Mysterious Journey
Chapter 678: Green, Green!
"…In short, thank you very much for supporting my proposal, Mr. President!"
Aileenna put away the signed parchment contract on the table and said quite happily.
"I've estimated that the minimum number of staff required for the current scope of business is around ten to fifteen people. Since the work of various associations has not yet officially started, the actual situation cannot be determined at this time—in my opinion, it's best to separate the middle-level personnel of the four associations from the beginning, and avoid having too many people holding multiple positions."
The field of industry regulations in the magical world is largely blank, almost in a completely barbaric and disordered state.
However, in the initial stage, Aileenna did not intend to completely build the framework all at once.
On the one hand, this is because the application of non-magical world systems in the magical world requires a lot of time and practice to test and modify in terms of feasibility and specific details. On the other hand, the original accumulation of capital is always somewhat bloody.
Faced with such a completely undefended blank field, seizing market share first, using the gaps where rules have not yet been established to allow the snowball to quickly grow into an unstoppable avalanche, and then turning around to formulate rules and clarify the boundaries of various behaviors is the most correct approach—after all, most rules are slowly improved after inadequacies are discovered.
Whether it is Quidditch matches or research fields, they are much the same in this regard.
"The Magical Creature Protection Association, the Magical Creature Association, the Magical Creature Product Safety Regulatory Association, and the Magical Creature Council, a total of four organizations, respectively involved in nature protection, academic research, commercial development, and political response."
Aileenna counted on her fingers, explaining patiently one by one.
"Given that industry norms have not yet been established and social acceptance needs a period of time to ferment, your main focus in the next stage should still be on the former two, which you are also good at. As for the remaining two, leave them to me and Professor Dumbledore for the time being. The standardization of the commercial market needs to promote legislation, and legislation requires negotiation with the various Ministries of Magic…"
"…"
Newt Scamander's lips moved slightly, hesitating to speak.
In fact, he had seen the hidden trick in the part of the girl's words that she had not finished.
The real subtle part is commercialization and politics!
In any world, economic interests are always the most dangerous piece of cake.
Especially attempting to set the rules for cutting the cake, and negotiating with so many different countries and regions' Ministries of Magic to get them to support this seemingly thankless public welfare behavior, is even more difficult!
Even Albus Dumbledore may not have that much influence after leaving Europe.
However, after hesitating for a while, Newt did not say this.
Anyway, these are all issues that Aileenna Kaslana needs to consider. For him, as long as he can get enough support from Gringotts and the magical world, and have resources to further promote magical creature protection and research work, that is enough.
Moreover, if his reminder makes this little witch realize something in advance, it may have the opposite effect.
In Newt Scamander's view, Aileenna, with her radical and advanced ideas, is somewhat unsettling, but the Ministry of Magic officials who frequently shirk responsibility and make bureaucratic excuses are not a vulnerable group worthy of sympathy and protection, so let the two fight it out.
"Aragog breeding base and Dragon Sanctuary are too conspicuous, you should start with some inconspicuous places, do you think the edible value of Knarl is higher, or the commercial value of Chizpurfle is easier to enter the market?"
"I don't think any of them are a good idea, I wouldn't choose any of them if it were me."
Newt frowned subconsciously and replied grumpily.
"People take food as their heaven, physiological needs take precedence over all higher needs…"
Aileenna muttered to herself, completely ignoring Newt's resistant attitude.
"Pork isn't that strange of a food type. There are already quite a few pork varieties in the world. However, magical creature quality pork should still have some differences. The growing environment is in ordinary pigsties, but a part of the changes appear in the legs and body trunk. This shows that its tamability and edible potential are quite high…"
"This Knarl is very suitable as a specialty of the magical world's animal husbandry for research!"
Aileenna can only roughly guess at the moment. As for whether it can be raised on a large scale and whether it is delicious, it depends on the results.
However, from the current point of view, this research material should be more suitable.
At least for both the magical world and Newt, studying Knarls, common magical creatures with little value and danger, will not cause too much opposition, and they are not cute either.
Moreover, pork is quite common on people's tables. Even if they know it is a Knarl, it's still okay.
The only problem is that this Knarl may not be so easy to drive and keep in captivity…
"Originating from rural America, afraid of white dogs…"
Aileenna thought thoughtfully, then suddenly her eyes lit up, "A fully grown Fluffy should be enough to deter most magical creatures, right? If Knarls are even afraid of ordinary white hunting dogs, then there's even less to say about Fluffy."
Newt Scamander's cheeks twitched, but he didn't say anything.
Aileenna carefully looked at the expression of the magical creature master next to her and smiled with satisfaction.
"That should be right, magical creatures should be dealt with by magical creatures, so it can be like this…"
"No one has ever tried this before…"
Newt Scamander said sullenly.
Most magical creature taming is indeed not that simple.
However, Aileenna has obviously chosen a fairly low-difficulty target. The trouble with Knarls lies mainly in their destructive power to farms and their speed. In terms of rapid growth and feeding, they are much better than ordinary domestic pigs.
As an ancient weapon of war, Fluffy is too easy to deter a group of Knarls.
The smile on Aileenna's face became even brighter.
"Mr. Newt, those North American Long Legs you raised… um…"
Looking at Newt's suddenly changing expression, Aileenna suddenly changed the subject and asked with a chuckle.
"This kind of magical Knarl should be a legally sold magical creature, right? A non-prohibited type?"
"Yes, it does not belong to the category of prohibited transactions."
"Since you are so good in the field of magical creatures, you should know where to buy Knarls, right?"
Newt Scamander pursed his lips, turned his gaze away, avoiding Aileenna's eyes.
"Not sure, I haven't bought magical creatures for a long time!"
"You're really not good at lying!"
Aileenna's mouth curled up, her eyes flashing with a charmingly cute light.
"Gringotts Wizarding Bank is very rich, you know that! However, the goblins' orders are usually quite rough. Once the content is released through Gringotts, then the number of acquisitions must conform to the identity of the bank... Even the lowest order will receive at least nearly a hundred transaction applications. This disorderly trading market is prone to causing a lot of trouble."
Newt Scamander tilted his head slightly.
Aileenna raised her finger, shook it gently, and said meaningfully.
"Large-scale acquisitions of magical creatures are not common, and wizards cannot grasp the completion of orders. This means that a considerable amount of hoarding and waste will occur each time... For example, if I announce that I want to acquire fifty Knarls now, five hundred Knarls may be caught and sent over, and the remaining four hundred and fifty will…"
"Stop! Enough!"
Newt Scamander took a breath and said sullenly.
"I remember now, I have a few friends who work at the Ministry of Magic, responsible for expelling Knarls that appear in the non-magical world. They should have a lot of Knarl information there! You can go directly to them to cooperate and buy!"
He finally felt the horror of Aileenna's "power of money."
And what the girl had been emphasizing, the meaning of the safety supervision association of the magical creature product trading market, and the corresponding market rule framework perfection—a marginal market, even legal transactions will become sins.
He vaguely knew what Aileenna was about to say.
However, he did not intend to seek confirmation from the girl's mouth once.
For so many years, in addition to Gringotts, scattered magical creature acquisitions have always existed, whether it is wand shops like Ollivander, those potion material shops in Diagon Alley, or individual wizards without shops.
In the magical world, there are not many opportunities to earn extra money.
Hunting those non-dangerous magical creatures is undoubtedly the safest and fastest way!
With decades of magical creature protection experience, Newt initially thought he was only resisting poachers, but as time went by, he finally realized that what he was fighting against was the material needs that the entire magical world was constantly generating.
Because of this, Newt was disheartened and resigned from the Ministry of Magic, hiding away from the world.
However, now Aileenna's appearance seems to have brought a glimmer of new turning point.
"Gringotts... market supervision... balanced transactions…"
Newt Scamander softly repeated the content Aileenna had just said.
Since it is impossible to completely eliminate and eliminate human demand for magical creatures, it is better to increase the artificial source of magical creatures on the one hand and clarify the supply and demand quantity on the other hand to avoid unnecessary excessive hunting.
So, is this one of the ways that this mixed-blood Veela is protecting magical creatures?
Aileenna looked at Newt, knew that her remarks had taken effect, and smiled brightly.
"Don't worry, I'm not a wasteful person! I will only take as much as I need, which is also a concept I have always followed... Otherwise, I would not be able to become the Goblin Queen, right? Gringotts hates waste extremely."
Newt Scamander did not comment, but asked in a deep voice.
"Then, before the Knarl… um, 'research' is completed, you won't be involved in other categories?"
"It depends on the situation, I can't completely promise you, because if time and energy allow, I may consider conducting one or two species research at the same time, but I estimate that in recent times, it will be temporarily limited to Knarls."
Aileenna shrugged and said helplessly.
"I only have so much time in a day, and I have to go to the Quidditch national team for training during the day, unless… you are willing to help me with the research? After all, in this regard, Mr. Scamander, you should also be interested…"
"Totally not interested! I still have to pay attention to the [Magical Creature Protection Association] and the [Magical Creature Association]."
Newt replied without hesitation, he would not do such a thing to help the wicked.
Aileenna nodded and replied casually, "That's fine too, anyway, you can change your mind at any time. Then, for the next period of time, please take care of me, dear President, Chairman."
Grandpa, Mr. Newt... his name has turned green...