Dyke, which one do you want to buy? "

\"But we're going to take them all, all the ads," Dieterde repeated.

So Lockhart pretended to be surprised: "But at your price... shouldn't you just buy one?"

Dieter Oledon really couldn't hold back his breath - he just swore in front of Miss Farley that he would solve the problem quickly, but there were twists and turns in the middle, which made him lose face?

The way Lockhart has just elevated his family has undoubtedly played a role as well - in this way he suggested to Oletown that a long-established and prestigious family should not be "small."

This was the first time Gemma Farley had seen Lockhart's true character outside the classroom and the club. Although she couldn't understand it, she could feel that Lockhart was using his own methods to bring his negotiating opponent into the mix. to your own rhythm.

This fool! She glanced at Dieterde.

After half an hour of negotiation, Dieter de Oletown, who was somewhat haggard, accepted the new conditions offered by Lockhart, and signed the contract on behalf of Sweep.

And Lockhart still looked bright, and the etiquette was not messed up from beginning to end, and finally invited Mr. Ollerton to drink a glass of whiskey to celebrate, a look of ease.

Despite the many unintentional concessions, Oletown was happy because, as a fourth-generation member of the family, he had finally done something for the family, and Lockhart's asking price didn't exceed his bottom line. .

What's more, this is done in front of someone, which will undoubtedly give him the first place among the many pursuers. Chapter 200 Trafficking Anxiety

After seeing off the guests, the atmosphere in the office seemed much more relaxed, even though there were only Lockhart and Farley here.

Of course, Lockhart would never begrudge his praise at a time like this.

"Well done, Miss Farley. Nimbus and Comet are booming right now, and with their sales in Europe, they wouldn't put so much effort into advertising, and choosing a slightly weaker Sweep company would be a slap in the face. judge."

"Thank you." Gemma happily accepted the compliment, "Your negotiation skills are also impressive."

Lockhart waved his hand indifferently: "It's nothing, it's just a routine... Relatively speaking, how to build a new industrial system is more troublesome."

"Industrial system. In Hogsmeade?" Gemma asked sensitively.

"Yeah, I don't know if your family has found out. Our wizarding world is now facing a very serious problem." Lockhart said with a serious look.

Gemma was stunned by him: "Do you mean Yu Shi?"

"It's gold, gold is getting less and less." Lockhart didn't sell out, "Although we still have a lot of gold reserves, in terms of the overall trend, they are gradually decreasing, and the flow is going to Muggles. side."

When Gemma heard that he was talking about this, she was less worried.

"It's a real problem, but it's not that urgent," she explained. "There's still a lot of gold in the ground. Muggle technology can't find them yet. We still have a lot of gold."

Lockhart snorted happily: "Did the fairies tell you?"

Gemma's face changed, as if she had sensed something from Lockhart's words: "You

What does it mean?

"The goblins may have found a lot of gold, but they don't have the ability to mine it," Lockhart pointed out. "There is no way to mine it, even if they know it's there. Production capacity, I doubt they can even supply Firebolt parts."

Gemma was a little nervous: "Are you serious? I mean, I know you have a good relationship with Gringotts, but the production process of goblins has always been a mystery..."

"It is because of the good relationship that I know how greedy they are for gold." Lockhart sighed, "I am sure that if they had the ability to mine, they would have opened up all these gold mines long ago."

Gemma was stunned for a long time when she heard the words. She was not sure whether she should tell Lockhart's conjectures to her father and her father's friends.

She decided to leave the topic alone for now.

"If—I mean if—goblins don't have enough gold mining capacity, how are you going to fix that?" she asked.

"I personally think that we should have a 'trade balance policy' for Muggles." Lockhart was clearly well thought out. "No matter how much money wizards buy from Muggles, we should sell back the same amount. Otherwise, no matter how much gold we have, it will always run out one day. "

"What are you going to sell to Muggles?" Gemma was puzzled. "It seems that Muggles don't need magic to live well."

"The human heart is always insatiable, Miss Farley, as someone from a half-Muggle family with many Muggle relatives, no one understands Muggles better than I do." Lockhart knew nothing of modesty. "We're wizards and we have something so valuable it would drive the Muggle community crazy."

Although it may seem absurd for a Ministry clerk to talk to a Ministry intern, neither Lockhart nor Gemma thought there was anything wrong with it.

, as if they did have the power to deal with it.

This is of course because one of them is the son of a pure-blood family with real power, and the other is

The Lions' new spokesperson, so always more than any other wizard in this sort of thing

"Master's Temple

This was the only reason Lockhart came up with after thinking about it for a long time that the pure blood family would not object.

Although these pure-blood wizard families are often compared to those noble men of the late feudal period, they are actually somewhat different.

The feudal landlords wanted to restrain the labor force because the manor economy was highly self-sufficient, and these aristocrats didn’t need much money except to buy weapons and dresses. The taxes paid by the peasants were often grain taxes, furs, and meat.

The advantage of pure-blood families to half-blood wizards lies in their heritage, that is, ancient and special magic, family treasures and wealth, and using these to control Muggle-born wizards.

The existence of Hogwarts has neutralized this intellectual contradiction, and modern science and technology have provided a substitute for Muggle-born wizards, so the decline of the pure-blood family has become an inevitable event.

The only advantage left in their hands now was wealth and ancient heritage, and when those were gone, the line between them and Muggle wizards disappeared.

Lockhart believes that these people will certainly try to find a way out, and will certainly be moved by their own proposal.

\"We can set up a trading company to buy Muggle items, and then magically transform them, and then sell them to rich Muggle people at dozens or hundreds of times the original price. '' Interstitial trade \'" Lockhart proposed.

Gemma took a deep breath: "This will cause a big problem, let Muggles use magic

"No, no, not to let them use magic, but to let some of their rich people enjoy ordinary items that every wizard of us can enjoy at sky-high prices." Lockhart put it another way.

"But...they'll leak!" Gemma retorted instinctively.

Of course Lockhart wanted to suppress this suspicion. If he couldn't even convince a little girl, how could he bewitch those purebloods.

"No, they won't," Lockhart said calmly. "Not only will those rich and respected people not leak secrets, but they will also use them as thresholds for the 'elite' and volunteer to assist us in keeping our secrets. "

Lockhart has seen how many tricks of this kind of high society entry barrier.

For example, Madoff, the father of financial fraud and Nasdaq, used a very simple method to absorb the funds of the rich, that is, secret associations.

Because the interest rate he gave him was very high, but not so high as to exceed common sense, the rich flocked to his fund, even when he said, "Don't let outsiders know about my investment channels, Otherwise, interest rates will be lowered." Not only did the Wall Street tycoons who invested in him not raise any questions, they even looked proud and took the initiative to help him cover up.

- Time, whether you can invest in Madoff's fund has even become a symbol of "status" in the New York financial circle. If you fail to buy his fund, it means that your net worth is not enough. So these gorgeous people want to invest in Madoff's Ponzi scheme, even if it's for face.

Precisely because he knows the faces of those "high society", Lockhart is sure that if he throws some interesting things in "high society", those who enjoy them will never leak the secret, even with superiority. sense, and help wizards drive up the price of these things.

But there are also two problems - first, can Muggle high society curb their greed and not try to meddle in and control the wizarding world. The second benefit from the "intermediate trade" is whether it can benefit the common people of the wizarding world.

It is because of this previous concern that Lockhart must pull the pure-blooded wizard to end the game. First, unify the upper consciousness so that the wizard can spontaneously resist the greedy tentacles of the Muggle capitalists, otherwise the rich people over there can use it to buy it. Indirect control is achieved by means of a Muggle-born wizarding family.

Even scarier - directly married to a pure-blood wizarding family. In that case, a huge and terrifying trust group will be born because of the intermediate trade.

That's why Lockhart sells anxiety and moderately provokes a confrontation between pure-bloods and Muggle-born wizards - which is why he repeatedly tells Gemma that "your gold will be gone".

In the process of provoking the confrontation between pure blood and "mudblood", there will definitely be bloodshed. Compared with Dumbledore's "White Devil", Lockhart's approach is actually not much better, even more so. For evil, but his ultimate purpose is very noble, even if it includes his own self-interest.

This is the true meaning of "heroes have never been kind" - there can be no white lotus among politicians unless he does nothing.

Purebloods don't realize that bloodline theory is actually a double-edged sword for their rule, but when they realize the side effects of this thing, the confluence of the wizarding and muggle superstructures will inevitably bring "American Liberalism" - that is, the totalitarian and "liberal", chaotic, antagonistic underclass of a few capitals.

If you look at the political operation of the United States, you can see that it is not liberalism at all, but a paradoxical pragmatism.

Therefore, Lockhart personally prefers to set up the shelf of trade first, then use Voldemort's Rebellion to clean up the upper layers of the wizarding world, and take the opportunity to use various small means to strengthen the role of public power in the wizarding world. Once these small measures are not

What I could say to Gemma Farley.

The Ministry of Magic has to be a real, powerful government, not a loose, incompetent wizarding office as it is now.

It's not because Lockhart has suddenly become a socialist, it's an instinctive reaction from an egoist who doesn't want to wait until he's become Minister of Magic before the job becomes a titular title.

However, whether it is to solve the bloodline problem or the backwardness of the wizarding world, the key to unlocking all this must and only be "intermediate trade", which Lockhart can guarantee.

Gemma Farley felt that what he said was very reasonable, but he felt very confused in his heart and could not explain why.

In the end, she could only choose to hand over the power of judgment to her own father.

"Can you write this down? I'll go ask Dad," she asked.

"Of course." Lockhart smiled brighter.

Chapter 201 Jack Peas

Lockhart didn't expect the pureblood family to reply to him right away, anyway, all he was doing now was burying a nail first.

So far, Lockhart's apparent ability, wealth and connections have been placed in front of everyone in the wizarding world. It can be said that as long as he does not die in the future, there will definitely be such a number one figure in the political arena of the wizarding world.

Everyone is curious about what Lockhart intends to do, and what his actions can bring to himself and his family, after all, what he has done in the past has brought wealth to many people.

And this sense of anticipation was something they had never had for Fudge before.

Humans are like this, when there is no hope whatsoever, but once they have expectations, their mood will become flickering, whether it is for Sirius or business people in the magic world. This is true for them.

With the addition of Gemma Farley, companies indirectly controlled by the pure-blood family began to come to the door to discuss cooperation issues.

Although they were a little skeptical about Lockhart's plans, which remained largely on paper, whoever had washed up in the newly built Finnish bath on the edge of the village and watched a movie would have their minds loosened.

This is purely an official reception, the kind that can go to the account.

Among the many sponsors, the biggest name is undoubtedly the Fengya wizard clothing store with a branch in Hogsmeade.

It is an international business with chains not only in Hogsmeade and London, but also in the US, France, Italy, Australia and Greece. So for an international event like the Triwizard Tournament, it was determined to win from the very beginning.

In the newly built Finnish bath cabin in Hogsmeade, said to have arrived from the United States

The business representative of Fengya Wizard's Clothing Store and Lockhart had a candid meeting and exchanged views.

Faced with the 5,000 Galleons promised by their representatives, Lockhart even forgot to haggle for a while, because it was more than he thought at first.

Originally, he also wanted to bid with the Toffan Garment Store? But now it seems that there is no need, because the two sides are not on the same level at all.

As for Mrs. Mokin's robe shop... It's better for a handmade tailor to continue selling her school robes. It is absolutely impossible for a dress like Golden Time, Swaying Lanmans, and Psychedelic Nebula to appear in Mrs. Mokin's robe shop. of.

"We don't have a lot of time to spend wrangling," the business representative of Fengya Wizard's Shop told Lockhart with deep pockets.

But their sponsorship is not without requirements - in addition to the fact that participants must wear their company-provided clothing and enjoy exclusive reporting rights, they also require that during the Triwizard Tournament, Hogwarts should host at least three public dances , and the kind reported by reporters.

This requirement is somewhat beyond Lockhart's expectations. It can only be said that they are worthy of being a well-known international company. They understood the rules they set so quickly, and also,,, I-

Li is anti-two.

"The Magical Congress of the United States has done something similar," the representative told Lockhart. "They even required the wizards to use the sponsor's goods to see the gem on the forehead of the Quidditch horned water snake as a decoration."

"Oh, and then what?" Lockhart was intrigued.

The representative made a helpless gesture: "Then the Magical Capitol Hill was attacked by a group of angry wizards protesting their policies, and this was gone after that... It's a pity."

Lockhart opened his mouth in surprise: "They also... I mean, why?

"Because the horned water snake and the ptarmigan are natural enemies, whenever a large number of wizards come to watch the game with the horned water snake gem, there will be thunder and thunder next to the Quidditch field, followed by a downpour," the representative explained.

"I see... I personally agree with your sponsorship terms in principle, but I have to ask my superiors for specific instructions. As for the propaganda efforts, please rest assured, it must be unprecedented." Lockhart assured.

"Then I'll look forward to it." Mr. Representative said with a smile, "What is your "movie" tonight? "

"British-French war comedy -- "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth" (1966)," Lockhart replied without hesitation.

"You and the French actually cooperate?" The representative was very surprised.

Lockhart immediately refuted the other party's prejudice: "In fact, there has always been... Merlin bless Principal Dumbledore, he is now in France."

After securing a few big sponsorship deals, Lockhart was surprised to find that seventy-eighth of the money needed for the game had been raised.

Moreover, this funding Lockhart is based on the standard of four people participating in the competition, that is, a small increase of one-third on the series of numbers calculated by Mr. Crouch, so in the eyes of others, Lockhart actually The task has been overdone.

The problem that the Ministry of Magic has been worrying about for a long time has not been solved by himself in two months - Lockhart is proud.

But his work couldn't stop because of the sponsors paying real money and he had to show them the results, so the big transformation of Hogsmeade was officially unveiled.

Half a month later, the villagers of Hogsmeade finally figured out why Lockhart insisted on bringing in tap water.

Not to mention that there is no such thing as a beautiful public bath.

It is that many subsequent constructions will be stretched when water is needed without this water supply system.

For example, Lockhart opened up a piece of land by the lake into a Quidditch-twelve-ball-golf three-purpose course, and planted turf;

The back mountain of Hogwarts, because of the snow, was used by Lockhart to build a ski resort, connected to Hogsmeade with a magic cableway, and a log cabin was built on the mountain;

The movie theater has also accelerated its progress after receiving sufficient funds. Although the villagers still need to watch movies in the open space, a small theater with a rather grand appearance has already seen its prototype.

In addition, the large open space between the back of the village and the forbidden forest was also used by Lockhart to build a chic hotel.

Because of the need to save money as much as possible, and because the English fairy tale "Jack and the Pea Vines" is widely circulated around the world, Lockhart suddenly got the inspiration to build a "grown" on large pea vines. room.

So he went to Hogwarts to find the head of Hufflepuff, Professor Sprout.