Chapter 579: All the accounts that need to be settled must be settled clearly (asking for double monthly votes)
You know, Archard can still receive a good salary for doing research at the French Academy of Sciences. If he comes up with results, he can get a huge sum of money according to patent law.
At the same time, the Talent Committee will also match him with a housekeeper and a maid - he does not need to pay the fees for these servants.
Even if you calculate it with your eyes closed, Archard's income is much higher than that of her fiancé - his business only earns four to five thousand francs a year.
More importantly, Archad's income is very stable, there is no business competition, there is no hot or cold market, and he has a very high social status, and he can often visit the Palace of Versailles.
Marian Schumann took a deep breath, worked up her courage, and walked to Archard's villa. Just as she was about to knock on the door, she heard a soft voice coming from behind: "Do you want Are you looking for Mr. Archard?"
She turned around and saw a very beautiful and dignified girl standing not far away, looking at her with a smile.
“You are?”
“I am Mr. Archard’s fiancée, you can just call me Ariel.”
Marian was stunned, she wanted to Taking advantage of Archad's old relationship, he tried to restore the relationship between the two, but unexpectedly he was bumped into by the "rightful owner".
She listened to Ariel's pure language of the palace nobles, and then saw her charming eyes and expensive silk dress. She immediately lowered her head with a pale face, turned around and ran away.
She knew that she had no chance of winning against her.
Every second you delay will only make yourself more embarrassed.
The door opened, and it was Archard's old servant who heard the mistress's voice and hurried out to greet her.
Ariel pointed to Marianne's back and asked him: "Mr. Yassen, do you know this lady?"
"Oh, it seems to be Miss Schumann."
Ariel tilted her head slightly and showed a decent smile: "Why did she leave suddenly? I should have invited her in to sit for a while."
On the other side, Archard was in the eastern suburbs of Paris Received 50 acres of experimental fields allocated by the Academy of Sciences and 120,000 francs of scientific research funding.
To be honest, agricultural research really doesn’t cost that much. The Crown Prince wanted him to take advantage of this opportunity to cultivate sugar beets and build an agricultural breeding laboratory.
Before the end of the year, scholars from the Academy of Sciences responsible for cultivating new varieties of wheat, corn, and potatoes will also gradually settle in this laboratory.
Archard would impart his knowledge of genetics to them, thereby dramatically increasing the rate at which French agricultural products could be improved.
After that, the French Agricultural University will be established based on this place.
At the same time, Minister of Agriculture Venio also rushed to northern France according to the instructions of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and began to promote sugar beet cultivation to farmers there.
Although currently only varieties with a sugar content of 8% can be grown, it will take a process for farmers to accept sugar beets, and at the same time, sugar beet sugar refining factories can also be established.
When the high sugar content quality is developed in the future, it can be quickly spread and become a weapon for France to attack the British sugar industry.
Of course, at present, subsidies are still needed for farmers who grow sugar beets, just like Nahuang did back then. But with Archard and advanced hybrid genetic theory, this situation would not last long.
As long as the sugar content of beets can reach 12%, the cost of sugar production can be reduced to 1 franc and 1.6 pounds of sugar.
France can save a lot of freight by refining sugar locally - shipping from the Caribbean to Europe has to cross the entire Atlantic - so after adding refining, packaging, and sales costs, the price is almost On par with Caribbean cane sugar.
By then, Britain’s sugar hegemony will be completely over!
In the Palace of Versailles, Joseph began to encourage his mother to make beets a must-order dish for every meal. Anyway, Queen Mary likes to eat sweets and is not averse to this stuff at all.
At the same time, he also gave 5,000 francs as a bonus and asked the palace chefs to hold a beet cooking competition. Queen Mary personally acted as the judge, and the nobles of the Palace of Versailles publicly tasted and scored.
"Paris Business Daily" even followed and reported the entire game.
Soon, starting from the court, beet craze spread throughout Paris, and the demand for beets among the citizens increased tenfold.
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Vienna.
Schönbrunn Palace.
French Foreign Minister Talleyrand said loudly and righteously: "It is precisely because of the vicious fraud of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce that a large number of French factories have gone bankrupt! This has seriously endangered France's national stability and has put the government's finances and Taxes are dragged into the abyss!”
Baron Turgut, the Austrian Foreign Minister on the side, hurriedly said: “Archbishop Talleyrand, this order incident is entirely Krestier’s personal crime, and we will punish him. Conduct a severe trial..."
"Isn't Klestier the president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce?" Talleyrand interrupted, "and after the incident was revealed, he was immediately assassinated. It shows that there must be another mastermind behind him
"Given the scale of the order scam - more than 30 million francs - I have reason to believe that at least the Vienna Chamber of Commerce was involved. Krestier alone simply cannot come up with the money to pay the deposit."
Picture Guth whispered: "The Vienna Chamber of Commerce does not have that much money..."
Talleyrand ignored him, but turned to Leopold II and said: "Your Majesty, on behalf of His Majesty the King, I formally request Your country will compensate the damaged factories in France, with a total amount of 32.7 million francs, and investigate the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and severely punish the criminals."
Leopold II favored Kleistier and the Dutch. Cursed a thousand times, more than 30 million francs, which is 13 million florins.
We might as well sell Vienna!
But he knew that he was in the wrong, so he could only try to appease the anger of the French: "Archbishop Talleyrand, I can guarantee that everyone involved in the case will be tried... But you also know France's losses. , the Austrian government didn’t know about it, and it didn’t have that much money at all.”
Talleyrand knew that Austria could not pay so much, and it was just asking for a high price.
After that, there was a tug-of-war that lasted for several hours. Until dusk, Talleyrand's momentum remained unabated: "His Majesty the King is in the Franco-Austrian alliance and has made great concessions. At the minimum , your country should allow the goods produced under this order to be sold in Austria, and the tariffs on the corresponding goods will be reduced by 80%."
Tugut immediately shook his head: "This will cause the collapse of our country's tariff system."
"Then sell it in the Southern Netherlands and Tuscany, and cooperate with tariffs."
"Oh, God. Those two small places can't stand such a toss at all..."
Leopold II rubbed his forehead and said tiredly: "Reduce the tariff of the Southern Netherlands by 30%, Thos Cana is reduced by 18%, which is the limit of what I can do.
"As compensation, I can tell you an important piece of information. ”
“Tariffs have been reduced too little. Talleyrand immediately said dissatisfied, "It must be added that these two places will accept francs for trade in the future." ”
(End of this chapter)