Chapter 522 Mike’s Statement

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In front of the Minister of Magic's office, Kingsley, who was holding a document, let out a long sigh.

There have been too many troubles recently. If possible, he really wanted to resign now.

Unfortunately, as the current Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, he has no right to resign.

Especially when this matter turned out to be what it is now entirely because of his incompetence.

Sighing again, he finally gave up those meaningless fantasies and knocked on the door of the minister's office.

With a hoarse and dull voice, "Come in," Kingsley carefully opened the door and walked in.

The office was filled with smoke, and Scrimgeour was frowning and smoking a cigar. Judging from the long embers on the cigar, he seemed to have been in this state of trance for a long time.

There are many acquaintances of Kingsley sitting in the corner of the office. They are all big bosses in various departments. The reason why they are here now is probably to discuss countermeasures.

But it seems that the result of the discussion is not very good, because their expressions at the moment are very ugly.

After nodding to everyone, Kingsley solemnly placed the document in his hand in front of Scrimgeour and said:

"Mr. Minister, please take a look at these. This is a summary of the situation in various newspapers this morning and across the country."

Hearing this, Scrimgeour's body shook slightly, and the long piece of smoke finally fell down and scattered into a ball on the desk.

Scrimgeour didn't pay attention to this. He slowly picked up the file and read it carefully. The more he looked at it, the angrier his face became, until finally he threw the file away.

"It's so deceiving!"

Scrimgeour roared, but Kingsley in front of him had a strange expression. He suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity just now. He seemed to have said the same thing in the same position not long ago.

Shaking his head again to throw away the messy thoughts in his mind, Kingsley said slowly:

"Mr. Minister, the current situation is very bad. I think we should hand over those three Aurors, so that they have no reason to continue moving."

As soon as these words came out, all the big guys in the office who were still silent all nodded in agreement.

This seemed to be a good idea in their eyes. Selling the three Aurors in exchange for calming the situation was a very good deal.

As for the revenge of the families behind those three people, they didn't care at all.

After all, the person who made this suggestion was Kingsley, and the person who adopted it was Scrimgeour. Those families couldn't get revenge on them even if they wanted to.

What's more, Scrimgeour has an entire Auror force in his hands. Whether those families with such a level of force dare to retaliate against him is another matter.

In the eyes of these people, Scrimgeour will definitely agree to this proposal, because if things continue to develop, it will really be out of control.

This is the standard thinking of politicians. In their thinking, as long as they have interests, things like face and bottom line can be abandoned.

But what they didn't expect was that Scrimgeour was not a politician in the true sense, but a hard-blooded soldier with a military background.

"You mean... you want me to show weakness to those guys?"

Scrimgeour looked at Kingsley expressionlessly and said.

But although Scrimgeour acted extremely calm, everyone present could feel the surging anger about to erupt from her body.

Sure enough, the next second, before Kingsley could reply, Scrimgeour punched the desk and roared:

"I really doubt what's going on in your head. You actually want me to surrender to the mob? Meet their conditions? Do you know what this means? This means we are off to a very bad start! From now on! They will understand that as long as they start making trouble, the Ministry of Magic will meet their conditions. This time they want the lives of the three Aurors, but what about next time? If they want your life and mine, you will be satisfied. Them?"

Scrimgeour's fierce roar echoed in the office, and everyone present was silent, not even daring to speak out.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there is some truth in what Scrimgeour said, but if there is no compromise, how will this incident end?

"How about... let's ask the International Magic Federation for help? France and the United States should be happy to send out manpower."

A white-bearded official asked tentatively.

"Ah, yes, of course they are willing to take action. After all, once they take action, they can cut off a large piece of our flesh and ask us to sign some traitorous agreements." Scrimgeour said sarcastically, "And once their Aurors You won't obey our orders even if you enter the country of Yu, and you might do something outrageous when the time comes. Do you think it doesn't matter even if this is the case?"

As soon as these words came out, the office fell into silence again, and the wizard who asked for help from the International Federation of Wizards lowered his head in shame.

If possible, he really wanted to yell at Scrimgeour: "Then you should pay attention to it!"

It's a pity that he can't do this. After all, Scrimgeour is very angry now. If he talks nonsense again, the other party may attack him.

At this moment, the knock on the door came again. As Scrimgeour answered, the young assistant minister with a pockmarked face ran in, panting and threw a copy of "The Quibbler" in front of Scrimgeour. .

The eyes of everyone in the room twitched, and they suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"Mr. Minister, Luo...the boss of Luoluo Santo Group just issued a statement, publicly expressing support for the movement of Muggle wizards!"

No one present had much reaction when they heard this. Although this was the first business organization to openly support Muggle wizards, they had expected this situation.

After all, businessmen are always driven by profits. Publicly announcing Muggle wizards will definitely win the favor of those stupid people, thus greatly increasing the company's profits.

They really don't believe that the Los Santos Group will side with Muggle wizards. Although the main body of the other group is entirely made up of Muggle wizards, they are now in the same class as all purebloods!

Seeing the disapproving reactions of the bosses, the pockmarked assistant thought they had not heard what he said clearly, so he anxiously repeated what he had just said, and opened "The Quibbler" to the part where he made the statement. Page.

Scrimgeour shook his head helplessly. Just as he was about to let the assistant go out, he suddenly caught sight of the statement above "The Quibbler."

Scrimgeour's whole body froze, and the next moment, he snatched the copy of "The Quibbler" at lightning speed.

As he continued to read, Scrimgeour's bloodshot scarlet eyes narrowed into slits, and the word "Sichuan" was squeezed out between his eyebrows.

At this moment, other people in the office also noticed something was wrong, and Scrimgeour looked a bit scary at this time.

And just when everyone was hesitating whether to ask Scrimgeour, they saw Scrimgeour closing the copy of "The Quibbler" and then said solemnly:

"The situation is out of control. Contact the International Federation of Wizards immediately. We need external support! Also! Send a letter to Dumbledore! Let him teach the student named Mike Townley a lesson!"

At this moment, the expressions of everyone in the office became extremely bright, especially the official who had previously suggested that Scrimgeour look for foreign aid. At this moment, his expression looked as if he had been constipated for ten and a half days.

At the same time, a massive speech was being held at the entrance of the Los Santos Group headquarters on the banks of the Thames River in South London, and the speaker was none other than Emily.

It can be seen that Emily is really popular. This is just the first speech that was announced, and it has already attracted hundreds of Muggle wizards.

Many people in the audience were moved to tears as they watched the beautiful girl choke on the stage as she recounted her experiences during this period and her gratitude to everyone for helping her mother and daughter.

In the background, Mike and Franklin watched all this with cold eyes.

In fact, Mike was supposed to speak a few words in today's speech, but for safety reasons, Mike finally chose to let Emily be his mouthpiece.

Unlike Benjamin, Soraka and others, Mike and Franklin's hearts have never been touched by Emily. To put it bluntly, in their eyes, both Emily and Loya are just tools. .

If possible, Mike even wanted to arrange for Emily to die on the podium at a suitable time, and then blame the Ministry of Magic.

In this way, tens of thousands of Muggle wizards in the entire country will lose their minds.

This is undoubtedly an extremely cold-blooded plan, but it can bring extraordinary benefits.

But unfortunately, Benjamin and others seemed to have some unnecessary feelings for Emily because of guilt, which forced Mike to stop making relevant arrangements in consideration of their moods.

But it doesn't matter. Mike's real killer move is the statement he released this morning through "The Quibbler" and the preview of Emily's speech.

Not only did he make it clear that he would do his best to support his fellow Muggle wizards, he also expressed his determination to fight for power for other disadvantaged groups.

Among them, there are 15 vulnerable groups mentioned by him alone, such as witches who are discriminated against by wizards, centaurs who are wantonly killed and kept in captivity, goblins who are almost exterminated, and people who have been enslaved for thousands of years. House elves...

All of these are within the scope of Mike's support. In the next period of time, all the above intelligent life forms participating in this operation will be able to receive free emergency treatment, food and temporary shelter from the Los Santos Group.

Mike could imagine that this news would spread quickly in a very short period of time. Most people who saw this statement would think that Mike was a lunatic, because even this level of assistance would cost a huge amount of money. of gold galleons.

But only a very few people, including Mike, will understand that once Mike's move is implemented, it will win the favor of all the disadvantaged groups in the country. Even under his instigation, these disadvantaged groups are very likely to be integrated together. Forming an unprecedented force.

In fact, the Ministry of Magic is not afraid of a single Muggle wizard movement. After all, although Muggle wizards are large in number, their personal strength is generally weak, and the number of people is not large enough to make the Ministry of Magic despair. It really needs to fight a protracted war. Sooner or later this group of poor country folk will collapse.

But it would be different if the Muggle wizards found more allies. The power of multiple groups combined could not be matched by the Ministry of Magic alone.

It was precisely because Scrimgeour understood this that his attitude changed so dramatically.

However, asking for help from the International Magic Federation is far from being finalized in a day or two.

And while officials from the Ministry of Magic of the Republic of China were still arguing with envoys from other countries at the temporary office of the International Federation of Magic in Paris, France, Scrimgeour's most worried situation had already happened.

First there are the goblins.

As the most nourishing non-human intelligent life in the wizarding world, after Mike negotiated with them for two full days and promised a bunch of empty promises, they have now completely abandoned the Ministry of Magic of the United States and turned to Mike. aside.

As a way to show their attitude, they also posted magic posters about Emily's speech and equal rights events in every corner of Gringotts.

This undoubtedly made many pure-blood wizards very dissatisfied. Many wizards from large pure-blood families even threatened to take away all the gold coins stored in Gringotts.

It has to be said that this is indeed a huge threat to the goblins who regard wealth as their lives, but the goblins were obviously dazzled by the bright future that Mike painted, and in the end they managed to resist the pressure and save the money. Those posters.

This move improved the goblins' bad image in the eyes of wizards, especially Muggle wizards, and also allowed others to see the goblins' determination.

With the goblins taking the lead, other groups quickly took a stand.

Many non-human intelligent races such as centaurs and mermaids have sent friendly signals to Mike and joined the Los Santos Group's camp.

But these are nothing.

What really transformed the combat effectiveness of the Los Santos Group was the addition of the witch group!

You must know that no matter how firm the beliefs of other groups are, it cannot change the fact that they are at the bottom of society. Being at the bottom of society means that they not only have limited strength, but also have very little right to speak.

The witch group is different. The overall quality of this group of people is much stronger than other groups, not to mention that there are some well-educated social elites with high quality among the witch group, as well as powerful people who are at the top of the class pyramid. , it can be said that their joining directly increased the speed of Mike's plan by several gears!

But in contrast, the witch community wants much more.