Florence is a beautiful city and one of the most important birthplaces of the Renaissance. Without the efforts of the Medici family, who were no longer heirs at this time, the Renaissance would have been completely different from what it is today.

The Marquise G and Wang Mingshan visited the museum set up by the Medici family, and the Marquise was dressed in a beautiful Chinese silk dress, which was still a dark silk made in China. The dyeing of silk is exactly the same, but the diameter of the silk used in the silk is subtly different. Therefore, the pattern texture is faintly based on the difference in the fabric itself. The museum's janitors are accustomed to seeing big names, but they are still in awe of this sumptuous costume. Leading, explaining, serving, and doing everything in detail.

Wang Mingshan did not know Italian, he could speak very broken Chinese English, and occasionally could speak Chinese English jokes such as "you, can, you, up; no，can，no，BB”“give，you，some，colors，to，see！ And so on. Marquise G is fluent in Italian, English, French, and German, and the introduction of Marquise G to Wang Mingshan by the Italian Minister of Finance is indeed the result of careful consideration.

So the Marquise didn't hire a museum guide, but just tipped the janitor and sent the janitor away. She took Wang Mingshan on a tour of the museum herself, communicating with her proficient British and Wang Mingshan's broken English.

"Your Excellency, I would suggest that you set up a business in Florence now." The Marquise was talking more about business than about art.

"Is there such a large amount of money in Italy?" Wang Mingshan was deeply skeptical.

"Hehe," the Marquise de G chuckled, "Your Excellency, in Europe, it is already the norm to walk back and forth in Europe with a large bill of exchange. I think what you need to care about is why the customer service is there, not whether there is such a large amount of liquidity. If you can't rest assured, then you can start directly with the big customers. ”

Wang Mingshan used to have a dark eye for Europe, and even now that he knows a lot, he still feels very unaccustomed to it. China's banking sector is completely regulated by the state, and all operations are a means used by the state to control the economy. A recent trip to Italy has made Wang Mingshan faintly feel that what the rich people in Italy need is to completely avoid the state's surveillance, so that the funds can flow around according to the wishes of the rich people. This feeling made Wang Mingshan very unhappy, and he couldn't help but feel a feeling of aiding and abusive.

"As far as I know, there is a very high demand for the flow of money in the big cities of Italy. And the bank you want to establish, if it is an acceptance at high speed, then the handling fee can be very high. The Marquise G spoke of her longing in a soft, steady tone.

"But Italy is not allowed to run around in this way?" Wang Mingshan was still hesitant. As the governor of the central bank, one of his jobs is to prevent domestic funds from flowing abroad through various channels.

Marquise G smiled and said, "Your Excellency, the key is that the Bank of China under your leadership can provide remote exchange services. I can tell you that what many people are looking forward to right now is precisely China's unlimited exchange capacity. It is believed that with the strong guarantee endorsement of the Chinese government, any amount of money can be exchanged remotely. Isn't it true that China's navy can protect the transportation and interests of Chinese banks? ”

Hearing this, Wang Mingshan was slightly surprised in his heart. When he went to Europe, Wei Ze told Wang Mingshan the same. It is clear from the study of the Chinese upper echelons that it is the British Grand Fleet that supports the British pound, as long as no one doubts the ability of the British Grand Fleet to protect the transportation of money, as long as no one doubts the ability of the British Grand Fleet to recover the arrears. The pound on the gold standard is unbreakable.

"Madame, what did you do before? I see you're familiar with banks. Wang Mingshan couldn't help but ask this personal question.

"I graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Florence. My husband is also in the banking industry and I am his secretary. The Marquise G spoke softly about her experience.

It turned out to be an expert, and Wang Mingshan suddenly realized. But this does not completely reassure him, China's purpose this time is to provide a product of the integration of the renminbi with the European financial industry, that is, the expansion of the renminbi in Europe and the world. However, the Marquise proposed to put aside the renminbi and simply use China's strength as a backer to provide a service system for a large amount of capital to flow back and forth in Europe.

"Madam, do you think that this bank does not provide deposit and loan business at all, but provides the service of capital flow? I think this is going to consume too much of China's credit resources. Wang Mingshan had to be cautious about this issue.

Marquise G's beautiful eyes widened a little, and she asked with a little surprise: "Your Excellency, don't you believe in the power of China?" If you believe in the power of China, these are not problems at all. This system provides more privacy-friendly financial services, so why should you be trusted if your bank, like any other bank, has to be subject to European governments? ”

Having said that, it can be regarded as a poor dagger. There have been many such discussions in recent times, and the demands made to Wang Mingshan are basically the same: if China only provides a faster communication service, the wealthy people in Italy have no urgent need for it. What they need is financial services built on this high-speed, fast, and secure communication service.

Money today in Italy, tomorrow in London, Paris, Marseille, Berlin, Frankfurt, Viena, Prague, Oslo, New York, Istanbul, St. Petersburg. In the places where they can use money to speculate quickly and make a fortune as quickly as possible.

China spent 100 tons of gold to buy a large amount of land from Russia, and 250 tons of gold to buy the British colonies in North America except for Quebec, which has proven China's military power and bottomless financial power. The Italians who are very interested in the Chinese banks to be established in Europe are looking forward to China providing more financial services than the UK.

Wang Mingshan is not a timid person, and after this period of time, he has also roughly determined the services he needs to provide if he opens a bank in Europe. Now that the Marquise de G has spoken so thoroughly, all that can be done is to send a report to the country.

Letting go of these feelings, Wang Mingshan stopped talking about this issue. He began to visit the museum in earnest. Although the appreciation of art is not strong, and the aesthetic and artistic concepts between China and Europe are very different in their own right, it is for Wang Mingshan to take a good look at these sculptures, stone carvings, murals, paintings and drawings that make people feel a little hairy. If it comes, it will be safe.

Wang Mingshan was in a very uneasy mood when he wrote the report, but Wei Ze himself was not nervous when he read the report. In Weeser's view, this is nothing more than the business that Swiss banks engaged in in the 20th and 21st centuries. Isn't it because Swiss banks do a great job of protecting their customers' money in the Swiss banking system?

The United States invaded Panama, of course, because of its great interest in the Panama Canal. But the excuse is also very valid, Panamanian banks do provide deposit and money laundering services for South America's big drug traffickers. Just like the content in "American Drug Lord" starring the actor of "Pirates of the Caribbean" when he was young, the money earned from drug trafficking is laundered in the United States, and he needs to pay 6 or even 7 percent of the money laundering fee, which is directly deposited in the Panamanian bank, and can be used without loss.

The provision of such a service is not a problem, there is only one question, and that is whether the war will affect the business of the Bank of China. In 1815, the Treaty of Paris was signed at the Vienne Conference, in which the participating countries unanimously recognized Switzerland as a permanently neutral country. The Permanent Neutral States themselves renounced the right to sign treaties of military alliance with the nations of the world, and essentially also gave up the right to wage war against foreign countries. This is useful and advantageous for Switzerland, a small country sandwiched between the major powers. However, this is not necessarily the case for a large country like China.

After thinking about it for a while, Wei Ze used his authority to make an instruction. It is allowed to establish a commercial bank called Bank of China in Florence, Italy, to provide deposit and remote exchange services to European customers. As for the funds, the commercial profits of the East African administrative region in the Indian Ocean and Europe can be used as the start-up capital of the bank.

When making this decision, Weser hesitated. As the most important forage provider in China, the East African Administrative Region can be said to have fulfilled its task with due diligence. Similarly, the extensive administration of the East African administrative region has also enriched local Chinese officials and personnel. If such a sudden attack puts the funding shackle on the head of the East African administrative region, there will definitely be a big toss.

Thinking of this, Wei Ze still backed down a little. He divided the decision into two parts, one part of which was for Wang Mingshan to start the bank first, and the other part was prepared to wait for Bi Qingshan to return from East Africa. The former prime minister failed to achieve independence in East Africa or attract others to go to East Africa to claim hegemony, and now these guys in East Africa are just holding on to making a fortune in East Africa and then running back to live in China with money.

In the history that Weeser sees, colonialism is not all smooth sailing. Historically, colonialism has even suffered a huge setback, and now in this time and space, Russia and Britain are willing to sell land, the biggest reason is that these areas have no interests, and they have to continue to lose money to enter them. China has been able to extract so much from these rotten lands only because Weeser is too special. If Weeser himself was able to command the mobilized army to carry out arduous construction in these ghost places, it would not be possible to continuously promote the development and liberation of the productive forces. Without these, China would not be much stronger than Britain and Russia in these rotten lands.