Frederick turned his head to stare at the old banker, knowing that he loved the money so much. www.biquge.info So Frederick sneered and nodded: "You're right, he has to let the money roll in before he can make the production capacity leap a thousand miles." That's why I came to the conclusion that he had no time to crusade for ten years. ”

"Ten years!" the old banker finally couldn't hold back, and sneered sharply: "Even the gods dare not talk about ten years." Your Highness, please do not make a big fuss in the Imperial Court. ”

"Breschroder, step aside. Instead, Elena tilted her head with interest and looked at Frederick seriously: "You say, how did you come to this conclusion of ten years?"

The Empress pursed her lips and asked, and at last no one dared to interrupt Frederick. So Frederick bowed his arms and saluted, and was instructed: "Fran the Great enclosed sheep and forced the peasants to rebel, but he also harvested a lot of wool; he exploited the workers, although he produced an army of unemployed, but also processed wool into a large number of luxury clothes; the industrial chain seemed to have been formed, and the profits seemed to be blowing out, but Fran the Great remembered that he was not England galloping across the ocean!" His country, which was landlocked, had begun fifty years later than England's, and there were no colonies to supply him with goods, nor an overseas market for him to dump his goods; so he spent a lot of money on social reforms, and many costs, all of which were turned into a backlog of unsalable expensive goods in warehouses, which could neither be eaten nor used, but could only watch the prices of unsalable commodities plummet; his reforms, which seemed to be in full swing, were in fact lost, if not. The Assassination and Annexation 'helped him annex the iron-rich Alsace and Lorraine, and if we hadn't paid him just the right amount of 200 million, Flangel might have eaten the bitter fruit and been dumped in the stinking ditch by the Bank of Paris. ”

"This is the real reason why Emperor Fran withdrew from the army during the Seven Years' War?" Admiral Farina muttered as if awakened from a dream, and was enlightened: "He is not afraid of the elven country, but of internal turmoil, the peasants hate him, the workers hate him, and because he can't recover his capital, even the capitalists he relies on hate him!

The more Breschroeder listened, the more frightened he became, because if the discussion continued in this way, the royal family would calm down, and they would not necessarily ask him for a loan. He wished that Frederick would die on the spot, but he didn't dare to show it, so he could only grit his teeth and stare down at the carpet.

"Yes. If Fran the Great wants to turn the tide, his immediate priority is to open up overseas markets, provide him with raw materials for him to dump goods, and make him profitable; only in this way will his forcible enclosure, the sale of machinery, and a series of 'advanced policies' that are resentful of the people gradually produce benefits and slowly recoup their costs. But there are three major difficulties in competing for overseas markets and colonies. The first is money, but this is fine, we have already paid him 200 million in a considerate way, and the second thing is that he is fighting for colonies and overseas markets with the armadas of England and Spain, so that he is tantamount to rubbing contradictions with his allies under the spur of profit. Third, while he had a grudge with England in the struggle for colonies, he also prevented Purusha from conquering the land of black gold, and had a grudge with Purusha, and one day, England and Purusha would form an alliance for the common good and form a general trend against Paris. Summing up these three articles, it can be launched, Fran the Great has put himself in, he keeps shouting that he wants to go east and bulldoze the elven country, but he must now concentrate the only remaining strength to fight for sea dominance, which is his last hope to promote the industrial revolution. So he confronted the two major naval powers, which would have left him without time to look east for at least ten years. ”

After Frederick finished speaking, he glanced at the cabinet members who bowed their heads and were silent, and concluded softly: "The people's livelihood is the most important, the community is secondary, and the king is the civil administration." Fran the Great ignored some 'small' issues, and as a result, he embarked on a path that he did not want to take. If you're borrowing money under the guise of being afraid of Fran the Great, I don't think you need to. actually shouted out the interest of 13% while the fire was robbed, or let the central bank guard the gold mountain and play for itself. ”

Breeschroeder was ridiculed by Frederick in person, and couldn't help but blush, knowing that he had been defeated and lost, he still licked his face and bent down and said: "Your Highness, please don't be angry, it is the duty of the Central Bank of Habsburg to optimize the financial situation for the royal family." If the Empress wants to borrow money, the central bank has the duty to do so, and I will speak well for His Majesty at the shareholders' meeting and keep the interest as low as possible. ”

"How much can the interest be lowered?" asked Elena herself.

"Xia Guan tried his best to suppress two percentage points, and he could barely do it. Braischroeder felt that he was selling the dignity of a speculator: "Loan two million ounces of gold at an interest rate of 11% per annum. ”

Everyone nodded their heads again and again, thinking that this was interesting enough.

Then Frederick declared categorically: "If the interest rate is higher than 5%, there is no need to talk about it! After borrowing so much money from the central bank, the credibility of the royal family is so good, and the annual interest is repaid, why can't it be discounted?"

Braischroeder shook a little, leaned over the table and coughed, coughing a mouthful of blood in the palm of his hand, looked up in a daze, and pointed at Frederick with trembling fingers: "I...... I have never seen such a person as His Royal Highness!"

Elena bit her lip and remembered that when Frederick went head-to-head with the Grand Master, his fate was hanging by a thread, and Frederick had not forgotten to bargain with the Grand Master for dozens of gold coins.

"This is called a baht?" said Frederick, raising his chin proudly, "this is called being good at being in charge." ”

Braischroeder suddenly remembered the glorious title of "Fortune Eagle". When Frederick was ruling Bafaria, he was highly praised by the nobles, saying that he "split the meat on the legs of the heron, and scraped the oil in the belly of the quail, and he could do it because he could do it", Braischroeder finally believed this rumor today, thinking that Frederick had been so stingy that he could not be saved, and taking money from him was equivalent to plucking the feathers on the iron rooster, and basically there was no hope of success, so it was better to go and pluck the empress.

So the old banker persuaded Elena: "Your Majesty must not lose the big picture because of small profits. ”

Prime Minister Humphrey hesitated, gently tugged on Farina's sleeve, and said together: "The minister seconded the proposal; it is imperative to build a gun, and we must not be greedy for small profits and lose the overall situation." ”

Elena was quite moved, and was about to stand up to announce the edict, when Frederick suddenly said: "The rifle has been in service for at least forty years, and there are few who are eliminated without firing a single bullet." Moreover, in the battle a few days ago, artillery was the first merit, cavalry was second, and infantry was last, so the rifles at hand could be returned to the factory for modification without having to be newly manufactured. The savings of 130,000 gold coins will be of great use, which will be used to supplement the use of education and agricultural food, and the 'national unified recruitment system' will be implemented to increase the efficiency of mobilization in wartime. As a result, when the labor force is full, the workers are literate, and wages rise, the factory owners will naturally seek out large steam machinery to replace the high-paid workers, and industrialization will come naturally, in line with the will of the people, without having to repeat the mistakes of the Flangel. ”

When Elena had heard this, she stopped talking, but she did not speak, and all the eyes of the ministers were fixed on her faces, and their hearts were in their throats. (To be continued.) )