Petit looked at the intelligence officer from London Lloyds in front of him: "So, it's the French buying up the sugar?"
In the past three days, about 30,000 piculs of sugar were being bought up daily by a mysterious buyer, so Petit hired Lloyds to investigate their background.
The intelligence officer nodded: "Although the individuals conducting the transactions are different, their funds are all being transferred from the Bank of France."
Petit instead showed a smile.
"The French are finally losing their patience. Good, this makes it interesting."
He dismissed the people from Lloyds and then instructed his assistant to increase the daily market input of sugar to 40,000 piculs.
He knew very well that, with France's financial capacity, it was impossible to buy up the nearly one million piculs of sugar he held.
That would require an astronomical fund of 300 million francs, something France couldn't muster even if it drained all of its banks.
