Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2457 "Out of the Jungle" (2)

   This is often the case when things are going well.

Georgiana stood by the lake, watching the ducks swimming back in the lake again, Bonaparte canceled the draft plan of 1802, and issued a decree exempting certain people from military service, it seemed that he would never again War is launched.

   Likewise, if the Louisiana takeover goes well, it's the Americans who think everything goes well now, and they can easily get loans to expand in the West.

After years of development, the East has become a bit crowded, not to mention that Jefferson also has his own "utopia", that is, a world composed of farmers who are not exploited by nobles and lords, and this acquisition is successful, he will allow the Republican Party to gain more seats, not only Re-elected president, whatever bills he wants to pass are also smooth.

  The key to the slave trade is credit. Slaves can be regarded as a kind of movable property and can be used as collateral. Even if the slave owner himself goes bankrupt, the bank can take the slave away and sell it to the next person.

As long as this system is legal and exists, those investors who bought French grain bonds will not give up. Their purpose is to coerce France to sell Louisiana. Without those "white gold" as raw materials, even if they build factories, they will be There will be no material shutdown, and the price of cotton will also increase due to market supply and demand, and then a series of domino effects, when many people will lose their jobs.

  Napoleon prohibited British merchant ships from docking at the port, but he could not stop smugglers from launching small boats and docking on the beach, where they could sell cotton directly to French farmers.

But the harm of smuggling is still much less than the harm caused by the 1786 trade treaty. Even the Irish saw the huge benefits and wanted to share the food with the English. At this time, the British Parliament said that Ireland and England are not one in the trading system.

  Why give others a bite when you can eat it alone? Who would want to play with such a person? Russia and England are competing for the hegemony of the Baltic Sea. Once Prussia, the protector of the neutral alliance of North Germany, chooses to surrender to France, the military deterrence formed by the British bombardment of Copenhagen will not be able to produce an advantage in trade.

  The war is actually on the verge of breaking out, and it's too early to feel relieved, but Georgiana won't tell the bankers directly. That will make them lose confidence quickly, let alone expansion, it is not bad to be able to disband the company without withdrawing capital.

   "Mrs."

  Georgianna turned around.

   "You can call me Georgiana," she said to the visitor.

   Bridge and Engineering School Principal Kret laughed without saying a word.

   "Are you satisfied with the new office location?" asked Georgiana.

   "Why are you here today?" Crater asked.

   "Just wanted to ask if you guys are comfortable living there."

   "I heard that you are a person who doesn't like to beat around the bush. Please tell me what your purpose is."

  Georgianna hesitated.

   "I heard that the purchase of food for disaster relief cost a total of 26 million francs."

   "Yes." Kret bowed and said, "There is also the bill owed to the Spanish bank by Your Excellency Lucien. No matter how much the King of Spain owes us, this money must be calculated separately."

  Georgiana remembered the bill of 10 million francs that Lucien gave her before, which was used for disaster relief loans in the previous dynasty, totaling 75 million francs. It is said that it caused exchange rate fluctuations at that time. The king died and the debt he owed was gone, but the money still had to be repaid, otherwise the new bank wouldn't be without Spanish and Portuguese.

   "Why so many releases!" Georgiana couldn't help asking.

   "The First Executive heard that there was also a 'Bread and Blood' movement in England. They thought that there was also a food crisis in England, so they bought a lot of British grains." Crater whispered, "Fortunately, it was stopped."

   She really had nothing to say.

   There is a saying that they tacitly understand that it is enough to sell Louisiana to pay the money. It seems that good luck is always attached to Americans.

   "Come with me." She said softly.

  Cret didn't say no, though he must be busy right now.

   They walked for a short distance along the lake where the ducks were swimming, without speaking, she was thinking about what topic to start the conversation with.

Inadvertently she saw the carriage passing in the forest, and then thought of Rothschild Bank, one thing she had neglected all the time, how the Rothschild Bank's cash truck was on the way with road robberies everywhere normal shuttle?

   "Is it safe here?" asked Georgiana.

   "If you mean is there anyone watching..."

   "No, I'm talking about robbers, thieves, robbers or something?" Georgiana said.

   "We haven't thought about this." The governor said, "In the past, only the gardener's family was guarding it."

   "Security is needed here."

   "Who are you going to introduce?"

  Georgianna had no idea either, as if neither the French garrison nor the Belgian National Guard would be appropriate.

  Some problems you don't think about, it's like it doesn't exist, it's like safety, some people take it for granted.

   "How much do you know about Rothschild's intelligence system?"

"The First Regent once told me that in 1700, the king of Spain died, he had no son, and the whole of Europe was paying attention to his last words, when the Spanish ambassador came to Versailles, and he told Louis XIV 'Pyrenees' The mountains cease to exist (IIn 'yaplusdepyrenees)', and when the mountain road to Italy is built, the Alps will also cease to exist."

  Georgianna thought for a moment.

   It is precisely because the "Pyrenees no longer exist" that the French will occupy northern Spain. In order to let them withdraw, Spain has a huge debt, and Godoy won the title of "Peace King".

  Because of the famine in France, Spain reduced the arrears with 2 million quintals of grain, which is already half of Europe's capacity.

  Although the Spanish ambassador said what Napoleon said to Peregault in a different context, because it was the sappers' picks that made "the Alps cease to exist".

   There is no such natural danger between France and Belgium, or the "natural border" of the Rhine, but there are vast forests and muddy roads in the way.

   At first, she was still wondering why a bridge builder could be the head of the new bank. She had forgotten that Kret had also worked in an insurance company, presided over the revision of the constitution, and the first land census and notarization.

   "Do you all like his style?" asked Georgiana.

   "I had already built a monastery and planned to retire from the world until I met Napoleon Bonaparte." Crater said with a smile.

   "What's his next plan?" asked Georgiana.

   "I don't know, do you know why Duke Abar came to Brussels?" Crater asked.

   "How do I know this?"

   "Isn't his box right next to you at the opera the night before yesterday?"

   she remembered, no wonder she met the adopted daughter of the former Duchess of Arbal in the hallway.

   "Do you need me to accompany you to visit?" Crater asked.

   "No, thank you, you can go do your work," said Georgiana, and Kret bowed, turned and left.

   After he left, Georgiana took a look at her attire. For the convenience of riding, she was wearing men's clothes. Is it suitable to meet the Duke's family?

   "Oh~ **** him." She murmured and left the lake too.

   (end of this chapter)