Chapter 267: The Grand Wedding

  Chapter 259 The Big Wedding

Facts have proved that Prime Minister Granville thought too good to be true, the biggest black hand of the gold price surge is the British consortium, speculators are just the pawns of the bright side of the charge.

These financial consortia do not know the consequences of blindly raising the price of gold? Obviously this is not possible, they are professionals, not the cabinet government that a few amateurs.

But in order to profit they still did, even Granville cabinet government to make speculation high gold prices, hindering the Vienna government to buy gold decisions, behind the shadow of the consortium.

Only the United Kingdom is not the United States, after all, the financial consortium can not do a hand to cover the sky, so do very obscure, just bought the government think tank members put forward this proposal, and did not stand directly on the stage.

This is nothing, there are people in history in the cabinet ministers often read the newspaper published articles, and thus affect the British politics.

There’s no way around it. Elected politicians can’t be all-rounders! In many areas, they are laymen, right on the same level as the many people who eat them, and it really isn’t hard to fool them.

This kind of silent way, very often be fooled, the politicians themselves are not clear. Quite a number of idiotic policies are formulated in this way.

The consortium raised the price of gold naturally can not be in order to earn so little difference in price, more or want to therefore hit the competitors.

The price of gold rose, driving the value of the pound rose, will naturally affect the domestic industry and commerce. For the big business enterprise, this kind of short-term fluctuation they can hold.

For most of the small and medium-sized capitalists, undoubtedly in the ghost of a walk.

In the era of rapid economic development, everyone is expanding, the cost of a sudden surge, the short term many enterprises into a loss-making state, this loss of capital chain problems.

The opportunity for the consortium came, either accept their conditions or prepare for bankruptcy! No matter what the choice is, this is a capital feast where the big fish eat the small fish.

London stock market has always been the barometer of the British economy, gold price fluctuations first rippled into the stock market, the first to fall is the speculators.

Big ups and downs in the price of gold, so that leveraged players have successfully lost the bottom.

Originally by the gold mining companies, a day between the evaporation of thirty percent of the market value of the related industries also followed the blood luck.

According to economic experts, the new Holy Roman Empire adopted the gold standard system spent, the market demand for gold increased greatly, the price of gold is inevitable.

In the stock market skyrocketed when everyone believed, since it is good news, enterprises naturally want to expand production, as long as the expansion of production in order to circle more money in the market.

Now the gold price plummeted, the market was stimulated, the stock price wildly leaked more than, investors were pitched, the consortium successfully completed the first round of harvest.

Not only these related enterprises, other industries have also been affected. The rapid fluctuation of the value of the pound sterling directly made many enterprises lose their pants.

Especially engaged in overseas trade, the value of the pound first rose twenty percent, and then returned to normal, just this exchange rate loss, enough to cry.

For many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this fluctuation has directly killed them. Not all enterprises are eligible to be acquired by consortiums, and many enterprises with poor performance and meager profits have directly entered bankruptcy mode.

In just a few months, more than two hundred enterprises in the British Empire were merged and reorganized, and more than three thousand enterprises were directly liquidated in bankruptcy. The wave of bankruptcy has come, and the era of the great monopoly has come.

When the Granville government reacted with hindsight, it was too late. Things have happened even if the consortium is allowed to stop, the government has no way to renew the lives of these enterprises.

10 Downing Street.

Prime Minister Granville sat motionless with a haggard look on his face, obviously the recent events had hit him a bit hard.

Ambition had not yet had time to be realized, and the first fire of the new official, he lifted a stone and smashed his own foot, which seriously undermined his confidence.

After organizing his thoughts, Prime Minister Granville said: “Gentlemen, we have been fooled by the consortium this time, and were completely led by the nose by them.

I’m afraid that from the very beginning, we have jumped into their trap. The matter has come to this point, the matter of pursuing responsibility will be revealed first, now what should we do for the aftermath?”

The crowd was silent, other than holding their noses and admitting it, what else could they do? Find the black hand behind the curtain to settle the score?

People are just behind the scenes, within the rules, who let their own judgment is not good, until the end of the people did not head, want to find someone to settle the score, they all know who to look for.

Being Granville Prime Minister stared at the hairy Finance Minister George Gray, replied stiffly: “Prime Minister, now or as soon as possible to save the market, so that the market to restore confidence, to avoid the situation deteriorating down.”

Although most of the companies that went bankrupt this time were small and medium-sized enterprises that did not have much competitiveness, the unemployed population that was brought about and the stock market crisis that was triggered were all true.

If we don’t make good quickly, it won’t be long before the current stock market crisis and wave of bankruptcies will trigger a nationwide economic crisis, and then the situation will really be uncontrollable.

Prime Minister Granville frowned and asked, “You mean continue to turn to the consortium, not afraid of being swallowed clean by them?”

Finance Minister George Grey said in a very icy tone, “But we have no choice don’t we? If we don’t get out of the crisis as soon as possible, then we’re going to be nailed to the pillar of shame together and become the antithesis of the history books.

Perhaps they will write that the idiotic cabinet government created an artificial economic crisis in order to prevent the Vienna government from acquiring gold and reforming the gold standard.

As for the consortium, aren’t there still fall scores to settle? It would be fine if they cooperated well with us and squashed this crisis.

If they continue to be reckless, then dragging them down to hell with us before we’re finished is also a good choice.”

It had to be said that the Granville Cabinet was lucky that the UK hadn’t yet experienced massive overcapacity, or they would have been immortalized for this tawdry operation.

If the British economic crisis breaks out, then Austria cannot be left alone, as long as the British capital draws back its capital, the Vienna government has to stabilize the domestic economy, and naturally loses the opportunity for currency reform.

But for the British, it was more in their interest for the Vienna government to complete the gold standard reform, which would help trade between the two countries.

Because stopping the Austrian reform triggered an economic crisis at home. That was to harm the British Empire and then create an economic crisis. Saying they were foreign spies, I guess the British believed it.

As for an explanation? There’s no way they’ll get a chance to explain, as losers have no say in the matter. The consortium wouldn’t be a consortium if they couldn’t clean themselves up.

Even if they did explain themselves, they would still be deserving of one of the stupidest cabinets in British history.

Don’t expect anyone to wash their hands of them, and if they are damaging themselves and benefiting others, there’s no chance that people will wash their hands of them in the future for political necessity.

It is even possible that they will be blown up as the greatest government of all time. This kind of operation is something they naturally know all about.

Things had already happened, and sensible politicians naturally wanted to minimize the impact, and continued cooperation with the consortium would be inevitable.

Even in order to force the consortium to contribute, George Grey even laid out his threats. Though going down with them wasn’t possible, they could still do it by counterattacking and hitting the consortium hard at any cost.

To put it bluntly, the consortium in this era was still growing, far from its peak, and there were still bureaucratic and aristocratic groups in the government that could check their power.

This is also why after the World War, why the London government introduced a series of idiotic policies to crack down on the military aristocracy class that had done so much in the war, and it looked like the government was the gravedigger of the British Empire.

This can also be seen as an extension of the power struggle, where the capitalists, who had gained the upper hand, took advantage of the weakness of the aristocratic clique to cut off their source of power.

As the enforcers introduced by the capitalist group, they naturally recovered rich rewards and were highly praised in history as the greatest men in British history.

Prime Minister Granville nodded helplessly, he did not want to step down in disgrace yet, then a compromise was inevitable.

……

As the crisis erupted in England, Franz’s big wedding began. There was no novelty, and it was conducted in full compliance with Habsburg traditions.

Grand, extravagant, upscale, as for the romantic wedding in the movie, Franz is very sure, that are not there, completely made up by the director.

In accordance with customary practice, the wedding venue is still in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, where there are still dozens of royal family members of the heart, where the long sleep.

Thinking about it Franz got chills, he could not understand at all why the hearts were cut out and placed in this church after death.

It could be that his faith was not religious enough, either way it was considered terminated when it came to him, and Franz wasn’t going to follow his ancestor’s example anyway.

At the wedding Franz went through the program like an actor, following a pre-rehearsed ceremony, and then received God’s blessing and he was married.

It was a little more tedious, but Franz was satisfied. Once in a lifetime, a little trouble could be considered a good memory.

Maybe it was God’s face or God’s blessing, but all in all, the day of March 12 was windy and beautiful, and nothing went wrong.

There were so many guests attending the wedding that the banquet was held directly on the piazza.

Europe where the number of big nobles, basically sent a representative to come over. Thirteen kings personally participated in the wedding, the prince and grandson together directly exceeded three digits.

Franz was surprised to find that personally attended the wedding of so many kings, actually are not out of five relatives, although Europe does not have the saying of five, which also fully proved that the Habsburg family marriage ability of strong.

However, the splendor of this monarchy, can continue for how long is an unknown, after all, the German region is not much else, is the king more.

Now none of these states royal family has been abolished, in this regard, Franz’s eat compared to the history of the Prussian kingdom looks much better.

The perks that come directly from this make his wedding even more upscale. With so many kings gathered together, it could be a Guinness World Record.

The only regret was that none of the emperors came, or the specifications could have been higher, leaving future generations in the dust.

Obviously this is impossible, in order to invite these kings over, the new Holy Roman Empire Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not work hard.

If they didn’t have a particularly good relationship, they wouldn’t have come over at this time to build up this momentum at all. To put it bluntly, this was also a stage for the Habsburgs to show their soft power to the outside world.

What grade of guests sent by the European royal family, but also shows the importance of the relationship between the degree of small countries this is also equivalent to a political stand, but this time do not have to worry about the wrong side of the trouble.

In this context, a few European emperors naturally want to hold their own identity, sending out the royal family to go out even if it gives face.

Personally, unless it is a very good personal relationship, otherwise it is impossible. Unfortunately Franz and them do not have much friendship, now they naturally will not run over to support the scene.

(End of chapter)