Chapter 878 Victory is in sight (please give me a monthly vote!)
Joseph smiled indifferently: "You may underestimate the cohesion of the Mediterranean security organization."
Fouche suddenly looked thoughtful.
Joseph continued: "Especially, the Italian countries are asking for our country at present, so you don't have to worry about this issue."
In fact, if Joseph had not allowed Ferrara's French army to deliberately suppress it, at this time at least half of the Pope would have been under the control of the security organization.
The reason why we are not in a hurry to advance is to first look at the attitude of the Italian state and then decide how to distribute the interests.
And Joseph knew very well that even without the drive to divide the interests of the Pope, Napoleon's army was still in the town of Mantua.
The French government winked, and the northern Italian countries did not dare not pay immediately.
Besides, they just asked them to exchange gold coins for francs instead of directly paying money to France, which would be even less of a resistance.
After completing the deployment of the financial counterattack, Joseph remembered another thing and said to Brian:
"This time, Wurttemberg and other countries violated the loan agreement, which gave us a good diplomatic approach and we must make good use of it."
According to the original loan agreement, the francs provided by France to the South German states could only be used to purchase goods and domestic investment, while Wurttemberg and other countries secretly used them to lend.
This kind of thing can be big or small, after all, it involves tens of millions of francs, so it is not an exaggeration for France to get angry.
And unlike military operations, such financial disputes will not threaten other German states.
He thought for a while and continued, "After the shorting of the francs comes to an end, you will immediately count the amount of our country's losses and inform European countries."
loss? Brian was stunned. According to His Royal Highness's plan, France should not suffer any losses...
He remembered that His Royal Highness mentioned the "diplomacy grapple" just now, and then he smiled knowingly and said, "Yes, Your Highness, I understand. The violation of the loan agreement between Württemberg and other countries may cause losses of hundreds of millions of francs to our country!"
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In a luxurious building on the west side of the St. Anthony District of Paris, Lord McGovern looked at the huge castle-like building outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and suddenly felt that he was like an unparalleled god at this time.
The former Bastille, the current lord of the slaughter, has begun to shatter under his heavy blow. What is this not divine power?
He specializes in spending a lot of money to rent a house opposite the headquarters of the French Reserve Bank in order to appreciate his "records" at any time.
In the past few days, whenever he saw the Paris citizens who had been waiting for a mile long outside the French Bank to exchange the francs for gold, he couldn't help but raise his lips.
Yes, he was the person appointed by the British Second Chancellor of the Exchequer Wilberfors to carry out the plan to destroy the francs.
The plan went very smoothly.
The unprecedented war obviously made France's fiscal situation unoptimistic. He only used two-thirds of the 40 million francs he brought to exchange for gold and spread some rumors, which caused the French to panic.
Now he doesn't need to take action. The rich French people will use millions of francs to the French Reserve Bank for gold every day.
The French government's response is ridiculous.
Lord McGovern picked up today's "British Business" and the front page news was clearly stated, "The government's gold reserves have no problem, please don't believe the rumors."
"Hehe, the men of Versailles don't understand the ideas of ordinary people at all." He smiled disdainfully. "The more you emphasize 'no problem', the more people will be suspicious."
The door was pushed open, and McGovern's assistant Bruno, a Frenchman of Italian descent, walked in quickly and bowed to him:
"Lord, today's exchange data has been counted. The French Reserve Bank alone has withdrawn 54,000 ounces of gold, and other banks should also have tens of thousands of ounces." More than 60,000 ounces of gold are about 6 million francs.
A look of ecstasy appeared in McGovern's eyes.
At a rate of 6 million francs a day, at most five or six days, the French Reserve Bank's gold reserves will be exhausted. "This is nearly 10,000 ounces more than the previous maximum daily exchange." He put down the newspaper and looked at Brunoy, "Is there something going on?"
"Yes, yourselves." Bruni said proudly, "The Legal Reserve acted to show the citizens that the gold reserves were sufficient and allowed people to enter the vault to visit. "I noticed that their gold bars were a bit strange, so I found a reporter and cut a few pieces in public. "What do you think of the result? One-third of the gold bars are hollow! "It was probably the French Reserve Bank that rushed to melt them yesterday, so the appearance was a bit collapsed, and I saw it.
"After the news spread, people realized that the French government had little gold, and the number of people coming to exchange it immediately increased.
"I guess there will be more people coming to run tomorrow."
However, just as McGovern was about to celebrate champagne, the Paris Business Daily suddenly published a news report - the 400,000 ounces of gold transported by the French Reserve Bank from Marseille, Lorraine and other places had arrived in Paris, and the insufficient gold reserves were alleviated.
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The Paris financial markets seemed to be relieved by this news.
Sure enough, Bruni reported to him listlessly the next day: "Lord, the application for gold exchange received by the Bank of France today has been reduced to 1.6 million francs."
McGovern frowned immediately.
By his estimate, the French Reserve Bank has only less than 20 million francs of gold left at most, but the number of people going to the bank to exchange is rapidly decreasing.
What I’m comparing now is who can grit his teeth and persevere until the end!
He immediately pointed to the safe in the corner of the house and said to his assistant: "Take the last 6 million banknotes to exchange for gold, and you must keep the run trend!"
But the situation still did not improve. After his 6 million was spent, the run lasted for another two days, and then it was reduced by less than 1 million francs per day.
He didn't know that more than half of the people who had runs before were arranged by the French government.
They exchanged banknotes for gold in public during the day, and sent the gold back to the French Reserve Bank at night, and started over again during the day to create the illusion of serious runs.
After the news that "gold arrived in Paris" came out, they stopped redeeming and "tricked" the British mafia behind the scenes.
McGovern was immediately anxious.
He operated for more than 20 days, and saw victory in sight, but the French government held on to his last breath!
He unwillingly wrote a letter to Wilberfos, requesting an additional £800,000, which would definitely defeat France's gold reserves.
But it will take at least one week to send a letter from Paris to London and come back, and he must maintain the run during this period.
McGovern looked at Bruni: "You have a high reputation in the Paris financial industry. I hope you can help me with a loan of 10 million francs of banknotes."
(The end of this chapter)