Joseph knew perfectly well that this model of breeding through specialized institutions was extremely costly. Once planting reached a certain scale, seed supplies would also struggle to meet demand.
Moreover, with the tireless efforts of industrial spies from every country, the parent plants used to produce Triploid Sugar Beet seeds would sooner or later be exposed—after all, one could be a thief for a thousand days, but no one could guard against thieves for a thousand days. No one could guarantee there would be no slipups—and others would then breed the seeds themselves.
It was even possible that some peerless genius might emerge in another country and independently breed High-Sugar Beet.
Yet Joseph was not worried in the slightest.
Before any of that happened, he had ample time to bind Sugar Beet sucrose firmly to the Franc.
Commerce and trade depended on channels.
Once a channel had been established, changing it was exceedingly difficult. This was especially true of colossal international trade, which also involved diplomatic issues and could not be altered at will.
As long as he used Triploid Sugar Beet seeds to route all Cane Sugar trade through the Paris Futures Exchange, then in the future, Cane Sugar produced by any country would have to be traded there according to market custom.
Just like Brazil in later generations: although it produced a quarter of the world's mung beans, it still had to trade them through the United States' CBOT, the Chicago Board of Trade.
If things went smoothly, Joseph also intended to use Cane Sugar's influence to gradually turn the Paris Futures Exchange into an international trading center for agricultural products such as Wheat, Oats, Cotton, and Tobacco.
The settlement currency for delivered goods would, of course, have to be the Franc. At the very least, other countries