Chapter 56 Windfall and Christmas gifts

This trip to Eastern Europe went well.

When Jack returned to New York, Charles Murphy's home, nearly two weeks had passed since Christmas, and his vacation was coming to an end.

This journey has been very rewarding for him. After witnessing the fall of the red giant, he and other Western financial institutions ate on the giant's corpse and was very happy.

In fact, his operation is not complicated - in the Soviet Union, he used the identity of Charles, with sufficient assets as collateral, to lend a large sum of rubles in the bank of the Soviet Union - about five million rubles, agreed to be delivered in US dollars , and then repay the bill in rubles—of course, he could not avoid using special methods such as Confusion Charm and Misdirection Charm, otherwise, as an individual, he would not be able to compete with those formal financial institutions in this regard.

He then received about $5.5 million in cash. The next step is to wait.

On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev announced his resignation from the presidency of the Soviet Union; on December 26, the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Russian Federation became the only successor state of the Soviet Union. All the properties, deposits, diplomatic institutions, embassies and consulates of the former Soviet Union overseas were taken over by Russia.

The Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 countries: the three East Slavic countries, the three Baltic countries, the five Central Asian countries, the three Transcaucasian countries, and Moldova.

An era is over.

After that, the ruble plummeted four or five times in a week, that is to say, the

$5.5 million today is equivalent to more than 20 million rubles, and he only needs to take out five million of the repayment payable. , the rest is pure profit.

It's like a bank robbery -- no, there's no such thing as a bank robbery.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was left with nothing but an empty shell.

The wealth accumulated over the decades in the Soviet Union was swept away by Western bankers.

If Jack has enough time, he can wait a few more months, when the inflation rate in Russia is as high as 2000%, that is to say, the five and a half million dollars in a few months is equivalent to hundreds of millions of rubles , he could earn more.

Unfortunately, what he lacks now is time.

However, a 20-fold drop would increase his income by a quarter at most, which is equivalent to about a million dollars. Although this amount of money may seem a lot, he has now earned more than four million dollars. It has been enough for him to spend a while, there is no need to spend the time and energy of learning magic for this extra million.

Then, he did a bit of a sweep of the Russian store, and it came back full of rewards.

Due to the economic crisis, Russia's luxury goods, handicrafts and other industries are in depression: everyone does not even have money to eat, where is the money to spend?

This made Jack cheaper. He bought a lot of local souvenirs and souvenirs at a low price with the dollars he had.

After all, in this case, the dollar is more valuable than the ruble, and the merchant would rather lose a little and receive the dollar than the ruble that will depreciate at any time.

Now, Jack and Orianna, who came back victorious, cleaned up Charles Murphy's house together, made some arrangements, and then poured the anti- petrification potion into his mouth.

Poor Charles finally returned to the state he was in before the petrification, but he still didn't wake up - before the petrification, he was also hit by Jack's stun spell, so it would take a while to get rid of the coma.

Taking advantage of this gap, Jack randomly fabricated a little memory of going on vacation to Eastern Europe and stuffed it into Charles' mind.

Since these memories are based on Jack's own personal experience, the authenticity is sufficient. Then he casts Confusion, Bewilderment and Amnesia on Charles in succession. In this case, Charles will be confused. Become forgetful and lost in a week so that he has no doubts about fragments of memory.

To add credibility, Jack also put half a bottle of vodka and half-burned leaves in the living room - these are easy to get in the US. He also left Charles many Eastern European specialties.

When Charles wakes up, he will feel that his memory is a mess, only a few fragments of traveling in Eastern Europe, but combined with souvenirs, vodka on the table and leaves, he will make up his own conclusions: he did

go to Eastern Europe. Had a vacation, but after returning to New York, I forgot a lot of specific details due to the confusion of my memory due to alcoholism and excessive flyleaf.

If he wants to check further, then his air tickets, consumption records, records of small-amount exchange of rubles, etc. can prove that he has indeed been to Eastern Europe - after all, these are all Jack putting his face on his face and using his identity You can't fake anything you do.

As for mortgage loans and shorting the ruble, there is no record in New York because it was done entirely in Soviet banks.

When Jack left Russia, he had already done everything, unless Charles came to Russia in person, found the bank accurately, and found the transaction in the bank's records - all the people involved in the transaction were later arrested. The oblivion spell was cast, but electronic and written records were left behind—otherwise he would never have known for the rest of his life that he "himself" had done so much in Russia.

As for whether he will be targeted by the KGB, held accountable by the Russian government, or refused entry into the country, this is none of Jack's business.

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When Jack returned to Wu's Orphanage, it was only two days before the holiday ended.

Returning to the orphanage and entering the familiar room, Jack was overwhelmed with emotion.

Four months ago, he was still an ordinary person, looking forward to becoming a big entrepreneur and the richest man in the world.

But now, four months later, he has entered the other side of the world and has become a real wizard.

Orianna looked around his room curiously, wanting to take a good look at the place where her dearest father had lived.

Himari was jumping around excitedly on the bed—she also missed this former home.

Jack found that his room was full of Christmas gifts, almost all sent to him by friends he met in Hogwarts - and of course, his huge fan base.

Since Jack spent a lot of time reading books in the public library and the library in the Ravenclaw lounge when he was at Hogwarts, everyone felt that books were the best gift for Jack.

He received about sixty books, and even the professors sent him some more advanced magic books, which were neatly stacked on the floor - more than twenty of them by Gilderoy Lowe. Hart's book, it seems that this guy is quite good at deceiving little girls.

Most of the members of the fan group sent chocolates and gift cards, of which there were almost 200 chocolates, enough for him to eat for a year, and more than 100 gift cards.

Of course, Jack would never dare to eat these chocolates easily, because there is no certainty which chocolates will be added with love agents - four or five of the chocolates he received when he was injured were added with love agents, fortunately He didn't eat any.

There are other gifts too, like Roger giving him a statue of Alasdair Maddock

the guy is the most successful team in the league - ace chaser of the Montrose Magpies The golfer and Roger's most admired player; Chang Cho gave him a set of posters of the Tatterhill Tornadoes - she was a big fan of the team; Hermione gave him a shorthand quill; Pene Luo gave him a hand- knitted scarf—according to her roommate, she had been secretly preparing it since a month ago, but she neither knitted it outside the dorm, nor let her

roommate Talk about it; and Dumbledore sends him a disgusting bag of cockroaches.

Seeing the unexpected pile of gifts, Jack was both happy and distressed.

Fortunately, this time, he made a fortune in Russia. Before returning, he bought enough souvenirs and souvenirs. If he took all these as a gift, it was just enough.

In addition, these souvenirs can also be used as proof of his travels - he also found several unanswered letters from Chang Cho, Hermione and Penelope in the gift pile, and made an appointment with them for the holiday before thinking of parting. Jack felt a headache after writing a letter to contact them. I hope these local specialties from Russia can calm their dissatisfaction.