Therefore, Candiola suggested that General Desay should scale up metal smelting at the source of canned production, intensive food breeding, and mechanization of finished product processing within 15, while trying his best to ensure the advantages of production cost, and improve production efficiency. Make all preparations to meet the challenges of British canned merchants in the future.

The analysis was done, the idea was good, and it was also said that Desai was moved. When the time traveler asked the Jews how many riyals it would take to complete this series of investments, the latter told Desai directly, "The initial investment of at least 3 million riyals can be used to suppress the production advantages of the future British people and continue to maintain and strengthen the absolute market monopoly position of Mediterranean canned food."

Desai shook his head and explained, "No money!" This was not an excuse to refuse, but the general was beaten by Qiufeng by the emperor who was short of money not long ago.

At the Battle of Wagram in July, Emperor Napoleon finally defeated Grand Duke Charles' army. Two weeks later, the Austrian emperor ordered the removal of his younger brother, Grand Duke Charles' position as commander-in-chief, and the domestic compromise forces headed by Duke Metternich rose again. They strongly encouraged the Austrian Emperor to announce a ceasefire to the Emperor and actively sent envoys to negotiate with Napoleon. After mid-August, the large-scale war on the Danube was declared over. As for the rest, it was left to the diplomats of the two countries to resolve.

As the war subsided, Napoleon also stopped a new round of recruitment plans in France. The trained recruits would either join the National Self-Defense Forces or join the Spanish battlefield. In September, in accordance with the emperor's order, more than 3,000 recruits from Toulouse would be stationed in northeastern Spain and handed over to General Desay to command the final composition of the Desay Division.

The source of troops is coming, and there will be no shortage of weapons, but the Paris Army Department asked General Desay to find a way to advance the military pay and supplies for the new recruits first and then reimburse him later. Because the peace talks with the Austrians were not over yet, the members of the Paris Imperial cabinet were all counting on huge war compensation from the Austrian Emperor to save the precarious French economy.

The military pay and supplies of the new recruits were in charge of the Guidesai division, but they also made a lot of money by relying on the canned industry. But in September, the emperor sent someone to write to Desai, indicating without any vague instructions to borrow money. Since the French and Austrian wars had more than 50,000 dead and disabled soldiers in the French army, their pension was huge, even if the Paris cabinet moved around, there was still a gap of 2 million francs.

After hearing that Desai had dug gold mines to make money, Napoleon wanted to take the opportunity to fight Qiufeng. In fact, this was the emperor's usual style. Napoleon asked his favorite sister, Polina Bonaparte, and the most trusted marshal Jean Rana, to write letters to Desai, with only one purpose, and borrow 2 million francs without interest within half a year.

2 million francs, equivalent to 10 million riyals. In addition to the 1 million francs given to her by Princess Polina (Desay had sent someone to the French bank to exchange checks for cash in early August), he had to pay another 5 million riyals, which is almost all the existing possessions of Desay masters, plus two months of net income from canned trade.

Desai did not dare to violate the loan request from the emperor. Perhaps it was the emperor's secret punishment for selling canned food to the British fleet. In addition, Desai did not want Princess Polina and Marshal Rana, the two lobbyists, to be embarrassed. So he entrusted a lawyer to sign a loan contract with the Paris Cabinet, promising to transfer 2 million francs to the special cabinet account of the Bank of France before October 20.

The Desai Division's pockets were empty, but Candiola believed there were other sources of money to use.

After the conversation with Desai, the Jews were still unwilling to give up. He thought of other divisions and French officers of the brigade. These people burned and killed and plundered Spain for almost two years and must have accumulated a lot of savings. Candiola found his son-in-law to make a proposal, and the latter thought this was also a good thing, especially to bring close friendly officers and move closer to Desai division. So, under the guise of the Desai division, the father-in-law and son-in-law had a private contact with friendly troops, and then they had this list of investors.

Desai also knew a little about this. It was because the Jewish father-in-law and son-in-law who took the initiative to talk about this matter with Major Shener. The latter had reported to Desai. Desai silently allowed it without interfering, thinking that they would make trouble. Desai did not expect to get much money. Unexpectedly, the Jewish father-in-law and son-in-law made money for nothing and actually made a huge sum of 660,000 francs.

With the huge dividends brought by several canning processing sites in the safe village, no one doubted the idea that making canned food can make a lot of money. Before, friendly officers could not catch the first shuttle bus, but now they finally have a god-given opportunity, so they will naturally not miss it. Almost all officers took out all their belongings in the past few years and were ready to invest in a new round of canning production in order to get rich dividends.

If he wanted to play, he would play bigger. Since the emperor was trying to exchange for the hard-earned money of the officers and soldiers of the Desai Division, Desai no longer cared about anything. If he believed that Napoleon would return the loan in a few months, that guy was definitely an idiot and a fool. The "Urlav incident" several years ago fully proved this. Napoleon asked Paris financiers for hundreds of millions of francs in the form of white stripes to serve as the military expenditure of the third anti-French alliance. After the victory, Napoleon refused to return the loan and threw a financier named Urlav into prison, on the grounds that the latter owed the Bank of France 62 million francs.

Therefore, it is better to use 2 million francs to exchange for some other compensation when the emperor had a good impression of Desay himself. For example, a duke was granted a free transfer of certain mining resources, free land for the factory, relax investment policies accordingly, reduce various taxes, and even acquiesce to some of their own cheating behaviors, etc.

The idea was decided, Desai said to Major Kerr, "Major, tell your father-in-law, let the news that the Count of Desai, perhaps the future Duke of Desai, has defined the scope of investors as the Catalan theater, no, all the French officers and soldiers of the Iberis Peninsula. Tell them that General Desai will build more and larger new factories in the Khruna area, in addition to canning factories, there are food seasoning factories, machinery manufacturers, metal smelters, mining quarries, and future ordnance factories and pharmaceutical factories. In addition, a harbour will be built, as well as a large number of Mediterranean and Atlantic caravans.

By February 1810, I would raise at least 8 million francs, or 40 million riyals. Of course, the more the better. I also welcome the investment from French merchants, including the true wealthy businessmen in Catalonia and friendly foreign merchants.

Also, let Candiola send someone to Barcelona and tell businessmen from France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Ottoman Turkey, and Egypt that General Desai needs to recruit a group of financial and management experts, with an unlimited number of people. Because I will form a pure business management team completely separated from the army, manage tens of millions of riyals of investment funds, formulate various investment plans, and acquire several commercial banks if necessary.

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Damn it, don’t look at me like a fool, curiously and continue writing!

In addition, I also need all kinds of engineers who are proficient in steam machinery, weapons manufacturing, geological exploration, and port construction, including…”

As a senior officer at the division and brigade level, Desai has to deal with complicated military and government affairs all day long; and because he is an earl of the empire, he cannot abandon the tradition of aristocratic, salons, dances and other social activities. Therefore, in order to focus on one or two things, a pure business management team, should be established long ago. Any "wonderful ideas" that Desai will have in the future, these professionals should be allowed to verify, evaluate, plan and deploy, and supervise the implementation, and do not have to worry about it myself.

To complete the fundraising, Desay originally wanted to use the Paris stock trading market, but the Military Intelligence Agency learned that the financial situation in Paris was not optimistic, which should be said to be very bad. Firms were trapped by the French Bank. The then Minister of Finance Gordan followed the financial control laws of Emperor Napoleon and strictly monitored French funds to stay in other places.

It seems that there is still a lot of wealth left in the "army", especially the French officers in the Spanish occupied areas. In the past life, time travelers had heard that the 300,000 French officers and soldiers stationed in Spain privately seized no less than tens of billions of francs in the five years from 1808 to 1813.

Of course, these wealth were not squandered on women's belly or included in the bag of profiteers, but more so, after the French army was defeated in 1814, the Spanish people lost to the country, and there were very few people who actually entered France. When Desai thought of this huge amount of wealth, he began to be jealous and thought that it would be better to collect some of it and develop industry for himself. Even if investors were killed or disabled, the officers could still leave some dividends for orphans and widows to make a living.

In addition, the Desai Division has more and more close interest exchanges with nearly 300,000 French troops scattered across Spain, which can effectively resist the emperor's next round of exploitation to a certain extent.

Desai's wish has always been to be a hedonistic nobleman, and under the care of his fathers, he would be a time passerby comfortably. But when Marshal Rana retired seriously and retired, he was ruthlessly blackmailed by Napoleon, the cruel reality made Desai finally give up his fantasy.

As a responsible time traveler, he never fired one of his employees during the Great Depression of the later financial crisis. Now, Andrew Desai no longer represents only one person's name. Behind him, there are thousands of officers and soldiers of the Desai Division, including the Poles and Irish who defected to him, and perhaps more will be found in the future.

No one knows the outcome of the future European war than Desay, so he hopes to reach some kind of compromise with the British, and find a place for himself and the many interest groups around him. The primary condition for ensuring that his own and the group's interests will not betrayed by others is to strengthen his strength and obtain foreign aid. For example, learning from Marshal Bernardote, even if he cannot become the king of Poland, he can still come out of a Mediterranean Principality.
Chapter completed!