After playing five Gwent cards, Zhang Xu didn't win a single one, so Zhang Xu had to help Scrimgeour settle the bill in the café five times.

When Scrimgeour announced that the Aurors in the store were all counted on him today, and the Aurors cheered for it, Zhang Xu was thinking about whether Hood and the others would accept it if they used dried fish to offset the bill, and it should be good to pay for a pound of dried fish.

I have to say that Scrimgeour looks like a lion and is very fierce, but he still has a good grasp of the management of his subordinates.

After the trouble, the next step is to talk about business.

First of all, Scrimgeour confirmed to Zhang Xu a question that has been asked the most in this time: "Is the mysterious man really back?" ”

Everyone who asked this question was expecting a negative answer from Zhang Xu, but Zhang Xu's answer was "yes" to all.

But today, Zhang Xu did not answer Scrimgeour directly, but said in the tone of Minister of Magic Fudge: "The mysterious man was defeated more than ten years ago!" He'll never come back! In the past two years, we have stepped up our crackdown on dark wizards. Now just a handful of Death Eaters are in our hands and feel their end is coming, and they are in their dying throes! ”

"The Ministry of Magic is confident and capable, and will hunt them all down by Christmas."

"From then on, peace for an entire generation will be guaranteed."

"Now I ask you to go back and sleep peacefully in your beds!"

Although Zhang Xu said the same thing as Fudge, but with a funny smile on his face, Rao is Scrimgeour has never seen this emoji and knows that the other party is saying the opposite.

Scrimgeour was silent for a long time after receiving Zhang Xu's reply, and it was not until the ginger sitting on Zhang Xu's lap had eaten enough dried fish and left to replace it with fish cakes, that Scrimgeour came back from his contemplation.

Zhang Xu thinks that Scrimgeour asked him out today not only to confirm whether Voldemort is really back, but he can't figure out what the other party can talk to him about for a while, Scrimgeour is not the kind of person who looks like he will collude with Zhang Xu.

"Mr. Zhang, do you know about the Hekmedia, Vandomhain, and Lawrence?" Scrimgeour asked pointedly.

Zhang Xu pursed his lips and looked at Scrimgeour speechlessly.

Zhang Xu replied, "The Hekmediaa family is mainly engaged in the sale of magical items, including some dangerous magical items. ”

"The Van Domhain family is mainly engaged in the sale of mineral magic raw materials."

"The Lawrence family focuses on the business of magical raw materials for magical plants and animals."

"I regret what happened to these three families."

These three families knew a lot of people before, and they monopolized the market for oriental magic raw materials in Western Europe five years ago.

To put it simply, they purchase magical raw materials and some magical items from places such as India, Japan, and Southeast Asia, and then multiply the purchase price by more than ten times, or even nearly a hundred times, and sell them in Europe.

Most of the magical animals and plants that Zhang Xu has never eaten or seen in the West with the name of "Huaxia" in the West are named by them.

Snape thought of the Kaba produced in Japan as if it were made in Mongolia, and that it was their pot.

However, since the magic raw materials and items from the East were sold in Europe at the price of cabbage through Hogwarts and Beauxbatons, the business of the three families has been difficult to do under Zhang Xu's threading needle.

And since last week's "Valentine's Day Night", the names of the three families have appeared in the Daily Prophet every day, because the three of them were almost wiped out by the Death Eaters on Valentine's Day. The reason why they were not completely wiped out was because there were still people in their family studying at Hogwarts, so they escaped the disaster.

However, this is all information on the surface, and few people know about the secret deeds, but the two people here now know it.

"Do you have any other thoughts on what happened to these three families, Mr. Zhang?" Scrimgeour asked, staring into Zhang Xu's eyes.

"What else can I think?" Zhang Xu said as he scratched the fish cake lying on his lap, "You don't think I instructed the Death Eaters to attack their family residence, Mr. Scrimgeour. ”

Scrimgeour continued to stare at Zhang Xu and said, "When we interrogated Fenrir Greyback, we learned the truth about the Werewolf Army's attack on Hogsmeade. ”

It's no wonder that Scrimgeour suspects that Zhang Xu is behind the scenes, they were the masterminds behind the werewolves' siege of Hogsmeade, and their goal was Zhang Xu's life.

However, Zhang Xu's identity is a bit special, and it is not good to invite him directly to the Ministry of Magic for tea when there is no conclusive evidence, so Scrimgeour can only ask Zhang Xu out in private to knock on the side.

Although Scrimgeour's guess is very reliable, Zhang Xu will not admit this kind of thing.

Zhang Xu said while scratching the stomach of the fish cake: "I already know about this matter, and they wanted to get rid of me by the hand of the werewolf at that time. ”

"But later, under the mediation of Professor Dumbledore, the three of them showed enough sincerity, and I myself was not too hurt, so I will not pursue them for the sake of Professor Dumbledore's face."

The amount of compensation proposed by the three companies to Zhang Xu that year was so generous that it is said that even Lucius Malfoy, who was the middleman, was shocked. Some people even plan to pay Zhang Xu for their daughter who is studying at Hogwarts.

As a result, Zhang Xu gave up such compensation and transferred all the compensation to Hogwarts.

So Zhang Xu and Dumbledore sang a double reed, and turned the compensation into all the shares of several magic raw material processing workshops.

Since then, Hogwarts has mastered all the shares of these workshops, and has not only been an agent of raw materials, but also started its own raw material processing business, and initially built an industry-university-research base for potions and herbalism.

This is the reason why Zhang Xu can have so many privileges in Hogwarts, and the other professors, especially Professor McGonagall, who has always been fair and strict, have no objections.

Zhang Xu turned the fish cake over and continued to scratch its head and back while saying: "Actually, it is not strange that the mysterious person will find them, which is also the conclusion I have come to after this week's research, and at the same time it can also explain why the other five families are also targeted by the mysterious person." ”

Scrimgeour's eyes suddenly widened as he stared at Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu learned from the Order of the Phoenix during the civil war in the Aurors that the Ministry of Magic has not yet decided on the criteria for selecting targets for this Death Eater crime, and the Ministry of Magic can't figure out why the Death Eaters chose them.

Zhang Xu took out eight brand-new, thick notebooks and placed them in front of Scrimgeur.

Scrimgeour picked up the notebook with "Lawrence" written on the top cover, opened it, and looked at it carefully.

Flipping through the notebook, it was full of newspaper clippings from newspapers and magazines such as the Daily Prophet about the Lawrence family in the past few years, which were pasted in chronological order.

Scrimgeour didn't notice anything strange at first, but when he turned to the last few pages, it was as if he had suddenly discovered a new continent, and he read the last few pages of the newspaper clippings over and over again.

Then he picked up the other basic notebooks one after another, and flipped straight to the last few pages to carefully read the newspaper clippings there.

Scrimgeour has been an Auror for so many years, and he has also become the director of the Auror office, so his IQ will naturally not be bad.

When solving the case and going to the end of the mountain, sometimes some details that you don't usually notice are noticed, and it is easy to find the bright spots.

The last part of these clippings all has one thing in common, which is a clear or implicit reference to the recent period in which these families have financially supported the construction of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The fact that the workshops of the HekMedians, Van Domhain, and Lawrence have all become Hogwarts workshops cannot be hidden from anyone else, but the public is not aware of the transactions under the table.

As for the other five families who were attacked by the Death Eaters on the night of "Bloodstained Valentine's Day", the Whitehorn family, which founded the Halo Race Broomstick Company, the Oletown family, which established the Comet Trading Company, the Cage family and the Holden family, and the Fleet family, one of the shareholders of Frett and Buck Company, are all selling broomsticks, and they recently plan to use Hogwarts as a breakthrough to retake the British broomstick market, so they are also throwing a lot of money at Hogwarts.

So now that something happened to these families, Scrimgeour would only suspect the Weasley family, after all, there were some dark things that Scrimgeour still knew, and the Weasley family's two children almost died at their hands.

Unbeknownst to Scrimgeour, much of the money was secretly transferred to the Weasleys' pockets as compensation for the Weasleys' failure to hold them accountable for their attempted assassination of the twins.

As for the collusion between the Death Eaters and the Weasleys, I believe that both the Ministry of Magic and the Death Eaters will definitely not have such a thing.

Scrimgeour had seen these reports before, but he hadn't thought about it in this regard, after all, the British wizarding community had not experienced economic warfare for so many years, and the opposing sides had directly eliminated each other's living forces, and there was no precedent for destroying each other's money bags.

And now, after Zhang Xu's little bit, Scrimgeour quickly discovered what these eight families have in common - they have all started to give Hogwarts a lot of gold coins recently.

Scrimgeour put himself in Voldemort's position to consider this problem, sending money to Hogwarts is equivalent to sending money to Dumbledore, and if the person who sent money to Dumbledore is not disposed of, will he still have Easter?

After getting Zhang Xu's permission, Scrimgeour put away the eight notebooks.

As for whether Scrimgeour will find out that Zhang Xu colluded with a Western reporter to deliberately publish suggestive and inducing news, Zhang Xu is still very relieved of Rita Skeeter's methods.

As a benchmark among media people, she only needs to hint easily, and a bunch of budding reporters who are distressed because they can't find news will naturally follow the direction she hints to discover the news.

"I owe you a favor." Scrimgeour put away his notebook and said to Zhang Xu, "I must rush back to the ministry now." ”

Just as Scrimgeour stood up, Zhang Xu suddenly whispered to him, "Do you want to be the minister, Mr. Scrimgeour?" ”

A good Auror must be a strong wizard, but to be the leader of the Aurors, you need not only strength, but also a delicate heart.

After listening to Zhang Xu's words, Scrimgeour didn't reply, just stood condescendingly and stared at Zhang Xu like a lion.

Zhang Xu just smiled and said, "As the actions of the Death Eaters become more and more, the mysterious man will definitely reappear in front of the public in the near future." At this point, Mr. Fudge will no longer be able to sit in this position, and there will certainly be hope that a strong man will be able to take up the post of minister. ”

Scrimgeour didn't speak, and after staring at Zhang Xu for a while, he turned around and left, while Zhang Xu sat in his seat and continued to feed the fish cakes with dried fish.

Scrimgeour didn't refute Zhang Xu on the spot, and Zhang Xu felt that he must have moved his mind to move up.

With the Minister of Magic's delicious cake in front of him, I believe Scrimgeour will be more purposeful in his next work.

Now Voldemort's power is even stronger than in the "plot", and it is still necessary to win over some more powerful factions.