Chapter 170: Chasing the "Big Fish" (Seeking Monthly Votes)

For some reason, when Joseph heard the figure "ten million livres," he felt no anger in his heart, but instead a bizarre sense of "comfort" surged to the top of his head.

He leaned in towards Carolina, quite expectantly asking,

"Is that the amount Necker pocketed himself, or the total sum of the problematic funds?"

"It's the profit Necker made from these transactions, Your Highness. Of the financial loans that passed through his hands at the time, more than half might have been abnormal."

Joseph suddenly felt as though the whole world lit up, and he even heard the joyful singing of little angels by his ear.

You see, during Necker's tenure as head of the treasury, France's borrowing from banks had increased by nearly one billion livres.

If what Carolina said was true, even by the most conservative estimate, that would mean there could be illegal operations involving as much as five hundred million livres worth of loans.