Chapter 1978 behind closed doors (12)

  Because of the signing of the Amiens peace treaty, many British people came to France to travel, and Turner was one of them.

  The painter will use the way of sketching to record the scenery he sees, which is a bit similar to photographs, but not the same as photographs. Because the beacon tower is not normally lit, and he wants to see the beacon light, so he painted that scene in his own painting. Only in this way, the painting is inconsistent with reality.

  Everyone who pays the artist to paint a portrait for himself wants to look better. The artist is not a camera like a machine, he knows how to work, which is not the same as the subjective perception produced by the halo effect.

  It is not easy to see a person clearly. Sometimes you feel that you see clearly, but in fact he is not consistent with what you understand.

  Napoleon is not a perfect person. He is not omniscient and omnipotent. Even a smart person like Isaac Newton makes mistakes.

  He is good at military, geometry, economics, politics, and law, but he doesn’t know anything about the textile industry. Sharptal is an expert in this area. How can he say that his wife is in the textile industry. In the morning, he also showed his hand in a local workshop. At that time, the owner of the workshop always complained about uneven yarn dyeing. Sharptal easily discovered that it was caused by uneven yarn skein, so the Minister of Interior twisted it himself. One, the workers present were stunned.

   Bonaparte was very happy. Although he was often the protagonist on the stage, he didn't mind occasionally stepping down as an audience and applauding the actors on the stage. At that time, no one found the problem that Perrier discovered.

  Napoleon did not like businessmen. He brought the bankers with him to encourage them to invest, but Perrier, who seemed very rational, was very "metastatic" and said that he did not feel passion in the employers who run the workshop.

  Bankers are trying to save trouble and can find someone who can do business to give them money and make money. Perrier Bank's business is almost entirely dependent on the Angzan coal mine. This is an unwritten rule of many French bankers. Senior banks tend to only serve a few customers and rely on the profits of only a few large companies.

  Small money lenders are engaged in land mortgage loans, which has long been regarded as the safest business. The biggest problem for industry is obtaining long-term loans, but people have long been strongly biased against this field.

Even if the banker is not specialized in the textile industry, he knows a little bit about the situation in the industry. Perrier thinks that agricultural loans are feasible and it is entirely based on land mortgages. As for why a banker in a coal mine should do this, France is the first. Isn't the Minister of Finance of the ruling government of the Republic also named Perrier?

  Henry Petty’s father is also competing for the post of British Finance Minister. The younger generation has now been released for experience, so Napoleon said he was old when he was only in his thirties.

  No one can compete with the British high-count yarns. The French bought these high-count yarns, spun them into yarns, dye them, and then use jacquard machines to weave fabrics. This is different from the printing used in the UK.

  This is a French patent. It also requires certain skills to control it. In turn, it is not necessary to control a British printing machine. The floral printing and dyeing factories and spinning mills are full of apprentices, and their number is sometimes more than that of workers.

  You don’t need to be trained from an early age to do this business. Be prepared to engage in this kind of industry. This is a strange phenomenon brought about by mechanization. A skilled weaver who has been working for decades cannot compete against a 15-year-old child.

And this has also caused their replaceability to increase. You don’t do it. Some people do it. The so-called apprenticeship is asymmetrical to the name of the apprentice. In fact, they are minor child laborers, and their age is used as As an excuse, in order to pay them as little as possible and make them submit to a rough discipline. They only earn three to seven shillings a week, but the workers' wages are 25 shillings. As a result, the floral printing and dyeing workers rioted in order to reform their apprenticeship system in the industry and limit the number of apprentices. They raised 1,000 pounds and used this fee to obtain a decree to protect these poor people. This 1,000 pounds is a piece of money in Great Britain. Raised in one article.

  This law is the factory law, but whether the legislation can be enforced is another question. They are weavers, but they can't afford the cloth they weave, even if the apprentices ask the owner of the workshop to give them two new clothes a year, and the other is to ensure that the factory is ventilated.

The house elves are afraid of their masters giving them clothes. These apprentices are afraid of adulthood. Being adult means that the workshop owners can no longer deduct wages under the pretext of age. They will face the risk of unemployment, so they maliciously destroy the machines and make the workshop owners have to constantly Send someone to repair.

  General Ludd does not exist, he was fabricated by the children. Sometimes they would gather in the suburbs of industrial towns in the dark. As for what they said and conspired, adults didn't know, because children didn't believe adults.

The restoration of the 1786 treaty was proposed by the United Kingdom. The Bolton factory made toys before making steam engines and also made steel shoe buckles. He exported the steel shoe buckles to France. After France made boots, he sold the shoe buckles to France. But also increased the price.

  In 1786, French jacquard cotton was also sold to the United Kingdom. Soon the chintz workshop owners discovered the threat posed by jacquard cotton.

  The monopoly will have pricing power. Workers in the past can be dressed decently. These printed cotton fabrics have caused them to have to cut prices. The key is that the cotton yarn used to make these jacquard cotton fabrics is produced by the United Kingdom itself.

During the war between Britain and France, the Supervisory Government once ordered a ban on the import of British goods. Napoleon did not revoke this ban. The French Chamber of Commerce, thinking of buying British cotton yarn, categorically opposed the ban on imports. Then it appeared that Sharptal had to let British and French wines be sold. The collection of equal tariffs is contrary to the requirements of the Methuen Treaty.

  Sharptar told Georgian that this is an excuse, and the purpose is that France preferentially buys colonial goods.

  But Bonaparte increased the taxation of the British colonies, at least 50% higher than the French colonies.

  Sugar is an important product of the British colonies. The French used silk in exchange. Santo Domingo could provide cane sugar.

  So Napoleon proposed tariff-free import of steel, and at the same time provided financing to British steel mills. If the British authorities do not agree to the terms that are beneficial to the industry, then it is the turn of the British steel companies to raise objections like the French Chamber of Commerce.

After the   factory law was proposed, the workshop owners represented by Sir Robert Peel of the House of Commons thought it was ignorant and conservative, and opposed the second reading of the bill.

   And Sir Robert Peel is a friend of William Pitt Jr. William Pitt Jr. was once the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He and Petty are "really friends".

  What industrial products can France have? Just like importing British iron buckles, making them into boots, and then selling them back to the UK, material dumping does not necessarily have an impact on the country’s business, unless there are related industries in the country.

  Two pieces of jacquard and printed cloth, which piece of cloth should I choose?

  They ate Tuscan salmon for dinner, which is an Italian dish, just by hearing the name.

  Although Georgiana almost broke his affairs, Bonaparte forgave her, mainly because she was kind and the church was also very happy.

Apples have always been considered Adam’s forbidden fruit, but Normandy is really not suitable for growing grapes. It is humid and cloudy. That day she and the women of the Rouen Chamber of Commerce drank cidre, a low-alcohol cider, a French child. You can also drink.

  Eating white meat should be accompanied by brandy. It is not necessary to drink grape brandy. You can also drink apple brandy. Although Brittany is famous for cider, apple brandy is not satisfactory. At least Bonaparte is not satisfied with it.

   Then he talked about the issue of selection. There are many varieties of grapes. After years of selection and breeding, the French have their current origins and varieties. Cider also goes through this process.

The process of brewing in wooden barrels is like a symphony orchestra being played. It requires countless kinds of fragrant notes to interweave and cooperate. The smell of wood will blend with the fragrance of fruits in the cider. This natural alchemy plays its magic. Curse, brewing a golden liquid.

  He missed him, but Georgiana was thinking about something else. She could hold a competition to see whose cellar’s ​​apple brandy was the "wine king."

  Each time this kind of selection can be held a food festival, which is not only convenient for businesses, but also can bring tourists, just experience with her in Burgundy.

  She ate a sip of salmon soaked in yogurt, and drank a sip of over-fermented, overripe apple brandy. In order not to waste food, she frowned and drank it.

  This golden cider reminded her of a blessing potion. I wonder who will be the lucky one to receive the “reward”.

  (End of this chapter)