Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

After playing five Gwent cards, Zhang Xu didn't win a hand, so Zhang Xu wanted to help Scrimgeour check out the coffee shop five times.

When Scrimgeour announced that the Auror’s account in the store today was counted on him, and the Aurors were cheering for it, Zhang Xu was considering whether Hood and the others would accept it if they use dried fish to settle the account. A dollar of dried fish should be good for a pound.

I have to say that Scrimgeour looks fierce like a lion, but his opponents are still well mastered in the management method of one by one.

The trouble is over, the next step is to talk about business.

First, Scrimgeour confirmed to Zhang Xu a question that has been asked the most in this period of time: "Did the mysterious man really come back."

Everyone who asked this question expected to get a negative answer from Zhang Xu, but Zhang Xu's answer was all "yes".

But today Zhang Xu did not directly answer Scrimgeour, but learned from the tone of Minister of Magic Fudge and said: "The mysterious man was defeated more than ten years ago! He will never come back! In the past two years, we The attack on the black wizard has been increased. Now only a handful of Death Eaters' remnants feel that their end is coming under our attack, and they are doing a dying struggle!"

"The Ministry of Magic is confident and capable, and will kill them all by Christmas."

"From then on, a whole generation of peace will be guaranteed."

"Now I invite everyone to go back and sleep peacefully in your bed!"

Although Zhang Xu said the same thing as Fudge, he had a funny smile on his face. It was because Scrimgeour had never seen this meme and knew that what the other party was saying was an irony.

Scrimgeour was silent for a long time after getting Zhang Xu's reply, until the **** sitting on Zhang Xu's lap was full and the dried fish left and replaced with fish cakes, Scrimgeour recovered from his thoughts.

Zhang Xu thinks Scrimgeour asked himself out today not just to confirm whether Voldemort really came back, but he couldn’t figure out what he could talk to himself about. Scrimgeour is not the kind that looks like he would be with Zhang Xu. Collusion.

"Mr. Zhang, do you know the Hekmedia family, the Vandomhine family, and the Lawrence family?" Scrimgeour asked openly.

Zhang Xu curled his lips and looked at Scrimgeour with a speechless expression.

Zhang Xu replied: "The Hackmedia family is mainly engaged in the sale of magic items, including some dangerous magic items."

"The Vandomhain family is mainly engaged in the sale of mineral magical raw materials."

"The Lawrence family focuses on the business of magical raw materials for magical animals and plants."

"I feel sorry for what happened to these three families."

These three families knew a lot of people before, and they monopolized the market of Eastern magic raw materials in Western Europe five years ago.

Simply put, they purchase magical raw materials and some magical items that are specialty of the Far East from India, Japan, Southeast Asia and other places, and then multiply the purchase price by ten times, or even nearly a hundred times, and sell them in Europe.

The vast majority of the magical animals and plants that Zhang Xu has never eaten or seen in the West are named "China".

Snape regarded the Kabbah produced in Japan as Mongolian, and it was their pot.

However, since Zhang Xu's needles led to the sale of magical raw materials and items from the East through Hogwarts and Boothbat in Europe at the price of Chinese cabbage, the business of these three families has become difficult.

Since last week's "Blood-stained Valentine's Day Night", the names of these three families have also appeared in the "Daily Prophet" because they were almost wiped out by Death Eaters on Valentine's Day night. The reason why they weren't completely wiped out was because someone in their family was studying at Hogwarts, so they escaped.

But this is all information on the surface, and the secret activities are rarely known, but the two people here now know it.

"Do you have any other opinions on the experience of these three families, Mr. Zhang?" Scrimgeour asked, staring at Zhang Xu's eyes.

"What else do I have?" Zhang Xu said while scratching the fish cake lying on his lap. "Don't you think I instructed the Death Eaters to attack their family residence, Mr. Scrimgeour. "

Scrimgeour continued to stare at Zhang Xu and said: "We learned the truth about the attack on Hogsmeade by the Werewolves when we interrogated Fenrir Greyback."

It's no wonder that Scrimgeour would suspect that Zhang Xu was behind the scenes. They were the men behind the werewolf besieging Hogsmeade, and their goal was Zhang Xu's life.

However, Zhang Xu's identity is a bit special. When there is no conclusive evidence, it is not good to invite directly to the Ministry of Magic to drink tea, so Scrimgeour can only ask Zhang Xu to come out privately and give him a side attack.

Although Scrimgeour's guess was very reliable, Zhang Xu would not recognize this kind of thing.

Zhang Xu said while scratching the belly of the fish cake: "I already knew about this. At that time, they wanted to get rid of me by the hand of a werewolf."

"But later, under the mediation of Professor Dumbledore, the three of them showed enough sincerity. In addition, I didn't suffer too much harm. Therefore, I don't think that Professor Dumbledore will be held accountable for the face of Professor Dumbledore. Up."

The compensation offered by the three companies to Zhang Xu was huge, and it was said that even Lucius Malfoy, who was the intermediary, was shocked. Some people even plan to compensate Zhang Xu for their daughter who is studying at Hogwarts.

As a result, Zhang Xu gave up such compensation and transferred all the compensation to Hogwarts instead.

So Zhang Xu and Dumbledore sang the double reed, turning the compensation into all the shares of several magic raw material plus workshops.

It’s better to have a golden egg than a hen that can lay golden eggs. Everyone knows the truth. From then on, Hogwarts is no longer just an agent of raw materials after mastering all the shares in these processing workshops, but also starts by itself. The business of raw material processing has been established, and the production, education and research base of potions and herbal medicine has been initially established.

This is why Zhang Xu can have so many privileges in Hogwarts and other professors-especially Professor McGonagall, who has always been fair and strict-have no objection. Drinking water does not forget to dig a well.

Zhang Xu turned the fish cake over and continued while scratching its head and back, and said: "Actually, it is not surprising that mysterious people will find them. This is also the conclusion I came to after a week of research. At the same time, Can explain why the other five families are also targeted by mysterious people."

Scrimgeour's eyes staring at Zhang Xu suddenly widened.

Zhang Xu learned from the Civil War in the Order of the Phoenix in the Auror that the Ministry of Magic’s criteria for selecting targets for this Death Eater crime has not yet been determined. From top to bottom, the Ministry of Magic cannot figure out why the Death Eaters would choose them.

Zhang Xu took out eight new thick notebooks and placed them in front of Scrimgeour.

Scrimgeour picked up the notebook with "Lawrence" written on the top cover, opened it and looked at it carefully.

I opened the notebook, and it was filled with clippings of reports on the Lawrence family in newspapers and magazines such as the Daily Prophet over the past few years. These clippings were pasted in the notebook in chronological order.

Scrimgeour didn't notice anything weird when he first read it, but when he turned to the last few pages, it became as if he had suddenly discovered a new world, and he read the last few pages of newspaper clippings several times.

Then he picked up other basic notebooks one after another and turned to the last few pages to read the newspaper clippings there.

Scrimgeour has been an Auror for so many years, and he has also become the head of the Auror office, so his IQ will not be bad. ..

When solving the case and reaching the end of the mountains and rivers, sometimes after some details that are not usually noticed are noticed, it is easy to spot the bright spots.

The last part of these newspaper clippings all have one thing in common. They all mention explicitly or implicitly that these families have strongly supported the construction of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the recent period.

The three workshops of the Heckmedia family, the Vandomhine family, and the Lawrence family have all become Hogwarts school-run workshops. This kind of thing is not hidden from others, but the public does not know what is on the desktop. It's just a transaction.

As for the other five families that were attacked by Death Eaters on the "Blood-stained Valentine's Night", the Whitehorn family who founded the Light Wheel Competition Broom Company, the Allerton family who founded the Sweep Broom Company, and the Comet Trading companies such as the Cage family and the Holden family, and the Flett family, one of the shareholders of Flet and Barker, all sell flying broomsticks. They recently planned to use Hogwarts as a breakthrough point to retake the British flying broomsticks. The market, so a lot of money is also being thrown at Hogwarts.

So now that these families are in trouble, Scrimgeour will only suspect the Weasley family. After all, there are some dark side things Scrimgeour knows. The two children of the Weasley family almost died in their hands. .

What Scrimgeour didn't know was that most of the money was secretly transferred to the Weasley family's pockets, as compensation for the Weasley family not to hold them accountable for attempting to assassinate the twins.

As for the collusion between the Death Eaters and the Weasley family, I believe that regardless of whether it is the Ministry of Magic or the Death Eaters, this kind of thing will definitely not happen.

Scrimgeour had read these reports before, but he didn’t think about it. After all, the British magical world has not experienced economic warfare for so many years. .

And now after Zhang Xu's little bit of advice, Scrimgeour quickly discovered what these eight families have in common-they have all recently begun to give Hogwarts a lot of gold coins.

Scrimgeour put himself in the position of Voldemort to consider this problem. Sending money to Hogwarts is equivalent to sending money to Dumbledore. If the person who sent the money to Dumbledore does not deal with it, is it still reserved for Easter? .

After getting permission from Zhang Xu, Scrimgeour put away the eight notebooks.

As for whether Scrimgeour would find out that Zhang Xu colluded with a Western reporter to deliberately publish suggestive and inducing news, Zhang Xu is still very relieved of Rita Skeeter's methods.

As a benchmark figure among the media people, you only need to easily hint. A bunch of Mengxin reporters who are distressed because they can't find the news will naturally follow the direction she suggests to discover the news.

"I owe you a favor." Scrimgeour said to Zhang Xu after putting away his notebook, "I must rush back to the ministry now."

Just when Scrimgeour stood up, Zhang Xu whispered to him suddenly: "Do you want to be a minister, Mr. Scrimgeour~www.readwn.com~ A good Auror must be strong. A wizard, but a person who can be the leader of the Aurors needs not only strength, but also a delicate heart.

After listening to Zhang Xu, Scrimgeour did not reply, but stood condescendingly and stared at Zhang Xu like a lion.

Zhang Xu just smiled and said, “As the Death Eaters’ actions become more and more, the mysterious person will definitely appear in front of the public again in the near future. At this time, Mr. Fudge will definitely not be able to sit in this position anymore. I definitely hope that a strong person can take up the post of minister."

Scrimgeour didn't speak, and after staring at Zhang Xu for a while, he turned and left, while Zhang Xu sat in his seat and continued to feed the fish cakes to the dried fish.

Scrimgeour did not refute Zhang Xu on the spot, and Zhang Xu felt that he must have moved up.

With the delicious big cake of the Minister of Magic in front, I believe Scrimgeour will be more purposeful in his next work.

Voldemort's power is now stronger than in the "story", and it is necessary to draw in more powerful factions.