Chapter 11: Gennasbury's Gardens
As the richest man in the world, Lionel, the head of the Rothschild family, inherited his father's Gennasberry Gardens in west London, 20 miles from his main office, the City of London, and a horse-drawn carriage that took nearly two hours. This is one of the many luxurious mansions of the Luo family, the land of which dates back to the niece of King Canute 800 years ago, and the current building can be traced back to 1802 Aristan? Coplan, known as the "Edifice". The mansion is a large white and stately manor house overlooking a U-shaped lake with beautiful scenery.
Financier. The word seems to contain endless glory and power. But why is it that the best financiers in the world are Jews who don't even have their own land? Why the Jews, who are bullied and ostracized by all nationalities in Europe? Because -- because lending, the most basic business of banking, was a dirty job in the beginning. Who will borrow money from the aristocracy or the rich? Lenders can only target poor civilians. Those poor people who are dying of hunger can no longer care about the consequences of not paying off their debts, so let's survive first. As a result, moneylenders, often accompanied by blood and brutality, tend to rob the poor of their last bit of property. This is the original image of the borrower. Think of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Therefore, the upper class was ashamed of lending, and this was even written in Christian doctrine. Muslims have similar teachings. Originally, Judaism also had a saying, "You shall not lend money to your brother," and it was this golden phrase that established the Jewish tradition of lending. What is a brother? The followers of their own Judaism are brothers, then, by the way, they can lend money to Christians and Muslims. What a genius invention.
This genius of the Jews' ability to break through the teachings later inspired the Italian Jew Giovanni? Morality? Medici, who invented the method of collecting interest through the exchange of guò currencies between international currencies (there were at least 7 currencies in Italy at the time, unlike the Middle East and China, which had established a unified monetary system), cleverly circumvented legal constraints. The Medici family, the most powerful and wealthy Italian financial family before the Rothschild financial dynasty, was created. The Medici family, which emerged from the Florentine Republic in the late 14th century, was the largest financial family in the world until the 18th century. This is the first time that the dirty lending industry has released its brilliant brilliance, marking the official entry of the brilliant career of financiers on the stage of history.
Whether the influence of the Rothschild family was as legendary as it could "allow and forbid" war, Downing didn't know, but of course he was willing to have a good relationship with Roche, so he got on the East India Company's special carriage early and went to Gennasberry Gardens, which was the manor of the big boss.
Sure enough, it's a big garden. Looking at this beautiful villa with swaying shadows, lush greenery, and white walls and jade pillars, Tang Ning was relaxed and happy, and secretly decided that he would also build such a villa in the future, marry a dignified lady, and have a mischievous child. Finally found a little meaning in life, this life goal is not far away for him, right now, as long as he quietly dismisses this greedy Jew.
When the richest people today invite you to dinner, what is the picture? Apart from the "wireless telegraphy" technology, I'm afraid there is no other possibility. Sending away the enthusiasm of the "investor" is not necessarily an easy life, with the status of others, maybe I have already made up my mind in my heart, look, I gave you such a big face, what do you have to ask for it, I am going to decide on that project. Downing reckonels that Lionel is not content to be part of a 50 percent investor's equity split into a third of the company's equity.
Since he was in a hurry, the servants and cooks were still busy, and the owner of the garden, Lionel, took the guests around the garden, introduced a brief history of the garden, and said that he was asking an architect to build an English manor house in Buckinghamshire.
Lionel had a total of 5 children, the eldest daughter was only 14 years old, and it was a real joy for a group of children to play in the garden. The Rothschilds have always had a tradition of marrying close relatives to ensure that wealth does not leak out, which is unscientific, but his children look quite cute, especially the 12-year-old second daughter Evelina.
Tang Ning thinks that people are unscientific, and people still think he thinks it's weird, who calls him a mixed Asian-European race? Lionel couldn't help but ask, "Are you still single?" There is no ...... in India What to leave behind? ”
Tang Ning spread his hands: "I'm a science maniac, so ...... Besides, I didn't meet a satisfied girl. ”
Before the term Franken became popular, Lionel asked, "What is a Franken?" ”
Downing: "Like Newton, Mr. Newton never married, you know? I guess Mr. Newton, like me, has a different perspective on many things, so it's hard to get along with people, it's hard to find the woman he loves. ”
Lionel: "Huh...... It's too ...... Excuse me, are you a Christian? ”
Downing: "I'm secularist, eh...... Let's put it this way, I respect the traditions and lifestyles of various ethnic groups and religions, but I think that most religions can only be used for ordinary life guidance, but cannot be used to do great things, for example, if you believe in the theological maps of the Middle Ages, you can't believe that the map we live in is a sphere, and the vast sea beyond Eurasia is a terrible domain full of demons and monsters in various religions, so you can't enter the Age of Discovery, and naturally there will be no East India Company! ”
Lionel is a devout Jew, he is the first member of the House of Representatives in the whole of Britain not to enter Protestantism, and has repeatedly challenged the limits of tolerance for infidels in the British Parliament, last year he was "invited" out of the Palace of Westminster for using the Jewish oath in his oath, so he was puzzled by "secularism", saying: "Incredible, religion is almost the most important thing in our lives, it makes us calm, we have virtue, self-restraint, I can't imagine what a religionless human society would be, your secularism makes me feel that you don't believe in any religion! ”
Downing: "I can't say that, I'm just saying that when making decisions, especially doing scientific research, one is based on the observed truth, and there is no room for superfluous things." As Mr. Newton said, the simplest explanation is often the most correct, and the more conditions attached, the more likely there is to be a fallacy. So Newton was able to imagine such a wonderful thing as uniform linear motion without an external force. ”
Lionel restrained his feelings for a moment and said: "It seems that your idol is Mr. Newton, you have mentioned him more than once, fortunately he also has a certain relationship with our banking industry, he is the overseer of the mint, hehe, and he is also trying to make a breakthrough in alchemy." By the way, as a so-called scientific maniac, what do you think about alchemy? ”
Tang Ning smiled slightly, and said like a god: "His starting point is right - any matter can be converted into gold, but he far underestimated the amount of energy required in the transformation process. (http://)。 This level of energy will not be available to humans for a few hundred years. ”
Lionel: "Oh? Right? Do you have a way to make gold? ”
Downing: "I can't help it, but I know where Kim came from." The heavier the element, the harder it is to form, and gold, the most important metal, is of course the most difficult to form, which is why it is so rare. Let's put it this way, the weight of the earth is 6 times 10 to the 21st power, and the power of the entire earth combined cannot form iron, the weight of the sun is more than 330,000 times that of the earth, only the power of the sun can form iron, and at the end of the sun's lifespan, that is, 6 billion years from now, at this time, the sun may produce a huge explosion, and the energy generated by this big bang will exceed all the energy released by the sun in the previous 10 billion years of life, at this time, it is possible to form elements heavier than iron, including gold. I don't know if you say that, but you can probably understand why Newton didn't succeed, right? ”
With a "click", Lionel's jaw fell to the ground, and he heard a miracle more powerful and strange than the biblical creation theory, and his head short-circuited for a while.
Of course, after a short circuit, Lionel regarded the rational claims of scientific madmen as one of the most ridiculous fallacies in the world, and the devout believer was very determined to ignore the "so-called" truths. And Downing didn't need to explain anything at all, he didn't come into this world to be a science master, so far, his dream was only "to have a villa like Gennasbury's Gardens", and it would be better if it were in Cambridge Town.