Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

The wall clock on the wall knocked "clang clang" four times. Scrimgeour behind the desk yawned deeply and blew the candles on the table. After rubbing his dry eyes from staying up all night, he put down the financial statement that he had not known how many times he had read this evening.

At this time Scrimgeour felt that he was old. When he was an Auror, he could arrest the dark wizard without sleeping for a week, but now he can't stand it after two or three consecutive nights.

Before preparing to take a break, Minister Scrimgeour picked up a brand new swan quill that he had just bought from the Wenrenju quill shop last night. After dipping the ink in the ink bottle, he bought some medicines and so on. His name was signed on the material contract.

In the Pig's Head Bar, there is a lounge next to Scrimgeour's office that belongs to him, where he can rest after working overtime.

Scrimgeour was lying on the bed, realizing that he could not fall asleep even though he was tossing about, still thinking about the financial statement and the contract just now.

A few days ago, someone named Zhang quietly approached him, told him that he had a chance to make a fortune now, and asked him if he wanted to follow along. After listening to Zhang's explanation for more than ten minutes, he still didn't figure out how Zhang made money by currency exchange.

But out of trust in Zhang and his own instinct, Scrimgeour signed a contract worth 10,000 gallons with the other party in the name of purchasing drugs. If someone Zhang makes a profit with this money, then everyone is easy to say. In case the money is lost, he can still use this contract to find someone Zhang to get medicine.

Just after dinner tonight, Zhang found him sneakily again, and then quietly stuffed a financial statement into his hand.

Scrimgeour opened the financial statements and found that after some operations and deduction of the corresponding handling fees and commissions, the 10,000 gallons had become 10,000 gallons. Four thousand gallons.

Before leaving, someone Zhang bought an "antique quill" inserted on Scrimgeour's desk for 500 gallons, and said that if the Ministry of Magic continues to invest more in "purchasing medicines and other materials from him" ", he will spend a lot of money to buy the "art ink bottle" on the desk.

After a few days, the invested capital had a 40% return, which was enough to make Scrimgeour, who had a headache due to the next financial problems of the Ministry of Magic, take a risk.

In the summer, an operation by the Ministry of Magic almost emptied the entire Diagon Alley, causing the pseudo-Ministry of Magic in London to suffer a big loss during the tax season at the end of September, and Lucius Malfoy had to adopt the extremely easy Intensify the contradictory tax package system to solve part of the taxation problem. The Ministry of Magic succeeded, and in the following time, the murderous Death Eaters confronted the wizard residents, causing the people's hearts to fall towards Hogsmeade.

However, just as the tax season at the end of December is approaching, the old Malfoy directly draws his salary from the bottom, so that a large number of merchants who have moved north to Hogsmeade have to return to Diagon Alley under the threat of stock out of upstream suppliers. Hogs Maude's market suddenly depressed.

It feels uncomfortable to be treated by others, Scrimgeour can predict that if things are left unchecked, in the upcoming tax season, the Ministry of Magic will be the same as the pseudo-Ministry of Magic three months ago. End.

The cost during the war was very huge. It used to be enough for the Ministry of Magic to spend a year, but at this time it was spent in one quarter.

At this time, faced with the temptation of Zhang "If you make a medium to long-term investment, you can get profits from trampling all human laws to committing any crime." Scrimgeour began to consider whether to "divide short, medium, and Long-term large purchases of drugs and other materials have been carried out on many occasions."

As for the cost of "procurement", the Minister of Magic, who was unable to spend so much money for a while, plans to use the underground building of the Ministry of Magic in London to mortgage Gringotts. Anyway, they are now in the hands of Death Eaters, so let's exchange them for money.

The reason why Scrimgeour couldn't sleep was that he felt the money was a bit hot to hold. Unlike Zhang in (￡_￡), he has to think about more issues than Zhang in this matter. In addition to economic issues, he also needs to consider the social and political issues behind it.

Hundreds of years ago, in this pig's head bar, the fairies commanded a rebellion. Although the rebellion was suppressed, the fairies also obtained the management rights of Gringotts. From then on, when it comes to money issues, the fairies always look down on the wizards with a superior eye. They think it is a matter of course to sharpen the wizards on economic issues.

Scrimgeour did not know how much money Zhang had invested in total, but referring to his move to double the additional investment after seeing the income of this period, he felt that in the next operation, this investment activity The total amount of will be a very exaggerated figure.

Different from normal trade in the past, if the fairies learn that someone just exchanges money through the asymmetry of information and earns a lot of gold coins from their hands for nothing, it will be strange that their mentality does not explode. If this situation gets worse, maybe the second goblin rebellion will not be far away.

Gringotts is not incapable of facing such a situation. As long as the goblins strengthen the connection with Muggles and adjust the currency exchange rate in time, this problem can be solved to a large extent.

However, Scrimgeour did not think that the fairies would make changes in a short time~www.readwn.com~ even if they and the gold coins were delivered hundreds of years old. Since he has dealt with Gringotts after he became Minister of Magic, he has a deeper understanding of the fairies.

"That's a group of greedy, stubborn, and blindly arrogant guys." Scrimgeour himself once said to others in private, "and the whole Gringotts is full of decay and dullness."

When Gringotts in the east of Asia discovered the real reason for the massive loss of gold coins, and then passed the accurate news to the Gringotts headquarters in London, Scrimgeour estimated that it would be next spring or even summer.

Tomorrow spring or summer, Scrimgeour can’t handle things anymore. His next task is to sleep well and get enough energy. He will still need to give a speech at the opening ceremony of the "1997 Hogsmeade Christmas Shopping Carnival" tomorrow morning. .

I looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table and found that it was half past four, but Scrimgeour found that although he was tired, he was not sleepy. He sat up from the bed, opened the drawer of the bedside table and took out a bottle of potion from it. After drinking the small half-cap potion that had been measured with the potion bottle cap in one sip, he got into the bed before the potion worked, and immediately went into a deep sleep.