"What do you mean?" Napoleon I tilted his head to the side, curious as to what his son have in mind.
Meanwhile, in Napoleon II's head, he had been thinking about it when he was drawing up the schematics of a technology he wished to introduce in this world. Steam engines, locomotives, machineries, commodities, and others, are lucrative products that would make a person rich. However, since he is the future Emperor of the French Empire, he couldn't just build his own company and act as its CEO.
There are cons to that.
Napoleon II already saw them clearly.
If he built his own company—if he put his name on a factory, on a workshop, on a line of machines—then nothing he did afterward would ever be clean. Not politically. Not legally. Not morally.
Every reform would be questioned.
Every decree would be weighed against his personal gain.
Lower tariffs? Self-interest.
Infrastructure projects? Favoritism.
Military procurement? Corruption.
