Chapter 6 4. Nathan dominates the City of London

They (the Rothschilds) are the masters of the world's money markets, and of course almost everything else.They actually owned the financial revenue of the whole southern Italy as collateral assets, and the kings and ministers of all countries (Europe) listened to their teachings.British Prime Minister BenjaminDisraeli The City of London is a piece of land in the center of Greater London covering only two.An area of ​​six square kilometers.Since the eighteenth century, it has been the financial center of Britain and the world. It has an independent judicial system, which is very similar to the Vatican, quite like a country within a country.This tiny place gathers the world's major financial institutions including the headquarters of the Bank of England, creating one-sixth of today's UK GDP.Whoever rules the City of London rules England.

When Nathan first arrived in the UK, France and Britain were confronting each other and blocked each other.British goods were sold at very high prices in Europe, and Nathan joined hands with his brother James in France to smuggle goods from England to France for resale, earning a lot of money from it.Later, Nathan got acquainted with John, an official of the British Ministry of Finance.Harris, to inquire about the plight of the British army in Spain.At that time, the British army commanded by the Duke of Wellington was ready to attack the French army, and the only thing lacking was military pay.The treasurer in the army refused to accept bank notes, only gold coins, and the Duke of Wellington's army was very short of gold at that time.

Nathan had an idea and was determined to make a fortune in this matter.He inquired about the source of gold, and it happened that the East India Company had just shipped a batch of gold from India for sale, and the British government also wanted to buy it, but thought the price was too high and wanted to wait for the price of gold to drop before buying.Nathan figured out the situation, and immediately put all the three million cash he brought to England to conquer the world Prince William and the large sum of money he earned from smuggling British goods, and he was the first to make a deal with the East India Company to buy 800,000 pounds of gold. .Immediately after that, the price of gold was raised. Seeing that the price of gold could not be lowered, and the military situation in the front line was extremely urgent, the British government had to buy it from Nathan at a high price.This sum made Nathan a lot of money.

But Nathan's serial tricks continued, and he proposed to escort the gold to the Duke of Wellington's army.At that time, France imposed a strict land blockade on Britain, and the trip was extremely risky. The British government was willing to pay a high price to transport this batch of gold.After getting this errand, Nathan asked his younger brother James to inform the French government that Nathan wanted to send gold to France. As a result, the British government was very angry, because the flow of gold to France would greatly weaken Britain's financial capacity.When the French side heard such an exciting and good news, there was no reason not to strongly support it, and immediately ordered the French police to protect and let them pass along the way.Individual French officials who saw the flaws were also bribed with a lot of money to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

So the gold escorted by Nathan and others was supported by the British and French governments, and entered the bank in Paris in a mighty way. While attending the welcome banquet of the French government, Nathan quietly sent someone to exchange the gold for the Duke of Wellington. Acceptable gold coins were transported to the British army in Spain through Rothschild's transportation network without anyone knowing it.The ingenuity of its technique directly catches up with the plot of modern Hollywood movies. A Prussian diplomat in the UK put it this way: Rothschild had an astonishing influence on financial affairs here (London).They completely determine the price of foreign exchange transactions in the City of London.As bankers, their power is staggering.When Nathan rages, the Bank of England trembles.

Once, Nathan took a check drawn by his brother Amslow from the Rothschild Bank in Frankfurt to the Bank of England and asked for cash.Nathan was furious. Early the next morning, he led nine of his bank staff and brought a large number of checks from the Bank of England to demand gold cash, which significantly reduced the Bank of England's gold reserves in just one day.The next day, Nathan brought more checks. A senior bank executive asked Nathan in a trembling voice how many days it would take to exchange them. Nathan replied coldly: The Bank of England refuses to accept my checks, why should I want them? of?An emergency meeting of the Bank of England was called immediately, and the bank's senior executives told Nathan very politely that the Bank of England would honor all future Rothschild checks.

Nathan won the dominance of the City of London in one fell swoop in the Battle of Waterloo, thereby mastering the lifeline of the British economy.Since then, crucial decisions, including currency issuance and gold prices, have been in the hands of the Rothschild family.