Chapter 1476 Quasiwar

  On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris captured the Bastille.

  If it weren’t for Gobert’s intelligence, she would never have thought of linking the drop in the canal with it.

  I tried Bonaparte when he was in Egypt. Whether it is boiled or fried, wheat is not tasty. It can only be eaten after being ground into flour and processed into bread.

  If there is a problem in the last two links, even if there is flour, it will not help, and the price of a small amount of bread provided by the bakery will naturally skyrocket.

Because Paris allows as many small bakeries as possible to survive and provide more bread, porters at the dock will lose their jobs when the canal freezes. These porters are constrained by the guilds. At this time, for their livelihoods They will also work as carpenters, bricklayers or plasterers. The first batch of customers they receive are residents of the city, including bakers, and then itinerant merchants.

  Not all locals in a city, but also floating population, floating population are usually rented houses...

She was so distraught that she couldn’t think about it. Once the flour processing center at Etampe ceased production due to lack of water, Paris would directly face the problem of soaring bread prices. She would have already installed it and wrote to Bronniar. The letter came out again.

  If the Parisians are so unlucky one day, not only will the water freeze, but there will also be no wind. Wind mills and mills can’t be used and they can only be driven by animal power or steam engines. This is the work of engineers.

  She doesn’t need a typewriter anymore, but writes by herself. As for the plan, she thinks it’s better not to hand it in so easily.

  How sad she would be if she learned that her plan was crumpled into waste paper and thrown on the ground.

  This is an incomplete plan that needs to be improved, such as the problem of floating population, otherwise it will intensify conflicts.

   "Madam." Matilda said softly.

"what's up?"

   "A gentleman from England wants to see you." Matilda handed her a business card.

  Georgiana took it, with William Harrison’s name written on it, and his occupation, a watchmaker, on the back.

  Georgiana didn’t know whether to see him or not. If any watchmaker on the street wanted to see her, how many watchmakers would she see a day.

   "What else did he say?" Georgiana asked.

   "He said he was introduced by Mr. Laplace, the director of Longitude." Matilda added.

   "Let him come up." Georgiana said immediately, and then she tidied the table briefly and went to the reception room next door.

  It didn’t take long for Matilda to bring a middle-aged gentleman in a wig and stockings to the baroque-style reception room. When he saw Georgiana, he immediately smiled with joy.

   "Nice to meet you, Ms. Sèvre." The middle-aged gentleman said in English and bowed to her.

   "It's also an honor to know you, Mr. Harrison." Georgiana reached out her hand and asked him to kiss the back of her hand, and then she asked, "What brought you to me?"

"It is about the hydraulic clock envisaged by the first ruling power. Mr. Laplace believes that the key now is infrastructure. The clock can be repaired later." Mr. Harrison hesitated and said, "He asked me to come to you, Sef Part of the revenue of the Seoul factory is used to support research."

   "I have a question I want to ask you." Georgian said softly, "Is the hydraulic clock driven by water power? What if the water freezes in winter?"

  Harrison was taken aback for a moment, and murmured, "I didn't expect this."

"This is a very worthy research topic. Many factories are driven by water power. Once the river freezes, they can only use steam engines. In fact, I wrote a letter to Mr. Bronniar, the turbulent currents. Will it not be easy to freeze, how to maintain the flow rate of the water in the entire system?"

  Mr. Harrison doesn’t seem to be interested in this topic, so she can only say it to herself.

"If the flow rate of the water led from the main canal to the water tower can be increased, the water in the aqueduct may not need to freeze. This is the disadvantage of the open-air pipeline. If it is buried in the ground, the use of insulation materials can make the water in the pipe. It's not freezing anymore."

   "It's summer." Mr. Harrison said with emotion, "but you are thinking about winter."

   "It's like thinking about summer when I was in winter." Georgiana smiled, "Please sit down."

  Mr. Harrison did not speak.

"I know that Mr. Jenner did not accept Bonaparte's invitation." Mr. Harrison said bitterly. "What Bonaparte wants is not a hydraulic clock. What he wants is a design by my father John Harrison for the Royal Navy. We spent all our savings to study the meridian, but the Longitude Committee did not award him the bonus he deserved."

   "How much is it?" Georgiana asked.

   "Twenty thousand pounds. His Majesty King George III expressed sympathy for what happened to me, but he did not give a shilling."

   "Do you have a drawing?" Georgian asked "Or do you know how to make it?"

  "Mr. Laplace has confirmed that Mr. Pierre Leroy of the Leroy family also communicated with him when his father was alive. The Leroy family can also manufacture that kind of astronomical clock."

  So she only needs to pay, right?

  Georgiana thought to herself, but did not show her sensuality.

   Just when she was hesitant, there was a sound of rapid footsteps, and it didn't take long for Lucian Bonaparte to appear.

   "Leave." Lv Xi'an ordered in French.

  William Harrison actually understood, and left according to what Lucian said.

   "What happened?" Georgiana asked.

  "Do you know why our relationship with the United States is so bad?" Lu Xi'an half-squinted his eyes and said, "The Americans insisted that the creditor of the debts owed by the United States during the War of Independence was the French King, not the French government."

   "In short, they want to go wrong." Georgiana pouted. "Why don't you use the same excuse?"

   "Because that money is not used for the king's personal life or war, but for disaster relief." Lu Xi'an said with exhaustion, "and the three-level parliament agreed that the king's debt was shared by the people."

   "What's the matter with the old sesame seeds and the rotten grains?"

   "Not as long as the War of Independence."

  "Didn't the ownership of Louisiana be transferred? Can the king's creditor's rights be transferred?"

  "You think very beautifully. After the transfer of Louis XVI's creditor's rights, his debts will also be transferred. Do you know how much money he owes?"

  "How much does the United States owe the king?"

  "The federal government has 54 million debts, and the states have 25 million debts."

  Georgiana remembered the 1.44 billion francs costed by Louis XVI to start the war, and decisively gave up the 79 million credits.

   "I still plan to sell the land, right?" Georgiana said helplessly.

   "If Santo Domingo insists on independence, then you, the United Kingdom, will also cut off trade with them." Lucian said, "Let those free men trade with the United States of America."

   "You have declared war like this."

"Otherwise, what should I do, hand over the currency issuance rights?" Lu Xi'an said angrily. "After the news of Marengo's victory came back, the public debt did not become a pile of waste paper. The government has repeatedly defeated, but when these failures occurred, Napoleon Being absent does not count his head, count Egypt, this is the second time he has failed."

  "Do you think I brought you bad luck?"

  "I don’t think so, but some people think so. If you didn’t bring in the railways, we wouldn’t need British steel at all, let alone tax them."

   "Someone wants me to leave him?"

   "They want you to be like a sensible woman, stay at home and don't make trouble."

  Georgina slammed the table, "You tell your brother, if he orders to continue the offensive or restore slavery, I will go. I can’t live in the same room with such a person."

She went back to the next room and threw the written information to Lucian. "Louis XIII signed the legal slave trade. The revolution overthrew not only the kingship. The slaves on other Caribbean islands did not know freedom, equality, and the constitution. They Just like you before the Enlightenment, in the turbulent freedom and the enslaved peace, since you have chosen turbulent freedom, then face it. Are you the sons of the revolution or the royal family?"

  Lu Xi'an stood up, condescending to look at her.

  Georgina akimbo "The life-long rule mentioned in the Lukeville Constitution can be used as an attack point."

   "So what about the designated heir?" Lv Xi'an wrapped a spider-like arm around his chest.

   "I also appointed an heir myself!" She said so angry "that kid is stupid..."

  "Do you want him to appoint your child as the heir?" Lv Xi'an smiled, "Are you afraid that others will call him Anthony?"

   "The contract can be renewed when the contract expires, and it can be re-elected when the term expires. If you want to continue to be the first in power, let's talk about it after ten years." She tried to understatement and said, "Anyway, let's talk about it after you close it."

   "What idea did you come up with again?" Lu Xi'an looked at the paper.

"Introduce me to a senior official from another province." She said listlessly, "I want to try this method, can we reduce the price of food, there are also mills, do you know that the year the Great Revolution broke out, because the water level of the river fell, Etampes? 'S mill stopped?"

  Lü Xi'an was taken aback.

"I heard Sharptal say that Paris needs 2,000 bags of flour every day. Is the flour not wheat? And farmers use old grain to pay taxes. Two years ago was the last year of the government's reign. They estimated that they were the same as the last year of the Bourbon rule. They felt that they had no hope. Now they have stored grain, and now they take out Chen Gu to sell." She gasped, "I remember that Napoleon was hungry when leading soldiers through the Alps. At that time, the government had no food in stock?"

  "You may not believe it, the government has no accounts at all." Lv Xi'an smiled with his hands behind his back, "The current financial system is built by us."

  "Even Chen Gu harvested them and blended them with high-quality flour to make bread." Georgiana said coldly, "White bread is not something everyone has the right to eat."

   "Really, white bread is for the rich." Lv Xi'an said sarcastically.

   "The man who forced debts came, do you still have time to chat?"

   "Who was the person who was chatting with you just now?"

   "Laplace introduced it to me, saying it was a watchmaker."

   "What did he ask you to do?"

   "Let me give him £20,000."

   "Did you give it?"

   "I didn't give it, but I don't know if the director of Sèvres will give it."

  Lu Xi'an left with a gloomy face.

  When the men were gone, she found that she had nothing to do.

   "Go to hell." She waved her hands and planned to go back to play with Delmead.

  (End of this chapter)