The Rothschild Family is a prestigious financial family in Europe and even the world, known as the "Sixth Empire" of Europe. Mayer Amschel Rothschild (February 23, 1744 - September 19, 1812): founder of the Rothschild family, the father of international finance, a European banking giant, and created the world's first A multinational company that pioneered international financial business. Old Rothschild's First Pot of Gold The Rothschild family (also known as the Rothschild family) is a financial family that originated in Frankfurt. The family is well-known in the financial world, but little known outside of it. How rich is the Rothschild family? This is a world mystery. It is estimated that around 1850, the Rothschild family accumulated a fortune equivalent to US$6 billion. If the Rothschild family had not declined later, based on a 6% return rate, today, more than 150 years later, their family assets would have exceeded US$50 trillion. If that were the case, their wealth would be unmatched today even by Bill Gates, who continues to be the world's richest man with a net worth of US$50 billion. Rothschild Sr. was born on February 23, 1744 in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt. His father, Moses, was a wandering goldsmith and moneylender who made a living in Eastern Europe all year round. Meyer has shown an astonishing IQ since he was a child. His father also devoted a lot of effort to him, carefully trained him, and systematically taught him business knowledge about money and lending. A few years later, Moses passed away, and Meyer, who was only 13 years old, was encouraged by relatives to work as a banking apprentice at the Oppenheimer Family Bank in Hanover. A few years later, the young Meyer returned to Frankfurt and continued his father's money lending business. He also changed his surname to Rothschild (Ror means red in German, and Schild means shield in German). The scheming Meyer soon became familiar with important figures in the court. After being introduced by General von Eastover, I met Prince William. With the help of Prince William, on September 21, 1769, he became Prince William's designated agent. Meyer set the royal coat of arms on his sign, and wrote in gold letters next to it: "M.A. Rothschild, designated agent of His Royal Highness Prince William." For a time, Meyer's credibility soared and business became more and more prosperous. After joining Prince William's account, Meyer tried his best to do every job perfectly, so he won the prince's trust. Soon the French Bourgeois Revolution broke out. When the revolutionary spearhead was directed at the Holy Roman Empire, trade between Germany and Britain was interrupted. The price of imported goods soared. Meyer made a huge profit from trafficking goods from Britain to Germany. By 1800, the Rothschilds had become one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Frankfurt. After Napoleon came to power, Prince William fled to Denmark in a hurry. Before fleeing, he handed a sum of cash worth 3 million US dollars to Meyer for safekeeping. It was this $3 million in cash that brought Meyer unprecedented power and wealth, and became the first pot of gold for Meyer to build a financial empire. Meyer had far greater ambitions than building a Bank of England! When he got this huge sum of money from Prince William, he began to mobilize his troops. His five sons were like five sharp arrows shooting toward the five heartlands of Europe. The eldest brother Amslow guards the headquarters in Frankfurt, the second brother Solomon goes to Vienna to open a new battlefield, the third brother Nathan is sent to the United Kingdom to take charge of the overall situation, and the fourth child Carl goes to Naples, Italy to establish a base and serves as a messenger between brothers. Five James took charge of the Paris operations. A financial empire unprecedented in human history has begun! Nathan, the third son of Rothschild, conquered the British Empire. Nathan was the third son of the old Rothschild and the most courageous of the five brothers. 1798. He was sent by his father from Frankfurt to England to open the banking business of the Rothschild family. Nathan is a very sophisticated and decisive banker. No one has ever really understood his inner world.

With his astonishing financial talent and unpredictable methods, by 1815, he had become London's leading banking oligarch. The Battle of Waterloo, which took place on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium on June 18, 1815, was not only a life-and-death duel between the two armies of Napoleon and Wellington, but also a huge gamble for thousands of investors. The winner would receive unprecedented wealth. The losers will suffer heavy losses. The air in the London Stock Exchange was tense to the extreme, and everyone was anxiously awaiting the final result of the Battle of Waterloo. If the UK loses, the price of UK government bonds (Sonsols) will fall into the abyss; if the UK wins, the price of UK government bonds will soar into the sky. While the two armies meeting each other were engaged in a desperate battle, Rothschild's spies were also nervously collecting the most accurate information on the progress of the battle from within the two armies. A Rothschild express courier named Rothwoods witnessed the battle with his own eyes. Seeing that Napoleon's defeat was certain, he took a boat across the English Channel overnight. Nathan personally waited on the shore, took the letter from Rose Woods, quickly opened the envelope, read the title of the battle report, and then rode straight to the London Stock Exchange. When Nathan walked quickly into the stock exchange, the anxious and excited crowd who were waiting for the battle report immediately fell silent, and all eyes were fixed on Nathan's expressionless and inscrutable face. Everyone pinned their wealth, honor and disgrace on Nathan's eyes. Nathan deliberately gave a deep look to the traders of the Rothschild family around him, and everyone immediately rushed to the trading desk without saying a word and began to sell British government bonds. Then the price of government bonds began to decline, and then the selling became more intense like a tidal wave, and the price of government bonds began to collapse. Nathan's success in England encouraged the old Rothschild. In order to facilitate financial and trade exchanges between Britain and the European continent, he sent his youngest son James to France in 1811 and established a foothold in Paris. A few years later, Solomon, the second eldest son, and Karl, the fourth eldest son, established branches of the Rothschild Family Bank in Vienna, Austria, and Naples, Italy, respectively. In this way, a financial and business empire was formed with the elder Meyer Rothschild and his eldest son Amschel based in their hometown of Frankfurt, and the other sons distributed in London, Paris, Vienna and Naples. One of the important business skills of the Rothschild brothers is to use their branches in various European countries to obtain political and economic information and communicate with each other quickly. In this way, they can often quickly understand the political and economic trends in various places, recommend actions, and win by surprise. For example, when Napoleon was fighting against the European Allied Forces in 1814, the war situation was unpredictable, and the British stock exchange was very depressed. Later, the war took a turn and Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. Nathan in London got the information in advance before the British government learned the news. He took advantage of the fact that the price of London bonds had not yet risen, so he bought in a large amount and made a huge profit. A century later, the Rothschild family in London received news that the Japanese navy had completely annihilated the Russian fleet two days earlier than the Japanese embassy in the UK. Because the Rothschild family was well-informed, they were known as the "omniscient Rothschilds." In order to keep it secret, they have their own special messengers and use passwords to communicate with each other. For example, the old Rothschild's code name was "Arnoldy", he called Earl William "Goldstein", and he called his investment in Britain "dried cod". A few years later, when the Rothschild family expanded to the Americas, they still used this method to maintain ties between Europe and the United States. When the American Civil War was coming to an end, Lionel (son of Nathan, 1808-1879) in London received a telegram from his agent from America, which stated: "Mr. Shalem is coming." Sholem is the transliteration of "peace" in Yiddish. The information delivery system within the Rothschild family was so fast and reliable that Queen Victoria sometimes preferred to use the Rothschild courier to deliver her letters instead of using the British diplomatic bag. By the mid-19th century, a huge Rothschild financial empire was formed in Europe. Whenever there is a war, they provide military loans to various governments and provide reparations to the defeated countries after the war.

They opened banks in various places, engaged in securities, stock trading and insurance businesses, invested in industry and commerce, railways and communications industries, and later developed into steel, coal, oil and other industries. Their influence penetrated into every corner of the economic life of Europe, America and the colonies. The influence of the Rothschild family on European history can be seen from its help in helping the British government purchase the Suez Canal. One Sunday night in 1875, Lionel hosted a banquet for British Prime Minister Disraeli (who was also Jewish) at his London mansion. During the dinner, Lionel suddenly received a telegram from the Rothschild branch in France, saying that the King of Egypt planned to buy the 177,000 shares of Suez Canal stock he held to the French government due to lack of funds, but he was not satisfied with France's proposal. Not satisfied with the price, he expressed his willingness to sell it to other countries for 4 million pounds. Disraeli immediately held a cabinet meeting the next day, and everyone unanimously agreed that Britain would buy the shares. However, the funds could not be raised as Congress was in recess at the time. Therefore, Lionel made a decisive decision, and the London branch of Rothschild Bank provided 4 million pounds to the British government to buy these stocks first. This move gave Britain control of the Suez Canal, bringing huge political, military and economic benefits. Lionel Rothschild became a hero admired by the whole country overnight. Although the Rothschild family has huge wealth and has entered the upper class society in Europe and America, they have always adhered to Jewish traditions and safeguarded Jewish interests as more important than doing business and making money. Most members of the Luo family insist on intermarriage within the family. The companies and businesses affiliated to this family follow the Jewish Sabbath rules and do not do any business on Saturdays. In 1820, Nathan announced that he would not do business with any German city that refused to grant citizenship to Jews. In 1850, when Karl lent money to the Pope, he made a request to the Vatican to dismantle the Jewish ghetto in Rome. In the 19th century, the Rothschild Bank in London announced that it would not lend money to the Russian Tsar because the Tsarist government persecuted and abused Russian Jews. Lionel became a member of the British House of Commons in 1858. He did not want to do it in the Christian way, but required the Jewish way to press the Hebrew Bible with his hands and wear a Jewish hat on his head to take the oath. The nobles in the House of Lords initially objected, but later agreed. This was unusual in Britain, where Christianity was the state religion, and a victory for the Jews, who had long been discriminated against. Twenty-seven years later, Lionel's son Nathaniel became Britain's first Jewish nobleman and member of the House of Lords. He also took the oath in the Jewish way of his father. The Luo family also actively participated in various Jewish activities and donated many charitable funds to Jewish societies. The family also has close ties with the Zionist movement. Its member in France, Baron Edmond (1845~1934), provided about $6 million in funds to the early Jewish immigrants in Palestine in the early 20th century to help the immigrants purchase land and production equipment and settle down. Walter of London (1868~1937) served as Chairman of British Zionism. It was he who, together with the Zionist leader Weizmann, was active in Britain during the First World War, finally bringing the British government to the forefront in the form of a letter from Balfour, the Foreign Secretary, to Lord Walter Rothschild , issued the famous "Balfour Declaration", which ultimately led to the establishment of the State of Israel. In short, the Roche family is a typical Jewish family around. Leopold Lionel once said this, which probably reflects and represents the thoughts of all members of this family: “I have two great honors: first, I am a member of the Rothschild family; second, I am a member of the Rothschild family; , I am a Jew.” The Rothschild family has been active on the international stage for more than two hundred years and has had an important impact on Europe and the world. The reputation of this family is probably only comparable to that of the Kennedy family in the United States in the 20th century. People have various comments on the successful activities of this family. Some people regard it as a symbol of Jewish wisdom, wealth, influence and philanthropy. Others regard it as a living example of Jewish enterprises using money to conquer the world. The Rothschild family made a fortune by doing ancient coin business and making war fortune, and later mainly invested in the financial industry.

The Rothschild family has five sons, who control London, Paris, Vienna, Naples, Frankfurt, New York and Berlin respectively. They have become the biggest force in the European financial market and the political situation. After the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, Rothschild in London provided 20 million pounds to compensate slave owners for their losses; in 1854, they also provided 16 million pounds for Britain's war with Russia in Crimea. British pound loans; in 1871, they spent another 100 million pounds to pay France's reparations to Prussia for the Franco-Prussian War; they also controlled the railways throughout Europe, and all French loans to Russia were provided by this family; in During the American Civil War, they had become a major source of federal revenue. With their unique Jewish behavior and way of life, they have shone brightly in a foreign land and become the world's leading tycoons. Strict family control, completely opaque black box operations, clock-like precise coordination, information acquisition always ahead of the market, downright cold rationality, never-ending desire for financial power, and a profound understanding of money and wealth based on all of this Insight and genius foresight have made the Rothschild family invincible in the brutal whirlpool of finance, politics and war for more than two hundred years, and established the largest financial empire in human history so far. It is estimated that around 1850, the Rothschild family accumulated a fortune equivalent to US$6 billion. If the Rothschild family had not declined later, based on a 6% return rate, today, more than 150 years later, their family assets would have exceeded US$50 trillion. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Rothschild family controlled an estimated half of the world's wealth at the time. The Rothschild family banks are spread across major cities in Europe. They have their own intelligence collection and rapid transmission systems. Even the royal families and nobles of European countries use their systems when they need to transmit various information quickly and secretly. They also pioneered the international financial clearing system. Taking advantage of their control of the world gold market, they were the first in the family banking system to establish an account clearing system that did not require physical gold transportation. In this world, I am afraid that no one else understands the true meaning of gold more deeply than the Rothschild family. When the Rothschild family announced their withdrawal from the London gold pricing system in 2004, they were quietly staying away from the center of the unprecedented financial crisis in the future world and distancing themselves from the relationship between gold prices. The debt-ridden U.S. dollar economy, the crisis-ridden world fiat currency system, and the world's foreign exchange reserve system are likely to face a liquidation. The wealth accumulated by Asian countries with only negligible gold reserves for many years will be "redistributed" to the future. winner. Hedge funds will launch another attack, but this time the target will no longer be the pound and Asian currencies, but the backbone of the world economy - the US dollar. For bankers, the war was great news. Because various expensive facilities and items that depreciate slowly during peacetime will be wiped out in an instant during a war. The warring parties will win at all costs. By the end of the war, the government will be deeply involved in bank debt regardless of whether it wins or loses. In the trap. In the 121 years between the establishment of the Bank of England and the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1694~1815), Britain was at war for 56 years, and the remaining half of the time was preparing for the next war. Instigating and financing wars are in the fundamental interests of bankers, and the Rothschild family is no exception. Their shadow gleams behind almost all modern wars from the French Revolution to World War II. The Rothschild family is the largest creditor in major Western developed countries today. The old Rothschild's wife (Gutle Schnaper) said before her death: "If my sons don't want war, then no one will love war." By the middle of the 19th century, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, The currency issuance power of major European industrial countries such as Italy fell into the control of the Rothschild family, and "the sacred monarchy was replaced by the sacred power of gold." At this time, the beautiful, prosperous and affluent American continent on the other side of the Atlantic had already fallen into their sight.

"The Money Masters" and its Chinese counterpart "Currency Wars" are neither the first nor the last.