Eugenie with money [Grandet]

Eugenie watched Bono's articles being thrown out one after another, and Pablo sent someone to send him follow-up funds.These funds are a full [-] kilograms of gold, and of course they will not be given to Bo Nuo alone.

A huge amount of gold will be used to pay for Bono's communication with middle- and lower-level officers in various places.Most importantly, Bono has established a political party called the Free French Party in Anjou, and the number is growing exponentially.

The Free French Party is composed of the propertied classes and aims to defend the sacred and inviolable natural rights of private property.The Free French Party believes that it is illegal for any organization or individual to plunder other people's property by any means.The organization here, defined by Bono, includes the current French government, that is, the King of France who rules France.

This theme was embraced by the propertied classes, already half-exploited, who were willing to mount unlimited protests in order to protect their property.

Local governments found that the Free French Party was dissatisfied with the government, and reported to their superiors one after another, and the order they received was to suppress it.Unexpectedly, the Liberal French Party had already made preparations. They had already equipped flintlock guns in their hands, and the ammunition was even more abundant than that of the army.

As for the army ordered to suppress the Free French Party, the middle and lower ranks of the officers all had good friends with Bono, and they would always quietly inform Bono and his party members of the direction and time of their own army's actions.

As a result of repeated defeats by the army, the Free French Party continued to grow.They began to be dissatisfied with being beaten passively, the fire of the uprising spread everywhere, and the slogan of the Free French Party also appeared in Paris.

Eugenie has a new understanding of Bono's leadership ability, because the Paris branch of the Free French Party has been quietly established, and the leader of the branch is actually Grassin.

This old friend who hadn't seen him for a long time was very excited when he saw Eugenie: "My God, Miss Eugenie, you are so surprised that you have been in Paris all the time."

"I'm also very surprised that you came to see me, Mr. Grassan. How have you been?" Eugenie had lost a lot of weight since she hadn't seen her for several months, and she no longer looked as energetic as before. banker.

Grassin was mentally prepared to see Eugenie here, but he was still very excited: "Miss Eugenie, hello. How is Mr. Grandet? Since he left Paris, there has been no His news, you know, now Mrs. Grassin..."

Eugenie despised the absurdity of Grassan's arrival in Paris, but she would not comment face to face. She only said, "Father is fine now. Bono asked you to come because he wanted to move the headquarters of Free France to Paris." ?”

Grassan nodded: "Yes, Mr. Bono hopes to continue to get your help."

Eugenie knew what kind of help she needed, and handed a prepared box to Grassan: "Mr. Grassan, you also know the current economic situation, and all my previous money has been invested in Nucis Root Bank, there is only so much that can be taken out now."

Inside the box was the old version of francs, a total of [-] francs. According to the current exchange rate given by the bank, Bono could get [-] francs, which was much less than what Eugenie had always supported.

Eugenie will not hand over all her funds to Bono at this time—whether it causes turmoil in the public bond market or leads uprisings in various places, these are Eugenie's means of fighting against the royal family, and the purpose is to ensure that her remaining The safety of property, rather than throwing all your property for the sake of means.

Grassin was very satisfied with Eugenie's ability to spend so much money so far, and even persuaded Eugenie: "Miss Eugenie, you should leave some living expenses for yourself." Where did it come from.

Eugenie took ten thousand francs out of it, and Grassin took the remaining ninety thousand francs.Eugenie has already counted all her investments and income since she came to Paris:

When she first arrived in Paris, she had less than a hundred thousand francs with her, which she used to pay off Madame Taicourt's gambling debts, but she also bought the diamonds of Madame Taicourt's friends, and used them to stir up storms in the public bond market for the first time. , and achieved a gain of 24 francs.

With these benefits, Nucingen and the people behind him noticed Eugenie, and thus invested in Nucingen Bank.The investment this time is 600 million francs, and Eugenie occupies 30.00% of the shares of the Bank of Nucingen (40.00% is the last increase in previous shares), and mobilizes 600 million francs of funds from the Bank of Nucingen every year without interest permission.

With the authority to mobilize 600 million francs, in the first year, Eugenie directly withdrew 100 million francs from the Bank of Nucingen and handed it to Grassan to invest 30 francs in Portuguese government bonds, earning 12 francs. In addition, ten kilograms of gold were also purchased, and finally the gold paid off for Riego.

The remaining money, together with the remaining bank quota of the year, was subscribed by Eugenie for the railway bond in advance.Taking advantage of these lowest-cost public bonds, Eugenie and Nucingen jointly squeezed water in the public bond market several times. In addition to the public bonds subscribed initially, Eugenie bought and sold the public bonds in the past few years, and probably gained more than 400 million francs. The 500 million francs obtained from the final sale to the queen, and Eugenie's harvest of more than 900 million francs on the railway bond.

The biggest gain came from Spanish national debt, and Eugenie herself gained 500 million francs from this investment.Unfortunately, due to the shameless intervention of the former King of France, Eugenie finally had to reinvest all the proceeds in the Nucingen Bank.Even if her shares increased to 40.00%, it still made Eugenie feel uneasy.

Fortunately, she still has some bank line that she can move every year. Eugenie uses this annual fund line of 600 million to support the uprising of landless farmers in England, to support Riego's departure to America, to support Bono to buy newspapers, and to develop political parties. Lead an uprising, buy armies/fire and bribe junior officers.The most important thing is to buy a lot of gold one after another.Now the gold under her bedroom was obtained in this way without Nucingen's knowledge.

Including the 260 kilograms of gold that Pablo bought at the end with fifteen francs, Eugenie's total income after she came to Paris was 360 kilograms of gold under the bed.

Of course, there is also the 40.00% stake in Bank Nucingen. Eugenie knows that if Bono succeeds, she will still be a popular partner of Bank Nucingen.But if Bo Nuo fails to succeed, even Niuqin herself will not be valued by the new King of France. As a partner, she might have to give up her bank shares with both hands like facing the queen.

This was not what Eugenie wanted to see.So even though she only has 40 francs in cash, she still took out 100 francs to continue supporting Bono's Free France.Only if Bono succeeds, Eugenie, the benefactor, will have more say, and the [-] million francs she invested in the Nucingen Bank will not be in vain.

But Bono lived up to Eugenie's hopes, and by the time the royal family was ready to suppress the threat of Free France, his party was already well known in Paris.Eugenie has been nesting in the small apartment for more than half a year, and all she has seen recently are the attacks on the royal family's policies by the "Free France" newspaper, as well as the doubts about the sudden death of the former King of France.

Te Pompon, on the other hand, kept publishing articles in the "Free France" newspaper, explaining from a legal point of view what kind of punishment the person should be punished for murdering a monarch.

"Holy France" naturally confronted "Free France", and also explained what kind of sanctions would be imposed for defaming the royal family from a legal point of view.And Te Pengfeng's articles were published directly using his own real identity, which made it impossible for the royal family to retaliate against him directly:

The judge of the lower court of Paris is qualified to interpret the law, but the article by Te Pongfeng only interpreted the murder, but did not specify that a member of the current royal family really murdered the former king of France.If he was put in prison directly, it would be understood as a guilty conscience of the royal family.

The war of words is endless, and the collapse of the economy has made the royal family even more unbearable.After several months of deliberation, the consequences of excessive currency issuance finally began to emerge. The purchasing power of new currency continued to decline. Many merchants no longer accepted banknotes, and would rather accept gold coins at a discount when selling goods.

Due to insufficient gold reserves, the price of gold coins on the market has been rising steadily. Coupled with the depreciation of the franc, the price of gold has risen to [-] francs, but it is still difficult to buy.

Many Parisians had to start saving money, or try their best to exchange the francs in their hands for gold coins or everything they bought.Merchants began to be reluctant to sell, because they didn't know whether they would lose money in the afternoon at the price they sold in the morning.

Everyone has a resentment in their hearts, feeling that they have been deceived, but they can't find out who deceived them.Once they discover the cheater, no one can predict how these grievances will retaliate against the cheater and what consequences will result.

Bono's Free France Party grew stronger because the entire French people found that their private property was being violated, and hoped to use the form of a political party to fight against exploitation from nowhere.

"Actually," Eugenie said to Bono, who came to visit her quietly, "it is time to let the people know the dangers of the new franc."

Bono was a little worried: "Once the public knows that the new franc has been issued, will there be a wave of large-scale gold buying?"

Eugenie asked with a smile, "Where are they going to buy it?"

That's right, all the gold in the bank has been sold into the gold market, and the royal family dare not touch that little inventory, and those who have gold in their hands now will not sell it.Even if the public wants to snap up, they cannot buy gold.

Bono was a little embarrassed: "In this way, I'm afraid the public's dissatisfaction will be further aroused."

"Yes, people's dissatisfaction cannot be piled up in their hearts all the time. There must be an outlet to relieve their emotions." Eugenie agreed with Bono's words with a smile.