The turmoil in the stock market soon spread through society as a whole.
Before the curtain had risen, the capitalists had artificially created a booming market to shift their losses elsewhere. Now, there was no longer any need for it.
Once the window paper had been pierced, companies began laying off workers and cutting production. The economic crisis had yet to begin, but the wave of unemployment had already arrived.
News that had originally been concealed no longer needed to be hidden away. Only then did everyone suddenly realize that the so-called good news had been fabricated out of thin air.
The so-called procurement orders did exist, but the contracts had not been signed by the Russian government or the British Government, but by one newly established shell company after another.
Since they were shell companies, they naturally could not represent the government's position. The so-called commissioned procurement was even more fake than fake.
Frankly speaking, this game was not particularly clever. In other countries, the government might possibly entrust companies with procurement, but such a thing could never exist in the Russian Empire.
The Tsarist Government possessed the most diligent and long-suffering bureaucratic corps. How could such arduous work be outsourced?
The Procurement Department, proclaimed to be the most incorruptible in the Russian Empire, would absolutely never tolerate middlemen profiting from the price difference and wasting the nation's wealth.
Before the crisis arrived, the French consortium had been able to unite numerous capitalists, control mainstream public opinion, and artificially create market prosperity. All of this proved the formidable strength of the French consortium.
As a rising star in French manufacturing, Fidoren Machinery Factory had been founded in 1867 and had now become a leading enterprise in France's machinery and equipment industry.
Industrial technology required time to accumulate. To rise