Grenville hesitated for a moment, frowned, then immediately nodded again, "I am very eager to hear your advice."
William Pitt Junior had evidently been pondering the matter for a long time and immediately said, "The most important thing right now is to improve our country's fiscal situation.
"First, we must reduce expenditures.
"We have expenses all over the world, and now with the added burden of Portugal, we must cut all unnecessary costs.
"For example, we can suspend the blockade of the French coastline.
"Those battleships consume hundreds of thousands of pounds every month, yet we all know that the smuggling ships from Russia, Denmark, the United States, and even the Ottoman Empire unload large quantities of goods at Le Havre or transship them to France from Genoa Port every day.
"The blockade is not very effective and has made all the countries trading with France oppose us, especially after the establishment of that maritime pact organization.
