Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

When activists of a certain class or strata in the society are organized in a planned way to achieve a certain goal, and when the society recognizes that this organization has the legal power to organize and expand its claims, it also actively integrates into political life to achieve When it plays its role in maintaining the political power, or in influencing the exercise of political power, the organization becomes a political party.

Although Voldemort's original intention of forming Death Eaters was to recruit a group of subordinates for himself, rather than forming a political party to participate in politics, and the magical society has no tradition of engaging in party politics.But as Voldemort's subordinates 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 magical world, the Death Eaters naturally embarked on the road of partyization.

The first to discover this trend was Lucius Malfoy.Thanks to Sugarcane, he is a rare wizard who "opens his eyes to see the world" among the Death Eaters and even the British wizarding world.He vaguely felt that this might be the key to the success or failure of the Malfoy family in the future.

When he reported this discovery at the Death Eaters regular meeting and made a report on strengthening the organization of Death Eaters, the rest of the Death Eaters, except Snape, took 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 all cannon fodder who can be sacrificed at will to achieve their own goals, and uniting them is the same thing as uniting house-elves.They themselves were all rebellious people, and if Voldemort hadn't been on their heads, they would have fought first.

And Muggle things like political parties are not as effective as a magic wand in their hands.

For a while Malfoy became the target of ridicule by the Death Eaters.

Voldemort, who didn't understand what Malfoy meant the whole time, stopped others from making fun of Malfoy, but in order not to dampen the enthusiasm of his right-hand man, Voldemort let him figure it out before starting the next meeting topic.

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

After some deliberation, Lao Ma took the opportunity of helping Voldemort win 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 by a hundred times?"

If it was an ordinary wizard who said this, everyone present would take this sentence as a polite remark.But now it was Lucius Malfoy who said this, and behind him stood the Dark Lord Voldemort, which had to be carefully considered.

The first thing they think of is the European continent across the strait. The area of ​​Europe is about forty times that of the United Kingdom, and the wizard is more than ten times that of the United Kingdom. The benefits are enough to make them drop everything and follow Voldemort.

And there is a continent called Africa in the south of Europe. If Voldemort can take this place, it is not impossible for them to write and persuade the emperor to support Voldemort as a great treasure.

For a while, the name "Empire on which the sun never sets" appeared in everyone's minds.

As soon as there is an appropriate profit, capital becomes bold.Faced with such huge profits, they can sell the rope to hang themselves, and it also comes with free shipping, let alone tied to Voldemort's chariot.

As for the Hogsmeade regime in the north, it doesn't matter at all in their eyes.

As a pure-blood family that discriminates against Muggles, everyone here is very disgusted with the fact that the Hogsmeade regime and the Muggle government have joined forces. Some families even voted for the Voldemort regime in London from the very beginning, making the Hogsmeade regime I feel very sad.

So in the beginning, the Hogsmeade regime had to compromise with these families who possessed a lot of capital to ensure that they would not use Muggle weapons on a large scale to deal with wizards.This is why someone Zhang said before the start of school that if he came to a cannon company, he could leave work early today.

Malfoy sat on the sofa, took a sip of a cup of black tea, and quietly watched the gang of capital tycoons bow their heads in thought or discuss their own words in whispers.

The pie was drawn first. As for what the filling is, it depends on their own understanding. If their understanding is wrong, it is their problem. Anyway, the final interpretation is in their own hands.

The patriarch of the Wellcome family, Britain's largest potion manufacturer, was the first to stand up. He came to Malfoy and bowed, and then said: "Please tell Your Excellency the Dark Lord that the Wellcome family will stop today." Sell ​​all potions to Hogsmeade, and stop selling all potions to anyone who does business anywhere but Diagon Alley."

Wellcome's decision tickled exactly where Voldemort's regime itch.

Since the merchants in Diagon Alley collectively moved northward, Diagon Alley was empty except for Gringotts, and the taxes collected there were not enough to pay for the lighting fees of the pseudo-Ministry of Magic.

If these manufacturers can only supply to the shops in Diagon Alley like the Wellcome family, then most of the merchants who sell can only return to Diagon Alley to open their doors.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 greatly increased.

Malfoy expressed his sincere gratitude to the Wellcome family for their generous gesture of kindness.

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

But neither of these groups mentioned anything about St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Wounds and Wounds, nor did Malfoy make any hints in this regard.After all, St. Mungo's prestige and importance among British wizards are too high, and maintaining the status quo is the best choice.

With the families of these two important industries taking the lead, the rest of the families operating from the crucible to the parchment responded to the call of the Ministry of Magic, drew a line with the Hogsmeade authorities, and returned to the big family of capital in Diagon Alley.

Then Malfoy said to Bentley, who represents the broomstick industry: "Next, we can temporarily import flying carpets from India to compete with the Weasley family in the market. When the Weasley family goes bankrupt, the flying carpet will continue It is a prohibited commodity."

Draco Malfoy, as the representative of the old horse, has already reached an agreement with Bentley on this matter, and now he is only here to make this cooperation plan public.Because the ban on the import of flying carpets from India has been hyped up as a politically correct thing in the British magical society. If there is no peace with the allies, this immature alliance will collapse from within.

So Bentley just nodded and didn't say much.

After everyone expressed their views, Evans, who produced the crucible, asked: "So, can your Excellency solve the food problem for us?"

As soon as Evans' question came out, Malfoy, who used to sell food, became the focus of everyone's attention.

The Hogsmeade regime's one major weapon to win over the pure-blood families is the sale of food.

In the past, after the Ministry of Magic bought food from the British government, the Malfoy family sold it to pure-blood families who were completely isolated from ordinary people.

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

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

Now that they have decided to fully support the Voldemort regime, it is impossible to buy the food sold by the Hogsmeade regime.So the problem of food became an important problem they will face next. After all, wizards can use magic, but they can't live without food.

"You don't have to worry." Malfoy said confidently, "Tomorrow the Malfoy family will have a large amount of food for sale, so you can buy twice as much food as before, no problem."

After receiving Malfoy's assurance and seeing him full of confidence, the uneasiness in the hearts of everyone present eased a little.

In order to dispel their worries, Malfoy continued: "Before that, I contacted the Cargill family in the United States, and they agreed to sell us enough grain."

Now the people who were worried about being hungry finally breathed a sigh of relief.They also have some understanding of the American magical society. The Cakir brothers, whose ancestral home is in Scotland, began to engage in food business in the United States more than 100 years ago, and are now the largest food producer in the American magical society.Although the Malfoy family, the second-hand dealers, used to be a local tyrant in the UK, they were weak chickens in front of the Cargill family.

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

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

And these capitalist 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 period of 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, and everyone's good start is half the battle.

For Malfoy privately, sacrificing a little of the interests of the Malfoy family to gain the opportunity to do business with the Cargill family of the United States, and then to help various capital tycoons solve their problems, this is a deal that can never be lost .