Chapter 383 Everyone will earn
After the opening of the Carolina Canal, Lake Saint-Henri, which regulates water volume next to it, became a wealthy and wealthy person because of its clear water quality, surrounding mountains and forests, the chirping of birds, and the abundance of fish in the lake. A place for leisure people to play.
On the second day of the Golden Durian Award Ceremony, Frederick came to an open space by the lake to survey the terrain for his mahogany-style garden.
This garden is based on the Grand View Garden in Frederick's memory. From the pavilions to the furniture, cups and bowls, he designed it himself, except that he replaced the Cuicui Temple with a church.
Today, several teams of surveyors were measuring the elevation, and Frederick was fishing with little Louis at the water's edge.
Little Louis was asking for help. Looking at the world now, I am afraid that only Frederick could come up with money to ease the financial pressure of the Kingdom of Gaul. From breakfast to now, he has been full of good things.
Frederick had a clear conscience, so let’s flatter each other. The Wesson State Clerk behind them felt goosebumps all over his body.
If Frederick had not only had affairs with women throughout his life, future generations would have felt that there was something between them just by looking at the conversation record of this day.
Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, little Louis said to Frederick a little depressed: "Our country has encountered some difficulties recently, and it is all caused by money."
When Frederick heard this Immediately he said righteously: "I have not forgotten the helping hand your country extended to me in times of crisis ten years ago. If Armand hadn't sent me a sum of money, I wouldn't have known where I would have fled to now."
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"Your difficulties are my difficulties. Problems that can be solved with money are not problems. Just ask how much you want to borrow."
Today's society is a humane society, especially for high-level nobles. There is love and justice. The story has been told all the time, and the villains in dramatic novels are often heartless people.
Ten years ago, perhaps out of sympathy for a child or dissatisfaction with William, the nobles of the Kingdom of Gaul each contributed a little money to show their support.
For Frederick, this support gave him great help both financially and politically, especially in terms of public opinion, which put great pressure on the royal family of the Rhine League.
Over the years, Frederick would send some gifts and messages or letters to the Gallic nobles who had helped him during the holidays over the years. This also opened the door to business convenience and laid the foundation for the success of this trade mission. foundation.
Not to mention Armand, who made the trip in person. His sister Françoise is now the general agent of Wesson Paper in the Kingdom of Gaul. The wealth in the money cabinet makes her appear in public places as a young man who is aspiring to be with a rich woman. The place where they fight.
These are only on the personal level. On the national level, Frederick has not returned the favor.
No way, who made the relationship between the two countries before the marriage between the Rhine Alliance prince and the Gallic kingdom princess was very bad, let alone helping the Kingdom of Lisenberg defeat the Kingdom of Gaul in the past few years.
Now that the relationship between the two countries is developing in a good direction, opportunities have come.
Little Louis thought he would have to talk more to convince Frederick to lend him money, but he didn't expect that he agreed immediately.
It’s just that now everyone knows that Duke Wesson has just experienced a war and paid a large sum of money to Amstel City’s fire insurance. For this reason, he issued two bonds totaling 350,000 florins. It is estimated that his family There isn't much food left.
Little Louis was prepared for this. They had a serious discussion last night. They did not expect Frederick to help fill the hole of hundreds of thousands, and could only issue royal bonds.
These days, the royal family and the nobility are very particular about issuing bonds. The amount is measured based on the average annual income. The left and right bonds are healthy and can be repaid as long as there are no disaster years. The amount exceeds the annual income and reaches twice the annual income. Bonds within this range tend to have high interest rates, so you need to consider whether to invest based on the political situation and war.
The Kingdom of Gaul now has difficulty in issuing royal bonds to fill the hole. They had a bad international reputation after the complete failure of the Kingdom of Lisenberg a few years ago. I am afraid no one would dare to buy bonds with the amount of annual income. It is risky. Too big.
The idea of Little Louis and others is to find Duke Wesson, who is almost a god in the economic field. His prediction of tulip price collapse has really been shattered. If they can take the lead in buying a Gaul royal bond of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, they can follow suit. Buyers will surely flock to it.
No one could say exactly how many gold coins Frederick could take out. Little Louis stretched out his hand, spread his five fingers and shook it.
He was a little worried, thinking that he meant fifty thousand florins. If Duke Wesson thought it was five thousand florins, how should he continue this topic.
But he quickly figured out that Duke Wesson was doing big business, and he would probably not even squint his eyes when dealing with thousands of florins.
Frederick saw the troubled expression on his face after opening his five fingers, frowned, and hung an earthworm on the hook that had just been eaten.
The hook and bait fall into the water, and the fish floats on the water, rising and falling with the waves.
"Sorry." Frederick's answer made little Louis' heart suddenly cool down. "As you know, I have spent too much money recently."
Little Louis sighed in his heart, which was expected. The thing is, if it were another country, the debt of 350,000 florins would be enough to break the bones, and some even don't have the credit to borrow that much.
He had one last trick in mind, which was to act in a play with Frederick, not really buying it, but just to build publicity for his own bond issuance.
Frederick continued: "I really can't get out half a million florins in cash now..." Little Louis felt his heart twitching and meowed, as if he was worried about Wei. There is a huge misunderstanding about the size of Duke Sen's business.
Frederick began to scratch his head. Judging from his expression, he seemed to be engaged in a fierce ideological struggle. The look made little Louis feel a little embarrassed.
Little Louis was just about to say that there was actually no need to do so much. Frederick gritted his teeth, made up his mind, turned his head and said sincerely: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely help you with this."
"It's true that I can't get cash out, so let me give you 600,000 florins of Wesson delivery coupons. Although these delivery coupons are just pieces of paper in other places, they can be purchased directly from factories and government departments here. ”
Little Louis’s hands trembled several times, because Frederick said “give” himself 600,000 florins, not “borrow” him. He dared to give such a large sum of money, and he didn’t. I don’t dare to ask for it.
He was certain that if he really wanted to receive the money, someone would doubt whether the old Count Wesson had met his mother when he went fishing in the Kingdom of Gaul.
"Isn't it 600,000 Kreuz?" Little Louis asked cautiously. One gold florin coin here is exchanged for twenty silver Kreuz coins. 600,000 Kreuz is equal to 30,000 florins. This makes sense. .
Frederick answered firmly: "600,000 florins."
Little Louis calmed down and said: "This... this is too much money, I still Let me borrow it from you."
Frederick felt a little regretful. If he accepted the money, he would be able to legitimately ask for a large piece of land in the lowlands.
“That’s fine.” Frederick nodded and said, “Then don’t ask for interest.”
"Well, you don't need gold when you repay the money, just barter. You also know that we are short of wheat, wool, flax, iron ore, salt, magic crystals and the like."
Little Louis calculated in his mind that the delivery coupon given by Frederick could be sold to merchants at a 10% premium after leaving Wesson. This is the stupidest way. It can be used to buy things during the procurement at this expo. After returning home, For sale, come back for less than a million florins, someone is bound to be guillotined.
Of course, this business is definitely not done by oneself. You can lend it to other nobles in Tongqing, and you can still collect a large amount of interest.
That is the income of the royal family for four years, and the interest of 10% is already considerable.
It would be easier to repay in kind. 600,000 florins is equivalent to 2.1 tons of gold. It is difficult to find so much gold, but it would be easier to exchange it for other commodities. The Kingdom of Gaul itself exports various There are also a lot of agricultural products and iron ore. If the royal family collects taxes in kind and uses them to pay debts, the cost will only be about 500,000 florins.
Little Louis suddenly discovered a way to make money. After this operation, the final money recovered from the loan and the cost of paying off the debt in kind was the royal family's annual income.
He felt that he had made a profit, and Frederick also felt that he had not lost anything. He happily took a fish as fat as a balloon from the hook.
This time the delivery coupon is a low-interest bond that Frederick personally borrowed from Wesson Bank. The nobles of the Gallic Kingdom took the delivery coupon to the factory to purchase goods. After the factory receives the delivery coupon, it can be used as The cash was deposited in the bank or paid taxes, and eventually all was recovered to the bank and became a debt in Frederick's name.
The materials to repay the debt of the Kingdom of Gaul arrived at 10% off the normal wholesale price. These goods were given to Frederick. After the goods were sold, the debt would be repaid with interest.
After this circle, Frederick himself made a profit because the profit from selling goods was higher than the interest. The bank received the interest. Little Louis made a lot of money by transferring the goods coupons and collecting taxes in kind to pay off the debt. The Gallic nobles With more money to purchase goods and sell them back, many factories in Weissenburg received large orders, and everyone seemed happy.
Frederick put the balloon fish into the fish guard and said to little Louis while hanging the bait: "I heard that your country is going to develop into the inland sea. This is when money is needed. If this model is feasible, I think we can continue in the future."
Little Louis calmed down immediately. This was 600,000 florins. It was for emergency relief. He lent so much to himself every year or even every two years. There must be some purpose behind it.
He asked: "How can I help you?"
Frederick scratched his head a little embarrassed and said: "I want a title from your country."
Little Louis has a question mark on his head. It is not surprising that nobles have titles in foreign countries, but they are all obtained through marriage. It is extremely rare to do so blatantly.
Frederick added in a low voice: "Leave those from the Lowlands for later."
Little Louis was stunned, and then understood that one of Frederick's lovers was from the Lowlands.
"Well..." Little Louis hesitated. This was a bit inconsistent with domestic policy, but Frederick had just given a way to make money, and no noble in the country could do one-tenth of it.
He finally made a decision: "No problem."
(End of this chapter)