I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 1052: The War in Persia Resurfaces
The French and Spanish sides quickly signed a treaty on the transfer of Louisiana.

Joseph obtained 200 million square kilometers of land from the west of the Mississippi River to Wyoming, and Carlos IV got to see the gold mine map as he wished.

Right here in California.

The empire ruled there for nearly two centuries, but never discovered the large gold mine there.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the Spanish for being too incompetent. There are less than 20,000 immigrants there right now, and there is no one living near the gold-producing waters.

Historically, gold mines were discovered accidentally only after a large number of Americans flocked westward.

Now, this process has been artificially shortened by Joseph by nearly 40 years.

According to the Franco-Spanish Louisiana Treaty, France can start immigrating to Louisiana from now on.

Once Spain confirms the scale of the gold mine, the administrative rights will be officially transferred.

The local Spanish troops continued to serve France for a few more years, depending on how long the French government was willing to pay them.

Three days later, Joseph, who had enjoyed a long vacation, returned to Paris by car.

……

France, Lyon.

In the factory of Bellelight Textile Company, the steam looms made a huge rumbling sound, and more than a dozen black smoke streams rose into the sky from the chimney on the roof.

This is one of the top five largest textile factories in Lyon, but right now the entire factory is working overtime to produce a pair of thick trousers with a strange appearance.

General Manager Latremu walked past rows of busy seamstresses, picked up a pair of trousers that had just been sewn and examined them carefully.

Suddenly, his brows furrowed, and he shouted to the finished product supervisor: "Xiao Meng, I told you, all the folds of these pants must be riveted!"

The finished product supervisor, who was in his forties, hurried over, looked at the trousers in the manager's hand, and nervously explained, "Mr. Latremou, if the waist is fixed with rivets on both sides, it may not be comfortable to wear. I have instructed the workers to use 3 more thick wires to reinforce it..."

"I don't want to repeat my order again." The general manager yelled, "If this happens again, you will get out immediately!
"This is an order from the Twin Companies, a full 25 francs, do you understand?
“If anything goes wrong, even I’ll be fired!”

"Yes! Yes! I'll have someone fix it right away!" Xiao Meng was so scared that he bowed repeatedly and turned around to call the seamstresses.

He pinched the thick pants and looked at the rivets all over them. He shook his head in confusion and muttered, "What kind of weirdo would wear something like this?"

No wonder he was confused, because no one had ever made pants out of canvas before.

Not only are they thick and hard, but they also have thickened pockets, and places like the waistband and trouser legs are all reinforced with rivets.

"These are not pants, they are armor."

But if Mr. Chaumont could go back to the 20th century, he would be surprised to find that people wearing such pants were everywhere. They called them "jeans".

Of course, today it is called "tough pants". Joseph gave it a name that would better attract the workers who were mining gold under the scorching sun.

However, in order to reduce costs, it was not dyed the blue color of later generations, but retained the dark gray color of the canvas.

Yes, this is the "work outfit" that Joseph tailored for California gold diggers.

Jeans were invented during the American Gold Rush. The tough working conditions of the gold diggers would kill the ordinary pants they wore within a week. At the same time, the pockets of ordinary pants could easily be broken by the extremely dense gold particles.

So when the hard-wearing "tough pants" with reinforced pockets appear in California, they will be sold out in an instant.

And almost no one cares that its price is ten times higher than the factory cost in Lyon. Those who deal with gold all day have lost the concept of price. As long as it is convenient for them to make money, they will exchange the gold grains in their hands without hesitation.

Just like the American gold diggers in later generations.

In fact, jeans were invented for the convenience of American gold diggers.

This time, Joseph planned to give it as a big gift package to the textile industry in Lyon. The mining business in California was exclusively operated by France, and even if the British discovered the business opportunities here, they would not be able to break in.

At the same time, you can also make a lot of money.

Based on 20 gold diggers - during the American Gold Rush, nearly 40 people traveled thousands of miles to California. Even if the current situation is worse, the number will not be less than half - at least 50 pairs of "tough guy pants" can be sold every year, each priced at 15 francs. Add half of the sales of "tough guy clothes" at 20 francs each.

The total sales amounted to 1250 million francs!
70% of this is pure profit. It's really a lot of money.

Currently, more than a dozen factories in Lyon are busy producing "tough pants", and the overall production volume has increased by nearly 20%.

……

1795 11 Month 9 Day.

South of the Caucasus.

Hoy City.

Valerian Zubov showed the officers in the room the order signed by the Tsar himself: "Then, according to your Majesty's order, we will launch an attack on Tabriz next Monday."

The officers were obviously a little surprised, and whispered to each other, "Why are you in such a hurry? I thought we had to stabilize the situation in Hoy before continuing to move south."

"It is said that a large amount of land suitable for growing cotton has been discovered on the east coast of the Caspian Sea. In order to prevent Persia from interfering, they need to be defeated first."

"But this is too hasty. We don't have enough troops, and we have to leave some behind to defend Armenia."

"My uncle wrote to me the day before yesterday, saying that St. Petersburg had sent reinforcements, at least 1 people."

"It seems that your majesty is very determined..."

Zubov coughed dryly, interrupting the officers' discussion, and said, "General Gudwich will be in charge of the general attack.

"In five days, 5 soldiers from the Georgian Legion will arrive in Khoi. They will all be under your command.

"I hope to present Tabriz to His Majesty the Tsar as a Christmas gift."

The Orthodox Christmas is on January 1th, which is less than two months away.

The Russian army only had 2 troops here, plus the Georgians, which made up 3 people. It was extremely difficult to capture the Tabriz fortress defended by 1 Persian troops in such a short time.

Goodwitch stood up helplessly and shouted, "Yes, General!"

However, to Goodwich's great surprise, the attack on Tabriz went unusually smoothly.

In just over ten days, he had broken through all the Persian defense lines to the north of the fortress and pointed his guns at the foot of the fortress.

He had no idea that Agha Muhammad was not in the fortress at that time, but was leading the Holy War Knights to Khorasan to quell the rebellion.

The Persian Shah never imagined that the Russians would go crazy and continue their attack before they could gain a foothold in Khoy.

(End of this chapter)