Chapter 218 Beginning

After hearing Mike's voice, Harrison stiffened suddenly, lowered his head and reluctantly returned to the podium.

Mike's eyes swept back and forth on his face, and the more he looked, the more familiar he felt, and he couldn't help but ask, "Have we met somewhere?"

"Boss, we met in Diagon Alley at the beginning of the month."

The expression on Harrison's face was very complicated, mixed with helplessness and a little bit of uncertainty, making him look a little pitiful.

It was only at this moment that Mike realized that Harrison was the kind man who had warned him about a robbery in Diagon Alley.

"Hahaha, it turns out it's you! We are really destined!" Mike laughed loudly, patting Harrison's shoulder hard and said, "You are very good, I think you still have room for improvement!"

Harrison was not tall, but he was almost the same height as Mike, who was already over 1.7 meters tall. Although he was still very nervous at this time, he was patted on the shoulder so "intimately" by Mike, who was the boss. He could only force out a fake smile to accompany his smile.

Mike didn't care how fake the smile on his face was, and then said to everyone in the audience: "Do you know why Harrison was asked to come up first to collect his salary? Because he is our outstanding employee this week, and the piece-rate bonus is Ranked first in the entire factory, reaching 5 gold galleons!

Therefore, in recognition of Harrison's outstanding contribution to the Dolphin Magic Drink Factory, I decided to give him an additional bonus of 1 gold galleon as a reward! "

As soon as Mike finished speaking, Shuke snapped his fingers again, and a golden Galleons flew into the hands of Harrison, who was in disbelief.

Everyone in the audience saw that Harrison really got gold galleons, or a huge sum of 14 gold galleons in total. Their greed for money once again overwhelmed their fear, which made them regain some vitality and started talking one after another.

Most of them looked expectantly at the pile of gold galleons on the stage, because later they would also go on stage and receive their share of the salary.

But there is still a small group of people who still maintain a distrustful attitude towards Mike, and these people are still lobbying others to join their ranks.

Mike knows that dealing with these people requires time and hard work. Eventually, as time goes by, most people will fall back into his arms, and he will not show mercy to the very few who are hopeless. .

"Okay, from now on, the person with the most piecework bonus every week will get a gold galleons bonus, so you don't have to be jealous of Harrison." Mike waved his hand, "It's getting late, let's continue the roll call!"

Following Mike's order, the people whose names were called in the audience happily ran to the podium. After receiving the coins given by Shuke and Beta, they excitedly ran back to their original positions and began to talk with each other. Companions around them share their joy.

And those who haven't been called yet are scratching their heads anxiously when they see those who have received the money showing off.

Finally, when the last person received his salary and returned to the team, Mike came to the center of the podium again.

At this moment, the attitude of everyone in the audience has changed drastically under Mike's kindness and power.

Originally, these people didn't have much respect for the brothers Mike and Weasley, but this was normal, because both Mike and Weasley were underage wizards.

If you were anyone else, if your boss was a child who has not yet reached adulthood, you would not be convinced.

It's different now. Mike fully demonstrated his abilities (powerful strength, huge wealth) to these employees and used them to conquer most of them.

Mike looked at the silence in the audience and nodded with satisfaction.

This is a good start. No matter how many people below pretend to obey him, it doesn't matter to him, because human beings will form habits, and some things will happen countless times once they are done for the first time.

"I believe everyone has already received their share of the salary, so now that the happy things are over, I'm going to start telling some bad news." Mike's expression suddenly became serious, "First of all, there is the issue of clothing. I know everyone When working, it is inevitable that some materials will be stained, so everyone wears their own old and unwanted clothes to work, but it looks too ugly, so I have prepared uniform work clothes for everyone!"

After speaking, Mike took out another traceless stretching spell bag and poured out a large amount of uniforms.

They say they are uniforms, but in fact these are casual clothes common in the Muggle world, and the color is uniform black.

The only difference is that the words "Los Santos Responsible Unlimited Magic Company" are printed on the clothes, pants and shoes.

Everyone in the audience breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the styles of these clothes.

They are all Muggle-born wizards, so they have a relatively deep understanding of the Muggle world. To be honest, they are really afraid that Mike will take out a lot of construction work clothes for them to wear.

"The next thing is that judging from your performance today, your behavior is very sloppy, and you don't have eyes for me as the boss!" Mike took out a piece of parchment and continued, "So I have decided that from now on, the employees in our factory will The following regulations must be observed:

When you see the boss, who is me, you must salute!

Don't talk while eating in the cafeteria!

From now on, you will have to wear work clothes all the time in the factory!

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The above are all the rules. If you violate the rules, you will be fined! The amount of this fine is temporarily set at 1 silver per time! "

Mike Balabala said a lot of rules, and everyone in the audience turned pale.

"Um, boss. I think..."

An employee in the audience couldn't help but want to persuade Mike, but before he finished speaking, Mike interrupted him and said: "I don't want you to think! I want what I think! You have to remember that I am your boss. You must obey my orders!"

Mike directly silenced the employee, but Mike seemed not satisfied yet, and continued: "Oh, by the way! You didn't raise your hands or salute when you just spoke. You will be fined 1 Silver Sickle, Fred. Mark it down for me."

This time the employee's face turned completely dark.

Mike's actions undoubtedly caused dissatisfaction among many people below. A young man with a childish face, as if he had just graduated from Hogwarts, shouted loudly: "I quit! This place is simply a prison! No!" Azkaban is ten thousand times better than here!"

His roar was particularly obvious in the silent auditorium, and the attention of everyone present was attracted in an instant.

However, before Mike could speak, a middle-aged wizard stepped forward and grabbed the young man, whispering in his ear: "Calm down! Don't be impulsive! This place is already full of idiots like us who have no ability and no background." This is the best job a melon wizard can find! If you act impulsively now, you will regret it later!"

When the young man heard this, the expression on his face froze and obviously relaxed a lot.

"Hmph! Just resign if you don't want to do it! Anyway, some people want to do it. One more of you is not more, one less of you is not more!" Mike snorted coldly and said, "There are still people who don't want to do it, they can come forward. It just happened that today After the wages are paid! You can take your wages and get out together!"

The expression on the young man's face became angry again, and he clenched his fists tightly. The strange thing is that he didn't take the next step. He just lowered his head silently. It seemed that he had listened to what the middle-aged wizard just said.

The reactions of others around him were similar. The expressions on the faces of the younger ones were not very good-looking, while the expressions on the faces of the older ones were more helpless and indifferent.

They are used to it.

Mike looked at the reactions of everyone in the audience and smiled with satisfaction.

Fortunately, there are no people born in the 1985s or 1990s in this group. If it were the young people born in the 1990s in the previous life, if Mike dared to yell at them like this, they would have resigned long ago.

"Okay, it's decided like this! You all line up to get your uniforms one by one, then those who should work go back to work, and those who should rest go back to rest!"

After Mike said these words, he stood aside, and then the employees in the audience came up to receive their uniforms.

When everyone who receives a uniform passes in front of Mike, he will salute Mike according to Mike's demonstration just now, and slap his heart with his right hand.

Mike noticed that most of these people were extremely stiff when saluting, as if they were a little embarrassed. A few people did it very naturally, and a very few even hammered their chests so hard that Mike couldn't help but take a breath.

Mike silently memorized the looks of these people. Talents like this who are good at flattering must be carefully cultivated.

After watching everyone receive their uniforms and the meeting ended, Mike returned to the conference room, took out a pen and parchment and started writing a letter.

There were many letters that Mike had to write, and apart from the supply price lists for various bars, restaurants and snack bars, the main ones were letters to Lockhart and Leta Skeeter to start the operation.

Now that Dolphin Magic Drink has a stable source of supply, it is time to start advertising and distributing goods.

Lockhart and Leta Skeeter's soft copy manuscripts have been written. Mike has read them and is very satisfied.

As soon as Mike's letter reaches the two of them, the report about Dolphin's magic drink will appear on the front page of the Daily Prophet early the next morning.

Lockhart will also begin sales of new book pairs at the same time.

On the other hand, Mike has not been idle these days. He has visited almost every store in Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade to persuade their store managers to buy Dolphin's Magic Drink.

Of course, except for some stores that had already cooperated with Mike and the Weasley brothers, other stores rejected Mike's request without hesitation.

Mike was not disappointed and asked these stores to display Dolphin's Magic Drink magic posters for a long time.

In this regard, these merchants originally did not intend to agree, but under Mike's money offensive, the vast majority of merchants finally agreed to Mike's request.

This is enough, and to be honest Mike is very satisfied to be able to do this.

He could even imagine that the day after the letters in his hand were sent, every wizard who came to a gathering place such as Diagon Alley or Hosmode would see overwhelming posters of Dolphin's Magic Drink. , and those wizards who stay at home will also know Dolphin's name from the Daily Prophet!

Dolphin's Magic Drink and Los Santos Company will become household names in the British wizarding world, and the price of all this is less than 5,000 gold galleons.

It’s a huge profit!

With such a large amount of publicity, Dolphin's Magic Drink will definitely become a trend in the next period of time. Coupled with its relatively expensive price, Mike can almost expect that Dolphin's Magic Drink will become a trend for those wizards with small assets. Items that families compare to.

When that time comes, those stores that originally rejected Mike's supply request will beg Mike to sell them goods.

With this in mind, Mike sealed all the parchments he had written. Finally, Mike went to the Owl Rental Shop in Diagon Alley and handed the letters to the staff and asked them to send them out immediately.

When Mike saw the large number of owls in the rental row, he suddenly thought of the exploited old owl Errol in the Weasley family, so he directly asked the staff to buy an owl.

However, what surprised Mike was that the staff actually rejected Mike's request and said that if Mike wanted to buy an owl, he would need to go to a pet store not far away to buy it. The owls they have here are all excellent employees who have undergone rigorous training. Not for sale.

Mike didn't believe a word of the staff's explanation. Judging from the attitude of wizards towards magical creatures, creatures like owls, which are not even magical creatures, are expendable at best to wizards. It's just a tool for sending letters. It's absolutely impossible to say how much I cherish it.

The only thing that can explain the clerk's behavior is that they have an ulterior deal with the pet store.

In desperation, Mike could only go to the pet store and buy an owl in its prime. The clerk assured Mike that the owl had been trained and he could start sending letters immediately after he bought it home.

This further deepened Mike's suspicion that there was a py transaction between the two stores.

Mike, who was not short of money, paid the money directly, returned to the factory with the sturdy owl named Carrot, and handed it over to the Weasley brothers.

The Weasley brothers are indeed representatives of the capitalists. When they learned that Mike wanted this young owl to replace the old owl in their family, they agreed without any hesitation, without any concern for the old owl who worked for their family. A lifetime of owl nostalgia.

In the end, Mike could only take Errol back to his home, dumbfounded.

When Mike returned home, the sky had darkened, and at this time many owls also brought Mike's letter to the recipient's hands.

As soon as they read the letter, Lockhart and Leta Skeeter began to write to inform bookstores and the Daily Prophet to let them publish their books and articles as planned.

In Diagon Alley and large wizard gathering places across the UK, shopkeepers who received the letters also took action and put up posters showing that Mike had long been compared to them.

Among them, Diagon Alley has the densest number of shops, so almost the entire Diagon Alley is covered with posters. At the same time, Weasley and the others were also busy. Together with Shukbeta, they sent Dolphin's Magic Drink through the Floo network to the shops that had already placed orders.

These Dolphin drinks were quickly put on the shelves, waiting for customers to come the next day.