowledge, but now it seems that I am still too naive. Many alchemy products are really impossible to explain with chemistry."

Phil put down two pieces of solids, then took out the notebook and began to record the data on it.

"On the fifteenth day, Sample No. 12, there was no change. Sample No. 13, the surface has become soft, and you can pinch it hard and fingerprints will appear..." Phil wrote down the record carefully, but he did not use the words of the magic world, but the words of the earth.

"Young Master, it's not good!" Old Harry's voice suddenly sounded, and he suddenly appeared behind Phil.

"What's wrong?" Phil looked calm.

"Young master, I just discovered that besides us, there are also other people selling billiards on the market!" Old Harry said.

Phil was not surprised. He pulled out a chair and asked Old Harry to sit down first, and said, "Don't worry, say something slowly."

"These days, our orders have dropped a lot. I began to think that the market has gradually become saturated. Until the day before yesterday, some customers canceled the order. I went to inquire and found out that there were other people on the market who were also selling billiards and pool tables! And the billiards and pool tables they sold were exactly the same as us, and this was simply copying us!" Harry said angrily.

"So that's how it is." Phil put down the notebook in his hand and said calmly: "Let's go, let's go to the workshop to have a look."

"Young Master, why are you not in a hurry at all? Others copy our billiards and rob our business!" Harry said.

"Plainting? Haha, billiards are not a product of high technology. Dig a few holes on a large wooden table, polishing a few pieces of wood into balls, and any carpenter apprentice can do it. It is normal to be plagiarized such a simple thing. There is one thing you have ever heard of, and there is no need to invent a wheel again. You see, there is a carriage all over the streets now. Is the first person to invent the wheel to tell the whole world that your carriage cannot be made of the wheel I invented?" Phil replied with a smile.

Some people sell billiards for copycats, which is not beyond Phil's expectations. There is no patent protection law in this world, so it is normal for billiards to be copied. After all, the first generation of billiards is too simple to manufacture.

Of course, this world still depends on power. If Phil is a powerful and powerful figure, or there is a great magician behind him, then no one dares to copy his billiards. Unfortunately, Phil is just a down-and-out nobleman who lives in a small town, and has become a soft persimmon that can be controlled at will.

The two came to the carpenter's workshop, and the carpenters were still working, as if they were not affected by the reduction in orders.

"Master Phil is here!" The carpenter foreman immediately came forward.

"I asked you to re-dye the balls, have you done it?" Phil asked.

"The sample has been dried, I'll get it right away." The carpenter foreman said.

"Wait a minute, our table will also be changed." Phil handed a drawing to the carpenter.

The carpenter looked carefully at the drawings and asked, "Master Phil, are you planning to dig two more holes on both sides of the table?"

Phil nodded: "Yes, we will produce six holes of billiards in the future!"

Four-ball holes are a process in the development of billiards, but in the end, billiards evolved into six holes. Whether it is snooker, American snooker ball, or fancy nine-ball ball, they use six hole tables. These prove that six holes are the final form of billiards.

Previously, Phil sold four-hole pool tables, and competitors copied four-hole pool billiards. Now Phil decided to use a big killer to turn the pool table into six holes. Moreover, Phil also asked someone to buy different colors of dyes in advance to dye the billiards into different colors. He was preparing to launch an American bag-to-sack ball.

The carpenter brought a wooden box, which contained samples of colored balls. In addition to white balls and red balls, there were also yellow balls, basketballs, green balls, orange balls, brown balls, purple balls and black balls, which happened to be several colors of American baggage balls.

Phil picked up a yellow ball, felt that the color was pretty good, and nodded with satisfaction.

Phil put the ball back into the box and asked, "There are only full-color balls here. Why don't there be any colored and white balls I asked you to dye before?"

"The flower balls are already dyeing. Because they are two colors, there are more processes when dyeing, so the flower balls take one more day to dry, and you will see the sample tomorrow." The carpenter replied.

"Okay, I'll come here tomorrow to see the sample of the flower ball. If there is no problem, start mass production." Phil ordered.

The carpenter nodded hesitantly, but then said, "Young master, I must remind you that purple dye is more expensive. The cost of dyeing a purple ball is enough for us to dye hundreds of red balls. Do we really need to use purple dye?"

"So much?" Phil was shocked. He didn't expect that the purple dye in this world would be so expensive.

Before modern chemists discovered purple compounds, purple dyes were comparable to gold. Early purple dyes were extracted on small conchs, and the process was very complicated. It is said that more than 10,000 small conchs were needed to extract one gram of purple dye.

Rare is precious because purple is rare. In ancient Europe, purple was a symbol of royal status and most people could not wear it. Also because of its high price, the national flags of various countries are not as purple. Just imagine that a piece of cloth as big as a piece of cloth is much more expensive to dye purple.

Some people may think that mixing red and blue can make purple. However, industrial printing and dyeing is not about painting watercolors in elementary art classes. The real printing and dyeing process must use special dyes.

Phil didn't know what the world used to extract purple dyes, but there is no modern chemistry in this world, so the price of purple dyes is still very high.

Phil thought for a moment and said, "Then use pink instead of purple!"

American snooker balls have purple balls, but there is no purple ball in snooker, and it is replaced by pink balls, so Phil simply replaced purple with pink.

At this moment, a shout came from afar: "Phil, you are indeed here. I went back to the hero, but I knew you would be here without seeing you!"

Phil turned his head and saw Peter running over in a hurry.

Phil smiled deliberately, and said at the same time: "Peter, you are back from the royal city. How many orders are you bringing this time?"

"Don't mention orders, do you know that someone copied your billiards and sold them to those bar owners. They have occupied a lot of markets! If this continues, our business will be stolen!" Peter said anxiously.

"I heard a little, sit down and say slowly." Phil signaled Peter to sit down, and then said to the carpenter foreman: "Go and get a glass of water from Mr. Peter, he looks very tired."

The carpenter's head brought water, Peter drank a big gulp, and then said, "This time I went to Guodu Wangcheng to promote the pool table. The process was very difficult. I didn't sell a single pool table."

"Is it because of a competitor?" Phil asked.

"Yes, that's why they sold exactly the same billiards as ours." Peter replied.

"So how many competitors do we have?" Phil continued.

"You want a few more competitors! Only one competitor will snatch our business. I have checked it. It's the Holden Chamber of Commerce!" Peter replied.

"Horton Chamber of Commerce? Is it a very large chamber of commerce?" Phil looked confused. He obviously didn't know where the other party came from.

The old Harry next to him raised his eyelids slightly, and the uneasy color flashed by.

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Chapter completed!