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Volume 5 Spanish Quagmire Chapter 84 Capture of Geruna (5)

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    Therefore, Candiola suggested that General Desai should scale up metal smelting at the source of canned production, intensify food breeding, and mechanize finished product processing within 15 months. While trying to ensure the production cost advantage, it is also necessary to improve  Productivity.  Be fully prepared to meet the challenges of the British Canners of the Future.  The analysis is spot on, the idea is good, and Desai is moved by what he said.  When the traveler asked the Jew how many riyals would be needed to complete this series of investments, the latter told Desai bluntly, "An initial investment of at least 3 million riyals can suppress the British production advantage in the future and continue to maintain and strengthen the Mediterranean canned market."  Absolute market monopoly." Desai shook his head and explained, "No money!" This was not an excuse, but the general had just been beaten by the emperor who was short of money not long ago.  At the Battle of Wagram in July, Emperor Napoleon finally defeated Archduke Charles' army.  Two weeks later, the Austrian Emperor ordered that his younger brother, Archduke Charles, be dismissed from his post as commander-in-chief. The domestic compromise forces headed by Duke Metternich once again rose up. They strongly encouraged the Austrian Emperor to declare a ceasefire to the French Emperor, and took the initiative to send envoys to negotiate with Napoleon.  Peace talks.  After mid-August, the large-scale fighting on the Danube River came to an end.  As for the remaining matters, let the diplomats of the two countries resolve it.  As the war subsided, Napoleon also stopped a new round of recruitment plans in France. The newly trained recruits would either join the National Guard or join the Spanish battlefield.  In September, in compliance with the emperor's order, more than 3,000 new soldiers from Toulouse Province will be stationed in northeastern Spain and handed over to the command of General Desai to complete the final formation of Desai's division.  The supply of troops is coming, and there will be no shortage of weapons. However, for the salary and supplies of the new recruits, the Paris Army Ministry requires General Desai to find a way to advance the payment first, and then reimburse him afterwards.  Because the peace talks with the Austrians have not yet ended, the members of the Paris Imperial Cabinet are counting on the huge war compensation from the Austrian Emperor to save the precarious French economy.  The canning industry also made a lot of money.  But in September, the emperor sent a letter to Desai, stating in no uncertain terms that he wanted to borrow money.  Since more than 50,000 French soldiers were killed and disabled in the Third Franco-Austrian War, their pensions were huge. Even if the Paris cabinet moved around, there was still a gap of 2 million francs.  After hearing that Desai had made money by digging a gold mine, Napoleon wanted to take advantage of the opportunity. In fact, this was the consistent style of the emperor himself.  Napoleon's favorite sister, Pauline.  Bonaparte, and the most trusted marshal, Jean.  Rana, the two of them wrote to Desai with only one purpose: to borrow 2 million francs without interest within six months.  2 million francs, equivalent to 10 million rials.  In addition to the 1 million francs that Princess Pauline gave him (Desai sent someone to the Bank of France to exchange the check for cash in early August), he also had to pay another 5 million rials, which was almost as much as Desai.  All of Saishi's existing belongings, plus two months' net income from the canned trade.  Desai did not dare to violate the loan request from the emperor. Perhaps the emperor was secretly punishing him for selling canned food to the British fleet.  In addition, Desai did not want to embarrass Princess Polina and Marshal Lana, the two lobbyists.  Therefore, he entrusted a lawyer to sign a loan contract with the Paris cabinet, promising to remit 2 million francs to the special cabinet account of the Bank of France before October 20.  Desai's division's pockets were empty, but Candiola believed there were other sources of wealth available.  After finishing the conversation with Desai, the Jew was still unwilling to give in. He thought of the French officers in other divisions and brigades. These people had been burning, killing and looting in Spain for almost two years, and they must have a lot of savings in their hands.  Candiola asked his son-in-law to make a plan. The latter thought this was also a good thing, especially since it could bring friendly officers closer to the Desai Division collectively.  Therefore, Weng and his son-in-law used the guise of the Desai Division to contact friendly forces in private, and they came up with this list of investors.  Desai also knew a thing or two about this. It was the Jewish son-in-law who took the initiative to talk to Major Chener about the matter.  Desai didn't expect to make much money if he went to work.  Unexpectedly, the Jewish son-in-law had a huge sum of 660,000 francs with nothing.  With the huge dividends brought by several canning processing sites in Safe Village, no one doubts that canning can make a lot of money.  Before, the friendly officers could not catch the first bus, but now they finally had a God-given opportunity, and they would not miss it.  Almost all officers have spent all their belongings over the past few years and are preparing to invest in a new round of can production in the hope of obtaining huge dividends.  If you want to play, just play something bigger.  Since the emperor wanted to exchange for the hard-earned money of the officers and soldiers of Desai's division, Desai no longer had any worries.  Napoleon was an idiot and a fool to believe that he would repay the loan in a few months.  The "Urlav Incident" a few years ago fully proved this point. Napoleon used a white note toHundreds of millions of francs were requested from Paris financiers to serve as national military expenditures against the Third Anti-French Alliance.  After the victory, Napoleon refused to repay the loan and threw a financier named Urlaf into prison on the grounds that the latter owed the Bank of France 62 million francs.  Therefore, it is better to use 2 million francs in exchange for some other compensation while the emperor has a good impression of Desai himself.  For example, creating a duke, transferring certain mining resources for free, giving free land for setting up factories, relaxing investment policies accordingly, reducing and exempting various taxes, and even acquiescing to some of one's own derailments, etc.  Having made up his mind, Desai said to Major Koehler: "Major, tell your father-in-law to spread the word that Count Desai, perhaps the future Duke Desai, has limited his investment scope to Catalonia.  The war zone, no, is all the French officers and soldiers in the Iblis Peninsula. Tell them that General Desai will build more and larger new factories in the Geruna area. In addition to canneries, there are also food seasoning factories.  Machinery manufacturing plants, metal smelting plants, mining quarries, and future ordnance factories and pharmaceutical factories. In addition, seaports will be built, as well as a large number of Mediterranean and Atlantic caravans. By at least February 1810, I will build.  Raise 8 million francs, or 40 million rials. Of course, the more the better. I also welcome financial investment from French businessmen, including indeed wealthy businessmen in Catalonia, and also, Jean Candiola.  Send someone to Barcelona and tell businessmen from France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Ottoman Turkey, and Egypt that General Desai needs to recruit a group of financial and management experts. There is no limit to the number of people because I will form a team.  A purely commercial management team that is completely separated from the military manages tens of millions of riyals in investment funds, formulates various investment plans, and can acquire several commercial banks when necessary Damn it, don't look like a fool and look out of curiosity.  Follow me and continue writing! In addition, I also need various engineers who are proficient in steam machinery, weapons manufacturing, geological exploration, and port construction, including" As a senior officer at the division and brigade level, Desai  He has to deal with complicated military and government affairs all day long; and because he is an imperial earl, he cannot abandon the traditions of the nobility, such as salons, balls and other social activities.  Therefore, in order to allow ourselves to focus on one or two things, a pure business management team should have been established long ago.  Any "fantastic ideas" that Desai will generate in the future should be verified and evaluated, planned and deployed, and implemented by these professionals, without having to worry about it myself.  To complete the fund raising, Desai originally wanted to use the Paris stock exchange market. However, the Military Intelligence Bureau learned that the financial situation in Paris was not optimistic. It should be said that it was very bad. Financiers were trapped by the Bank of France. The then Finance Minister Go  Dan complied with Emperor Napoleon's financial control laws and strictly monitored French funds left elsewhere.  It now seems that there is still a lot of "wealth" forgotten in the army, especially those French officers in the Spanish-occupied areas.  In previous lives, time travelers had heard that, excluding organized state and military expropriations, 300,000 French soldiers stationed in Spain privately obtained a huge wealth of no less than tens of billions of francs in the five years from 1808 to 1813.  Of course, this wealth was not squandered on women or put into the pockets of profiteers, but more importantly, it was lost to the Spanish people after the French army was defeated in 1814, and very little of it was actually transferred to France.  Desai became jealous when he thought about this huge wealth, and thought that he might as well collect some of it to develop industry for himself.  Even if the investor is killed or disabled in battle, the officers can still leave some dividends for the orphans and widows to survive.  In addition, the Desai Division has more and closer interest exchanges with the nearly 300,000 French garrisons scattered across Spain, which can effectively resist the emperor's next round of exploitation to a certain extent.  ¡° All along, Desai¡¯s wish was just to be a hedonistic aristocrat, and to be a comfortable passer-by in time under the care of his fathers.  But when Marshal Lannes was seriously injured and retired, and he was ruthlessly blackmailed by Napoleon, the cruel reality made Desai finally give up his fantasy.  As a responsible time traveler, he never fired any of his employees during the Great Depression, which was the later financial crisis.  Today, Andrew.  Desai no longer only represents the name of one person. Behind him, there are thousands of officers and soldiers of Desai's division, including Poles and Irish who surrendered to him, and perhaps there will be more in the future.  No one knows the outcome of future European wars better than Desai, so he hopes to reach some kind of compromise with the British under the premise that Napoleon can tolerate it, and find a place to live for himself and the many interest groups surrounding him.  land.  The first condition to ensure that one's own and group interests will not be betrayed by others is to increase strength and obtain foreign aid.  For example, learning from Marshal Bernadotte, even if it failsIf you become the King of Poland, you can also secede a Mediterranean principality.  ¡­¡­
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