Chapter 76: It's a big deal now
In many novels, the protagonist has a powerful backstage that makes it easy for the protagonist to do a lot of things.
Now Zhang Xu enjoys such treatment, and with the help of Zhao Lao, many of his ideas can be realized quickly.
However, Zhang Xu is not the kind of person who can do whatever he wants when he has a backstage, and he still plays a great role in many issues.
For example, Zhang Xutuo and Zhao Lao recently submitted a feasibility report on the purchase of the Minsk aircraft carrier, which will be decommissioned in the near future, and the Kiev aircraft carrier, which will be decommissioned at the end of June this year, to build an aircraft carrier theme park.
These two aircraft carriers of the 70s will definitely be destroyed when they are bought, and the power system and weapon system will definitely be destroyed when they are bought, and they will not be able to buy them back as warships, but they will still make a lot of achievements when they are parked.
The purchase of these two slightly outdated retired aircraft carriers to build a theme park is to buy the one that is still soaked in the sea, and a few years later under the banner of "Macau's first maritime casino is online!" The banner bought back the Varyag to play cover.
Originally, the Navy had plans to take advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to purchase Soviet aircraft carriers, but after considering all aspects, it was found that the feasibility was not high. After all, Russia also does not want its southern neighbor to have a strong maritime power.
So Zhang Xu put forward a three-step plan in the report, the first step is to rent a site in Russia, send people and materials in China, buy the newly decommissioned Kiev and transform it into a marine park in Russia and then tow it back, the second step is to tow the Minsk back and then transform it into a marine park, and the next third step is to point to the Varyag in the same name, and after buying it back, it will be transformed into a sea casino or a large flat-topped fishery ship, and it is not up to you to have the final say? In this way, if it goes well, in 1996-1997, the Varyag will be in hand, and after a few years of transformation, the Navy will have aircraft carriers in the 21st century.
So, when Zhang Xu took Furong and Gabrielle from the Yongle Dragon Cave and surfaced after exploring, he saw a group of officers who wanted to be crazy about aircraft carriers waiting for him on the sea.
In the next few days, the helpless Zhang Xu could only have a meeting with a group of big men in the conference room on Woody Island. And Fleur and Gabrielle followed Zhang Xu's cousin on the island to study how to grow vegetables.
Time flies, and this year's summer vacation is coming to an end.
A week before the start of school, Zhang Xu came to England because several Hogwarts classmates wrote to him and wanted to talk to him about something.
At the Cauldron Bar, Zhang Xu meets Harry Potter who lives here after running away from home.
"Harry, why are you here?" Zhang Xu stopped Harry Potter, who had just walked down from the Leaky Cauldron.
"I blew my cousin Dudley out." Harry shrugged his shoulders and said, "He learned from Aunt Maggie in front of me to speak ill of my parents. ”
"Uh...... It's good, it's powerful. Zhang Xu was a little speechless.
Zhang Xu ordered two breakfasts and invited Harry to eat them together.
Zhang Xu was eating breakfast while reading the recent "Prophet Daily".
Under the influence of the will of the world, some things have changed, while others have not.
Arthur Weasley won the Galleon Award, the Daily Prophet's annual award, and the five babies who had just returned from China embarked on a trip to Egypt.
Sirius then saw the Weasley family portrait in the newspaper, and swam all the way from Azkaban back to British Island.
Zhang Xu still admires Sirius's perseverance, a dog at the beginning, who was not well fed and clothed in Azkaban, could still run back from the vast sea.
And the Hogwarts students' trip to China was never mentioned in the newspapers except for a while at the beginning. I didn't hear any other wizards in the bar mention it.
After breakfast, Harry continued to Diagon Alley and drooled over the broomstick in the window, and several classmates who were looking for Zhang Xu also arrived one after another.
When Percy Weasley, Cedric Diggory, Penelope Crivat, and Daphne Greengrass came to Zhang Xu's table one after another and sat down, Zhang Xu was a little confused, this is the rhythm of the four colleges to jointly do things?
"Zhang, have you noticed that the Daily Prophet does not publish any news about our return from Huaxia?" Penelope said.
"Maybe it's because of Sirius's prison break, he has taken over the headlines during this time." Zhang Xu said.
"Not really." "There are people who don't want the public to know what we're seeing in China. ”
"In the Ministry of Magic, someone gave an order to the Daily Prophet to prohibit reporters from interviewing students who had been to China." Cedric's father is more popular with the Ministry of Magic than Mr. Weasley, so he gets a lot of news.
"Obviously, there are people who don't want to see Britain become like China." Percy said, "If the wizarding world of Britain changes, then the interests in their hands will cease to exist. ”
"Are there many such people?" Zhang Xu asked.
"Not much." "But they're very conservative old families, and they're very well-connected, and I can't say no to some of their requests for a while." At first, they tried to get the families to cut off trade with Huaxia, but they were refused. Later, they pressured the Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet to ban reporting on the incident. "As a member of the wizard's ancient family, Daphne knows a lot of news in the circle.
"What do the other families think about this?" Zhang Xu asked.
"In the past two years, many families have made a lot of money through trade with Huaxia, and it is absolutely impossible for them to cut off trade with Huaxia. But they feared that if the British wizarding world became the same as Huaxia, their interests would be divided among the half-blood wizards. Daphne said.
"Now the attitude of various families towards Huaxia is very contradictory." Percy said, "On the one hand, because of the trade, because of the huge profits they make, they are very eager to cooperate with Huaxia. On the other hand, most families do not want to learn from Huaxia's practices, but there are still some families who want to learn from Huaxia. ”
"In the Ministry of Magic, there are different voices. Some would want to be open with Muggles, so that the Ministry of Magic would have more power. Cedric said.
"In the group of half-blood wizards, almost all agree to expand their contacts with Huaxia, and hope to learn Huaxia's model." Penelope said, "As you know, the system and climate of the British wizarding community right now are not friendly to half-blood wizards. ”
After listening to the words of these people, Zhang Xu fell into a wave of contemplation.
Several of you here understand the complexity of the conflict of interest behind the ban on media coverage.
And Zhang Xu's understanding of this is much deeper than that of several of them.
A new interest group has been formed, a bureaucracy eager for greater power has begun to extend its hand, a group that has been oppressed sees hope of rising, and the old forces are tightly guarding their interests.
This is the rhythm of the revolution! Zhang Xu, who is very familiar with the modern history of China in both worlds, complained in his heart.
In Zhang Xu's previous life, there was a monkey marshal who studied history in the Roman battle group, and his research direction was modern Chinese history. He said: Looking at the modern history of China, many of the various "lesson plans" are the result of the final outbreak of contradictions between groups that are dependent on foreigners' forces and local local clan forces vying for interests, as well as the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" uprising launched in the name of foreigners, as well as the contradictions between various foreign comprador groups and local groups.
Zhang Xu looked at the four people in front of him, they all represented the interests of one party.
Daphne Greengrass, her Greengrass family, has made a lot of money in the past two years by exporting magic materials to Huaxia. Daphne personally told Zhang Xu that their family didn't know where they heard that Huaxia people pay attention to "the life of their parents, the words of the matchmaker", if Zhang Xu hadn't hooked up with Furong, their family would have sent someone to Huaxia to find Zhang Xu's family to "propose", whether it was herself or her sister, Zhang Xu could pick it.
And Percy Weasley's family recently obtained the European agency rights for the flying broomsticks produced by China through Charlie Weasley. The family traveled to Egypt this holiday to persuade their eldest son, Bill Weasley, to quit his job at Gringotts and come back to take over the business. As for the British Ministry of Magic's ban on the import of broomsticks and the like, the purchase of "parts" and the return of paint will be made in the UK.
Cedric Diggory's father, Amos Diggory, saw hope in expanding his power.
Penelope Crivat is the representative of the half-blood wizards who have been exploited and oppressed in the British wizarding world.
This table is the "court henchman" of the British Ministry of Magic. Zhang Xu complained again.
Everyone is smart, and they all know what each other means without saying it. Therefore, Zhang Xu is very suspicious that the group behind them has reached some kind of tacit understanding, or even agreement.
Since you don't know, let's continue to play tacit understanding.
Zhang Xu said to them: "Since they don't want to report on this, then we will report it ourselves." ”
Percy and the four of them were amazed and realized that it was a good idea.
Zhang Xu continued: "If you don't engage in newspapers, you have to distinguish yourself from the Prophet Daily. To run a magazine, our content does not pursue timeliness, but depth. It is released once a week and is aimed at wizards under the age of thirty and current Hogwarts students. The content can be rich and varied, and the manuscript can be made public. If you want to do it, I suggest doing a series of special topics about the basilisk incident some time ago. After making a name for yourself with this topic, you can look at the content, I won't be available next semester. ”
Percy discussed it and found it to be possible.
Finally, Percy asked Zhang Xu, "What should I call this magazine?" ”
"Let's call it Youth Magazine." Zhang Xu said.