Wang Yi's attitude embarrassed Alphonse and Gustaves, who also knew that tensions between France and the Northeast Autonomous Region began in a shipwreck. The French warship rammed and sank a passenger ship in the northeast, and then abandoned it, eventually killing more than a number of Qing civilians, one of whom was Wang Yi's student. For this reason, Wang Yi ordered the Northeast Navy, which was still very weak at that time, to launch an attack on foreign passenger ships, but all the French, as long as they dared to resist, were directly killed without mercy. Since then, tensions between the two sides have been on the rise, and it was only after the French expeditionary force was completely defeated in the northeast of the Qing-French War that it subsided on the surface, but it was only superficial.

France was driven out of most of Asia by the Northeast, the army suffered numerous casualties, and the original Far East Fleet was completely annihilated, and France was not idle, united with Russia, and provided a large amount of material and weapon assistance to Maozi, although it did not change the final result of the war, but effectively delayed the pace of the Northeast Insurance Fleet. At present, the new point of contradiction and conflict between East France and France is the struggle for control and power in Southeast Africa.

Alphonse also knows that at the national level, the two sides are full of contradictions, and the Northeast is receiving him with a high standard today, not because of his French identity, but because of his surname - Rothschild!

Alphonse smiled slightly and said: "Since the chairman said so, I should also obey it, but for the sake of the people of the two countries, I still hope that France and East Africa can turn hostility into friendship and friendship for a long time." ”

Wang Yi just smiled, he knew that Alphonse and Gustave were both patriots, so he didn't dwell on this issue anymore, and immediately changed the subject, saying, "I heard that your family is most interested in three kinds of business, wine, art and banking. As for the last banking business, although the contemptible people are also very interested, it is better not to talk about the ungraceful things on such a beautiful autumn and moving night. What do Mr. Alphonse and Mr. Gustave think? ”

The two listened to each other's attention, and then laughed out loud. "Since Mr. said so, I would naturally be respectful and obey my fate."

The Rothschilds' obsession with wine and art investment is world-famous, and much of the reason for this is the caucasian aristocracy. After the accumulation of the first and second generations of the family, and even the third generation, the Rothschilds at this time are no longer rich and rival countries, they are completely the European Central Bank that has changed in later generations...... Well, in fact, there are even greater rights. With money, it is natural to seek a good life, and even the Jews, who are known for their frugality and financial management, are not exempt from this. So a small part of the Rothschild family has a common interest in building mansions...... It should be more precise, a luxury estate!

In Europe in this era, especially in France, if a estate does not have its own vineyards and wineries, it is not high-grade at all! The famous Lafite became the property of the Rothschild family in the 19th century. (The Château Lafite was bought in 1868 by Alphonse and Gustave and his father, James, for four and a half thousand francs.) ）

The Rothschilds have a lot of money and have two architects dedicated to the family. However, for the Rothschild family at this time, after all, the time to become rich was too short and the background was insufficient, so most of the family estates gave people the feeling of excessive luxury and cold nouveau riche.

With a manor house comes the decoration, so the young losers of the Rothschilds began to buy all kinds of art on the market, including paintings, silverware and furniture, as well as the Sèvres ceramic toilet used by the junior of the King of France! Don't think that this is the Celestial Empire of the future, no matter what kind of birds and things, as long as the artwork is called, it can appreciate in value. Really counted, the fourth generation who called Rothschild young before was a loser, but in fact, he didn't wronged them. Let's just say that the toilet was bought for 20,000 pounds, and when it was finally sold, it was only 3,200 pounds. If you get a discount, what else can you call if you don't call a loser? As for the more expensive horse races and so on, I won't say much about it here.

It is precisely because of the support of the Rothschild family that European art was indeed prosperous for a long time at that time, and many famous painters in later generations also took advantage of this enthusiasm to gradually become famous.

"There is also a private museum below, I wonder if the two gentlemen are interested in visiting? Not only are there many artifacts inside, but modern artworks are not uncommon. ”

Wang Yi gave a mention, and Alphonse and Gustave of course agreed, and in their minds, Wang Yi's collection was naturally dominated by those ancient and mysterious oriental artworks, but in fact, when it came time to visit, they were surprised. Wang Yi set up an archaeological team a long time ago, excavating ancient ruins that had not yet been unearthed at that time, the most famous of which was the archaeology of the ancient Babylonian region, which unearthed the Hammurabi Code in Iran. As for the more modern art at that time, Wang Yi opened galleries in many places in Europe under the name of Tong Qianjia, and the contracted painters included Monet and Van Gogh, many famous and unknown art masters at that time. Most of these artworks were transported back to Northeast China, collected in Wang Yi's private museum, and displayed to the public from time to time.

"It's not too late for us to talk about art tomorrow. However, wine is now in the right place, and although the contemptible people have lived in the northeastern corner for a long time, they have also heard of the names of many of the wineries owned by Monsieur Alphonse. Among them, Château Lafite is even more famous, known as the first of the four major Bordeaux wine wineries in France! ”

"Haha...... Chairman, you have won the award! Although Alphonse is very confident in his wines, he never dreamed that his wines would be known in the Northeast.

Of course Rafi knew it, and in fact, he drank it too. With his net worth in later life, drinking Lafite is not too luxurious. Of course, the most commonly drunk is Lafite's other wines, such as Lafite mythology Bordeaux dry red or dry white, as for the sub-brand, it is also more frequent. Comparatively speaking, the genuine brand is drunk relatively little, and the legendary 82-year-old Lafite has only been drunk once.

Speaking of which, Wang Yi doesn't know much about wine, to put it mildly, it's just a cow drink, and it spoils things! But this product is such a, if it weren't for his parents' birthday, he would never pay for it himself, so based on other people's things, it is fragrant, and Lafite and other famous wines, Wang Yi naturally does not drink for nothing.

If Alphonse knew that Wang Yi was such a person, I don't know if he would still be able to laugh now?