Chapter 1457 “Important Position”

What is the concept of 19,000 tons of grain?

A Rouen shipping cargo ship has a load capacity of 200 tons, and 100 such large ships can be filled. Calculated based on 1 quintal and 100 kilograms, 19,000 tons is equivalent to 200,000 quintals. It is just the grain that Godoy promised to sell to France.

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Cargo ships transported from Rouen to Paris can use small boats, which can reach Paris in about eight days. These small boats carry about 30 tons, and more than 600 of them are needed. Rouen is near Normandy, and there are boats of different sizes and shapes.

Such ships, including single-masted and three-masted ships, set off from Rouen along the Seine River to Paris. The scene looked simply chaotic. In contrast, the grain ships in Nantes were of uniform specifications.

, each ship has only one mast and a square sail. They are five or six ships arranged in a row along the Loire River to Orléans. From the first ship to the last ship, the sails are arranged according to the order.

The order is reduced boat by boat, and there will never be any suddenness or randomness. It looks like a little duck swimming with its mother.

Inland water transportation is not only food, but also building materials, fuel, wine and other supplies. In order to make way for these grain ships, all the ships have been moved aside. The dock is in a mess. After unloading the goods from the ship, they have to go through the scale.

After the scale was completed, it could be loaded onto the carriage waiting to be loaded. This process caused crowding and blockage. In short, it looked very busy.

Marseille is next to the Mediterranean Sea, and the grain shipped from southern Russia will be transported along the Rhone River to Orleans. However, according to the data left by the old dynasty, the transportation volume of the Seine River is much higher than that of the Rhone River and the Loire River. That is to say

Rouen is more important than Nantes and Lyon.

Napoleon's tariff policy was very popular with the Rouen people. They worked quickly, and with the exemption of tolls, they made more money. In addition to 19,000 tons of grain, the Rouen people also brought 1,000 tons of other goods.

Groceries, in short, they made a good deal on this trip. When they got off the ship, everyone looked happy, and there was no panic caused by famine at all.

Parisians who had endured a hard winter finally saw the ship coming. Although there was still panic buying, there were no people standing around the crowd to incite trouble.

The fallow land has been plowed since April. These fields are not wheat but potatoes. It is almost May and the canal has only begun to thaw. The weather this year is still cold. A quintal of wheat in Paris sells for 33 francs.

, calculating that 1 pound of wheat costs 3 sous, which may be about 4 and a half sous when made into bread.

Paris is only a small part of France. Even if Napoleon collected enough money and did not have such large transportation capacity, he would not be able to transport food from other countries into France.

Assuming that this kind of busy trip was once a month, it would last until the winter of 1803. However, by that time the river had frozen, and with the floods in the summer, this kind of busyness might be reduced to two or even three trips a month.

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After the food arrives, we still need to find a place to store it. Paris is so crowded, where can we find a place to store it?

This is a pretty good start, it just depends on whether it can be maintained.

After a brief stop, Georgiana let the carriage move on. Alva was a former Guardsman. He was discharged from the army last year and did not want to leave Napoleon. He was confused in Paris for more than half a year before being introduced by Phyllis to be Georgiana's coachman.

He was probably more familiar with the Tuileries Palace than his own home. He drove a carriage with Georgiana and entered along the entrance where staff came in and out, and delivered vegetables and other supplies. Georgiana quickly slipped in while no one was paying attention.

In the palace.

She was not rash, she was so happy that she planned to give him a "surprise". Maybe the First Consul was "playing games" with some charming guest, such as the 15-year-old actress Miss Georgina.

She found Pierre Benezet, the chief steward of the Tuileries Palace, and asked him to bring a report. Then she returned to the office in the restaurant and found a British newspaper on the table.

The smell of food came from next door. She was already very familiar with this smell, but she had only been responsible for making delicious food before and had never worried about money. She never thought about whether the tuition fees paid by the students were enough to support such a rich meal.

Three meals a day.

Perhaps it is precisely because there is not enough that school directors like Lucius Malfoy exist. Normal people do not always have food prepared in their homes.

She has been living in a sweet and dreamy world. Adam Smith wrote in "The Wealth of Nations" that human beings are proud of ruling the inferior people and are ashamed of condescending to the inferior people. In many places in Europe, farmers are regarded as

As lower-class people, their status is far lower than that of big businessmen and manufacturers.

If the law allows it and the nature of the work allows it, agricultural planters will definitely choose slaves between slaves and free people. What is the difference between farmers who are tightly bound to the land and slaves? They are both unfree.

Although city residents are free, they do not have any guarantees. When work stops, they stop talking. Gathering so many people in the city may look lively and prosperous and satisfy the vanity of the rulers, but once a crisis occurs, these people are potential threats.

Gabriel Houvral obtained these 2 million quintals of grain through speculation. The trade that the South Sea Company expected was to be able to send ships to Spanish South America for trade every year. Unfortunately, Spain was a country at that time.

The powerful country rejected the British request. In order to recover its losses, the South China Sea Company fabricated a lie and said that the Spanish agreed to the British request.

Similarly, the Liverpool Canal Company made up lies in order to compete for customers and goods. They actually said that taking the train would cause miscarriage.

Georgiana did not believe that Britain would give up on South America and ask for the right to operate railways instead. Starting from Queen Elizabeth, charters had existed in the British East India Company. For 200 years, the charter system had been part of the British political system.

It was fixed in the country, but France did not, let alone gave Spain the qualification to issue a blank charter. Gabriel Houvral took advantage of this loophole to have this opportunity.

Britain needed Spain's silver piastres, but no gold ship had arrived in London. Georgiana vaguely guessed what the agreement between Napoleon and Gabriel Houvral was.

Unless Britain sends warships to rob it, these gold ships will not go to London. Financial institutions such as Hansa, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris, etc. will receive Spanish silver coins, and these countries will be firmly attached to "His Majesty" Napoleon.

Just like Britain used gold to pay for the military expenses of the anti-French alliance.

But Napoleon is not without flaws. The first is the debt of 7,500. If Saint-Domingue loses, everything will be the same as the two previous guests said. He will face financing difficulties. He has already robbed Italy.

It is impossible to rob Portugal anymore. Portugal has nothing to rob. If he wants to rob, he can only rob Spain. How much does Spain have to rob?

Waterloo became Nathan Rothschild because of a piece of news, and it was also because of the news that Napoleon returned to France from Egypt.

Ordinary people cannot receive the news from Saint-Domingue, which is five thousand miles away. Unless British newspapers are prohibited from flowing into France, the news cannot be blocked. However, if peace allows civilians in the two countries to move around each other, sooner or later the French will also know about it.

Look, what a terrible tyrant the French people have chosen.

"Have you read "The Battle of the Aenea"?" Georgiana looked up and saw the first consul in a chasseur uniform. "Romans, remember, you should use your authority to rule all nations. This is yours."

Expertise, you should establish a peaceful order, be lenient to those who surrender, and conquer the arrogant through war."

"I'm not as knowledgeable as you." Georgiana said coldly, folding the newspaper. "Someone is harassing me, will you help me fight him off?"

"Who?" he said with a smile.

"Your teacher, Julian Houvral, said that I am the immortal Anaïs."

"Are you talking about the Persian woman who has been thinking almost her whole life, but is alone and claustrophobic?" Napoleon said calmly.

Georgiana was too lazy to say anything else.

Different people have different opinions on a story, and women tend to "think too much".

"You came to me just to talk about this?" he asked again.

"I think you may need support." Georgiana said. "Lana still doesn't agree with your withdrawal?"

"I don't know." Bonaparte said expressionlessly, "What about you?"

"The British said that if you give up the right to operate the railway, the Trinidad Observation Army will provide assistance and allow the wounded soldiers to retreat to Trinidad." Georgiana said, "I think this is a trap."

Bonaparte came in and closed the door.

He sat down on the chair opposite her, with one arm draped behind the chair, looking un-aristocratic.

"When I was in Egypt, the Black Death was the most ferocious enemy that threatened the army." Bonaparte said, "Even if the patient finally recovers, he will still be negative and pessimistic. It has a very bad impact on morale. I admit that those black people

courage, but yellow fever and malaria were the real threats than Toussaint Louverture."

"What should we do?"

"I told you, I want to rest." He said a little tiredly, "When I was in Berbeis, I once lived in an Eastern-style military camp. Each of the Sheikhs had three tents, and

Each one looked as grand as Asia. I admit, I was excited at the time, but I only had one breakfast with them, and then I left. I set up camp in a palm grove without spending time with them.

We lived together, and soon an emergency military situation came. I left the oasis and headed to the desert to rescue the besieged Kleber."

"Do you still plan to continue fighting?"

"I understand how those soldiers want to rest, but this is our fate." Bonaparte said calmly, "You asked me that day if sleeping in a tent was a privilege. Do you still remember how I answered you?"

"Remember, because there are documents that need to be kept in the tent."

"I hope people can be a little rational. When I saw you lying on the king's bed reading a book, I thought that the princess must be like you. I lay on the camp bed with my eyes open all night, listening to your breathing in it.

The sound, without a trace of desire, was the same feeling I had when I lay down in the Nazareth monastery for the night. Cana is located northeast of Nazareth. We especially went to see the place where water is turned into wine, but there was no wine. Later, I

When I arrived in Venice, I saw the painting "The Wedding of Cana". I kept looking for where the bride was. Maybe because I looked at it for too long, the people from the Art Committee thought I wanted that painting, so they took it away.

Yes, have you found the couple at the wedding?"

Georgiana shook her head.

"They were in the lower left corner. According to the Venetian custom at the time, the middle seat was reserved for the most distinguished guests, and the bride and groom would sit at the far edge. At that time, a black servant gave the groom some wine." He looked at it.

Georgiana said "What do you think this portends? A diviner?"

She didn't answer.

"There are many beds in the monastery, where some wounded soldiers are placed, and the monks look after them. We found very good wine in the cellar there." Bonaparte said tiredly, "You have read the Persian letters, there are several

The Americans are planning to sell a young Circassian slave girl. She is wearing a red cloak. Even a hard-hearted person who has become numb to the charm of women will be moved by her shyness and modesty. I will give her

I put a gold ring on her and respected her as a queen, and I was willing to pay the Armenians and hide her where no one could find her, so that I could admire this charming thing alone.”

"I am not Circassian, and I am not a slave girl."

"I will rescue you from those slave traders." Bonaparte said with a smile, and then stood up. "I don't trust doctors, especially British ones."

"What about the American ones?"

Bonaparte scoffed.

"Tell me what are you going to do?"

Bonaparte opened the door and left.

Georgiana looked at the office.

Perhaps only a miracle can solve this mystery.
Chapter completed!