I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 463 Industrial Development and Chart Statistics Act
Fouché was startled when he heard this, but then his eyes flashed with excitement. He clapped his hands and said, "Your Highness, this method is absolutely brilliant! I request that it be included in the training paradigm for spies."

Joseph smiled and waved his hand, saying, "What I just said is just the basic model of 'moral attack'. You can also expand it on your own."

In later generations, many celebrities and big bosses had their reputations ruined by this simple and low-cost method. Even many of them eventually proved their innocence, but were still greatly affected.

"Basic mode?" Fouché's eyes widened. "You mean, it can be more cruel than this?"

"Yes," Joseph said casually, "you need to broaden your thinking.

"For example, let a good-looking man dress up as a lady to seduce Paulie, then try to get Paulie drunk, and then do the same thing as before. When he shouts "molest" and the police and onlookers are called, he 'accidentally' reveals his chest hair..."

Fouché was petrified. For the first time, he felt as pure as a little girl, and this sinister and perverted world made him tremble.

Joseph saw his expression and realized that these methods seemed to affect his image. He coughed and said, "Well, I was actually inspired by the rural stories told by the Austrian soldiers."

He didn't wait for the intelligence chief to react, and continued: "Also, what I want to say is that you can't just attack the separatist from a moral perspective.

"After all, even if a leader is morally corrupt, there will still be people willing to follow him."

Fouché pondered, "What do you mean?"

"Benefits." Joseph made a fist-clenching motion. "If everyone thinks that Paulie will erode their interests, coupled with his poor morals, then he will definitely be completely 'socially dead'!"

"Social death?" Fouché heard an unfamiliar word.

"Oh, it's the abbreviation of 'social death'." Joseph explained, "Some people are alive, but in their social circle, they are already dead."

Fouché nodded thoughtfully. "I'll have to incorporate this into my spy training paradigm, too."

He looked at Joseph again: "Your Highness, then we will design some interest traps between Paulie and his organization members..."

After hearing his plan, Joseph immediately proposed improvement suggestions based on some "sassy operations" in later generations.

The two men discussed for nearly an hour and preliminarily finalized a plan to deal with the leader of the Corsican Restorationists. Fouché then returned to the Intelligence Bureau to make specific arrangements, constantly repeating to himself in his heart: No matter who I offend in the future, I must not offend His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

The door of the reception room was pushed open again, and the Minister of Industry and the Minister of Commerce walked in.

The two men bowed to Joseph, and Mirabeau handed over the documents he was carrying with both hands.

Joseph glanced at the title of the document, "Overview of National Industrial Development in 1789," and immediately smiled and praised: "It took you only more than three months to compile the industrial development situation last year. Your work efficiency is outstanding."

In this era without Excel or even telegraphs, it was definitely an extremely arduous task to compile national industrial data.

Since industrial data had never been collected before, we can only use agricultural data as an analogy. It took nine months to complete the national agricultural overview in 1788.

As a new noble who was familiar with the capitalist production model, Mirabeau was much more efficient than the old noble bureaucrats. Of course, this was also due to his usual attention to collecting and sorting out archives, so that he could complete last year's industrial report in such a short time.

"Thank you for your compliment, Your Highness. This is all part of my job."

Mirabeau saw the Dauphin begin to look through the documents, so he gave him a brief introduction: "Under your Royal Highness's wise leadership, last year our country's overall industrial scale expanded to more than 140% of its original level.

"Especially the papermaking and machinery industries, which grew 3.5 times and 2.3 times respectively."

Joseph nodded. With the support of wood pulp technology, it was not surprising that papermaking had such a large growth. However, it was quite amazing that the United Steam Engine Company had raised the overall machinery industry by so much on its own.

However, he also knew that this was a brutal outburst in the early stages of the new industry's expansion. As the industry continued to mature, the growth rate would gradually slow down.

Mirabeau glanced at the spot where Joseph was looking and continued:

"Ah, the brewing industry. Yes, although the scale of the brewing industry has only grown to 115% of its previous size, thanks to your new brewing technology, the profit has increased by 2.3 times."

Joseph was quite satisfied with this number.

You know, winemaking is a pillar industry in France. It is already very large in scale, and a 15% growth is already very impressive.

Moreover, with the help of pasteurization, French wine has almost monopolized the entire high-end market, and its ability to make money has greatly increased. This alone contributes nearly 1 million francs in taxes to the French treasury every year.

At the same time, Joseph saw in the report that, driven by wine, French beer has also begun to gain momentum. Since the second half of last year, Normandy beer has gradually spread to Germany and Italy, which was previously basically the market of Dortmund and Bavaria.

Mirabeau continued his explanation as Joseph turned the pages: "Several industries such as textiles, steel, and coal have also seen good growth. In particular, we have invested heavily in these industries this year. Although we will face competition from countries such as Britain and Austria, I am optimistic about the development situation this year..."

After Joseph finished reading the "Overview of Industrial Development", he felt a sense of accomplishment - thanks to his continuous efforts, the development momentum of French industry was rapid, at least much better than the situation in history.

If this trend continues, in a few years, France's industrial production capacity will be able to compete with that of the British.

Of course, the British still have a huge advantage in terms of markets and raw materials. After all, they own the most colonies in the world.

Therefore, France’s next major goal was to rely on the Treaty of the Rhine and the Seine to penetrate the German market as much as possible, while developing the North African market as quickly as possible.

After all, for industrial development, sales market is even more important than technology and scale.

Joseph looked at the densely packed data on the report and couldn't help feeling a little dizzy.

He rubbed his nose and turned to the Minister of Industry and said, "Count Mirabeau, I have a more effective and intuitive way of writing this kind of data-based documents."

"Oh?" Mirabeau leaned forward and said, "I hope Your Highness can teach me."

Joseph took the paper, pen and ruler, and began to draw according to the data on the document, while explaining: "The vertical axis represents the output or amount, and the horizontal axis represents the month. Mark the output of each month on the corresponding points of the two axes, and then connect all the points with lines."

He handed the paper industry production chart he had drawn to Mirabeau: "This is called a line chart."

He let Mirabeau digest it for a moment, then drew a circle on another piece of paper and labeled the data: "This is a pie chart."

“This is a bar graph…”

“This is a scatter plot…”

"And the spider web picture..."

Joseph silently apologized to Laplace in his heart: In order to improve the efficiency of government work, I can only "spoiler" your chart statistics method in advance. Speaking of which, you are also French, so you should be able to understand me.

(End of this chapter)