After learning the news that Sara had given birth to a child, because Sara was married to a Chinese, violating the tradition of the "endogamy" of the Rotchild family, so there were few congratulators, and Alfonso was ordered by his father James to send someone to London and give a silver cup engraved with the English letters "CHEN・R" as a gift to Xiao Chen Wei, the meaning of which can be said to be self-explanatory. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"His Majesty the Emperor of the French Empire is able to grant citizenship to Chinese merchants, so why should I not welcome your children?" Alfonso replied with a smile, indicating that his sources were actually very well-informed.

"Anyway, I still want to thank you." Sara knows what such support means.

"They're gone, so let's go." Alfonso said meaningfully to Nathan when he saw that the representatives of the Austrian and Italian families also left the stage with Meyer Carr and others.

Nathan knew that from this moment on, the split of the Rothchild family was inevitable.

A week later, when Sara returned to the Rothchild Bank headquarters in London, she received a small wooden box.

"What is this?" Sara asked the clerk.

"This was just delivered yesterday from the post office, ma'am." The clerk replied, "It's from the Chinese mail." ”

Sara strangely held the small wooden box in her hand, returned to her office and opened it, and was immediately attracted by the contents of the small wooden box.

Inside the small wooden box is a model of a steam warship!

Sara carefully pulled the model out of the box, placed it on the table, and looked at it carefully.

It is a gunboat with a strong French flavor, made of beautiful mahogany, and the guns, chimneys, anchors and some components are all made of brass, and the whole ship is glittering with gold, which can be said to be very beautiful. In particular, the bow of the ship is also carved with exquisite dragon patterns, and there is a square red ground golden dragon flag hanging on the mast, which looks very mighty.

Sara perused the name of the ship on the small bronze plaque on the base of the model, which had the Chinese characters "Wannian Qing" written in regular script and the English letters "WanNienCHing" below.

Sara saw that there was also a card hanging on the model, which read "To the lovely little Chen Wei, I wish you a happy birthday and all the best" in Chinese characters.

Next to the card, there is also a letter.

The envelope of this letter is written in beautiful floral English, but the sender's address is from Fuzhou, the provincial capital of Fujian Province, China.

Sara saw the location of the sender on the envelope, and wrote the English letters "LIN", and knowing who wrote it, she immediately opened the letter and read it.

Sure enough, as she guessed, this letter was written by Lin Yizhe.

Lin Yizhe first inquired about the current situation of Xiao Chen Wei in the letter, and expressed his sincere greetings to the Chen family, as well as condolences for the unfortunate death of James Rothschild. Then the content turned to the financial situation in Europe. And apparently specifically to remind Sarah.

“…… I hope you will pay close attention to the European financial markets, especially the ABN AMRO bank, the next financial war, which will surely start with the ABN AMRO! ”

"Attention ABN AMRO! Be sure to pay attention to ABN AMRO! ”

Sara read the letter, and for a moment felt a little puzzled.

"Wow, such a beautiful ship, where did it come from?" Chen Hong happened to come in at this time, and at a glance he saw the model of the "Wannian Qing" gunboat on the table.

"This is Wei'er's birthday gift, and it was sent by Wan'er's husband Lin." Sara smiled and said, "Lin also wrote a letter, you can take a look." ”

Chen Hong took the letter and read it, and when he saw Lin Yizhe repeatedly reminding him to pay attention to the ABN AMRO, he was also very strange.

"Lin why should we pay attention to ABN AMRO?"

"I don't know." Sara pointed to the date on the letter and said with some amusement, "And it's strange, I just calculated the date, and Lin was able to know the news of Grandpa James's death in advance." You know, this letter was sent a month ago. ”

"That's true." Chen Hong read the letter again, and couldn't help but be stunned, "It's just an unpredictable prophet, this is also amazing." ”

ABN AMRO ...... Could it be ......," Sara reminded of her trip to Paris, "that they are going to do something to ABN AMRO?" ……”

"Who's going to do it to ABN AMRO?" Chen Hong asked.

"Maybe it's the Frankfurt guys." Sara replied thoughtfully, "If that's the case......"

"Is this what they call the 'great business' of the Prussian government?" Although Chen Hong did not attend the Rothchild family meeting that day, Sara had already told him what had happened at the meeting. Hearing Sarah's answer, he naturally associated the two things together.

"Probably." Sara took Hayashi's letter and read it again, and said, "From now on, we'd better keep an eye on them, especially their deal with the Dutch. ”

"I'll go and arrange for someone to 'squat in the pit' right away."

"Well, I'll talk to my father about it in a moment."

The husband and wife discussed it and started to act separately. And at this moment, the two of them did not know that from the moment they received Lin Yizhe's letter, the history of the Rothchild family, the history of France and Germany, and even the history of Europe as a whole all went in a different direction.

19 February 1869, Royal Stock Exchange, London.

In this exchange, people from different countries and nationalities are busy working here, turning the metropolis of London into a global business hub. An Englishman working here would often find himself rubbing shoulders with Americans, or encountering a group of Jews and Dutch, and sometimes Danes, Swedes, French, Italians, and Chinese.

At this time, the stock exchange was crowded, and all the stockbrokers and investors in the UK came, all worried about the current price of food.

When Nathan and Sara walked into the exchange, many people cast concerned glances at their father and daughter.

For those who live in London, many people know that Nathan Jr. is an important figure in the stock exchange, and he is here every Tuesday and Friday to take care of business.

In the middle courtyard of the first floor of the Royal Exchange, each specific market has its own specific area or "venue" - for example, "East India Venue", "Chinese Venue", "Virginia Venue", "Jamaican Venue", "Canary Venue", "Italian Venue" and so on. Along the edge of the courtyard is a circle of colonnades, and in its southeast corner, between the "Spanish Field" and the "Portuguese Field", is the "Jewish Field", where Nathan works, always standing in the same place, with his back to the same column.

Beneath this pillar, there are too many legends.

Like his illustrious father, Nathan Jr. does not hesitate to determine the price of a trade when a business opportunity presents itself to him, firmly buying and selling stocks around the world. He has an amazing memory, and although he has a lot of trading activities to do every day, he never takes notes, and when he gets home, he can dictate the whole process to his employees accurately. His magnanimity is another distinguishing trait in the course of his dealings, and many merchants usually find help from him after their bills have been rejected elsewhere. The orders he accepted in this way, the losses were usually small, thus proving the correctness of his judgment.

At this moment, Nathan walked in and stood under the "Rothchild Pillar". The "buzzing" discussion in the venue suddenly stopped, and everyone's eyes were focused on this number one household. Nathan was expressionless and made a gesture to his group of agents that only they could understand, and the latter immediately rushed to the commission counter and sold a large sum of grain bonds.

Seeing this, the agents in the venue began to discuss.

"Rothchild is starting to sell, and they've always been well-informed...... "One trader muttered quietly.

"No one can say for sure what the situation is now, so let's wait and see!" Said a veteran trader.

But some people have begun to lose their breath and follow the trend and sell off.

Sara looked at the busy crowd around her and whispered to her father, "Did you get the news?" ”

"Hmm." Nathan nodded expressionlessly.

He took out a small notebook, took out a pen and wrote it quickly, and when he was done, handed it to Sarah.

"The news given by Alfonso is that Meyer Carr is selling grain and spreading false news that the price of grain is falling. And they didn't hide it, they informed not only Alfonso, but also me. ”

"They do it, can you guess why?" Sara writes in her notebook.

"I don't know, but I have a hunch that they're going to get moving." After reading it, Nathan wrote in his notebook.

"Do you think we should act with them?"

"At least I don't see any danger yet."

"Do you think it has something to do with ABN AMRO?" Sara wrote again.

"It's not clear at this point," Nathan wrote, "that our guys are closely monitoring ABN AMRO transactions and they'll let us know when there's news." ”

The two ended their conversation, and Nathan tore the pages from his notebook, lit them with a lighter, and threw them into the ashtray.

More than two hours after the market opened, Nathan's agents were still selling. Finally, some brokers in the market began to lose their breath and joined the sell-off, and grain bonds began to fall like a dive. By the time the afternoon market opened, Nathan's agents were still throwing non-stop. As a result, panic infected the entire stock exchange. At this time, even the most seasoned agent couldn't hold his breath: "Rothchild is all gone, what are we waiting for!" If you don't throw it away, the grain debt will become waste paper! "The mass madness in the stock market is unparalleled. By the end of the afternoon, grain bonds were down 30 percent.

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