Chapter 1284: The Rothschilds Are Here
Just when the Chinese Empire sent troops to fully accept the British and Tsarist Russia's British colonies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Ural Mountains and the Ural River and Eastern Siberia in Tsarist Russia according to the armistice agreement, two uninvited guests came to Shengjing.
These are two Jews, two cousins, one named Anselm Rothschild and the other Leonel Rothschild, both of whom came to Shengjing through the introduction of Hong Hongrenji, the governor of Canton and the general manager of the Nanyang Company.
Therefore, when Feng Yunshan learned that two people named Rothschild were led by Hong Renji to Shengjing to ask to see him, he couldn't help but be a little angry and a little curious.
For Hong Renji, the former self - the real Feng Yunshan who had been killed outside the city of Quanzhou - was a friend when he was young, as Feng Yunshan, who always felt a little imposter when he crossed over, he naturally had a kind of resistance, always afraid that he would be seen by him that something was wrong, and because the other party was Hong Xiuquan's brother, Feng Yunshan also had a feeling that he was not so close to this Hong Renji. The promotion of the other party to replace Wu Chongyao as the governor of Guangdong was entirely because of Feng Yunshan's personal habits, and he still had some expectations for this famous prime minister of the heavenly kingdom in modern history. In addition, Hong Renji is also a veteran of the kingdom of heaven, and he has lived in Nanyang for a few years, and has dealt with foreigners a lot, so it is the best choice to hand over Guangdong and Nanyang Company to him.
Now that Hong Renji did not ask for the consent of the emperor and the imperial court, he took the initiative to bring the foreigners to Shengjing, and also took it upon himself to ask himself to meet the foreigners, which is a bit too bold. Feng Yunshan was originally a little angry, but after thinking about it, from Hong Renji's standpoint, he felt that he was the emperor's confidant and an old acquaintance, and some outrageous and privileges were also very deserved, and besides, he should listen to his reasons. Feng Yunshan also wanted to know what was the reason why he had traveled thousands of miles by train from Guangzhou to Shengjing in a hurry, just to lead two European foreigners to meet him. Moreover, when Feng Yunshan heard the names of these two people, he felt a little thunderous, if nothing else, just their surnames, there is no doubt that these two people are from the famous Rothschild family in Europe.
Feng Yunshan was very curious, these two people who were obviously from the Rothschild family came to see him for some reason. The one named Anselm Rothschild, Feng Yunshan doesn't know very well, but another guy named Leonel Rothschild, Feng Yunshan seems to be a little familiar, and he always feels that he has seen it when he was wandering around the Internet forum before. Feng Yunshan still remembers that this guy seems to be the son of Nathan Rothschild, the former Rothschild at the helm, a giant in the London financial and securities industry, and three of the five tigers of the Rothschild family, and now controls the Bank of England and numerous British government bonds, and is a pivotal figure in the United Kingdom.
"Your Majesty, Weichen has the courage to lead the two gentlemen in Europe to see Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty for forgiveness." Hong Renji didn't feel that he had made Feng Yunshan a little unhappy, he saluted Feng Yunshan with a big grin, and began to introduce: "Your Majesty, these two are bankers from the Rothschild family in Europe, Anselm Rothschild and Leonel Rothschild, who are in charge of Rothschild Paribas and Rothschild Bank of London and the Bank of England respectively. They asked to see His Majesty, mainly because they had big business and wanted to cooperate with the Nanyang Company and with our Chinese Empire. ”
Feng Yunshan said with some displeasure: "Hong Aiqing, there is a big business to cooperate with Nanyang Company, Aiqing, you are the general manager of Nanyang Company, you can call the shots." If you want to ask for instructions, you can report to the Minister of Commerce or Wu Aiqing, who is in charge of commerce and trade in the cabinet, why do you have to come to me? Do you have to buy the entire Nanyang Company? ”
Only then did Hong Renji notice that the emperor's face was unhappy, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, Weichen is guilty!" It is only in recent times that the trade volume of Nanyang Company in Europe has suddenly expanded a lot, all because of the help of the Rothschild family in Europe, which has made Nanyang Company a lot of profits. Moreover, through their matchmaking and full cooperation, Nanyang Company seized the trade share of many European competitors, and the profits also increased a lot, which made Wechen feel that they owed them a favor, so when they asked to see His Majesty, Wechen agreed, and asked His Majesty for forgiveness! ”
Feng Yunshan waved his hand, he didn't want to embarrass Hong Renji too much, after all, in the eyes of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, he was his confidant.
"Well, since they have arrived outside the palace, let them in, and let me meet them!" Feng Yunshan said calmly: "I want to see what kind of big business it is, which actually makes the governor of a province and the general manager of the rich Nanyang Company run for it!" ”
Hong Renji rubbed his hands together and said with great gratitude: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!" ”
Feng Yunshan also asked Wu Chongyao, a member of the cabinet, to come and meet with these two foreigners.
Waiting for the palace people to bring the two foreigners into the Golden Dragon Hall of the palace, Feng Yunshan, who was sitting on the high throne, looked down at the two foreigners who walked in, both of them were bald middle-aged people in their fifties, with a mediocre appearance, if they hadn't known in advance that they were all members of the Rothschild family, they wouldn't have paid attention to it at all.
The reason why the Golden Dragon Hall was chosen was mainly because in addition to the court hall, the number here can be condescending. Feng Yunshan didn't have much affection for these foreign families, and in order to kill their prestige, he deliberately put them underneath, so that they needed to look up to themselves from the geographical location, and if there was really something to negotiate or business to talk about, he could also occupy the favorable terrain and seize some advantages!
The two did not have a trace of arrogance, probably prepared in advance, but the two foreigners with different Chinese spoke a string of Chinese, and bowed on the ground: "Anselm (Leonel) of the Rothschild family of the foreign minister meets His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, may the Emperor live long live Long live!" ”
Feng Yunshan thought that the two of them knew Chinese, and he was very surprised, and asked directly: "The two gentlemen of the Rothschild family came to the country of Shu and said that they had big business, what is the matter?" ”
The two looked at each other, but they didn't understand words, Hong Renji on the side hurriedly began to translate the past, Feng Yunshan knew that the two did not understand Chinese, and the sentence just now was actually learned and memorized in advance.