Although Napoleon took some measures, the economic situation in Europe as a whole continued to deteriorate, and once the banks failed, none of the other industries could escape. Various factories have also begun to have the problem of broken capital chains. So the air quality in Paris suddenly got better, and the sky suddenly turned blue. Because in Paris, most of the factories are either under-opened, or simply closed, or even completely bankrupt.

The bankruptcy of a large number of factories immediately led to the loss of a large number of workers. To be honest, the living conditions of the French workers are considered good throughout Europe. But even then, most workers, especially unskilled workers, are unlikely to have much savings. Once they lose their jobs, they immediately face the problem of not having anything to eat. Some factories can't even pay severance pay to workers, so they have to take some unsold leather shoes from the warehouse and jump off the street to sell them.

As for skilled workers, of course, their incomes are higher, so much so that they often have a little savings that seem to be good, and some are even figuring out how much money they can get in exchange for a life annuity with these savings. However, in the midst of the economic crisis, the banks also went awry with a large number of banks failing, so that some of the original "middle class" became poor almost overnight. The glamorous-looking so-called "middle class" is swimming naked when the tide of the economy recedes.

The large number of unemployed people immediately made the law and order in Paris worse, and thefts and robberies were endless.

The ruling government immediately took measures to announce the issuance of a batch of special treasury bonds and called on patriotic businessmen to actively buy them. Rothschild immediately announced the purchase of at least three million francs of special government bonds. And the Bank of Rome bought a special treasury bond of 40 million francs in one go.

After the Bank of Rome bought the bonds, Napoleon used the money to buy a large amount of food from the Federation of Veterans, and drew up an emergency food distribution plan according to the household register. In the city of Paris, people with registered legal status receive a little food for free every day. Of course, this little food is not enough to feed the family, at most it can sustain them from starving to death soon. But such a virtuous policy is also rare in the history of France. Therefore, the entire French people are more and more closely united around the ruling government with Napoleon as the core.

"So if you want to buy people's hearts, you can't just let the people live a good life. The human heart is and will never be satisfied, they will always want more. On the contrary, if you let them get into trouble from time to time, and then you only need to take out a small amount of something, you can make them grateful to Dade. Well, how do you say that? The icing on the cake is not as good as charcoal in the snow? Well, so Napoleon, you have to remember that if it's not snowing, we have to make it snow every now and then......" Joseph said to Napoleon when he boasted to Joseph that his approval rating had risen to nearly 100 percent.

"You're right, Joseph. But you're sure we're not going to get away with it, are you? After all, the losses of industry are too great. Napoleon asked again.

"An economic crisis is inevitable. It is not subject to human will. "Remember what I told you about political economy?" ”

"Yes. What you're talking about is really eye-opening. Napoleon said.

"This thing is to be kept secret. You can't let people see it, you know? ”

"Nonsense, this kind of terrible thing, can it be kept secret? Compared to it, Machiavelli was as innocent and pure as a silly girl. Napoleon replied.

What Joseph taught Napoleon was not complicated, it was nothing more than an analysis of how overproduction was inevitable under the conditions of a market economy.

"The total price of all the commodities in society as a whole is equal to the total wages paid in the society for the production of these commodities plus the total profits made by the enterprise or the proprietor. As long as the total wages and profits are not fully invested in consumption, then the aggregate demand must be less than the aggregate supply, and the commodities will not be sold. And once there is a commodity that cannot be sold, the producer will lower the wages, and the demand will shrink further, and then accumulate like this, which is the situation today. Joseph, your explanation is so good. But today, our losses are just as great. Napoleon said.

"Rich and poor are relative. We have lost a lot, and some countries have lost even more. As long as their losses are greater than ours, it is our victory. It's like playing chess, and you expect a pawn to checkmate the opponent without having to die? Joseph laughed, "Besides, we used to discuss the principles of dealing with economic crises together, do you remember?" ”

"It's nothing more than seizing new markets in order to increase demand. Or wipe out a part of the supply, preferably from others, so that people can give up the market to us. Well, the second way, the most direct means is war. But Joseph, you don't seem to be looking forward to the war too much. Napoleon said.

"I just hope that I can go to war after I am a little more sure. I don't want to get caught up in a law and order war. "The British are worse off today than we are." We started this crisis, and the wheat harvested went into our granary. Hehe, a lot of the wheat is still British wheat. With this wheat, we can still sustain ourselves by means of welfare. But the British, whose wheat has been taken away by us, can they give us such benefits to sustain themselves? ”

"It's not that it can't." "But if they really intend to play like this, we can hold it out longer than they do." What's more, we can get them to spend money elsewhere. We're going to recruit some unemployed people into the army at this time, expand the size of the army, and then we'll use those troops to do some public works. It can also be regarded as a cash-for-work. On the other hand, a sudden increase in our army will surely scare the British to death, and they will not have to hurry up to expand it, and then they will not have even more money? ”

Napoleon had the confidence to do so. This was the result of harvesting a lot of British wheat in the market. In the railway frenzy, many of the investors in the French railways were foreign capital, and there was also a lot of British capital, and now the wheat is in Napoleon's granary. But there was another thing that gave Napoleon more confidence, and that was gold from North America.

In 1847, there was a very serious economic crisis that shook almost the entire capitalist world. and brought with it a series of political consequences: the French re-established the republic; The Prussians used revolts to force the king to establish a parliament; In Austria, as soon as the revolutionary masses shouted, Metternich fled in fear in women's clothing. Of course, these were just appetizers, but more importantly, in 1848, a new political party published its own programmatic document, the Communist Manifesto! and openly called for the burial of capitalism as a whole by revolutionary means.

The revolutionary situation is very good, and the revolutionary forces are ...... But the revolution of 1848 suddenly disappeared, not even as a result of the repression of the reactionaries, but because of the discovery of open-pit gold in San Francisco in 1848.

These gold mines are located in a place where no one is taking care of the Tiangao Emperor, and they are buried shallowly. Mining is convenient, so even the poor can go to pan for gold. This is the historical gold rush. At that time, if a merchant ship was parked in a North American port, the captain would find that his ship could no longer sail if he did not move the next morning, because all the sailors had already resigned and gone to pan for gold.

According to the ideas of some Confucian masters, gold is "too hungry to eat, cold is not clothing", and it is of no great use. But in a market economy, this is not the case. Because gold is naturally money, and what is money? Money is demand! If the gold fell into the hands of the rich, it would be used to build a pool of gold coins at most; But most of the gold diggers are poor, and the gold is in their hands, which is real purchasing power. So because of these open-pit gold mines, the economic crisis was alleviated or even eliminated, and then the revolution naturally ended without a hitch.

Today, the mines are under French control and are secretly mined under the watchful eye of the French gold troops. In the hands of the French government, there is a large and unknown gold reserve. But this gold still belongs to the state, and the whole time it is time to use this gold to build a large infrastructure, and by the way, take the opportunity to turn the owner of this gold from the theoretical all-French people, into a military-industrial complex, into a sacred and inviolable private property. Relying on this batch of gold, Napoleon could not hesitate to say to other countries, especially to the British: "When it comes to welfare, you must be the first one who can't hold on!" ”

Of course, it is not yet time to use the gold, at least until the British can no longer hold on, and they have to come up with tariff barriers, and then the French will also fight back with tariff barriers. Otherwise, if you give benefits to those people here, and he will use your benefits to buy British goods, wouldn't that become paying money to help the British?

In order to help the automobile industry, Ah Mei you see that the car industry has been given benefits to people who buy cars and provide special cost-effective car purchase loans. Then, Ah Mei, the consumers you see first went to receive welfare benefits, and then went to buy cheap and high-quality Japanese cars.

Or like Ou Meng in later generations, he also lent money to the people to send a lot of benefits, originally expected the people to buy European goods, but I didn't expect that those people are not good people, don't look at them usually say that the goods of the "Red Rabbit Country" will explode, but as soon as they get the benefits, they still went to buy the things of the little rabbits, and then said: "It's so fragrant!" ”

Therefore, in the absence of tariff barriers, indiscriminately handing out benefits, maybe they will make wedding clothes for others.

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