Chapter 448 King vs. King

Two days later, Mike brought Franklin and Benjamin to a retro villa on the banks of the Thames in London.

This was the meeting place agreed upon by Mike and the Muggle Prime Minister of Yingguo, and the two would have their first contact here later.

In fact, the Muggle Prime Minister originally planned to have a video call with Mike, after all, in this way his own safety could be fully guaranteed.

But Mike rejected it mercilessly, on the grounds that it was insincere and an insult to him.

After another round of discussion, the Muggle Prime Minister finally decided to meet in this retro villa.

There is no doubt that this is the territory of the Muggle Prime Minister, and through magical perception, Mike discovered the security personnel hiding around and inside the villa as soon as he arrived here.

These people were all armed with live ammunition, almost armed to the teeth, and the number reached three digits.

Mike guessed that this was the reason why the Muggle Prime Minister agreed to meet here, and these security guards gave him a sense of security.

He probably thought that even wizards could easily kill so many security guards, but in fact, these people could hardly stand a single encounter in front of Mike.

In the eyes of Mike and Benjamin, the Muggle Prime Minister's sense of security was just self-consolation.

After understanding the general situation at the scene, Mike and the other two did not hesitate to cast the Disillusionment Charm and showed up.

The security guard standing at the door was obviously startled by the sudden appearance of the three people, and almost reflexively pressed his hands to his waist.

But in the next moment, he immediately reacted and realized that the three people who appeared in front of him were the Prime Minister's guests today.

After taking a deep breath, the sturdy security guard asked tentatively:

"Is it Mr. Townley?"

"Yes." Mike nodded and said with a smile, "The two behind me are my friends."

The security guard stared at Mike and others for a while, then squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying, and welcomed Mike and Benjamin in.

This surprised Mike a little, because in the original agreement, Mike should come alone.

Mike thought these people would stop him, but he didn't expect that the security guard in front of him not only did not refuse his request to bring more people, but also didn't even conduct the body search that is common in movies!

"Please go straight ahead, the Prime Minister is waiting for you in the reception room."

The sturdy security guard respectfully pointed out the direction for Mike, and Mike stared at him for a while with a strange look on his face.

He originally planned to find an excuse to teach the gatekeeper a lesson to give the Muggle Prime Minister a warning, but he didn't expect the security guard to be so polite.

"What a lucky guy."

Mike muttered and entered the villa, while the security guard at the door was confused.

The space inside this retro villa is very large. Mike and Benjamin walked forward for a long time without seeing the reception room mentioned by the security guard.

But Mike and others were not alone along the way, because there were many security guards hiding beside the various decorations placed on both sides.

It must be said that their hiding level is very superb. Even Mike can't tell the difference between them and the surrounding scenery with the naked eye.

But all this is too obvious in the eyes of Mike and others.

Franklin even took pleasure in exposing the disguises of the security guards, which made them all terrified.

After a flurry of activity, Mike and the others finally arrived at the reception room.

In this spacious and bright reception room, the tall and fat Muggle Prime Minister was standing alone in front of the window.

The sound of Mike's footsteps obviously startled him. He turned around and faced Mike. The muscles on his face quickly began to twist and deform, and he squeezed out a bright smile, while opening his arms and walking towards Mike.

"Oh! Mr. Townley, I finally see you!" The Muggle Prime Minister said as he walked, "You are so young, so promising!"

"I am honored to meet you, Mr. Prime Minister."

Mike said with a smile, avoiding the Muggle Prime Minister's hug and extending his right hand.

The Muggle Prime Minister, who was avoided by the hug, looked a little embarrassed, but soon he adjusted his expression again, holding Mike's outstretched right hand with both hands and shaking it up and down.

At the same time, he was constantly looking at the legends of Mike and others. When he saw that Mike and Benjamin were all wearing light black suits, the Muggle Prime Minister's eyes flashed with surprise.

He originally thought that Mike would come in the strange clothes that are the hallmarks of wizards, just like the Minister of Magic named Scrimgeour before. Although that guy was dressed quite formally, he was not a normal person. He actually went out to meet guests in a thick suit and woolen coat in the middle of summer. It was really crazy.

But this is also a good thing. After all, the more normal Mike and others behave, the more it shows that their values ​​and common sense are consistent, and it will be smoother when they chat later.

Thinking of this, the smile on the Muggle Prime Minister's face became even brighter. He gently held Mike's right hand, shook it twice, then let go and said softly:

"Come on, my friends, let's sit down and talk. I have specially asked someone to prepare the best black tea. You must try it."

Mike and the other two sat down without hesitation, but did not touch the steaming so-called high-grade black tea on the table. Instead, the Muggle Prime Minister was diligently preparing refreshments for the three of them and saying some meaningless words, as if he wanted to chat with Mike and the other two until dark.

Mike shook his head impatiently. He was quite satisfied with the Muggle Prime Minister's arrangement for today, and he could see that the other party was very sincere, so he didn't plan to argue with him any more and said directly:

"Mr. Prime Minister, let's stop chatting and get straight to the point. What do you want to talk to us about?"

"Uh, okay then." Hearing this, the Muggle Prime Minister was stunned at first, then he rubbed his hands and said nervously, "First of all, I want to thank you for helping our people before. Secondly, I want to maintain a good relationship with you. After all, there are not many wizards who are willing to help ordinary people like us and maintain goodwill with us."

"Want to gain our friendship?" Mike said with a curl of his lips, "Then shouldn't you show some substantial sincerity?"

"Substantial sincerity? Sorry, do you mean pounds? But from what I've learned, it seems that wizards don't lack money."

"Don't play dumb, Prime Minister." Mike shook his head and said, "You know what we want. We want privileges, intelligence, materials, and military assistance, and as a gift between friends, we will give you some magic props, such as potions." After

these words came out, the expressions of the Muggle Prime Minister and Benjamin were both shocked.

The former was shocked that Mike actually told them all the goals they had originally set in one breath.

But Mike didn't think it was a big deal. After all, he had to tell the other party about his conditions in the end. It didn't make any difference whether he said it early or late. At most, he would lose some insignificant benefits.

The latter was simply shocked by the generous conditions Mike offered!

You know, due to the International Wizarding Statute of Secrecy, there are very few magic items circulating on the market, and most of them have negative effects.

"This... this... Aren't you afraid of the Statute of Secrecy?" The Muggle Prime Minister wiped the sweat from his forehead and said so. But as soon as he said it, he realized that he was stupid. The other party was willing to sit down and negotiate with an ordinary person like him, so why would he care about the Statute of Secrecy? "I'm sorry, I was wrong. Can you tell me specifically what level of support you need and what level of magic items you can provide?"

"Okay, I'll be frank. I think you all know that the wizarding world of Yingguo is currently in a civil war. Another very powerful wizard has returned from the dead and is trying to rule the wizarding world again and even eliminate all wizards of impure blood, and even ordinary people like you who have no magic power, so we rose up to resist. There

is no doubt that this will be a long-lasting and shocking war. I need to win over all the friends I can win over. I think that in this battle, you should give us unconditional support in any aspect, including military.

And I will also give you appropriate help according to your needs. For example, give you some invisible cloaks, or potions that can make people luckier and potions that can prolong life. "

Every time Mike said more, the Muggle Prime Minister's breathing became more rapid. The

Muggle Prime Minister dared to swear that Mike was definitely not a leader who was good at negotiation, nor a qualified politician, but what the other party could give was so good that he almost wanted to agree without hesitation. You know, that was the extraordinary power he had always dreamed of!

But in the end, the Muggle Prime Minister still resisted his desire. He knew very well that Mike was not here for charity. While giving him such favorable conditions, the other party would definitely ask for a lot of things, so he had to be cautious.

So, a very tangled negotiation began.

At this time, the Muggle Prime Minister, who was blinded by interests, had completely forgotten the identities of Mike and the other two wizards, and began to argue for his own interests.

Unfortunately, Mike had no intention of bargaining with him. After he set the conditions, he would never give up.

In the end, after two hours of negotiations, the Muggle Prime Minister and Mike finally held hands again.

The agreement between the two did not change much, but there were great restrictions in the details.

For example, on the condition of providing military assistance, the other party clearly stated that it would not use weapons of mass destruction for Mike. At most, a special forces of no more than 50 people would be dispatched with a small number of helicopters and rocket launchers. In addition, Mike must bear all the expenses for each assistance, and magic props can be used to offset the price.

In this regard, the Muggles are extremely stingy, but they have given great support to the Freemasons in terms of intelligence and privileges.

All Freemasons will be incorporated into a special department called the "Homeland Security Bureau" and can mobilize local police.

This means that every Freemason has become a privileged class in this country, and it is the highest level.

As long as they don't do things too much, the British country will come forward to clean up for them.

In addition, the national information database is also open to the Freemasons. As long as Mike wants, he can investigate any information of any citizen, including real-time monitoring and mobile phone positioning.

But in exchange, Mike must give the British country no less than 3,000 gold galleons of magic items every month, and the categories are limited to potions and magic items with special strategic effects.

This condition is already quite generous, basically equivalent to Mike spending money to open a super membership in the Muggle world of the British country, and the membership fee is extremely low.

Mike guessed that the reason why the Muggle Prime Minister gave such generous conditions was that he wanted to reverse the production methods of these things through the magic potions and magic props given by Mike, so as to analyze the secrets of magic.

But Mike was not optimistic about this.

The two worlds of wizards and Muggles are really too different. It is simply a fantasy to simply use inherent products for reverse deduction. Just like Benjamin, the potion master, has no way to replicate Gleevec for the treatment of leukemia, it is estimated that Muggle chemistry experts can only scratch their heads when facing those potions.

In the end, Mike and the Muggle Prime Minister signed a magic contract and a paper contract commonly used in the Muggle world.

The term of these two contracts is one year. Mike originally wanted to sign a ten-year contract. After all, neither the magic contract nor the ordinary contract has any binding force on him. The magic contract can even be said to be a unilateral robber contract. After all, there is no way to deal with the backlash of the Muggle Prime Minister's magic contract, but Mike can perfectly avoid the damage of this thing.

However, the Muggle Prime Minister was not a fool. He refused Mike's request to sign a long-term contract because his term of office was about to expire and the new Prime Minister might not agree to the contract.

Mike had nothing to say about this, after all, the other party's reasons were too sufficient.

"Well, I wish us a happy cooperation, Mr. Prime Minister."

"Happy cooperation, Mr. Townley, thank you again for your outstanding contribution to the people of Ying."

After doing all this, Mike and the Muggle Prime Minister stood up and shook hands again.

Mike originally planned to leave directly, but he suddenly stopped after hearing the other party's words.

"By the way, Mr. Prime Minister, there is another problem that has been bothering me." Mike asked, "What we did in Ying before set off a huge public opinion storm, so big that the Ministry of Magic couldn't solve it at all, and could only ask you for help. But you easily calmed it down. May I ask how you did it?"

Hearing this, the Muggle Prime Minister's expression was stunned at first, but then he laughed and said:

"Oh! My friend! That's too easy. In fact, I didn't do anything."

"Nothing?"

"Yes! No one knows these people better than me. Their enthusiasm for things is always short-lived. As long as you ignore them, their attention will be attracted by other things, such as gossip about singers." The Muggle Prime Minister said proudly, "So, to deal with these selfish fools, you just need to fool them casually."