Event
A Bank for Country
To improve our financial stability and reduce our reliance on other sources, we should nurture a state-owned bank. Unfortunately, this will require a large initial investment to ensure its survival. To this end, Target Ruler could demand a contribution of our Nobility, although they would certainly not be happy with that decision.
AustriaCountrydynamic historical event.tagDefinitionin_game/events/DHE/flavor_HAB.txt:8713
8714type = country_event
8715title = flavor_hab.1700.title A Bank for Country
8716desc = flavor_hab.1700.desc To improve our financial stability and reduce our reliance on other sources, we should nurture a state-owned bank. Unfortunately, this will require a large initial investment to ensure its survival. To this end, Target Ruler could demand a contribution of our Nobility, although they would certainly not be happy with that decision.
8717outcome = neutral
8718historical_info = flavor_hab.1700.historical_info After the reliance on private indivuals for financial support lead to bankruptcy of the Habsburg State, Emperor Leopold I took the decision to found a state-owned bank, the Banco del Giro in 1703. Due to the occupation with foreign policies and large investements of the state going into funding the War of the Spanish Succession, the bank failed only 2 years later, and was eventually given to the city of Vienna, which transformed it into the Wiener Stadtbank, which too a central role in financing the Habsburgs from then on.
8720fire_only_once = yes
8722dynamic_historical_event = {
}
8729illustration_tags = {
873010 = regular
873110 = interior
}
8734immediate = {
}
8737ruler = {
8738save_scope_as = target_ruler
}
}
8742trigger = {
8743has_ruler = yes
8744gold > {
8744value = monthly_income_trade_and_tax
8744multiply = 6
}
}