Chapter 748： French-Swiss customs union

"Iron ore!" Jerome Bonaparte smacked his lips and responded to Duke Snaza, "This condition sounds pretty good!"

"Your Majesty, so you agreed!" Duke Snassar asked excitedly.

"Promise?" Jerome Bonaparte turned to a surprised expression and responded to Duke Snaza: "Duke Snaza, you misunderstood! I just said that this condition sounds good, not I promise you!

If you only want to pay the price of iron ore in exchange for the French Empire to provide you with security, I still advise you to die as soon as possible! "

Jerome Bonaparte's response was unequivocal, causing Duke Szana's originally joyful heart to fall into an abyss.

He knew very well that if he wanted to win Finland completely, he had to rely on the army of the French Empire as the backing. Otherwise, even if Finland was won, the Kingdom of Sweden would have to live a life of worrying and guarding against the Russian Empire all day long.

"Your Majesty, what do you want?" The Duke of Szanne gritted his teeth and asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"Mr. Duke of Snassar, it's not what you want, but what you have!" Jerome Bonaparte replied, "It is true for us in France that your kingdom of Sweden has high-quality iron ore. Important, but not to the point where we can protect you against the pressure of the Russian Empire!

Don't forget, the Kingdom of Britain also has iron ore! We can totally import from the Kingdom of Great Britain! "

Under the direction of Jerome Bonaparte, the current French Empire is accelerating into the fast lane of industrialization. Several cargo ships carrying iron ore and coal came to Paris from London.

Therefore, although he himself hopes to pass a large amount of Swedish iron ore, he will not put the whole of France in for the iron ore.

Unless Snassar is willing to cooperate with him more deeply, such as the customs union.

"Your Majesty, apart from iron ore, our Kingdom of Sweden seems to have no other valuables!" Duke Snassar replied to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Duke Snaza, I'm tired! You can leave!" Jerome Bonaparte responded to the Duke of Snaza with a cold face.

After speaking, Jerome Bonaparte made a gesture of request to leave.

Duke Snaza had no choice but to nod and leave Jerome Bonaparte's office.

After a while, Jerome Bonaparte called Mocard again, and then gave him an order to invite Foreign Minister Vallewski to come.

Mokar led the way and left, and after another half an hour or so, Wallevsky appeared in Jerome Bonaparte's study.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" Wallevsky asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"That's it!" Jerome Bonaparte replied to Vallewski: "Just now, the Duke of Snassar came to me and wanted to ask for our help! I told him that he had to pay some price, who knows this Elm's head doesn't know anything at all! I really don't know if people who live in Sweden all year round will be fooled by the cold wind..."

Wallevsky listened quietly to Jerome Bonaparte's complaints about Duke Snaza, and soon Wallevsky extracted key information from Jerome Bonaparte's remarks.

"Your Majesty, do you want to sign a customs union with the Kingdom of Sweden?" Wallevsky asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"Yes!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and said to Vallewski: "Sweden's iron ore and coal are both things we are in short supply, so I want to sign a customs union agreement with them, using To meet the needs of the domestic market!"

Wallevsky immediately understood that the reason why Jérôme Bonaparte was willing to sign a customs union with Sweden was because he was interested in the market of the Kingdom of Sweden.

After all, the Kingdom of Sweden has nothing that France needs other than iron ore and coal.

However, the high value-added products of the French Empire were indispensable to the Swedish aristocracy and middle class.

Once the Kingdom of Sweden signs a customs union with France, the trade protection barriers established by the Kingdom of Sweden for high value-added products (commonly known as the luxury goods industry) will no longer exist.

The products of the French Empire can easily invade the territory of the Kingdom of Sweden and completely defeat the local luxury goods industry of the Kingdom of Sweden.

After all, when Britain and France implemented the Free Trade and Commerce Treaty in history, all “fronts” almost completely collapsed, and only the luxury goods industry continued to export to Britain.

The luxury goods industry in the Kingdom of Sweden is far from that of the Kingdom of Great Britain, let alone that of England and France!

Once the customs union was concluded, the Kingdom of Sweden would find that the money France had paid them for iron ore and coal would soon be back in their hands.

Since ancient times, the world has been a resource-based country that cannot be a high value-added country.

"Your Majesty, I understand!" Wallevsky nodded and replied to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Okay, then it's up to you and Duke Snassar to talk slowly!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Wallevsky.

Wallevsky got up and left Jerome Bonaparte's study.

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A week later, the Duke of Snaza appeared in front of Jerome Bonaparte again. At this time, he was worse than when Jerome Bonaparte met him, both in terms of mental outlook and state. A big chunk.

Obviously, this week has not been a good one for him!

"Duke Snassar, what's the matter with you?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Duke Snassar hypocritically.

"Your Majesty, it's nothing!" The Duke of Szana responded with a reluctant smile, and then said to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, we can completely accept the conditions that you asked Wallevsky to give me. I promise you!"

"Then why do we sign a treaty!" Jerome Bonaparte asked Duke Snassar.

"After the meeting!" Duke Snaza replied to Jerome Bonaparte, "and my father hopes that the French Empire can sign a secret agreement with the Kingdom of Sweden!"

"Secret agreement?" Jerome Bonaparte asked Duke Snassar in confusion.

"Yes!" Duke Snassar nodded and said to Jerome Bonaparte, "I can assure you that this agreement only applies to the Russian Empire, and as long as the Russian Empire does not invade the Kingdom of Sweden This agreement will not be exposed before!"

"Okay! I promise you!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and replied to Duke Snaza.

Afterwards, the Duke of Ssana sent his blessings to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, I hope that the French Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden can unite and help each other in the future!"

"I hope so too!" Jerome Bonaparte echoed.

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In the following period of time, Jerome Bonaparte received replies from the Kingdom of Belgium, Sardinia, the Papal State and Switzerland, and they all expressed their willingness to join Jerome Bonaparte. . The European Monetary Union formed by Bonaparte.

As for the Austrian Empire, they were still skeptical about the so-called European Monetary Union, so they did not choose to join it immediately.

On the contrary, Palmerston, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Great Britain, had some interest in the European Monetary Union formed by Jerome Bonaparte. In order to understand the nature of the currency union, Palmerston sent Ambassador Coats to ask Jerome Bonaparte. currency union thing.

Jerome Bonaparte frankly told Ambassador Coats that he was setting up a currency union, and he also invited the Kingdom of Great Britain to join the currency union.

After learning that the currency union was nothing but a tactic by France to expand its own market (on the surface), Ambassador Coats obviously lost interest in the currency union.

After all, Britain is not like France, its overseas trade can make more money than France.

Therefore, Britain does not need to strengthen economic exchanges with European countries like France.

Of course, this will save him a lot of unnecessary trouble, and it will also make it lose the possibility of uniting Europe.

Britain after World War II was too isolated from the European continent, which led to the continuous reduction of its presence and economic status in Europe.

Of course, although Britain has no interest in creating a unified currency in Europe, it is interested in destroying the unity of the European currency.

Under Palmerston's instructions, the Kingdom of Hanover sent a veiled message to North Germany not to join the European Monetary Union.

This further alienated the Kingdom of Prussia, which had no interest in the currency union formed by Jerome Bonaparte. UU reading

However, this is also good news for Jerome Bonaparte, who had no intention of bringing the Kingdom of Prussia into the Monetary Union.

…

Time passed quickly, and it soon came to the end of March.

There was less than a month left until the Paris Conference. Looking at the calendar hanging on the wall, Jerome Bonaparte was determined to stop all the unimportant work at hand and devote all his attention to organizing this conference. to the meeting.

This was the first large state conference to be held in Paris since 1815.

Even the conference of 1815, France only participated in that conference as a loser.

And this meeting was held by France as the unquestioned victor, and its significance to France is far greater than that of the 1815 meeting.

Therefore, Jerome Bonaparte has to go all out.

So, Jerome Bonaparte called the Minister of State Fuld and the Minister of Finance Magnet respectively, and asked them about the budget for holding such a meeting.

Fuld and Magnet told Jérôme Bonaparte that this was the first time for the Second Empire, so they had to go as far as possible, so they suggested a quota of 10 million francs.

Jerome Bonaparte agreed to Fuld's proposal, but he was not prepared to let the government spend the money.

Fuld and Magnet immediately understood what Jerome Bonaparte was getting.

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