The joint statement of the two countries immediately made those reporters who attended the press conference wonder if this was a dream. Some people even couldn't help but pinch themselves once or twice in hatred...... This time, after the joint statement was issued, Foreign Minister Talleyrand and Ambassador Metternich did not even leave time for the reporters to ask questions, but simply announced that the press conference was over.

In fact, the reporters didn't have time to ask any questions. What's the most important thing right now? Of course, the big news was sent out immediately. Isn't being a journalist just about making a big story? As Foreign Minister Talleyrand adjourned the meeting, the reporters immediately poured out of the gate like a tidal wave, and then rushed in the direction of their respective newspapers.

It is said that since then, some newspapers have added a new requirement when recruiting reporters, that is, to conduct a physical fitness test for reporters to run for 12 minutes. "If you can't even run, how can you be a reporter?" It has also become a reason for the newspaper to fire some reporters. At the first modern Olympics not long after, Dressler, who won the sprint world championship for France, was also an entertainment reporter for The Sun. So much so that in this time and space, a new proverb has appeared in France: "Fast as a tabloid tabloid reporter." ”

Yes, in general, tabloid reporters always run faster, in contrast to Science and Pravda, and Kommersant reporters don't need to run so fast, because the news is actually already known to their editorial offices in advance. Although the advance time is not long, it is enough for them to preemptively send out the call. At this time, while reporters from the Sun and other newspapers were still parkour on the streets of Paris, Scientific Pravda was already considering the choice of words in its editorials.

Of course, as Scientific Pravda and Kommersant were the first to issue the call, another group of people began to run, and no slower than tabloid reporters, these were the speculators.

Prior to this, Austria's national debt had fallen to such a pulp in the market that it was almost a waste of paper because of the widespread fear that Austria would go to war with France and that it would be lost. And now with this news, everyone knows that the Austrian national debt will definitely rise, rise back, and even go even higher.

Unfortunately, however, most of them, before that, had already sold away all the Austrian debt in their hands at a price almost like waste paper. Nowadays, in the market, we only see the price of Austrian government bonds skyrocketing, but there are no more Austrian government bonds to buy. So everyone sighed with remorse, and could not help but wonder which guys had bought all the Austrian national debt at the price of scrap paper before that.

But they could not have imagined that someone who had bought all the Austrian national debt at the price of scrap paper was also full of dissatisfaction.

"The financial tools of this era are so backward and lack financial innovation! There is no way to make the price of Austrian government bonds fall into the negative range, and there is no easy financial leverage, otherwise how much money should be made from this brush! ”

Faced with Napoleon and Lucien, who had been able to make a lot of money for nothing, Joseph couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

However, Napoleon was obviously much more contented than Joseph. This kind of money has made him very satisfied. He counted the proceeds of the Austrian treasury and found that the proceeds of this trip were even higher than the income he had made on his own visit to the Pope's crown.

"Joseph, this is really a robbery, and the efficiency is even higher than sending troops directly to rob it. Last time in Italy, we said that it was a business with no capital, but the cost of using the army was actually not low. And this time, we just said a few 'truths' and got so much out of it. This is really ......," Lucien said excitedly, rubbing his hands together.

Although Napoleon was also turning this thought in his heart, he instinctively became unhappy when he heard Lucien say this, because it was a little, well, a little denial of his own worth.

But before Napoleon could open his mouth to refute, Joseph spoke first.

"Lucien, and Napoleon, there is one thing I want to remind you of." Joseph suddenly spoke, "There was once a fool who ate four loaves of bread one morning and was full. So the fool said, 'How foolish I am, if I had known this, I would have eaten the last loaf of bread, why should I waste the first three loaves of bread?' ’

Whoever says such a thing is, of course, a fool. But Napoleon, Lucien, we must also be wary of whether we will become fools. It is not for nothing that we can now harvest this wealth with financial means like harvesting wheat. If we do not have in our hands an invincible army that makes it difficult for any enemy to even develop the courage to confront it, how can we use such means to harvest wheat?

So, Lucien, don't think that financial harvesting is really costless. Without our invincible army, who can I harvest by this means? ”

Hearing Joseph mention the "invincible army", Napoleon immediately became happy, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "What Joseph said is that this harvest, in the final analysis, still depends on the army. Only the army is the sickle in our hands. ”

"Napoleon, there is some truth to what he said, but not all. We haven't been at war for several years, so why is the deterrent power of our army not declining, but rising? When those guys signed the peace agreement with us, they were all thinking about something, and I think you should understand it very well, so do they still have such plans now? Why? ”

Napoleon was stunned, and then said, "They should have thought at first that they would take a breath and lick their wounds, and then come and fight us when they have recovered." But now, they definitely don't have that idea, now, they don't have to fight, and fools know that they are not opponents. The difference between us and them is like that between a strong man and a child. ”

Joseph nodded: "Our strength has grown faster than theirs, and now the artillery firepower of one of our divisions is much stronger than one of their armies, and it won't be long before even the firepower of one of our divisions can overwhelm one of their fronts." What do they fight with us? As long as the commanders on our side are not stupid, they don't have a chance at all. ”

"Joseph, if you want to say it, it's really ...... The rest is all about bullying children, the war no longer has the beauty of art, the rest is crushing...... Life is really lonely like snow. Napoleon exclaimed the most extreme.

Joseph glanced at Napoleon and continued: "Many things in the world have their root causes and external manifestations, everything has a beginning and an end, when we deal with it, we should know what to do first and what to do later, what to put in the most fundamental position, and what to treat as a general trick, to know what to really pay attention to, even if it is truly reasonable."

What is it that makes us so strong today? It's not that we're skilled, it's not even that our army is strong, it's that we have a strong industry. Why is it that in Europe, only Britain can be considered a slight opponent of ours? Isn't it because Britain has a relatively good industry in comparison? Therefore, maintaining a strong industry is our foundation. Although industry is expensive and slow to make money – at least much slower than financial harvesting, we need to keep reminding ourselves not to think that we can skip industry and live directly on financial means. ”

"How can we have such a retarded mind?" Lucien spoke.

Hearing this, Joseph laughed: "Lucien, man is always accustomed to being lazy. Even smart people do. When France went from an industrial empire to a financial empire, that was the beginning of the end of French hegemony. ”

"Joseph, what you said makes so much sense!" "Lucien, give me your notebook," said Napoleon, looking around, "Lucien, and I will write it down and engrave it on my desk." ”

Not to mention Napoleon's operations, now that the news has also reached Hungary, the Hungarian nobles who are making a fuss about Hungarian autonomy, as well as the Polish nobles who have just been encouraged by the Hungarian nobles, have once again mustered up their courage and plan to let those "separatists" hurry over and drop a few bombs, are all dumbfounded.

Some idiots shouted too much before, and for a while, there was no way to turn back, and they could only carry it to the end. At least on the surface, some nobles began to think about how to quickly show loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, showing that they had joined in, but they were actually being used, or simply said: "Your Majesty, I am an undercover agent, and I joined in just to find out information and report it to you." I'm asking ...... now."

Even those who jumped so hard that they couldn't turn back for a while, on the one hand, they hurriedly reorganized the team, saying "everyone must be united, we must unite", and on the other hand, they also quietly sent people to the emperor to confess.

Under such circumstances, no sooner had the Imperial Army under General Carl Philip arrived in Hungary than the Hungarian National Guard mutinied.

The mutinous National Guard, led by a young viscount surnamed Bathory, arrested the head of the rebellion, the Marquis of Bathory, the earl of Viscount Bathory, and handed him over to General Carl Philippe. At this point, the Hungarian rebellion was suppressed.

After that, both His Majesty the Emperor and the French showed amazing mercy to those rebels.

"Now that they have realized their mistakes, they have become our compatriots again." Emperor Franz said this in the newspapers, so that even the head of the rebellion, the Marquis of Bartory, was only exiled. Neither his title nor his land was deprived.

Of course, any checkpoints and taxes that hindered free trade in Hungary were abolished.

As for the Polish aristocracy who followed suit, they also received a certain amount of leniency after honestly ceding key land at the "market price". After all, the Hungarian Empire was also going to use them to bully ordinary Poles.