Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

"From today on, you are me, the founder of the Umbrella Company. You participate in some Muggle social occasions that need to be attended on my behalf. Those matters that require my direct intervention, I will appear as you, I understand. ?"

Before going to see Patrick, Murphy gave Boris a heads-up.

"You have given me too much power. If you let me participate in all these external activities, aren't you afraid that I will replace you?" Boris asked.

"Since you already understand that the R\u0026D center is the core of the protective umbrella, and since you have seen the Magic Research Institute, you naturally know what I really want. External glory has nothing to do with me, but will cause trouble and distract me. force."

"Money and these companies are just tools. If you can really replace me and help me maintain this big external business, so that I only need to focus on results and output, I actually want it."

In fact, Murphy is now more like an investor, except that the return on investment that ordinary investors need is money, but the return he wants is some knowledge that can be used to understand magic obtained during the research and development process.

At a lakeside villa, Murphy and Boris met Patrick.

As one of the founders of a star company, Patrick is now full of honors and worth a lot of money. After recruiting many talented professional managers, he no longer needs to personally participate in daily management. .

And this also gave him more time to think about the company's future strategic direction.

Seeing Patrick, Murphy felt a little emotional. He had been working with him for two years and they had always been very happy together. Today might be the last time he sees him in his true form.

Patrick was a little curious about Boris, but Murphy only explained that he was his bodyguard - the latter's size made this argument very convincing.

The two drank tea and chatted for a while, and then went fishing at the lake.

"I bought this lake," Patrick pointed to a large body of water in front of him. "It's not expensive. I never knew there was such a place near London."

"The scenery is really good," Murphy said.

The lake is not very big, but there is a hill next to it, covered with coniferous plants. At a glance, there are mountains and water, which reminds Murphy of the Black Lake in Hogwarts.

It had been just over two years since graduation, but he seemed to have been gone for a long time.

Maybe go back and have a look sometime? Or it would be nice to be a guest professor when you have time.

Forget about Defense Against the Dark Arts, but it would be quite exciting to tell the juniors about the Muggle world and teach them some homemade spells.

I just don’t know if Dumbledore will reject me like he rejected Tom.

Hmm... He probably won't make the same mistake again. It's better to keep a possible Dark Lord under surveillance than to let him do whatever he wants, right?

With all these thoughts in his mind, Murphy became a little distracted when fishing, and didn't even notice when the fish bit the hook.

Patrick looked at the swaying fish float and did not remind him, "What's the matter? Are you worried?"

Murphy thought for a moment and said, "Patrick, what would you think if I told you that I am a wizard and that the white medicine and other things we make are actually very common magic potions in the wizarding world?"

Patrick was stunned for a moment, "The efficacy of white medicine is indeed similar to that of magic. If you say that, I probably won't be too surprised."

"Aren't you surprised that I can use magic?"

"Unless you turn me into a rabbit."

Murphy was amused. He took a deep breath and took out his wand, "You have worked hard all along. Also, it is a great honor to cooperate with you. Forget about it!"

After several passes of Legilimency and the Oblivion Spell, Murphy replaced all the images of himself in Patrick's mind with Boris.

Then, he fished quietly by the lake, waiting for Patrick to wake up.

After waiting for three hours, Murphy caught two fish. When the sun was almost setting, Patrick woke up.

And Murphy has also used Polyjuice Potion to look like Boris.

"Sorry, did I fall asleep just now?" Patrick rubbed his slightly groggy head and seemed to have slept for a long time.

"Patrick, you are old, you can even fall asleep while fishing."

Patrick's face darkened, I'm only forty, why am I so old!

Murphy put down the fishing rod and said: "We caught a lot of fish and you woke up. Let's talk about business. Didn't we ask you to buy a few electronics and software companies before? How about it? Are there any that you are optimistic about? "

"There are several, such as Inmos in the chip field, Sinclair Research in the personal computer field, Fantasy Technology in the chip design field, etc."

"Oh, by the way, you mentioned before that you were looking for talents in computer networking. I also found one, Tim Berners-Lee. He is engaged in physics, but some friends from Oxford told me that he recently We are working on a computer network that wants to connect the internal laboratories of GERN (European Institute for Nuclear Research), using a technology called hypertext..."

"Who are you talking about?" Murphy was shocked.

"Tim Berners-Lee, do you know him?" Patrick was also a little surprised.

Turing Award winner, inventor of the World Wide Web!

As a practitioner in this field in his previous life, Murphy has never been involved in theoretical research, but he has still heard the name of the father of the Internet.

It turns out that the Internet didn’t exist yet!

"We must pull him over!" Murphy said, "Give him whatever resources he needs. I want the Internet to be born in the hands of the umbrella company."

"By the way, buy those companies you just mentioned. Do they have their own chip factories?"

Chip manufacturing is an extremely large industry, from top-end IP core design, to IC architecture, to the wafers, photolithography machines, and photoresists required to produce chips, and then to the actual chip manufacturing and subsequent packaging and testing. Etc., each link is considered a segmented industry, and in each segmented industry, there are a large number of technology companies around the world involved in life and death.

In order to reduce costs, many chip companies actually do not produce chips, but only design IC chips. There are not many manufacturers that actually manufacture chips, so Murphy wants to ask if they have their own chip factory.

"Inmos has its own chip factory, and Fantasy Technology seems to be doing the most cutting-edge IP core design," Patrick said. "However, we may not be able to afford Inmos."

"ah?"

"Inmos has always been funded by the government. The British government alone has invested more than 200 million pounds in total. Although it has never achieved profitability, it owns eight chip factories and its valuation is around 700 million pounds. Even if it is sold at a low price , it will also cost more than 600 million pounds."

hiss……

As expected of the chip industry, the units are measured in billions.

The Umbrella Company has become a terrifying money-making machine with its Baiyao series and Venus series. Its operating income last year was as high as 300 million pounds, and it is still growing rapidly. However, it has built a biotechnology R\u0026D base and a mansion equipped with the most advanced experimental equipment. Recruiting top researchers, etc., is all a waste of money, and the umbrella company really doesn't have much disposable funds at the moment.

If we don’t raise funds, we really can’t afford it.

"Boss, why do you want to make chips?"