Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

() "Ma'am is really well-known." I am a little uncomfortable, I have just learned the tricks of married wives, and I feel that what they say may be true.After answering this sentence, my eyes flicked to Constance, and I saw the smug look in the corner of her eyes became more and more intense, "It seems that I am very honored to be Madam's male companion."

I wonder why the French girls keep targeting Wendir.

"It's my honor to be your female companion. This is an honor that other people want but can't get." Wendil glanced at the French girl provocatively.

The latter continued to keep a smile on his face without saying anything, and gradually gave up the initiative of speaking to the three companions who brought him.

"Ma'am, this dress really suits your temperament. Look at the color, the fabric is the best Far East silk, the embroidery is a master-level exquisite workmanship, and the stitching and embroidery are all the best. Such clothes cost more than 5000 livres at least, and even in the court of Versailles, only the most noble and favored ladies can wear them."

"Seeing that Madam's dress is so beautiful, I couldn't help asking, can Madam take me to visit the tailor who sewed such a dress for you some day when she is free? Because I The things I brought are a bit old. Take my coat as an example. Look, the flower embroidery patterns on the gold thread texture are outdated. The fringe pattern on the chest and the green color of the clothes are not gentlemen at all. The fashionable colors in Tandinburg, and the two rows of buttons on the chest need to be replaced, so although this dress cost me nearly 7000 livres, when it is time to throw it away, I still have to throw it away. "

I couldn't help but look a few more times at the clothes on the guy who was speaking.Jean Harrispe, a piece of clothing costs more than 7000 livres, and the gold coins commonly used in the empire are basically the same number of Soridus!The French nobles are really willing.

"How about this, ma'am, take us to meet the tailor who made this dress for you, and I will personally buy you a brand new dress as a return gift, okay?" Jean Harrispe smugly said to the left and right Both sides picked up the corners of their eyes.

Wendir said calmly: "That's not necessary, I already have enough clothes. If you want to buy new clothes, I can ask my housekeeper to take you to that tailor."

"I said, look at the charming sky outside, such a pleasing night, why don't we put the clothes shopping aside and talk about some more interesting things."

The three Frenchmen, you say something to me, there is absolutely no room for people to intervene. Although watching other people's future wives rise from a little unhappy to very dissatisfied, I still decided to wait and see before talking.

"What are you thinking?" Constance asked with great interest.

I smiled and said, "I'm thinking about what kind of country Lancey is."

Constance pressed, "So did you get the answer?"

"I think so. France is a beautiful country, otherwise it would not have given birth to such beautiful women as Madame Leonidas and the Duchess of Orleans." I deliberately slowed down my tone of voice and spoke slowly , said with great interest.

"Am I really beautiful?" Constance, full of charm, took off the lace gloves on her hands, revealing the back of her fair-skinned hands, and then handed them over. The crystal clear nails are very pleasing to the eye: "What about my hands?"

When a noblewoman takes off her gloves, it means that she can kiss her palm directly, instead of making a sound with her mouth through the air above the gloves.He stretched out his hand to take the boneless little hand, it was soft and comfortable, his lips made zero-distance contact with the back of the little hand in the palm, he raised his eyelids, and saw a pair of amber eyes that were gradually blurred.

"I think I'll always remember this day," I said, letting go of Constance's hand.

Constance's face was flushed immediately, as if she had applied a thick layer of red makeup. She was not as happy as she was short and poor all her life and suddenly pushed back by the goddess. Qianqian's jade finger brushed against my lips, A pair of charming eyes almost dripped water: "Your lips are very charming."

French chicks are so bold and unrestrained?My face is a little hot, I don't want to entangle this topic anymore, who knows if this chick will ask later, can I have a taste or come to my house tonight: "No matter how charming you are Not as good as the Duchess of Orleans, can you tell me something interesting about your France, I am really curious about the beautiful France."

After finishing speaking, he looked at the wife, and saw Wendir snorted coldly: "I'm sorry, everyone, I suddenly feel a little unwell, you go on, but I have to leave for a while."

"Then madam, let's continue." Constance hooked my arm, and a pair of breasts that almost jumped out of the corset pressed tightly against it, "What do you want to know? Well, let me tell you about Versailles, it's the most beautiful place in the whole world."

"can."

Starting from the center of power, this is right for me. I want to know who are the allies of the Duke of Orleans?

"Does the princess only have friends like the three earls?"

"How come, we have a better relationship, and our real friends are still in Paris. Like Viscount Felias and Count Innes, they all play better with me, Princess Anne, Princess Maria, Duke of Guise The two young ladies, the Countess of Anjou, are very fine people. If you ever go to Paris, I can introduce them to you."

"The Prince of Condé is a hero of France, Miss Orleans doesn't know him?"

"Him? It's okay, our Orleans family has a normal relationship with him. Who made Count Wardeck on Prince Condé's side often trouble us."

The relationship between the Orleans family and the Prince Condé's family is really not very good.

"Then what does the princess do in Paris?"

"Picnics, parties, banquets, and occasional hunting, but the memory of my last visit to the forest farm is really terrible. The forest officer is not responsible at all. A lot of untouchables have entered a good hunting ground. They steal trees. Said, and secretly killed the deer and foxes that were prepared for us, it was really disgusting! I didn’t even see a fox in the back.”

"It's really not good."

"What's more, there are actually people who went to Versailles to propose to the king to abolish the ban on deer hunting. Really, that guy doesn't even think that if the ban is lifted, we nobles will not have deer to hunt, and there will be forest farms to play in!"

"Well, if you go hunting one day and call me, I will stay in the foreign hotel provided by you. Okay, okay!"

The woman I want me to marry seems to have a lot of debts outside, and now she puts on a face and leaves the stage, who knows what medicine she has in her belly.The French girl next to me, the man's intuition told me that this is a plate of French food, as long as I hook my fingers, I can eat a mouthful of oil, but my reason also reminds me that this girl should have played with many men.

I also lack affection for this kind of woman, but I have to pretend to be more and more interested and sexually interested in her.Because only in this way can I get what I want out of her mouth.You know, she is the Duchess of Versailles, and there are many things that can't be fully understood through written reports, but through her small mouth.

Although most of them are not happy tonight, there are some receipts to some extent.Chick Constance revealed a very important news. At the beginning of the year, the Royal Bank established a company with total assets of 1000 and 240 million livres called Mississippi Company, which was authorized to distribute 880 shares.Before Constance came to Rome, the original [-] livres per share skyrocketed to [-] livres!

The price of 880 shares has more than quintupled to 400 livres, and if they are all sold, it will be [-] million livres. Tsk tsk, this is more than the annual revenue of the French treasury!

It is a full dozens of times the balance!

With such a large amount of funds for nothing, the Sun King would probably laugh in his sleep now.

But I think that the shares of the Mississippi company will never be sold out of the hoarded stocks at once. In the worst case, the shares of 240 livres are only sold too much, and the price rises to 880 livres , the Mississippi Company still had at least twenty thousand Rivers shares on hand.In other words, the Mississippi company spent half a year raising 640 million livres for France!After deducting the cost, I made a profit of more than 900 million without doing anything!

More than 900 million livre franc silver coins, what kind of concept is that! ?

The monthly wages of an infantryman in France range from four livres and twelve to six livres and four sous, and that of a cavalryman fourteen livres a month.In Western Europe, second-rate powers generally only have a standing force of about 5 to 15 people. With the strength of France, if Louis XIV wants to maintain an overwhelming advantage of 20 troops with 200 infantry and 340 cavalry, including miscellaneous expenses and The expenses of officers at all levels will consume [-] million livres per month. If the army is mobilized, the number of consumption to maintain this army will rise to about [-] million per month.But with such a huge sum, France can rely on the huge profits of the Mississippi Company to feed their army alone for more than a year and a half without the income of the treasury!But will France not use the money in the treasury?

This bad news is really bad enough, I have no intention of continuing to play.

Just about to leave the old duke's house, there was a commotion in a corner of the hall. When I raised my eyelids, I saw three Constantinople nobles angrily leaving the hall.I know all three of them, there is no way, our Theofano family has so many supporters.But this time, I frowned, because I saw a murderous intent in the eyes of the leader, who had a bad reputation in Constantinople.

"what happened?"

"I don't really know! But it seems like a jealousy!" Constance clenched her fists excitedly, "Will there be a duel? Where do you usually fight? Will people die? Oh, God! I'm really looking forward to it !"

There is no cure for this woman. I took a look and saw two acquaintances, the literary youth Frederick and the literary girl!

"Did the two of them provoke the gang?" I asked.

Constance said with great interest: "It seems that they are jealous of a young lady! That man, the very beautiful one, is said to have fought with people no less than twenty times in the university district. Many people call him, Dueling Frederick!"

"He's really a troublemaker." I said angrily. A small German nobleman actually fought more than 20 duels. He simply didn't want to live... You know, this is Constantinople.

"You know them?"

"Fortunately."

Looking at Tianse, I planned to leave early, but was entangled by Constance for a long time.She didn't let me go until I gave a vague answer that I would invite her to hunt in the Seres Plain as soon as I had time.

Sitting in the carriage, Constantinople at night was as lively as daytime, and Wendir on the opposite side kept fanning his fan, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

I decided to break the silence, anyway, I'm going to marry her someday.

"Madam." "Your Highness."

Coincidentally, we spoke almost at the same time.

"Madam speaks first." "Your Highness speaks first."

Another crash.

I smiled and said, "Madam is female, Madam will tell you first."

"You are His Highness, you speak first."

I thought for a while and then said: "Madam was not feeling well at the meeting, do you feel better now? Is there any serious problem? Do you want me to go back to Theofano's house and ask the imperial physician to look at it for you?"

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness. I have an old problem. When there are too many people, I will feel chest tightness." Wendier suddenly changed the subject, "That Constance, she has bad intentions for you! Last week, you clearly With me, she clearly distinguishes the appearance of you and your brother but still pretends to be ignorant and comes up to talk to you, she has ulterior motives!"

"Ah?" I was taken aback for a moment, this girl's move was too sudden.

Wendir said anxiously: "Your Highness, I'm not kidding! Believe me, that kind of woman can only play with men's feelings. Today she will pretend to love you so much that she doesn't want to eat or drink, and another day she will meet another woman who will look at you." If a man catches her eye, she will turn to seduce that man without hesitation! You know! She came to Constantinople for a month, and she became a famous courtesan in the whole di du!"

"You two have a holiday?" I asked.

"no!"

"But I see that when you meet, you are full of gunpowder..."

"Don't you believe me!" Wendir raised her voice, and then raised her eyebrows. Come on, the always affectionate wife made a guest appearance as a shrew, and began to play tricks.

After Wendir realized her mistake, she begged hard: "Trust me once, okay, don't walk with that French woman again."

I kept silent for a few seconds before asking in a deep voice, "Why do you care about me so much?"

"Because..." Wendil gritted his teeth, his eyes revealed a determined gaze, "Because you look a bit like my ex-husband, and when I see you, I will think of him!"

My eyes widened, my face was full of disbelief, I would look like a wife's ex-husband, what a joke!

Wendir blushed as if dyed with a layer of rosy clouds: "The eyes are the same, the hair is the same, and the ears are the same!"

I'm usually the one who makes people speechless and just rolls their eyes, but this time, it's my turn to enjoy the feeling of being speechless.