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Sure enough, it was after dinner that Joey and his friends returned to the palace. Joey saw William at first sight, sitting in the living room, chatting with his parents and lovers, anxiously waiting for his return.

After Joey said hello to his parents, William couldn't wait to say, "Jojo, I've discussed it with my parents, I want to hold a party between friends, as for what to do, I'll wait for you to come up with an idea." ”

"Youth party, okay." Joey had adjusted to William's impatience and said with a smile as he found a sofa to sit down.

"But, as my father meant, the Russian guests attending this dinner were not only Grand Duke Sergei, but also General Shuvalov and his party, so this party was not just attended by my friends...."William shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"Oh?!" Joey glanced at his parents, habitually rubbed his nose and waited for an explanation.

"Jojo, Grand Duke Sergei is the deputy envoy of the Russian delegation, I don't want to bypass General Shuvalov, the envoy, and go to a separate banquet for Sergei, besides, our family is not as rich as our Russian relatives, and holding several banquets in a row is too extravagant for the Imperial Palace, so..."

The crown prince said that there was no money, it was just an excuse. Now the Taigong just prefers to use the funds in more meaningful places, such as funding scientific causes, such as funding charity, such as quietly buying newspapers and magazines, such as quietly setting up information analysis institutions, such as...., well, some things can't be said in too detail.

In short, apart from the necessary and fixed balls, banquets and salons between nobles, the palace has no spare money to hold unplanned balls or banquets.

This was the reason why Crown Prince Frederick was reluctant to hold two dinners for one thing, and the same reason why Joy thought William's dinner proposal was so sudden at breakfast this morning.

This stingy behavior of the princess is actually one of the traditions of the Hohenzollern family, and the wedding of a Prussian king with 3,000 silver coins in history is the masterpiece of Joey's ancestor.

Although Frederick the Great built Sanssouci Palace, it was just a follow-up behavior of Versailles, and if you really compare Sanssouci Palace and Versailles Palace, you will find that Sanssouci Palace is far behind Versailles in terms of scale and luxury in addition to its beautiful name.

In terms of luxury and pomp, the Hermitage and Schönbrunn Palace can be ranked in front of Sanssouci Palace. Almost all European aristocrats considered "miserliness" to be a bad habit of the Hohenzollerns, but the Hohenzollerns considered "simplicity" to be a virtue.

If there is currently the only exception to the German royal family, it is Joey's grandmother, Empress Augusta. But Empress Augusta spent her own money and dowry as the princess of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Even if Empress Augusta pursues French fashion in different ways, she is only recognized by the upper class of European society that Her Majesty the Empress is doing what a nobleman should do.

In Joey's opinion, the members of the Hohenzollern family, except for the queen, are all people who do not pay attention to pomp. Of course, William's current over-the-top pursuit of clothing is a bit of a departure from the family's tradition in Joey's opinion.

Joey looked at the anxious William and asked his parents with a smile, "In other words, everyone has dinner together, but the activities after dinner are separated." ”

"Willy, you're going to a youth party with your friends." Joey said as he looked at William.

"Jojo, my friends aren't coming to dinner, they just want to go to the party." William suddenly interjected, and then looked at his parents with a little guilt, and said, half explaining and half justifying, "Mom and Dad, my friends are a little scared of you, so they don't want to go to the dinner, they just want to go to the party." ”

"Oh, I'm so horrible right now?" Crown Prince Frederick touched his face and turned to Princess Elizabeth and asked, "Or am I too old?" Ella, did I scare you? ”

Princess Elizabeth covered her face with a fan and kept laughing.

Crown Princess Victoria glared at her husband vigorously and said in disgust, "Fritz, you are old there. Then he said solemnly to William, "Willy, your friends may not attend the dinner, but at least you should bring your friends to your father and me, which is polite." ”

"Willy's friends don't want to see their parents?" Joey glanced at William suspiciously, always feeling that there was something strange in it, "Forget it, I don't want to, there is always a chance to meet Willy's friends." ”

"That is, after the dinner, some people will have some wine with their father." Thinking that there must be people smoking cigars at aristocratic gatherings these days, Joey suggested, "Dad, I'll arrange your party in the garden, where the air is good." ”

Hearing Joey's words, Crown Prince Frederick smiled and nodded in response.

"Ahh Actually, I'd like to put my party in the garden...," William said wryly.

Joey sighed to himself, then smiled, "I have an idea for a party, it's much better than being in the garden." Willy, wait until we go to your room and have a good talk. ”

After Joey told his parents about today's trip to the University of Berlin, Joey was eagerly dragged to William's room by William.

In William's room, William finally poured out the hope of youth in his heart, and William's description fell on Joey's ears, which was summed up as: luxury, luxury, and luxury! Use all extravagant methods to defeat your rival.

"Luxury?!" Joey frowned and asked, "Willy, we have a natural disadvantage when it comes to being richer!" We couldn't possibly do that to every lady to give gemstone jewelry ....."

"But, Jojo, do you know how much Ella loves jewelry, and she loves the ruby ring I gave her, and keeps saying that it's the most beautiful ring she's ever seen."

"Willy, Cousin Ella likes the ring you gave, isn't there an emotional factor? It won't be because the ring itself is very valuable! ”

"Jojo, in addition to feelings, Ella really likes jewelry!" William struggled to explain.

"Okay, okay, to show luxury, right? Willie, do you mean that I want to decorate the toilet bowl with gold like the nouveau riche?! Joey asked, a little distressed.

Looking at William's expectant eyes, Joey could clearly see William's answer: as long as he can humiliate Sergei, the toilet bowl is golden!

"Do you really want to find someone to make a golden toilet..... Golden toilet! Joey sighed in his heart.

"Isn't it just that the toilet that wants to express yourself is the most expensive?! The most expensive toilet ..... The most expensive toilet in my previous life was the German's own brand Duravit! is known as the Rolls-Royce of the toilet, and the price in his previous life is more expensive than the gold-plated flush toilet! ”

"The problem is that it is simple to install a flush toilet, but the water supply and drainage system involved in the flush toilet is too troublesome, and it is necessary to have a complete set of urban water supply and sewage system to support it, and it is completely too late to renovate the washroom of the Taiwo Palace." Joey shook his head inwardly and dismissed the idea.

"No, I have to think differently, if I stack luxury with gold and precious stones, I will only die." Joey scratched his hair, "I still have to go back to my original idea, still use technology to show luxury, technology to show luxury, then you need to package science." ”

"That's right! Wrap! Luxury does not necessarily lie in the product itself, sometimes a package, a product design can make the product worth a hundred times, so the best way now is to come up with an eye-catching industrial design! ”

Joey clenched his fists fiercely and shouted excitedly in his heart, "Yes, package the technology products I found, and show the luxury of technology with the beauty of industrial design!" ”

"Since it is packaging, technology can be packaged, and Willy's annoying youth body can also be packaged, it seems that we need to find someone who is proficient in stage design. Well, it's a good idea, but in the nineteenth century it was a master of stage design..... Am I going to ask someone from the Berlin Opera next door for help? The problem is, I don't know anyone at the Berlin Opera....." Joey was trapped by a new question in his brain.

"Why ask someone for help, let William pay!" Looking at William next to him, who had a relaxed face and was waiting for his own idea, Joey couldn't help but think viciously.

"Willy, how much deposit do you have with you?"

"No, not a single Finney." William spread his hands, "Jojo, as you suggested, I used all my savings for the ring I gave to Ella. ”

A headache hit, and Joey asked with a little pain, "Your Yulu, shouldn't this month's Yulu be sent these days?" Take it out! "Every child of the Hohenzollern family receives a payment from the family after the age of 16, which is given at the beginning of each month, and although Joey does not receive it now, he is well aware of his family's tradition.

"It's also spent, Ella's ring is very expensive, in addition to using up my savings, I also put in six months' money, Jojo, I'm like my dad now, I don't have a finny in my pocket." William made a heartless joke about his father.

"Oh....." Joey clutched his head in pain, "isn't it, Willy, how much gold marks did you spend on Ella's ring?!" ”

"Hmm... Almost, probably, as if, it should be 3,753 gold marks and 75 pfennig....." William hesitated to report the final actual number.

"And you got 75 Fennig?" Joey had more of a headache than a look of surprise.

"Well, that Jewish jeweler said that it is a new tax in the Empire, and now when you buy jewelry, you need to pay the luxury tax..... which is as high as 25%, this tax is too heavy!" William said this, also with a painful face, but then laughed, "But Ella likes this ring very much, I think it's worth it." ”

Hearing that he was going to pay a 25% luxury tax, Joey's head didn't hurt so much, and for the sake of paying the tax, he had to find a new plan for William.

The problem is, no one Joey knows who seems to be running the opera business.....

Joey, who kept pacing in William's room, couldn't think of a way to make an unfamiliar opera house pay for the stage decoration of William's youth without spending money.

Just when Joey was a little desperate to find that he really didn't have the answer on the road to the opera.

Suddenly, I was attracted by a feathered Indian mask hanging behind William's Gate, and under this Indian mask was written a line of words: Europe's greatest indoor circus, Sioux Circus!

William saw that Joey was attracted by the mask behind the door, and quickly explained, "Jojo, this is a souvenir from Mr. Storsch who went to see the Sioux circus show with your cousin Ella today. If you like it, I've got you covered. ”

"Haha, Uncle Stockch's circus, haha, what better news than this!" Joey burst out laughing.

In addition to the opera house, the stage design is about the circus. In terms of the sophistication of the stage design, the opera house may be slightly superior, but in terms of imagination and creativity, it is the circus that is superior.

The Uncle Stockch in Wilhelm's mouth was none other than the elder brother of the German Navy's Chief of Staff, Infantry Admiral Stockch, Baron Heinrich von Stockch. The Stosch family was the owner of the largest and most famous Sioux circus in Europe, and for this reason Crown Prince Frederick always liked to call his old friend General Stosch "Sioux".

Since they were acquaintances and a famous circus that toured Europe, the only thing Joy needed to do was how to move Uncle Storch to throw a fantastic evening party for William.

Convincing a well-informed circus owner who travels around Europe is not a problem in Joey's opinion.

"Mr. Siemens' electric light, Mr. Linde's gas, Mr. Röntgenium's neon light, Mr. Bellina's record player, and the Schimmer brothers' player piano...... I have a lot of cards in my hand." Joey thought to himself.

"The rest is how to use industrial design to take what I want to sell to the Russians, and the luxury of design and packaging is more luxurious, hahaha!"

Looking at Joey, who was laughing wildly, William knew that his little brother had come up with a solution for himself, but while he was happy, William felt a cold whiff in his neck.