Richmond is the capital of Virginia and one of the best cities in the United States to do business, even ranking higher than Brighton, where Harvard University is located. Of course, perhaps this name is not as famous as New York and San Francisco for Huaxia, Zhou Ming even forgot his name before coming to the United States, but his significance to the United States is extraordinary, so much so that during www.biquge.info the American Civil War, the Southern Union set the capital in Richmond.

Zhou Ming and Caitlin were unable to take a boat from Charles Long Island to the 'outside world' as originally planned due to Jefferson's obstruction, so Zhou Ming took Caitlin to Richmond to go outside through another channel.

Zhou Ming took Caitlin directly to Richmond Airport, and according to Caitlin's previous introduction to the 'outside world', Zhou Ming bought three tickets to Fieldley.

Caitlin shook her head at this and said: "It's useless, although we can get to Field Island by plane, but we are just passers-by like everyone else, and there is no way to see the real outside world, otherwise I will not insist on taking Zhou Ming You must take a boat from Charles Long Island." ”

Zhou Ming nodded: "Of course I understand this truth, but now that someone is making trouble for us, we can only choose this way under the premise that we can't take a boat, anyway, the place will always be there and won't go, so whether we take a boat or a plane, whether we are qualified or not, let's talk about it later, if not, we should go to travel." ”

Caitlin let out a sigh of relief: "It's all this way now, I hope it can really be like what you said." ”

Then Zhou Ming and Caitlin sat down in the departure hall, Zhou Ming looked at the ticket in his hand and sighed: "I really didn't expect that the so-called outside world is actually Bermuda!"

Zhou Ming will sigh, not because it is an island that has not been marked by the map like the Tang family's Quan'an Island, as if it does not exist, but it is a very famous place, but anyone who has more experience will definitely have heard of the famous Bermuda Triangle, which is what it is talking about.

Legend has it that many supernatural phenomena occur here in the Bermuda Triangle, there will be ships that disappear inexplicably, and even ships will travel through time and space, in short, in various magazines, newspapers and other media descriptions, it seems to be a devil with a big mouth, ready to devour everything at any time.

Because of this, all ships and planes will bypass this terrible sea area a little when passing here, but in fact, Caitlin told Zhou Ming that it is just an ordinary sea area, and those terrible legends are deliberately made up to hide the existence of the 'outside world', so as to ensure that this place is not disturbed.

In the past, the Bermuda that Zhou Ming knew also started from the Devil's Triangle, but now that he has a ticket to Bermuda's only airport in his hand, those terrible rumors are self-defeating.

According to Caitlin, Bermuda is a special second-tier state, with a very high degree of autonomy, including legal and political policy, and sovereignty belongs to the United Kingdom, but it is not included in the real territorial scope of the United Kingdom, but is only referred to as an 'overseas territory'. In total, Bermuda consists of seven contiguous larger islands and more than twenty smaller islands.

These islands actually represent the sphere of influence of the Church, and the more than twenty small islands, except for a few small islands open to tourism, are the private property of the thirteen sects of the Holy See, and the nobles with alphabetical marks like Harusburg live on the seven large islands.

Caitlin told Zhou Ming that Bermuda is the core of the church's wealth system, and the wealth that comes in and out of here every day is very large, so Bermuda does not have any foreign exchange controls, and there is no business tax, which also makes Bermuda the world's most famous tax haven, and anyone in any country, as long as it is a company registered in Bermuda, can at least save more than 80 tax costs.

It stands to reason that such a place that seriously disrupts the tax order and financial order should not exist, but because Bermuda is backed by the church, even if it is as strong as the United States, it can only turn a blind eye to it and pretend not to see it.

After a three-hour flight, the plane finally landed at Bermuda's Field Dry Airport, where Zhou Ming and Caitlin followed the flow of people out of the airport and queued up at the exit to wait for a taxi.

After waiting for a few minutes and finally getting into a taxi, Zhou Ming said to Caitlin: "This place doesn't look any different from an ordinary American city. ”

Caitlin nodded and told Zhou Ming that this was of course: "After all, the outside world is a place that the rich people all over the world yearn for, although they can't really become a member of here, but at least because of the legend of the Devil's Triangle in Bermuda, this place is not polluted by modern industry at all, and the air and water quality here are the best in the world, so the rich will also regard this place as the best vacation choice." ”

"As for the inhabitants here, most of them are descendants of slaves and slaves who were left on the island centuries ago for the slave and other colonial trade. Caitlin said.

"Indeed, since the tax here is very low, you can first launder money and avoid taxes here, register a company, and after taking care of your business, you can go to the beach to swim and enjoy the most natural sunbathing. Zhou Ming said in a reasonable tone.

"There are so many secrets that you can't think of here. ”

Caitlin said this to Zhou Ming, and then asked the taxi driver to go around to Angel Street.

Bermuda is not big, so it was only five minutes before they arrived at Angley Street, and immediately Zhou Ming saw tall buildings with a very Gothic architectural style in front of him.

At this time, Caitlin said to Zhou Ming: "Each of these buildings is a work of art, they are all from the hands of famous designers, but more than these buildings, what should be more concerned about what is in it." ”

Regarding this issue, there is no need for Caitlin to remind him, Zhou Ming has seen a very familiar word 'bank', for this word, even people who have not learned English may be familiar with it, not to mention Zhou Ming, a person who has been in the United States for a year, this is the bank.

"Do you want to tell me that this is a bank street?" Zhou Ming asked.

This time Caitlin didn't answer, and the taxi driver in front of her said: "We prefer to call this the Bank Expo, because you can see all the big banks in the world, whether they are American or European, even some of the big banks in Latin America are here, but the only thing that is very unfriendly is that these banks are not geographically distributed, but very willful and arbitrary." ”

"Of course, after all, this is not really a banking expo. Zhou Ming said.

In fact, there is no need to say it, Zhou Ming has already seen many banks that he can name, such as UBS, Citigroup and Standard Chartered Bank, as well as banks such as Fenghui, Gangcheng and Tangren Bank, which he is very familiar with, as for many other banks that he is not familiar with, but Zhou Ming can think that he can be here with other banks, and he must also be a big bank with a very rich foundation and wealth strength.

Even Zhou Ming saw the famous Childros Bank, but here, he is not the protagonist of "Currency Wars", he is just one of the latter of these banks, and none of them can be built on the main street.

"Because Bermuda is a transit point for wealth in the whole Western world, all banks must have branches here and maintain a certain amount of deposits, and except for the banks, on the other side of the island, there are insurance companies. "In fact, insurance companies are the main business in Bermuda compared to banks, and you might not expect that more than a third of the world's insurance companies are registered here." ”

Caitlin's words made Zhou Ming feel shocked, Zhou Ming has been studying finance since he was reborn, so he understands very well that banks plus insurance companies are basically the whole of the money industry, that is, Bermuda does not need securities companies, otherwise this small Bermuda, otherwise it can be equated with a miniature version of world finance.

But this is also normal, after all, there is the Holy See has accumulated thousands of years of wealth as a backing, every day there are countless wealth from this small island inflow and outflow, there is no foreign exchange control can be carried out at will, there is no need to worry about the taxes and fees generated by large capital operations, such a financial paradise like a place, if these banks and insurance companies do not squeeze their heads to stay here like this.

"Dear Sir and Madam, are you tourists, can I recommend you the best hotels here......"

The driver in front of him said to Zhou Ming and Caitling, but was interrupted by Caitlin, who told him: "We don't need a hotel, cross this Angli Avenue all the way to Alsace, where there is a castle estate, you can send us there." ”

"Are you friends with Archduke Ferdinand?" asked the driver curiously.

Zhou Ming knew that the Archduke Ferdinand in the driver's mouth was Caitlin's father, the current patriarch of Harusburg.

"Is there a problem?" asked Caitlyn quietly.

"So you don't know, there is indeed a castle in Alsace that belongs to Archduke Ferdinand, but this castle is now banned, and it is said that because Archduke Ferdinand owes too much debt, the bank is going to auction this castle. The driver said.

"What? Harusburg is going to be auctioned, why don't I know about it?" said Caitlin.

The driver looked back with some surprise, and said with some confusion: "This is not strange, after all, Archduke Ferdinand is also a relatively famous figure in Bermuda, and he used to be a wealthy family, but now he has fallen to the point of being insolvent and wants to auction the castle, it is said that it seems to be because of drugs and gambling, it seems that these two things are better not to touch." ”

"Shut up!" said Caitlin, "my father is clean and clean, and he has absolutely nothing to do with these two things, and my Harusburg family has a huge fortune, even if my father is addicted to drugs and gambling, he can't be reduced to the point of auctioning off the castle, it must be a conspiracy!"

Hearing Caitlin's words, the driver suddenly stepped on the brakes and turned back incredulously: "You...... You're the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand?Caitlyn...... Your Highness?"

(In the past few days, I have diarrhea and collapsed from gastroenteritis, and this is the only one.) ）