The legendary Nordic lion Gustav has succeeded to the throne, but this lion also had to bow to the forces of capital and sent people to the capital of the republic, hoping to meet Chen Jian.

Poor, weak, and surrounded by enemies, this is the current situation in Sweden at this time.

The king of Poland next to him is the cousin of Gustav's uncle's family, and Poland at this time has just sent a puppet fake tsar to Russia a few years ago, which shows its strength.

It's just that the throne of Poland is not so easy to sit on, and the father of the assassinated King Henry IV of France knows the depths well, and ran away to France less than half a year after being elected king, but Gustav's cousin sat quite peacefully.

This cousin has a claim to the Swedish throne, but a few years ago his own uncle killed the nobles of his faction in Linköping, and when his cousin Gustav succeeded to the throne, he came to make trouble again, but the nobles may think that Gustav is smaller and not the king of Poland, and his power is weak and better controlled, so they agree to Gustav's succession, but the enthronement ceremony Gustav is not qualified and strong.

Russia, which is next to it, is also quite dissatisfied with Sweden and wants to go to the sea, and the Swedish king has a claim to the Tsar's throne, but Sweden's claim is useless, the country is weak and the lord is few, and it is the time for Russia to act.

Denmark is also strong now, and there are many contradictions with Sweden, and it is impossible not to do it at this time.

In this case, it is inevitable to admit defeat for the time being, and it is necessary to prepare in advance to redeem the money for the occupied castle town, so there is an urgent need for borrowing.

Sweden is not without advantages, because of habit, the old rent in kind allows Gustav to earn a few bucks.

If the rent of the royal land is also subject to a reform of silver monetization such as a whip law, it will be a bitter cry at this time. The price revolution, converted into silver coins, is not as beneficial to the royal family as direct payment in kind, especially in a small place like Sweden that can be controlled.

The difference in price and things like grain and butter can guarantee general survival, but mercenaries are needed to fight a war, and mercenaries recognize money, and if they don't pay them, they will mutiny, so Gustav is still short of money, silver and gold.

Fighting a war requires weapons, especially flintlock pistols and small field guns that appeared on the battlefields of West Dutch, which made Gustav feel that this system was a good fit for his ideas.

But weapons need money, silver to buy, and Gustav finds himself running out of money.

Wanting to reform, centralize, budget, and systematize, Gustav found that Sweden did not have qualified accountants.

Wanting to learn from the Dutch monopoly to sell the monopoly to make some money for the treasury, Gustav found that he had no monopoly to sell, and set up a trading company to give the monopoly franchise, but no one took over, because it was obviously a money-losing goods.

I want to get a tax package system and get some cash for the royal family, but Sweden doesn't have many tax collectors, and I can't get that much money at one time.

I want to mine domestic iron ore and copper ore, but Sweden's own mining technology is 200 years behind the latest European technology, and it is still using technology at the level of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period such as crucible pottery furnaces, not to mention the Chinese Republic that has already used blast technology.

If you want to start trade, the fleet of the Dutch and the navy of Denmark are destined to be made by the second-tier dealers, and you can't get money in this direction.

Robbery can get money, but the premise of robbery is to win, which seems impossible for the time being, otherwise Gustav would not even be able to hold an official succession ceremony.

With Denmark, Russia, and his cousins on the lookout, Gustav could now sell anything he could sell for cash, even if he could sell the salt franchise as long as he could get enough silver.

However, in the present form, even if the Dutch are not willing to lend, they will at least have to settle a lose-lose tie with Denmark and Russia, so that the capitalist forces can borrow.

It is also necessary to consider the possibility of redeeming the land from the two countries in the event of a loss, which also requires a sum of money. Gustav also understands that if he wins the war, he will not need to consider this possibility, and he may be able to make a profit, at least in the future, he can borrow less.

As long as you win, not only can you rob, but you can also get the city to pay a ransom to avoid robbery, and then you can collect taxes.

But the problem is that now you need money to win, and borrowing money is also a problem when the situation is uncertain, and the Dutch bankers are willing to invest in Mincheng because the profits are higher, and the bankers on the Venetian side are too far away to make contact.

In contrast to the Netherlands, the demands of the Swedes are much simpler, so when the Preparatory Committee of the Minerals, Metallurgical and Infrastructure Investment Corporation, which in fact hides some neo-colonial imperialism, finds its representatives, it is a real drought that has come to an end.

This is a goal that has been set for a long time, and the form is not clear, but this preparatory committee is led by Chen Jian, and Chen Jian's investment vision has made the shareholders of this capital group more trusted than the so-called form under the previous huge profits.

Can it make money? Is the return on profit high? What exactly is the model of Sweden? Is it possible to recover all the principal and profits in the future?

Many people don't think about it, they just need to see the huge amount of money that the Mexican Party and Chen Jian have invested in this preparatory committee, and that is enough.

This is the intangible capital brought by fame, which can rely on personal fame and charm to make capital orderly, purposeful, and forward-looking investment.

The difference with those big families is that those big families can get power profit bonuses such as franchises in China, while Chen Jian does not have such power bonuses, and most of the investment direction is the outlandish, joint-stock company model, so this also makes some businessmen extremely reassuring.

Chen Jian only took the lead in those matters with the Netherlands, and could not decide on his own, but as a spokesman for domestic interest groups and a part of the power family.

In the negotiations with Sweden, Chen Jian can call the shots, and he does not need to come forward himself, he only needs to have the representatives of the Preparatory Committee and Nanyang Company talk with him.

The Netherlands is a small overlord, at least a role like Song Guo at this time; At this time, Sweden was at most a vassal of Qin who was still raising horses for Zhou Tianzi, and Sweden's appeal was more than enough for the capital group's money to invest, and there were not too many interest entanglements.

The reality is so realistic, the organization of the Mexican Party plus the capital is called the 37th county of the republic, the Nanyang Company is called the 38th county, plus a Min county, it may be a little troublesome to deal with the Netherlands in an all-round way, but it is enough to deal with Sweden, which is weak and poor at this time, and is surrounded by enemies.

The Preparatory Committee and the representatives of the Nanyang Company had no interest in direct loans, since the interest on silver was not as good as the profits from investing elsewhere, so they chose the most profitable form of indirect loans.

The first approved contract was for a loan worth about one million silver talers from the Bohemian silver mining area, or about 300,000 silver coins of the Republic.

But the loan had to be paid not in cash, but in the form of guns, cannons, gunpowder, saltpeter and armor, and Nanyang would ship the guns, cannons, gunpowder, etc., purchased with the loan to Sweden within a year.

Of the millions of silver bucks thaler's loan, 80,000 thaler was paid in advance as the salaries of artillery instructors and engineers, and artillery instructors and engineers were hired at high prices from Min County to go to Sweden.

Seventy thousand thalers were paid in advance as interest, apparently out of nine, and the interest was deducted at the time of borrowing, but the principal was still calculated at one million bohemian thalers, and the interest was paid by Sweden in silver coins rather than directly from the loan.

Among the weapons purchased with the loan was a much-needed field artillery and explosives for mining castles, as well as obsolete arquebuses and armor.

In terms of the method of repayment, the Preparatory Committee gave a proposal for a form of repayment, which was only a suggestion and required the permission of the nobles and the king.

The proposed method of repayment is to grant the company a monopoly on salt and grain exports in Sweden's Baltic Rim, which is counted as a management body, and Sweden will send someone to supervise the profits, which will be paid annually to the King of Sweden, deducting a certain amount of principal repayment plus a management fee of 10 per cent of the revenue.

Companies are allowed to set up special salt boiling workshops, and the profits of salt cooking workshops are not included in the profits paid on the monopoly pricing.

In addition to the loan that had to be used to buy weapons, the Preparatory Committee of the Company could also lend Gustav an interest-free loan of about 800,000 bohemian tales to replenish the Swedish treasury.

However, interest-free loans are only nominally interest-free, and must include a certain amount of back-up transactions.

The company's request is to cooperate with Sweden to set up a Swedish mining, metallurgical and weapons company, the Swedish royal family does not need to contribute, only needs to give various preferential rights, in addition to the normal tax payment, another 15% of the dividend is paid to the Swedish royal family in the form of guns.

The interest-free loan was to be repaid over a period of 20 years, and the company also had a 20-year monopoly on the mining of minerals by foreign companies, and after 20 years, the Swedish royal family was allowed to open mines by lifting restrictions on other countries' capital.

In addition, it is hoped that the Swedish royal family and the Parliament of the nobility will allow the Republicans and companies the right to conduct reasonable and legal trade in Sweden and to set up workshops such as paper, water-powered sawmills, etc., in accordance with Swedish law. If there is a tax reform, the people of the Republic and the company have the right to undertake the regional tax package.

The Mexican Party will fund the establishment of a "university" in Stockholm, and hope that the Swedish royal family will grant the university a tax exemption and grant the university a certain amount of land, mainly teaching geometry, mathematics, accounting, bookkeeping, natural sciences and the training of grassroots artillery officers, without any religious education, and the first teachers are the 80,000 thalers in the previous loan. It didn't cost much, the land belonged to the king, it didn't cost anything to grant a fief, and the teacher's salary was a return of cash income from the loan.