Because Heine said: "If money is the God of our time, then Rothschild is its prophet."

Because there was once a popular saying that there are six countries in Europe Great Powers: Great Britain, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Prussia, and the Rothschilds.

Because in the United States before World War II in the 20th century, "The Democratic Party belongs to the Morgan family, while the Democratic Party belongs to the Rockefeller family." In fact, this sentence should be followed by "And the Rockefellers and Morgan, both once belonged to Rothschild! ”

Because in China, wealth can last only three generations, but Rothschild has been passed down for seven generations and is still standing.

Also because of its mystery and low-key...

For all these reasons, I was curious and read "The Biography of the Rothschild Family" by Chen Run.

The Rothschild family is Jewish and began to prosper in the 19th century. The founder Meyer was the first to engage in currency trading. When the wealth accumulated to a certain level, Meyer led his five sons to Europe. Mainland China opened up the market and was later known as the "Roche Five Tigers".

During this period, wars began to occur in various European countries, and the Rothschild family began to make money through wars. They used the blockade between countries for currency exchange. Nathan, one of the Five Tigers, made a fortune in Napoleon's Battle of Waterloo, which opened the way to controlling European finance and brought the Rothschild family to the top of the world.

However, the huge family also suffered setbacks: they failed to target the American market during World War I, missed the best gold mining opportunity when the United States rose, and fell into political turmoil during World War II. When the Nazis rose in Germany during World War II, the Jewish Rothschild family inevitably became victims. After the fall of Nazi Germany, Rothschild's assets in Eastern Europe were confiscated by the former Soviet Union.

However, the Rothschild family did not remain depressed. After the end of World War II, they began to actively seek development and once again accumulated a large amount of wealth, which had a great impact on the financial systems of European and American countries...

It is simply a dazzling history of global financial development, war, and the rise and fall of great powers...

What impressed me most is that they always communicate with the royal family or government officials Maintain close contact, find the right people, and give full play to the spirit of "taking small losses and making big gains"; and they have an intelligence system that is more accurate than Swiss clocks and faster than FedEx, allowing them to always predict better than the market Be one step early and seize the opportunity; there are also classic quotes left by the family: I squat and kneel in order to jump higher; we must walk with the king; politics and finance have always gone hand in hand... Similarly, in the book, I also deeply felt the huge influence and boost of economics on politics.

As for the gossip, what I think about the most is: in order to ensure the pure blood of the family, the Rothschild family can only conduct intermarriage between cousins, that is, within the family, cousins ??often marry cousins. , the uncle married his niece. Such incest marriage did not cause any intellectual disability in them. On the contrary, every descendant was extremely smart and had a very keen sense of finance and business. It was really strange. Maybe it’s God’s protection.

The rise and fall of Rothschild is due to the opportunities of the times, but it also has the successful wisdom of advancing with the times and developing its business, especially the family motto and cultural genes that have been passed down for more than 200 years, which are worth learning from.