Heading into November, the weather in the Scottish Highlands is starting to get harsh.

To be precise, it wasn't a pleasant winter for people around the world, and the sudden monsoon and sudden snowfall quickly dampened the enthusiasm of the young wizards for the start of Quidditch season.

Outside of Hogwarts Castle, the busy vegetable garden cultivation scene is much less common these days.

It was only when it was time to take turns to maintain the vegetable garden that several young wizards who had covered themselves tightly would be seen running out of the castle, hurriedly waving their wands to remove the frost and snow from the ground a little, giving birth to the plants that were scattered in the cold wind, and then running back to the warm castle again.

Naturally, the overall production of Hogwarts vegetable gardens has inevitably declined significantly.

However, apart from the minor twists and turns at Hogwarts, the Soviet strategy went very smoothly.

Since the previous conversation in the principal's office, Elena has successfully put on the identity of "prophet".

In this way, she finally no longer has to think about words and reasons as before, and find a way to persuade Dumbledore and others to help advance the "Soviet Raiders".

After weeks of planning and the Saints' back and forth, most of the densely populated cities in the Soviet Union now have properties that belong to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Perhaps, the word industry is not quite accurate.

Because these shops are still just empty shells, they have not carried out any commercial activities, but have just completed the land purchase procedures and have just begun to carry out a unified store decoration.

According to Elena and others, the time for these stores to really start to start will need to wait until the red sickle-hammer banner falls forever from above the Kremlin, and the behemoth of the Soviet Union is completely reduced to history.

If you open early, it will be too easy to cause unnecessary waves.

On the other hand, for a number of reasons, the name of the owner of these properties certainly cannot be Hogwarts.

Thus, at Elena's strong suggestion, a multinational group called "Schicksal" quietly appeared in the world – the original registered office of the group was in Salzburg, Austria.

At present, there are only two members of the board of directors of the group, Mr. Otto Apokalis, who was born and raised in a harmonious neighborhood and has two dead children...... and his little granddaughter, Teresa Apokalis.

By the way, "Schicksal" translates as in German, meaning fate.

However, Elena prefers to call it Destiny.

At this moment, the two actual helmsmen of the [Mandate of Heaven] are in a serious negotiation.

"If this continues, the reserve of potatoes may not be enough......"

Elena looked through the list of recent supplies in the kitchen warehouse and tapped the cardboard in her hand with some distress.

Hogwarts students are not farmers who depend on the farmland after all, and in the face of cold weather, most of the students still choose to deal with things simply, anyway, everyone does this, which can be regarded as a disadvantage of eating a big pot of rice.

Therefore, the most direct effect of the cold weather is that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry can no longer maintain the high production capacity of crops - being able to barely maintain the supply of vegetables and fruits for the entire school is already a very remarkable achievement.

Even the botanical garden of Hufflepuff House, which loves plants the most, has frozen to death and frostbitten many plants in this snowstorm.

As for the potato fields of Gryffindor House, which was already in a semi-free-range state, the yield was reduced to a quarter of the original level in one fell swoop, not to mention the tragic situation of Ravenclaw House, which has a large number of female students and is pampered, and Slytherin House, which has a large number of tropical and subtropical plants.

"It's normal, wizards aren't farmers. There's no way you're going to have them work their magic to grow potatoes in the snow for a bunch of unrelated people—not even Albus can ask such a hard of a student to make. ”

Grindelwald shrugged his shoulders and said calmly.

"Less is less, anyway, out of so many Muggles, there's only a few people you really need. ”

Compared to Elena's distress, Mr. Otto, as the chairman of [Destiny], is obviously much more indifferent.

Although he also knew that the reduction in potato production would affect the implementation of many subsequent plans, for Grindelwald, this kind of use of wizarding power to save Muggles was not something to be happy about.

Whether it was saving 100,000 Muggles or killing 100,000 Muggles, it didn't make much difference in Grindelwald's eyes, all he was looking for was what these things could bring to the wizarding world, or the future of wizards.

Even, deep down, Grindelwald was vaguely happy at Elena's predicament - magic should not exist for the benefit of Muggles, and if it weren't for the little demon king, he would have mocked it a long time ago.

Elena glanced at Grindelwald, who was a little gloating, but she didn't have much anger in her heart.

The little wizards at Hogwarts were originally a group of greenhouse flowers who had been smooth sailing since childhood, and the output ratio of the first two months had already surprised her very much, and now it was just a return to the original capitalist plan.

"Gather all the idle house-elves...... Reduce the daily maintenance of the castle and devote yourself to the maintenance of the vegetable garden...... Expand the potato field area of Gryffindor...... I hope that by the end of December, Hogwarts will have 3 million tons of potatoes in stockpile......"

House-elves are pitiful, but now is not the time to sympathize with them.

As a graduate of quantitative economics, Elena is well aware of the importance of food in the catastrophe that follows, and has been calculating this since she learned about the great advantages of the wizarding world in farming.

Potatoes are the most common staple food in Europeans and the cheapest and easiest crop in the crop range.

Half a catty of potatoes is enough for an adult to consume the energy needed for a day and night, and as long as they are stored properly, potatoes can even be stored for up to 15 years without deterioration, which is simply a veritable first-class strategic food reserve.

The fertile black soil of Scotland, combined with the use of dragon manure at any cost, can easily reach the yield of about 1.5 tons per mu of potatoes per unit - slightly lower than the standard yield of 2 tons per mu of high-quality potato land in later generations.

At the same time, with the blessing of the magic spell, the whole cycle of potatoes from planting to maturity takes less than a week.

It is known that the area of one acre of land is roughly 666.66 square meters when converted into international standard units.

About one-tenth the size of a Quidditch pitch (or a standard soccer field), Gryffindor House has about ten acres of potato fields, and the other three houses also grow some potatoes.

All that is known above is all that is needed, but any junior high school student who can pass math can estimate in half a minute the total amount of potatoes in the Hogwarts vegetable garden in ideal conditions for the four months from September to December.

And what does a reserve of three million tons of potatoes mean?

This means that Hogwarts can afford the daily necessities of 60 million people with a minimum living allowance...... You must know that the total population of the former Soviet Union at this time was less than 300 million, which is already a rather terrible ratio.

You must know that this part of the food is not distributed from the total amount of food that is already in the non-magical world, for ordinary people, it is like a gift from the heavens out of thin air, and the impact and reversal power that can be caused can be imagined.

However, for Elena, until everything is settled, these are only imaginations of the future of happiness and happiness, whether it is war or happy ending, it is an unknown.

She and Hogwarts still need to wait patiently for the last bit of time......

“...... What's going on at Gringotts?"

After deciding on the future work of the house-elves, Elena turned her head to look at Grindelwald again, and took the initiative to ask about the latest movements of the greedy elves.

In this twilight of the uncertain situation, any small change may determine the size of the entire wave.

Although she has not paid much attention to the Gringotts elves, considering the future reconstruction of the financial system and the status of important tools for the redistribution of benefits after this wave of turmoil, Elena still needs to pay a little attention to them.

At least......

Don't let them die too quickly, lest they be picked in advance by a third-party prying eye.

For the grasp of the financial market, as well as the grasp and grasp of macro currency wars and exchange rate games, Elena's professional ability in this era can be said to be a stellar existence that crushes an era by one person - this has nothing to do with wisdom, this is purely from the vision and lessons brought by countless black swan events since then.

Of course, the more important point is that as long as you can predict the future in advance, in the financial market, it is equivalent to invincible.

To put it simply, as a traverser, Elena is invincible in this field.

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