King's Landing in France

Chapter 317 Everyone Wants to Embrace the Age of Steam
When An Ning was attacked by the sudden surge of feelings, Talleyrand said again: "About the wedding, have you confirmed the bishop who will preside over the wedding?"

An Ning couldn't help squinting her eyes: "Well, you Talleyrand, you came this way!"
To hold a wedding in Europe in this era, a priest must preside over it.

In fact, Europeans in this era have been related to priests since birth.

When you are born, you have to be baptized by the priest, when you are an adult, you have to receive the blessing of the priest, when you get married, you have to ask the priest to officiate, and after you give birth, you have to ask the priest to baptize the child... Finally, when the life comes to an end, the priest must preside over the funeral.

Therefore, the priests have great energy. The previous priest oath law led to the division of the priests, which will lead to the division of the whole of France.

Although Talleyrand took the initiative to sell the church property back then, he proposed the confiscation of the church property to save the parliament, but he is indeed a bishop certified by the Pope of Rome.

An Ning: "Why, are you going to be the host?"

Talleyrand smiled: "Nothing can be hidden from you."

——Damn, are you hiding something?Why didn't I see you?You put "I want to be the host" all over your face, and then say "I can't hide anything from you", this flattery is too direct.

An Ning'an resisted the desire to flatter Talleyrand, and said directly to the business: "Actually, Christina and I are still considering whether to invite a bishop to officiate the wedding."

Talleyrand was shocked: "Don't preside? This is absolutely impossible, it will put you on the opposite side of the entire Holy See! Not only that, but the religious people will also have opinions on you, saying that you are the son of Satan or something."

There is indeed such a possibility.

By the way, Christina also tends to find a priest to officiate the wedding. An Ning is an atheist, but his wife is not.

He had just said this to see Talleyrand's reaction.

An Ning: "Don't worry, we just thought about it and didn't really make such a decision. Your Excellency, Bishop Talleyrand, are you sure you still have... um, permission to officiate the wedding?"

Talleyrand shrugged: "Although I have sworn allegiance to the Pope of France instead of Rome, the Pope has not revoked my bishop appointment. I am still a fake Vatican-certified bishop."

As he spoke Talleyrand took out the bishop's little hat and put it on his head.

To be honest, An Ning always thought this kind of priest hat was funny——he had thought so since before he crossed over.

An Ning: "Okay, since you have the qualifications, I would like to ask you to be the officiant of our wedding."

Talleyrand smiled slightly: "I will definitely complete the mission. By the way, have you decided on the church for the wedding? If not, please allow me to recommend..."

"We are going to use Notre Dame de Paris." An Ning interrupted Talleyrand, "If you want to, it's because I really like this building."

The main reason is that a great writer wrote a book named after this building a long time later, and An Ning happened to like this book very much—and the movie of the same name based on the book.

Talleyrand: "Oh, Notre-Dame, good taste, good taste, Monsieur General!"

An Ning: "Can you stop your endless flattery, haven't you asked about it, I don't like this kind of thing very much."

Talleyrand: "Sorry, this is my habit of dealing with people, I forgot that you are a..."

"Here we go again. Alright, I agree to preside over the wedding ceremony. You can leave if you have nothing else to do, Your Excellency the Bishop."

Talleyrand did not leave, but rolled his eyes and said, "I have other things to do. I don't know you. Are you still accepting... accepting investment?"

"You also want to come to get the dividend?" An Ning asked back, "You know the UK, you should know that we have indeed reached the threshold of the steam age, right?"

Talleyrand: "Of course I know that many chimneys have been erected in England, spewing thick smoke every day, and there are steam boilers underneath. But I also know that the British have broken out several times to smash the machines!
"For example, the incident in 1778 was particularly large-scale. After that, small-scale incidents of destroying machines also occurred from time to time. It happened several times during the six months I was in the UK.

"The era of steam you advocated will not be as beautiful as you imagined."

An Ning thought nonsense, don't I know?
But on the surface he said with a smile: "There will be some side effects, but there is nothing in this world without side effects.

"The British used steam engines to greatly improve their own production, and their national strength is getting stronger and stronger. It may not be obvious now, but one day in the future, they will definitely become the hegemony of the world.

"We, the French, cannot allow this to happen. So we must develop our own steam industry and surpass the British in this respect.

"Talleyrand, you know the UK, you know that what I said is not a high-sounding excuse, I am not looking for a fig leaf to make money for myself, I really intend to develop the steam industry, and I really intend to give every investor a good return!

"This return is not the kind of return that many people understand, but a real financial return!"

Talleyrand was overwhelmed by An Ning's sudden enthusiastic speech. After An Ning finished speaking, he froze for a moment before realizing that he should respond: "It's really a great idea. Then please let me contribute to this great idea. By the way, I I also want to make some money."

An Ning: "You also want to pay five hundred ounces of gold?"

Talleyrand: "I... don't have that much, I can only take out a little over 100 ounces."

That's a lot!
You co-authored the proposal to confiscate educational property and subsidize the council, and you made a lot of money yourself!

How can France do well with such insects?
However, Talleyrand has already counted among speculators and ambitions. After all, he has really promoted the progress of France.

Like Fouché, Fouche is credited with establishing the modern police system.

An Ning: "Yes, you can send the gold bars to the bank I opened. Now the bank is holding an event. If you deposit gold, you will get paper francs equivalent to gold. This is one of the means I use to consolidate the value of paper money.

"After you take the banknotes, you can buy any product in the chamber of commerce under my name."

Talleyrand: "Only paper money?"

"Of course, there are also investment certificates, documents and so on. As for the dividend rules, we stipulate that a gold bar is [-] shares, and the dividends are distributed according to the shares at the end of each year." An Ning is also very proficient in this set, like A seller of insurance.

Talleyrand: "You speak so skillfully, have you already told many people who come to invest?"

An Ning pretended to be stupid and said: "Yes, especially after the news of my marriage was released, I don't know why more people invested! Everyone really hopes to embrace the future steam era!"

(End of this chapter)