Chapter 578 All the accounts that need to be settled must be settled clearly (asking for double mont

Chapter 579: All accounts that need to be settled must be settled clearly (asking for double monthly votes)

You know, Archard can still receive a good salary for doing research at the French Academy of Sciences. If he comes up with results, he can get a huge sum of money according to patent law.

At the same time, the talent committee will also match him with a housekeeper and a maid - he does not have to pay for these servants.

Even if you calculate it with your eyes closed, Archard's income is much higher than that of her fiancé - his business only earns four to five thousand francs a year.

More importantly, Archad's income is very stable, there is no business competition, there is no hot or cold market, and he has a very high social status, and he can often visit the Palace of Versailles.

Marianne Schumann took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and walked to Archard's villa. Just as she was about to knock on the door, she heard a soft voice from behind: "Are you looking for Mr. Archard?" ?”

She turned around and saw a very beautiful and dignified girl standing not far away, looking at her with a smile.

"You are?"

"I am Mr. Archard's fiancée. You can just call me Ariel."

Marianne was stunned. She originally wanted to use Archad's old relationship to try to restore the relationship between the two, but she didn't expect to be caught by the "rightful owner".

She listened to Ariel's pure language of the palace nobles, and then saw her charming eyes and expensive silk dress. She immediately lowered her head with a pale face, turned around and ran away.

She knew that she had no chance of winning against her.

Every extra second of delay will only make yourself more embarrassed.

The door opened, and it was Archard's old servant who heard his mistress's voice and hurried out to greet her.

Ariel pointed to Marianne's back and asked him: "Mr. Yassen, do you know this lady?"

"Oh, it seems to be Miss Schumann."

Ariel tilted her head slightly and showed a decent smile: "Why did she leave suddenly? I should have invited her to come in and sit down."

On the other hand, Archard received 50 acres of experimental fields allocated by the Academy of Sciences in the eastern suburbs of Paris, as well as 120,000 francs in scientific research funding.

To be honest, agricultural research really doesn’t cost that much. The Crown Prince wanted him to take advantage of this opportunity to cultivate sugar beets and build an agricultural breeding laboratory.

Before the end of the year, scholars from the Academy of Sciences responsible for cultivating new varieties of wheat, corn, and potatoes will also gradually settle in this laboratory.

Archard would impart his knowledge of genetics to them, thereby dramatically increasing the rate at which French agricultural products could be improved.

Later, the French Agricultural University will be established based here.

At the same time, Minister of Agriculture Vergno also rushed to northern France according to the instructions of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and began to promote sugar beet cultivation to farmers there.

Although currently only varieties with a sugar content of 8% can be grown, it will take a process for farmers to accept sugar beets, and at the same time, sugar beet sugar refining factories can also be established.

After the high-sugar content quality is developed in the future, it can be quickly spread and become a weapon for France to attack the British sugar industry.

Of course, for now, subsidies still need to be provided to farmers who grow sugar beets, just like Nahuang did back then. But with Archard and advanced hybrid genetic theory, this situation would not last long.

As long as the sugar content of beets can reach 12%, the cost of sugar production can be reduced to 1 franc and 1.6 pounds of sugar.

By refining sugar locally, France can save a lot of freight - shipping from the Caribbean to Europe has to cross the entire Atlantic - so after adding in refining, packaging, and sales costs, the price is almost the same as Caribbean cane sugar. flat.

By then, Britain's sugar hegemony will be completely over!

At the Palace of Versailles, Joseph began to encourage his mother to make beets a must-order dish for every meal.

Anyway, Queen Mary likes to eat sweets and is not averse to this stuff at all.

At the same time, he also gave 5,000 francs as a bonus and asked the palace chefs to hold a beet cooking competition. Queen Mary personally acted as the judge, and the nobles of the Palace of Versailles publicly tasted and scored.

"Paris Business Daily" even followed up the entire game with reports.

Soon, starting from the court, beet craze spread throughout Paris, and the demand for beets among the citizens increased tenfold.

…

vienna.

Schönbrunn Palace.

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand said righteously and loudly: "It is precisely because of the vicious fraud of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce that a large number of French factories have gone bankrupt! This has seriously endangered France's national stability and dragged government finances and taxation into the abyss!"

The Austrian Foreign Minister Baron Turgut said hurriedly: "Archbishop Talleyrand, this order incident is entirely Klestier's personal crime, and we will judge him severely..."

"Isn't Krestier the president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce?" Talleyrand interrupted, "And after the incident was exposed, he was immediately assassinated, which shows that there must be another mastermind behind him.

"Given the scale of the order scam - more than 30 million francs - I have reason to believe that at least the Vienna Chamber of Commerce was involved. Krestier alone would not be able to come up with the money to pay the deposit."

Turgut whispered: "The Vienna Chamber of Commerce doesn't have that much money either..."

Talleyrand ignored him, but turned to Leopold II and said: "Your Majesty, on behalf of His Majesty the King, I formally request your country to compensate the damaged factories in France, with a total amount of 32.7 million francs, and to investigate the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. , punish criminals severely.”

Leopold II cursed Chrystil and the Dutch thousands of times in his heart. More than 30 million francs, or 13 million florins.

Just sell Vienna!

But he knew he was in the wrong, so he could only try to appease the anger of the French: "Archbishop Talleyrand, I can guarantee that all those involved in the case will be tried... But you know that the Austrian government is not aware of France's losses, and it doesn't have that much money."

Talleyrand knew that Austria could not pay so much, and he was just asking for a sky-high price.

After that, there was a tug-of-war that lasted for several hours. Talleyrand was still in high spirits until dusk: "Your Majesty the King is in the Franco-Austrian alliance and has made great concessions. At the very least, your country should allow the goods produced by this order to be sold in Austria, and the tariffs on the corresponding goods should be reduced by 80%."

Thugut immediately shook his head: "This will cause the collapse of our tariff system."

"Then sell it in the Southern Netherlands and Tuscany, and match the tariffs."

"Oh, God. Those two small places can't stand this..."

Leopold II rubbed his forehead and said tiredly: "The tariffs in the Southern Netherlands will be reduced by 30%, and those in Tuscany will be reduced by 18%. This is the limit I can do.

"As compensation, I can tell you an important piece of information."

"The tariff reduction is too small." Talleyrand immediately said dissatisfiedly, "and these two places must accept francs for trade in the future."