Chapter 992: Lisbon Letters
"Dear Yanni, I have come to Lisbon and stayed in the Zhong Mansion on the Via Wang, although the owner is not there, the Indian butler has given me meticulous care, and even allowed me to borrow the most precious original books in the Zhong family library. Everything was fine except that Lisbon was too wet and my knees were aching again. ”
"I'm wearing a Seris Funan down jacket now, a layer of Seris Tianshan blanket, and a Seris Nanzhou velvet hat on my head, and the whole person looks like the Indian Brahmin master of Seris. If you show up in Paris, you will definitely be beaten by angry passers-by and then hung up on a telephone pole. ”
"Paris, the heart of Europa, is now the toilet of Europa. Although as a German, I am glad to see the arrogant and flashy French fall step by step, as a historian, as a European, a sense of transcendence of the country and the nation makes me think of the glory of Paris, and I can't help but cry, and at the same time feel ashamed of myself wearing a Seris textile. ”
"But that's history, isn't it? Just as the electric light above my head I couldn't work at my desk in the silence of the night, it also came from Seris. You know, in Europa, anyone with some money is happy to use Seris's electric lamps, not the defective ones in Britain or Germany that only last a month. ”
"The people who burned Seris goods in the streets of Paris, Rome, London, Berlin, Moscow, and cities in Europe, came home tired of tossing and turning, lit Seris's electric lights, turned on the radio made by Seris, and took out Penglai beer from the refrigerator that Seris invented, but they didn't care at all about where these things came from."
"They'll have a lot of excuses that these things are made in the United States, but anyone with a basic education and a normal news outlet should know that most of the parts and ingredients for these things come from Seris. Without Seris, we would no longer be able to enjoy modern life. ”
Perhaps it was this fear that made Europa hate Seris more and more after the Second Anatolian War. The old smoke has not yet dissipated, and I already smell the smell of World War II. This is by no means alarmist, Yanni, the haze of war, total war, has enveloped the entire earth. Unlike the First World War, it will be a decisive battle between East and West. ”
"Yanni, don't complain that I'm off topic. I discussed it with you before I left. I came to Lisbon to discover a secret that had been buried for a hundred years. Passing through France, I gained a deeper understanding of the situation in Europe, which made me more interested in the secret. I firmly believe that this trip will bring me great gains, because I will uncover one of the most important truths in the history of East-West relations, and it is this truth that has been buried for a hundred years that has brought the East and West to the brink of war, the lives of millions or even tens of millions, and the happiness of more than a billion people. It's tied to this truth. ”
"As a historian, I understand that it is inevitable that East and West will eventually move towards confrontation, but I also think. This confrontation can be resolved in the end, and a full-scale war is not inevitable, but only theoretically the worst outcome. But there is a part of the whole thing that exacerbates the contradictions, and I am compelled to agree with Feuerbach that any evil grows from a rotten branch of the tree of beauty. ”
"To understand my new understanding, it is necessary to sort out the history of Europe. The First World War of 1759, the Nine-Year War, the North African War of 1770, the French Revolution of 1778, the American War of Independence of 1785. The aftermath of the First Anatolian War ended in 1788 until the Mexican War of 1790 and the Boer War of 1810. ”
"Marked by the opening of the Suez Canal, the world tends to be peaceful, and the East and the West have lived in harmony for half a century. Until the Second Anatolian War in 1845, it was interspersed with the Russo-Cyprotic War and the War of the Americas. Europe's relations with Seris are generally friendly. ”…,
"The change began after the Second Anatolian War, when Israel became a world economic power, strictly speaking, Israel only took advantage of the situation, but the economic crisis swept the world, and only the Israelis relied on the financial empire of Holy Emperor Street in Haifa to not only survive unscathed, but also make a windfall, so it became the evidence of the accusations of Seris and Europe against each other."
"The Cyrisian conspiracy spread throughout Europe, and even well-educated and historians began to sincerely believe that the Cyrisians had supported the Jews to rebuild Israel a hundred years ago, in order to control the financial lifeblood of Europe, and eventually to rule the world."
Of course, they all ignored the voices of Seris's side, and the rule of the Cyris Empire was also in jeopardy due to the economic crisis, and there were many internal contradictions. Many Seris accused the Jews of betraying Seris, acting as minions on behalf of Europe, and infringing on Seris's interests, and even attributed Seris's forced peace talks in the Second Anatolian War, the loss of control of Mogadishu and the Suez Canal, and the defeat of the Second Mexican War in 1850 to the Europeans' efforts through Israel. ”
"Behold, the rotting branch is the ...... of Israel"
"The history we now know is that after the Nine-Years' War, Russia was defeated and began to drive out Jews en masse because of its hatred of the tripartite alliance of Seris, the Jews, and Prussia, combined with the issue of war reparations. At that time there were 1.8 million Jews in all of Europe, 1.5 million in Eastern Europe, and one million of them in Russia. At least 600,000 poor Jews were expelled from Russia and turned into refugees. ”
During this time, Britain and Seris were working together to dig the Suez Canal, which led to the North African War, which led to the division of Egypt between the two sides, with Seris gaining control of the canal and the eastern shore of the Red Sea, and Britain gaining control of the western bank. In order to solve the livelihood of these hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Jewish upper echelons lobbied the two countries to obtain an autonomous land on the east bank of the canal, which was the former Mandate of the Republic of Israel: the Sinai Arish. ”
"This is only the mainstream theory that is public, not the public official archives show that the Jews obtained the settlement land, and even the establishment of the country, were related to the British, who established the hegemony of Europe after the Nine Years' War and the North African War, and took the initiative to negotiate with Seris to obtain this autonomous land and solve the Jewish problem in the whole of Europe."
But this statement is more suspected to be based on the anti-Semitism of the time when the Breton Club was based during the French Revolution. Fabricated statements to incite the French against Britain. During the First Anatonian War, European nations formed an alliance against Britain and Prussia, mainly against Britain, and this statement entered the official archives. Britain is very secretive about this history. No one has been able to find the relevant historical archives, and it seems that this statement is tacitly accepted. ”
"But it seems to me that there is another reason why the Britons are reluctant to speak, and that their involvement in Jewish state-building is far less deep than what is believed. And Seris's role in Jewish statehood was far more than providing an autonomous land. ”
"What I'm looking for is how deeply involved the Cyres were in the establishment of the Jewish state. As you know, Feuerbach and Engels helped me immensely in this matter. When Feuerbach wrote the Manifesto, he had a deep relationship with the masters of Seris, and Engels's family also had business dealings with Seris's mechanical industry. Although they did not find traces in the official history of Seris, they did get the clue that the Seris Fuxing Bank had a close relationship with the Israeli financial empire, and this relationship dates back to a hundred years ago, when Zhong San, a partner of the Lisbon branch of the Fuxing Bank, had many dealings with the upper echelons of European Jews and left many accounts. There is a vague reference to a 'great idea' that changed the whole world, and I would like to say again, and that's why I'm here in Lisbon. This is the truth buried deep in. ”…,
"Zhong San's family is not a wealthy family in Seris, and it can be seen from the decoration of this Lisbon mansion that it still has a hint of nouveau riche atmosphere, and for the Seris who have only been free from Tatar rule for more than a hundred years, it will not give birth to the real aristocracy of Europe with hundreds of years of inheritance. But the habit of each generation of heads of the family devoting themselves to expanding the library has benefited me as a historian a lot. But this is also a tradition of the Seris aristocracy, and the majority of Seris in Lisbon have private libraries and are generously open to the public, and I have the intention of taking you over and staying here for ten years. ”
"It's in Zhong San (sorry, I have to draw carefully.) In order to write out the name of this Seris, and to mark the name of the Seris people with pronunciation, it is too easy to confuse, don't look at it as a three-word puzzle), it is in this Zhong San's public autobiography that I found the treasure. It is clearly written in the autobiography. On 15 October 1760, he consulted with the Portuguese Viscount, Mr. Velasquez, about the establishment of the Jewish state, and he promised to use his family's influence on Emperor Seris to promote this proposal and gain the support of Seris. ”
"It stands to reason that most of the politically relevant stories mentioned in the public autobiographies of businessmen are exaggerated or even uncredible. But the Portuguese Viscount Velázquez mentioned here was none other than the first Governor of the Mandate of Sinai's Arish, the Jew Jafa. In the historical materials related to Jafa, it is vaguely said that Jafa had a close relationship with the merchants of Seris and played an important role in the process of establishing the autonomous territory, and there is no other historical evidence to corroborate who he had contact with and what role he played, and this autobiography just makes up for this shortcoming. ”
A relatively clear conclusion was drawn that the process of Jewish statehood did not begin after the Nine Years' War, but must be traced back to the period of the Nine-Year War. Russia's expulsion of the Jews only accelerated the process. ”
If this inference is true, the history of the relationship between Cyris and Israel will have to be rewritten, you ask, isn't this exactly in line with the Cyrisian conspiracy that is now popular in Europe? Of course not, on the contrary, if the history of the founding of Israel was opened by a businessman of Seris, and not by the famous second foreign minister of Seris a hundred years ago, then the conclusion is in line with what I advocate about historical contingency, that all necessity is made up of some accidental fragments coming together and finally acting. ”
"In this autobiography, I even read that Mr. Chung complained that the Jews were using unfair means to compete with his bank. And what makes me wonder is how this Mr. Chung persuaded Viscount Velasquez to make him realize the possibility of a Jewish state on their own? In this matter, Mr. Chung seems to be more shrewd and eloquent than the Jews......"
"Unfortunately, Mr. Chung's descendants rarely stay in Lisbon and spend most of their time in America. But even if he could meet him face to face, a hundred years apart, I'm afraid he didn't know how his ancestors accomplished this feat. ”
"Okay, that's all I'll do for now, your ...... Cal. ”
In July 1865, in the century-old bell house in Lisbon, Carl Max finished writing this letter, and then tiredly sank his body into the leather sofa, picked up the book "Mein Kampf: The Autobiography of Zhong San", and read it with relish.
A hundred years back, in the same room, in the sofa with almost the same style, Zhong Sanzheng was sipping Fenjiu while leaning up and writing several cases.
It was not difficult to convince Velázquez that he was capable of moving Emperor Seris, and later historians Max did not know the historical background of the changes in the Syriss Fuxing Bank.
After the reconquest of the north, the Fujian consortium that controlled the Fuxing Bank was subjected to severe political scrutiny because of its involvement in the Jin Shang group, and the control was transferred from the Fujian consortium to the hands of the emerging Jiangnan Gongfa lords, and at the same time, the supervision bureau set up by the Emperor's United Political Affairs Hall and the Financial Federation reviewed all major transactions, and all important matters, including the business of the Lisbon branch, were regularly reported by the secretary and supervisor of the central court. Although the emperor would hardly read it, and letting the secretary of the central court supervise the collection of the newspaper was only to show the people that the Fuxing Bank was also under the emperor's nose, so as to restore the confidence of the people in the Fuxing Bank, if it was related to the founding of the Jewish state, it was still possible to enter the emperor's eyes. …,
In other words, he Zhong San actually has the title of "Observing the Wind and Visiting Envoys", and the relationship between the family is just to lay the foundation for this capital.
The daunting task of the Jewish statehood was as difficult as the digging of the Suez Canal, not a matter of three or five years, and Zhong San was just a viable blueprint for Velasquez, but it was enough to attract Velázquez to invest in it. With a keen sense of smell for Jews, he could feel the smell of this direction, because the background of the situation provided by Zhong San, and the network of connections behind him, had the possibility of paving this great project.
Anyway, it's just a possibility, as long as the emperor replies with a sentence: "If the price is right, we are willing to consider this matter", it is the great success of his Zhong San, and it is also the great success of Velasquez. For Jews, the question is not how much money is, but whether they can find a place where money can be used.
Zhong San was writing a letter to the head office, and it was writing with smoke above his head, and his entourage, the wooden man, rushed in and shouted, "It's amazing! The old man is critically ill! ”
Zhong San was stunned, the hard pen in his hand clicked on the paper, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "It's good to be dead!" ”
Then he shook his head again, as if he wanted to shake off the sourness in the corner of his eyes: "No, no, how can it!" I haven't even rectified you yet, how can you die, old man!? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )