Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

The wall clock on the wall struck four times, and Scrimgeour behind the desk yawned deeply, blowing out the candles on the table.After rubbing his dry eyes from staying up late, he put down the financial statement that he had read countless times tonight.

At this moment, Scrimgeour felt that he was old. When he was an Auror, he could stay up for a week and arrest black wizards, but now he couldn't stand it after two or three consecutive nights.

Before getting ready to rest, Minister Scrimgeour picked up a brand-new swan quill that he had just bought from the Wenrenju quill shop last night, dipped the ink in the ink bottle, and purchased medicines, etc. Signed his name on the material contract.

There is a lounge next to Scrimgeour's office in the Hog's Head, where he can rest after working overtime.

Lying on the bed, Scrimgeour found himself unable to fall asleep after tossing and turning, his mind was still thinking about the financial statement and the contract just now.

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

But out of trust in Zhang and his intuition, Scrimgeour signed a contract worth [-] Galleons with the other party in the name of purchasing medicine.If someone Zhang makes money with this money, then everyone can talk about it.In case the money is lost, he can still use this contract to find someone from Zhang to get the medicine.

Just after dinner today, someone from Zhang sneaked up on him again, and then slipped a financial statement into his hand.

Scrimgeour opened the financial statement, and found that the funds for "purchasing medicines" had undergone some operations, and after deducting the corresponding handling fees and commissions, the [-] Galleons had become [-] Galleons in a short period of time. Four thousand Galleons.

Before leaving, Zhang bought an "antique quill" stuck on Scrimgeour's desk for five hundred Galleons, and said that if the Ministry of Magic continued to invest more in "purchasing medicines and other supplies" ", he will spend a lot of money to buy the "art ink bottle" on the desk.

After a few days, [-]% of the capital invested would return [-]%, which was enough to make Scrimgeour, who had a headache because of the Ministry of Magic's upcoming financial problems, take the risk.

In the summer, the operation of the Ministry of Magic almost emptied the entire Diagon Alley, causing the pseudo-Ministry of Magic in London to suffer a big loss in the tax season at the end of September, and Lucius Malfoy had to adopt the highly intensified Contradictory tax package system to solve part of the tax problem.The Ministry of Magic succeeded, and in the following time, the violent death eaters and the wizarding residents confronted each other, making the people's hearts fall to Hogsmeade.

However, just as the tax season at the end of December was approaching, old Malfoy directly drew his salary from the bottom of the pot, forcing a large number of merchants who moved north to Hogsmeade to return to Diagon Alley under the threat of out-of-stock from upstream suppliers. Maude's market suddenly became depressed.

It's not good to be treated in the same way as others, and Scrimgeour can predict that if things are allowed to develop, in the coming tax season, the Ministry of Magic will end up in the same position as the pseudo-Ministry of Magic three months ago. end.

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sp;The expenses during the war were very huge. Usually, the Ministry of Magic would spend a year's worth of money, but at this time it would be spent in just one quarter.

At this time, faced with Zhang's temptation that "if you make a medium to long-term investment, you can get profits from daring to trample on all human laws to daring to commit any crime", Scrimgeour began to consider whether to "divide short, medium and For a long time, we have made many huge purchases of medicines and other materials.”

As for the cost of "purchasing", the Minister of Magic, who was unable to come up with so much money for a while, planned to use the underground building of the Ministry of Magic in London to make a mortgage loan from Gringotts.Anyway, they are now in the hands of the Death Eaters, and they will be exchanged for money first.

The reason why Scrimgeour couldn't sleep was that he felt that the money was too hot to hold.Unlike Mr. Zhang, he has to think about more issues than Mr. 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 very Hog's Head, goblins led a rebellion.Although the rebellion was suppressed, the goblins also got the right to manage Gringotts.From then on, when it comes to money issues, the goblins always look down on the wizards with a superior view, and they think it is a matter of course to sharpen the wizards' knives on economic issues.

Scrimgeour didn't know how much money Mr. Zhang and the others had invested in total, but referring to his action of doubling his additional investment after seeing this period of income, he felt that in the next operation, this investment activity The total amount will be a very exaggerated figure.

Different from the normal trade in the past, if the goblins learned that someone just exchanged currency through information asymmetry and made a lot of gold coins from them for nothing, it would be strange if their mentality did not explode.If this situation intensifies, maybe the second goblin rebellion is not far away.

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

But Scrimgeour didn't think the goblins would make changes in a short period of time, even if they were hundreds of years older than gold coins.Since he had been dealing with Gringotts since he became the Minister of Magic, he has a deeper understanding of goblins.

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

When Gringotts in the east of Asia discovers the real reason for the large loss of gold coins, and then transmits accurate news to Gringotts headquarters in London, Scrimgeour estimates that it will be next spring or even summer.

Scrimgeour has nothing to do with tomorrow's spring or summer. His next task is to get a good night's sleep and recharge his spirits. He will be required to deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the "1997 Hogsmeade Christmas Shopping Carnival" tomorrow morning. .

Looking at the alarm clock on the bedside table, he found that it was already 04:30, but Scrimgeour found that although he was tired, he didn't feel sleepy at all.He sat up from the bed, opened the drawer of the bedside table and took out a bottle of medicine from it.After drinking the potion with the small half cap measured with the cap of the potion bottle in one gulp, he got into the bed before the potion took effect, and then fell into a deep sleep immediately.