In the confrontation with the Rothschild family, Desai was fully prepared and confident. This confidence came from the information asymmetry between him and his opponent. Based on the incomparable two hundred years of knowledge of the time traveler, the financial methods of the entire Rothschild family seemed unconcealed in front of him. With his strong political and military strength, Desai could give him a fatal blow at any time; in contrast, the Rothschild family could only seek unreliable external forces to support him.

Since the Roman era, anti-Semitism in Europe has never really subsided. Before the 16th century, Jews were treated worse than blacks, which can be seen from Shakespeare's literary work "The Merchant of Venice". At this time, the only countries that could give Jews similar national treatment for a long time were the Duchy of Warsaw, which had settled 300,000 Jews, or the declining Ottoman Turkish Empire on the east coast of the Mediterranean.

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Captain Adam Korol secretly came to Lisbon with a Polish merchant ship. He originally wanted to go directly to Barcelona, ​​but when he was passing through Nantes, Korol learned that His Royal Highness's army had penetrated into Portugal, so he disembarked in Lisbon in advance last night. Early this morning, he reported the latest news about Poland to Desay, who had returned to his official residence.

In August this year, due to Napoleon's acquiescence, the two-level parliamentary meeting of the Duchy of Warsaw held a regular meeting and formally agreed to the proposal proposed by King Saxony and ruler of the Duchy of Warsaw, August I, to accept Andrew Desay as the crown prince of Poland. Captain Koror also brought a collective consultation letter from the two-level parliamentarians. They asked His Highness Desay to return to Warsaw in the first half of next year to discuss the restoration of Poland, including when the regent will be crowned and the debate on the abolition of the serf system.

Although the Warsaw Parliament failed to depose the serfdom immediately, the nobles who held real power in the country made some compromises and invited the crown prince to return to the country to start an internal debate. As for when he would be crowned King of Poland, Desai didn't care much about it. If the great aristocratic system could not be changed in Poland and the central power was successfully implemented, the throne would be just a good-looking puppet.

In addition, the noble parliament voted to pass another bill: to grant the Danze Corridor, which had just obtained from the Kingdom of Prussia, nearly 8,000 square kilometers of land in the lower reaches of the Vistula River to the Crown Prince of Desai as private property. The only requirement is that His Highness, the Crown Prince of Desai must open the waterways in the lower reaches of the Vistula to all Polish merchant ships for free and no taxes shall be imposed.

Desai was a little surprised when he heard the above resolutions of the two-level parliamentary parliament. The Warsaw Parliament, which has always been procrastinating and constantly quarreling, was able to publicly recognize its crown prince within three months, rather than a year after a quarrel. In addition, it was even more surprising that he obtained all the territory of the Danze Corridor. According to previous practice, the land obtained by the Polish monarch in foreign wars could only be one-third of the land (generally 20%), and the rest must be handed over to the noble MPs unconditionally to manage.

According to Desai's understanding of the greedy personality of the Polish aristocracy, these practices were too abnormal. They obviously had some plans or wanted to be the crown prince far away in the Iberian Peninsula. As expected, Desai learned from Koror's narrative that the poor situation of the Polish economy was, with the excess grain inventories in the territory reaching more than 300,000 tons, and the economy dominated by agriculture was almost collapsed.

In 1810, Polish agriculture achieved a bumper harvest for the second consecutive year, with 1.5 million tons of wheat mass production alone. However, the mainland blockade policy issued by Emperor Napoleon made cheap Polish grain unable to be transported out, resulting in the decline of grain prices. Today, the price of wheat per kilogram in the Polish market is less than 1 zloty (about 2 francs), and the price of British land is about 9.2 shillings (by December 1810, the price of 1 quart wheat rose from 60 shillings to 117 shillings, which is similar to the value of the franc). In the Iberis Peninsula, the market price of wheat is generally above 6 shillings per kilogram.

Everyone understands the reason why low foods hurt farmers, and Desai is even more clear. It is precisely because of the bumper harvest between 1809 and 1812 that the prices of Polish grain that cannot be transported soared. Farmers were unable to make profits from the land, which caused large areas of farmland to be abandoned or changed to plant economic crops such as cotton, beets, oil, tobacco, etc., which caused the grain shortage in most Poland several years later.

Koror continued to explain: "Your Highness, almost all the nobles of the MPs expect you to take them out of this predicament and, in some safe way, bypass the Emperor's mainland economic blockade and re-transport Polish food wheat to the Kingdom of Britain or the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, the MPs secretly ordered the Tax Collection and Administration Commission to exempt the export tariffs on food."

"Damn it, it's not just about going to private, but challenging the emperor's authority!" Desai seemed very angry. The cowardly and cunning land nobles did not dare to take the initiative to challenge the bottom line of the emperor's pardon order, and wanted to rush to the front line of breaking the economic barriers of the mainland. However, they were out of the matter and safely survived the overdose crisis that would still be spread for two years.

Obviously this is unreasonable and unfair. Desai wanted to reject this matter immediately, but when he was mentioned in his throat, he pressed it back. No, another nature of Desai as a profiteer in his bones began to spread. Not to mention how much political benefits can it bring to him successfully to resolve the food crisis in Poland, but from the perspective of trade and economy, it seems that there is room for profit, no, it is simply huge profit.

Desai roughly calculated that the price of 1 ton of wheat in Poland is 2,000 francs. Once shipped to the UK, it is 9,200 francs (sheds). Including the sea freight of 200 francs per ton, it can also make nearly 300% profit. It should be noted that in order to calm the crazy rising domestic grain prices, the British cabinet vigorously encouraged grain imports (travel-smuggling) without imposing any tariffs. This food liberalization policy was not finally banned by the controversial Cereals Act in 1815.

As someone described: "If capital has 50% profit, it will take risks; if it has 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all laws in the world; if it has 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime, or even risk being hanged."

Theoretically, if 300,000 tons of wheat are successfully transported to the UK, they can obtain a profit of 1.5 billion francs. Even if other factors are considered, they can guarantee a net profit of at least 1 billion francs. In the face of such a huge profit, Desai, a businessman in his previous life, was finally unable to help but get moved. At the same time, Desai was the only one who could do bulk grain export trade in the entire Poland.

First, if you want to transport food from Poland to overseas, you must use the Danze Freeport. Today, the Governor Danze is Desai's close friend, Prince Eugen De Beauerne. The former selfless Governor Davu has returned to Paris; secondly, Desai has a huge commercial fleet in the Mediterranean, which can transport materials to all parts of Europe very conveniently; in addition, Desai has an ambiguous relationship with London and Cadiz, and there will be no obstacles to the import of bulk food; finally, and most importantly, once there is a problem in the process, only Desai can withstand the emperor's thunderous anger.

"There is another question. What substance does my fleet need to transport to Poland?" Desai, who decided to take a risk, began to consider another issue. He had to pay the round-trip freight for unilateral delivery of grain, which was naturally not very cost-effective. There must be bulk items that were stuffed into the agricultural industry, and traffic some things to Poland, which is mainly agricultural, even if it was not very profitable.

"You can import black slaves into your territory, no, black laborers!" Corol made a suggestion, "Your Highness, located in the lower reaches of the Vistula River, with an area of ​​nearly 8,000 square kilometers, at least half of which are suitable for cultivation or grazing. If inland shipping and offshore fishery are included, it will be enough to support 500,000 or even more strong laborers. In the Iberian Peninsula, there are 500,000 Portuguese blacks, and a large number of 10,000 Spanish blacks, they will be the best servants in your private estate! In addition, these blacks who have experienced the test of war can also organize an army that only loyal to you."

"Very good!" Desai praised his former intelligence officer. Before, he had considered importing some black people to Poland, but the high freight costs made Desai a little reluctant. Now, the remaining food can be exchanged for black labor. This can not only squeeze some money from the Lisbon nobles, but also eliminate the headache caused by the "Declaration on the Liberation of Blacks".

Although his idea was good, it could not be implemented immediately at this time. That was the third confrontation with the British Expeditionary Force. Because the day before yesterday, Marshal Massena finally left his face and sent his adjutant as a messenger, hoping that Marshal Desai's army would cooperate with the main force of the Portuguese army to launch a north-south attack on the British and Portuguese coalition forces in the next two weeks, and then encircle and annihilate Wellington's troops in one fell swoop.

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Just as Desai and the Jewish banker met in the study, Miss Rolina, who received the pardon order, was driving to the Portuguese prisoner-of-war camp near the military camp in the northern suburbs of Lisbon. Accompanying the black beauty, nurse Cruz who was allowed to rest, and her fiancé, Sergeant Garset.

When he learned that Rolina convinced Duke Hruna to rescue his half-brother from the prisoner-of-war camp, Cruz, who believed in God, seemed particularly happy.

"You are such a kind angel. The Lord will bless you, my dear sister!" Cruz exclaimed sincerely.

"This is thanks to Mario for his help, otherwise, I wouldn't know that Brother Perro was still imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war camp." Rolina smiled shyly. Rescuing Perro Biyelo was derived from her kind nature of being willing to help others. She would not recall how her half-brother had treated Ali and herself cruelly.

Garset, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but mutter in his heart when he heard the name of "Mario". After the battle of Mount Monsantu, he learned from Lieutenant McKinley that a fleeing black man named Mario had suffered the ruthless abuse of Captain Perro Biyero, and was then tied to the trunk of a tree, almost killing himself on the battlefield of bullets. In the end, Mario did not care about his past grudges and so kindly asked the innocent Miss Rolina to rescue his enemy?

Garset was unknown, and he didn't know that not far behind their carriage, Mario was following on foot.
Chapter completed!