Eugenie with money [Grandet]

Grandet remained silent when asked by Eugenie, she closed her mouth and made up her mind not to speak. Eugenie couldn't laugh or cry: "Father, we agreed that I will take care of everything in Paris. Are you the one million francs?" Are you going to send it to me when you return to Saumur, or ask Nanon to send it to me?"

"Nanon can't do it." Grandet dared not say that he would not pay back the 100 million francs, and could only make a fuss about the safety of funds: "Last time, there was Te Pompon as a cover, but this time there is no good candidate. She is alone. Going out, Cornoille will not agree."

It's as if you asked Cornoille for advice before sending Nanon out to deliver gold.

"Then I will not hand over the proceeds of this year's public debt to you." Eugenie refused to let Grandet's tricks succeed.

In just half a year, the Bank of Nucingen's income from Spanish government bonds will have reached almost 400 million francs, and the amount distributed to Eugenie will be as high as 200 million francs.

After weighing the gains and losses, Grandet had no choice but to say: "When I return to Saumur, I will remit the money to you through the bank in Nucingen."

Well, Eugenie has no better way to deal with the stubborn Grandet, but she still inoculated him: "Your wine production this year must not exceed [-] barrels, otherwise I won't be able to sell it. of."

"What about the price?" Grandet refused to budge.

Apart from going back to the room and applying a mask, what better way can Eugenie do?After washing off the mask, she laughed silently—Grantet will not return the 100 million francs, and she cannot really take all the proceeds from the public debt for herself.But Grandet still agreed.

It seems that his position in his heart has risen little by little.This is what makes Eugenie happy-people always need emotional sustenance, living alone in this world will always be lonely.

So Grandet returned to Saumur with nearly [-] francs of gold. It was not until one second before he got on the stage coach that Eugenie whispered the secret to him, regardless of Grandet's sympathy. He spit out indistinct words from his big mouth, and waved goodbye to him and Nanon.

This farewell came to the end of 150, during which Eugenie did not return to Saumur, nor did Grandet and Nanon come to Paris.Only the correspondence between them and the [-] million francs remitted by Eugenie serve as the connection between father and daughter.

The steam locomotive has already been tested successfully, and because Eugenie released the news to the French cabinet in advance, its research was completed with the secret funding of the French government.However, the British landless farmers did not know where they got the funding, and the armed forces got unprecedented equipment, which made the British government struggling to deal with it, and did not pay enough attention to the success of the steam locomotive test run.

As a result, the patent of the steam locomotive was registered in advance by France, and France began to issue railway bonds in preparation for large-scale railway construction.

In return for Eugenie, members of parliament with the same political views as Nucingen and the Marquis de Lascambe, the behind-the-scenes boss of the "Journal de France", respectively, through their respective spokespersons, opened up the public bond subscription shares to her in advance.

The share of Nucingen's bridge was subscribed by Nucingen Bank, and the share of Bono's brokerage fully used up the share of funds that Eugenie could call for a year-this year, Eugenie has been using Grassand Operations against Portuguese, Spanish and British government bonds in the domestic bond market did not mobilize funds from the Nucingen Bank.

"Miss Eugenie," Nucingen turned his large seat and sighed with satisfaction: "Accepting your investment in Nucingen Bank is the most correct choice I have made."

As soon as the railway bonds were opened to the public, their issue price rose from ten francs to twelve francs, and the paper profit of the Bank of Nucingen on this bond reached a respectable one million francs.

Eugenie herself was very calm: "You have always had a unique vision."

Nucingen also appreciated this calmness, and he asked with a smile: "Do you think the book profits of railway bonds should be calculated into this year or next year?"

Of course, it will be next year. Entering this year, the books will look good, but the actual profit will not be seen.

No matter what Eugenie says now, Nucingen will agree with her, and just ask her: "Then, do we need to recover the investment in the Greek public debt?" Greece has declared independence, but Turkey obviously refuses to give up that piece The land has been sending troops there.

"No," Eugenie shook her head, "let's start buying Russian bonds."

This is another place that Nucingen can't see through. Talking about Greece, how did he go to Russia.Not only went to Russia, Eugenie also mentioned the public debt to Spain: "Sell all the public debt to Spain. Didn't Russia, Prussia, and Austria issued a declaration two days ago? The Holy Alliance should soon intervene in Spain. .”

The so-called intervention must be sending troops, and then the failure of the Spanish revolution is a foregone conclusion.It seems that it is time to write a letter to Riego.

According to Eugenie's request, Nucingen wrote to the manager of the Madrid office, asking him to sell all the Spanish government bonds in batches, and half of the recovered money was also exchanged for francs according to Eugenie's request, and the other Half of the secrets were exchanged for gold.

The current Spanish national debt has returned to 23 pesos per share before the revolution, and the remaining 300 million shares have a book profit of 100 million pesos.Only then did Nucingen understand why Eugenie had been emphasizing long-term holdings of Spanish national debt.

Too profitable.

It's just that with so much money, how to convert it into francs and transport it back to Paris has become the key.Still the same sentence, book profits are all false, and locking the money in your own treasury is the real profit.

"The border between Spain and France is very turbulent now. The Spanish army checks all people entering and leaving at the border." Nucingen's hair was grey. "They don't even allow people to bring more than [-] francs in cash to France."

When the Spanish government debt was cleared, Eugenie considered this consequence—the liquidation of 300 million shares of the national debt would have a huge impact on the public bond market. Now that the Spanish capital market is almost collapsing, everyone will think that it is Someone is shorting the Spanish market.

Don’t be afraid to go short, as long as the funds remain in Spain, they will always enter the market again—no capitalist will let their funds sit idle for a long time.To control the channels of capital flight is to ensure the country's capital supply.

Now that I had thought of it earlier, there was a way to deal with it, Eugenie smiled and reassured Nucingen: "Soon, the wine ordered by the Spanish military from my father this year will be shipped to Madrid." Eugenie kept stopping This is what Grandet shipped.

Nucingen has never understood why the Spanish military ordered wine from Grandet this year. Could it be that Eugenie is looking for a long-term market for Grandet?But even if the wine is sold for another ten years, it is not worth spending 40 francs to pave the way, right?

Seeing that Nucingen didn't understand, Eugenie could only remind him: "The wine carriage must return from Madrid." At that time, it would be good to transport the francs back in the wine carriage.

"The border inspection is very strict." Nucingen felt unreliable.

"The border inspection is also done by soldiers." Eugenie thought it was not a problem.

Coincidentally, Riego’s letter arrived in Paris that night and was delivered to Eugenie. In the letter, Riego was very worried about the current situation in Spain—a country with a discordant army against three or four countries With the coalition forces, the victory or defeat has already been decided before the battle.

Eugenie's letter was sent to Madrid along with Grandet's wine convoy.When Riego received the letter, the constitutional cabinet had just broken up with Antonio Ugarte, who represented the King of Spain.

The opinions of the two parties are very different. The royal family only seeks the integrity of the territory and the consolidation of its own royal power, while the constitutional cabinet is unwilling to give up the constitution as a tool to restrict the royal power, even if there is a right to fight.

After looking at the envelope for a long time, Riego cut it open with a small paper knife, took out the letter paper and read it slowly.However, the more he watched, the more excited he became, he stood up excitedly and walked around twice to calm down before continuing to read.

Eugenie gave him a solution to the problem, that is, before the army of the Holy Alliance was assembled, Riego took the army under his command and left Spain for the American continent.

"This is not to flee, but to preserve the fighting power for Spain." Eugenie wrote in the letter: "The current power of the Holy Alliance is not something Spain can contend with. If you lead the army away, the fight against the Holy Alliance will become The Spanish royal family. Isn't that what you should do now to weaken the royal family and preserve your own strength?"

Riego's inner struggle was confirmed after the manager of Nucingen Bank's Madrid office visited the next day. The manager asked Riego's decision and told him that if he wanted to leave with troops, he could go to Valencia , where there are several Dutch-built ships capable of transporting an army of nearly 1000 men to sea.

"But the equipment?" Riego still has concerns. A thousand soldiers can cross the entire Atlantic Ocean, and it is not possible to get there in a day or two.

"If you decide, Miss Eugenie will provide you with travel funds." The manager said as if Riego was just traveling from Madrid to Valencia alone.

He really thought so. Who would have thought that Eugenie would support an army of thousands of people sailing across continents alone?Even if the funds provided by Eugenie were in the millions, the manager felt that Eugenie had paid Riego for the purchase of the francs that would be shipped out of Spain.

It's not for Riego's road money.

But Riego knew it in his heart.He has no choice but to accept this favor, because if he stays, he and the soldiers he can command will die.And to go to the Americas, there are well-equipped Spanish troops sent to the Americas in advance to support them.

The equipment of those troops was also provided by Eugenie.