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When Li Xiao arrived in Weimar in central Germany, Berlin in the northeast also welcomed a young man. The young man’s name was Gelsen Brechrod.

Looking at Berlin, which had just experienced riots and fighting, Brechrod was a little nervous. He was just 27 years old and he was still very immature. The previous revolution frightened him. As a Jew, he was naturally sensitive to these things. After all, every riot in Europe is accompanied by the persecution of Jews, even the very wealthy upper-class Jews like Brechrod will actually be affected.

Gelsen’s main task on this trip back to Berlin was to end his work at the family bank and instead serve the Rothschild family. This will be a qualitative leap. After all, what the Rothschild family meant to the Jews to the financial world was already very obvious at that time.

Yes, from the Battle of Waterloo or the death of Meyer Amsher in 1812, the five Rothschild brothers became legends.

Meyer Amsher was just an ordinary merchant of coins, medals and antiques in Judean Alley in Frankfurt. In the turbulent years of the Great Revolution, he saved the financial crisis of Prince William of Hessian with investment vision. Taking this opportunity, he jumped up, and then his five sons even carried forward the family business and established a business or financial world. Napoleon Empire.

So what does Gelson Brechrod have to do with the Rothschild family? Except that they are both Jews, Gelsen’s father Samuel and Anselm von Rothschild (son of Baron Solomon in Vienna) had long business contacts, and they were close ones. .

It is said that Samuel regularly receives commissions from the Rothschild family and is also responsible for buying and selling securities for the Rothschild family. It is said that the Rothschild family often gave Samuel orders to complete the task of buying low and selling high.

Of course, Gelsen’s father Samuel is also a ruthless character, or a master of business. As mentioned earlier, the Gelsen Brechrod family is Jewish. It was very difficult for Jews to survive in Europe. Even if they had the talent for business, they could easily marry others.

But Gelsen’s grandfather (also known as Gelsen) Gelsen Jacobs, in the early years because the Jewish community in Berlin needed tomb-diggers to stay in Berlin. It should be said that Gelsen’s grandfather did not have the kind of business talent in Jewish legends. In addition to being a gravedigger, he also did a lot of business, but all ended in failure.

The most important achievement of this grandfather of Gelson was to marry the daughter of a Berlin protected Jew as his wife, thus eating soft meals opened the door to success for future generations.

Don’t underestimate the name of the Protected Jew. This thing is quite powerful, because at that time Europe was particularly discriminatory against Jews. Almost all Jews were closed in separate communities, speaking their national language and wearing specific clothing (such as the yellow Star of David logo on their clothes). Quasi-ownership of land cannot even marry other European civilians. The only thing I can do is money lending and various small businesses.

But this is not all. For example, there is a small group of Jews who can obtain a higher status than the majority of Jewish compatriots. If they can make special contributions to the country, such as solving the financial crisis of the king or the grand duke, such Jews will be granted the status of protected Jews.

Protected Jews can be exempted from many restrictions of other Jewish compatriots, such as taxation will be much lighter, and enjoy a certain right of free movement (access to nobles or other high-end places).

Some of the protected Jews have a higher status. They generally have won the recognition of the royal family or the court, and acted as the financial adviser to the king or grand prince and other high nobles. Generally such Jews are called court Jews.

Gelson’s grandfather married a daughter of a protected Jew. It can be said that he opened the shackles for his children and allowed them to live and develop more freely. Among them, the most profitable is Gelsen’s father Samuel.

At first, with the help of his mother’s family, Samuel opened an exchange shop in Rosenthal Street, a remote corner of Berlin. Because of Germany’s loose federation, there are a large number of different currencies between states, and these messy currencies are not conducive to the development of commercial activities, so exchange services appeared.

Samuel got his first pot of gold from this industry, and then worked part-time as a lottery shop and exchange agency. When Gelsen was born, Samuel could already call himself a banker. Of course, he was very small and very small. The humble so-called banker.

By the time Gelsen was an adult, Samuel had already done a lot of business, and he could be said to be a famous banker in Berlin. Because Samuel was so good at seizing opportunities, he firmly grasped the Rothschild family and tied the relationship between his family and the Rothschild family closer and closer. This brought him huge profits.

So when Gelson performed well in the family bank, Samuel decided to send this precious son to the Rothschild family to receive new studies.

Of course, learning is just a name and excuse. The real reason may be more like the exchange of protons for alliances in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era. Samuel sent Gelsen to the Rothschild family to show goodwill and sincerity to the other party on the one hand, but also to hope that Gelsen can learn more from the Rothschild family. The way of doing business.

“If you want to make money, you have to have ears and eyes, and you have to be well-informed,” Samuel said with a serious face: “The Rothschild family is the most informed place in Europe. UU read www.uukanshu.com where you are. What you have seen and heard is the latest and most profitable first-hand information in Europe. You have to be optimistic and learn how they operate!”

Gelson nodded hurriedly, because the old father is usually very strict, and his requirements are not generally high. Since childhood, he has received the most rigorous education and training, and there must be no slack.

“Yes, father, I must study hard!”

It’s just that Gelsen’s answer did not make Samuel completely satisfied. He snorted, and said: “Learning is important! But the most important thing is not to learn these techniques, because these are the same. The past five years You have learned almost what you should learn, but you will only improve over there!”

Speaking of this, he sternly taught: “When you get there, what is really important is to maintain the relationship with the Rothschild family. It is best to win the friendship between them and other financial families and the powerful. These are more boring than those. Knowledge is worth ten thousand times! That is real wealth!”

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