I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 579: All the accounts that need to be settled must be settled clearly (asking for double monthly tickets)
You know, Achard can get a good salary for doing research at the French Academy of Sciences. If he makes a result, he can get a huge sum of money according to the patent law.

At the same time, the talent committee will also assign him a butler and a maid - he does not have to pay for these servants.

Even if one were to calculate with one's eyes closed, Archad's income was much higher than that of her fiancé - his business only made four or five thousand francs a year.

More importantly, Archard had a very stable income, no business competition, no market fluctuations, and a very high social status, and he could frequently enter and leave the Palace of Versailles.

Marianne Schumann took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, and walked to Archard's villa. Just as she was about to knock on the door, she heard a soft voice behind her: "Are you looking for Mr. Archard?"

She turned around and saw a very beautiful and graceful girl standing not far away, looking at her with a smile.

"you are?"

"I'm Mr. Archard's fiancée. You can just call me Ariel."

Marianne was stunned. She wanted to use Archard's old relationship to try to restore their relationship, but she didn't expect to be caught by the "real owner".

She listened to Ariel's pure court aristocratic language, and then saw her charming eyes and the expensive silk dress she was wearing. She immediately turned pale, lowered her head, and turned to run away.

She knew that she had no chance of winning against her.

Every second of delay will only make you more embarrassed.

The door opened, and it was Archard's old servant who heard his mistress's voice and hurried out to greet her.

Ariel pointed at Marianne's back and asked him, "Mr. Yassen, do you know this lady?"

"Oh, it seems to be Miss Schumann."

Ariel tilted her head slightly and smiled appropriately: "Why did she leave so suddenly? I should have asked her to come in and sit down."

On the other hand, Achard obtained 50 acres of experimental fields and 12 francs of scientific research funds allocated by the Academy of Sciences in the eastern suburbs of Paris.

To be honest, agricultural research really doesn't cost that much money. The prince meant that he should take this opportunity to cultivate sugar beets to build an agricultural breeding laboratory.

Before the end of the year, scholars from the Academy of Sciences responsible for breeding new varieties of wheat, corn and potatoes will also move into this laboratory one after another.

Achard would pass on his knowledge of genetics to them, greatly increasing the speed at which France's agricultural products were improved.

Later, the French Agricultural University will be established here as its basis.

At the same time, Minister of Agriculture Vergniaud also rushed to northern France at the instruction of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and began to promote beet cultivation to the farmers there.

Although only varieties with a sugar content of 8% can be grown at present, it will take some time for farmers to accept sugar beets, and at the same time, sugar beet refining factories can be built.

Once high-sugar-content products are developed in the future, they can be quickly rolled out and become a weapon for France to attack the British sugar industry.

Of course, for now, beet farmers still need to be subsidized, just as Napoleon did in the past. But with Archard and advanced hybrid genetics, this situation will not last long.

As long as the sugar content of beets can reach 12%, the cost of sugar production can be reduced to 1 pounds of sugar per franc.

France can save a lot of shipping costs by refining sugar domestically - shipping from the Caribbean to Europe requires crossing the entire Atlantic Ocean - so after adding the refining, packaging and sales costs, the price is almost the same as that of cane sugar from the Caribbean.

By then, Britain's sugar-making hegemony will come to an end!
In the Palace of Versailles, Joseph began to persuade his mother to make beets a must-order dish at every meal. After all, Queen Marie loved sweets and was not averse to this thing at all.

At the same time, he also took out 5 francs as a prize and asked the court chefs to organize a beet cooking competition. Queen Marie personally served as the judge, and the nobles of the Palace of Versailles publicly tasted and scored.

Paris Business Daily even followed and reported on the entire game.

Soon, the beet fever spread from the court to the whole of Paris, and the citizens' demand for beets increased tenfold.

……

Vienna.

Schönbrunn Palace.

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand said loudly and righteously: "It is precisely because of the vicious fraud of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce that a large number of French factories have gone bankrupt! This has seriously endangered France's national stability and dragged the government's finances and taxes into the abyss!"

Baron Turgut, the Austrian Foreign Minister, said hurriedly: "Archbishop Talleyrand, this order incident is entirely a personal crime of Klestil. Our country will severely judge him..."

"Isn't Chrystil the president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce?" Talleyrand interrupted him, "And after the incident was exposed, he was immediately assassinated, which shows that there must be another mastermind behind him.

“Given the scale of the order scam—more than 3 million francs—I have reason to believe that at least the Vienna Chamber of Commerce was involved. Klestil alone could not come up with the money to pay the deposit.”

Turgut whispered: "The Vienna Chamber of Commerce doesn't have that much money..."

Talleyrand ignored him and turned to Leopold II and said, "Your Majesty, on behalf of His Majesty the King, I formally request that your country compensate the damaged factories in France in the amount of 3270 million francs, investigate the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, and severely punish the criminals."

Leopold II cursed Klestil and the Dutch thousands of times in his heart. More than 3 million francs, or 1 million florins.

Just sell Vienna!

But he knew he was in the wrong, so he could only try his best to appease the anger of the French: "Archbishop Talleyrand, I can guarantee that all those involved in the case will be brought to justice... But as you know, the Austrian government is not aware of France's losses and does not have that much money."

Talleyrand knew that Austria could not possibly pay so much in compensation, and he was just asking for an exorbitant price.

After that, there was a tug-of-war that lasted for several hours. Until dusk, Talleyrand was still in high spirits: "Your Majesty has made great concessions in the Franco-Austrian alliance. At the very least, your country should allow the goods produced by this order to be sold in Austria, and the tariffs on the corresponding goods should be reduced by 80%."

Tugut immediately shook his head: "This will cause our country's tariff system to collapse."

"Then sell it in the Southern Netherlands and Tuscany, and match the tariffs."

"Oh, God. Those two little places can't stand this..."

Leopold II rubbed his forehead and said tiredly: "The tariffs in the Southern Netherlands will be reduced by 30%, and those in Tuscany by 18%. This is the limit of what I can do.

"As compensation, I can tell you an important piece of information."

"The tariff reduction is too small," Talleyrand said immediately, "and we have to add that these two places will accept francs for trade in the future."

(End of this chapter)