Fox of France

The carriage stopped again, and there was a lot of noise ahead, as if returning to 1993 again. Kano stuck his head out of the carriage and asked, "What happened?"

"Sir, a group of people in front of a bank are blocking the way," replied the coachman.

Hearing this, Kano couldn't help but shook his head, and said, "Ah, Butz, take another detour, hurry up, I'm going to be late today. Do you know that there is no bank on that road?"

Kano had taken several detours on his way to work this morning.

At this time, the crisis has spread to the banks, and once the crisis spreads to the banks, the impact on the whole society will be obvious. A large number of banks closed because they could not cope with the run, and then many small and medium banks began to declare bankruptcy.

Generally speaking, smaller banks are always more willing to offer a higher interest rate on deposits than larger banks in order to attract depositors. This naturally increases the cost of their operation. And in order to make enough money, they also have to make some more aggressive investments and even speculations. Therefore, in this wave, these small banks that engaged in aggressive speculation first began to fail in batches.

The bank collapsed, and the money deposited by the depositors was naturally wiped out. Many people have worked hard all their lives, depositing their life savings in those small banks for a higher interest rate. As a result, within a few days, these small banks closed down one after another and went bankrupt. As for the boss, it is said that They all ran to America with their last bit of money.

The coachman turned the carriage and was about to change the road. At this moment, a voice came into Kano's ears: "Those damned Jews, vampires, they are the ones who swallowed all our hard-earned money!"

"Damn the Jews! We can't just let them go, let's kill those Jews!" someone shouted.

Hearing this voice, Kano frowned immediately. To be honest, Kano didn't have a good impression of the Jews, and even Kano himself felt that some Jews should really be guillotined. However, that must also be after a court trial, rather than trying to use lynching as it is now. Once lynchings spread, the Republic will go back to the old path of 1993.

At this time, the coachman had turned the carriage around and was about to leave. Kano hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"

The coachman stopped the carriage. Kano opened the door, turned over and jumped onto the roof of the carriage.

"Citizens, citizens, please listen to me!" Kano shouted loudly towards the citizens who were about to act.

"Who's that?" someone said.

"It's General Carnot, the Secretary of War."

"What Minister of War, isn't it already called the Ministry of Peace?"

"Don't make noise, listen to what General Kano has to say."

Kano saw that everyone gathered around and became quiet, so he asked loudly, "Do you believe in the first ruling?"

"Believe!"

"Believe it!" people shouted.

"Do you still remember the chaos in 1993? Do you still want to live like that?" Kano continued to ask loudly.

The crowd fell silent.

"I know that in this incident, many people suffered undue losses, and I also know that some Jews plundered everyone like vampires. But since everyone trusts the first ruler, why should they violate his agreement with everyone? How about using lynching to solve the problem? Why not let the First Consul use the law to try them fairly?" Kano asked loudly.

"Yes!" someone said.

"General Kano is right. We should trust the First Consul, he will help us uphold justice!"

"But the Jews, they might have taken the money with them."

"If this is the case, we have nothing to do, and we can only count on His Majesty Bonaparte."

"Let's go to the Consulate, go to the Consulate, and present our situation to His Majesty." Someone shouted again.

So the crowd changed direction and went towards the Consulate.

Kano jumped off the roof of the carriage and said to the coachman, "We'll go to the Consulate immediately."

When Kano arrived at the Consulate, a lot of people had already gathered in the square in front of the Consulate. Napoleon also came out, stood on the steps of the Consulate, and addressed everyone. He assured everyone that the government will do everything possible to help everyone tide over the difficulties, and he also hopes that everyone can trust the government and him.

The crowd cheered Napoleon, and Carnot stood watching. When Napoleon's speech was over and the crowd dispersed, he went to the Consulate and asked to see Napoleon.

Hearing that Carnot came to see him, Napoleon frowned. Kano is his old superior. This person is a bit roundabout. If he sees something in the current affairs, it is not very good. However, he still asked Kano to be invited into his office.

"Your Excellency the First Regent." Kano said, "I see that many banks are having problems. Many people have lost their life savings. The situation is very dangerous now. Do you plan to take any action?"

"This incident really caught me by surprise. This is simply another tulip bulb craze." Napoleon said, "I have decided to suspend the stock market for three days to avoid the spread of panic. At the same time, I also ordered the public security The Ministry is going after and cracking down on those who are absconding with money. We will also cut taxes temporarily, hoping to stimulate the economy. But Lazar, you know, there is only so much the government can do economically.”

"What about the Bank of Rome? They don't do anything?" Kano asked again.

"Roma Bank is buying some of the more dangerous banks. But this will also put a lot of pressure on Roman Bank. More importantly, Lazar, you know that the problem of the bank is not just the problem you just said. Bank It also involves factories, and factories involve more people's jobs. This is the big problem. If there are really a large number of business closures, then we..." Napoleon said here and paused, "Then we may only We can expand the army."

"Your Excellency, are you planning to launch a war?" Kano was taken aback.

"No, Lazar, I don't want to either. But, sometimes, the situation will push us, and I hope we don't get to that point...these bloody Jewish speculators!" Napoleon gritted his teeth.

"We should really crack down on those Jewish speculators!" Kano also said. Cracking down on Jewish speculators will definitely cause many unlucky innocent victims, but it is better than war.

The next day, "Science Pravda" published an editorial titled "Vigorously rectify the financial order to ensure the stable development of the country's economy". In this editorial, "Science Pravda" attributed this trend to some Malicious speculation by unscrupulous businessmen. The editorial also pointed out that these malicious speculative behaviors not only damaged the market, but also violated the laws of France. What awaits them is the severe punishment of the law! And under this editorial is the state of emergency issued by the executive government. According to this order, the French stock market will be suspended for three days in order to conduct a comprehensive rectification.

Immediately afterwards, the "Kommersant" also published news, exposing the criminal behavior of some unscrupulous businessmen—and most of these unscrupulous businessmen were Jews. Kommersant also specifically pointed out that the first to short the stock market was the famous Jewish banker Rothschild. Of course, "Kommersant" also admitted that Rothschild did not carry out any illegal operations. During this turmoil, it only suffered little damage and did not make any black-hearted money. But the practices of other Jewish businessmen are really hateful.

Then the State Council put forward an emergency bill, authorizing the establishment of a special court for combating economic crimes to combat all kinds of illegal speculation.

The bill was swiftly passed, and a special economic crimes court was created. With astonishing efficiency, the court hung fifteen Jewish merchants on its first day and sent more than sixty Jewish merchants to the mines.

At this time, the economic crisis started by France has swept across Europe, and the practice of attributing this economic crisis to the Jews has also formed a trend throughout Europe. From Petersburg to London, there were pyres for the lynching of Jews. The terrified Jews fled to Turkey or France for refuge.

Yes, flee to Turkey and France. The Ottoman Turks were much more lenient to the Jews than the Christian countries. Apart from not allowing them to build churches higher than the height of mosques and requiring them to pay poll taxes, they have almost no other discrimination against Jews, and there is basically no persecution of arresting them for barbecue.

As for France, France is the starting point of this persecution of the Jews. But France is still a civilized country compared to other European countries. At least they're going to persecute the Jews and go through the courts. And to be honest, compared with those fires in other countries, the death penalty imposed by the French court really does not know where it is. The rest is hard labor and fines.

Considering that it is almost impossible for the Jews who fled to France from foreign countries to have participated in illegal speculation in France, as long as they arrive in France, they may not even be sentenced to death and hard labor. At most, they will be fined for illegal entry. Then consider how inconvenient it is to get to Turkey, crossing a series of heavily fortified borders. In contrast, even sneaking across the border into France is much simpler. Therefore, France, which took the lead in persecuting Jews in the first place, has become the number one sanctuary for Jews throughout Europe amidst this turmoil.

Of course, there is a better refuge, and that is North Africa under French control. Staying in France, you will still be rejected by the locals, for example, you will suddenly be scolded or even slapped on the street. (Jews cannot fight back, otherwise the police who arrive will definitely think that the Jews provoked unconditionally.) In those North African areas jointly controlled by the French and the Turks, there is even less discrimination of this kind. So many Jews went to North Africa soon after arriving in France.