Chapter 374: Army
"Yes, Duke of Lorraine." Butler Perry agreed, and walked straight out the door, he would not ask the purpose of doing so, he would only strictly follow the orders of the Duke of Lorraine, because in this family, the Duke of Lorraine had supreme authority.
It wasn't long before the order was transmitted throughout the country, and fifty million kild coins were poured into the central bank of Lybour.
This huge flow of funds is also a considerable amount of money for the entire central bank, and with this injection of funds, the development of Lebour City will be more smooth.
But Eugen didn't know that all the passbooks that had been deposited and sent out were all collected in Bavaria, the center of the Wittelsbach family, three days later.
The Duke of Lorraine looked at the neatly stacked passbooks in front of him, and a grim smile appeared on his old face, and the folds on his face were piled together.
"Hehe, there are some things that you can't swallow if you want to." Duke Lorraine said with a smirk, and then gave the order directly.
"Someone, give me all these folds to the local central bank, and start cashing them out one by one, and I want you to empty the funds in his Bavarian branch directly."
"They have no funds, you continue to take them, if you can't get them, they say they are liars, just smash the place for me, and then take everyone into custody."
After receiving the order, Perry walked out with a large number of soldiers and a large number of passbooks, which represented too large a amount of money to be provided by a branch, and the Duke of Lorraine took advantage of the loopholes in the bank's rules, and Eugen had no way to guard against it.
Seeing the brigade of soldiers walking out, the smile on Duke Lorraine's face became even more arrogant, he laughed and said to himself: "Hehe, Eugen, I see how long you can last, if you don't come forward, I will smash your branches one by one, if you dare to jump out and shout, I will send a large army to directly crush your city of Lebour!" ”
On this day, a piece of news shook the entire city of Lebour, and the news spread rapidly, and its influence continued to increase.
One of the branches of the Central Bank of Lyber City in Bavaria was smashed, and the reason has been figured out, because someone withdrew money and did not take it out, which caused the incident.
It happened too suddenly, the central bank didn't have time to mobilize funds in the past, and 50 million gold coins is not a small amount, even if you want to mobilize funds, such a method can be reused, how can gold coins run faster than people?
Moreover, the negative impact of this kind of thing should not be underestimated, you must know that after all, the central bank has just been established, although there are many guarantees, but in fact the degree of credit in the private sector is not high.
If this happens too often, it is easy to cause a certain panic among the citizens and nobles, and if it is not handled well, everyone will crowd in front of the bank counter to withdraw money, and the economic chain will immediately break.
At that point, all the current gains are likely to be in vain overnight, and the city of Leyber will be saddled with a huge debt, and economic warfare will sometimes be more dangerous than the actual battlefield.
Eugen understood at the first time, the other party made it clear that he was coming at him, Bavaria is the territory of the Wittelsbach family, and there is no need to guess, Eugen can also think of the reason.
"Hehe, Duke of Lorraine, you really can't hold it back, haha, but I'm just waiting for you."
Immediately, in his capacity as Lord of Lybor and Marquis of the Empire, he sent a letter to the Duke of Lorraine, demanding that the Duke of Lorraine stop his current behavior, and that if he continued, he might resort to war.
This is a naked threat of war, and the Duke of Lorraine naturally cannot retreat and be afraid, although the Wittelsbach family is based on business, it also has tens of thousands of troops under its name, and it will not be afraid of the threat of Eugen at all.
Besides, he still occupies the name of righteousness, and it is really a legitimate thing to go to the bank to withdraw money, and if you can't withdraw the money, you will smash the store, which seems to be too radical to say, but it can be forgiven.
Therefore, the Duke of Lorraine answered Eugen directly and in a stronger way, and on the very day that Eugen's letter was delivered, his soldiers attacked the branches in Eugen's three cities.
This time, they didn't even use the passbook as an excuse, but like robbers, they rushed directly into the branches and began to collect the belongings inside, and as for the clerks in the branches, they were also arrested by them.
There was no room for manoeuvre on either side, and the shadow of war once again hung over the Holy Roman Empire, and the weather in June was so hot and dry that it was like a fire on the battlefield.
This time, the Duke of Lorraine directly gathered an army of 40,000, 10,000 more than the last time he supported Vienna, and the Duke of Lorraine directly released cruel words to break through the city of Leiber and move all the treasures in the central bank back to his home.
Until this time, the Duke of Lorraine did not forget to strike at Eugen in terms of credibility.
His barbaric-sounding words immediately caused a sense of panic in the country, you know, if the central bank of Leyber City was breached, then the passbook they held in their hands would really become a piece of waste paper, and it would be impossible to take out even a single gold coin at that time.
Thinking of this, there are people who want to withdraw gold coins from the bank to prevent the worst from happening.
This is the power of credit, and for a large business system, once the credit collapses, it is tantamount to a devastating blow.
In order to prevent the worst-case scenario, Eugen directly issued an order that during the war in the city of Leber, all bank branches ceased to operate, and all passbooks could not be cashed, but the original interest was doubled during the war.
As soon as this measure came out, it was like completely screwing the faucet, completely cutting off the loss of funds, which can be said to be the most effective method at the moment, which can have an immediate effect.
It's just that the problem is also very obvious, doing so is easy to aggravate the original credit crisis, once the war in Lebor City is tight, Eugen will easily become the target of public criticism, triggering everyone's crusade.
However, the method of doubling the interest can be regarded as a sweet jujube sandwiched in the stick, which can also play a role in stabilizing people's hearts.
In this way, the problem was solved in a short time, and the noble lords everywhere saw that they could not withdraw money from the bank, and at the same time became suspicious of Eugen, they couldn't help but insult the Wittelsbach family that caused this incident, and some lords even wanted to lead troops to support Eugen and help him defeat the Duke of Lorraine.