Two days later, the banker Nathan Rothschild received an invitation, which was sent by the famous banker Mr. Bowen, the director and chief administrative officer of Bank of Rome. This invitation invites him to participate in a reception held at Mr. Bowen’s manor two days later.

The Bank of Rome is actually a banking union consisting of six French banks. They hold each other's shares to form a whole, and in fact play the role of a central bank. Franc banknotes issued by the French government are all issued through the Bank of Rome.

This is almost Nathan Rothschild's dream. In fact, through cooperation with Austria over the years, he has almost realized this dream in Austria. But the core of the world is New Rome after all. Here is the most profitable place. In fact, hot money from various countries will basically come to France to find opportunities for investment or speculation. And to do these things in France, you have to deal with Bank of Rome.

Nathan Rothschild naturally also has a lot of contacts with the Bank of Rome. He even hoped for a while to get his bank to change into the Bank of Rome. Of course, this goal has not been achieved, and the French still have some rejection of non-French capital. However, the Rothschild Bank and Bank of Rome often cooperate together.

Of course, Nathan Rothschild would not refuse Mr. Bowen’s invitation. Bank Bouwan is one of the six members of Bank of Rome. Although it is not the largest and most capitalized, Mr. Bouwan is recognized as the best banker in France. Now, Mr. Bowen is the direct manager of Bank of Rome, and he can participate in the reception of his family. For many bankers, it is already a sign of identity and status.

Nathan Rothschild adjusted various unnecessary schedules so that he could attend Mr. Bowen's reception on time.

Mr. Bowen has a not-so-small manor in New Rome, where the land is very rich. Of course, this manor is much smaller than his manor in the Bordeaux area, but in New Rome, there are probably only a few people whose manor is bigger than Mr. Beauvain's.

Although Mr. Bowen’s manor is not the largest, his manor is definitely the most luxurious. And unlike before, in the past, Mr. Bowang's residence was also very luxurious, with magnificent and magnificent everywhere, as if he could not wait to use gold to spread the land like the Indians. (One of the bragging stories in the Buddhist scriptures, saying that Indians can brag, it is really traditional.) But now, Mr. Bowen's manor looks much simpler. But those who really understand, go in and take a look, immediately know what low-key luxury is.

Nathan Rothschild's two carriages stopped at the gate of the main building of Beauvais Manor (someone later called it Palais Beauvais), and several servants immediately greeted them. In the first carriage was Nathan Rothschild’s butler. He showed the invitation letter to the servants who came up. Then the Nathan Rothschilds sitting in the second carriage surrounded the servants Next, walked into this building with obvious Roman characteristics.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a very large rotunda. This hall is seven or eight hundred square meters, and the height of the inner space is more than 20 meters, but without a pillar, it is simply a small pantheon. In the center of the hall, there is a black marble pedestal that is more than one meter high. On the pedestal, there stands a white marble statue of Hermes with a fragmentary part.

Nathan Rothschild knew that the statue was bought from the Turks and was said to have been dug out from the soil by the Greeks while plowing the fields. It is said that those ignorant and pious Greek Orthodox Christians at that time recognized that this was an ancient pagan idol and prepared to destroy it. But the Turkish lord stopped them—he knew that this thing could sell for a lot of money. So this thing is now placed here.

In addition to this statue, the various paintings hanging here, and the sculptures placed in other places are also the works of famous artists, which are of great value. In terms of value alone, some works are even worthy of this Hermes statue. It was only because Hermes, as the protector of the merchant, was more in line with Mr. Bowen's wishes, that he was able to occupy the most central position.

The servant took Nathan Rothschild and the others through the hall, all the way to the back garden where the reception took place.

At this time, Mr. Beauvain was talking with a young man and saw Nathan Rothschild and his wife come in. He just nodded to them from a distance, but did not come over immediately, but continued to talk to the young man. chat.

Nathan Rothschild also picked up a glass of wine from a waiter's plate, raised the glass and gestured to Mr. Bowen, and went to talk to others.

"Mr. Bowen, who is that person?" the young man asked.

"Ah, Supervisor Bonaparte, that man is the Jewish banker we just mentioned. This guy is very cunning. If you want to deal with Mr. Bonaparte in the future, you must be more careful."

This young Bonaparte is Jerome, the little brother of Joseph and Napoleon.

Jerome had just finished his school education at this time. For his future, several brothers had many different plans. At first Joseph wanted to try, to see if he could make him an expert in science. Joseph actually didn't expect much from him. He didn't expect this younger brother to reach his level in science. He only hoped that Jerome could approach Napoleon in this respect. Although this is not enough to become an expert, it is also enough to share the management tasks of some family industries, especially high-tech industries.

However, Jerome's performance disappointed Joseph. It's not that Jerome didn't work hard, he didn't know how serious he was than Lucien in terms of studying. However, his performance is not better than Lucien, basically at the same level. If the test paper is simpler, his score will be better than Lucien's back then; if the question is a bit more difficult, his score will definitely be inferior to Lucien. Of course, whether it is him or Lucien, in Napoleon's view, they are all the same: "Scum, it's all scum!"

In other words, compared with the older brother and the second brother, Jerome, who is more obedient, lacks talent in science. So when he was in middle school, Joseph gave up his first training plan.

Then Napoleon took over the younger brother. After graduating from Jerome High School, Napoleon arranged for him to enter the newly built Saint Cyr Military Academy. But Jerome was quite uncomfortable, even worse than in the school of King Louis. Although he worked hard to learn well, he was indeed not this piece of material. So that after seeing his achievements, Napoleon said angrily: "He lost my face! Just let Polina go to ~lightnovelpub.net~ to be better than him!" So Napoleon personally ordered, Jérôme, who had been red-lighted for multiple goals, was fired from Saint Cyr. So Jerome's student career ended in this way.

Therefore, it seems that Jerome should be handed over to Lucien to be trained in accordance with the rules. But both the elder Joseph and the second Napoleon believed that Jerome must not be handed over to Lucien. So Jerome was sent back to Joseph again.

And this time, Joseph gave Jerome a supervisory position in the Bank of Rome, and then asked him to put on his ears and eyes, look more at the Bank of Rome, and think more. Then I will report to Joseph every week. It can be regarded as teaching him to do business. So at this time, Jerome appeared here.

Jerome does not have any real power in his hands. But his surname is Bonaparte after all, and the Bonaparte brothers are generally united. So even if he doesn't have much power now, Bowen still works hard to get a good relationship with him. Knowing that Joseph sent Jerome here to train his abilities, he also seized the opportunity to cooperate and taught him a lot of business tips from time to time.

"Supervisor Bonaparte, let's go over and get to know the Jewish guy. We have a lot of business dealings with him." Mr. Beauvain said to Jerome.