The James Rothschild that Zhuge Weijiu wants to see is the son of Meyer Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild family who is famous in history, but at the same time mysterious, that is, the famous Rothschild. One of the Five Tigers of Germany, responsible for the Rothschild family's business in France.
However, Zhuge Weijiu wanted to meet with him not just to get in touch with the Rothschild family, but also to get in touch with the Jewish financial consortium that the Rothschild family could contact.
The Rothschild family is just one of them, perhaps not the richest, but it is relatively high-profile. Moreover, the Rothschild Five were operating in Frankfurt, Vienna, London, Naples and Paris, so they had contacts with Jewish wealthy families all over Europe.
In fact, the most prosperous Jewish family in Europe today was originally a group of people, the so-called Ashkenazi Jews...a certain "German Jew" with a mustache that he hated the most!
Historically, the Jews were mainly divided into three branches. "German Jews" are one of them. They are Jews who follow a group of Germanic feudal lords. Feudal lords always need the help of profiteers to manage their finances and make purchases. They are also equivalent to royal merchants. The upper class among "German Jews" are the Germans. The feudal lord's royal merchant and white glove. Because the Germanic feudal lords were braver and expanded everywhere, they not only expanded with swords, but also liked to go to bed to expand. Therefore, their royal merchants and white gloves followed suit and expanded their business everywhere, making a lot of money. A considerable number of them fell out of control after their masters weakened (in fact, capital betrayed the monarch) and became big figures in the European financial market.
Such as the Rothschild family, the Oppenheimer family, the Warburg family, the Guggenheim family, the Mendelsohn family, the Lehman family, the Freund family, the Fuld family, the Goldschmidt family, etc., All Ashkenazi Jews.
In addition to them, there are two main branches of Jews in the world, one is Sephardic Jews, which is Spanish Jews. Because they were plundered and expelled by the Spanish feudal knights who completed the reconquest movement, their financial resources cannot be compared with those of the Ashkenazi Jews. However, the Sephardic Jews who fled to the Netherlands and Venice still have some wealth.
The third branch of Jews is the Eastern Jews, that is, the Jews living in the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire. Before the Great Geographical Discovery, they were the richest among the three groups of Jews and had the largest population because of the huge profits they gained from trade between the East and the West. However, things went downhill after the Great Geographical Discovery, but there still emerged Jewish rich people such as the Sassoon family and the Kadoorie family who went to India to hook up with the British colonists and then became prosperous.
Generally speaking, in this changed timeline, the royal businessmen and white-glove Jewish tycoons who are German powerful people are still developing quite well. And they also regard Britain, where capital has a huge say, as their home to hide their money... And in Zhuge Weijiu, they can use the "golden finger" of the Zhuge family's family industry association and Zhuge's military advisors. From the perspective of the big man who controlled the development route of Ming capitalism, if he wanted to truly defeat the British, he must force the Jewish financial capital behind the British Empire to leave the British mainland and go to France, where the royal power was relatively powerful.
As long as these Jewish capitalists who have money, manage money, and control the financial market betray the United Kingdom, the pound will collapse, and the British government will lose its almost endless financing capacity... This is fatal to the United Kingdom. of!
Because Britain is different from the Ming Dynasty, because the UK is small and has limited population and resources, it is impossible for it to establish a large and comprehensive industrial system like the Ming Dynasty. The British industrial system is actually part of the European (Western and Central Europe) industrial system...of course it is the most valuable part.
But no matter what, the British industrial system is incomplete. It must have a strong financial system to allocate resources and control the supporting industrial system. Once this financial system collapses, Britain's incomplete industrial system will not be able to sustain the war - it is not missing a little bit, but 40 to 50 percent or more!
If the UK has no way to buy supporting parts from other countries through the currency created in the financial market, then its defeat is just around the corner.
And if France can take over the British financial system after the war, let the gold franc replace the pound as the basic currency of the Western world, and let the financial market in Paris become the center of Western capital...then the Anglo-Saxon Revival would then become impossible.
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James Rothschild is the youngest of the Five Rothschilds. He is only 37 years old this year, but since the bond crisis that almost collapsed the regime of Louis XVII ten years ago, he has been a key player in the French financial industry. The true master was also a guest of the court of Versailles.
However, James Rothschild also knew that although he and a group of European Jewish bankers teamed up to short French debt, he was unable to really bring down Louis XVII's finances and only frightened Louis XVII.
Because there is another father behind Louis XVII... Compared with the wealth owned by the Zhuge family, Rothschild is not worth mentioning! Even the total net worth of Jewish bankers across Europe cannot compare with the Zhuge family, a family with "numerous geniuses".
Fortunately, the Zhuge family is different from the Jewish banking families in Europe. The Zhuge family has "capital with a motherland", while the European Jewish families have "capital without a motherland."
European Jewish families can move freely in Europe and even Western countries. Although they are less loyal, they are not easily suspected by the rulers of various countries that they are agents of some foreign country. But the Zhuge family itself is the actual "monarch", so their capital is also the actual national capital, with a clear nationality.
In addition, the Zhuge family does not belong to the white-skinned Christian (Jewish) civilization circle. They are a super family in the Eastern Confucian (Taoist) civilization circle. Although they can control everything in their own territory, once they enter the circle of Western countries, they will be targeted immediately!
Therefore, the Zhuge family can only be very restrained in their business in Europe, and they have to hide themselves behind the Bourbon and Romanov dynasties... But where are their size and background? No matter how you hide it, you can't be like the Jewish families in Europe.
"Luo Wu, we haven't seen each other for some years... The last time we met was when Napoleon fell. You were only in your 20s, and it's already been more than ten years!"
In the Grand Arithenon Palace, James Rothschild, who was making waves in the French financial market, was now like a primary school student listening to the lectures of his class teacher. He put his legs together, bent his knees, and sat on a chair obediently. Deliberately sitting with only half of my buttocks... This attitude was only shown after seeing Zhuge for a long time.
"Your Majesty, you still remember this junior. I am really flattered by this junior. Do you have any teachings for inviting this junior here today?" James Rothschild spoke fluent Chinese - all five members of the Luo family could speak it. Chinese, and when they dealt with Ming officials and businessmen, they always used the Chinese surname "Luo" instead of Rothschild.
James Rothschild also had a Chinese name called Luo Zhanwu, and Zhuge Weijiu directly called him "Luo Wu".
Hearing "Luo Wu" get straight to the point and ask about serious matters, Zhuge Weijiu stopped talking and said with a smile: "I'm old, I don't care much about family affairs... I want to The Duke of Marseille will take you to Shanghai. On behalf of your Luo family and other large Jewish families, go and meet Zhuge Weidao, the 18th military advisor of our Zhuge family! That is the husband of Grand Duchess Natalie Pavlovna. From now on we He will take over the contact between the Zhuge family and Europe. If there is anything, he will talk to you."
"Your Majesty," James Rothschild asked, "can you give me a little more information? What exactly are you talking about when I go to Shanghai?"
Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said: "What are we talking about? Of course we are talking about the possibility and price of betraying the British Empire!"
