Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

When a certain class or class of activists in society organizes in a planned manner to achieve a certain goal, and when society recognizes that this organization has the legal power to organize and expand its claims, it also actively participates in political life and strives to achieve When it plays its role in maintaining political power or influencing the exercise of political power, this organization will become a political party.

Although Voldemort's original intention in forming the Death Eaters was to recruit a group of subordinates for himself, he did not intend to form a political party to participate in political affairs, and magical society did not have a tradition of party politics. But as Voldemort's men gathered more and more wizards who agreed with the ideas he preached, and finally captured the Ministry of Magic and began to rule part of the wizarding world, the Death Eaters organization naturally embarked on the path of political partyization.

The first person to discover this trend was Lucius Malfoy. Thanks to the sugar cane, he is one of the few Death Eaters and even the British wizarding world who has "opened his eyes to see the world". He vaguely felt that this might be the key to determining the rise and fall of the Malfoy family in the future.

When he reported this discovery to the Death Eaters' regular meeting and made a report on strengthening the Death Eater organization, the rest of the Death Eaters except Snape regarded his report as a joke. Snape wore a dead face all day long, and the other Death Eaters didn't know whether he was crying or laughing in his heart.

Because in the eyes of the core Death Eaters, those new Death Eaters are cannon fodder who can be sacrificed at will to achieve their own goals. Uniting them is the same thing as uniting the house elves. They themselves were all rebellious people. If Voldemort hadn't been pressing down on them, they themselves would have started fighting first.

In their opinion, Muggle things like political parties are not as effective as the wand in their hand.

For a time, Malfoy became the target of ridicule among the Death Eaters.

Voldemort, who didn't understand Malfoy's meaning throughout the whole process, stopped others from sarcasticly criticizing Malfoy. However, in order not to dampen the enthusiasm of his right-hand man, Voldemort let him take care of it and started the next meeting topic.

Any mature political party represents the interests of a group, and this interest group and the political party will form a community of economic and power interests.

After some careful consideration, Lao Ma took the opportunity to help Voldemort win over allies and began to contact the family with the most capital in the British magical society.

When Bentley asked Malfoy what the Dark Lord wanted them to do, Malfoy did not answer the question directly, but asked everyone present: "Everyone, do you want to expand your market a hundred times?"

If the person who said this was an ordinary wizard, everyone here would regard this sentence as a polite remark. But now that it is Lucius Malfoy who is saying this, and behind him stands the Dark Lord Voldemort, this needs to be considered carefully.

The first thing they thought of was the European continent across the strait. The area of ​​Europe is about forty times that of the United Kingdom, and the wizards are more than ten times the size of the United Kingdom. If Voldemort can lead them across the strait and occupy all of Europe, then the European continent market The benefits were enough for them to leave everything behind and follow Voldemort.

There is also a continent called Africa in the south of Europe. If Voldemort can conquer this place, it is not impossible for them to write a letter to persuade them to support Emperor Voldemort and ascend to the throne.

For a moment, the name "The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" appeared in everyone's minds.

Once there is an appropriate profit,

Capital becomes bolder. Faced with such huge profits, they could sell the rope to hang themselves with free shipping, let alone tie it to Voldemort's chariot.

As for the Hogsmeade regime in the far north, it was nothing in their eyes.

As pure-blood families that discriminate against Muggles, everyone here is very disgusted with the Hogsmeade regime joining forces with the Muggle government. Some families even defected to the Voldemort regime in London from the beginning, causing the Hogsmeade regime to I feel very sad.

So at the beginning, the Hogsmeade regime had to compromise with these families who controlled a lot of capital to ensure that Muggle weapons would not be used on a large scale to deal with wizards. This is what Zhang said before the start of school that if an artillery battery came in, he could get off work early today.

Malfoy sat on the sofa and took a sip of a cup of black tea, quietly watching the group of capital bosses lowering their heads to think or whispering among themselves to discuss their own words.

The big pie is drawn first. As for the filling of this pie, it depends on their own understanding of what to do. If they understand it wrong, it is their problem. Anyway, the final interpretation is in their own hands.

The patriarch of the Wellcome family, the largest potion manufacturer in the UK, was the first to stand up. He came to Malfoy and saluted, and then said: "Please tell the Dark Lord that the Wellcome family will stop today." Sell ​​all potions to Hogsmeade and stop selling all potions to anyone operating anywhere outside of Diagon Alley.”

Wellcome's decision just scratched the itch of Voldemort's regime.

Since the merchants in Diagon Alley have collectively moved north, Diagon Alley has been depleted except for Gringotts. The taxes collected there are not enough to pay for the lighting expenses of the pseudo-Ministry of Magic.

If these manufacturers can only supply shops in Diagon Alley like the Wellcome family, then most of the sales merchants will have no choice but to return to Diagon Alley and open their doors for business. In this way, the economy of Diagon Alley can at least be restored to a higher level, and the tax revenue of the Pseudo-Magic Ministry can be significantly increased.

Malfoy expressed his sincere gratitude to the Wellcome family for their kindness in times of need.

Subsequently, the Smith family, a large herbal grower, and others also made the same commitment as the Wellcome family.

However, neither group of people mentioned the matter of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Maladies, nor did Malfoy make any hints in this regard. After all, St. Mungo's reputation and importance among British wizards are too high, and maintaining the status quo is the best choice.

With the families in these two important industries taking the lead, the rest of the families operating from cauldrons to parchments have responded to the Ministry of Magic's call to distance themselves from the Hogsmeade authorities and return to the capital family of Diagon Alley.

Then Malfoy said to Bentley, who represented the broomstick industry: "Next, we can temporarily import flying carpets from India to fight with the Weasley family in the mall. When the Weasley family goes bankrupt, the flying carpets will continue It is a prohibited product for import.”

Regarding this matter, Draco Malfoy, as the representative of Lao Ma, has reached an agreement with Bentley, and now he is just making the cooperation plan public here. Because the ban on the import of Indian flying carpets has been hyped as a politically correct thing in the British wizarding society, if they don't communicate with the allies first, this immature alliance will collapse from within.

So Bentley just nodded and didn't say much.

After everyone expressed their opinions, Evans, who produces crucibles, asked: "So, can your Excellency the Minister solve the food problem for us?"

As soon as Evans' question came up, Malfoy, a former grain seller, became the center of attention.

One of the great weapons used by the Hogsmeade regime to win over pure-blood families is the sale of food.

In the past, the Ministry of Magic purchased food from the British government and sold it to pure-blood families who were completely isolated from ordinary society through the Malfoy family.

Now that the Malfoy family has surrendered to the enemy, the Hogsmeade regime, which is recognized by the British government, has re-selected agents to sell food to wizards who support its side.

This is why these pure-blood families had quarrels with the Hogsmeade regime in the beginning.

Now that they have decided to fully support the Voldemort regime, it is no longer possible to buy the food sold by the Hogsmeade regime. Therefore, the food problem has become an important issue they will face next. After all, wizards can do without magic, but they have to eat.

"You don't have to worry." Malfoy said confidently, "Tomorrow the Malfoy family will have a large amount of food for sale. You can buy twice as much food as before."

After receiving Malfoy's assurance and seeing his confident look, the uneasiness in the hearts of everyone present eased slightly.

In order to dispel their concerns, Malfoy continued: "Before this, I contacted the Cakir family in the United States, and they agreed to sell us enough food."

Now people who were worried about starvation finally breathed a sigh of relief. They also have some knowledge of the American magical society. The Cakir brothers, originally from Scotland, started engaging in the food business in the United States more than a hundred years ago and are now the largest food producers in the American magical society. Although the Malfoy family, a second-hand dealer, was once a tycoon in Britain, they were basically weaklings in front of the Cakir family.

After solving the food problem, the main task of today's party held in Smith Manor was successfully completed.

Malfoy began to initially contact and win over various capital forces on behalf of Voldemort, and solved their food problem.

And these capital families began to make limited investments in Voldemort. Their first investment is to restore the economic activities of Diagon Alley. If Voldemort can eliminate the Hogsmeade regime and unify the magical society in a short time, then they will definitely increase their investment in Voldemort.

After all, even Voldemort would not believe that they would support him unreservedly from the beginning. A good start for everyone is half the success.

For Malfoy personally, he sacrificed some of the interests of the Malfoy family to gain the opportunity to do business with the American Cakir family, and then use this to help various capital bosses solve their problems. This is a deal that cannot be lost no matter how you look at it. .