Chapter 373 Negotiation Completed
Chapter 373 Negotiation Completed
Just as Bolig and Ragno were still confusedly thinking about the deep meaning of Schelling's words, Slark's eyes suddenly widened. A terrible idea suddenly popped up in his mind. He trembled and said, "Mr. Malfoy, do you mean..."
Xie Lin nodded and said calmly, "Well, it's just as you thought. I drove Voldemort away. If you goblins choose to cooperate with me, you don't have to worry about the threat of Voldemort."
"Of course, protecting you is not without cost. For the business cooperation in the field of protective gear and armor, I will take an extra 10% of the profits."
Slark swallowed his saliva and said, "If only 10% of the profit can be exchanged for the safety of the goblins, I think there is no problem."
"Also, when it comes to defeating Voldemort, you goblins must not sit idly by. After launching a full-scale war, you will also need to send people to participate in the battle. If the number of people is too low, I will not approve it..."
"There's no problem with that either."
"Although Gringotts is a commercial organization independent of the two major goblin organizations, I believe you still have a certain influence on it. Voldemort hid something in Lestrange's vault. I need your help to get it out. This is crucial to the plan to eliminate Voldemort, and it is also beneficial to you."
"Yes, I have a good relationship with many of the senior executives in Gringotts. You can leave this matter to us..." Slark paused for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, and said with a firm look in his eyes: "Not only that, I can also promise that if we can achieve all the cooperation we mentioned before, from today on, Gringotts will open the door to convenience for you without violating the collective interests of the goblins."
In his heart, Sherin secretly admired Slark's decisiveness. Slark's promise could be regarded as a great gesture of goodwill - opening the door of convenience actually meant that in the future, as long as it would not cause trouble to Gringotts, he could cooperate with Sherin to let him enter anyone's vault.
"Since you are so cooperative," Xie Lin said with a smile, "I can't hide anything either. I have a list of people in the Ministry of Magic who colluded with the Death Eaters during the last wizarding war. If you handle it properly, it will be enough to cause a major reshuffle in the Ministry of Magic. Then, all the unfair systems and laws that the goblins have faced over the years may be reformed, or at least make some progress..."
The three fairies finally showed shock on their faces.
Slark quickly exchanged glances with the other two goblins and said in a serious tone: "Mr. Malfoy, we goblins have expressed a strong willingness to participate in all the cooperation you propose - I am here on behalf of all goblins in the UK to promise you that you will gain the friendship of our goblin clan, and we will cooperate with your actions within our ability!"
mission completed!
Even though Xie Ling completed the task easily while chatting and laughing, in fact, negotiating with the goblin was not easy at all.
In the wizarding world, most wizards hate goblins simply because they think they are greedy, insidious and cunning.
Only those who truly understand them will understand that this is actually the difference in beliefs and values between races, as well as the difficult-to-eliminate barriers between races.
For wizards, the foundation for the establishment of a society lies in a certain degree of mutual trust. For example, wizarding people must believe in the management ability of the Ministry of Magic and the fairness of the legal system before they are willing to elect ministers in voting and pay taxes.
The same is true for business transactions. General buying and selling transactions require integrity. It is impossible to carefully and meticulously sign a magic contract for every small transaction. This is not practical.
But fairies are different. Fairies only care about interests, not integrity. They don't have the concepts of "keeping promises" and "contract spirit".
In the original book, Harry Potter saved the life of the goblin Griphook, but as soon as Griphook took him to Gringotts to get the sword, he called the goblin from Gringotts and ran away with the sword.
Harry and the others naturally regarded the goblins' behavior as a betrayal, but they did not consider that Griphook's behavior was actually out of distrust of Harry and the others (in fact, all human wizards).
In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander went to a goblin bar in New York, and the bar owner threatened to report him to the Magical Congress of the United States of America. In the end, Newt was forced to agree to a deal with him, provided that the goblin did not report him. However, as soon as the deal was over, the Ministry of Magic showed up and did not take it seriously, a blatant breach of contract.
These examples are enough to prove that goblins are a race without any sense of contract. This can only be attributed to the fact that over the past thousand years, the distrust between wizards and goblins has grown to a point where no one can break it, not even Sherin.
It is absolutely unacceptable to be honest with a goblin, and only a fool would do that.
What? You mean those fan fiction protagonists who dared to attack Gringotts' financial system, and in the end the goblins paid the money obediently? Those protagonists were not fools, they were Long Aotian! The real fool was actually... Oh, let's not talk about it.
What can restrain the goblins is never the empty promises they say, but the naked interests, enough and enough to make people addicted.
Only by tying their interests together with your own, forming a relationship of shared success and shared failure, can you make the monsters cooperate with you willingly, coordinate with your actions, and even work for you or serve you to some extent.
Xie Ling is well aware of this, which is why he throws out one cooperation agreement after another that the fairy cannot refuse, allowing the cooperative relationship between the two parties to become increasingly closely integrated step by step.
Overall, Sherin was quite satisfied with the outcome of the negotiation. In addition to gaining the friendship of the goblins, he also obtained access to Gringotts' vault.
In this way, one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, the Hufflepuff Cup, can be dealt with in the near future.
The Lestranges are still in Azkaban, and Voldemort certainly doesn't want to expose the fact that he has been resurrected in the short term, so Schelling can definitely get the gold cup before them.
In addition to the above gains, the most important thing is that the confidential list that Schelling threw to them at the last minute was actually intended to use the goblins to eradicate the corrupt termites in the Ministry of Magic and pave the way for his future reforms and planning. He could even stay out of it and let the goblins bear the anger and hatred of the victimized wizards. For Schelling, it was a clever way of killing someone with a borrowed knife.
[“Strategic Partner” Fairy Obtained! 】
[Access rights to Gringotts vault obtained! 】
