The Christmas holidays were approaching, and when it came time to register the list of students who would stay at the school, both Harry and Ron had signed. Harry was frustrated with Dursley's house, and Ron was away from home because his parents had gone to Romania to visit Charlie.

Hermione was going home to see her parents, and Maple wanted to go back to the Muggle world to see how her company was doing.

Because Hagrid said that he had slipped his mouth, Harry had been trying to find clues about Nicol Lemet all these days. Maple knew the plot, of course, and could have pointed out Dumbledore's card to them right away. But the thought of it would affect the rest of the story, and if it weren't for the clue to find Nicolame, Harry wouldn't have discovered the Mirror of Eris and then seen his parents in the mirror. So Maple thought it would be better to wait and wait until she came back after the Christmas break.

However, when Harry and the others went to the library to look for clues about Nicolame, Maple had to spare some time to make a show with them. So, when the Christmas holidays were approaching, Maple was still happy that he finally didn't have to read those boring books with them.

In the days leading up to the Christmas break, Maple accompanied Hermione into the library a few more times. Hagrid was shocked and horrified when he learned that they were working so hard not to study their homework, but to find clues about Nicolamet. A few words of persuasion didn't dispel Harry's persistent thoughts, but Hagrid was so depressed that he really wanted to tear his mouth apart, blaming him for accidentally leaking his breath.

Before the Christmas break, Montungus had disposed of the last batch of venom. However, when Maple saw that it was snowy and Christmas, it was better to let the eight-eyed spiders have a peaceful birthday first.

Coming to Diagon Alley, Maple went to Gringotts and exchanged another thousand Galleons for pounds. However, when he took the money to the company, he found that the company didn't need the money much now.

After Maple sent a large sum of money last time, Emily and the others purchased some more machines, which finally alleviated the company's dilemma of not even having enough printing machines. Although the sales of the novel led to the sales of some cards, the effect was very small and did not cause a particularly large response.

Then Carl of the company made a bold and risky suggestion, many of the company's people were recruited by Maple from one university after another, and then Carl proposed to use their connections in the university to hold a college Yu-Gi-Oh contest among various universities, and then lure them with high prize money.

Karl set the prize money for the winner of the race at £2,000, and everyone else thought he was crazy. But those who saw the information about the competition also went crazy one by one, and more and more people registered for the competition.

Registration is free, but players need to spend money to build a deck. You know, there is a chance that this card will be drawn, and if you are lucky, you can get a good deck of cards for a single number of pounds. There are also non-chiefs who spend dozens of pounds and don't get a raya card.

The reasonable combination of Yu-Gi-Oh's deck, monster cards, magic cards, and trap cards is a test of intelligence, unless those who are particularly lucky and print cards on the spot like the anime protagonists, the victory of the game is still a test of the contestants' skills.

At the age of college students, it is the time of high spirits, if it is said that the victory or defeat is agreed on by wisdom, they all think that they are not weaker than others, and the final victory belongs to him.

At the same time, in the atmosphere of the university, the atmosphere is also the best contagious, one word is spread to ten, ten to hundred, one person knows, and soon it will be passed on to others around him. Before the Maple Crossing, Yu-Gi-Oh did not have a unified platform, and many games that didn't know if there were officially licensed ones shared the traffic. And the Japanese company only knows how to sell cards, but it does not give players who buy real cards an excellent game platform, so this game is a bit embarrassing and does not become one of the best-selling games.

But in this era of lack of entertainment, the arcade era has not yet arrived, and Yu-Gi-Oh, a game with excellent novelty and playability, is definitely a cross-era work. Many students who don't plan to participate in the competition can't help but buy cards after coming into contact with this game.

It can be said that in this era, Yu-Gi-Oh cards are not afraid that the market will not accept them, but that potential users will not know about them and the publicity will not be in place.

Carl's venture succeeded, and not only did they sell out the cards they had amassed, but they also had to buy machines to work overtime to print new cards.

They had to increase the price and customize a large number of blank cards, and now the profit from selling the cards, after deducting the prize money and venue costs of the competition, is more than enough to buy machinery. But by the time the machine is installed and commissioned, it will be ready for use, and it will already be after this competition.

Eventually, at the start of the competition, the number of people who signed up reached 1,000. Fortunately, Carl and the others prepared for this in advance, and divided several arenas into the knockout rounds on campus.

While the game was going on, Carl also found several newspapers to cover the game. There is no doubt that after the success of the competition, the sales of these newspapers also skyrocketed, and the Ray of Hope company became a complete fire.

But because it was too profitable, it got into trouble, and after a big capitalist named John Anderson wanted to buy the company but was rejected, the angry capitalist immediately used his connections and power to retaliate against the Light of Hope company.

The patrol police in the neighborhood often came to harass them, scaring away many customers who came to buy cards. Cheap and cheap pirated cards have also begun to appear on the market, and several important personnel of Ray of Hope have also been physically threatened. Although there have been no personal accidents such as car accidents, there are already company employees who are afraid to retreat.

Oh, what an unscrupulous means! If the Light of Hope doesn't compromise, I'm afraid they should buy the gangsters to do it!

Hey, they're really going to take a commercial approach, and Maple is really inconvenient to do as a member of the wizarding world. But they want to play with the yin, how can the people of the secular world play with wizards with supernatural abilities.

For the police who maintain law and order, if they are conscientious civil servants, they should repair roads and buildings and do more charity to win their favor. If it's a fritter that messes up, it's bought with money. But if it's a villain, then knock him down.

Now that the company is not short of money, what are you afraid of security, it's time to set up a security company. If the society is positive, the security company is a security company; If society is uneasy, they can also turn into a triad at any time.

As for the company's personnel, veterans, and you can't just choose British veterans, because it's easy for them to huddle together and be anti-customer-oriented. Make them inseparable from you, not that you can't live without them. France, Germany, can spend money to recruit some personnel. And counting the time, the USSR almost collapsed. As long as the tickets are arranged, three meals a day and accommodation can attract a large number of excellent security personnel from the former Soviet Union.

After Maple understood the company's problems, the recruitment and arrangement of security personnel was arranged by these secular people, and the rest was handled by Maple himself.

First of all, John Anderson, it is useless for such a big capitalist to check his black material, and Maple will naturally not directly steal his bank account. Instead, he took on the role of Animagus to check the secret information of his company and family, and then handed over the information collected in a week to several of his competitors, and then waited for him to be destroyed by several other people and divide his property.

As for the patrol police, they belong to the personnel in the system, and the black material is the most effective against them. Let's see if they have a backstage with John's connector, and if so, get off the stage together. Since such a thing has been done to harm the public for private purposes, there are few clean ones.

In the underworld, as long as the security company is done, there is no need to worry about these things, because they are a more powerful community.

Of course, as a person of later generations, although the treatment of the company's personnel is not completely comparable to that of later generations, and there is not so much money now, it is also much better than other workers in this era. In this world, there will always be the most middle- and lower-class people, and mingling with them more will make the foundation of the light of hope, which is destined to not be able to play with the big capitalists and the upper class, more solid.

Solved John, but there will be more bulls or something.

So Maple made a few steps for the company, first to win over some officials as a shield, to get through the current crisis first, and at the same time to focus on building his own security company and his own team of lawyers.

Those who sell pirated cards will show weakness now, ignore him, and wait until their strength reaches a certain level, and then overturn them in court. In later generations, the legal department of a game company was also a very lucrative business. sued him for plagiarism and punished him for spitting out all the money he earned.

The second step is to wait for the company to develop further and the funds are further abundant, buy a newspaper of its own as the company's mouthpiece, and then invest in a large-scale social charity project, and then shout vigorously that it is better to let the whole of Britain know that there is such a charity company. With the strong support of public opinion, the light of hope can always coerce public opinion to counter the power pressure of the dirty politicians. And with a security company, they are not afraid of the underworld.

When the company has settled both black and white and has no fear, it is time for the University of Hope for the welfare of the poor to be established.

Speaking of Ray of Hope University, Maple has some bad tastes. When he wanted to recruit foreign students, he would recruit more Japanese female students.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan had no money or resources, so how did they develop before the First Sino-Japanese War? loans, and selling women, the business of Japanese prostitutes at that time really went all over the world, and even poor Uncle Black enjoyed a lot.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, not only the Celestial Empire and the sticks, but their own women were also arranged to serve the soldiers.

Even in later generations, Japanese women were dependent on men, and after marriage, women were not allowed to work, but could only be housewives. It is said that there is a website in Japan that curses her husband to die, and it is unexpectedly popular. From time to time, hundreds of thousands of active users leave messages on it cursing their husbands to die, which can be called a realistic version of the Death Note.

It's a pity that at that time, Japanese women were at most whining and couldn't change anything.

The so-called democratic demonstrations have not done much to change the social structure, and only with sufficient strength can they change all this. If in this era, there is still a chance to use the benefits of the three scientific and technological revolutions to make huge profits to form a consortium of Japanese women. Only by having the power and influence of at least one consortium can the pressure of public opinion be brought into full play and the unfair social form that imprisons them can be completely destroyed.

If you can, it's fun to let them make a mess around the island country. It's just that if they succeed and start to dislike those native natives, then I don't know how many little Japan will fight singles!

While dealing with the Christmas chores, Maple didn't forget to prepare Christmas presents, and he gave Hermione Professor McGonagall's intermediate Transfiguration notes, which he had almost mastered and could further his advanced studies.

The Christmas present for Ron was a note from Ollivanders, which he had already paid for, and with this note, Ron could go to Ollivander's shop and buy a new wand.

Maple asked Dumbledore for a picture of Harry's parents, and then together with Harry, he made a family portrait of the porcelain, and then cast a spell to make Harry's parents smile, presumably Harry would like it.

Maple sent Dumbledore another novel, gave Professor McGonagall a wizarding hat, only the top of the hat was a cute kitten, which was the current result of Maple's intermediate Transfiguration, and Professor Flitwick was given a conjecture report on the combination of spells and magic.

It took Maple the most effort to give Snape, and he didn't know much about the details of cloning technology, so he sneaked into the Royal Academy of Sciences and found a copy of the research report on cloning technology for Snape.

Dumbledore was going to hang up in five years, so Maple still didn't care about his previous grudge against Snape, and sent him the knowledge of cloning technology, hoping that he could perfect the cloning technology within five years, so that he could make a clone to die for Dumbledore.

Later, Maple was especially glad about his decision, because he had used it before it was Dumbledore's turn. If it hadn't been arranged in advance, it would have been a shame that the technology was not mature by the time he needed it.