Although the Rothschilds are full of legends, there are times when mistakes are made. At that time, the famous Dupont, Rockefeller and Mellon families had risen one after another, and invariably began to transfer their assets to the United States.

The Rothschilds were not willing to be left behind, not only occupying an absolute dominant position in the European financial circles, but also supporting the Morgan consortium to contain and influence the United States, and trying to fully control the United States. At that time, Citigroup, Morgan, and the First and Second National Banks of the United States were all under the indirect control of the Red Shield family. However, due to the excessive diversion of funds to control the New World, the Rothschilds' control power in the Old World declined rapidly.

In 1865, the Rothschilds closed all branches in the United States because they believed that the United States, which had just ended the Civil War, would not be able to achieve rapid growth in the next few years. In this way, the Morgan family took advantage of the God-given opportunity of the blank financial map of the United States and took advantage of the situation.

Also taking advantage of the Rothschilds' poor flow of funds between the Old and New Continents, Bismarck, Germany's iron-blooded prime minister, used the war reparations he had extorted from the French in the Franco-Prussian War to open Deutsche Bank, with the goal of gaining financial independence for Germany.

It should be mentioned here in passing, although the family creed given by the elder Meyer also said to his own son: "As long as you are united, you are invincible; The day you break up will be the beginning of your loss of prosperity. "We must insist on family harmony."

But in fact, his sons went to different countries separately because of the family business. When the third generation of the family begins to grow up, they also begin to integrate into the society of their respective countries. The most typical example of this is that during the Franco-Prussian War, the Rothschilds in Prussia cheered for the Prussian victory, while the Rothschilds in Paris, France, fought with guns to besiege their city.

Although this may seem a bit against Meyer's intentions, when you think about it, it can be regarded as a split bet. Of course, a country is a country, a family is a family, and the confrontation between Germany and France has not yet turned the Rothschild family members of the two countries against each other. And France's war reparations to Prussia were also actively participated in by the Rothschilds, who, in their opinion, were in their interests for a peaceful Europe. And they operated to keep Europe at least until the First World War...... Well, at least on the surface! But Germany was destined not to like the Rothschilds, not only because they were Jews, but also because of their bankers and moneylenders, and because Bismarck did not have a good relationship with the family. Although the subsequent collapse of the Bank of Frankfurt was largely due to the issue of heirs, the German repression did play a very important role.

The sixties of the nineteenth century were very unfortunate for the Rothschilds, because the second generation of the family, the sons of the family's founder, Meyer Sr., died during this period. However, the biggest blow to the family was the next decade, which was the beginning of the prosperity and decline of the Red Shield family, because the third generation who had just taken over the family power from their father was entangled in illness, and the successive deaths of Nat, Anselm, Meyer, Anthony and Leonel in that decade brought a heavy blow to the family.

Although the third generation of the Rothschild family is more than the second generation, and the fourth generation is also more numerous than the third generation, I don't know why, or just by coincidence, in this era of very patriarchal importance, there has always been a very strange phenomenon in the Rothschild family's births, that is, daughters have always been born far more than sons, much more. And the fourth generation is also different from their parents, they are more like those official second generation and rich second generation of the Celestial Empire, there are few masters, and most of them prefer to use the wealth of the family to live a luxurious prince's life.

Alphonse (or Alphonse) and Gustave (or Gogastaff) who are attending the dinner today are two of the few members of the Red Shield family in three generations, and the family status is naturally different. They were the two sons of James, the one of Mayer's five sons who had opened BNP Paribas, and now Alphonse was in charge of BNP Paribas, and his brother was his most powerful assistant. The two men play an important role in today's French financial industry, and although their visit to Ningdao is private, the implications are intriguing.

Before the dinner, Shen Yazhi and Tong Qianjia helped Wang Yi put on a dress, because of the habits of later generations, Wang Yi rarely wore a long-distance running gown, and the skirt always made him very insecure.

"I heard my husband mention this family, and it is said that it has a lot of power in Europe." Lin Taixi and Jiang Jiaren, who were surrounding Wang Yihuan, asked about the origin of the Rothschild family, and Tong Qianjia replied casually. In fact, neither she nor Shen Yazhi have much concept of the Rothschild family. After all, Wang Yi is in the Northeast, and the Rothschilds are in Europe, and the latter does not have any property in the Qing Dynasty, so the two sides have no contact, and it is normal not to know.

"They can be called the uncrowned kings in Europe, the most widely divided invisible dynastic family in Europe after the Saxony-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, and the Weitins and Rothschilds have become more and more similar over time."

The Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty was ruled by the Wettin family, which has not yet reached the most glorious moment in its history, from which King Leopold II of Belgium, King Louis I of Portugal and Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, who took office on July 7 this year. Later, from Edward VII, England also came under the rule of this family, which lasted until the time of Wang Yi's life, which is also known as the Windsor dynasty. In fact, Queen Elizabeth II of that era, her surname was also Weting. (But that will change when Prince Charles ascends the throne, he will follow his father's surname, and Britain will come under the rule of the former Grücksburg dynasty in Greece, but that's off topic.) ）

The reason why Wang Yi compared the Rothschild family with the Wettin family is not only because of the strength of the latter, but more importantly, since the fourth generation, this family has gradually abandoned the practice of the older generation hiding behind the historical trend, and has begun to gradually obtain the status of the nobility of European countries, and there has been a trend of assimilation with the European aristocratic elite. So the outside world gave the Rothschilds a new name, Caucasian royalty.

Although Wang Yi's explanation made a few girls seem to understand, they also understood that the two people at their man's banquet today were from extraordinary backgrounds.

"Yazhi, you will be in charge of entertaining those female guests."

"Don't worry, husband."