Chapter 54: The Wizard's Shock (Ask for a Monthly Pass!) )
"Lovegood, I'm asking you to come here to work for Knights of the Round Table. It's not for you to say cool things here and pour cold water! ”
Jim Baggins glared at Lovegood.
His words made the elderly Baggins feel his heart start to cramp.
From ancient times to the present day, the elves have never been the protagonists of novels. How could he, as a goblin, not know about this.
Wizards are haughty, and they despise any alien race.
In order not to let any of the intelligent races threaten their position, they will wage war.
House-elves used to be a free race, called Plains Elves. But because they lost the war to the wizards, they were completely enslaved by the wizards.
And the reason why the goblins can coexist with wizards. At first, it was because they were good at metalworking, especially silverware, etc.
These are all items that wizards love, and they are inseparable from them in their daily lives.
After that, the elves showed their prowess in the fields of finance and money, creating Gringotts, the wizarding world's first bank.
The elves run Gringotts with their shrewd brains, allowing it to control much of the wizarding world's economy.
This makes wizards more and more inseparable from goblins, and it also allows goblins to maintain their status and dignity in the wizarding world, but only to maintain...
Throughout the history of the wizarding world, there have been countless wars between goblins and wizards. And in the mouths of wizards, these wars are defined as the rebellion of the goblins.
Whenever Jim Baggins reads the word "rebellion" in a book or in the newspaper, the pent-up anger rushes into his brain.
It is clearly a righteous and great battle of resistance against the discrimination and prejudice of wizards against them!
But the truth is cruel, no matter how many times they resist, in the eyes of the elven wizards, they are nothing more than an inferior race that serves them.
When will the goblins rise?
This word of the elf when Legnac III was dying in the past pierced the heart of every high-ranking goblin.
In recent decades, wizards have begun to suppress goblins again. All sorts of negative news about goblins appear frequently in the newspapers.
There are also unscrupulous writers who, in their novels, portray goblins as insatiable, treacherous and insidious.
Baggins and many of the upper elves understood that this was the beginning of the wizarding world's tactics and the beginning of a war of public opinion against them.
In the face of this war without gunpowder, the goblins must fight back.
Arthur, the gifted writer who came to the wizarding world from the Muggle world, is the only person the elves can help them at the moment......
Seeing that Baggins was so angry, Lovegood laughed out loud instead of being afraid. He stroked his unruly light-colored blonde hair, glanced at them with contempt, and then spoke in an eerie Scottish tone.
"Didn't you create this publishing house just to make money? If you want to make money, you can't ignore the tastes of your readers and cater to what they want to see. In this way, the novel can become popular, sell well, and make money. ”
"Although I hate it and think it's all shit. But after all, I'm working for you right now. If the novel doesn't sell, the company goes bankrupt. What should I do if I get fired? ”
With that, he sat back in his chair and played with the necklace around his neck with his hand as if nothing had happened.
"Lovegood is right, I'm going to make money. Writing a novel with a goblin as the main character does run the risk of not selling well. ”
"But... You agreed to my request to pay a fee in addition to the customization fee of 100,000 gold gallons. I can assure you of creating a novel with a goblin as the main character that readers will love. ”
Arthur didn't care if his goblin novels would not be loved by readers in the wizarding world.
Because 90 percent of his readership is in the Muggle world. There's no history of goblins and wizards.
As long as the plot of the novel is good, someone will buy it.
The reason why Jim Baggins is making things difficult now is because he feels that there must be something wrong with suddenly giving up so many interests.
And the problem must lie in the last pact, to help the goblins write a novel with them as the protagonists.
Most of the protagonists of the novel are positive characters.
The truth is on the horizon. The purpose of the elves may be to get him to help them improve the image of the elves in the minds of wizards.
Isn't this the usual routine of those foreign NGOs in the previous life... They provide funds for people in the country to beautify them with words and videos......
Arthur doesn't care about the game between wizards and goblins, he only cares about making more money.
The other party's true purpose, he has already guessed. If you don't make good use of it, you'll be sorry for Galleon.
"Really?" Baggins frowned slightly.
"If you doubt my abilities, then there is no need for our cooperation to continue."
Arthur said with a little disappointment.
"One hundred thousand gold Galleons, some are too many. Ten thousand..."
Seeing that Arthur didn't want to cooperate, Baggins hurriedly shifted the topic to the corner fee.
100,000 gold galleons, that's not a small amount. Most wizards don't make that much money in their lifetime.
"Let's talk about this later. I have recently written three new books, two of which are already ready for publication in the Muggle world. Current sales are 200,000 and 100,000 copies, respectively. It's time for the wizarding world to speed up, too. ”
With that, Arthur pulled out three original manuscripts of the novel from his wizard's robe and placed them in front of Baggins and Lovegood.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Twilight Safa
The Holy Grail War of the Magisters
Regarding the matter of writing a book for the goblin, Arthur also knew that the manuscript fee he asked for was too high for Baggins. If you continue to talk about it, you will not only waste time, but you may also not reach the ideal price.
So Arthur chose to hang the other party first, and he sold the other novels first, speaking with his grades.
As long as each of his novels can sell well in the wizarding world, gain a large number of loyal readers, and reflect his value.
That way, the goblins wouldn't think it would be too expensive to spend 100,000 gold Galleons to have an author who has been at the top of the best-selling list write a book for them.
"Excuse me, which two?"
Lovegood asked in shock when he heard that Arthur's novel had sold 300,000 in the Muggle world.
The wizarding population in the entire wizarding world does not exceed 500,000. The wizarding population in England is much smaller, just over 3,000......
"It's "Twilight" and "The Holy Grail War of the Magician", but it's a pity that it has just been released, otherwise the sales will be higher. I guess if I open up foreign channels, the sales of both books can exceed one million..."
Thinking of the letter that his owl Doom had sent him this morning. Arthur sighed with some pity.
"What? No way! Can there be so many people in the Muggle world? ”
Lovegood, who had never been to the Muggle world, screamed in disbelief.