After listening to Jerome Bonaparte's words, Count Algou hesitated for a moment, and then replied to Jerome Bonaparte, "Your Majesty, I believe that maintaining the bimetallic standard is the best strategy for the French Empire!"
"Tell me your reasons!" Jerome Bonaparte responded to Count Algou calmly.
"Your Majesty, according to the gold reserves during my tenure as president of the Bank of France, there is a significant gap between us and the Kingdom of Britain!
Moreover, our bank also reserves over 2000 tons of silver, and rashly changing the monetary system might bring considerable trouble to the silver we hold!" Count Algou explained to Jerome Bonaparte.
What Count Algou didn't know was that the gold reserves of the Bank of France were no longer the 40 tons they were when he left (historically in 1855, the Bank of France's gold reserves were 32.5 tons), but nearly a hundred tons (to be precise, 101 tons) of gold.
