After some make-up, Charles returned to the rue de la Saint-Honoré, where he walked into the small restaurant he had been to and meet the banker, an old acquaintance of Du Taai. The previous excitement has long passed, and he has regained his original calm mentality, after all, this is only a small step on the road, and it is not worth paying too much attention to.

As for the matter of "breaking up with his cousin at the Duke of Treville's house", Charles also did not care at all, and did not pay attention to it at all. Instead, continue to implement the established plan. Because the relationship with them broke down, which was expected.

After checking the code again as before, the waiter of the restaurant led Charles to a small room on the second floor.

"Oh! My friend, you're finally here! As soon as they met at the door, Du Taai exaggerated his arms and grabbed Charles's hands, "You must have worked hard lately! ”

"It's fine." Charles was much more reserved, and he quietly withdrew his hand, "Not very busy, either. ”

"Congratulations!" "I guess you must have played a hard role in bringing down Mr. Soult?" ”

Compared to the last time we met, the banker is in a much better state of mind and has a much more enthusiastic attitude.

Obviously, this was due to the fact that he was inspired by the incident of "Prime Minister Sirte being put into the wilderness" and had some more confidence in the eventual success of the organization's cause.

"It's just a little bit of a thing, and it's not worth taking too seriously." Charles was half modest and honest, half deliberately pretending to be unfathomable in front of his colleagues, "Alright, now let's get down to business......

"Well, okay, let's get down to business first." Du Taai pointed to the table that was already full of dishes, "Come, please take a seat, let's talk while we eat......"

Charles was not polite, sat down directly at one end of the table, and then ate the roast goose while not forgetting to pour himself a little wine.

After the two had eaten for a while, seemingly consumed by Charles's silence, Du-Taai finally asked softly.

"Then what are you looking for me this time?"

"It's not important," Charles tried to make his tone look very light, "Now that everyone's jihua is in full swing, and a lot of places need money, so I'd like to get a little more sponsorship from you." ”

As soon as he heard that he was asking for money, Du Taai's original smile narrowed a lot—of course, this is also human nature.

"This ...... Possible...... I've been a little nervous lately......" he replied with some hesitation.

Since he invested so heavily in and sponsored the Bonapartists, he must have genuinely hoped that the organization would win Zuihou - but that didn't mean he would abandon all his wealth to support him without hesitation, a banker is always stingy with his money, and it takes patience and persuasion to get him to shell out more money than he originally wanted to pay.

So Charles wasn't surprised by his reaction.

Regardless of the doctrine it embraces, the most important thing a political group lacks is money. And the most headache is also this problem, whether it is by flickering or robbing, the group that can solve the financial difficulties is at least invincible, even if the action fails again and again, it doesn't matter, as long as the golden vein continues.

Just like in the era of the Great Revolution, Britain organized seven anti-French alliances in order to kill France, and drove and armed several powerful countries with money, although Napoleon was able to defeat the united enemies several times, but as long as Britain could not be destroyed, the anti-French alliance would never be a loss - the results of Zuihou also proved this, Britain laughed Zuihou, although it spent hundreds of millions of pounds, and the government was indebted to astronomical amounts, but at least laughed Zuihou.

And the Bonapartes happen to have little money now.

Although in the later era of the Second Empire, Louis Bonaparte used his power to accumulate tens of millions of dollars, and he was too rich to be rich, and left the famous allusion and legend of "eating without gold bowls and aluminum bowls", but the current Bonaparte family can be said to be quite embarrassed. Needless to say, Napoleon's own branch was extinct, and none of his brothers who had been famous by Napoleon's light were famous.

King Joseph of Spain died in 1844, and this one had little money;

The former King of the Netherlands, Louis Bonaparte, the father of Louis Bonaparte, the current head of the Bonaparte family, died in 1846 and had little money.

The former King of Westphalia, Jérôme (the father of the future Prince Joseph Bonaparte), is still alive, but his early bohemian life has long since squandered his savings, and he certainly has no money now.

Lucien, the former Prince of Canino and Musignano, had died in 1840, and this branch had a little money, but it was a pity that Lucien had a bad relationship with him during the emperor's lifetime, and the brothers turned against each other. And his branch continued this style, and had a very bad relationship with the Bonaparte family and its supporters. Otherwise, Lucien's son, Charles-Lucien-Bonaparte, was the eldest of all the emperor's living nephews, and Bonaparte's position as head of the family would have been passed on to him. In short, it is almost impossible to get sponsorship money from him......

To sum up, the Bonaparte family itself can't provide much help when Charles and other supporters carry out activities, and basically can only make empty promises with the promise of "we will give you XXXX after the deed is completed", and it is also thanks to everyone's loyalty and diligence, self-financing and sponsorship can still make so much noise.

Perhaps for this reason, after Napoleon III came to power, he was very kind to those heroes who supported him to power, not only was he very willing to give all kinds of benefits on weekdays, but also rarely disobeyed their wishes and requests, and even occasionally offended him and laughed it off - maybe it was in so many years of mutual support that he exercised his feelings?

Charles sighed softly.

"Mr. Du Taai." His tone was much more serious.

The banker nodded lightly to indicate that he was listening.

"Needless to say, you must be able to see that this is now a critical moment, and if we want to win Zuihou, we must make all kinds of preparations in advance. What doesn't cost money to recruit people, buy hoarding weapons, and buy key people? Even keeping secrets costs a lot of money, do you think we're going to ask you for money for no reason? Charles raised his voice, "We are not beggars, but people who are ready to bring you great wealth, have you forgotten that?" Do you want your previous investments to go down the drain? ”

Du-Taai was still silent, but his face visibly wavered.

"Of course, spending money to go out, and spending a lot of money to go out, it will hurt anyone's heart, we will never fail to understand your mood at the moment, on the contrary, because we understand it very well, we will be more grateful and admire you." Charles slowed down, "I can vouch for you, as long as you succeed, it won't take a year or two for you to earn back the money you spent, and the rest will be pure profit...... You're a banker, and I don't know as much about money as you do, and since you usually give a lot of money to those merchants who have deposited money with you and wait for interest to be collected, isn't that the same thing for us? The interest rate is much higher than you think......"

At his behalf, the banker finally nodded.

"Well, how much will you need this time?"

Charles secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"Three hundred thousand francs."

The banker's eyes widened, apparently unable to accept the amount. "That's too much! I'm a little strapped for money right now, and I can't come up with that much at once. ”

Charles frowned, looking a little dissatisfied with his answer.

However, he was originally a lion with a big mouth from the beginning, so he didn't really care about his refusal at all.

Perhaps it was his expression that made Du Taai a little nervous, and the banker hesitated again. "Look, then, how about I'll give 100,000 francs first?"

In fact, it is close to the psychological price of Charles this time, but Charles still frowned.

"May not be ...... enough"

The banker lowered his head and thought for a moment, and Zuihou gritted his teeth.

"In this way, I'll make up a lot of money here and give you 200,000 the day after tomorrow. That's the limit of what I've been able to use lately, and I'm afraid I won't be able to cope with the usual turnover. ”

"Great!" Charles applauded softly, "On behalf of Monsieur Louis-Bonaparte, I would like to express my sincerest thanks for your kindness and generosity!" ”

Du Taai sighed softly, his eyes a little complicated.

"I hope you can make it soon!"

"It's not you, it's us." Charles corrected his words, "You are one of us, and an important one, and we will never forget that." ”

"That's fine." Du Taai took another sip of wine, as if to make up for it for two hundred thousand francs, "and that would be the best." ”

Charles smiled and nodded.

Then the two quickly discussed how and where the new sponsorship would be handed over, as well as the code at that time.

"Let's have another drink." After the negotiation, Charles raised his glass.

The banker was as good as a stream, and the two toasted again.

"That's right, my friend. Weishenme's funds have been so tight recently? After drinking, Charles asked casually.

"There were problems with a few payments, and the money could have arrived at the beginning of the month, but it hasn't been recovered yet." Du Taai said with some depression, "In addition, in order to stabilize the interest rate, I have recently bought a lot of town hall bonds......

"Now this year is really not good, every industry is not very good, since the funds are so tight, don't invest indiscriminately, be careful that there will be unforeseen circumstances, and there will be nothing." Charles made a joke like a cold joke with a little malice, but the other party must not understand the meaning, "Even the town hall is afraid of fire." ”

"I'm not afraid, even if I change the court, the government still has to recognize the account......" Du-Taai obviously couldn't understand Charles's cold joke that was ahead of the times, "and I have the credentials here, even if something goes wrong over there, I can reconcile the account......"

[King François I of France set up a public bond in 1522 because of financial constraints, because it pays a fixed dividend once a quarter at the Paris City Hall, so it is named "Town Hall Public Bond", which is the oldest government annuity in the history of French finance, and it is also an epoch-making milestone in the history of French finance.

The Hôtel de Ville was burned down by the fighters of the Tuileries during the uprising of the Paris Commune in 1871, and countless archival documents were reduced to ashes along with the building. So Charles, this is a "ahead of the times" joke. 】

"Well, then you can do it yourself."