Chapter 864 The Prince’s Day of Rest
The wind blew the flying snowflakes.
A layer of crystal-clear diamonds seemed to be sprinkled between the world.
The marble square was covered with snow that was more than the depth of the boots, reflecting the halo of the gas street lamps, as if it was covered with smooth and sweet butter, and the ice flowers on the eaves were like frosting used to embellish.
Joseph pinched a snowball, ran quickly to the frozen fountain, turned around and threw it behind him.
More than a dozen guards wearing thick cloaks and pure white cashmere scarves surrounded the maids with laughter, like a group of jumping "Snow Treasures".
Joseph's snowball in his hand fell on Ksod's back, and a scattered silver crumbled on his shoulder.
Seeing this, the maids immediately surrounded the captain of the guard and used a series of snowballs to "revenge" His Highness the Prince...
After the Iberian-Apennines summit, Joseph finally had a rare free time. He had just returned from the Blue Lake winter fishing and happened to encounter heavy snow, so he had a snowball fight with everyone on a whim.
After running for a long time, Joseph rubbed his frozen hands and breathed. Carmelia, who was beside her, hurriedly ran over, took off her gloves, pulled his hands to warm her chest, and smiled and said, "Your Highness, I made pine nuts and pumpkin soup, it will be fine soon. It will warm up quickly after drinking it."
Not far away, when Vironic saw Prince Wang talking and laughing with the maid, he suddenly felt sour. He narrowed his eyes and pretended to avoid the snowball, and ran towards the two of them diagonally.
She estimated that the distance was almost the same, and suddenly her feet slipped, exclaimed "Oh", and pounced on the prince.
Joseph saw someone "smashing" at him in the corner of his eyes, and subconsciously surrounded Cameria's slender waist and pulled her back to dodge.
Vironik thought he would be hugged by the prince, but it was too late to stop at this time, and he almost rushed to the ground.
"Ah——"
Amid her screams, a white figure suddenly flashed next to her, and she reached out to catch her when she was less than 30 cm from the ground.
Vironik was still in shock, and when he looked up, he saw the face of his personal guard Raymond.
The latter was about to ask her if she was injured, but suddenly she felt two big soft touches in her hands, and her heart suddenly pounded.
Willonik saw Raymond blushing, then he realized something was wrong. He was extremely embarrassed and angry. He pulled his shoulder to stand up, but unexpectedly, he used too much force and pulled the guard down and bent his face just around her mouth.
The laughter of maids came from around.
Villoni finally struggled to stand firm, not caring about slapping the snow on her body, and lowered her head and fled to the gate of Versailles.
Raymond groped at the place on her face and stared at her back, his heartbeat faster, muttering to himself: "She, is she showing love to me..."
Joseph was completely unaware of what had just happened. He was drinking pine nut and pumpkin soup when he heard Emman say, "Your Highness, according to the schedule, you will summon Archbishop Brian and the others in 15 minutes."
"Okay, I understand." Joseph exhaled and gave Carmelia the unfinished soup, "Hey, you have to work overtime on holidays..."
As soon as he returned to his living room, he saw François Bena, the palace diet manager, and Emman walked over and bowed, "Your Highness, Mr. Bena asked, is your main dish of dinner to roast peacock or red wine stewed with red venison?"
Joseph held his forehead and shook his head: "Does he want to eliminate all the things in the zoo in Versailles? "Please tell him not to make these expensive and undespicable things in the future. Just stew regular venison. "He still remembered the peacock meat at the last banquet, which was both hard and hard, not as delicious as roasted pigeons, but for the sake of the royal family's pomp, the imperial chef had to make these things every now and then.
The dietary manager shrank his head and left, and Brian, Mirapo and Venio passed by him.
The three of them stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness the Prince." ”
Joseph smiled and nodded, and then signaled to the other side of the sofa: "Please sit down."
Brian and others are already familiar with the prince's style. They don't exchange more greetings at the moment. They go directly to the topic and put a document on the table in front of him: "Your Highness, this is the fiscal revenue and expenditure estimate report this year, and what you requested, the government expenditure plan for next year."
Joseph nodded, picked up the document and opened it, and nodded in his heart. As Brian continued to improve according to his own requirements, the efficiency of the French financial system has become increasingly high.
I used to be able to count the income and expenditure of the previous year in March and April of the following year, but now most of them can be submitted to me before February.
According to a large-scale war this year, he specifically asked to count the financial situation in advance. As a result, Brian had completed the work in early December.
Of course, there are no November and December data here. Joseph mainly wanted to see how much the impact of war on the country's economy.
Brian leaned his head and looked at the position where the prince turned, and explained to him on the side: "Your Highness, last year does not count the next two months, the total fiscal revenue was 640 million francs. If nothing unexpected happens, the annual revenue will reach 770 million francs."
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Joseph was still very satisfied with this number.
The total fiscal revenue last year was 760 million, which seems to have almost no increase this year, but you should know that this is the achievement achieved when the national war broke out.
According to the estimated data submitted by the Intelligence Agency, Austria's fiscal revenue will drop by about 11% this year, and Prussia and other German states participating in the war will even drop by more than 17%!
Even the UK, which is in its prime, has fiscal revenue of 4% lower than last year.
Joseph knew that this was the result of the UK's initial increase in personal income tax, otherwise the subsidies on sugar this year alone would have allowed their income to drop in Austria.
The ability of France to maintain revenue growth is largely due to the high profits obtained by beet sugar, which makes up for the huge military expenditure.
Of course, another important factor is that the proportion of the size of the army invested by France to its national strength is much smaller than that of the two countries of Prussia and Austria.
France only sent a standing army, while Austria carried out a general mobilization, which would consume a large amount of social labor in the war, and domestic production would inevitably be affected.
And this impact is not obvious this year, because many factories still have savings and can still grit their teeth and persevere.
Arriving next year, there will be a greater recession in Austria.
As for Prussia, it has been in a state of national mobilization all year round, maintaining nearly 200,000 permanent troops with a population of only 8 million, and its military expenditure has reached more than half of its fiscal revenue.
Therefore, once Prussia starts war, it must obtain benefits from the war, otherwise the national economy will immediately have problems.
(This chapter ends)