Chapter 313: Red Shield Family
More than an hour after leaving Yingkou, the car passed by Dashang, because it did not enter the city, so a few people just watched the leopard from a distance. Except for Wang Han, Vasilyevich and Kutuzov all looked shocked. Kutuzov is a country boy, but Vasilyevich is a man who has seen the world. A few years ago, he had studied at the Academy of the General Staff in St. Petersburg and had traveled to the most important cities in Europe, but the Great Merchants were different from all the cities he had ever seen. There is only one word to describe what he has seen and heard, modern! If there is one impression to describe the whole city, it is Ambilight.
"This is the industry of the big business group, and of course, there are other large business groups in it. The best primary schools, middle schools, high schools, universities, and the best scientific research institutions in the Northeast Autonomous Region, such as the Dashang Research Institute, the best libraries, the best museums, the best theaters, the best hospitals, and so on, are all located here. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this is the cradle of talents in Northeast China. ”
"I really want to see ...... if I have a chance" Kutuzov is young after all, what to say. Although Vasilyevich did not speak, there was also a hint of yearning in his eyes.
After walking some more distance, the surrounding area gradually began to become deserted, and the only buildings that appeared on the side of the road were the military barracks that resembled pillboxes. Every time a car passes through one of these places, it undergoes a routine inspection. Kutuzov looked up at this time and found that there were airships cruising in the air from time to time nearby, and the entire area was very closely guarded. Vasilyevich understood that the island of Ning was near.
As he went deeper inward, he could already see an open lake in the distance, but at this time, Vasilyevich also noticed that the soldiers nearby were very different from the soldiers on the periphery before, both in terms of clothing and equipment.
"They are the personal guards of Captain Wang Yi, and the number is very small, and only the soldier king of our insurance team can enter it after he retires. But don't think that this pro-guard is for raising people, the most difficult military tasks in the autonomous region are generally in charge of them. ”
"Their guns are ......" Vasilyevich was curious about the guns in the hands of the soldiers, which were obviously different from the standard equipment of the soldiers of the Northeast Insurance Corps.
"It's said to be called a Type 95 assault rifle, but I don't know what the performance is. As for the other weapons of the Guards, I don't know much about them either. ”
Whether Wang Han really doesn't know, Vasilyevich doesn't know, and there is another person in the car who knows the standard equipment of the pro-guard team, that is, the driver sitting in front of him, but the other party has no intention of speaking at all. After getting in the car, there was not even a sound, just very focused on driving.
The sky was getting darker at this time, to the surprise of a few people. The car did not drive up to Ningdao, and turned the corner into a nearby military camp.
"It's late today, the captain ordered you to live in the barracks guest house first, and as for the rest of the arrangements, wait for the notice tomorrow." After the driver said these words, he turned and left. It didn't take long for someone to come up to greet them, and the others didn't say much, just told them not to walk around and not to leave the barracks.
When the three of them heard this, they had no other way but to enter the pre-arranged room, wash and eat, and there was no need to say more.
At this time, on the island of Ning, in the center of the lake, a grand dinner party is being held, because today the two guests from the same top family in Europe are from the same top family, that is, the Red Shield family, which has many legends in later generations - that is, the Rothschild family! The members of the Rothschild family who arrived today on the island of Nin are Alphonse Rothschild and Gustave Rothschild.
Speaking of which, Wang Yi is obsessed with the relationship between money and investment, so when he was in college, he really knew a little about the Rothschild family, which is not exhaustive, but he does know more information than ordinary people. At that time, although the Rothschilds no longer had the prestige they used to have, they were accustomed to hiding underground and often appeared behind the world's heavy financial news in a low-key way. For example, Geely's acquisition of Volvo, such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton's various acquisitions, and so on.
However, after coming to this era, Wang Yi found that the information collected by the Northeast Intelligence Bureau in Europe looked more like legends, and for some reason, some people preferred to portray the Rothschilds as the villains in the urban novels of the later generations. Turning hands into clouds and hands turning hands into rain, but in fact it is not always the case.
The founder of the Rothschild family was named Mayer Rothschild, a Jew, born into a financial family in Frankfurt. Of course, this is a nice way to put it, but his father, Moses, was a goldsmith and money lender who was begging for a living in Eastern Europe. From an early age, Meyer was gifted with great intelligence, possessed the calculating skills that Jews are naturally possessed, and was very sensitive to money. By the time his father died at the age of thirteen, he had learned the business of money and borrowing quite systematically. He then went on to work as a banking apprentice at the Oppenheimer Family Bank in Hanover. After a few years of training, Meyer returned to Frankfurt, where he inherited his father's money lending business and changed his surname to Rothschild, which means red shield in German. This is the original origin of the Rothschild family, and it is also the first time that it has appeared in front of the world.
Through the matchmaking of the German court, Meyer took refuge in the hands of Prince Wilhelm of Germany at that time. Because of his perfection and dedication, he has won the trust of Prince William. And he also used the name of the royal family to run his business more and more prosperous. By 1800, the Rothschilds were among the richest Jewish families in Frankfurt. However, when Napoleon came to power, Prince William fled to Denmark, and before fleeing, he handed over a sum of $3 million worth of cash to Meyer for safekeeping. It was this $3 million in cash that brought Meyer unprecedented power and wealth, becoming Meyer's first pot of gold in a financial empire.
Meyer had five sons, and they were like five arrows shot at the five heartlands of Europe. The eldest Amyslow guarded the headquarters in Frankfurt, the second Solomon went to Vienna to open up a new battlefield, the third Nathan was sent to England to preside over the overall situation, the fourth Karl went to Naples in Italy to establish a base and shuttle back and forth as a messenger between brothers, and the fifth James was in charge of the Paris business. Later, the five became the founders of the Bank of Frankfurt, the Bank of Vienna, the Bank of London, the Bank of Naples and the Bank of Paribas.
In 1812, Meyer died, and later generations added many names to him, such as the father of international finance, the European banking giant, etc., he founded the world's first multinational company, the first international financial business.