Chapter 522 Mike's Statement

"Alas!"

Kingsley, who was holding a document in front of the Minister of Magic's office, sighed deeply.

There have been too many troubles recently. If possible, he really wants to resign now.

Unfortunately, as the current Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, he has no right to choose to resign.

Especially when this matter is completely due to his incompetence.

Sighing again, he finally gave up those meaningless fantasies and knocked on the door of the Minister's office.

With a hoarse and dull "Come in", Kingsley carefully pushed the door open and walked in.

The office was filled with smoke, and Scrimgeour was frowning and smoking a cigar. Judging from the long embers on the cigar, he seemed to have been in this state of absent-mindedness for a long time.

There were many acquaintances of Kingsley sitting in the corner of the office. They were all bigwigs in various departments. The reason why they appeared here now was probably to discuss countermeasures.

But it seems that the result of the discussion should not be very good, because their expressions at the moment were very ugly.

After nodding to everyone, Kingsley solemnly placed the documents in front of Scrimgeour and said,

"Mr. Minister, please take a look at these. These are the newspapers from various newspapers this morning and the summary of the situation across the country."

Hearing this, Scrimgeour's body shook slightly, and the long ember finally fell down and smashed on the desk and scattered in a ball.

Scrimgeour didn't care about this. He slowly picked up the documents and read them carefully. The more he read, the angrier his expression became, until he finally threw the documents away fiercely.

"This is really too much!"

Scrimgeour roared, and Kingsley in front of him had a strange expression. Just now, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. It seemed that he had said the same thing in the same place not long ago.

Shaking his head again to throw away the messy thoughts in his mind, Kingsley said slowly:

"Mr. Minister, the current situation is already very bad. I think we should hand over the three Aurors, so that they will have no reason to continue the movement."

As soon as this was said, the various bigwigs in the office who were originally silent all nodded in agreement.

In their eyes, this was indeed a good idea. Selling the three Aurors in exchange for the calming of the situation was really a good deal.

As for the revenge of the families behind the three people, they didn't care at all.

After all, the person who proposed this suggestion was Kingsley, and the person who adopted this suggestion was Scrimgeour. Those families couldn't take revenge on them.

What's more, Scrimgeour had an entire Auror force in his hands. With such a level of force, whether those families dared to retaliate against him was another matter.

In the eyes of these people, Scrimgeour would definitely agree to this proposal, because if things were allowed to develop further, it would really be out of control.

This is the standard politician's thinking. In their minds, as long as there is interest, face and bottom line can be abandoned.

But what they didn't expect was that Scrimgeour was not a politician in the true sense, but a tough soldier from the military.

"You mean... you want me to show weakness to those guys?"

Scrimgeour said expressionlessly to Kingsley.

Although Scrimgeour acted extremely calm, no matter who was at the scene, they could feel the surging anger that was about to erupt from her.

Sure enough, the next second, before Kingsley could reply, Scrimgeour slammed his fist on the desk and roared:

"I really wonder what's in your head. You want me to give in to that mob? Meet their conditions? Do you know what this means? This means we've set a very bad precedent! They will understand that as long as they start to make trouble in the Ministry of Magic, their conditions will be met. This time they want the lives of the three Aurors, so what about next time? If they want your life and mine, will you also meet their needs?"

Scrimgeour's fierce roar echoed in the office, and everyone present was silent, not even daring to breathe.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, what Scrimgeour said does make some sense, but if you don't compromise, then how will this incident end?

"How about... we ask for help from the International Confederation of Magic? France and the United States should be happy to send people."

A white-bearded official asked tentatively.

"Ah, yes, of course they are willing to help. After all, once they do, they can cut off a large piece of our meat and ask us to sign some traitorous agreements." Scrimgeour said sarcastically, "And their Aurors will not obey our orders once they enter Ying Country. They may do something that will anger the heavens and the people. Do you think it doesn't matter even if it is like this?"

After these words, the office fell into silence again. The wizard who proposed to ask for help from the International Confederation of Wizards lowered his head in shame.

If he could, he really wanted to yell at Scrimgeour: "Then you should pay attention!"

Unfortunately, he couldn't do that. After all, Scrimgeour was angry now. If he said some more nonsense, the other party might attack him.

At this moment, there was another knock on the door. As Scrimgeour answered, the young assistant minister with pockmarks on his face ran in and panted and threw a copy of "The Quibbler" in front of Scrimgeour.

Everyone in the room jumped and suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"Mr. Minister, the CEO of Los Santos Group has just issued a statement, publicly expressing support for the Muggle wizard movement!"

Everyone present did not react much after hearing this. Although this was the first business organization to publicly support Muggle wizards, they had expected this situation.

After all, businessmen are always profit-seeking. Publicly announcing the Muggle wizards will definitely win the favor of those peasants, thereby greatly increasing the company's profits.

They really don't believe that Los Santos Group will stand on the side of Muggle wizards. Although the main body of the other group is completely composed of Muggle wizards, they are now in the same class as all pure-bloods!

Seeing the disapproving reactions of the big guys, the pockmarked assistant thought that they didn't hear what he said clearly, and anxiously repeated what he had just said, and opened "The Quibbler" to the page of the statement.

Scrimgeour shook his head helplessly. Just as he was about to ask the assistant to leave, his eyes suddenly caught sight of the statement on The Quibbler.

Scrimgeour's entire body froze. The next moment, he quickly snatched the book away.

As he continued to read, Scrimgeour's bloodshot eyes narrowed into a slit, and a "川" (river) was squeezed out between his eyebrows.

At this moment, the other people in the office also noticed something was wrong. Scrimgeour's appearance at this time was really scary.

Just as everyone was hesitating whether to ask Scrimgeour, Scrimgeour closed the copy of The Quibbler and said solemnly:

"The situation is out of control. Contact the International Confederation of Wizards immediately. We need external support! Also! Send a letter to Dumbledore! Let him teach that student named McTomly a lesson!"

The expressions of the people in the entire office became extremely exciting, especially the official who had previously suggested that Scrimgeour seek external help. At this moment, his expression was as if he had been constipated for ten days or half a month.

At the same time, a grand speech was being held at the entrance of the Los Santos Group headquarters on the banks of the Thames in South London. The speaker was Emily.

It can be seen that Emily is really very popular. This is only the first speech that has been announced, but it has attracted hundreds of Muggle wizards.

Seeing the beautiful girl choking on the stage while telling her experiences during this period and thanking the mother and daughter for helping everyone, many people in the audience were moved to tears.

In the backstage, Mike and Franklin watched all this coldly.

In fact, Mike should have gone down to say a few words in today's speech, but for safety reasons, Mike finally chose to let Emily be his mouthpiece.

Unlike Benjamin and Soraka, Mike and Franklin's hearts have never been touched by Emily. To put it bluntly, in their eyes, both Emily and Loya are just tools.

If possible, Mike even wants to arrange for Emily to die on the podium in public at a suitable time, and then throw the pot on the Ministry of Magic.

In this way, tens of thousands of Muggle wizards in the whole country will lose their minds.

This is undoubtedly an extremely cold-blooded plan, but it can bring extraordinary benefits.

But unfortunately, Benjamin and others seem to have some unnecessary feelings for Emily because of guilt, which forces Mike to stop the relevant arrangements for their sake.

But it doesn't matter. Mike's real killer move is the statement that was released this morning through "The Quibbler" and Emily's speech preview.

Not only did he clearly state that he would do his best to support his fellow Muggle wizards, he also expressed his determination to fight for the rights of other vulnerable groups.

There were 15 vulnerable groups mentioned by him, such as witches discriminated by wizards, centaurs who were killed indiscriminately, goblins who were almost exterminated, and house elves who were enslaved for thousands of years...

All of these were within the scope of Mike's support. In the following period of time, all the intelligent life forms participating in this action could get free emergency treatment, food and temporary housing from the Los Santos Corporation.

Mike could imagine that this life would spread quickly in a very short time, and most people who saw this statement would think that he was a madman, because even this level of assistance would cost a huge amount of gold galleons.

But only a very few people, including Mike, could see that once Mike's move was implemented, he would gain the favor of all the vulnerable groups in Yingguo, and even under his instigation, these vulnerable groups would most likely merge together to form an unprecedented huge force.

The Ministry of Magic is not actually afraid of a single Muggle wizard movement. After all, although there are many Muggle wizards, their individual strength is generally weak, and their number is not so large that the Ministry of Magic will despair. If a protracted war really starts, these poor country bumpkins will collapse sooner or later.

But if the Muggle wizards find more allies, it will be different. The power of multiple groups integrated together is simply unmatched by the Ministry of Magic of Ying Country alone.

Scrimgeour's attitude has changed so much because he understands this point.

However, asking for help from the International Confederation of Magic is far from being finalized in a day or two.

While the officials of the Ministry of Magic of Ying Country were still arguing with envoys from other countries at the temporary office of the International Confederation of Magic in Paris, France, Scrimgeour's most worried situation had already occurred.

The first is the goblins.

As the most nourishing non-human intelligent life in the wizarding world, after Mike negotiated with them for two full days and promised a bunch of empty promises, they have now completely turned away from the Ministry of Magic of Ying Country and turned to Mike's side.

As a way to show their attitude, they also posted magic posters about Emily's speech and the equal rights incident in every corner of Gringotts.

This undoubtedly made many pure-blood wizards very dissatisfied, and many wizards from large pure-blood families even threatened to take away all the gold coins in Gringotts.

It has to be said that this is indeed a huge threat to the goblins who value money as their life, but the goblins were obviously dazzled by the beautiful future described by Mike, and finally they resisted the pressure and saved those posters.

This move has improved the bad image of goblins in the eyes of wizards, especially Muggle wizards, and also let others see the determination of goblins.

With the goblins as the first bird, other groups quickly expressed their opinions.

Centaurs, mermaids and other non-human intelligent races have sent friendly signals to Mike and joined the Los Santos Group.

But these are nothing.

What really transformed the combat effectiveness of the Los Santos Group camp was the joining of the witch group!

You have to know that no matter how firm the beliefs of other groups are, they cannot change the fact that they are at the bottom of society. Being at the bottom of society means that they not only have limited strength, but also have very little say.

The witch group is different. The overall quality of this group of people is much stronger than other groups. Not to mention that there are also some well-educated and highly qualified social elites in the witch group, as well as the dignitaries who are already at the top of the class pyramid. It can be said that their joining directly speeds up Mike's plan by several gears!

But in contrast, the witch group wants much more.