Make France Great Again

Chapter 241 Harvesting French Leeks

Jérôme Bonaparte stared at Valewski for a moment, and couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

Emile Perel? Shouldn't he stay in Paris? Why did you come here? Could it be that something big happened to Emil Perel at Industrial Bank... It shouldn't have happened!

Jérôme Bonaparte believed that if Industrial Bank really had operational problems, his spy at Industrial Bank would pass the information to him as soon as possible. The mining of gold mines in California was the second highest priority. Due to the coup, French capital will usher in a sniper attack from New World capital if they are not careful.

Jérôme Bonaparte raised his head suspiciously, staring at Walewski with a pair of bright gray-blue eyes for a moment, then nodded and said in the usual tone: "I understand, let Mr. Emile come in! "

"yes!"

Valewski followed Jérôme Bonaparte's orders and invited Emile Perel into his study.

Looking at Valewski's leaving figure, Jérôme Bonaparte got up from the blue velvet cushion chair, stepped on the Persian red carpet laid on the ground, sat down on the couch with cushioned armrests, and waited. The arrival of Emile Perel.

Not long after, Valewski brought Société Générale President Emile Perel to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Your Majesty!" Emile Perel, who was wearing a pure black suit, a top hat, and a cowhide briefcase under his arm, took off his hat and bowed politely to Jérôme Bonaparte. Then he continued: "Please forgive me for visiting you while you are on vacation!"

"Sit down and talk! Mr. Emile!" Jérôme Bonaparte smiled and patted the white velvet cushion beside him with his right hand to signal Emile Perel to sit down.

"Yes!" Emil Perel nodded. Walewski, who was standing next to Emil Perel, saw this and helped Emil Perel put the top hat on the shelf.

Emile Perel sat upright on the sofa opposite Jerome Bonaparte and was about to speak when Jerome Bonaparte's voice reached his ears from Emile Perel: "Wa Mr. Levski, two coffees!”

Only in private settings did Jérôme Bonaparte like to call Valewski his cousin.

Of course, sometimes it is inevitable to call someone a fool.

"Yes!" Valewski, who placed Emile Perel's top hat on the shelf, responded quickly, and then left the study with a steady pace.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be like this!" Emile Perel showed a respectful expression to Jerome Bonaparte's "courtesy".

"Nothing!" Jerome Bonaparte showed a reasonable expression, and soon he got to the point: "Mr. Emile, I wonder what you want to see me for today?"

Emile Perel opened his briefcase, and Jerome Bonaparte looked at Emile Perel's briefcase curiously. Because the distance between Jerome Bonaparte and Emile Perel was very long, Recently, Jérôme Bonaparte faintly saw two sealed documents in the briefcase.

"Your Majesty, this is the iron ore procurement plan and blast furnace complaint use plan in the Nancy region..." Emile Perel handed the sealed plan to Jérôme Bonaparte and said: "These are all mine. My brother Isaac Perel asked me to give it to you!"

Since Jérôme Bonaparte had conversations with Emile Schneider and Emile Perel at the Elysée Palace in 1849, Emile Perel’s brother Isaac Perel and Emile Schneider Construction of the steel industry in Nancy and Strasbourg began.

Due to the deep-rooted German land aristocracy in Alsace and Lorraine, his plan did not progress as smoothly as planned.

But overall it can be considered quite satisfactory.

After taking over the plan, Jérôme Bonaparte put it aside and said: "I don't want to know the specific data. I just want to know how far the Nancy region has progressed?"

"Your Majesty, I have reached an agreement with the vast majority of the iron ore owners in the Lorraine area, and they will uniformly supply us with iron ore! The blast furnace is expected to be fully put into use by the end of the year..." Emil Perel explained one by one. Jérôme Bonaparte solved the problem.

After listening to Emile Perel's words, Jérôme Bonaparte shook his head slightly and responded: "This is not enough! It is not enough for the Lorraine region to cooperate with us. I need you to organize them and establish a Private iron ore joint organization. When the time comes, the government will also have an excuse to get involved."

After Emil Perel thought for a moment, he asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, is it like the previous Norinco Group?"

"That's right!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and said to Emile Perel: "We must firmly hold the pricing power of iron ore in our hands!"

Since France is a country that lacks coal and iron ore is on the front line, the price of iron ore in Lorraine far exceeds that in Prussia.

This is the price after slight regulation by the government. If there are no restrictions, the iron ore in the Lorraine area will inevitably further compress the profits of the industry.

By that time, I am afraid that no capitalist will be willing to invest a lot of money in industry.

Only by controlling the price of fruits in Central America, just like the United Fruit Company that was later manufactured in Central America by the United States, it must also control the price of iron ore in France to make capital profitable, so that it can drive the cycle. .

The only difference is that the power of the United Fruit Company comes from the shareholders, while the power of the "Iron Mining Federation" only comes from the president.

The power of the former is not as strong as that of the latter.

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Emil Perel responded.

At this moment, Valewski was holding a silver tray, on which were placed a steaming coffee pot and two coffee cups with carved blue and white decorations.

Valewski placed the coffee pot and coffee cup on the mahogany square table in front of the two people. After making a cup of coffee for Jérôme Bonaparte and Emile Perel respectively, he stood dignifiedly next to the sofa and waited. Jérôme Bonaparte's orders.

Jérôme Bonaparte picked up the steaming coffee cup, took a sip and then asked: "Mr. Emile, is there anything else? You can tell me all!"

"That's it!" Emil Perel once again took out a piece of information from his briefcase, "This is the income and expenditure of Industrial Bank and our progress in the American gold mine!"

Touching the information in his hand that was half as thick as later Chinese textbooks, a hint of boredom flashed across Jérôme Bonaparte's face. He didn't need so-called data, what he needed was Emile Perel. Explain to him what happened.

"Mr. Emile, are you from the American mining area and do you need any help?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Emile Perel directly.

"That's it! Our manpower in the mining area has been reduced day by day, and many Germans are not willing to work for us!" Emile Perel said to Jerome Bonaparte in a low voice with a hint of weakness. Said: "Because the gold sand content in the mining area there is not low, it requires a lot of manpower... so I hope to get some people from France to go to California for mining!"

"Short of manpower?" Jérôme Bonaparte got up and walked around in the meeting, sometimes nodding, sometimes shaking his head, and mumbling something that Emile Perel Police Department knows.

In the slightly anxious expression of Emile Perel, Jérôme Bonaparte finally stopped. He turned his eyes to Emile Perel and asked seriously: "How many people are needed?"

Jérôme Bonaparte's inquiry made Emile Perel's hanging heart finally calm down. He hurriedly said to Jérôme Bonaparte: "It will take nearly a thousand people!"

"More than a thousand people!" Jerome Bonaparte's face changed slightly. After pondering for a moment, he continued: "This is not a small number! If things go wrong, a scandal may break out!"

If Jérôme Bonaparte had a choice, he would definitely send a group of labor reform prisoners from the prison to California in the name of atonement.

But once he does this, he may face various scandals.

The opposition will criticize him for trying to restore slavery, and may even invoke scriptures to implicate the emperor.

"We must proceed gently!" Jerome Bonaparte said to himself.

At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed through Jérôme Bonaparte's mind, and he suddenly thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

"We can issue lottery tickets!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Emile Perel: "The name of the lottery ticket can be called "Gold Bar Lottery", and each ticket is priced at 1 franc. We can claim to the outside world that all lottery tickets are purchased Everyone in the country can have the opportunity to go to the New World, and then part of the funds will be used to build citésouvrières [worker villages], so that we can avoid lottery risks and at the same time send some gold diggers with dreams to the New World. Isn’t this the best of both worlds? !”

According to the Constitution of the Second Republic: No one can issue lotteries except for relief purposes.

"You're right!" Emile Perel said flatteringly, looking for Shuyuan www.zhaosshuyuan. com It was not that he had never thought of using the lottery to recruit French people to the New World, but the issuance of the lottery required the approval of the president.

"There are many opportunities to make a fortune in the New World. I hope they can cherish it!" Jerome Bonaparte sat down again and said.

"That's right! I believe they will be grateful for your kindness!" Emil Perel echoed.

The two men who used the lottery to lure proletarians to the New World tacitly ignored the mortality rate in the western part of the New World.

After all, in the 19th century, anything could happen unexpectedly, and maybe they could carve out a world in the New World.

The "Gold Bar Lottery" plan was jointly formulated by Jérôme Bonaparte and Emile Perel and took two days to complete.

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