Chapter 268 The Answer Is so Simple

Lucius put down the phone. At this moment, he was filled with deep doubts and confusion. Soon, he thought of a possibility.

A possibility that made him shudder.

After calming down, Lucius solemnly took out a yellow talisman folded into a triangle from his arms and lit it according to the previous instructions.

At the foot of Longhu Mountain, Zhang Chengdao, who was packing up, stopped moving his hands.

He turned his head to Li Qingshu and said, "Madam, Lucius contacted me. I'll go see what's going on."

After leaving the courtyard, Shao Tianshi took a step in the void in the right direction. With just one step, he seemed to have walked into nothingness. When he reappeared, he had already arrived at the Feixiantai of Shanglonghu Mountain, which was several miles away.

It was the shrinking of the earth into an inch that Zhang Xiao called "ultra-long-distance flash".

Zhang Chengdao walked out of Feixiantai and found a secluded place where no one was around. Then he took out the satellite phone.

Mobile phones cannot be used in Shanglonghu Mountain. If you want to make a call, you can only come to the secular Longhu Mountain. This is also a last resort.

The call was connected very quickly, almost as soon as it was dialed. It seemed that Lucius was in a hurry.

Zhang Chengdao thought thoughtfully.

Sure enough, after the call was connected, Lucius dropped a "blockbuster bomb".

"What? Fudge wants to ban the East-West trade? And make it a monopoly for the Ministry of Magic?"

Zhang Chengdao:

Just this little thing?

Lucius said worriedly:

"Yes, the news we have learned now is that the Ministry of Magic deliberately leaked it, leaving us time to react and time to negotiate.

Now people in the UK are waiting for our news."

Zhang Chengdao was silent for a while, but he couldn't help but asked curiously:

"Can the Ministry of Magic ban it? It's not just trading in the UK, the UK also controls other countries?"

"It can't be banned - but it can affect" Lucius's tone was a little helpless, he whispered: "The Ministry of Magic has never thought of banning this transaction.

But the problem is that the Ministry of Magic can label anything from the East as illegal, so it becomes a time bomb.

Mr. Zhang, do you understand what I mean?"

Zhang Chengdao said "um" and asked curiously: "Can't you unite to get the Ministry of Magic to remove this order?"

When they cooperated before, these pure bloods acted very stylish, as if they were shadow ministers and underground kings. Now the Ministry of Magic is just about to issue an order, and they can't do it?

After Lucius's detailed explanation, Zhang Chengdao roughly understood what happened.

In the final analysis, it was because of Voldemort.

Because of his "useless" son, the pure bloods were actually divided. They used to keep their face, but after Master Zhang did this, the pure bloods began to stand on their own side.

It's not that there are no people who want to sit on the fence and see which way the wind blows.

But in the secret war between the two sides, the first to go are the fence-sitters. Excluding those families that have always been neutral and don't want to participate, the power comparison of the pure bloods is about 6:1:3

It can only be said that the advantage is huge.

After more than two years of continuous suppression and erosion, those extreme pure bloods kept shrinking, and it seemed that the ratio was 7:2.

But at this time, an event that changed the situation broke out-the Azkaban collective prison break.

Because the prison break directly announced the resurgence of Voldemort's power, coupled with the vicious incidents that broke out in Hogwarts for two consecutive years, it showed that Voldemort was not dead, maybe in a very bad state, but not dead is not dead.

This immediately caused panic among a large number of purebloods. They were not afraid of Fudge or the Ministry of Magic, but they were afraid of Voldemort.

Because Voldemort really kills people.

After a series of betrayals and complicated activities of standing in line.

At this moment, the power of both sides is equal, or Zhang Xiao's side is slightly weaker.

It can only be said that Dumbledore's influence is indeed strong. He has publicly praised and favored the enlightened pureblood faction many times.

In addition, Voldemort is still invisible, and the most important thing is that Lucius Malfoy would rather run to China than return to the extreme camp, which gives the enlightened purebloods great confidence.

Even Lucius, the old fox, did not defect, so why should we flee?

Large sums of golden Galleons are really fragrant.

So the purebloods never worry about the Ministry of Magic, they are afraid of Voldemort.

Zhang Chengdao listened quietly to Lucius's explanation of the reasons, and said calmly:

"So what you mean is that the Ministry of Magic issued this decree this time, in fact, it was Voldemort who instructed the extreme pure bloods to come up with it?"

Lucius on the other end of the phone heard Voldemort, and his heartbeat stopped. It had been a long time since he heard someone say this name.

Trying to calm down his fear in his heart, Lucius whispered:

"I'm afraid so. If it's just a simple ban on trade between the East and the West, it's just another stupid thing done by the Ministry of Magic.

The key is the second one--" Lucius swallowed his saliva: "The Ministry of Magic is the only one--"

"Oh" Zhang Chengdao understood, the only one, it's not new, those who understand will understand.

"It seems that you have understood that the Ministry of Magic's monopoly is a feast open to a certain group of people. In fact, the Ministry of Magic only controls one business, and that is Floo powder.

We have reason to believe that it is those - those lackeys of Voldemort who are behind this.

That is to say, Fudge is likely to be the other party's man."

Lucius felt guilty when he said "lonely dog ​​of Voldemort", and felt that the dark mark on his arm was getting hot.

So that's how it is. The relationship is not complicated. Zhang Chengdao touched his chin. In fact, Fudge or the extreme pure blood made a mistake.

They thought that the East was jealous of the huge profits in this area and was sure that the Taoist sect was reluctant to give up this business.

In fact, the Taoist sect didn't want to do this business at all, and had no interest in going abroad to make money. The reason why they came up with this East-West trade.

There is only one reason.

That is, the little Taoist Zhang Xiao needs it. Because Zhang Xiao wants to change Slytherin, the Taoist sect helped him unite the majority and release a piece of fat meat.

What kind of treatment is this? Zhang Chengdao's eyes were red with envy.

He didn't get such treatment from the Taoist sect. Whatever he wanted to do, the Taoist sect would cover it.

In other words, Xiaoxiao was ignorant and didn't know how big his face was.

It can only be said that Fudge and the group of extreme pure bloods made a mistake and hit the mark. Zhang Chengdao had a headache.

If this business was thrown away directly, the Taoist sect would not care, but it would be a bit difficult for Zhang Xiao.

Because the entire alliance is actually based on interests. If you expect these pure bloods to unite for some ideas, one or two families may, such as the Longbottom family, but most of them will not tell you any ideas.

They only recognize family and interests.

I thought that so many pure bloods united together would be enough to resist any external influence.

In fact, it is true. Before, the extreme pure bloods were suppressed to that extent and did not dare to mention the words of snatching the East-West trade.

It’s just that once Voldemort appeared, those extreme pure bloods seemed to have found a backer, and they turned over in an instant. The change is so great.

After thinking again and again, Zhang Chengdao decided to ask his son’s opinion.

“Okay, I know, um, that’s it.”

Zhang Xiao hung on the horizontal bar with the strength of his legs and put away the telescope in his hand. His father brought bad news.

What kind of character the pure bloods are, he knows much more than his father.

To be honest, after Voldemort revived again, it was beyond Zhang Xiao’s expectation that so many pure bloods could persist and stay.

He originally thought that it would be good if 30% of them could stay.

But it was hard to say how many of those who stayed were undercover agents.

It was okay to tease Voldemort, but it was wrong to look down on Tom's deterrence and hard power.

As one of the peaks in terms of power, Voldemort's power was still impressive. With it, the extreme purebloods were indeed confident.

Zhang Xiao jumped down from the horizontal bar with his upper body naked. The sweat beads gathered together in the process of rolling down, leaving a trail of water stains.

Zhang Xiao pushed open the bathroom door, lay comfortably in the pool, and began to think about how to deal with the Ministry of Magic's move next.

It must be said that those purebloods picked a very good time.

The situation was complicated, but it was only a "level" of tens of thousands of people.

With the strength of many years of keyboard politics in his previous life, he could still sort it out when he got enough information.

The original source should be that his conversation with Dumbledore gave Dumbledore a new idea.

The headmaster, who was originally invincible in the West, adopted a policy of appeasement towards the Ministry of Magic. Apart from compromise, there was nothing left.

As a result, Fudge became more and more arrogant, and even dared to send Dementors directly into the campus, which indirectly led to Fudge's refusal to admit that Voldemort had returned and imagined that Dumbledore was trying to seize his position as minister.

If Fudge had made a decisive decision and fully prepared for the war after the Goblet of Fire, the situation would not have developed to the point it was later.

This was also the main reason why he tried to persuade Dumbledore not to compromise like this.

Dumbledore listened to it and stood up. Lucius told himself that when Fudge wanted to interrogate Hagrid, Dumbledore almost took action.

Fudge was frightened and took the wrong path in the original book in advance, that is, Dumbledore wanted his position.

How could Fudge, who had just tasted the taste of power, bear it?

The original hot candidate was Barty Crouch, who was not favored by others. It was only because of the Longbottom case that Barty Crouch lost his chance, which allowed Fudge to take the position.

He had never enjoyed the feeling of being praised!

Power is so wonderful!

Then it became more and more intense. How could the "awakened" Dumbledore let Fudge do whatever he wanted? After the Dementors "happened" to pass by the Hogwarts Express.

Fudge finally touched Dumbledore's bottom line - don't involve his students.

So Dumbledore decided to give Fudge a warning, that is, impeachment.

In fact, Zhang Xiao thought it would be better not to warn him. Changing a minister directly would be the best choice. Both Scrimgeour and Barty Crouch were a hundred times more reliable than Fudge.

But Dumbledore was the rule-abiding Dumbledore after all.

The Dementor incident could only allow him to warn, but he couldn't do the move of changing the minister directly.

But this impeachment scared Fudge. He thought Dumbledore was serious, so in order to keep his power, he could only choose one side. Who should he stand with?

It was impossible to stand on Zhang Xiao's side. Everyone knew that this Chinese student was Dumbledore's "favorite student"?

Since the liberal pure-bloods could not stand on one side, there was only one answer, which was extreme pure-bloods.

Zhang Xiao went through the whole thing in his mind and sighed softly.

What are they? Those extreme purebloods are just troublemakers. They dare not fight openly, but hide behind Fudge to make trouble secretly.

Even if something goes wrong, Fudge will be blamed. Isn't this a troublemaker?

Pah, pah, pah, I am not that kind of dirty thing!

Zhang Xiao buried his head in the water, feeling the tranquility brought by the whole body surrounded by water - this is a way of relaxation and thinking that he likes very much.

So how can I break the situation?

Dad seemed to have thought of a way, but he didn't say it, but threw the problem to himself.

Is it a small test?

Well. First of all, it is the trade model between the East and the West. The first thing that Taoism opens to the West is various raw materials and the like. The finished products are mainly some high-end handicrafts.

For example, beautiful palace lanterns, decorations, high-end clothing - don't underestimate these things, these finished products are luxury goods and the like, very profitable.

And the raw materials are even more incredible. The wizarding world is solidified. If you want to promote the development of all walks of life, the best thing is to have new materials.

New materials from the East have given great impetus to many industries such as potions and alchemy.

In the past two years, many new things have come out, which is the change brought by the East.

If it is just like this, then the Daomen has a complete trade surplus with the West, but what is the use of the Daomen's gold galleons?

In addition to leaving the necessary ones, the Daomen simply spent those galleons and exchanged them for things to take back, such as flying brooms, alchemical products, and potions.

In other words, they are looking for something new and want to see if the stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade.

So who made the money from the galleons spent by the Daomen?

The answer is - the pure bloods who cooperate with the Daomen!

So those pure bloods actually made money twice, which is the main reason why they would rather take the risk than leave!

Huge profits!

Wait, Zhang Xiao got out of the water and suddenly laughed in annoyance. Isn't the answer simple?

Yes, the Ministry of Magic is the United States in the wizarding world. It has the ability to influence the entire wizarding world and is the center of the wizarding world, so Fudge is so greedy for power.

But can he influence the East?

What do the purebloods want? Galleons! Not goods!

So a place where both parties can trade is enough, where the raw materials can be processed directly, and the goods brought can be delivered directly.

It's that simple, just an offshore settlement center.

You don't even have to consider the location - Hong Kong!

After slowly getting dressed, Zhang Xiao has put aside the problem he just figured out.

Now he has more important things to do.

Looking at the diary spread out in front of him.

Then it's time to study black magic!