I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 1001 If you are poor, you will want to change.
Grenville was stunned for a moment, frowned, and then nodded again: "I really want to hear your advice."

Little Pete had obviously thought about this issue for a long time, and immediately said: "The most important thing at the moment is to improve our country's financial situation.

“The first thing is to reduce spending.

"We have to spend money all over the world and now we have Portugal as a burden, so we have to cut all unnecessary costs.

“For example, the blockade of the French coast.

“Those battleships cost hundreds of thousands of pounds every month, but we all know that smuggling ships from Russia, Denmark, the United States, and even the Ottoman Empire unload large amounts of cargo at the Port of Le Havre every day, or transfer them to France from the Port of Genoa.

"The blockade has limited effect, and it also turns all countries that trade with France against us. Especially after the establishment of the Maritime Convention Organization.

"Lift the blockade and use the millions of pounds saved to increase the use of steam engines in textile factories or to expand sugar cultivation in India."

Grenville nodded thoughtfully: "I will raise this matter with the parliament."

Little Pete continued: “The second is to increase income.

“An appropriate tax increase is necessary.

“Yes, I know that will cause protests.

"We can use the French method and enact a 'labor protection law' to give the workers a little sweetness to extinguish their anger.

"I sent people to France to investigate and found that properly controlling workers' working hours can even improve factory efficiency."

Grenville had taken out his notebook and began to take notes carefully.

Little Pete lowered his voice a little: "If the financial situation continues to deteriorate, I have a more radical solution."

"what is that?"

"Increase the amount of banknotes issued. I have discussed with scholars that an increase of more than 40% will cause serious impact."

Yes, in this late agricultural society, when paper money had only been in circulation for thirty or forty years, economists had no real basis to refer to, and most of their theories were just made up on the spur of the moment.

Historically, major countries such as Britain and France suffered many losses before gradually figuring out the correct direction of financial policies - that took more than 200 years.

Grenville shook his head decisively: "Have you forgotten the gold run in Paris? The massive issuance of banknotes may cause us to face the same situation."

"That's easy," said Little Pete. "Stop exchanging paper money for gold and use a law to force everyone to use paper money."

This is certainly the advice the economists gave him.

Grenville frowned: "Is this... okay?"

“We originally tied paper money to gold to make it easier for people to accept paper money. But now, everyone is using paper money and no one even thinks about whether it corresponds to gold.

“And, refusing the note would result in being thrown into jail.”

Although Grenville felt that there was something wrong subconsciously, he still silently memorized the plan.

Little Pete said: “In fact, we can copy the French experience in many things.

"For example, we set up an 'Industrial Development Fund' to promote the development of important industries. Our steam engines were once ahead of France, but we fell behind due to insufficient investment.

“The Industrial Development Fund is the answer to this problem.

“And the administrative reforms they’re doing. I’ve done some research and it’s going to make our government run exponentially more efficiently.

"Oh, and to go with this is the reform of the way bureaucrats are selected. The French have already stopped buying official positions. If you want to be an official, you have to study at an 'Administrative University'.

"This is simply a genius innovation! Those incompetent rubbish can no longer influence their policy implementation." We don't have a special "Administrative Management University" for the time being, but we can study in Oxford and Cambridge.

Yes, he has completely lost sight of the essence and is only learning the surface.

Joseph allowed officials to enter the "Administrative University" in order to control the "entrance" to the bureaucracy. The important thing was the entrance examination and the power to score the examination.

But little Pete focused on his college courses, which was destined to go in the wrong direction...

The former British Prime Minister continued to talk about his reform ideas:
"And police reform. You know, compared to the Paris police, the London police are like thugs...

"The French Notarial Investigation Bureau is also very good. Their officials don't even dare to ask for bribes from shops on the street!
“We can set up this simple and effective department in a short period of time, so why not do it?

"Oh, and there is rail transportation. French people only need 3 to 5 pence to travel from one province to another by horse-drawn carriage.

“This cuts their shipping costs for goods by more than half…”

The two British Prime Ministers chatted until dark, both of them were excited and full of hope for the grand occasion after the reform of Britain.

Three days later, Grenville summoned his cabinet ministers and asked them to begin preparations for reform.

Pitt the Younger also became the Prime Minister's special adviser and appeared at 10 Downing Street.

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The northeastern province of Austria.

Olomouc border.

A messenger galloped to Archduke Karl's command post and shouted into the tent without dismounting: "Marshal, the Prussian vanguard of nearly 3 men has begun to attack the Liegnitz Line."

Archduke Karl walked out of the tent quickly without even putting on his coat and asked the visitor, "Where is Frederick's main force now?"

The Friedrich he was referring to was the name of Prince Hohenlohe, the commander-in-chief of the Prussian army.

The messenger hurriedly said, "The main force of the enemy has been crossing the Oder River since the day before yesterday, and they should have all reached the west bank by now."

A smile suddenly flashed in Archduke Karl's eyes.

The Oder River is a large river that runs through Silesia. Liegnitz, controlled by Austria, is located to the west of the river, while Breslau, the capital of Silesia, controlled by Prussia, is located to the east of the river.

The Breslau Fortress was built along the river and could bombard the Austrian army trying to cross the river at any time.

Archduke Karl turned his head to the herald and said, "Order the Argentau Corps to begin the attack.

"I need the entire army to arrive in Auberley by tomorrow afternoon."

"Yes, Marshal."

This time, Prussia assembled a total of 9 troops to attack Liegnitz, while Austria had less than 7 soldiers to fight.

Moreover, more than 70% of the Prussian army were veterans who had participated in the anti-French alliance.

Most of Austria's elite troops were killed in Italy, and at that time more than half of Archduke Karl's troops were new recruits.

So Archduke Karl knew very well that defending Liegnitz was almost tantamount to suicide.

He left less than 1 defenders on the Liegnitz Line, and led all the veterans to launch a fierce attack on Oberle south of Breslau, taking advantage of the Prussians' full attention on Liegnitz.

(End of this chapter)