"I refuse," Anning declared resolutely to the Special Commissioner from Paris, "My actions did not violate the constitution! I used Parliament-issued notes to purchase all the land, the denomination of these notes amounting to four hundred million Francs. Do you realize what four hundred million Francs means?"
Anning thought to himself, in Verne's novel 'Bacon's Five Hundred Million Francs,' five hundred million Francs could build two cities, one a paradise-like beautiful city, the other like a super-sized factory.
This city could even produce a cannon capable of launching shells into Earth's orbit.
In Verne's fantasy, just five hundred million Francs could achieve that!
So, Anning using four hundred million Francs—in notes—to buy the entire Conte Region's land, that seems very reasonable!
The Special Commissioner glared at Anning, his beard bristling: "This is robbery!"
"What do you mean?" Anning replied, shocked. "I bought it with money, how could it be robbery?"
