Chapter 874 Financial Secret War
Pius VI first led the bishops to make a brief prayer, then held his fingers tightly, lowered his head and said, "Everyone should know everything. What should we do?"
Cardinal of Venetian Gardini immediately whispered loudly:
"Muzarelli should be handed over to the French first, it was his stupid... Oh, please forgive my rudeness. It was his way of pleasing Vienna and angering the French..."
The middle-aged cardinal next to him interrupted him in a low voice: "Don't you know? Priest Muzarelli fled Rome last month."
Edel, the cardinal of Naples sitting beside Pius VI, suddenly chanted the scriptures loudly: "O Lord, the Gentiles have entered your inheritance..."
All the surroundings immediately began to heat up discussions, "Please call the Crusaders! All believers in Europe will come to fight for God!"
"Let Habsburg increase troops. The Holy See gave them great support, and now is the time for them to repay."
"Article Destro, the army of Vienna has not even saved Lombardy. If I say, I have to ask Madrid for help..."
"Are you confused? Spain is the member of the "Mediterranean Military Organization." "It's the "Mediterranean Security Organization", Archbishop Pazini..." "No army of any country can help us." The elderly Cardinal Genoa raised his hand and said, "Now should be summoned to assassinate the blasphemer in Versailles..." "Enough." Pius VI raised his wrinkled face and shook his head pale, "The fear has eroded your mind, and these thoughts are more blasphemous than the French bayonet." He looked at Archbishop Edel: "Can the Vatican Guards block them? Oh, plus the Roman militia and anti-smuggling team."
The latter hesitated and said, "This is probably difficult, Holy Father."
The core combat power of the Holy See is only about 400 Swiss Guards, and with other guards and paramilitary forces, the strength is less than 2,000.
Pius VI looked around everyone, and saw that no one spoke again, and immediately sighed: "Article Gardini, please go to Paris immediately to negotiate with the French king on behalf of the Holy See.
"Tell him that all this was done by Muzarelli, and the Holy See was willing to ced the Marche district as compensation to France and compensate them..."
He paused for a moment and spit out a number with difficulty: "One million Ducat gold coins. Let them withdraw their troops as soon as possible. ”
The 1 million Ducat is almost 9 million francs, which is very sincere.
The cardinals immediately expressed their opposition excitedly, "Father, how can we bow to the blasphemer?"
"1 million Ducarts are too much!"
"This will encourage the arrogance of those secular kings..."
At this moment, a high-level priest walked in against the wall and whispered a few words in Archbishop Edel's ear.
The latter was shocked and said to Pius VI in a trembling voice: "Holy Father, the guards just interrogated the relatives of a guard of Muzarelli. According to the man, Muzarelli went to France and the destination was probably Paris."
"What?!" Pius VI suddenly stood up, stunned for a while, turned to Edel and said, "Please prepare, I'll go to France in person."
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Paris Financial Center.
The headquarters of the Legal Reserve Bank.
In the luxuriously decorated VIP room, Lafonte, senior director of the French Bank, signaled the servant to put the hot tea in front of the middle-aged customer, and then smiled and said: "Why do you suddenly want to exchange so much gold? Oh, please don't mind, it's all for the safety of the VIP account."
Just half an hour ago, the businessman who claimed to be from Reims said that he would exchange all 500,000 francs for gold.
According to relevant laws on the French gold standard, banks must meet customer requirements. "I want to invest in South America's business," the middle-aged man said in a cold voice. "The people there don't accept francs."
"Or, you can try to use our bank's exchange business," Lafonte kept smiling. "We have 'no bill' remittance cooperation with some Spanish banks..."
The middle-aged man waved his hand impatiently: "I want to buy the minerals of San Vicente. Please exchange me for gold coins as soon as possible."
San Vicente is a Portuguese colony.
Lafonte's smile froze and nodded, "Okay, honorable Mr. Colin. "But you know, it takes 5 days to check identity and large authorization, not Sunday. ”
"Okay, I'll be 6 days later." Colin signed the application form, left his accountant, and stood up and left.
Lafonte sent him out of the door, and a salesperson behind him ran over quickly and whispered in his ear: "Sir, there is a wife who wants to exchange 650,000 francs into gold coins..."
Lafonte frowned immediately.
He often encounters large amounts of exchange, but for two consecutive days, there are three large amounts of exchange for gold every day, which is absolutely rare.
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Moreover, these businesses are no longer "large amounts", but "huge amounts" - a total of more than 2 million francs are added together.
After dealing with the lady, he immediately returned to the office and wrote a report on the abnormality of nearly two days.
The next day.
As soon as the headquarters of the French Reserve Bank opened, a gorgeously dressed noble man asked to exchange 600,000 francs of gold.
Lafonte immediately realized something was wrong. When receiving the young nobles, he told him that the business needed to start the "remote transportation clause" and that the delivery would be completed 22 days later.
The so-called "remote transportation clause" means that the demand for gold exchange exceeds bank inventory in the short term, so it must be allocated from remote banks, with a duration ranging from 15 days to 22 days.
After sending off the customer, Lafonte hurriedly instructed his subordinates to announce "bank statistics and accounts" to the public and all large-scale businesses were suspended.
Then he slipped out from the back door of the Bank of the Legislative Bank and got on the carriage to the office of the General Manager of the Legislative Bank in the Palace of Duille.
News on the suspension of the exchange business of the French Reserve Bank came out, and immediately more than a dozen "financial industry experts" who had already prepared began to attack everywhere, spreading "terrifying" remarks on stock exchanges, futures exchanges, and even large salons. "As I said before, French banknotes have been issued more than ten times more!"
"The French Reserve Bank exhausted its gold reserves before the New Year, and today's suspension of exchange announcement is just the beginning..."
"We fought a great war, but unfortunately, the war was also consumed hugely. In order to meet military expenditure, the government could only print paper money to fill the amount..."
"Please believe me, I have been in the banking and financing industry for 30 years. If you don't want the francs in your hands to turn into waste paper, hurry up and exchange them for gold."
"Did you forget John Law's scam? Look at how similar the situation is now..."
That night, news that "the French bank is suspected to be facing difficulties" began to appear in some newspapers with small circulation.
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Palace of Versailles.
Joseph was watching the security organization's siege of Ferrara when he saw Brian and Jacques Lafitte, general manager of the Legal Bank, knocking in under the leadership of Emman.
(This chapter ends)