Chapter four hundred and ninety seventh simple conversion
As November approaches, the weather in the Scottish Highlands begins to turn harsh.
To be precise, this winter is not a comfortable and beautiful winter for people around the world. The sudden monsoon and the unexpected snowfall quickly extinguished the enthusiasm of the little wizards for the start of the Quidditch season.
aroused enthusiasm.
Outside Hogwarts Castle, the busy vegetable garden cultivation scene in the past has become much less common these days.
Only when it is time to take turns to maintain the vegetable garden, you will see several little wizards who have covered themselves tightly running out of the castle, hurriedly waving their magic wands to remove a little bit of the frost and snow in the ground, and stimulate growth
He glanced at the plants that were drifting in the cold wind, and then ran back to the warm castle as if fleeing.
The overall output of the Hogwarts vegetable garden has inevitably declined significantly.
However, apart from the minor twists and turns in Hogwarts, the Soviet strategy is progressing very smoothly.
Since the previous conversation in the principal's office, Elena has successfully assumed the identity of "prophet".
In this way, she finally no longer had to think hard about words and reasons as before, and tried to find ways to persuade Dumbledore and others to help promote the "Soviet Strategy" related matters.
After several weeks of planning and the saints running back and forth, there are now properties belonging to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in most of the densely populated cities in the Soviet Union.
Perhaps, using the word industry to describe it is not quite accurate yet.
Because these stores are still empty shells and have not carried out any commercial activities. They have just completed the land purchase procedures and have just begun to carry out unified store decoration.
According to the ideas of Elena and others, the time for these shops to really start to launch will have to wait until the red hammer-and-scythe flag falls from above the Kremlin forever, and the behemoth Soviet Union is completely turned into history.
It would be too easy to cause unnecessary trouble if we open in advance.
On the other hand, due to various reasons, the names of the owners of these properties cannot be Hogwarts.
Therefore, under Elena's strong suggestion, a multinational group called "Schicksal" quietly appeared in the world - the group company's original registration place was Salzburg, Austria.
There are currently only two members of the group's board of directors, Mr. Otto Apokalis, who was born and raised in a harmonious neighborhood, and whose son and daughter have both died... and his little granddaughter, Theresa Apokalis.
By the way, "Schicksal" according to the German translation, means destiny.
However, Elena prefers to call it - destiny.
At this moment, the two actual helmsmen of [Destiny] are having a serious negotiation.
"If this continues, the potato reserves may not be enough..."
Elena looked through the recent list of supplies in the kitchen warehouse, and tapped the cardboard in her hand with some distress.
After all, Hogwarts students are not farmers who depend on the farmland. In the face of the cold weather, most students still choose to simply cope with the situation. This is what everyone does anyway. This can be regarded as a disadvantage of eating from a big pot.
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Therefore, the most intuitive impact of the severe cold weather is that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry can no longer maintain its previous high-efficiency crop production capacity - being able to barely maintain the supply of vegetables and fruits for the entire school is already an extraordinary achievement.
Even the botanical garden of Hufflepuff College, which loves plants the most, froze to death and frostbitten many plants in this snowstorm.
As for the Gryffindor house's potato field, which was originally in a semi-stocked state, its production has been reduced to a quarter of the original level. There are more girls, the pampered Ravenclaw house, and a large number of tropical crops,
Not to mention the miserable situation of Slytherin House, a subtropical plant.
"This is normal. Wizards are not farmers. You can't let them use magic to grow potatoes in the snow for a group of unrelated people - even Albus can't put such harsh requirements on the students.
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Grindelwald shrugged and said calmly.
"Just a little less. Anyway, among so many Muggles, you only really need a few people."
Compared to Elena's troubles, Mr. Otto, as the chairman of [Destiny], is obviously much more indifferent.
Although he also knew that the reduction in potato production would affect the execution of many subsequent plans, for Grindelwald, using wizard power to save Muggles was not something to be happy about.
Whether he saved 100,000 Muggles or killed 100,000 Muggles, there was not much difference in Grindelwald's eyes. All he pursued was whether these things could contribute to the wizarding world or the future of wizards.
What changes will it bring?
Even deep down in his heart, Grindelwald was secretly chuckling over Elena's predicament - magic shouldn't exist to benefit Muggles. If he wasn't facing this little devil,
He would have laughed at it before.
Elena glanced at Grindelwald who was gloating about his misfortune, but she didn't feel too angry.
The little wizards at Hogwarts were originally a group of greenhouse flowers who had been enjoying success since childhood. The output ratio in the first two months had already surprised her. Now they are just returning to the original capitalist plan.
"Calling all idle house elves...reduce the daily maintenance of the castle and devote themselves to the maintenance of the vegetable garden...expand the area of Gryffindor's potato fields...I hope that before the end of December, Hogwarts
The potato hoard weighs 3 million tons..."
House elves are pitiable, but now is not the time to pity them.
As a top student who graduated in quantitative economics, Elena is very aware of the importance of food in the coming catastrophe. Ever since she learned about the huge advantages of the magic world in farming, she has been calculating the values in this area.
Potatoes are the most common staple food for Europeans, and they are also the cheapest and easiest to grow among crops.
Half a pound of potatoes is enough for an adult to consume the energy needed for a day and night. As long as they are stored properly, potatoes can even be stored for up to fifteen years without deteriorating. They are truly a first-class strategic food reserve.
With the fertile Scottish black soil, coupled with the cost-effective dragon dung fertilizer, Hogwarts' potato unit yield can easily reach the range of about 1.5 tons per mu - slightly lower than the standard of high-quality potato fields in later generations.
Yield (2 tons/mu).
At the same time, with the blessing of the magic spell, the entire potato cycle from planting to maturity only takes less than a week.
It is known that the area of one acre of land is roughly 666.66 square meters when converted into international standard units.
Approximately one-tenth the size of a Quidditch pitch (or a standard football field), Gryffindor College’s potato field is about ten acres in size. In addition, the other three colleges also plant part of it.
of potatoes.
Just by combining all the known conditions above, any junior high school student who can pass mathematics can estimate the number of potatoes in the Hogwarts vegetable garden in ideal conditions during the four months from September to December in half a minute.
total output.
And what does the three million tons of potato reserves mean?
This means that under the condition of minimum living security, Hogwarts can bear the daily consumption of 60 million people... You must know that the total population of the former Soviet Union at this time is less than 300 million, which is already a quite terrifying figure.
proportion.
You must know that this part of the food is not allocated from the total amount of food already available in the non-magical world. For ordinary people, this is like a gift given by God out of thin air. It can cause impact and reversal.
The power can be imagined.
But for Elena, before everything is settled, these are just imaginations about the bright and happy future prospects. Whether it is war or a happy ending, it is still unknown.
She and Hogwarts still need to wait patiently for the last minute of time to arrive...
"...How are Gringotts' recent developments?"
After Elena decided the future work content of the house elves in a few words, she turned her head and looked at Grindelwald again, and proactively asked about the latest movements of the greedy elves.
At this dusk when the situation is uncertain, any small change may cause a wave that determines the size of the entire situation.
Although she has never paid much attention to the Gringotts Goblins, Elena still needs to pay a little attention to them considering their status as important tools for rebuilding the financial system in the future and redistributing interests after this turmoil.
At least……
Don't let them die too quickly, lest third-party peepers pick the fruits in advance.
With regard to the grasp of the financial market, as well as the grasp and manipulation of macro currency wars and exchange rate games, Elena's professional abilities in this era can be said to be a star-level existence that one person can crush an era - this has nothing to do with
Wisdom comes purely from the vision and lessons learned from countless black swan events since then.
Of course, the more important point is that as long as you can predict the future in advance, you are invincible in the financial market.
Simply put, as a time traveler, Elena is invincible in this field.
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