"What a coincidence, Your Excellency Prime Minister, I didn't expect you to be here too."
"Good evening, Mr. President, how about it? Did the negotiation go smoothly?"
"There are some minor troubles, but they have been solved. After all, we are all reasonable adults."
The door of the box is closed, the sound insulation method begins to operate, the opera "Romantic Widow" on the stage is entering the **, and the actors who play diplomats and widows are singing something. But the box can determine the life and death of tens of thousands of people and the country
For the big names of fate, it was just a passage to cover up the noise of the conversation—whether this soap opera as greasy as Albion sweets sings well or badly, a "accidental" meeting between Li Lin and Richelieu
Said, it was just a noise.
This was not an accident at all, but a secret event arranged. Just a few minutes ago, Li Lin and Queen Antoinette also had a "pleasant", "kind" and "in-depth" exchange, ending this "unexpected" period.
After the encounter, the more important and more substantial talks began.
This does not mean that the queen is not important, or that the queen is not as powerful as the prime minister, so she is disdainful to her. It is purely the queen's own attitude that leads to such a result.
Menopause neuroticism, jealousy, distorted maternal love, desire for power - when these things are concentrated on a woman or an old woman, it is a huge trouble and disaster.
"Even I, I will occasionally feel at a loss for that Majesty. The late Queen Mother Medici is a person who is difficult to persuade, but at least she will not be unreasonable in anything..."
The Cardinal looked at the actors who were hugging each other on the stage and continued:
"How did you convince her?"
"It's very simple. Treat her as a customer and tell her what benefits can she get from the transaction."
Li Lin shrugged and announced the answer.
Both men and women are obsessed with power, but in this era of machismo singing the mainstream, except for the omniscient and omnipotent Mother Goddess, there is no woman who holds great power without being criticized. Like Queen Elizabeth of Albion,
Queen Ross, who are about to be promoted to the Queen Mother, all rely on the strong support of powerful ministers and secret agencies to maintain the situation. Queen Antoinette did not receive such support, so she could only seek to compromise with the monopoly consortium and through
Exchange of interests. In exchange for Li Lin's containment of the prince.
This can also be regarded as a business act. The queen paid the price and Li Lin sold a guarantee. The two parties were just a simple relationship between customers and operators, and there was not much personal relationship mixed in it. The negotiations naturally went smoothly.
In addition, there is another important reason that is enough to make the queen abandon her negative feelings for Li Lin.
"It's great that the Queen and the Prince have agreed to support the issuance of the 'Occupy Zone Notes', Prime Minister."
The beautifully shaped fingers unzipped the bottle cap. The fragrance of brandy floated in the air, and Richelieu's throat rolled, and he took the wine glass from Li Lin's hand.
The so-called "occupied area banknotes" are simply military tickets.
What is a military ticket? Simply put, it means printing numbers and words on paper, and then telling you that this is money, you can buy things and spend money. At first glance, there is no difference between it and paper money, but paper money
Only when there are certain valuable physical objects as margin can they prove their value. The things that can be used to ensure value must be hard currency that can be accepted and used by all countries. Generally, precious metals such as gold and silver are also useful for the earth in the old era.
An example of the basic energy of oil being pegged to currency. At present, Wilt, the only banknotes in circulation are vouchers called "Goldmark", and the various industrial products of v.e are used as preservation of value.
As for military tickets, they will not be linked to anything to maintain their value. The only thing that guarantees the value of these pieces of paper is the bayonet of the occupying army. The only function of military tickets is economic aggression.
With the deterrence of bayonets and bullets, the occupying army can exchange various goods with military tickets from merchants in the occupied countries. If it is not enough, just start the printing press and print. However, merchants cannot use military tickets to go to suppliers.
The purchase cannot be exchanged into circulating currency. Only when the issuing country wins the war, can these military tickets be exchanged from the issuing country. If the issuing country fails, these military tickets are worthless. In this way, the merchants of the occupied country
They were looted, and their fate was tied to the occupying army.
For Charlemagne, this is a good thing.
"Once the prince begins to march in full, enough military tickets will be transported over. We can only use very little force to enrich the treasury as soon as possible. At the same time, because the economy and military tickets in the occupied areas are tied together, in order not to go bankrupt, resistance activities will not be carried out.
It will be greatly reduced."
Li Lin said slowly. He had shown this wonderful prospect to Richelieu before and told the queen that in order to ensure the success of the plan, he repeated the same.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Richelieu nodded. It was indeed a good opportunity, but it was not limited to the wallets of a few small groups that would quickly bulge, but it was also a great opportunity for the entire country's economy.
The Prime Minister's vision is not limited to a successful economic plunder. The experienced Richelieu looks more long-term than the Queen and Prince. He wants to take this opportunity to issue Charlemagne's own banknotes.
Since the issuance of vouchers by v.e, Richelieu has noticed the huge benefits contained in it. When kings, nobles, merchants, and priests of other countries are still immersed in the brainstorming of "it turns out that money can be printed out", Li
The Archbishop began to investigate and study the possibility that the country issued paper money and became the common base currency all over the world.
After carefully studying the process of currency circulation and regulation of v.e company, Archbishop Li concluded that he could, but he could not do it at the moment.
v.e's vouchers are based on the comprehensive monopoly of finance, technology and industrial production capacity. They control the circulation and production of raw materials, commodities, and currency, and can interfere with the market as they wish, determine the price of commodities, as long as they ensure the
Price and the value of vouchers can remain stable. As countries rely on "v.e manufacturing" increasingly deepen, the pricing power of consortiums is becoming increasingly stable, and the scope of use of vouchers is also expanding and becoming more and more valuable.
, one day it may become a common currency all over the world.
A nearly perfect loop, but Charlemagne could not replicate this method.
The reason is not complicated: Charlemagne's industrial capacity is the industrial capacity of V.e. Without the consortium, Charlemagne's industry and business will be completely destroyed.
With the two absolute trump cards of "industrial capacity" and "financial leverage", any attempt to challenge the monopoly status of the consortium has failed without exception. In the foreseeable future, the hope of breaking this monopoly is also very slim.
Then, then
Most people will give up when encountering this situation. But Richelieu is not an ordinary person. When the consortium blocks the door, he will think of opening a window, and military tickets are the opportunity for Richelieu to open the window.
The land of the Principality has a large amount of resources, including minerals, food, forests, and labor. Their quantity is so large that it can offset the resources controlled by the consortium. Under the guise of "cooperation", the kingdom government can pass the military ticket as quickly as possible.
These resources are included in the palm of your hands, and the whole process will not be disturbed by the consortium. With these resources, Archbishop Li can implement his long-standing plan: using gold and silver as margin to issue the Charlemagne government's own banknotes. If the company does this, it is the case.
Resist and force the government to stop by disrupting the market and raising prices. These resources are just used to offset the offensive of the consortium. As one rises and the other falls, the consortium will eventually have to make concessions and give up some of the market and enterprises.
Then, then
With this beginning, ultimately weakening and dismantling v.e company will not be a dream. Although it will take some time, this future will be inevitable.
The Prime Minister hopes that he can live until he witnesses that day, but for now, he can only endure as much as possible and continue to confuse and perfunctory businessmen around him.
Li Lin looked at the stage casually, and his fingers slashed silently on the handrail.
(Issuing national currency is a good plan, but using military tickets as an opportunity is not enough to think carefully.)
Richelieu's confidentiality work is perfect. Except for a very few confidants who know some words, the people who participate in the implementation of the currency issuance plan do not even know what they are doing. The only drawback is that the Prime Minister's trump card has long been Li Lin
See through it.
There is no need for too much evidence, just orders for printing presses and inks, metal engravers with unknown destinations, subtle differences in certain materials, large amounts of gold coins began to be recycled and recast, abnormal dispatch of gold in the treasury, secret transportation of gold filled with secret
The box of the ingot - from these seemingly unrelated evidence, combined with the information in Li Lin's mind, it is not difficult to deduce the conclusion of "paper currency deposit".
Nothing strange is that on Earth, until the first half of the 20th century, the world's currencies were used as margins with precious metals until some imperialist bald eagle sauce tied his dollar green paper to oil, and everyone was
This is what Prime Minister Richelieu did. The behavior of Prime Minister Richelieu was just an advanced plan that conformed to the trend of history. His conception was reasonable and creative, and there was nothing to blame.
In addition to military tickets.
Indeed, military tickets are cheap, only paper and ink money are required, and the wealth of the occupied area can be transported to Charlemagne in a short time, and the merchants holding military tickets are tied to Charlemagne's chariot.
Almost all are good things, but throughout the history of the earth, no country that has overprinted military votes has won a war.
Military tickets cannot be circulated, and merchants cannot buy goods with colorful military tickets. The more goods they enter, the more military tickets they have accumulated. Instead of placing worthless waste paper, merchants would rather leave the shelves empty.
.Commercial stagnation will then trigger the collapse of the production industry, a large number of factories are forced to stop production, workers are fired, and a large number of unemployment will lead to a decline in purchasing power, and the business environment will further deteriorate, which will then enter a terrible vicious cycle. In the end, not only the occupied countries,
Even the issuer's own economic system will suffer a severe blow, not to mention social problems such as fierce resistance activities caused by economic deterioration.
These are just long-term problems. In the short term, military tickets will also bring great trouble to Charlemagne.
The most direct and realistic problem: if the orcs engage in scorched earth tactics and burn all the villages, farmlands, forests, mines, crystals... before retreating, they burn all the villages, farmlands, forests, mines, crystals... that may be used by the enemy, and then transport the military tickets.
What's the point in the past?
It is very likely that Marshal Kutuzov, a famous general of the Principal Kingdom, burned the land of thousands of miles into white without blinking, and the hairy bears' arson talent.
Not only that, the large-scale abuse of military tickets will also cause conflicts of interest between Charlemagne and other countries. It is not the only one who fights on the land of the principality. When Charlemagne's military tickets not only rob the principality of wealth, it also flows to
When the cheese that should belong to other countries was separated from the occupied areas, can everyone discuss the jihad as calmly as they are now?
Considering that the Riga Fortress, which was sacrificed so much but failed to conquer, was easily captured by the Charlemagne army, and then, regardless of the feelings of other countries, publicized it... I have to say that this situation is really very interesting.
Take a step back, even if Archbishop Li and Charlemagne successfully overcome various difficulties, get the resources they want, and successfully launch official circulating paper money? As long as the consortium firmly grasps the channels for the real economy and resource circulation, plus finance
The secret stakes placed by the officials and consortiums in the department turned all the official banknotes issued by Charlemagne into the second fiat currency or gold coupon. You should know that in August 1948, when the Nanjing National Government carried out currency reform, there was only one
A great Communist spy, Ji Chaoding, came to convey Xibaipo's orders, and Charlemagne's Ministry of Finance almost did not communicate with the Communist Party... Well, it was a consortium, which could cause this country to fall into hyperinflation anytime and anywhere. You can experience it with a 400 million yuan gold coupon to buy it.
What does one stone of rice taste like?
"Speaking of this, I think the President should also be clear that His Highness the Saint will hold an important ceremony in the Cathedral tomorrow."
Richelieu suddenly spoke, and Li Lin's gaze turned slightly.
After a series of emergencies, the saint failed to accomplish what the pope wanted her to do. Due to the sudden war, naval negotiations had actually stopped, and before the war ended, the negotiations would be suspended indefinitely.
The saint did not return home, but stayed in St. Augustine's church in Rudes. It was not until a few days ago that there was a prayer ceremony for the jihadists fighting the pagans on the front.
Yes, that was an important ceremony, a blessing to the frontline soldiers, and an important spiritual sustenance for the military families in the rear. But why did Richelieu mention it here? This doesn't seem to have anything to do with their cooperation.
Then, then
"After the blessing ceremony, His Highness will convey the call of the pope to the royal families and nobles of all kingdoms."
The Prime Minister said calmly as he stroked the gray-white beard like a goat.
"In order to deliver the gospel of the Mother God, secular monarchs and nobles should send unmarried women to the front line to condolences to the warriors who fought with the pagans. Mr. President, who do you think our royal family will send?"
His fingers continued to beat the armrest and narrowed his eyes as he stared at the old fox.
The introduction is withdrawn, which is indeed a major relationship with their cooperation. (To be continued...)