Chapter 177: Prince Felipe
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The lobby of the hotel has been temporarily closed, and the 197-year-old Spanish Crown Prince Felipe and the delicate Orti greeted the tour warmly inside the gate, and behind him, there was an exclusive photographer of the royal family to take pictures of them.
Born in 1968, Prince Felipe looks very similar to Zhou You, they are almost the same height and thin, but when they stand together, they are two completely different styles.
In addition to the prince and his wife, there was also a couple at the scene, and Zhou You was informed in advance that it was the prince's sister, Princess Christina, and his commoner husband, Urdangarain, as well as their three children.
It is worth mentioning that Urdangarin is also a Basque countryman, originally a handball player, who has now moved to Barcelona and still works in sports.
But Zhou You has the impression that the husband of Princess Christina was later imprisoned for money laundering and that she was stripped of her own titles of princess and duchess.
Since it was in the lobby of the hotel, everyone hugged each other cordially, and after the veneer ceremony, they didn't talk nonsense, and they came to the east building where they were surrounded by the prince.
There are five floors in the east building, but only the upper three floors are guest rooms, and the guards who followed them mainly lived on the third floor, and their bodyguards were also arranged on this floor.
The fourth floor is mainly arranged to house the entourage of both sides, such as hairstylists, stylists, assistants, etc., and the traveling secretarial team is also arranged on the fourth floor.
There are not many rooms on the fifth floor, because the fifth floor is mainly suites, and only the prince and his wife, the princess and their children lived, and there was a royal housekeeper. They were assigned three rooms, one for the couple and one for the three children and the nanny, and the rest for Sanchez.
The apartment is facing Lake St. Moritz down the hillside, and the lake is covered with a thick layer of ice, and in preparation for a polo match, there are staff members who drive their cars to level the ice surface of the lake.
"Gracia, I'm going to stay here too, I like the sun to shine directly on me in the morning."
Gracia straightened her luggage without looking up. "Don't think I don't know what's going on in your mind, you want to go crazy, I'm always with you, but it's a holiday with the Spanish crown prince, so we'd better be honest, I don't want any scandal to be known by those royal assistants."
Paris pretended to be pitiful and looked at Zhou You, who had to sigh: "You go to sleep in another room, I will accompany you first and then Gracia every day." ”
Zhong'an and Zhongge also hugged Zhou You's legs and said, "Dad, we're going to sleep with you too......"
Zhongyuan, who had a stupid mouth and couldn't speak much, saw that both legs were hugged by his brother and sister, he pouted his ass and drilled between the two legs of Zhou You, and then sat down with his ass, hehe laughed.
Gracia turned around and said, "Antonia and Diego are both older children, and when they are older children, they have to sleep by themselves, and they can't sleep with their parents. ”
Zhongge was still a little afraid of her, but with Zhou You by his side, Zhong'an was not afraid at all, and said stiffly: "I am a child, not a big child." ”
Zhou You laughed, hugged Zhong'an and said, "Okay, I'll sleep with Antonia, not with my mother......"
Although the temperature outside is minus 10 degrees, but the temperature inside the hotel has been kept at about 20 degrees, they took off the thick winter clothes on the children, put on beautiful spring clothes for them, and a few little ones tossed happily in the room one by one.
The first meal of the evening belonged to the welcome dinner, so it was more formal, Zhou You and Gracia, Paris also changed into dresses, and finally prepared before the appointed time, and came to a palatial banquet hall on the second floor.
At the main table, the prince sat in the main seat, and Zhou You sat in the main and guest seats, with Orti as his companion and Gracia as his side by the prince's side. Gracia was a Spaniard and nominally a subject of the prince, and the prince did not mind exalting her on such an occasion.
Paris sat with Princess Christina, with Urdangarin the Pony sitting at the bottom and Sanchez, who was also a Basque Countryr.
As for the children, they were arranged at a small table with the princess's three children. Most of the food on their table was the favorite of children, and they had already feasted on them under the service of the nanny before they had even begun their trip.
Tonight's dinner was Spanish, and Spanish and Italian are the two major cuisines in Europe. As for the French cuisine, which is well-known in China, it is actually the essence of these two cuisines that has been absorbed and then improved.
Prince Felipe first greeted and blessed the crowd, and then prayed according to the Catholic pre-dinner rite before the dinner began.
In the West, only Protestant countries have a saying that food is silent, and Italians and Spaniards regard communication at the dinner table as an important part of social etiquette. So, soon one topic after another began between them.
Sanchez and Garin whispered together, Paris and Princess Cristina were discussing fashion brands, and the prince talked to Zhou You about the Ranger's harvest in the United States and the future distribution of the antiques on the Liberation.
The antiques on the shipwreck of the Liberation have all been salvaged from the water, and after nearly two years of bargaining, there is finally a plan for the disposal of these antiques that everyone can accept.
The antiques on the Liberation were divided into ten parts, of which Florida accounted for 20 percent, the French government 1 percent, the Spanish government 3 percent and a half, Zhou You 30 percent, and half of the antiques belonged to the undersea exploration company that cooperated with Zhou You.
Among them, the value of antiques is the most difficult to assess, because except for Zhou You and Underwater Exploration Company, the other three parties will not sell these antiques, but will arrange these antiques in museums.
So, how to distribute, this is also a big problem.
However, fortunately, there are nearly ten tons of gold on the Liberation, and the gems are also counted in boxes, and the value of this part is relatively easy to assess, and most of these are also allocated to the Traveling and Submarine Exploration Company.
The topic came to an end, and the prince took the initiative to shift the topic to Atletico Madrid. Since the old king is a fan of Real Madrid, the prince has called himself a fan of Atletico Madrid since he was a child in order to get close to the commoners. Although I don't know if this feeling is true or not, there is no doubt that he has been an Atletico Madrid fan for more than 30 years.
The prince is more familiar with Atletico's current situation than Zhou You, he is familiar with the current state of each player, and he also believes that the team should expand its influence in Asia.
Spanish teams are not as popular as the Premier League in Europe and Asia, but they are more popular than the Premier League in the Americas. This is because the Spanish style of football is biased towards the Americas, and most of the countries in the Americas are of Hispanic descent, and their players generally come to Europe and play in Portugal and Spain.
The fierce confrontation in the Premier League is incomparable to La Liga, and coupled with the time difference in live broadcasting, it has not been able to open the market in Asia.
Zhou You is very touched by this, in his previous life, when he was fine, he also liked to watch the Premier League, although Real Madrid and Barcelona claimed to be cosmic teams, but Zhou You only liked to watch their Champions League games, not La Liga games, because their games lacked confrontation and passion.
Especially after the dissolution of the second generation of Barcelona Dream, he rarely watched La Liga games, lacking the game of Elf Xiaoluo, there was no confrontation, and even the art was lost, leaving only boring ball control, which was really uninteresting.
But now, Ronaldo has brought artistic enjoyment to Atletico, Eto'o has brought Atletico the thrill of assassination, Kaka has brought Atletico the thrill of speed, and Torres, who has gradually grown up, has also given Atletico their own golden boy. Coupled with the iron-blooded tough guy represented by Simeone in the midfield, Atletico Madrid has now become the most spectacular team in the world.
Although Real Madrid has Zidane, Carlos, Raul, and Beckham, they are still crushed by Atletico Madrid. As for Barcelona, it is still sinking and there is no sign of recovery in sight.
Atletico Madrid is not only invincible in the country, but also swept in the Champions League. The Champions League in 04 was originally a subversive session, and this year's giant teams have fallen one after another. In his previous life, he was picked up by the madman Mourinho and led Porto to the top. But in this life, Atletico, who have many star players, has the last laugh.
For this result, both Zhou You and Prince Felipe are very satisfied. This is the first Champions League title in Atletico Madrid's history, because of this championship, even the old Hill, who should have died this year, is not dead, which can be regarded as a blessing for travel.
However, although he has lived for half a year, he is almost unable to survive now, and Zhou You is always ready to attend his funeral.
After dinner, the group of men went back to Felipe's room to chat, but a group of women chartered a pool in the hotel to enjoy the hot springs in the winter.
Garin is also a businessman now, and although he has made some money with the support of the royal family, he has been criticized for buying a 6 million euro villa in Barcelona this year, and major media outlets are questioning the source of his wealth.
Compared with Zhou You, his tens of millions of euros of family property is not worth mentioning at all. So his attitude towards Zhou You is very affectionate, and it can be regarded as a stammer.
This made the prince a little unswerving, but he still saved some face for his brother-in-law, and did not directly accuse, but brought up the topic that he was not going to bring up now, interrupting Garin's attempt to "talk business" with Zhou You.
"Mr. Zhou, in terms of industry, Spain does not have any competitive advantage in the world, but we have a business network all over the world, especially in South America, and have a wide influence in many countries. We are also aware of your company's interest in expanding Colombia's development experience to other countries, and we in Spain would like to form a closer cooperation with your company in this regard. ”
Before coming to Switzerland, Zhou Youyou had already asked Sanchez to investigate, and he was fully prepared for the prince's proposal. The Spanish royal family is different from other royal families in Europe, such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Denmark, whose royal families have no influence on the development of the country at all, they are only the nominal rulers.
However, because of Franco's forty years of dictatorship, arbitration, and civil war, the Spanish royal family has a strong influence on the general trend of the country from seventy years to the accession to the throne of the prince's father, Carlos, and is not the nominal king of England.
In particular, an attempted riot in the early eighties brought the king's prestige to its peak, and as a result, the king had the final say on many major matters.
Although the royal family is rarely involved in the management of the country, it does not mean that they ignore the current difficulties encountered at home. The King also has a full team of advisors who have been fully considering the development of the country from all angles.
Spain's technology and industry are at the bottom of Europe, unlike Britain, France, Germany and the Nordic countries, and they have not paid much attention to technology and industry since ancient times. Like them, there is Italy, which has many artists but few scientists because of its liberal people.
Their industry used to be dominated by handicraft workshops, and it belonged to the kind of country with many small factories but no core competitiveness.
Italy has been the center of Europe in the past, and the northern region has a strong economic development and some large factories. But Spain has very few industrial enterprises, which is fundamentally related to the people's minds in their country.
The empire on which the sun never sets, in the beginning, did not refer to England, but to Spain. From Europe to Africa, to Asia, to the Americas, Spain is everywhere in the world. Spain in the Age of Discovery was a veritable empire on which the sun never set, and Britain at that time had only pirates.
But in the more than 200 years of plunder, the Spaniards only plundered gold and silver jewelry, exhausted the occupying powers, and then the nobles lived in luxury.
But the British, who started as pirates, knew how to create markets and would not leave the occupying powers with nothing. From the seizure of resources to the export of industrial goods, the Anglo-Saxons became the rulers of the whole world until modern times.
It can be said that the Spaniards were in their bones for pleasure, so they used to be able to sustain their economy on small commodities. However, after joining the European Union, these countries in southern Europe could not compete with the Germans at all, resulting in their own countries becoming dumping grounds for Germany. What's more serious is that now that the currency is unified, they can't print money casually, which leads to the country's economy being Wang Xiaoer's New Year, which is not as good as a year.
At present, the unemployment rate of the working age group in Spain has exceeded 10 percent, and many university students are unemployed as soon as they graduate. Many young people live on welfare funds and join gangs, not only do they not create any benefits for the country, but they also become a heavy burden for the country.
Of course, this is just the beginning, and Zhou You remembers that when Felipe ascended the throne in 2014, Spain's unemployment rate reached 26 percent, and the country's economy collapsed almost like Greece's.
It was also for this reason, coupled with the princess's corruption case, that the old king had to announce his abdication and make Felipe king.