Hogwarts: The Wizarding World's First Capitalist

"27.5%" Mr. Strauss was silent for half a second and immediately gave his answer.

Hearing this answer, a hint of imperceptible dissatisfaction flashed across Karl's eyes, and he asked in a low voice.

"Why, can you give a reasonable explanation?"

"After all, this plan sounds pretty good. It seems like everyone can benefit from it, and there's no need for war or other violent conflicts."

"Of course." Mr. Strauss said seriously without hesitation.

"This place does sound nice, even in some ways."

"If we exclude the condition of cooperating with Muggles, this plan would be very suitable for us."

"Because his plan will be of great benefit to the pure-blood wizard families who already have a lot of resources."

With that, Mr. Strauss began again his previous logical performance, using his magic wand to project a curtain of light in front of everyone.

On the fluorescent blackboard, he began to write and draw non-stop, lines of data and statistical curves.

Just like a program written into his brain in advance, it was presented to everyone smoothly.

"Look here, Mr. Hohenzollern's plan will slowly connect the wizarding world with Muggle events."

"This will lead to a very direct phenomenon. The commodities that were once ubiquitous in the magical world will begin to become scarce and their prices will rise rapidly."

"For example, the prices of raw materials for some potions that treat common diseases were originally very stable because the total number of wizards is limited."

"The inherent demand and market have already locked in the price ceiling for these raw materials, but if they are integrated with Muggle society."

"Then this market will expand hundreds or even tens of thousands of times in an instant. It is conceivable what kind of terrible wealth this will bring."

"And the way these wealth are produced, in addition to the magic of ordinary wizards, is the mountains and fields controlled by those noble families, as well as the shops all over the world."

"In the past, the wealth of a pure-blood wizard family might be no more than the total wealth of hundreds of ordinary wizards."

"But in the future, the wealth of a pure-blood wizard family may be equal to the total wealth of all ordinary wizards now."

Naturally, these words caused a shock in the entire audience. Several patriarchs of wizard families could not help but have golden lights in their eyes and lowered their heads to whisper to each other.

Others joked with each other.

"It seems that Dumbledore's successor really came up with a good idea."

"That damn old man Dumbledore has been advocating equality among wizards all his life. I didn't expect that the heir he chose would be such a genius."

"This is what it means to live too long and do too many bad things, and finally get retribution."

Although the voices of these discussions were not loud, they sounded a bit harsh to Carl. After all, he had promised a certain idiot who was still making a fuss.

I do all this not just for pure profit, there is also a little bit of ideal in it.

But now it seems that I was a little too idealistic.

So Karl, who refused to give up, defended himself to Mr. Strauss as calmly as possible.

"I admit that the data you just provided is indeed very convincing, but in this process."

"The total wealth of the entire wizarding world will also increase several times, and the average wizard's income will be much higher than it is now."

"It will also be a very significant improvement, so they shouldn't object."

Hearing this, Mr. Strauss just shook his head calmly and said with a wry smile.

"My dear lady, from my personal point of view, I am not very opposed to this plan."

"Because compared to the current magical world, which has not changed for hundreds of years and is almost stagnant."

"Although this plan cannot be called perfect, it can indeed push the wizarding world one step forward."

“But even if it’s progress, not everyone is willing to do it.”

"What a ridiculous idea." Carl frowned and said in a bad tone.

"The pursuit of progress, the pursuit of knowledge, and the pursuit of change are not only the qualities of wizards, but also the qualities of all human beings."

"It is also one of the most important ways that humans differ from animals. How could anyone refuse to progress and refuse to move towards a better life?"

Hearing this, the bitter smile on Mr. Strauss's face deepened a little. He had been waiting since the meeting started.

The old German man, who had always been a leader and full of rigor, competence and strength, now had only helplessness in his eyes.

He looked at Karl, shook his head slowly and asked.

"My dear young lady, I believe that you must be, unlike other wizards of noble birth, completely ignorant of Muggle society."

"At least you have a basic understanding of Muggle society. Then I want to ask, that society has undergone tremendous changes in the past 200 years."

"The subject called science almost dominates the current Muggle society, with all their bizarre inventions."

"The framework and foundation of today's society is almost entirely based on science, but why, why do so many people still believe in religion?"

“Why are there still many of them who are unwilling to touch their modern scientific products?”

"There will even be many organizations that are anti-scientific and anti-rational."

This question completely stumped Carl. This was the first time he was stumped by a wizard since he entered the magical world.

In the past, he was the only one who used the knowledge he had mastered to bully his lovely classmates.

I never thought that one day I would turn around and bully another person intellectually.

In an instant, his brain went blank, the memory palace started working at full power, and his entire brain turned into a supercomputer.

I started trying to solve the problem I encountered, but it was obvious that I had hit a bottleneck in the problem-solving process.

Mr. Strauss on the other side looked at the stunned Carl, just smiled, and then spoke.

"There is no need to think that way my dear lady. This question may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple."

"That is, the new era is not necessarily better."

"What do you mean?" Carl was still a little confused, including everyone else present.

They all looked at the gray-haired old man in front of them with the same puzzled look.

Feeling everyone's gaze, Mr. Strauss straightened his back and gave everyone an awkward yet polite smile.

Then he spoke in the tone of an elder reminiscing.

"You know, I'm already very old."