Fox of France

Although Napoleon took some measures, the economic situation in Europe as a whole is still deteriorating. Once the banks have problems, none of the other industries can escape. Various factories have also begun to experience the problem of broken capital chains. So the air quality in Paris suddenly improved, and the sky suddenly turned blue. Because in Paris, most of the factories were either under-operated or simply closed their doors, or even went bankrupt.

A large number of factory bankruptcies immediately caused a large number of workers to lose their jobs. To be honest, the living conditions of French workers are considered good throughout Europe. But even so, most workers are unlikely to have much savings, especially those unskilled workers. Once they are unemployed, they will immediately face the problem of lack of food. Some factories can't even send severance pay to the workers, so they can only get some unsold leather shoes from the warehouse and go to the street to sell them.

As for skilled workers, their income is of course higher, so that they often have a little savings that looks good. Some people are even thinking about how much money can be exchanged for a lifetime annuity with these savings. However, during the economic crisis, banks also had major problems. A large number of banks went bankrupt, and some of the original "middle class" became paupers almost overnight. The so-called “middle class” that seemed glamorous were almost all swimming naked when the economic tide receded.

The large number of unemployed people immediately made the security of Paris worse, and there were endless thefts and robberies.

The ruling government immediately took measures to announce the issuance of a batch of special treasury bonds and called on patriotic businessmen to buy them actively. Rothschild immediately announced the purchase of a special treasury bond of at least three million francs. The Bank of Rome even bought 40 million francs of special treasury bonds in one go.

After the Bank of Rome bought the national debt, Napoleon took the money and bought a large amount of grain from the Veterans Federation, and based on his household registration, he formulated an emergency grain distribution plan. In Paris, people with registered legal status can receive a little food for free every day. Of course, this amount of food is impossible to fill the family, but at most it can maintain them so that they will not starve to death soon. But this kind of morality is rare in French history. Therefore, the entire French people are increasingly united by the ruling government with Napoleon at its core.

"So if you want to buy people's hearts, you can't just let the people live a good life. People's hearts will and will never be satisfied, they will always want more. On the contrary, if you let them get into trouble from time to time, then you just need Bringing out a few things can make them grateful. Well, what do you say? It’s better to give charcoal in the snow as icing on the cake? Well, so Napoleon, you have to remember that if it doesn’t snow, we will also artificially snow from time to time... "When Napoleon showed to Joseph that his approval rating had risen to nearly 100%, Joseph said to Napoleon.

"You are right, Joseph. But are you sure we won't play off? After all, industry has suffered too much." Napoleon asked again.

"Economic crisis is inevitable. It is not shifted by human will." Joseph said, "Remember the political economy I told you about?"

"Remember. Those things you said are really eye-opening." Napoleon said.

"This thing must be kept secret. I can't let people see it, understand?"

"Nonsense, can this terrible thing be kept secret? Compared with it, Machiavelli is as innocent and pure as a silly girl." Napoleon replied.

What Joseph taught Napoleon is not complicated. It is nothing more than an analysis of how overproduction is inevitable under the conditions of a market economy.

"The total price of all commodities in the entire society is equal to the total wages paid in this society for the production of these commodities plus the total profits obtained by the enterprise or business owner. As long as the total wages and total profits are not fully invested in consumption, then The total demand must be less than the total supply, and the goods must not be sold. Once there are goods that cannot be sold, producers will lower their wages, lower wages, and demand will shrink further, and then accumulate in this way, which is today’s situation. . Joseph, your explanation is very good. But now, our losses are also great." Napoleon said.

"The rich and the poor are relative. We lose big, and some countries may lose even more. As long as their losses are greater than ours, that is our victory. It's like playing chess. You also expect a **** to fight without death. Kill each other?" Joseph smiled, "Besides, we discussed the principles of dealing with economic crises together before, do you remember?"

"It's nothing more than to seize new markets to increase demand. Or to eliminate part of the supply, it is best to let others give us the market. Well, the second method, the most direct means is war. But Joseph You don't seem to look forward to war very much." Napoleon said.

"I just hope that the war can be carried out after a little more certainty. I don't want to be caught in a security war." Joseph said, "The situation of the British is worse than we are now. This crisis was initiated by us, and the harvest of wheat is all Entered our granary. Hehe, many of the wheat is still British wheat. With these wheat, we can still maintain by means of welfare. But the British who have taken the wheat away, they can Is the welfare given to us to maintain it?"

"It's not impossible." Napoleon said, "but if they really intend to play like this, we can last longer than them. What's more, we can also let them spend money elsewhere. We will Some unemployed people are recruited into the army to expand the size of the army, and then we use these troops to do some public works. It can be considered as a work-for-work. On the other hand, our sudden army expansion will surely scare the British to death. Don’t have to hurry up to expand the army, and then, won’t they have more money?"

Napoleon had confidence in doing this. This confidence comes from the harvest of a lot of British wheat in the market. In the railroad craze, many of the investments in French railways are foreign capital, and there is also a lot of British capital. Now these wheat are in Napoleon's granary. But there was another thing that gave Napoleon more confidence, and that was gold from North America.

In the original history, in 1847, a very serious economic crisis occurred, which almost shook the entire capitalist world. And it brought a series of political consequences: the French rebuilt the republic; the Prussians used an uprising to force the king to establish a parliament; and in Austria, the revolutionary people shouted, and Metternich fled in panic wearing a dress. Of course, these are just appetizers. What's more important and terrifying is that in 1848, a brand new political party issued its programmatic document "Communist Manifesto"! And publicly called for revolutionary means to bury the entire capitalism.

The situation of the revolution is very good, the revolutionary forces... But the revolution of 1848 suddenly disappeared, even this is not the result of reactionary suppression, but because in 1848, San Francisco discovered an open gold mine.

These gold mines were far away from the emperor Tiangao, and buried shallowly. It is easy to mine, so even the pauper can go for gold. This is the gold rush in history. At that time, if a merchant ship had stopped in a North American port, the captain would find that his ship could no longer be sailed early the next morning, because all the sailors had resigned to go for gold.

According to the thinking of some Confucian masters, gold is of no great use, "you cannot eat when you are hungry, and cannot be clothed in cold. But in a market economy, this is not the case. Because gold is naturally money, and what is money? Money is demand! If this gold falls into the hands of the rich, it will at best be used to build a gold coin swimming pool; but most of the gold diggers are poor people, and the gold is in their hands, that is the real purchasing power. Therefore, because of these open-pit gold mines, the economic crisis was eased, or even eliminated, and the revolution naturally came to an end.

Today, these gold mines are under French control and are secretly mined under the guard of the French gold forces. The French government has a large amount of unknown gold reserves. But the gold still belongs to the country, and it can be used for infrastructure construction all the time. By the way, the owner of this gold can be transformed from a theoretically all French people to a military-industrial complex and a sacred and inviolable one. Private property. Relying on this batch of gold, Napoleon can read books to other countries without hesitation, UU www.uukanshu. In particular, com said to the British: "It is you who can't hold on to the welfare first!"

Of course, it is not yet time to use the gold, at least until the British can't support it, and after the tariff barriers are to be created, then the French will also fight back with tariff barriers. Otherwise, if you give benefits to those people here, then he will take the benefits you distributed to buy British goods. Isn't that a way to help the British people?

In later generations, the auto industry you saw, Amei, once encountered a problem of declining sales. In order to help the auto industry, Amei, you saw benefits for people who bought cars, and provided particularly cost-effective car loans. Then, A-mei, the consumers you saw first went to receive welfare benefits, and then went to buy cheap and good-quality Japanese cars.

Or maybe it seems that Ou Meng in later generations also lent money to give the people a lot of benefits. He originally expected the people to buy European self-produced goods. Unexpectedly, those people are not good people. Don’t look at them always saying "Red The goods of "Rabbit Country" will explode, but as soon as I get the benefits, I still go to buy things from the little rabbits, and then say: "It's so fragrant!"

Therefore, in the absence of tariff barriers, giving out welfare indiscriminately, you may be married for others.

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