"Sir, here are 700 livres, of which 500 livres are the necessary activity funds for your trip. The rest is a small gift from me. Time is short and I can only spend so much now.

I will thank you very much next time." Alphonse took the heavy leather bag from Alfred and stuffed it into the hands of Riet de Vigeri and said softly. It contained 6 kilograms worth of pure alcohol.

Silver Livre, although its silver content is only 60%, its weight is not compromised...

"This... this is so inappropriate." Riet de Vergeri quickly refused, although he really wanted the money...

"Please don't dislike it, these are just my sincerity." Alfonse forced it on Riet de Vigeri without any explanation. Sure enough, he no longer refused, and his smile instantly brightened while holding his bag.

He lowered his tone and said: "The investment funds are not a problem at all. As long as the funds are comprehensive and the rate of return is stable, you can get it."

"This... I understand. Thank you Sir for reminding me. I will implement it as soon as possible." Alphonse understood immediately. Sure enough, he is not really stupid and has too much money. He still knows how to value the preservation of funds; but it doesn't matter.

, I don’t want to be deported or even wanted around the world immediately, and I should have a reasonable cash-out method, which will set a perfect example for Count Colbert...

"I hope that when I come next time, I can use the things prepared by Mr. Alphonse to obtain the funds you want directly from Paris." Riet de Vigery put on his three-cornered hat and replied with a smile, even to Alphonse.

The title was changed to the more familiar "Mr. Alphonse", and then he followed Alfred out of the study and left...

When Alfred returned to the study, Alphonse was spinning a wooden paperweight in his hand. Alfred closed the door of the study and came to Alphonse, bowing his head.

Shenghui reported: "Lao Anda will follow his car to see where he will go next."

"Well, how is the exchange of livres for gold louis going?" Alphonse asked. It has only been a little over two months since he arrived in Calais, and his cash has grown crazily from less than 4,000 livres to

Nearly 30,000 livres, and this does not include the working capital of the workshop and the payment for the Spanish artillery pieces that are still at sea. Once all the money for the 1,200 artillery pieces is obtained, his cash will immediately exceed the livres, and the value will be more than half

Tons of silver! So to be on the safe side, he arranged for Alfred to exchange the livres in his hands for gold Louis as much as possible for him to make it easier to carry.

"We have exchanged 1,600 gold louis. After excluding the 700 livres just now, we still have 3,000 livres in hand." Alfred thought for a while and replied.

"1,600 gold louis, that's 26 pounds, one person can take it away." Alphonse nodded and said to Alfred: "Uncle Darren will be here in five days, and then the lifre will be taken away."

Let’s replace them all with gold louis. Since the Louvre already knows about our artillery business, it won’t be wrong to be wary of them.”

"Why didn't you refuse just now?" Alfred couldn't help but ask. After all, it is never a good thing to have a relationship with the royal family, especially in Calais, where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. The royal family's dog nose can actually smell it. For

As a small family like them, they are really worried about being swallowed up with their skin and bones by these big shots.

"Do I have room to refuse? If I refuse now, maybe they will go to Moller Manor tomorrow to arrest my eldest brother." Alphonse smiled, although his relationship with his eldest brother is not very good now: "

Besides, 500,000 livres is definitely a gamble, right? If you must leave, you will definitely kill them hard."

"Alphonse, this is no joke." Alfred said angrily.

"Of course not, this is my life." Alphonse shook his head and asked: "When will Ann come back from the Netherlands?"

"She will definitely return before Mr. Darren, that's what she said when she left." Alfred replied.

"I won't use this payment to give her even a livre bonus, but it's a good thing. She can come back as soon as possible, just when I need her to help us solve a small problem." Alphonse put down the paperweight and then spoke again

He continued: "Mr. Alfred, please send a letter to Bardis and ask him to come over. I need his help with something. Also tell Yasuo to have a meal with me tonight."

"Yes." Alfred nodded.

"Also, write to Anderson and tell him that if Riet de Vergeri goes to find them, he will tell them everything they know. As for Calais, they know nothing." Alphonse thought.

After thinking for a while, he asked Alfred to write a letter to his son, Anderson Barr, the current housekeeper of Moeller Manor: "If the other party asks about my whereabouts, or invites my eldest brother and the others to Paris, let them run away and go.

Amsterdam, I will leave them a sum of money there; this is very important, and I don’t know if it will reach this point one day in the future, so he must pay attention to it."

"I know, I will remind him that the letter will be destroyed after reading it." Alfred replied with a shock in his heart. This shows that Alphonse is making an emergency plan in advance. If something goes wrong or the message is blocked,

, even if Alphonse is arrested or even killed, Armand and the others can escape in time.

Soon, Badis rushed over. When he came to the study, Alfred saw Alphonse laying a piece of paper on the table with various plans written on it!

"Alphonse, I'm here." Badis stepped forward and said in front of Alphonse.

"Sit down, what do you think of my plan? A big expansion plan of 500,000 livres!" Alphonse casually handed the paper in his hand to Badis.

Bardis' eyelids jumped, 500,000 livres? Has Alphonse's business already grown so big? From the time he joined the workshop to now, he knew that there were only nine people producing rapid-fire cannons, and there was a preparatory production city.

There wasn't even a ghost in Fangpao's workshop, and everyone came over to help cast this 16-pound prototype. It looked like it was on the verge of bankruptcy, and it even launched an expansion plan of 500,000 livres. The money was

Was it brought by the strong wind? But since Alphonse said so, he could only silently take the paper and read it roughly.

In Badis' view, this expansion plan is unexpectedly perfect: it plans to invest in Livre to purchase land at the Port of Dunkirk. It is expected to buy a wooden dock plank road, a warehouse of 2,000 square meters, and a factory land of 200 acres.

The above will be confirmed based on the budget; another investment will be made in Livre to build an artillery factory, a mold factory, a parts factory and a warehouse; an investment in Livre to equip carriages, tugboats, and road repairs will be mainly used to optimize factory shipment needs; an investment of 150,000 livre will be made.

, employing 3 top craftsmen and 10-12 master craftsmen, it is expected to invest 30,000 livres to overcome the technical difficulties of the 9-pound cannon, 50,000 livres to overcome the technical difficulties of the 12-pound cannon, and 70,000 livres to overcome the technical difficulties of the 16-pound cannon.

; Reinvested livres in upgrading technical equipment to complete the final optimization and finalization of the 16-pounder gun; invested 70,000 livres in the large-scale production of 16-pounder guns, bringing the monthly output to more than 30; invested an additional 50,000 livres to bring the 16-pounder gun to a monthly

The output is more than 50 doors; Invest in Lever to set up sales offices in Calais, Boulogne, Paris, and Amsterdam, and hire personnel to build sales channels; Invest in Lever to purchase a custom-made Flute merchant ship for transporting 16

pounder artillery. A total investment of 507,000 livres.

However, Bardis had a toothache when he saw it. Not to mention the money for buying land, building factories and building roads, what the hell was this 150,000 livres used to overcome technical difficulties? In the past half month, they have spent

150,000 livres? How about wages? He hasn’t received his salary yet! Then when it comes to building sales channels and buying ships, Badis is also very sure that the other party wants to use public equipment for private use.

Use this money for other things...

"Did you see it? Yes, this is for our investors." Alphonse smiled: "But it's not for them, but to tell them how we will use the five hundred thousand livres."

Er."

"Are you sure that such an investment plan can attract an investment of 500,000 livres?" Badis rolled his eyes and was speechless.

"Then what do you think, if you were an investor, how much would you invest?" Alphonse smiled.

"I have no money." Badis replied calmly.

"Of course it's not about spending your money. I mean, assuming you are a responsible person and your investor insists on investing in this business because it can bring a return of at least 12%, how much money would you recommend that the other party invest?

Alphonse smiled.

"100,000, or less." Badis replied without hesitation: "Your fixed assets are only 100,000 livres."

"You see, a ship is also an asset, right? There is also a sales department, production equipment and technicians." Alphonse replied.

"If you insist on saying so, the price of new ships is different from that of old ships, and the sales department's assets must also include inventory products. As for production equipment and technicians, well, then your fixed assets are only 200,000 livres, right?

?" Badis replied.

"You are right, I should also consider the inventory issue, so that I have more fixed assets. Besides, the technical problems I have overcome should also have asset value." Alphonse nodded and continued: "

So in your opinion, if the entire data were doubled, would you be willing to invest 500,000 livres?"

"What do you mean?" Badis asked blankly.

"You see, increase the land purchase fund to 80,000 livres, buy a stone plank road that can berth four large ships of more than 400 tons, a port trading house, a 4,000 square meter warehouse, and then more than 500 acres of land near the port as

Factory land." Alphonse cleared his throat and continued: "In addition, the transportation situation has been improved and transportation tools have also increased investment, joint ventures, acquisition of a number of horse-drawn carriages and large and small cargo ships, and the sales department has also been linked to local docks and horse-drawn carriage shops, and the investment has been

Increase it to 150,000 livres; at the same time, we will take advantage of our existing rapid-fire cannons and increase our investment in scientific research to 300,000 livres. We will also work on the technical reserves of two series of rapid-fire cannons and long-range cannons, 9-pounders and 12-pounders until we develop the 16-pounder.

pound, after the mass production of the 16-pounder, we will continue to tackle the technical issues of the 24-pounder gun; we will also invest an additional 300,000 livres to upgrade the entire factory configuration, from smelting to molds, accessories, cannon casting, grinding, installation, and subsequent turrets.

In addition, a shipyard will be opened to be responsible for modifying and installing our artillery for customers, so that each customer's ship can obtain maximum firepower! At the same time, we also need to reserve 300,000 livres of working capital, including payment, inventory, raw materials and employee salaries.

, shareholder dividends, etc., the total assets should reach 1.12 million livres. Now, Badis, are you willing to invest 500,000 livres?"

"If that's the case, you can still consider it. You said you have a working capital of 300,000 livres, right?" Badis asked.

"Reservation, understand? It's not all cash, it's current assets, fluctuations in payments, fluctuations in inventory, fluctuations in raw materials, employee salaries and shareholder dividends. For example, if you just purchased a batch of raw materials, then the raw materials will

Slowly turning into inventory or even payment for goods, this flow process generates value growth, and employee salaries and shareholder dividends benefit from this part of the growth; of course, in the process of continuous profitability, the value of our current assets will continue to increase.
Chapter completed!