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Chapter 575 The truth is generally very embarrassing

As the central government of the Roman Catholic Church around the world, the Vatican enjoys the same status as a sovereign state, and can sign international treaties or join international organizations as a sovereign state. The Pope authorizes the Bishops' Committee to be responsible for managing the daily affairs of the Vatican. The Vatican's legal system is based on the church's canon rules. When Catholic canon rules are not applicable, the laws of the city of Rome are used.

The Vatican can send diplomatic envoys to other sovereign states as a sovereign state, or accept diplomatic envoys sent by other countries. However, because the country is too small, diplomatic envoys sent to the Vatican generally set up embassies in Rome. An interesting result of this is that the Italian embassy in the Vatican is located within its own territory.

The Vatican has neither industry, agriculture nor natural resources. Fiscal revenue mainly relies on tourism, stamps, rental of real estate, bank interest on special property payments, profits of Vatican religious banks and tributes given to the Pope, as well as donations from believers. The Vatican has tens of billions of dollars in North America and many European countries, and its capital penetrates many economic sectors in Italy, especially bank credit and real estate systems. Real estate alone reaches more than 460,000 hectares. Gold and foreign exchange reserves reach more than 10 billion US dollars.

However, since the mid-1970s, Vatican has also faced serious financial difficulties under the impact of the Western economic crisis, especially after bank investment errors and increased Vatican staff’s salary, the fiscal deficit has been year-on-year. In 1994, the Vatican’s final fiscal surplus was only more than 400,000 US dollars, of which the revenue and expenditure were around 200 million US dollars.

Most of the citizens of the Vatican are clergy, including bishops, priests, nuns, and the famous Swiss Guard and a Pope's Volunteer Guard. In addition, there are about three thousand secular workers, who are the main labor force of the Vatican, but none of them live in the Vatican city.

But one thing is that the Vatican and Taipei have established diplomatic relations, but due to the position of successive popes, they have never established formal diplomatic relations with the mainland. This is probably related to Taipei's money and foreign policy, or it is because there are more believers there, and the mainland has relatively few Catholics due to historical reasons, and the Vatican has weak ties and no interactions, which is more like establishing a self-employed person.

This time, Paul II visited the capital to host the wedding of Fan Ting and Han Chu. Although it was low-key, it caused a great political impact. The senior officials also hoped that the Vatican would change course and recognize the only legal status of the mainland. Now that he could come here, it is a chance for both sides.

Therefore, when Fan Ting and Han Cho received the blessing of Paul II, everyone's thoughts were changing every moment. What changes might this matter bring?

Minister Zhang gathered beside Fan Heng and asked, "Old Fan, what's the story you are singing today?"

Fan Heng also spread his hands and said, "It was all done by the disease-free thing, I don't know anything about it."

However, Boss Zhu, who was on the other hand, seemed to be clear about this, and he didn't have any surprise expression, which made people feel unfathomable.

However, if you are interested, you can also think about it for a little while and you will know that this matter is not simple. If the top leaders don’t know, how did such a large group of people without diplomatic relations come in? Especially those with deep political influence. You should know that among this group of people, there are four cardinals in addition to Paul II.

At this time, the choir started "The Journey to the Virgin". Then Paul II and others completed their mission, expressed their blessings to the newcomers in Latin, and began to evacuate the scene and hurriedly left under the escort of the security company staff opened by Fan Investment Group.

Then Fan Ting personally announced that the official launch of Huafeng.com, a subsidiary of FN, was presented to the guests with souvenirs of Huafeng.com's opening ceremony. Compared with the previous wedding ceremony, this ceremony was naturally so simple that it could not be simpler. However, the subsequent scene forced everyone to pay attention.

Because Fan Wubing appeared, it is rare that he did not bring girls around him. In today's occasion, it is really not advisable to bring girls over, otherwise it is easy to cause any trouble.

"Everyone" Fan Wubing pulled the microphone, and the crowd, which was originally very noisy, suddenly became quiet. Even the band's sound of packing up the instruments was heard clearly.

Fan Wubing was quite satisfied with the effect, and then said, "Today's wedding of my sister is the day when Huafeng.com is launched. Besides, my relatives and friends are here, it can be said that there are three joys. I am very grateful. I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the newcomer and family members."

The guests applauded and responded, and then Fan Wubing said, "Back to your care, Fan Investment Group has now become one of the largest groups with business all over the world. It has a certain degree of influence in Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries, and contributes its own strength to the economic development of various countries. This is very gratifying. Today, I will borrow a glass of wine to thank you."

As Fan Wubing finished speaking, hundreds of staff members pushed out a car full of champagne and radiated it to everyone. When the sound of the champagne sounded, everyone suddenly discovered that the champagne they pushed was all famous et※ndn champagne.

et※ndn champagne actually has sparkling wine, and it is the best variety. According to the French nomenclature of production areas, only sparkling wine produced in the champagne area can be qualified to be called champagne.

Of course, there were many countries with similar sparkling wines in the past, and later they were constantly protested by the French Champagne Chamber of Commerce, and even sued the International Hague Court for decades. Finally, they won the lawsuit last year. In other words, similar products from any country can no longer be called champagne, but can only be called sparkling wines, or names created by themselves, such as Spanish, German ekt, etc. This was also the case in which there were many domestic champagne wines in China before, but now they are no longer visible, and they have to be cancelled because of patent rights.

Champagne is a unique process. After the white wine is put into the bottle, a little sugar and yeast are added for the second fermentation, it produces a large amount of carbon dioxide and becomes gas. The pressure makes it thump when opening the bottle, bringing a joyful atmosphere. Therefore, champagne is also called a joyful wine. In general, festive occasions, even wasteful occasions, such as the new ship launching the water to break the champagne bottle full of wine, and racers also spray large bottles of champagne when celebrating victory. As for large parties building champagne pyramids, it is the focus of everyone's attention.

The et※ndn champagne launched at this time was expensive, and the most important thing was that it was huge in number. The service staff quickly built dozens of champagne pyramids on the spot, and then poured out the opened champagne and let everyone take it.

Then we started to eat and drink. The Chinese and Western style of catering took care of the appetite of most people. The eighteen-layer large cakes were cut into small pieces and delivered to the dining table. However, it was difficult to cut the cakes. They used two large forklifts to carry the staff and carried a special zigzag long knife to make the cut.

Of course, because the cakes were placed in pieces before, the cutting was just a posture. After cutting the base with one piece, everyone pulled the stand apart and then used the cake layer by layer.

At this time, eighteen armed helicopters flew over again and spread the rose petals as if it was raining.

Minister Zhang came over and there was nothing to do among the crowd. He pulled Fan Wubing and asked, "What's going on today? Why did you get Paul II? This is very difficult!"

Fan Wubing smiled and said, "It's difficult, but if you catch the other party's seven inches, you can still get it."

"Did you invite it for money? I heard that the Vatican's economic situation has been poor in the past two years." Minister Zhang asked.

Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "If you can invite it by spending money, the title of Pope will be worthless. This kind of reason is inconvenient to say it."

What he said is a matter. If Paul II can be invited to spend money, then there will be more wealthy people in the world. The wedding alone is enough for Paul II to be busy. How can he have time to deal with other things? Even if he loses money and sells out a few million dollars in appearance, the money he earns in a year is enough for the Vatican spending and there is still a large surplus, so the fiscal revenue is not on the verge of deficit now.

"What the hell is going on? Can't others tell me, but can't I tell my uncle?" Minister Zhang was very curious and asked with a pull of Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing was a little helpless about his slutty face, so he leaned into his ear and said, "Isn't my most famous medical skills? The condition for asking him to come is to ask me to treat him. Of course, the cost of round trip is also mine."

"What disease does he have? Didn't all cancer surgery?" Minister Zhang asked with some doubt.

"Like the old leader, Parkinson's syndrome." Fan Wubing said to Minister Zhang.

After hearing this, Minister Zhang suddenly became a little funny and said to Fan Wubing, "This is really a bit unexpected. I didn't expect that the emperor's servant, the spokesperson in the world, also needs to seek medical treatment from you? If this news spreads, the status of traditional Chinese medicine will probably be improved a lot."

Fan Wubing shrugged and said, "How dare you spread this kind of thing? No one wants to make a statement."
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