Make France Great Again

Lucien Murat's face was also lost in thought. After a while, he opened his mouth to respond to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Your Majesty, you mean that the price of food in the United States of America will impact our domestic market, causing the domestic market to also fall along with the decline in the international market!"

"Lucien, you are right!" Jerome Bonaparte put down his opinions, crossed his hands and said to Lucien Murat solemnly: "Although our country has established extremely high standards in the field of grain, The threshold is high, but we can’t stand other people’s output being bigger than ours!

What I worry about is that even if we have set such a high threshold, food from the New World will also flood into our market at a lower cost than ours!

By then, will our farmers really be able to defeat those foreign foods? "

"Your Majesty, India is at war now! The production of food should not be excessive!

"Lucien Murat responded to Jerome Bonaparte.

The emergence of the Indian Revolt has made it impossible for India, which was originally a food exporter, to export to Europe. This is equivalent to artificially creating a food gap.

"But, have you ever considered it! The Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire are also grain-producing areas!" Jerome Bonaparte frowned and said to Lucien Murat, "The Austrian Empire is now in the process of They are desperately trying to catch up with us and Britain. The food industry, tourism and tobacco industry are the pillars of their industrialization!

And in the current Russian Empire, Tsar Alexander is using all available power to crush the Golitsyn government in the Petersburg region.

Therefore, Alexander II will definitely transport food out of the Black Sea at all costs in exchange for weapons for attack!

India’s share cannot satisfy their appetite at all! "

Jérôme Bonaparte couldn't help but have a headache when he thought that he would not only have to face the crisis caused by the food harvest, but also face the economic crisis.

More importantly, both crises involve the United States of America.

The United States of America is truly a "shit stirrer".

Of course, strictly speaking, the economic crisis in the United States of America can also be regarded as a problem caused by the food crisis.

"Your Majesty, how about we set a maximum price and a minimum price to keep the price of wheat within a certain range!

In this case, it should be fine! "Lucien Murat suggested.

"How to maintain it!" Jérôme Bonaparte asked back, "We can designate a range, but what means should we rely on to maintain this range!"

Lucien Murat then proposed to Jérôme Bonaparte the establishment of a bread credit.

The so-called bread credit is a bank led by the government to establish in big cities that can stabilize wheat price fluctuations.

In times of product scarcity, these banks were able to supply residents with food at much lower prices than the official market price; while in times of product abundance, food prices were slightly higher than the market price. Since the annual income from good harvests is generally higher than the annual income from poor harvests, it is not difficult for banks to compensate for the lowered prices.

After Lucien Murat's introduction, Jerome Bonaparte's expression fell into deep thought.

After thinking carefully for a moment, Jérôme Bonaparte immediately reacted.

The bread bank mentioned by Lucien Murat is not the Green Crop Law of the 19th century.

This method is indeed feasible in theory.

If the Bread Bank can really proceed as described by Lucien Murat, then France's prices can indeed be controlled within a certain range.

However, this is contrary to the essence of banks, because the essence of banks is to make profits.

Jerome Bonaparte once heard a "joke" in his previous life. The joke was that what banks like most is to lend money to people who don't need it.

Banks have always ignored people who really need money.

Therefore, Jerome Bonaparte can be sure that after establishing the Bread Bank, the price of wheat on the market will most likely become lower under the pressure of the Bread Bank.

The so-called purchasing at a price higher than the market price in a bad harvest and purchasing at a price higher than the market price in a good harvest year is just a good wish.

The Bread Bank will only buy at a price lower than the market price in bad harvest years, and even lower than the market price in good harvest years.

In other words, this type of bread bank has completely become a cash machine for bureaucrats to use at will.

After all, how could a government-dominated bank not have bureaucrats to cash in on it?

Even if Jérôme Bonaparte could control the bureaucracy in Paris, could he control the bureaucracy in the provinces?

Regarding the bureaucratic group, Jérôme Bonaparte has always speculated on them with the greatest malice.

No matter how good a policy is, as long as it does not conform to the wishes of the bureaucrats, it will be turned into a policy that harms the people by the bureaucrats who work against the will.

By then, won’t all the farmers’ anger have to be focused on Jérôme Bonaparte!

"No! No!" Jerome Bonaparte shook his head and said to Lucien Murat, "We can't use such a tough attitude to interfere with the laws of the market!

Otherwise, the market will react on its own!

By then, the situation will be even worse! "

"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Lucien Murat asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"Let me think about it!" Jérôme Bonaparte muttered in a low voice.

After a while, Jerome Bonaparte suddenly remembered the original policy of a certain iron-blooded prime minister.

"We can increase the cost of grain entering France appropriately. As long as foreign grain cannot impact the domestic market on a large scale, domestic grain prices can be maintained in a relatively good range!" Jérôme Bonaparte to Lucien Miu. Ra said.

It seems that Bismarck relied on raising grain tariffs to block the impact of grain prices in the Russian Empire, thereby maintaining the interests of the domestic subjugation aristocracy.

Of course, this method inevitably made the German Empire and the Russian Empire at odds, laying the foundation for French-Russian coordination.

Jérôme Bonaparte's doing so may also lead to a decline in France's relationship with the Russian Empire, the main grain-producing country, but the Russian Empire now does not dare to antagonize France.

Furthermore, Jérôme Bonaparte's increase in tariffs was just a temporary expedient. Who allowed the food crisis and economic crisis in the United States to come together.

After the impact of the economic crisis in the United States of America subsides, Jérôme Bonnard can be transferred back.

"Your Majesty, this is indeed a good idea!" Lucien Murat praised against his will.

In his opinion, Jérôme Bonaparte's policy of raising tariffs was just a solution to a headache. The real solution to the problem still depended on his bread bank.

But the emperor was not willing to listen to his suggestion and establish a bread bank!

well! Who made him the emperor?

Lucien Murat couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then he raised his head and said to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, I will go back first!"

"Go! Go!" Jerome Bonaparte waved his hand and said to Lucien Murat.

After Lucien Murat left, Jérôme Bonaparte went through all the information and sorted it out again.

Then under Basilio's call, Jerome Bonaparte went to the restaurant to eat.

That night, before Jérôme Bonaparte lay in bed to rest, he told Queen Augusta the news of Count Argoux's death.

Queen Augusta's reaction was particularly indifferent, "I know!"

"Huh?" Jerome Bonaparte looked at his wife in surprise and said, "How do you know?"

"Basilio reported it to me!" Queen Augusta said to Jerome Bonaparte, "He reported it to me after he reported it to you!

Have you forgotten? "

Jérôme Bonaparte was stunned for a few seconds, then scratched the back of his head and said, "Maybe I didn't hear clearly at the time!"

"What do you want from Argu?" Augusta asked curiously.

"Don't you think Fuld and Berera are becoming more and more powerful in the Bank of France!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Queen Augusta: "If this continues, the whole of France will become theirs. That’s all!”

"Isn't what's theirs yours?" Augusta asked Jérôme Bonaparte doubtfully.

"Theirs may not be mine!" Jerome Bonaparte shook his head and said to Queen Augusta: "Only when my interests are consistent with theirs, theirs will be mine! We When their interests are inconsistent, they are them and I am me!”

"What? Fuld wants to betray?" Queen Augusta asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"No!" Jerome Bonaparte shook his head and said to Queen Augusta: "Fulder is still loyal to us!

However, as his sphere of influence grows, his loyalty becomes uncertain! "

Loyalty has always been absolute. Thinking back to Sima Yi back then, he was a veteran minister of three dynasties and a minister of Tuogu. In addition, he himself was already close to the age of death.

You must know that during the Gaoping Ling Incident, Sima Yi was already 70 years old. This age itself is considered a long life. In addition, Sima Yi has been in the army for a long time, and he will have more or less hidden diseases.

At the age of seventy, he was ready to die at any time. At that time, everyone thought that Sima Yi was the second Zhuge Kongming.

As a result, when he only had two years left in his life, he resolutely launched Gao Pingling, which paved the way for the Sima family and made future generations wary of veterans of the three dynasties.

Fuld's loyalty is probably something that only exists when his power has not expanded enough.

"Then what are you going to do?" Augusta then asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"Since Count Algu is dead, I can only choose the Rothschild family to fight against Fuld!

"Jerome Bonaparte sighed helplessly, Augusta said.