HP’S PARALLEL WORLDS - Chapter 31
“Two organizations with completely different political views and positions, and the headquarters of these two organizations are located in Germany and France respectively, in the face of the smugglers from these two countries, Violet, what do you think they are trying to do by coming all the way to England?”
After reading the wanted notice on the board with the two men beside him, he let Hetty use the Phantom Shift to bring all three of them back to the country house, and Vincent actually had a very superficial guess as to what they were looking for in England.
“Do you think it’s possible that it could be the magic stone?” In the course of going through the books in Violet’s study in the last few days, he had already learned about the French alchemist Nick LeMay from those books with the scent of ink.
“The magic stone?” Because the first part of the original novel is entirely around the relationship of such a magical item, so the fact that the first immediately associated with the magic stone, but Violet quickly shook her head, that this idea should not be correct.
“According to the information we know from the books, the magic stone is a magical substance, its two most prominent functions are used to turn stone into gold and the manufacture of immortality medicine. However, do you think that for the wizards from these two organizations in France and Germany, these two most prominent functions that the magic stone has can really be of great use to their organizations?”
“Why not? That is a stone that turns into gold! Just having a magic stone is the same as having endless money to spend, do you think that such a large and huge amount of wealth is completely useless for a huge organization that wants to maintain itself properly?”
“…… The fact that you would say something like that is enough to show that you are completely devoid of any shred of knowledge related to economics.” As a standard science student, the knowledge of economics was limited to what was taught in high school politics, but Violet was able to use her shallow knowledge to answer Vincent’s questions.
“Material needs and spiritual needs, these are the two needs that an ordinary human being wants to satisfy in the course of his daily life. Delicious food, decent clothes, fun games, great movies, all these things can be sold at a price because they satisfy one’s material needs or spiritual needs, respectively.”
“All these goods that can be exchanged are created by human labor, which means that the things we buy with our money in our daily lives are actually the labor of others.”
“In primitive societies where there was no such thing as money, the most basic means for people to exchange the products of each other’s labor was to barter. But if you use your brain, you will find that this practice is very inconvenient and will bring great trouble to the transactions conducted between people. Therefore, in order to be able to facilitate both buyers and sellers, something like currency naturally emerged.”
“Fundamentally, gold is not a commodity created by people with their own labor, and the reason it can be used by us to buy all kinds of items is also all because gold, a hard currency, can be converted into coins and banknotes and subsequently taken to buy items.”
“In essence, the money we use is actually a labor equivalent. It can neither be used to eat nor drink, but it can be used to exchange for the labor output of others, depending on their denomination.”
“So, although the magic stone can turn stone into gold, but if it creates a large amount of gold, and thus makes gold no longer precious, but as ordinary as the stone everywhere, then, this does not have the characteristics of rare things, naturally can not be used as labor equivalent coupons, and then to exchange for other people’s labor output. ”
“Inflation, gold devaluation, such a future development, is the final result that any person who abuses the magic stone to create the so-called huge wealth for himself has to face. So, as long as one has a little bit of the most basic common sense economics, then the holder of the magic stone will understand that, although it is true that turning stones into gold can make oneself rich within a certain limit, but once there is too much gold in circulation, then, gold is also not worth anything at all.”
If you hold a high school politics book that Violet had studied in her previous life, then in fact you will soon be able to understand the basic knowledge of economics about value, price and so on, but Vincent at this moment does not have such a study material, but also generally understand what Violet means.
“So what you are saying is that if these two organizations from Germany and France, what they want to get is indeed the power of magic stones to turn stones into gold, then, since the accumulation of wealth within a certain limit does not really bring anything to the organization, and the accumulation of gold beyond this limit will inevitably lead to currency devaluation, therefore, even if they can successfully get magic stones, it would simply be impossible for them to accumulate sufficient funds for their organization’s activities as well as a large amount of wealth with the help of this magical substance, right?”
“Yes.” It was because in her previous life she had already learned what was called the nature and function of money, and therefore knew that a large amount of dotted stones into gold would merely merely devalue gold into stone, and Violet likewise did not think that such a function of creating an elixir of immortality could play any great role for these two foreign organizations.
“According to the books I have consulted, the magic stone made immortality medicine although indeed can guarantee a person immortality, but, in order to ensure that the person’s intelligence and not because of the increase in age and natural decline at the same time, this can smoothly maintain a person’s physiological functions continue to function of the magic medicine, but not to do eternal youth. ”
“It is no longer possible to have a cute baby fat like a small baby because of the rich collagen, and at the same time it is not possible to retain strong muscles and a strong body like those young and strong, people who take immortality pills will have a weakened body along with the passage of years.”
“Sagging skin, wrinkles, osteoporosis, easy fractures, all of these things that can affect a person’s quality of life will show up in the body of someone taking immortality pills. So, I think it makes more sense to keep yourself in the valuable state of being old and strong as much as possible through reasonable means of health care than to have hundreds of years of life.”
In a previous life when reading the original novel, and even watched the novel’s two biographical films, Violet is clear in the film to see lived hundreds of years of Nick LeMay, what kind of a physical state.
“But just shaking hands with each other, it is also entirely possible that in the process may lead to their own fractures, do you think that such a state of survival for people who are trying to overthrow the existing regime and create a whole new world with their own strength, is a way of life that they are willing to accept?”
I have not heard of any villains in the European magic world like Voldemort in the original novel, because the magic backfired but never died, so they want to use the magic stone to create a new body for themselves, Violet insisted that these wizards smuggled into Britain, their goal should not know where the magic stone is hidden.
“Well, anyway, no matter what exactly the people of these two organizations came here to find, these things are not our turn to worry about at all, after all, there are people from the Ministry of Magic top to deal with as well as investigate. So, let’s put this topic aside now and get ready for dinner!”
Not satisfied with the lunch the three of them had at Diagon Alley at noon, Hetty had in fact already conceived the menu for today’s dinner, and only needed to use magic to make a very generous table in just half an hour.
However, while Violet and Vincent were also putting the French and German wizards behind them, Hetty, who had opened the kitchen cupboard in search of some kind of condiment that was not usually used in the interior, noticed something unusual in the kitchen when she casually raised her eyes.
“Honey? Why is the honey in the kitchen gone?”
Even when making dishes such as sweet and sour pork, the raw material used is white sugar, and Hetty knows very well that honey is not useful for a long time in her little master’s house.
The two jars of honey were empty, clean, and not a single bit left, and even the jars were clean as if they had been washed with water.
“I don’t suppose you’ve eaten the honey?” Not having touched it herself, and having been able to confirm from Hetty’s statement that she hadn’t touched the honey in the house either, Violet asked Vincent for confirmation, even though she didn’t think the disappearance of the honey had anything to do with Vincent.
“I didn’t touch it at all.” While giving this answer and pondering when he had last seen two jars full of honey, Vincent was absolutely certain that after the house and field had been protected by the Red Heart spell, yesterday to be exact, the two jars of honey were still in good condition, staying where they were supposed to be.
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