Expansion and Preparing for War

The moment Thrak Grevis finished speaking, Remus could not help but let out a long, heavy breath. At last, the weight pressing on his chest had been lifted.

But then, a bitter smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Amosta had made it sound easy enough in his speech, but the amount of work involved was anything but small. For some time to come, he and Amosta would probably be unable to leave New York.

Since they had decided to grant marketing licenses to capable local magical families and workshops, the first task would be to quickly select a qualified group under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic Congress and the Department of International Magical Cooperation. This would undoubtedly affect many people's interests, and even the Cooperation Department itself might face internal struggles.

After the preliminary selection was complete, he would need to conduct background checks on those groups to confirm whether they were truly trustworthy. Fortunately, that could be handled through the goblins' intelligence network.

The hardest part would undoubtedly be negotiating with those groups: the amount of the franchise fee charged to distributors; the price at which distributors purchased goods from the workshops; technical guidance and patent licensing fees for groups interested in localized production; export pricing for the Learning Machine's core components; and negotiations over final retail prices...

Remus, who had been managing the workshop while studying diligently, was no longer a beginner who knew nothing about business. He understood that none of those matters would be easy to settle, and every item would lead to difficult negotiations.

After the meeting came both sides' statements and projections regarding the future of the trade agreement soon to be reached, an interview with the New York Ghostly Times, a meeting with Ms. Marcyll White of the Department