Fox of France

Since the news of the French Navy's victory spread, it immediately caused a sensation in various European countries. The entire "civilized world" immediately united and prepared to set off a frenzy to carve up the United Kingdom.

Yes, the entire civilized world is very hungry right now. In the economic crisis, except for the French who took advantage of the gold in North America and lived a decent life, the situation of other European countries was not very good. Their enterprises, in free trade, due to various reasons, let’s not even mention the reasons of technology and scale, just not getting low-interest loans from the “Bank of Rome” is fatal enough. The inability to obtain loans with lower interest rates leads to rising financing costs, rising financing costs lead to rising product costs, rising product costs lead to rising commodity prices, rising commodity prices lead to unsalable commodities, and failure to sell commodities leads to capital chain breaks...

Just like in another time and space, a great man said in his classic book "Das Kapital": "From product to commodity is a thrilling leap, and its result is either to generate profits or to kill capitalists. "So those Austrian, Prussian, Rhineland, Italian, and lowland capitalists appeared one after another on the rooftops of buildings and the like.

However, the French are worthy of being the leaders of the free world, and they are rich in all kinds of good people. So those foreign capitalists had already stood on the rooftop trembling with their feet, looked down, and then closed their eyes, full of nostalgia for this world, and traveling to another world, getting golden fingers, becoming dragons, etc. Aotian, then the fantasy of collecting all the receivables..., when he was about to jump, he held them with one hand.

When they turn around, they usually see a guy in a gray suit with a top hat on his head (many people suspect that the reason they wear hats in all weathers is to hide Some distinctive features on the head), a monocle on the bridge of the nose, and a contract written on parchment in his hand-ah, no, although it looks a bit like it, but the contract is really Not written on parchment.

These people will tell him: "You don't have to be so desperate, because you still have a chance, as long as you are willing to transfer part of your shares, together with yourself, to some gentlemen, well, although your shares are no longer due to business difficulties It’s too much to sell, but what we value is not all these shares, but your ability is more important. Yes, it is your ability. Being able to persist until now is a manifestation of ability. As long as After signing this agreement, you can get the much-needed capital flow, and externally, you are still the boss of this enterprise."

Those who came to acquire those companies that still have a certain acquisition value are naturally people from the French military-industrial complex. According to Joseph, in the economic crisis, due to the impact of panic, many valuable companies will be seriously undervalued, and this is a good opportunity to acquire them.

As for why the original boss was kept, and even a little bit of shares were left for him, of course there are reasons why the original boss is quite capable, understands business, and is worth exploiting, but more is still ...

"Napoleon, if one day, more than half of the business owners in France become British, do you think the French people will hate the British?" When discussing this issue, Joseph raised such a question to Napoleon. question.

"Of course. Is there anyone in the world who doesn't hate the boss? I heard that in some enterprises, even the white-collar workers like to sing the song "Slave War Hymn" when they are free. You are a victim!" replied Napoleon.

"Napoleon, do you know that in this world, there are two basic ways to distinguish between people." Joseph said, "One way to distinguish is based on economic status. To put it simply, it is the poor and the rich. Generally speaking, the poor will naturally hate the rich, while the rich will naturally despise the poor. This is not out of misunderstanding, but a real conflict of interests.

The second division method is to divide people into different ethnic groups based on language, customs and so on. French, British, Austrians, Italians, whatever. Of course, there are also conflicts of interest among various ethnic groups. But to be honest, do the poor in France really have a conflict of interest with the poor in Austria? Would they naturally hate a poor Austrian? How is this possible?

To put it simply, hatred between classes is inevitable, but hatred between nations is not, unless the two things overlap. "

"These two things overlap?" Napoleon said.

"Well, for example, look at Ireland and Poland. Why is it that Ireland can get into trouble, but Poland can't? The Poles are still secretly throwing grenades and so on. It's not good at all. why?"

Napoleon did not answer.

"Look at Poland, why don't the Poles at the bottom oppose the Russians, Prussians and Austrians? Because they hate the Polish nobles even more than the Russians, Prussians and Austrians. Those who want to rebel, have to With the support of the bottom, what can be done? Just like France, if the sansculottes did not stand up during the Great Revolution, wouldn't it be easy for the king to crush Jacobin to death?

On the contrary, if you look at Ireland, when the British arrived in Ireland, they extorted and extorted money, making the entire Irish people poor, and the English people turned into landlords, so the contradiction between the Irish and the British, on the surface, seems to be It is ethnic contradictions, but beneath the ethnic contradictions lies even more serious class contradictions. So who doesn't hate the British at the bottom of Ireland? So look at the Irish, who rebelled and were decisive. Hehe, without their cooperation, we can deal with the British so well there.

What the British did in Ireland, we cannot do in other countries. The British make the Irish feel that the Irish are poor and the British are landlords, at least as far as they come into contact. This is the big problem. We cannot repeat the same mistakes.

Therefore, we must pay attention to the use of agents in places of other ethnic groups. Those workers and peasants at the bottom do not know the ownership structure of a company. It is impossible for them to know who the real big boss of these companies is. They can only directly contact the direct "boss" who manages and operates the company. Their hatred will only be concentrated on these people. We can continue to use these people to squeeze them, while being good people, so that those guys at the bottom are full of favor for the French. "

Speaking of this, Joseph couldn't help thinking of what he had seen in his previous life, the operation you saw, sister.

It is said that back then, that corner of East Asia developed very well, especially Nanbangzi, which had a very good momentum of development. Then, sister, look at the cyclical operation of Yuan, um, Nan Bangzi was dumbfounded immediately, a lot of companies are going to be ruined, at this time, Citigroup, **** or something, just take the check Ben came out to play God. Then, 55% of the common shares and 88% of the preferred shares of the Samsung Group became theirs. Fundamentally speaking, at this time, Samsung Group is actually an enterprise.

However, Amei, you see, was very clever and did not touch the management of Samsung, so the whole world, and of course the more important thing is Quannan Bang, still think that Samsung still belongs to the Li family. Although the entire Li family's shareholding ratio is less than 2%. But if Koreans want to scold chaebols, they must scold Lee, not Morgan.

Now that I have seen such a successful experience, if I don't learn from it, wouldn't I be a time traveler in vain? Therefore, the acquisitions proposed by the French for those European companies are very secretive and very benevolent. Generally speaking, the original boss has kept his "leading position" in the enterprise, and has a certain number of shares. (If they don't have shares in their hands, they will become part-time workers who have little to do with the company's profitability. God knows if they will use their power to buy companies to make a fortune.)

Up to now, the acquisitions of those particularly valuable enterprises have been almost completed, and it is time for these enterprises to bring profits to the empire. And the thing that can play such a role the most is naturally the partition of Britain.

The first clarion call of the frenzy for the partition of England was, of course, sounded from Ireland. The day after the news of the naval battle in the North Atlantic was confirmed, the United Irish Federation published an editorial in its official newspaper, "Free Ireland": "The last battle against the British colonists!"

This short article was printed separately as a special issue, and they were first sent to each area, each county, each district, and each village of the base area. In the previous counterattack, the entire Irish "free zone" has rapidly expanded and joined together. The British have shrunk to a few limited large cities along the coast, and the Irish people have increasingly believed that they can win independence immediately. In villages and small towns, soldiers of the Independence Army in gray-green uniforms recited this article loudly in front of the crowd. Their excited voices were interrupted by cheers from the crowd from time to time.

"On October 12, the French Republic declared war on Great Britain. On October 20, the French Navy defeated the British Navy in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and England. This victory declared that the British colonists relied on to rule the world and plunder the world The evil pillar of the people - the total collapse of British sea power.

With this victory of our French allies, the progress of the freedom and emancipation of the Irish people will be greatly accelerated...”