Chapter 441? Cross-border selling

Chapter 441 Cross-border selling

Facing Dumbledore who was a little out of control, Mike neither comforted nor explained, but just looked at him silently.

After about five minutes, Dumbledore took a deep breath, finally raised his head, looked at Mike with a complicated expression and said:

"I'm beginning to regret leaving this matter to you."

"What? You have something to do with the Everly family?"

"It's just some trivial friendship." Dumbledore spread his hands and said, "I just think your approach to handling these things is too extreme. This is not good, very bad."

"I know, I will change it." Mike replied without sincerity, "So now can you tell me about this pendant?"

Dumbledore's expression was a little helpless. He knew very well that Mike was completely perfunctory with him, but in the end he still picked up the locket, looked at it and said:

"First of all, this is indeed a real Slytherin locket."

Mike's brows frowned suddenly. This was the answer he least wanted to hear.

"In addition, I found some residual familiar smell on it. I am sure that it is definitely the smell of Voldemort. This also shows that your guess is correct. This pendant is indeed a Horcrux." Dumbledore frowned and said, "At least it was once a Horcrux, because the smell on it now is very light, which shows that someone removed the fragment of Voldemort's soul attached to it before us, and did so without damaging the body of the pendant. !”

Hearing this, Mike breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then his expression became serious again.

The split soul on the Slytherin pendant has been removed, which is definitely good news for Mike, because it means that the only Horcrux left by Voldemort is Harry Potter.

But at the same time, Mike also smelled a smell of conspiracy.

Who else is destroying the Horcruxes besides them?

What is the purpose of that person or group of people?

…

Countless questions kept popping up in Mike's mind, which made him miserable.

Reason told him that the guy who eliminated the soul in the pendant box was probably Chris, but Mike couldn't figure out the reason why the other person did it.

You must know that Chris is a pure-blood wizard, and the existence of Voldemort is good for them. In this case, why would they do such a thing?

After pondering for a moment, Mike, who was still confused, finally raised his eyes and looked at Dumbledore.

"Do you think that person would be Chris? And why would he do this?"

Compared to Mike's solemn expression, Dumbledore's expression was much more relaxed.

Facing Mike's inquiry, he slowly spread his hands and persuaded:

"Anyway, judging from the results, we were successful, right? Although we don't know what those people were thinking, at least one more Horcrux was eliminated. You have done a good job, and the rest is up to you. Me, I will take care of it. As for you, I suggest you take a good rest for a while, or review Potions. After all, you didn't like this subject very much when Snape was here, so your grades were not very satisfactory. . But this year is different. I am going to hire a new Potions professor. This new professor is different from Snape. He is very friendly and strict."

As he spoke, Dumbledore seemed to think of something happy and suddenly laughed.

But Mike opposite him was obviously not in a good mood. He just narrowed his eyes and continued to stare at Dumbledore.

Mike knew very well that Dumbledore's words meant that he should stop caring about these things.

It is believed that this was due to Dumbledore's decision after he misunderstood Mac and massacred the entire Everly family.

Dumbledore would rather drag his half-dead body around than let the tragedy of the Everly family happen again!

In this regard, Mike still made no other excuse.

Later, Dumbledore began to talk to Mike about the things to pay attention to in the new semester of Hogwarts. He seemed to want Mike to return his attention to school and study, and kept telling Mike about Hogwarts. Interesting things happened in Zili.

To be honest, the events he recounted were very interesting and the narrative level was very high.

But this is really not difficult for Dumbledore. After all, he has stayed at Hogwarts for nearly a hundred years. Mike even suspected that if necessary, he could talk endlessly without repeating it for a whole day. One night.

It's just that this is of no use to Mike.

To be honest, he had no interest in Hogwarts because the courses at Hogwarts were of no use to him anymore.

The reason why Mike continues to go to school is entirely to monitor the movements of the Harry Potter trio. Mike has never relaxed his vigilance for the three protagonists of the original work.

In addition, his men at Hogwarts are also an important reason.

But now most of his subordinates are about to graduate, and Voldemort is about to launch a more violent attack. Mike is even prepared to leave Hogwarts at any time as long as the opportunity is right next school year. !

Dumbledore naturally didn't know all this, and when Mike saw that the other party was no longer willing to reveal any more information, he stood up directly, saluted Dumbledore expressionlessly, and then turned around and left the office before leaving. He even didn't forget to hold the Slytherin pendant in his arms.

Mike left the forest villa at a very fast speed. When he walked out of the villa, the house elf who didn't know whether he was called a little teacup or a little teapot greeted Mike attentively again.

Of course, Mike still ignored him and teleported away with a dark face using the portkey.

At this time, on the balcony of the forest villa, Dumbledore looked at the twisted figure of Mike leaving and the somewhat lost house elf in the garden, and shook his head helplessly.

…

After leaving the villa in the forest, Mike became busy again.

As mentioned before, resource extraction in the Avery Secret Realm is an extremely tedious and huge task. Mike is not a black-hearted capitalist. He will not let Benjamin complete such a huge workload alone.

Of course, this is only a superficial reason. In fact, it is because the efficiency of letting Benjamin handle it alone is too low.

After several days of joint efforts with more than a dozen business elites from the Los Santos Group, Mike finally figured out the specific situation of the Avery family industry.

The production cost of Avery's Magic Cloth and Avery's Magic Liquid is actually very low. It can even be said that there is no cost at all. After all, labor and raw materials are completely free.

And their yields are staggering.

However, in order to maintain stable market prices and high profits, the Avery family has been controlling the amount of Avery's magic liquid and magic cloth circulating in the market over the years.

The most direct result of this is that the goods hoarded in Avery's Secret Realm have reached a staggering amount.

Since what Mike wants is to squeeze out all the profits in Avery's secret territory as soon as possible, he plans to sell all these goods at once.

It's just that the profits that can be gained from buying and selling will be very low, because the influx of such large quantities of goods into the market will inevitably saturate the market, leading to a drop in commodity prices.

This was almost an unsolvable problem for the original Avery family, because their market basically only existed in the mainland of China, and the number of wizards in the mainland of China was not too many.

But for Mike, solving the problem was much simpler.

You know, they started planning overseas markets several years in advance. Major wizarding areas such as the United States and France even have Los Santos Group stores.

Although these stores have been losing money, Mike has never given up on them, and now, Mike's investment is finally paying off.

Through the international floo network, a large number of goods that have been renamed Los Santos Magic Cloth and Los Santos Magic Liquid are directly transported to Los Santos stores in various wizard gathering places around the world.

These highly effective materials directly conquered all local clothing manufacturers and potion masters.

Not only that, when selling these products, Mike also referred to the low-price zone policy of the Muggle world. When targeting the black witches and shamans on the land of Africa, the prices of Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth will be much lower. , and at the same time, they continue to launch preferential activities and continue to discount the original price, which makes the price in the high-price area come down, and the originally low price in the low-price area also becomes even lower.

In comparison, the prices in European countries such as France and the United Kingdom are more expensive. Of course, compared to the prices in these countries in the United States, they are relatively cheap because Mike directly increased the prices of these two goods in the United States. Nearly twice as much!

There is no way around this. At this stage, the wizards in the United States are just like the current United States itself. They are the richest in the entire wizarding world. How could Mike let go of such an opportunity to kill him?

As for Asia, Mike didn't give them much discount.

Especially for the wizards or immortals in that huge ancient country, the price given by Mike was almost exactly the same as that of the country.

This is because the wizards who call themselves immortals are all wealthy, and the economic conditions of their wizard society are no worse than those of the Yu country!

Due to the existence of the low-price zone policy, a new profession has emerged, that is, overseas purchasing agents.

They usually travel between the low-price area and the high-price area, helping wizards in the high-price area purchase cheaper goods through smuggling and other methods.

It is actually very simple to deal with these people. You only need to limit the products sold in the low-price area.

However, Mike did not do this. He did not want to directly strangle all these purchasing agents to death. Therefore, although he also carried out limited sales in the low-price area, the scope of the limited quantity of goods was firmly controlled by him within a range where the purchasing agents could make money, but not much.

The main reason for doing this is to make the name of Los Santos Group more widely known!

Facts have proved that this policy is very effective. With Mike's connivance, the European market, which had become a little gloomy due to the return of Voldemort, has become lively again, with a large number of purchasing agents and products made using Los Santos magic cloth and magic liquid. Products flow into the market.

For a time, Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth became famous, and as the manufacturer and seller of these two goods, the name of Los Santos Group also resounded throughout the wizarding world.

And all this happened in just half a month.

In the past half month, Mike has directly cleared out all the inventory in Avery's secret area!

Due to the low-price zone and continuous preferential activities, despite the continuous subsidies from the high-price zone, the profit from the sale of this batch of goods was still less than expected.

But these were just minor problems, and Mike's original goal of squeezing out profits quickly was achieved.

And now that markets around the world have been opened, the reputation of Los Santos Group and Mobu Demonic Liquid should also be established!

The current needs of the global market cannot be satisfied by a small Avery Secret.

Then what Mike will do next is to raise the price as it should!

Those who are accustomed to using magic cloth and magic liquid will gradually find that the goods they need will become more and more expensive, and eventually become more expensive than they were originally in the country.

This is Mike's backup long-term development plan. The original Avery family was too conservative and did not dare to open overseas markets, resulting in the accumulation of a large amount of goods.

In Mike's opinion, this is really a waste. Now that he is here, he can't let this happen again.

If his plan can proceed smoothly, the output of Avery Secret Realm will be several times that of the original in the future!

Of course, the reason why Mike can make so much money is also due to the hard work of those giant ants in the secret realm.

Mike originally thought that the ant queen Lilith would still defy him for a period of time. After all, in the eyes of the other party, his behavior might be a bit of a repayment of kindness.

But in fact, after observation, Mike found that instead of being lazy, the ants actually worked harder!

This made Mike a little puzzled.

However, Mike still liked the way they worked hard to make money for themselves, so Mike relaxed some of the resource blockades on the queen.

Lilith began to be allowed to ask for some food and property within a certain range.

Mike swore that his original intention in doing this was to compensate and reward the ant queen Lilith, but Lilith obviously regarded this as payment for work or something else.

So, the day after the gifts were delivered, all the ants in the Avery Secret Territory went crazy. They began to chop down the mushrooms crazily. Even the soldier ants who didn't need to work at all in the past. They were all sent out to carry supplies!

Mike, who was in the secret office of the Freemasonry, was a little stunned after listening to Penello's story.

But after reacting, he smiled, and he smiled very happily.

"Hahaha, it seems that she likes my gift very much. That's good. If they can continue to maintain this enthusiasm for work, then the material ration for Lilith will be doubled next month."

"knew."

Penello smiled and took note of Mike's words, preparing to pass them on later.

Mike in front of him finally returned to normal and said with a smile:

"Gather all the Freemasons for me, I'm going to have a small meeting later."