The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts
Chapter 371: industry
"...There are a total of 350 workbenches, 400 pharmacists, 190 handymen, 28 administrative staff, and more than 50,000 bottles of daily potions such as white fresh concentrate, hair growth spirits, and cough medicine are produced every month. It is the largest pharmaceutical factory in Germany, and it supplies almost half of the European market."
With Beckman's calm introduction, Link and Emily were okay. Old Kled was already shocked and began to bite his fingers.
It is estimated that only he can truly understand what a terrifying existence such a factory is in the world of wizards with a scarce population.
Beckman was very satisfied with Old Kled’s reaction, so he turned his attention to Snape and asked with a smile:
"I heard that Professor Snape is one of the best potions masters in Europe. I wonder what you think of my factory?"
"Heh! Rubbish!"
Snape's answer was succinct and concise. Beckman was not angry, but nodded in agreement:
"As you look down as a potion master, you will naturally feel that this low-level place is like a garbage dump.
After all, what is used here is an open operation with great safety hazards, and explosion accidents often occur.
In addition, the sanitary conditions of the venue are very poor, and the level of pharmacy personnel is also very low, resulting in the terrible quality of the potions manufactured here.
But for ordinary wizards living at the bottom of society, this factory is simply heaven.
It is precisely because of the existence of this factory that they can enjoy cheap and practical potions. It is precisely because of the existence of this factory that those dumb guns who should have been stepped in the mud, starved to death or humiliated their lives like pigs and dogs can earn a wage to live on.
Now, do you still think this factory is rubbish? "
Snape was silent.
Because he found that Beckman's words seemed to be true.
Especially after seeing those dumb guns nesting in the corners to strip toad's eyeballs or pre-treating other raw materials, even if he was as hard-hearted as he could speak.
The rest of the people on the scene naturally reacted similarly.
Only when Link made that unbearable and entangled look, there was a deep disdain and sarcasm hidden in his eyes.
He has seen too many such remarks and methods in his previous life.
It is clearly that the capitalists are squeezing the workers' surplus value, but when it comes to them, it seems that they are doing good deeds.
If you have the ability, you can give them all the money you earn!
Link sent the deepest irony to Beckman in his heart.
But naturally he wouldn't say such things. After all, he sits in the same position as Beckman now, and it is undoubtedly harming others to deprive others of their routines.
Seeing that everyone's expressions were almost the same as he expected, Beckman smiled with satisfaction.
Then he took everyone to the adjacent cement bungalow, which is said to be a studio specializing in the production of high-end potions.
Compared with the iron sheet factory nearby, the conditions here are naturally much better, but strictly speaking they are also extremely limited.
This limitation is mainly reflected in the level of pharmacists.
Just looking at the lame stirring action of these pharmacists, and the only 20% medicine rate and 5% goodness rate when making the magic medicine, Link felt a burst of toothache.
At the same time, I can't help but sigh that the potion is indeed the cornerstone of the wizarding world together with magic, and the pharmacist is also a rare and popular profession that is famous all over the world.
You know that even those few pharmacists who can only be regarded as inferior in Link's eyes, in Beckman's place, actually enjoy the treatment of people with a weekly salary of 500 gallons and more good subsidies.
The reason is that they have multiple high-level potion formulas and can manufacture them, although the success rate is extremely low.
Link believed that Snape must feel the same way, maybe even stronger than him.
After all, Snape's strict requirements and arrogant personality were well understood by the entire Hogwarts students.
In the advanced class at Hogwarts, if there are students who make potions into those "advanced" pharmacists, they will definitely be insulted.
But after experiencing the things in the iron sheet factory, Snape never said a word and remained silent.
Beckman was finally satisfied.
Then, he took Link and his party to the next destination-the Beckman family's herbal plantation.
The situation on the plantation is much better compared to the previous pharmaceutical factory that was simply unfit for the purpose.
The vast land of nearly 10,000 acres is densely planted with a large number of commonly used herbs such as white fresh, purple flower, flowering pods, and babo tubers.
In the most central location, there are also a few huge greenhouses similar in shape to Professor Sprout's glass classroom, but dozens of times larger in scale.
The environmental factors such as temperature and humidity in these greenhouses have been cursed to be constant within a special interval, and they are specially used to cultivate precious medicinal materials such as mandela grass and grizzly.
As a wizard who is still a celestial man in his bones, Link will feel better as long as he sees this kind of field full of ‘crops’.
The only thing that made him look a little unpleasant here was that there were always a lot of peasants or serfs working in the fields with yellow faces and thin skin, some of them even wearing iron shackles.
Moreover, the identity and race of these serfs was not limited to humans, but also horsemen, fairies, giants, and so on.
Such scenes reminded Link of a lot of unpleasant things, and also made his eyes look at those ‘crops’ no longer so pure and joyful.
Snape, Emily, and Old Kled didn't have Link's weird thoughts at all this time.
Among them, Old Kled's eyes were full of excitement and greed when he looked at the serfs and crops. Link guessed that he had imagined what it would be like when these properties were in the hands of the Foley family.
Emily was conquered by a large field of purple flowers.
Link must admit it at this point.
Ziyaohua, a flower that has never given up at all times and can reflect a beautiful purple light under the rays of light, is really beautiful.
Especially the appearance of a beautiful girl like Emily running and frolicking in the flower field with a smile, and wearing a purple flower wreath on her head makes Link a little addicted.
As for Snape.
Link originally thought this was the most unlikely person to succumb.
After all, he was kidnapped by Beckman just half an hour ago.
But Link underestimated the desire of a true potion master for precious medicinal materials after all.
In fact, when Beckman gave Snape 300-year-old mandela grass from his own plantation greenhouse, Snape's attitude towards Beckman instantly became enthusiastic.
He even bluntly said that the pharmacists in the Beckman Pharmaceutical Factory are all rubbish, and that this precious medicinal material should be sold to him, a master of potions.
Beckman cannot deny this.
But Link had a new understanding of Snape's low EQ.
Then, Beckman took Link and his party to visit other industries under the Beckman family.
For example, the Beckman family's offline stores used to sell potions and other products, the beauty salon specializing in luxury services, the book printing factory in cooperation with the German Ministry of Magic...
And what impressed Link the most was the smuggling industry of the Beckman family.
Tax avoidance is always the most popular topic of discussion among the rich, and the wizarding rich are even more concerned about this phenomenon than the Muggle rich.
After all, many taxes collected by the Ministry of Magic are unreasonable, and the amount is huge.
The most important thing is that the Ministry of Magic's taxation department also possesses superb force.
This situation actually exists in Muggle society. For example, the well-known American National Taxation Bureau, they used a lot of examples to prove one thing to the world-in the land of the United States, if you say that you may escape after killing someone. If you do, as long as you dare to evade taxes, even if you fled to the ends of the world, you will be caught and killed after cleaning your family property.
The wizards did this more simply.
Because the U.S. taxation department is strong, but at least it still exists alone,
But the Ministry of Magic simply threw the tax collection responsibility directly on to a purely elite force organization like the Auror Office!
In this harsh environment, smuggling has naturally become the best choice for the rich.
After all, whether it is a door key, a Phantom Shifting Curse, or an Unmarked Stretching Curse, smuggling becomes extremely easy.
They call this the avoidance of unreasonable exploitation by the Ministry of Magic, so that the people can enjoy cheaper and easy-to-use goods.
Hmm, doesn't it sound familiar?
That's right.
Everyone does it like this.
Before heading to the Beckman family smuggling den, Link originally thought he would see a group of scared and hideous muscles, like bandits and more scary guys than wizards.
This is the inherent impression that Link left after watching more Muggle movies in his previous life.
But after he actually arrived, Link was stunned.
Because what appeared in front of him were hundreds of house elves with lack of arms and legs who were constantly strapping on their bodies, imposing the Traceless Stretching Curse, and carrying large bags full of goods for shipment.
This obviously exceeds the number of house elves that the Beckman family should have.
What's more special is that these house-raised elves did not have the slightest passion in their work. They were slow as if they were lazy, and they looked at Link and the others without the slightest reverence and incomparable indifference.
Link has seen this situation a lot in his previous life, and those old fritters who habitually fish in the company are just such a behavior.
But this state is abnormal when it appears on the house-raised elf.
Seeing the weird eyes of Link and others, Beckman chuckled and explained:
"Smuggling with house elves is a very suitable move. Their Phantom Shifting Curse, which is different from ordinary wizards, can easily circumvent most of the restrictions and reach the destination.
Most importantly, they are cheap. "
"Cheap? You mean, these house elves are paid?"
Old Klie keenly sensed the main point in Beckman's words and screamed.
No one at the scene knew the house elves better than him.
It is a great shame for the house elves to ask for wages. Whenever you give a normal house elves a salary of a copper nat, the house elves will commit suicide in shame.
unless……
"They are all outcasts."
Beckman's explanation made Old Klie's frowning brows instantly relieved.
The so-called abandoner implies two meanings.
The first is that these house elves have been abandoned by their owners and ethnic groups because they have made some mistakes.
The second is that this group of house elves also abandoned their customs and practices as house elves and began to live in other identities.
In other words, it is freedom.
For them, it is a matter of course to collect money and do business.
Such house elves are rare, and Beckman must have worked hard to gather so many here.
After listening to Old Kled’s explanation about the castaways, Link's mood was a little mixed.
He involuntarily thought of the founding of the "vomit association" with the intention of leading the house elves to fight for freedom and power.
I don't know what Hermione will feel when she sees these outcasts right now, here are all the ‘free’ house elves she hopes to see.
But Link didn't expect Hermione to be too happy.
After all, according to his despotic observations and the descriptions of Beckman and Old Kreet, the abandoners are often innocent, disorderly, and unorganized thugs. They just go from one extreme to the other.
After watching this smuggling den, the sky was completely dark, and Beckman led everyone back to Beckman Castle.
This journey didn't require a door key, so Link naturally took Snape's shoulder and let him Apparate with himself.
This scene made Beckman look straight, his eyebrows that had already smiled and finally wrinkled insignificantly.
"You should learn the Phantom Shifting Curse."
After landing, Beckman said sincerely.
Link nodded and smiled:
"You're right, I'm already asking Professor Snape to teach me."
After that, Link looked at Snape, but the latter turned his face away.
The smile on Link's face became even brighter~lightnovelpub.net~ because he knew very well that Snape agreed.
Seeing the words ‘I can find a teacher for you’ after Beckman, I suffocated it.
He was silent for a moment and solemnly said:
"Today I took you to see a lot of things, these will be inherited by you in the near future.
However, there is one of the most important treasures of the Beckman family that I haven't shown you yet.
Link, would you like to come with me? "
"my pleasure!"
Link readily agreed, and stopped the old Klie and others who wanted to come with him, and followed Beckman alone.
This is the hidden meaning that Link learned from Beckman's ‘you’ and ‘you’.
As for whether Beckman wanted to take this opportunity to kill him, he didn't worry, after all, Beckman had already started what he wanted.
As a result, under the gaze of everyone, the old and the young and the two slowly passed through the atrium and walked towards the back of the Beckman Castle.
"Link, what do you think of the Beckman family?"
When passing through a gloomy corridor, Beckman suddenly asked in a deep voice.
All the things that happened during the day flashed through Link's mind. After thinking about it again and again, Link finally replied:
"not bad."
As soon as this statement came out, the figures in the portraits on both sides looked at Link with an unbelievable look.
Link guessed that if Old Klee and Snape and others were here at this time, it would have been the same reaction.
After all, in their eyes, these industries of the Beckman family are really good!
But in Link's view, these industries can only be described as "not bad" at best.
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