Make France Great Again

Chapter 552 The surrendered banker

"Don't you have something to say to Mr. Algu? Mr. Algu is here, and you can say whatever you have to say now!"

Jérôme Bonaparte spoke quietly, but he struck fear into the bankers.

The bankers present did not expect that the emperor would appear in Count Argu's mansion. If they had known that the emperor was coming back, they would not have taken the gun at all.

Fortunately, now, this group of people has not yet discussed a response strategy, and the emperor has defeated them in advance.

The originally bustling hall was now completely silent.

In front of Jérôme Bonaparte, who symbolized the power of the empire, this group of bankers who claimed to be the spokesperson of France did not even dare to breathe.

Time passed minute by minute, and every second was a kind of torture for the bankers in the hall.

Ten minutes later, Jérôme Bonaparte, who saw that all the bankers present did not dare to speak, sneered: "Say! Why don't you say anything! You are blocking Mr. Argu's lobby, aren't you? In order to let Mr. Argu talk to you! Now that I have brought Mr. Argu, why don’t you say anything again!”

The bankers kept silent, no one dared to get into trouble at this time.

Jerome Bonaparte looked around and counted the number of people in the hall with his hands. No more, no less, exactly 30 people. Then he pointed to one of the bankers and said: "You... come out!"

The old man who was touched by Jérôme Bonaparte was stunned for a while, and then asked in a daze as if he had just woken up: "Your Majesty, did you just let me pass!"

"That's right! It's you! Mr. Jordans Capafelle!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said to him.

Jordaens had no choice but to come to Jerome Bonaparte and bowed to Jerome Bonaparte and said: "Your Majesty!"

Jérôme Bonaparte touched his chin, showed an interesting smile and said: "Mr. Jordans! If my memory is correct, you and Count Argou should have been friends for many years. Bar!"

"That's right!" Jordans Capafelle nodded and responded in a low voice to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Since we are good friends, then why do you stay with them at Argoux's house and don't want to go!" Jérôme Bonaparte reprimanded Jodès Capafère coldly: "You don't want to go anyway." They are all famous people in Paris, and now they are learning the tricks of the low-class people in Paris!"

"I..." Jordans Capafelle smiled bitterly in his heart. In fact, he didn't want to do this, but when things got to this point, he couldn't help it. He could only bite the bullet and confront Jerome Bonaparte. He responded: "Actually, we just came here to comfort Count Argu and prevent him from having any accidents!"

"Just for a look?" Even though Jérôme Bonaparte didn't believe what Jodès Capafelle said at all, he still had to pretend that he was willing to believe him.

After all, it was impossible for Jérôme Bonaparte to really capture them all.

The law does not punish the public is also tried among bankers.

However, you can still try to knock the mountain and shake the tiger occasionally.

"That's right! We just came here to visit Count Argou! Now that Count Argou is fine, we can leave with peace of mind!" Since the emperor gave them the steps, Jodans Capafele naturally followed suit. Go down.

"Okay! I tentatively believe that you did such a thoughtless thing on impulse because you were worried about your bosses and friends!" Jerome Bonaparte raised his voice and said: "Now you have also met Count Argu. It’s safe and sound! Can you leave with peace of mind?”

As soon as Jérôme Bonaparte finished speaking, the bankers in the hall expressed that they could leave with peace of mind after seeing that Count Argu was fine!

Afterwards, the bankers in the hall left Count Argu's mansion one after another.

Only Jérôme Bonaparte, Count Argoux, and two teams of policemen were left at the scene.

"Your Majesty, we..." the Sheriff bravely said to Jerome Bonaparte.

"I almost forgot, there are you too!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to the police chief with a smile on his face: "I'll tell you when I go back, chief, don't be blinded by money! Behind the money is probably an invisible person. Bottoming trap!”

"Yes! Yes! I will convey your Majesty's words to the chief!" the sergeant nodded and bowed in response.

"Go back!!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to the police chief after saying goodbye.

The two police chiefs and more than 20 police officers hurriedly left Count Argu's mansion as if they had been granted amnesty.

After the rest of the crowd left, Jérôme Bonaparte asked Argu, "Mr. Argu, do you want to have a chat?"

"Your Majesty, please come in!" Count Argoux invited Jérôme Bonaparte into the room, and then asked his servants to prepare dinner: "If you don't mind..."

"It just so happens that I also want to try to see what the difference is between the dinner at Mr.'s house and the dinner at the Tuileries Palace!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Count Argoux with a smile still on his face.

"I'm afraid it's far inferior to your dinner at the Tuileries Palace!" Count Argu said softly.

"That's not necessarily true!" Jerome Bonaparte shrugged.

In fact, Jérôme Bonaparte usually prepared two menus at the Tuileries Palace. One was the menu for the arrival of the important ministers. The menu contained a wide variety of dishes in a complete range of styles. The other was the dishes he would eat himself. The style is far inferior to the recipes prepared when entertaining others.

However, the best thing is nutritional balance.

Led by Count Argu, Jérôme Bonaparte entered the mansion.

"Your Majesty, please sit down!" Count Argou extended his hand to invite Jérôme Bonaparte to sit down, then walked to the desk alone and took out two pieces of flint and a piece of oil-dried origami from the drawer.

After the sparks generated by the friction of flints ignited the origami, Count Argu opened the shade of the kerosene lamp placed on the desk, lit the wick of the kerosene lamp, then closed the lampshade again and lifted the kerosene lamp to Jérôme Bonnet. In front of Ba.

"Your Majesty, the light here is a bit dark! Please forgive me!" Count Algu apologized again.

"Nothing!" Jérôme Bonaparte waved his hand, then looked at the kerosene lamp in Count Argu's hand and said half-jokingly: "I didn't expect that you, a dignified director of the Bank of France, could actually use things that ordinary people use. !”

"Your Majesty, when I was a child, my father often used my grandfather as an example to warn me to be thrifty!" Count Argu said as he sat opposite Jerome Bonaparte.

"Oh? Mr. Argu, so your grandfather was a very frugal man?" Jerome Bonaparte looked at Count Argu in surprise.

"Your Majesty, my grandfather was just an ordinary wine merchant who accompanied the army!" Count Argu explained to Jérôme Bonaparte: "Our family only got involved in the banking industry in my father's generation. It can be said that banks The development of our company is inseparable from my father!”

"I see!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and said, "It seems that the fortune history of your family and Baron Rothschild's family are roughly the same!"

"Part of it is the same!" Count Argu nodded, and then changed the topic and asked Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, you came to me specifically, I'm afraid you didn't come to ask about my family history. !”

Of course Jérôme Bonaparte understood what Count Argu meant. He nodded and responded to Count Argu: "Magnet has told me everything! I don't want to pursue right and wrong, but I hope you can When the empire is in trouble, help the empire!"

"Thank you for your generosity! I will give part of the gold to the Bank of France as a reserve!" Count Argu expressed his gratitude for Jerome Bonaparte's magnanimity.

The Count of Argoux privately ordered his bank to convert the pound bonds in their hands into gold, causing a pound panic. This incident can be regarded as a story for Jérôme Bonaparte.

Later, Jérôme Bonaparte asked Count Argoux what he thought about the bankers gathering in the hall just now.

"They hope that I can stand up and fight against you!" Count Argu said bluntly to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Then why don't you stand up! If I were in your position, I would definitely lead them to force the government to make concessions!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Count Argoux with great interest.

In fact, he still quite expected Count Argu to lead the bankers to fight against him, so that he would have another reason to blackmail them severely.

Count Argu responded calmly: "I am just a mediocre person who is slightly luckier than others, and I don't want to be used as a weapon by them! Not to mention, there is no way to shake a stable government with the power of the Bank of France alone. I’m afraid those guys have long forgotten the horror of revolution!”

For Count Argu, who had experienced two revolutions (1830 and 1848), the destruction brought by the revolution far outweighed the benefits they could obtain.

No far-sighted banker dares to say that he will survive the next revolution. The best outcome is to do everything possible to maintain the stability of the current system.

Even if the Count of Argoux is unhappy with Jérôme Bonaparte again, after the dissatisfaction has passed, the Count of Argou will still work hard for the survival of the empire.

Revolution is like a blind box. You never know whether the next regime will be good or bad.

"Mr. Argu, which of those people do you think can stand by me, and which of them are diehards?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Count Argu.

"Your Majesty, no one is a die-hard!" Count Argu replied to Jérôme Bonaparte: "They are just safeguarding their own interests! Once they think they can only suffer this blow, they will bite Keep your teeth on the side of the winner!"

"Conservative financial policy cannot protect their interests! On the contrary, it will damage the entire French economy!" Jérôme Bonaparte emphasized.

"Your Majesty, your method is just delaying the economy! Once the war is over, a large number of factories will be on the verge of bankruptcy!" Count Argu said to Jérôme Bonaparte.

What Count Argoux said is actually correct at all. What Jerome Bonaparte did was just to extend the crisis. Keynesianism is not to solve the economic crisis of capitalism, but to delay the occurrence of capitalist economic crisis.

During this period, there will inevitably be the risk of mounting debt. The massive increase in infrastructure and military ancillary industries is equivalent to tying the entire French people to the war machine, just like Hitler after World War II.

It's just that Hitler was not as lucky as Jerome Bonaparte. The coming second industrial revolution will give France, which is in debt, a breath of relief.

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That’s right! The Crimean War was not the end of France's military adventure, but the beginning of one.

It's just that the vast majority of French people have not seen this, and elite politicians like Count Argoux have only seen the tip of the iceberg.

If he had known about the crazy plan that existed in Jérôme Bonaparte's mind, he would have stopped this madman at all costs.

"It is undeniable! Large-scale credit is indeed a waste of money, but we must persist!" Jerome Bonaparte spread his hands and said helplessly: "From the moment we entered the battlefield in Crimea, we There is no way out! Either the empire will be destroyed in the Paris riots triggered by failure, or the empire will gain a breather in successive victories. Mr. Argu, if it were you, what would you choose?"

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