Leos walked through the crowded bank hall, clutched his cane, and walked quickly towards the entrance to the underground.
A moment later, its figure appeared in a magnificent underground building.
Countless goblins are busy calculating in this space, and every goblin's face is full of exhaustion and anxiety.
Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Venture Capital Department.
This is the brain and heart of the entire Gringotts. More than 90% of Gringotts' decisions are discussed, calculated, and finally implemented here. The core financial wisdom of the goblins is mastered here.
"Elder Leos, you are back, what is the result?"
Seeing the old goblin elder appear at the entrance, the trainee goblin assistant standing by the door lowered his head respectfully and asked softly in a tone of expectancy - all goblins know what Leos's mission is today.
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"Oops, extremely bad!"
Leos raised his head, glanced at the trainee by the door, and threw out a pure gold fairy emblem.
"Let everyone stop what they are doing, immediately! Then, convene a meeting of all senior executives!"
A few minutes later, in the huge conference room.
Douglas, one of the directors of the venture capital department, tapped his fingers on the table and narrowed his eyes to look at Leos beside him.
"So, what happened, Elder Leos? So much so that you need to use your elder authority to temporarily freeze all business progress related to the Soviet Union - you know, because of your decision, we are incurring losses every minute!"
"We have been tricked by human wizards. This mortgage contract has no meaning at all!"
Goblin Leos took a deep breath, slammed the roll of parchment in his hand on the table, and said with a ferocious expression.
"From the beginning, they had no intention of repaying the loan! Slytherin's castle has long been leased to Hogwarts for one copper Knut, with a permanent time limit...the sale and purchase does not break the lease, hehe, it is set by humans themselves
Let the law take advantage of this contract!"
"Business and sale does not break the lease? I don't understand, this is not a problem - as long as we have the legal ownership of the land, we can get back the right to use it, even if we have to pay ten times the liquidated damages, it is only ten copper coins.
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Douglas raised his eyebrows, confusion and weirdness written on his face.
Although he is a bit older and has not been exposed to business on the front line for a long time, as a member of the Gringotts Elf Council of Elders, Elder Leos cannot even think of this most basic trading rule, right?
unless……
Wait! Douglas's face changed, and the pipe in his hand trembled.
"Pay liquidated damages? Take back the right to use? Don't forget that there is still a law!"
The old goblin elder grinned, revealing sharp yellow teeth, and his wrinkled face was full of viciousness.
"Ever since we failed in the goblin war hundreds of years ago, human wizards have forced the goblins of Gringotts to sign a few regulations - except for the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, goblins are not allowed to own their own real estate; goblins are not allowed to own real estate.
You cannot engage in any trade except banking; goblins have no choice but to seize the wizard's property and territory for any reason..."
Sure enough, the more powerful the wizard, the more skillful he is in using these regulations.
Because these unequal laws were signed by the powerful human wizards of those generations through war. As the patron saint of today's wizarding world, Albus Dumbledore has no reason to forget those ancient results of war.
"There is no doubt that the mortgage of Hogwarts is an irreparable loss."
After a moment of silence, Douglas looked around at the goblins who were still denouncing the treachery of human wizards, knocked the table with the pipe in his hand, turned his head to look at Leos, and asked in a deep voice.
"So besides that...Did Dumbledore ever say what price we need to pay to convince the wizarding world to help and avoid Gringotts suffering a second loss because of stupid Muggle leaders?
"
"certainly……"
Leos sneered, and a look of ferocity appeared on his old face.
"The arrogant and arrogant human wizards actually proposed to obtain half of the equity of Gringotts as a reward for interfering in the internal affairs of the non-magical world... and there is no guarantee of success. This is simply..."
"Is it just half the equity? I think it's acceptable."
Before the old goblin could finish speaking, Douglas nodded thoughtfully, "Maybe we can talk about slightly lowering the equity exchange ratio to about 30% by exchanging some other resources."
"Douglas, what do you mean?!"
Hearing the words of the middle-aged director of the venture capital department, Leos narrowed his eyes and asked sinisterly.
"Do you want to sell out the interests of Gringotts in exchange for the qualification to be a dog under the hands of human wizards? Don't forget your own identity, or in other words, you want to follow the example of those traitors in America and become a magician
The world’s puppet?!”
At the same time, the entire conference room fell silent instantly.
The goblins who were still arguing and cursing stopped talking and turned to look at the head of the investment department who was sitting at the head of the conference room, their eyes shining with disbelief and annoyance.
"Sorry, in my opinion, this is exactly for the future of Gringotts and the goblins."
Facing the hostility that spread throughout the conference room, Douglas shrugged his shoulders and said unhurriedly.
"In the past few months, I have reanalyzed the information that happened in the non-magical world and the magical world. It is obvious that in my new model system, the possibility of the disintegration of the Soviet Union has increased from close to zero to a probability that cannot be ignored.
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"There is no doubt that the goblins in America are probably right in their bet! Once they absorb more than half of the capital from the non-magical world, they will expand at a speed that is unimaginable to us, and eventually they will annex Gringotts.
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"In order to prevent the goblin from becoming the second house elf, we must find a solution before that - not only to contain the group of traitors who surrendered to MACUSA, but also to find a way to resist the wizards..."
"Hmph! Let me guess..."
The corners of Leos' mouth twitched, and his eyes became colder.
"The way our smart supervisor came up with is to surrender faster than those traitors?"
"It's not surrender, it's cooperation. We need allies!"
Douglas shook his head and replied firmly.
"The calculations and deductions over the past few months, as well as the information you brought today, have strengthened my idea - only wizards can fight against wizards. A simple goblin has no chance of winning against a wizard."
After a slight pause, Douglas stood up and looked at Leos and the surrounding goblin executives.
"Since the wizards want equity, then give it to them! Only by completely linking their interests with us will they be prompted to pay the price to help us... I have analyzed that once the Soviet Union disintegrates, then we are very likely to...
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"That's nonsense! Lock up this traitor!"
Leos slammed the table hard and roared loudly, interrupting Douglas.
"Douglas, from now on, you are suspended! And your advisory board, suspended together! During this period, the Gringotts Council of Elders will take over your previous work - the goblins will never compromise with human wizards and traitors, war