The foreign secretary was wrestling with a bunch of diagrams, words, and numbers outlining disaster relief plans and applications. Surprise and sigh at first. Quickly give way to solemnity and unease. His political ally and close friend Richelieu sat on the sidelines and waited, sitting silently on the couch. There is no expression and no movement, like a wax figure on a seat.

"I can't make an assessment. ”

Closing the last sheet of paper, Mette squeezed his collapse and leaned back in his chair.

"Whoever came up with the plan, his mind was too good. If it was really a 21-year-old businessman who came up with this whole set of plans on his own...... Poor old Plessie, you and I are all second-rate. ”

The cardinal, grim-faced, nodded, acquiescing. Thinking back to the time when I was 21 years old, and then look at my declining self...... Frustration and powerlessness strike together, but now is not the time for the two old men to wallow in sadness and sigh.

"Some kind of Cheng dù on. Richelieu took a deep breath and threw his reluctance behind him. "It's the best response I've ever seen. ”

It's not flawless, it's not terrible.

It is a proposal that satisfies the interests of all parties to the greatest extent possible, can be carried out smoothly with less resistance, and can be effective in a short period of time.

"I know, old friend. The Church and the royal government need to save face and maintain the security of the country. The common people need to fill their stomachs and have a stable life. Freed from an exclamation, Mette let out a new exclamation and frustration: "But the opening of the national granary to a private trading company and the ...... of letting them walk around in the name of opening up the state's granary"

"That poison has the property of infecting flour and wheat. It must be examined,"

Richelieu's face still didn't rise or fall too much, and he shook his head at his sentimental old friend, and his eyes were fixed on the stack of papers.

Li Lin wrote very clearly in the report that rashly announcing the cause of the disease would catch the church off guard, lose the opportunity to adjust the propaganda, disgrace the clergy, and more likely to induce irrational fear of food among the people, and finally invite food panic.

There must be a buffer period for the church to find a good excuse for sin. It also gives the Department of Agriculture and the National Granary time to survey the current grain reserves. What parts were contaminated and which were deliberately distributed to the victims.

"This is a huge job, and the Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance do not have as many audit inspectors, and the existing members lack the knowledge and experience to distinguish between toxic wheat and flour. We don't have that much time to recruit and train a group, so we only use V.E's ready-made personnel. ”

Expenses are not a problem, Charlemagne is not short of money, as for the time...... The intensifying pandemic and the chaos it has caused have left the country with less time to take it upon themselves to train a barely usable group of newcomers.

"The department promised that they could train a pool of competent accountants and auditors for the Royal Government in seven days, after which the government officials would take over the rest. At that time, the Royal Government and V.E will be able to publish the truth about the disease. Disaster relief efforts have begun. ”

"But that's just a pause. Count, check, register, and destroy all grain stocks...... It will take at least a few months to finish!"

Mette turned the second page angrily, snarling at a series of numbers.

"They checked their food stocks early, and asked the authorities to support their relief activities for the victims in the affected areas, leaving a lot of trouble for us to deal with on our own! Damn profiteers! Fraudsters! Stinky fox!"

The Minister of Foreign Affairs waved the report in his hand, venting his boundless anger. In Mette's view, this kind of relief outside the official state is not in the least praiseworthy, because it is actually a discredit to the government, which is tantamount to a loud announcement to the nations. This would deal a heavy blow to the prestige of the government and His Majesty the King.

"Refusing this request will only exacerbate the crisis." Can you imagine a situation in which the hungry people questioned His Majesty the King and the government, and the mentally retarded people did not care how much it hurt the country, they only cared about whether they could feed their stomachs and not starve to death. ”

The prime minister coldly presented the facts, Mette pinched his bloodshot and angry eyes and glared at him, and after dozens of seconds of unyielding staring at each other, the two important ministers of the kingdom lowered their eyes together in humiliation.

Richelieu's comments are extremely spicy and at the same time extremely correct. Correct enough to leave people speechless.

The populace is short-sighted. The enthusiasm of caring for the rise and fall of the country, patriotism and loyalty to the monarch is too far away from them, compared to these things that seem like another world. Where's tomorrow's breakfast and what you're going to eat is the number one priority.

Once it is declared that the disease is poisonous wheat, the government must prepare a large amount of safe food to stabilize food prices and people's hearts, but there is only a limit to what can be prepared in seven days. I am afraid that the census of the national grain depot will not be able to keep up with the rate of grain consumption. There is a significant gap between supply and minimum demand.

Someone had to fill the hole, but the Royal Government did not have the spare power, and it was impossible for the grain stores to provide so much safe food, so in the end they had to rely on the V.E Foundation Co., Ltd., which had already been prepared and was waiting for the Royal Government to sign the contract.

"I want to know what kind of monster lives in that guy's head...... There are as many merchants as there are mountains of businessmen who can find business opportunities from epidemics and food shortages, and how many can quickly find out the cause of the epidemic and then formulate such a elaborate and huge plan according to their own conditions and those of the negotiators? Moreover, he is ......only this age!!"

The Foreign Secretary's cold eyes were fixed on the stack of detailed plans, and vaguely Mette could hear the young laughter of the old men mocking and ridiculing them.

"If only he were my subordinate, with a little experience, he might become a good prime minister. ”

Richelieu looked at his old friend's furrowed brows and shook his head.

I quickly dismissed that dangerous idea. ”

Indeed, it was very soon, and in less than a minute, the prime minister of the kingdom gave up the idea of recruiting Li Lin to his command, not to mention the stubborn tradition of the aristocracy, how difficult it was to let them accept a commoner, or a wealthy commoner, to enter the power field and share power with the negotiators, and even give orders to them. Li Lin's personal talent and style of action alone already made Richelieu quite jealous.

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