Chapter 715: A Win-Win-Win Deal
Of course, as a little bourgeoisie, Julie is good at criticizing the rotten old aristocracy.
But if she really goes to live in the slums, she can't stay for a second.
Fengdu also has some communities that are all Li Chunfa Building, and many of the people living in them are new Daming people who have just come to Daming and have no savings.
But with proper municipal planning and non-discriminatory policing, these neighborhoods are not the slums of European metropolises, but rather clean and welcoming.
If it weren't for the fact that she wanted to help her fiancé accomplish a great cause, Julie would really not want to set foot on the filthy, feces-smelling continent of Europe.
Elizabeth still complains about how expensive prices are these days.
He complained that Franz was unwilling to listen to her advice and to stop the routine currency swap with London.
Franz's reply was always written in a reprimanding tone, saying that the local currency swap with the British Empire was the economic basis of the Austro-British alliance.
Without sufficient foreign exchange reserves, Austria could not afford to buy state-of-the-art British equipment.
And the political trust between the two countries will no longer exist.
In this way, no one in Prussia could stop the stinking German ambitions.
Moreover, Franz also emphasized in the letter that he had telegraphed Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the British Empire several times.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill respected him and repeatedly explained the significance of the British Empire's active monetary policy and the amount of excess currency.
Prime Minister Churchill swore to the Lord with the reputation of the Duke of Marlborough for 150 years that the amount of currency over-issuance was controllable, benign, and mild, and absolutely impossible to cause and export hyperinflation.
"In short, my Hungarian people are starving anyway, and Andrásy has written to me several times in the hope that I will return to Budapest and encourage the people there......"
"Andráhi? Oh, that's your suitor, right? I thought he was dead, but are you still communicating...... Woowoo woo ......"
Elizabeth hurriedly covered Julie's mouth, looked nervously, and found that Zhang Xiaoliang was still seriously preparing the turkey, so she was relieved.
"Oh my God, don't talk nonsense, Andráhi is just reporting to the Queen of Hungary normally, and I will not reply to any personal letters, but he said that my people are starving, and I cannot sit idly by!"
"So, what are you going to do?"
Julie's slender ten fingers crossed over her legs, and she asked in a good time.
"That's why I invited you, my best friend, Miss Julie Vanderbilt, to come here......"
Elizabeth said with some embarrassment, "It may be a bit abrupt to say this, but I really don't have any other way." I know that your fiancé is also in a quagmire because of the war, but I beg you, the most favored princess of the Prince, to provide Hungary with a loan, the interest of which we can ......."
"No problem."
"What?" Elizabeth's eyes widened in surprise.
"I said no problem."
Julie said generously, "How much loan do you need?" £1,000,000? £10 million? Or 100 million? ”
"No, no, no, Hungary is just a weak country, we don't need so much money......"
Elizabeth hurriedly said, "I have asked someone to calculate, 500,000 pounds is enough to tide my country through difficulties." ”
Elizabeth really didn't have Julie's boldness to freak out.
You know, although she is the queen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she is absolutely not sure to convince her husband to come up with 100,000 pounds.
And Julie is just the fiancée of the Ming Emperor, but she can casually promise more than 1 million pounds in cash.
The gap between people and people is just too big.
"My Sissi!"
Julie put her arms around Elizabeth's neck and said, "These are the times when prices are skyrocketing, and you think that 500,000 pounds is enough now, but tomorrow it may not be enough."
On behalf of my fiancé, I would like to offer you a loan of £1,000,000, and of course, as collateral I will have to collect at least £50,000 worth of gold, jewellery, or artefacts and artefacts.
Do you think that's okay? ”
"Of course, my dear Julie, there is no more generous condition than this!" Elizabeth jumped up from the couch with joy.
"By the way, weren't you from the Kingdom of Bavaria? Your aristocratic friends must have had a very hard time during the war, right?
If I could, I would like to ask you to come forward and provide them with a mortgage, of course, I will not be so generous to them, to borrow 1 million pounds, at least 300,000 worth of collateral, and the interest should be according to Jewish standards, after all, we are still a poor developing country, and we need to make money. ”
Julie spread her hands, "You also know that my fiancé is very popular in Europe, and if it were in his name, no one would come to borrow or do something." ”
"Although many countries are at war with the Ming because of each other's positions, I believe that they will not refuse loans from the Ming, at least not privately.
Since the hanging of those filthy Jews, it has become increasingly difficult to get enough loans.
And the usury of the Parisians, after the 5 billion franc indemnity, the interest became more and more unacceptable.
Just ......"
Elizabeth shook her head and said,
"I'm afraid that His Majesty Zhu Fugui's reputation will be difficult to reverse in a short period of time, and I will try my best to help.
After all, the nobles get the loans, I get the connections, and the rich and noble majesty get the interest, it's a win-win-win deal.
In fact, the European ladies who went to the New Shanghai Olympics with me and had close contact with His Majesty Zhu Fugui had a great impression of him.
But more people have never come into contact with His Majesty Zhu Fugui at all, and their understanding of him comes from the distorted reports of Britain and France.
But in any case, the Hungarian people and I will never forget the kindness of His Majesty Zhu Fugui.
It is said that the ancestors of the Hungarians came from the far east, and even the teachers and students of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Budapest were sponsored by a mysterious gentleman to set off in search of ancestral traces in the Gobi Desert.
I don't know if their research has progressed, but there is no doubt that no one in Hungary wants to be an enemy of the great Eastern Dynasty. ”
"That's why we're best friends!"
Julie shook her head and said, "Speaking of which, I heard that a group of British merchants from North America are buying winter wheat in Kievan Rus' in large quantities with pounds. If you want to help your people, you'd better act quickly, otherwise you won't be able to buy food from the black soil of Kievan Rus' even if you have money.
I suggest that you buy more food before the grey animals react, at a premium that the tsar could not afford, for the war will probably go on for many, many years to come. ”