Chapter 516: Setting Fire to the Warehouse and Borrowing Food from Yin Soldiers
"Odessa×3"
When the translator finished translating Mayor Kasinacheyev's words to them, the three people present shouted in unison, and then looked at Mayor Kasinacheyev at the same time.
"That's right! As long as the French Empire has enough money, there will be as much food as we need!" Mayor Kasinacheyev confidently told the three people present.
The translator hurriedly translated Kasinacheyev's words to them.
"Mr. Mayor, it's not that we don't want to believe you! It's just that your idea of getting food from Odessa is a bit too childish! We are at a war stage with the Russian Empire, how could they buy us food?
?" Major General Canrobel said to Mayor Kasinacheyev, and it could be seen that Major General Canrobel was full of concerns about Kasinacheyev.
The Russian Empire is at war with Britain and France. Some unscrupulous traders in Russia dare to transport supplies to hostile countries at this juncture. Several officials in Odessa have heads that the Tsar could chop off!
"Your Majesty, Major General, you don't understand the Russian Empire! In the minds of our officials in the Russian Empire, there has never been a so-called hostile country. As long as it is profitable for themselves, they will devote themselves to it regardless of their own safety.
Making money is their goal!" Mayor Kasinacheyev said with a hint of sarcasm in his words: "Instead of calling them officials, it's better to call them businessmen. They will use every means to seize those who do not belong to them.
Things become things that belong to them.
Exchanging grain for francs is a perfect deal!"
"Aren't they afraid that their tsar will find out?" Kangrobel said to Mayor Kasinacheyev with a shocked expression.
Although corruption also existed in the French Empire, no one dared to commit crimes.
All those who chose to commit crimes against the odds were without exception imprisoned in debtor's prison by Jérôme Bonaparte, or directly handed over to a military court.
"Discovered?" Kasinacheyev smiled "hehe", and the old god said: "How far is Moscow from Odessa! His Majesty the Tsar's hand can't reach here!"
"But the Tsar can send a special envoy to investigate! If it is found out, wouldn't it be over?" Major General Canrobert asked again.
"It's over? Impossible! The special envoy appointed by His Majesty the Tsar will only return in vain. The officials in the capital of Odessa will never allow His Majesty the Tsar's special envoy to find out anything, and they will use every means to bribe the special envoy.
Falsehood! As I just said, His Majesty’s people are in Moscow. He has no idea what happened in Odessa, and the information he received was just some false news he heard from the special envoy! Over the years, Odessa
The officials of Sasha have already thoroughly studied all the actions of His Majesty the Tsar. For them, His Majesty the Tsar does not have any secrets!" Mayor Kasinacheyev responded to Major General Canrobert with a firm tone.
"So, Odessa is an airtight barrel! However, I don't believe there are one or two special envoys among these people who do not accept the benefits of Odessa officials!" Major General Canrobert questioned.
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"Your Excellency, Major General, as far as I know! No one has escaped the corruption of Odessa!" Kasinacheyev responded to Major General Canrobel with words: "Even if there are them, there are still
Second plan!”
"What plan?" Major General Conrobel asked Mayor Kasinacheyev.
Although the three of them already knew what plan they would use to silence the envoy forever, they still wanted to hear the difference between the plan Kasinacheyev said and what they thought.
"Kill people and silence them! Set fire to the warehouse!" Sure enough, Mayor Kasinacheyev said what they were thinking.
The simplest way is to set fire to the warehouse. All it takes is a sudden fire to smooth out all the deficits. It is really a good thing that benefits the country and the people (officials of the Russian Empire).
"I'm very curious, how do you know so many internal things in Odessa!" Major General Kangrobel looked at Mayor Kasinacheyev with a half-smile: "How can you, a mayor, know so much about Odessa?"
We hooked up on the side!"
"Your Excellency, Major General, I have actually been helping officials in the Odessa area to... um! sell some items, so I still know a little bit about all their situations! Some of them are still my comrades in arms!" Cassinacheye
The husband said something to Canrobert.
"Since you have said so, then on behalf of the Allied Forces Command, I will give you full authority to solve the food problem of 30,000 people! However, you must first prove to us that you have this ability!" Major General Canrobel said Cassie
Mayor Nacheyev said.
"Don't worry!" Mayor Kasinacheyev responded to Major General Canrobel.
Subsequently, Major General Canrobert took out 500,000 francs of French bearer bonds from his pocket and told Kasinachev that the coalition troops now needed 3 million francs of food. The 500,000 francs were the deposit they paid in advance and the subsequent money.
It will be paid in full after the grain arrives, and the mayor can use these bonds to exchange for an equal amount of gold.
However, certain banks in the Russian Empire are required to exchange them.
Kasinacheyev tremblingly took the bearer bond of the Bank of France handed over by Major General Canrobert. He understood that to the officials in the capital of Odessa, the value of the paper ruble, which had been devaluing crazily, was completely a piece of waste paper.
The bonds issued by the Bank of France and the Bank of England are truly guaranteed.
From a certain perspective, the value of these bearer bonds in the Russian Empire has already exceeded 500,000 francs.
"Please rest assured, I will definitely provide you with the food you need as soon as possible!" Kasinacheyev solemnly assured Major General Canrobel.
"As soon as possible!" Major General Canrobert reminded.
Early the next morning, Mayor Kasinacheyev left the town of Yevpatoria on a merchant ship.
In the next few days, Kasinacheyev has not returned, and the food supplies of the 90,000 troops of Britain, Turkey, and Turkey are also decreasing day by day.
This is why the French Empire allocated part of its own supply ships to support them. During this period, a lot of food was also transported to the town of Yevpatoria.
In the early morning of May 30, which was the first day of the third week after the coalition troops landed on the Crimean Peninsula, several merchant ships flying the flag of the Russian Empire swaggered close to the town of Yevpatoria. Soldiers guarding the coastline were there.
The town was reported to Brigadier General McMahon.
McMahon immediately issued instructions to the Zhuav regiment to prepare for battle at any time, and then Brigadier General McMahon personally led people to the dock to check.
"Telescope!" McMahon stretched out his hand and said to the soldier beside him, and the soldier quickly handed the telescope into the hands of Brigadier General McMahon.
McMahon, holding a telescope, observed the fleet approaching Yevpatoria. Commodore McMahon saw Kasinacheyev on one of the ships.
"Why don't all the enemies go back?" Brigadier General McMahon put down his telescope and waved his hand gently, and the soldiers of the surrounding Zhuav regiment dispersed one after another!
After the fleet entered the port of Yevpatoria, bags of rice were unloaded from the boat, and the originally empty warehouse was filled all at once, and the remaining grain was taken to the open space at home.
Upon seeing this, Brigadier General McMahon quickly ordered his soldiers to help this group of "merchants" carry the rice off the ship. Both parties had a tacit understanding and did not reveal each other's identities.
It took more than three hours to finally move all the food from the four ships.
After the transfer was completed, Mayor Kasinacheyev brought over a guy who claimed to be the captain of the fleet.
From the temperament exuded by the captain in front of him, we can know that the so-called captain in front of him is most likely a soldier from Odessa, and the rank of this soldier is not low.
A soldier personally came to escort the food, and he also gave them food from a hostile country. It seemed that the Russian Empire had deep twists and turns.
Although Commodore McMahon knew that the so-called captain in front of him was a soldier, he still delivered all the subsequent bearer bonds of 1.5 million francs to the captain in front of him as agreed.
"I hope we can continue to cooperate next time!" The "Captain" who received the bearer bond said in a standard Parisian accent, extending his hand to Brigadier General McMahon.
"Definitely!" Brigadier General McMahon nodded in response, knowing that this transaction had just begun.
After briefly speaking a few words of no value, the "captain" left the town of Yevpatoria, and Brigadier General McMahon watched them leave.
It was not until the fleet drifted away that Commodore McMahon asked Kasinacheyev who was standing behind them.
"It is said to be the former Governor Vorontsov!" Mayor Kasinacheyev responded to Brigadier General McMahon: "After Vorontsov was transferred from the post of Governor of Crimea by His Majesty the Tsar, he did not accept the post of Governor of Crimea.
He took the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasus and asked to retire! It’s hard to guarantee that he doesn’t have any grudges in his heart!”
"The partisan struggle has spread to the army!" Brigadier General McMahon gloated, and then gave Ivankov the order to load some grain into the truck.
"Are you still pretending?" Ivankov responded to Brigadier General McMahon.
"Pretend!" Brigadier General McMahon responded firmly to Ivankov.
Ivankov had no choice but to follow Brigadier General McMahon's order and load some of the food that was vacant outside the warehouse into the collected gyro carts. Then Brigadier General McMahon sent two battalions of Zhuav troops to personally escort the food. Anyone who dared to come close
Anyone transporting grain trucks will be shot to death without mercy.