As the night passed, Claire and Rickon's speeches immediately spread throughout the house, and whether it was the selection of the next student president or the establishment of the Order of the Phoenix, it was unbelievable.

As a result, the academy, which had shown that it was calm, suddenly became an undercurrent, and everyone began to secretly compete in preparation for the selection battle in September. Some first- and second-year students with a weaker foundation began to move closer to Rickon, and after talking to Rickon, they all joined the Order of the Phoenix without exception. This situation was not expected by the student union, originally they were still waiting to see Rickon's good show, after all, a freshman dared to openly argue with the student union, how could the student council members be comfortable?

However, the situation is gradually developing in the direction of Rickon's favor, the reason is simple, that is, there is no threshold to join the Order of the Phoenix, whether it is an excellent student or an inferior student, can join the Order of the Phoenix, and can get Rickon's guidance and financial support. There is no doubt that Ricken's performance in football has fully proven his quality, and this is one of the reasons why he has been able to attract the interest of many students.

However, even so, the student union still didn't take Rickon's Phoenix Society to heart, after all, no matter how you look at it, the Phoenix Society is just the product of Rickon's whim, as long as it doesn't hurt the interests of the student union, no matter how much trouble the student union makes, it will turn a blind eye. But just a week after the establishment of the Order of the Phoenix, a piece of news broke out among the students again, that is, Jones House changed hands, and from June onwards, it will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Student Union, and will be taken over by the Order of the Phoenix, and all student interest groups must submit applications to the Order of the Phoenix as soon as possible, otherwise they must move out of the Jones Pavilion, which also includes the Magic Technology Department and the Warcraft Domestication Department of the Student Union.

Although most of the departments of the student union are located in the Hanna Pavilion, some specialized departments are scattered in other activity halls, after all, it is much more convenient to be close to the laboratory. But I didn't expect that today I was reduced to the situation of being kicked out of the activity hall.

As soon as this news came out, the student council finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

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Hanna Pavilion. Office of the Student Dean.

This may be the first time in recent years that all the student council ministers have come together to attend the ministerial meeting, and there are twenty-six people sitting at the round table, each of whom is a heavyweight of the student council except Kenneth, and usually does not have the opportunity to meet often because of his work. Since Claire hadn't arrived yet, everyone took the opportunity to chat, but after a few words, they came back to the topic of today's meeting. As for Kenneth, he was vaguely ostracized by the rest of the ministers because of Krall's speech at the evening party, but Kenneth was happy to do so, hiding in the corner and being a transparent person with peace of mind.

The Minister of Arts and Arts, Vanessa, grabbed the seat closest to Claire early, looked at William opposite and said, "William, that Order of the Phoenix, what do you know?" ”

William took out a piece of paper and pushed it in front of Vanessa, and said in a heavy tone: "This is some of the information I have collected so far, you can take a look at it yourself." ”

Vanessa took it and looked at it, raised her eyebrows, and said, "It's only been a few days, and one hundred and twenty-three people have already joined the Order of the Phoenix?" ”

"That's still not an exhaustive statistic. Among them, the first grade students are the most numerous, followed by the second and third grades, and the fourth grade students are the least. According to the people I planted in it, all students who join the Order of the Phoenix are indeed free to ask Rickon for advice at any time, as Rickon promised, and there is a different public teaching of magic every day. It is said that the top 10 students will also be rewarded with different points. ”

"Points rewards?" Matthew, the head of the alchemy department sitting next to William, asked curiously.

William nodded: "That's right, it is said that magic items such as magic scrolls and wands in the Order of the Phoenix can be exchanged for points. ”

The head of the General Affairs Department, who was sitting next to Vanessa, stretched out his slender fingers and put them on the gold wire frame, squinted his eyes and said, "Top ten students? Wouldn't those senior students occupy the resources of the Order of the Phoenix forever? ”

William shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. Rickon's ranking of the four grades separately stimulated a sense of competition among the members of each grade, allowing them to quickly improve their magical abilities. I once asked Sophia, and she also said that the enthusiasm of the new students has been very high lately. ”

"Should I say that I am worthy of being the heir of the Luthers? There is still some means. Matthew snorted coldly.

Hught pondered for a moment and asked, "So, if we send someone to join the Order of the Phoenix, can we keep Rickon's resources firmly under control?" ”

Vanessa and Matthew's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they excitedly said, "That's a good idea!" As long as the elite of our student council occupies the top 10 and the others can't get points, then what's the attraction of the Phoenix Club to them? ”

However, it was William who knocked on the table and criticized: "You can think of this idea of putting the cart before the horse." Not to mention that we have to set aside 40 people to implement this plan, if this matter is known to the students, it will only make the image of the student union plummet! Also, it seems that the points of the Order of the Phoenix can be obtained through other means, but for the time being, I don't know, and I can't control the resources of the Order of the Phoenix by relying on rankings alone. ”

Vanessa stumbled, "I just said it casually...... So William, do you know how they robbed the Jones Pavilion? ”

But it was Xiute who lifted his glasses and said, "It's too much to rob it, they rented it justifiably." ”

"Rental?!" The surrounding ministers all looked at Xiut with surprised eyes and said in unison.

After all, as the head of the General Affairs Department, Xiute does not directly manage the funds of the student union, but he is also qualified to inquire about the income and expenditure of the student union.

I saw Xiut tell everyone: "Although I don't know the specific situation, but as far as I guess, it should be Rickon who moved the finance minister of the academy to obtain the right to use the Jones Pavilion at a higher rent." ”

"Wow, did we have to pay rent to use the event hall before?" Matthew asked with a shocked look on his face, as if he had heard about it for the first time.

Everyone looked at the man who was only concerned about his own research all day speechlessly, and Vanessa said angrily: "I can't figure it out, just like you, you can also be the minister of the alchemy department?" It's almost the same as being a small ministry. ”

Matthew just pouted nonchalantly. Vanessa and Matthew were originally classmates in the alchemy department, and they were both in the third year this year, although they didn't see each other much, but they had a good relationship, and jokes like this were just commonplace.

"Wouldn't it be better if we just grabbed Jones House back at a higher rent?" Matthew asked, looking at Shut.

"That being said, however, the rent of 10,000 gold coins a year is already a big burden, and now it is likely to reduce the budgets of other departments, Matthew, are you willing to do this?" Xiut looked at Matthew and said with a non-smiling smile.

When Matthew heard this, he immediately became anxious: "Then how can I do it, I still have a set of elemental separators and parsers to buy!" ”

As soon as Matthew's words came out, he was immediately besieged by other ministers:

"Our sports department wants to build another baseball stadium!"

"There seems to be a shortage of musical instruments in the art department."

"The oil painting that will appear at Christie's auction this year must be won by our academic department!"

“……”

William watched coldly, and saw that everyone was getting farther and farther away, so he knocked on the table and made a crisp sound, and said in a deep voice: "Quiet! You're also the head of the student union, and you're not afraid of being laughed at when you say this! ”

William, as the head of the discipline department, supervises the behavior of teachers and students in the school, and has a lot of authority, and the rest of the ministers saw William's speech, and they all quieted down and returned to their original appearance.

Hut looked at William and asked, "William, do you have any ideas?" ”

William just shook his head and said solemnly, "Since the president has gathered us here, he must have made some plans. ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, quietly waiting for Kral's arrival.

A few minutes later, just as the owl in the room was calling to remind him of the hour, the door to the president's office finally opened, and Claire, dressed in a black trench coat, walked into the room, followed by Maddie, the personal secretary.

I saw Claire walk steadily to the end of the round table, take off her trench coat and hand it to Maddie and sit down, Maddie glanced at Vanessa proudly and hung the trench coat on the hanger behind Claire's desk, and then took a notepad from the table and stood behind Claire.

As the student president, Claire naturally has a secretariat to help him with daily affairs, but Maddie successfully isolated Claire from the Secretariat with her outstanding ability for various reasons, so she became Clal's only personal secretary, responsible for managing the Secretariat and conveying Clal's instructions, and there has been no mistake so far.

Claire glanced at everyone and said, "I think you all already know that Jones House is under the jurisdiction of the Order of the Phoenix, right?" ”

All the ministers nodded, and Vanessa was just about to speak, when Matthew, who had been nervous about his magic weapon, asked first, "What is the president going to do?" ”

Claire glanced at Matthew, then said to the crowd, "We can't do anything. ”

"Can't do anything?" Vanessa said in disbelief, and the rest of the people also showed surprise on their faces, the meaning of this sentence is not simple, not to "use" to do, but not to "can" do?

With a calm expression, Claire explained to the crowd, "Rickon persuaded the headmaster to rent the Jones Pavilion for fifteen thousand gold coins per year, and if we want to return to the Jones Pavilion, it will cost at least sixteen thousand gold coins, but this is already out of our budget. ”

Although Vanessa is only the head of the Ministry of Literature and Art, she still has a little bit of the budget for the annual student union, so she asked strangely: "President, why don't you even have extra-budgetary funds of 6,000 gold coins this year?" ”

"Because in mid-June, we have an exchange with the Honeyman School of Magic and Wizardry to do. Of course, according to Maddie, if you're willing to deduct some unnecessary budgets, I think we'll still be able to get the right to use Jones House back. Claire said with a blank face.

"We support the President's previous decision!" Except for William, all the ministers said in unison.