Chapter 569 My Friend, I Am Here to Help You!
Chapter 570 Friend, I’m here to help you!
While Graz was struggling, the other two main executors of the British "fake order" plan - Renner and Bolasnia - or their subordinates, also received orders from French factories and demanded payment. Final payment notice.
The Thiescilin Company in Nantes has shipped textiles worth nearly 2 million francs, departing from Marseille and arriving in Parma in ten days.
Chateau Petrus in Bordeaux also completed an order for 1.5 million francs of high-end wine, and the carriage drove into Bavaria a few days ago.
There are also paper products, furniture, steam engines, etc., a total of 7 orders, and they are all orders with very high contract amounts. They have all been produced and they have begun to urge the buyers in Austria or Italy to pay.
Of course, the so-called "production completed" is just Joseph's arrangement. According to the actual production capacity of these factories, orders will not be delivered until at least October.
However, Joseph let the Industrial Development Fund operate secretly, concentrating a large number of similar products into designated factories for packaging, and then claiming that they were produced by them.
It is equivalent to using the entire production capacity of France to put together these orders.
As long as the companies placing orders in Austria and Italy cannot pay the balance, it will immediately cause a huge shock, making the French factories realize that the orders in their hands may also be a scam.
But Joseph didn't intend to expose the scam so simply.
Not letting the scammers shed some blood would be a shame for all the various fraud cases he has seen in later generations!
Two days later.
Graz failed in his attempt to bribe the assistant manager of the Gregor Brothers Steel Company, and had decided to flee to the United States at all costs. However, he suddenly saw a middle-aged man wearing luxurious clothes and smelling of copper appearing outside the office.
"Viscount Plummer?" Graz naturally knew this popular figure in Vienna's business circle. He stood up in surprise and asked, "What do you want to do here?"
"Ha, my old friend!" Mesmer, who was pretending to be Plummer, gave him a hug directly, and then said cheerfully, "You can't refuse me this time, I mean to buy it from you. Those French things.”
"I've said it many times, I won't sell it." Gratz waved his hand impatiently, "You can go back..."
"Don't be so heartless." Mesmer pulled him to sit down on the sofa in a familiar manner and signaled to the servant at the door, "Two cups of black tea, please add more sugar."
Then he looked at Graz and said with a smile: "I'm here to help you."
"help me?"
Mesmer patted him on the shoulder: "Have you had trouble with cash flow recently?"
"I don't……"
"Ah, you don't have to hide it, we are friends." Mesmer said, "I have some connections in the bank.
"I know that the French goods you ordered have been shipped to the warehouse in Cochasega Town, but there has never been any large-scale capital transfer on your side."
Naturally, he had no friends in the Bank of Vienna, and was simply defrauding Graz.
He lowered his voice again and said: "Moreover, I heard that you went to see Mr. Lucas and proposed to give him a sum of money privately and postpone the payment deadline for four months."
Lucas was the executive at the Gregor Brothers Steel Company.
Gratz was immediately shocked: "You, how do you know this..."
"Oh, don't be nervous, old friend." Mesmer said in his heart that of course Lucas told me personally yesterday, but on the surface he smiled, "In business, who hasn't had turnover problems?
"But right now, if you fail to pay for goods on time, you will face high liquidated damages and prosecution by the other company."
"No, I won't break the contract!" Graz was still insisting.
"Why don't we be honest with each other?" Mesmer picked up the tea cup and took a sip, "Actually, I am very interested in those French goods, as I said before.
"Maybe I can buy them for you."
Graz was startled, and then said with great surprise: "Are you serious? That's more than 700,000 florins."
"This is nothing to me." Mesmer waved the hand with the gemstone ring, and then changed his tone and said, "But you also know that we have to make some profit in doing business. Such a big sum of money Even if I lend it to the king, I will get more than 10% interest.”
Gratz pulled him back as if he was afraid that he would regret it and said, "Yes, of course I can't let you suffer a loss. So how do you want to trade?"
Mesmer showed six fingers: "I want to buy this batch of goods at 60% of the price."
Gratz was stunned: "What about the remaining 40%?"
"This may require you to make up for it."
Gratz immediately turned pale. It turns out that this guy wanted to take advantage of the situation!
He was about to refuse, but then he thought that if he could not pay the balance, the other 10 orders would inevitably be ruined.
You can’t even get a penny of your own commission!
As long as the Gregor Brothers Steel Company is stabilized, other French factories will continue to produce. This is an opportunity.
But 40% of the payment is 280,000 florins, and I don’t have that much money...
Perhaps, you can confess to Mr. Crestil and ask him to come up with some more money. He will definitely deduct commission from him, but by keeping his overall plan, he can give himself some.
Thinking of this, he immediately bargained with "Viscount Plummer" and soon reached an agreement that the latter would buy the iron products at 70% of the order price, and he would pay 30%.
Both parties were happy and signed the agreement at noon that day.
Gratz repeatedly reminded that the transaction must not be disclosed, because that would let the outside world know that he had no ability to pay, thus affecting other orders.
Mesmer naturally agreed, said goodbye to Gratz, and immediately ordered the driver to rush to the Mokbruno caravan, which also received a notice of order completion yesterday.
At the same time, Carlona's assistant also pretended to be a Bavarian businessman to contact Bolasnia.
In Tuscany, Italy, his people also signed an agreement with Erwin Renner to buy the newly shipped wine at 75% of the price.
A week later.
The temporary residence of the Duke of Leeds in Vienna.
"This is the only chance to save your plan." Klestil looked at the Duke of Leeds and said, "I sent someone to investigate. Apart from this batch of orders, the French production speed is not that fast.
"The next batch of orders will not be completed until the end of September at the earliest.
"So, as long as these seven payments are settled, France will still suffer huge losses."
The Duke of Leeds frowned and fell into deep thought.
After the goods from Gregor Brothers Steel Company arrived in Vienna, he also asked the British intelligence system to investigate. As Klestil said, the other orders were still a long way from completion.