Chapter 115: Laura
"Her Royal Highness the Princess, Your Royal Highness the Prince." Just as Ruprecht was sitting on pins and needles to accompany his cousin to afternoon tea, under the guidance of the palace maid, a young lady wearing a black silk dress and a sapphire necklace came to the two of them, facing the two top nobles in Europe, the latter first bowed slightly to the princess, and then looked up at Ruprecht!
Cold! Haughty! Speechless! The feeling of looking down on everything! There even seems to be a hint of hatred? This is the first feeling of Ruprecht after seeing the other party! And this feeling made Ruprecht very unhappy! Who am I! I'm Ruprecht! The vision is more than 100 years ahead of this world! I am the eldest grandson of the king of Bavaria! Heir to a kingdom!
There is always some evil spirit in the bones of people who have been on the battlefield and won the victory, coupled with the aura of the so-called superior who has been cultivated in a high position for many years, it broke out at this moment, Ruprecht did not say anything, and a mixture of murderous and proud eyes swept over the other party!
"In a way, when I first met her, I felt that we were in some way a human being! It's all wolves! But I'm the wolf king, and she's a lone wolf! Ruprecht later recalled the scene when he and Laura met.
"This is Erwin from Hungary. Countess Laura, the third in line to the family, inherited the title, and now she is the queen of Hungarian finance! She holds large stakes in several banks. Princess Mary realized that something was wrong with the situation and immediately came out of the round.
"Money isn't everything." Ruprecht said calmly.
"But you can't do it without money." The countess said in the same calm tone.
"Therefore, money, military power and political power are indispensable. Only those who have three can be king! "Ruprecht doesn't give his cousin any face! Anyone or organization who dared to stab himself at the first meeting was punished! Take Japan, for example! Ruprecht, who dares to get along with a country, will be afraid of a financier?
"Obviously, there is a hurdle that you can't get around when you get in front of me, maybe you do have some ability in finance, but obviously, this ability is not of much use to your current situation, you should learn to let go of yourself when you ask for help. At least some unfriendly gestures can't be made by you in the first place! Ruprecht waved his cousin to stop talking.
El Wing! This Ruprecht has heard that a big family in Kolomm, a very famous family of financial capitalists in Austria, its power is indeed very strong, and it is not too much to say that it controls 3% of Hungary's finance, but this does not mean that it has the right to jump in front of itself! What's more, the other party is only the third in line of succession!
For Austria-Hungary, Ruprecht has always attached great importance to it, not only for Austria, but also for Hungary! Even if Austria-Hungary was eventually divided, Hungary would still be a target to be fought for. And for the various families within Hungary, Ruprecht naturally spent a lot of effort to investigate! The Erwin family belongs to the kind of family that is very powerful, but the internal chaos is very chaotic, and various internal strife makes the family gradually lose its influence on the Hungarian economy, and a certain heir of the Erwin family, who has always been not very compatible with the Austrian royal family, suddenly has a hot fight with Princess Mary, and there is a problem here! It's not a lily, it's just to take advantage of it!
Ruprecht never believed in fate, only in profit! This countess must have asked for something to come to her! Combined with all the rotten things of the Elwin family! Ruprecht believes that the other party is looking for a backer! Although Bavaria is foreign! But after all, they are relatives of the Habsburgs! And he is a real power! The future king of Bavaria! And Princess Mary is really inferior to herself at this point!
"Ruprecht, it's not good to do this, it's ungraceful." Princess Mary had never seen such a tough side of her cousin. Some worries and some fears!
"What do you want to say next, I'll talk about it after I think about it." The cousin couldn't help but give face, and after Ruprecht said this, he leaned back in his chair and began to wander into the world.
"Do you think Japan will be able to win this war in the future?" Half-loud, the countess's clear voice sounded.
"Is it important?" Ruprecht asked, taking a sip of his coffee.
"It's very important, it's a big deal that involves millions of marks." The countess replied.
"Oh, I see, it turns out that I made you lose money! Who do you think will win? After a while, Ruprecht finally understood some of the problems, the Countess Laura in front of him must have invested in Japanese bonds, and she was behind the austro-Hungarian dumping of old weapons into the Qing Dynasty.
"I thought Japan would win, so we bought a lot of Japanese war bonds." The countess bit her lip slightly, and then said.
"Hehe, you're right, but winning in Japan doesn't mean you can make money, a lot of your funds must be borrowed from the bank, and the daily interest is amazingly high! You want to bet that Japan will win and collect the profits after the war, but the problem now is that the protracted war has made it extremely expensive for you to raise funds, and the bond market has taken up a lot of your money, so you can't hold on, right? ”
Ruprecht in the word. I came here more than 100 years later! I have seen a lot of all kinds of war fortunes in history! Although I didn't graduate in finance, I know a little bit about these things, and if I don't involve specific operations, I can bluff people by saying some principles!
"Damn it!" Laura cursed in her heart for the guy who sat on the top and laughed loudly at her failure! This Bavarian aristocrat is really hateful, if it weren't for him, because of Germany's unauthorized intervention, the Qing-Japanese War would have ended long ago, and the Japanese bonds he bought could have made a lot of money!
This guy is too aggressive! If the countess thinks she can easily face the Habsburg royal family, including Princess Mary, the fundamental reason is the money stick in her hand! Whether it's a royal aristocracy or a financial capitalist, they need money! For the sake of money, the countess relies on her own family and her own ability, the other party always has to give her some face, and the other party must listen carefully to what she says, Laura even thought that she would be the ruler behind this world for a while, but after seeing Ruprecht, she suddenly realized how ridiculous her thoughts were!
If he is a wolf of the financial world, wantonly hunting capitalists who are weaker than himself, and then enriching his own strength, then this prince has more means and more intense! From her own channels, she knows a little about the bad relations between Germany and Japan, and also thinks that Bavaria plays a very important role in the driving force behind this! Although thousands of miles away, the actions of this little Prussian brother still put Japan in a difficult situation! This multi-pronged diplomacy, military, and financial power shocked Laura!
I do have a deep grudge against His Royal Highness the prince, and even deliberately expressed it when they met, she did it in the past when facing the Habsburg royal family, and there was nothing wrong with it, but now it seems that this prince is more bloody, but definitely not reckless. It is like a lion guarding its territory, fearlessly responding to all provocations!
Thank you for the tips of book friends such as Dream Death Tianhua ~~~. It's on the three rivers~~~. This is the author's first time on Sanjiang~~~, asking for Sanjiang tickets!! Book friends, do me a favor~~~, anyway, the Sanjiang ticket doesn't cost money~~~. Thank you for the side position here! Today's three watches! There is also a change in the afternoon and evening!!