Looking at Zhou Liwen's smile, Baptiste seemed to understand what Zhou Liwen meant, but he couldn't make the decision on this matter personally, and he had to discuss it with his uncle before replying. What's more, Baptiste knows better that the real person of the Bell-Nokia United Company is Zhou Liwen who is sitting in front of him, Zhou Liwen on the one hand refused his request to cooperate with OR, but at the same time pushed the Bell-Nokia United Company out, what kind of medicine is this gourd selling?

For the rest of the day, the two didn't mention it again, but chatted about other topics. After talking for about ten minutes, Baptiste got up to take his leave, and hurried back to his room to find his uncle. As for Zhou Liwen, when all the cigars were smoked, he returned to the tea room, as before leaving, Lin Yaxuan still listened attentively to the performance of the unknown pianist, saw Zhou Liwen answer, smiled at him, and then sat together to spend this leisurely afternoon.

The dinner is cocktail style, but it's actually part of the salon. Attendees can have casual conversations at the reception and meet new friends through old friends.

Zhou Liwen and his wife, who participated for the first time, saw a few familiar faces here, as a business celebrity, Zhou Liwen and the European business community also have contacts, and some members of the famous consortium family also know one or two, as for some of the old consortium leaders, although they have not been in contact, but they have also heard of each other, coupled with the introduction of Count Herbert, Zhou Liwen and his wife quickly integrated into this circle and talked with them easily.

"Mr. Zhou, thanks to your help this time, Herbert's luck is not good, and his temper is also a little ...... Hehe, as his old friend, I thank you. A gentleman from a veteran British consortium shook hands with Zhou Liwen very politely and said sincerely.

Of course, at this time, Count Herbert happened to go to the side with an old friend, but even so, the old man named Charlie still lowered his voice and thanked Zhou Liwen.

"It's nothing, as a guest of the Count, it is right to do the master a favor, not to mention, I do like Schiller Castle very much." Zhou Liwen replied with a smile, but his expression also showed doubt.

Charlie saw that Zhou Liwen didn't understand a little, so he explained a few words softly, and only after listening to the other party's explanation did Zhou Liwen suddenly realize. The aristocrats in Europe are basically intermarried, and the nobles and nobles often have relatives with each other, just like Sir Charles, he and Count Herbert's ancestor, that is, the grandfather of the old earl, are relatives, and Count Herbert's grandmother is Sir Charlie's aunt, so from this point of view, the two parties can be regarded as cousins.

Moreover, Sir Charles is also one of the shareholders of Earl Herbert's insurance company, but he does not have many shares, so the loss in this incident is not large, and it is easy for Sir Charlie's family to come up with this money.

As a relative, Sir Charles is very aware of his cousin's temperament and character, although the glorious era of the Schiller family has long passed, and the Schiller family is still well-known in the aristocratic circle. For the loss of the insurance company, Count Herbert could have borrowed from his friends, but as the pride of the nobility and the stubborn character of Count Herbert, he considered it a humiliating way and thus rejected the practice.

In order to solve the problem, Count Herbert was willing to sell his castle in order to survive the situation. But to sell such a castle, it is not easy for the nobles, because of the particularity of the castle, even if this kind of property is purchased, not only can not get any benefits, but have to pay a lot of money every year for maintenance, European nobles, most of the castle left by their own family to keep intact, many people will never be as careful as Count Herbert, and even some people are willing to abandon the castle in order to save these costs, or even transfer it at a price of one euro.

If Zhou Liwen hadn't come forward to buy Schiller Castle, Count Herbert would have had fewer choices, and he could even give up his life's persistence and dignity for the family. For the nobles, honor and dignity are more important and proud things than life, and more importantly, after Zhou Liwen bought the castle, he invited Earl Herbert to be the trustee, which is not something ordinary people can do, and it is precisely because of this that Sir Charles will be so grateful to Zhou Liwen.

Zhou Liwen did not take credit for learning the inside story, nor was he overly polite, but just smiled faintly, and then kept silent about the matter, and chatted with Sir Charles about business. Zhou Liwen's attitude, so that Sir Charles more appreciation, when learned that Zhou Liwen's industry also has banking and investment banking business, Sir Charles asked with interest about the specific details, especially after knowing Zhou Liwen's Alipay Internet bank, Sir Charlie, who is not very clear in this regard, was only a consultation on etiquette at first, but when Zhou Liwen gradually described the various functions of Internet banking and the development of the world in various places, especially the number of users in China, he couldn't help but be a little moved.

"To be honest, it does seem that an old man like me is a little out of step with the times." Sir Charlie smiled self-deprecatingly, took out a mobile phone in his pocket, and when he saw this mobile phone, Zhou Liwen also smiled, because the other party was using the latest product of or.

"You see, although I use your mobile phone, for me it is just a tool for making phone calls, plus the ability to send and receive emails at most. By the way, the online banking payment program you just mentioned is available on your phone? Can you show me a little bit about this old man? ”

"Absolutely." Zhou Liwen nodded with a smile, took Sir Charlie's mobile phone, opened it and found the Alipay program bound to the mobile phone, and clicked on it at the same time to demonstrate the operation. However, because Alipay does not have the right to operate in Europe, the bank account binding or direct payment account setup of this program is not available in Europe, but a simple demonstration can still be carried out.

In order to make it easier for Sir Charlie to understand, Zhou Liwen then took out his mobile phone, as well as his wife Lin Yaxuan's mobile phone, of course, their mobile phones were all set up, and then operated in front of Sir Charlie, including transfer payment, public utility payment, credit card automatic repayment and even community chest donations, etc. In addition, at present, the mobile phone also has a direct payment function, which has just been realized, and Zhou Liwen also demonstrated it roughly.

"It's a nice thing, it's surprisingly convenient." Sir Charles was immediately intrigued, and he was a little surprised by the power of the combination of a smartphone and an online bank, Alipay. In the past, although he used a smartphone, he always felt that the smartphone was a little unworthy of its name, but it just had some cumbersome functions than ordinary mobile phones, and most of these functions were useless, such as games, music and so on.

Young people may like these, but old people like him are not interested, and the smartphone is in his hand, at most as a tool for making calls and sending and receiving emails, and it is of little use otherwise.

But the Alipay function of the online bank made his eyes shine, and he felt that this was a very convenient thing, especially the use of a credit card machine, which was equivalent to the perfect combination of traditional bank cards and mobile phones.

"In Europe, these features are not available yet?" Sir Charles asked.

Zhou Liwen nodded: "At present, it only supports China, Japan, South Korea and some regions in Southeast Asia, and North America has just opened, if you use it in Europe, you must have a registered account and account in the above regions, and then make transactions and payments through the network." Moreover, this is limited to the transfer payment function, and some other functions cannot be used, such as the simple function of flashing. ”

"It's a pity." Sir Charles sighed, thought for a moment and said: "Compared with the ever-changing Asia, and the New World, Europe is indeed a bit outdated, just like me, an old man, who has used a smartphone for so long but has never known its true use. So, don't you have a plan for business development in Europe? ”

"How so." Zhou Liwen replied with a smile: "Europe is a huge market, of course, within the plan, but you also know that although Europe has established the European Union, it is still not so easy to solve in some aspects, especially the way that Alipay, an online bank, has an impact on traditional banks, and some European countries cannot fully accept it for the time being." ”

Zhou Liwen's words made Sir Charles nod slightly, indeed, as Zhou Liwen said, Europe is a more complex region, although the EU has united the whole of Europe in form, but there are still many internal contradictions, and it is not so easy to build a whole Europe.

"Perhaps, you can go to England and try it first." Sir Charles thought about it and suggested that Britain belonged to Europe, but it was different from Greater Europe, and in many ways it was stronger.

"I'm really thinking about it." Zhou Liwen thanked Sir Charles for reminding him and said that he had thought of this too.

Sir Charles said kindly: "By the way, I have an old friend who also works in the banking industry, and if you need to expand your business in the UK, you may be able to contact him, and I think he will be more than happy to work with you." ”

"That's great, thank you, Sir, you've solved my big problem." Zhou Liwen replied with an exaggerated smile, of course Sir Charles knew the way Zhou Liwen expressed, and at the same time laughed, and then the two chatted briefly, at this time a familiar voice came from behind, Zhou Liwen looked back, it turned out to be Baptiste.

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