Chapter 687 Paris Agricultural Products Futures Exchange
Joseph took a sip of the milk, put the document down, and silently blessed Kosciuszko in his heart.
This is news nearly half a month ago - Poland is too far from Paris.
In other words, the Polish military god should have arrived in Bryansk at this time, causing a huge shock in Russia.
Josef still admires Kosciuszko very much and sincerely hopes that he can return to Poland alive.
In fact, if the plan formulated by the General Staff Headquarters could be implemented smoothly, the Polish army would have a high probability of escaping.
Of course, it's just a probability...
Joseph sighed softly and picked up the next document.
This is a report on the mobilization of Austrian and Prussian troops.
Both countries seemed to be stingy, obviously trying to cover up their plans to send troops.
Joseph smiled. It seemed that these two families were waiting for Russia to defeat Poland and then pick peaches.
However, this also gave Poland a rare respite.
According to the best military strategy of Russia, Prussia and Austria, it should be to attack Poland at the same time, so that Poland will be attacked on three sides.
In that case, Poland will soon be in an extremely difficult situation.
Joseph's original estimate of the worst situation was to suggest that Poland directly sign an armistice agreement with Austria and cede the Lesser Poland region to the latter in order to stabilize the rear.
After repelling the Russian army, we will try to get it back.
Fortunately, Puao chose greed.
In this way, Poland can use these few months to recruit more troops - after the war begins, the pace of military expansion will be several times faster than usual.
When Prussia and Austria start taking action, Poland can at least put out some troops to resist.
Moreover, news of the offensive between Poland and Russia should soon spread to the Western Front, which will hit the Prussian-Austrian confidence in winning the war to a certain extent.
This affects morale greatly.
What Joseph didn't know was that due to Mesmer's outstanding "inspiration", the soldiers of Prussia and Austria, especially the Austrian army, were quite sympathetic to Poland.
If they launch an attack on Poland, their morale will at least be reduced by half.
Then there is news from the Ottoman side.
The first batch of Topizh's new army, a total of 800 people, has completed basic training and returned to Constantiniya. The second batch of 800 people will also "graduate" in two months.
The training efficiency of these Sudanese soldiers in the French army camp in Tunisia was much higher than that in the Ottoman training.
The previous 600 Topizis soldiers had been trained for nearly two years, but they were not as effective as the training of this group of soldiers for just half a year.
Selim III was also extremely satisfied with this batch of new soldiers with full French equipment, and was already discussing the plan to attack Egypt with his ministers.
The French Intelligence Agency judged based on various clues that Osman should take action in 3 to 5 months.
It was just after the second batch of new troops completed their training.
As for the batch of supplies that Joseph was most concerned about, Osman had also shipped them to the Black Sea as agreed.
As for the Ottoman officer named "Muhammad Ali", Styler said that he has not found it yet - this name is really too common in the Ottomans.
Even with the qualification of Albanians, there are still 12 in the Ottoman army.
Style is still observing which Ali is the "investment worthy" mentioned by the crown prince... However, Joseph is not in a hurry.
Muhammad Ali, the future King of Egypt, would take at least ten years to develop, and Styler had enough time to screen.
Style mentioned at the end of the report that the current operation of steam paddle steamers is good.
Eastern Mediterranean Trading Company has purchased 12 steamships, which are operating well - the cost is only 70% of that of traditional galleys, and the time for traveling between the east and west coast of the Mediterranean has been shortened by nearly half!
You must know that this is still due to the lack of ports that can supply coal along the way, otherwise the transportation cost will be greatly reduced.
Currently, a coal supply port has been built in southern Greece. Italy, Tunisia and other places are also under planning.
Joseph shook his head.
12 ships is still too few.
It’s just that the Brest Shipyard’s steam paddle steamer production capacity is limited, and most of the ships built have been snatched up by shipowners engaged in inland shipping. The Eastern Mediterranean Trading Company can’t even buy a few ships at a higher price.
In addition, the tonnage of steam ships is still relatively small, so it has not yet had a disruptive impact on the Mediterranean shipping pattern.
At least hundreds of steamships are needed before the Eastern Mediterranean Trading Company can begin to dominate Mediterranean shipping.
And that requires expanding investment in the shipyard...
After breakfast, Joseph took the car to the Paris Financial Center, the former Bastille.
The newly established Paris Agricultural Futures Exchange is located on the third floor of the financial center.
After half a year of planning, today the exchange will finally officially open for business.
It is said to be agricultural products trading, but in fact the core trading product is sucrose.
Intelligence on the situation in the Caribbean was sent back to Paris last week.
First, the British Expeditionary Force began to land at Tortuga on the north side of Saint-Domingue - the French government also symbolically welcomed this and wished the British army could quell the abolitionist rebellion - the war was soon will explode.
Judging from the timing of the message delivery, the fight should be in full swing by now.
Regardless of victory or defeat, this year's sugarcane yield will be frighteningly low.
October happens to be the sugar beet harvest season.
A sugar beet refinery in northwest France will turn these beets into cane sugar at a rate of 2 million pounds per month.
Coupled with the nearly 4 million pounds of sugar that Styler has purchased in Egypt in the past few months, it will be enough to support the Paris Agricultural Products Futures Exchange’s pricing power on sugar!
When Joseph's carriage arrived one street away from the financial center, he heard bursts of noise in the distance.
Looking out of the car window, he saw that the Financial Center Square was packed with people. It was even busier than Christmas Mass.
It was not until Quesold led the Crown Prince's Guards to clear the way that Joseph was able to enter the financial center.
After some routine music playing, ribbon cutting, and speeches, Joseph announced:
"The Paris Agricultural Products Futures Exchange is officially open!"
A burst of cheers suddenly broke out in the hall and in the square outside. Cheers.
Before Joseph could leave, the impatient businessmen rushed to the transaction window crazily, so frightened that Kersoud even pulled out his pistol. More than 80 personal guards struggled to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from the trading floor.
It’s no wonder that businessmen are so crazy. The outbreak of black uprisings in the Caribbean has long been spread back to Europe. During this time, the price of cane sugar has increased by more than 40%, and it is difficult to make money. Buy sugar.
At this time, the news that "6 million pounds of cane sugar will be sold on the Paris Agricultural Products Futures Exchange" spread among businessmen in various European countries.
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