Chapter 567 The Bad Habits of Capitalists

Chapter 568 The Bad Nature of Capitalists

"Viscount Plummer", or Mesmer, then made a high-profile appearance at various high-end social occasions in Vienna. In just a few days, he became a celebrity in the Vienna business circle - with his superb "skills", this was not a difficult task, at least much easier than when he fooled the nobles who lived in the entire Palace of Versailles.

Many Viennese businessmen came to do business with this upstart who was "rich in wealth", "extravagant" and "loves to make friends". Mesmer's residence was crowded with people, and even Baroness Waldner took the initiative to throw herself into his arms and became his mistress.

However, "Viscount Plummer" seemed to only recognize French goods, and he would talk about how popular French goods were in various European countries whenever he met someone. At the same time, he disdained small business at all, and he was too lazy to even listen to transactions without hundreds of thousands of florins.

Since "French finesse" in Austria is not uncommon, no one was surprised.

Soon, new friends in Vienna enthusiastically introduced him to French goods, such as Baron Gratz's Manharz Trading Company, Erwin Renner's caravan, and Stocker Bolasnia's caravan.

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A week later.

In the mansion of "Viscount Plummer", Kalona flipped through the recently collected information, and a smile appeared on his face: "All those who can take out 100,000 florins of French goods have only started placing orders in the past two months. In addition to them, the Mok Bruno caravan, which used to have the closest business dealings with France, only had less than 40,000 florins of goods.

"This shows that French goods do not have such amazing sales or exciting sales prospects in Austria. Otherwise, the Mok Bruno caravan would not be indifferent. "

Mesmer, who was wearing eight dazzling gem rings and the most popular Parisian fashion of the season, immediately raised his eyebrows in approval, nodded and said loudly: "Your wisdom impresses me. You can always see the key to the problem at a glance, Viscount, and I..."

Then he saw Kalona staring at him coldly, and he shrank his neck immediately. Recently, he was used to playing the role of a wealthy businessman, and at this time he was still speaking in the manner of Viscount Plummer.

He laughed dryly and his attitude was much more humble: "And I noticed one thing from the conversations of the Viennese nobles, that is, these guys who have recently ordered a large number of goods from France are more or less related to a man named Klestil.

"Graz is the brother-in-law of his butler, Renner has worked in his caravan for more than ten years, and Bolasnia is his agent for business in Serbia."

Through this period of contact, Kalona was also quite shocked by the ability of the liar in front of him-the latter was just bragging to the nobles every day, and those people told him a lot of secrets themselves.

You know, the intelligence agency had been investigating for a long time before, but couldn't find any connection between these people.

"This is indeed suspicious." Kalona said, looking at the intelligence officer next to him, "Captain Desharet, it seems that you should investigate the relationship between other people who placed orders and this Klestil."

"I will, Viscount Kalona."

Mesmer continued: "Also, these guys all rejected my trading request, even if someone I know introduced me to them.

"Oh, I even entrusted Baron Waldner to negotiate with Erwin Renner on my behalf. The latter said that he could sell some goods to him, but he had to pay the full amount in advance and refused to provide his bank account. "

Kalona sneered: "It's just a clumsy way to deceive novices."

Mesmer nodded: "This is very strange. They are doing GG in the newspaper, but they are not in a hurry to sell goods.

"I've inquired, and it's not just us. No one has reached a deal with these guys yet.

Soon, Captain Decharette stood up and said in a deep voice: "I think we can submit a report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Mesmer immediately remembered the various styles of Baroness Waldner in bed, and smacked his lips with some regret.

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Notre Dame de Paris.

Joseph, who was sitting in the front row, made a prayer gesture with his hands, but he didn't listen to Archbishop Beaumont who was preaching the Holy Word on the stage. Instead, he turned his head and whispered to Mirabeau behind him: "The problem with wine is not big, after all, it can be stored for a long time. And the Iron and Steel Technology Association should be able to play a role, right?"

Today is Pentecost, and he was "forced" by Queen Marie to attend the large mass, so he could only temporarily change his office location here.

Mirabeau said helplessly: "You know, the competition in the ironworks is also fierce.

"All factory owners are worried that if they slow down production, others will take away their market share, so even if they may face punishment from the Iron and Steel Technology Association, they still do their own thing."

Joseph frowned immediately.

Just now, Mirabeau reported to him that except for some factories that are fully controlled by the Industrial Development Fund, other factory owners simply ignored his request to slow down the production of orders.

Even if the development fund does not provide financial support, they would rather mortgage the factory to the bank for loans and desperately compete for orders from Germany or Italy.

This is the root of the capitalists' souls-pursuing profits at all costs, even if the devil is waiting for them.

Joseph sighed and asked, "How many orders have been completed so far?"

Mirabeau obviously did a survey and immediately said, "Most factories have completed about a quarter, and some of the more efficient ones have completed nearly a third."

Joseph has begun to think about whether to use administrative or tax means to forcefully cool down the production side.

According to Mirabeau's previous statistics, in the past two and a half months alone, the amount of orders from abroad has reached 30 million to 40 million francs, which has exceeded the limit that the Industrial Development Fund can bear.

Once there are problems with these orders, it will directly destroy development funds and a large number of factories.

However, once administrative or tax measures are used, it will also seriously disrupt the market order in France, and at the very least, it will keep investors away from industrial production.

At this moment, Fouche walked over, handed a report to Joseph, and whispered: "Your Highness, it was just sent from Vienna."

Then, under the cannibalistic gaze of Archbishop Beaumont, he hurriedly returned to his position.

Joseph smiled apologetically at Beaumont, unfolded the information gently, and saw Captain Descharette's report on their actions in Vienna, as well as Carlona's conclusion - there is a high probability that there is a problem with the order, and the buyer is likely to No final payment will be made.

"As expected."

Joseph handed the report to Mirabeau with a sullen face. The latter quickly read it and his expression became solemn: "Your Highness, with all due respect, even if you show this report to the factory owners, they probably won't agree to stop production." ”