Flowers, Swords and France

Fran was delighted by her friend's visit. However, when she told her about her current situation - her savings had been frozen, her bonds had greatly depreciated and she could not cash them in, and she could only survive on some of the money she had left behind - Fran then... The joy in Lan's heart could not help but slowly turned into uneasiness. .

This worry became more and more intense after Mary finally said the ominous words "Sooner or later we will make those people look good...".

"My friend, I'm really worried about you. The world is in such chaos now..."

"It doesn't matter, of course I know what to do." Mary still forced a smile, "Anyway, just continue to live a hard life, it will get better one day. Besides, I am not the only one who suffers from this kind of suffering. Nowadays, people Not everyone is like this.”

She was right. At this time, not only the Marquis de Léoland is alone, but rentiers all over France are facing the same property crisis. The revolution of 1848 brought an unpopular gift to the French property owners, and kicked off this tragic year.

The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.

Miss Marquis's words "Not everyone is like this now" suddenly aroused a strange thought in Fran's mind.

"Isn't it possible that my family is like this now and is also suffering from these things?"

The bad news she got from her friend, which was corroborated with the information she heard accidentally in daily life, made Fran unable to be optimistic at all, so naturally, she became even more nervous.

After suppressing the feeling of uneasiness in her heart, she steeled herself and carefully recalled the recent living conditions at home. However, she did not feel that the living standard at home had declined recently. The expenses seemed to be the same as usual. Even the original None of the servants were fired. Even at dinner last night, my brother seriously proposed to Grandpa to hire a maid for Fran.

Judging from his expression and tone when he spoke, he seemed to be serious.

When she thought of this, Fran became even more confused.

Because of doubts, she wanted to know the real situation. However, because she is not responsible for the family's finances, there is no way to know the general financial situation of the family, but on the surface there should be no difference.

Could it be that my family's property has already been damaged in the recent turmoil, but my grandfather and brother are just holding on to it without telling me? Such thoughts suddenly flashed through her mind, and she could no longer calm down.

"Fran? What's wrong?" Looking at Fran who was already in a trance, Mary asked in surprise.

Fran was suddenly awakened by her friend's question. Then, she smiled apologetically at the other person, burying all these thoughts deep in her heart.

"Sorry, I just suddenly thought of something else."

"I envy you, you can still think about 'other things' now." After hearing her answer, Mary sighed again, a little uninterested, "I have been so annoyed by these things recently, and today I finally I just took a break from my busy schedule and rushed over to see you... It’s so wonderful to see that you are all fine. Okay." At this point, a trace of gloom suddenly flashed across her brows, "Hey, this era is so fickle! Yesterday we thought it was something eternal and unchangeable, but the next day we found out that it had already been changed. Abandoned shoes...what else can we believe in?"

When she said this, Fran couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.

"It's a pity that we can't stay in that classroom forever." She sighed quietly.

"Of course we can't, we always have to grow up and have to face some extremely boring things all day long, sooner or later." Miss Marquis shook her head sadly, "You don't know, right? Even the teacher himself You can’t either…”

"Teacher? What happened to him?!" Fran was shocked again and quickly asked, "What happened to him?"

"Nothing happened to him during the revolution, but his current situation is not good. I just got the news...Teacher...their family has also encountered the same disaster as ours, and it seems that they have also suffered losses. Tragic." As if she didn't want to face Fran's gaze, Miss Marquis turned her gaze away. He moved away and lowered his voice, "In addition, he is also so old, how can he have so much energy to face such a lot of problems? So you see, he is also very anxious now. I don't know. What to do... Now I don’t know if we can go back to class, maybe never.”

Like thousands of other middle-class people with modest savings, the old painter Durenberg is now plagued by financial panic. Their deposits in the bank have been frozen, and the bonds they purchased have continued to fall, and they can only spend every day in fear. What's worse is that the painter's biggest source of income - classes - now has to be temporarily cut off.

The situation outside is so chaotic right now, and most of the wealthy families who originally sent their daughters to school are unwilling to let their daughters go out easily. In addition, the latest national economic crisis has made it so that not many people are interested in letting their daughters go out. Children come to continue this expensive hobby.

Fran was chilled by the new bad news. She was always grateful for the old painter's attention and support to her. It was not because of his careful teaching that Fran was able to fully develop her talent and win in the painting world. Coming up? Moreover, even the Adelaide lady, wasn't it because of his recommendation that he got the opportunity to meet her?

She really didn't want the old man to suffer this kind of torture.

"So, teacher, what should he do now?" she asked in a trembling voice, "Is anyone helping him?"

"What else can we do?" Mary continued to smile bitterly, "We can only hold on like this. If it doesn't work, we can take those damn deposit certificates and sell them at a low price at the exchange... At least we can get something in exchange, right? Although the prices have become extremely high for some reason, we can still hold on for a while. You know the current situation, everyone is busy with their own affairs, who can help whom?"

Fran frowned slightly.

No, it can't be like this. I can't watch my friend and my beloved teacher suffer such a disaster. She thought to herself.

But what should we do?

Need I say that?

"Mary, wait for me, I have something to do..." She suddenly apologized to Mary with a serious face.

She planned to tell her brother about all this and see if there was any solution. By the way, she also wanted to confirm how much impact her family had suffered in the face of this frenzy and whether they were facing any difficulties.

Concern for her teachers and friends, worry about the situation at home, and expectations for her brother, all these thoughts overlapped in her mind in an instant, boiling and rolling, making her forget everything else.

Because her brother was often not at home recently, she didn't care about being rude and planned to go directly to him.

"Are you going to go to your brother? He is also at home today?" Seeing Fran's somewhat anxious look, Mary asked in a low voice.

"Yes, yes." Fran nodded honestly, "He is often not at home now, and it's rare that he is still here today, so I might as well go directly to him. Maybe he can have some ideas about you and the teacher? Yes, he must have some ways..."

"Then tell Charles for me, please say hello to him for me." Mary didn't ask any more questions, just asked Fran.

"Yes, okay." Fran didn't say anything more, turned around and planned to leave, full of action, "You go to the small reception room and wait for me, I will come to you later."

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"Fran, thank you." Mary thanked the person behind her.

"No, I don't know if I can help you." Fran shook her head.

"If it's Mr. Treville, there should be a way..." The Marquis replied meaningfully.

Fran stopped talking and walked up the stairs again.

She had no idea that her brother was staying in his room at this moment, carefully studying how to plunder the wealth of families with a little property like her friend and her teacher as quickly, efficiently and economically as possible.

It was her brother, an ambitious man who actively participated in the revolution, who was eager to enjoy the dividends of the revolution with his accomplices.

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At this time, Charles had just processed some documents and was sitting at his desk writing a letter. A letter to be sent to the eastern border city of Strasbourg.

And the recipient was the financial giant Baron Bovan.

"...

Sir, there is no doubt that our actions up to this moment have been very successful. The situation is just as we expected. On the basis of political panic, it is easy to create financial panic. Therefore, the price of government bonds has been pushed down to an unprecedented level in decades, which is enough to cause further panic to anyone. Next, you and your colleagues don't need to find a way to guide it. The frenzy of selling will also overwhelm the entire exchange...

However, I still have the obligation to remind you that although the current situation is very good, it does not mean that we have completed all the actions, or even that everything is perfect - yes, I mean, we still have work to do and there are still many areas that need to be improved.

At present, there are two problems that bother us.

First, how to persuade people to take out their deposit certificates as soon as possible to trade, and buy them at the lowest possible price. Buy.

I believe you also know that the government cannot freeze the banking system forever. It will reopen one day. Therefore, we must increase our efforts. It is necessary and necessary to continue to sell and suppress. I hope that after receiving this letter from me, you will continue to create financial panic and grind out those bonds bit by bit with the millstone of panic...

[Deposit certificates refer to bonds issued by the government to replace deposits after the government passes a decree to freeze the deposits between various banks. They cannot be directly exchanged for cash from banks and can only be traded on the exchange. ]

Second, due to the ever-changing situation, we need to act decisively and flexibly in order to exclude the influence of our peers as much as possible. Since you are at the border, the efficiency of making decisions will be lacking after all, so I suggest that you give your agents more authority...

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Pay C after reading." (To be continued.)