Entering the club hall, what you see is a grand ball. A large group of men and women dressed in ancient British aristocratic costumes sing and dance together. There are all kinds of wine and food. The people serving them next to them are all black people.
Not far away, a slender man was holding a champagne glass and talking to some distinguished guests. Wells walked towards the man with Shi Zhijian.
"Mr. Downey, I have brought the man here." Wells said to the man very politely.
The man turned around. He was a white man in his thirties. He was dressed very luxuriously and had makeup on his face. He looked a little funny, but his eyes showed a glint, "Oh God, our friend is here!"
The man smiled and stretched out his hand to Shi Zhijian: "I, Donny Rothschild!"
Shi Zhijian didn't know who Downey was, but he knew what kind of family the Rothschilds were, so he shook hands with him without humility and said: "Hong Kong, Shi Zhijian."
While talking, Shi Zhijian had already looked at the other person carefully, and the other person had also looked at Shi Zhijian carefully.
"As for these friends--" Downey introduced Shi Zhijian sideways, "Maybe you should know some of them!"
Indeed, most of those people seemed familiar to Shi Zhijian, including the Arab prince Mohammed and the French nobleman Charles.
Most of these people had appeared at the Duke of Windsor's birthday party. At that time, these people were together with President Lawrence, and Shi Zhijian was deeply impressed.
Looking at other people, even if no one introduced Shi Zhijian in British newspapers, I saw many familiar faces in international news, including many European and American political figures. It can be said that any one who stands up is a big shot who can make headlines.
"Dear Shi, I didn't expect you to look good in this outfit!" Downey briefly introduced everyone to Shi Zhijian, looked at Shi Zhijian again and smiled.
Shi Zhijian discovered that he had a mole on the corner of his mouth. This was a British tradition in the 16th century. A mole on the corner of his mouth often indicated that the person liked men, so Shi Zhijian immediately kept a good distance from him. The "good-looking" in the other person's mouth seemed
Weird.
Seeing Shi Zhijian's little move, Tang Ni felt slightly unhappy. He drank down the champagne in his hand, then snapped his fingers to call the waiter, put the wine glass on the tray, waved him away, then put his hands behind his back and
He said to Shi Zhijian with a serious face: "Now, dear Shi, I won't talk in circles with you anymore. The reason why I asked His Highness Wells to invite you over is very simple. Our Apostolic Association is currently recruiting new people as the president.
, I invite you to join!”
When Downey said these words, his tone was arrogant and proud, as if he was giving alms.
Everyone else around him was also looking at Shi Zhijian, with the same proud and arrogant expressions on their faces, waiting for his reply.
Prince Araba and Charles of France looked at Shi Zhijian with envy, as if it was such an honor for Shi Zhijian to be invited to join the Apostles.
His Royal Highness Wales smiled meaningfully on the side.
Shi Zhijian did not directly answer whether he was willing or not. Instead, he scratched the bridge of his nose with his fingers and asked, "What are the benefits of joining the Apostles?"
When he asked this question, the audience burst into laughter, as if they had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.
"You ask me what are the benefits of joining the Apostles?" Downey clasped his hands behind his back and looked at Shi Zhijian as if he were looking at a monster, "Is it possible that you still want me to help you popularize the history of the Apostles?"
"Yes, if you knew the history of the Apostles, you wouldn't think so!" Someone said this, and the people around burst into laughter again.
Shi Zhijian stood still, ignoring the crowd's ridicule. Instead, he looked straight at Donnie and said: "If you can help introduce a little bit, I will be very grateful."
Downey was stunned, as if he noticed something different about Shi Zhijian for the first time, and smiled -——
"The Apostles are the people who replace God to maintain and create world order! They are the people around you now!" Downey said in an arrogant tone, pointing at the people around him, "In our dictionary, there are only two words
, power! The power to distribute the world, and the power to control the world! Here, each of us can be independent and influence the economic and political affairs of European and American countries! To be precise, we are gods!"
Shi Zhijian laughed when he heard this, "God? I'm curious, how do you rely on to exercise your divine power?"
Others had a look of anger on their faces after hearing this, feeling that Shi Zhijian disrespected their leader and his leader's speech.
But Downey didn't care about Shi Zhijian's sarcasm at all. Instead, he said excitedly: "You ask me what I rely on? It's actually very simple, money!"
The word money speaks loudly and powerfully!
"In fact, since the end of World War II, the entire world has been re-divided based on economics. The British Empire declined because of its weak economy, and the United States became the world's hegemon because of its economic boom, as well as other countries.
Let’s talk about the economy! What is the economy? It’s money! With money, you can buy airplanes and cannons, build aircraft carriers, and do whatever you want across the four oceans!”
"The magic of money is beyond your imagination. For those of us, there has never been a concept of country, because country is just the name of an economic region in our dictionary! This place is poor and that place is rich. If we want, we can
Allocate resources to make poor places rich, and make rich places poor! For money, we can control oil resources, control ocean resources, and even influence the space program to seize space resources in the future!"
The more Danny talked, the crazier he became, and the look on his painted face became ferocious.
"Now you understand, what is the Apostles? We represent God and exercise God's power!" Downey stared at Shi Zhijian with burning eyes.
Shi Zhijian waited until Downey calmed down a little, and then asked again: "After listening to your long speech, I am deeply touched! Forgive me for asking, if the apostle is so high-ranking, why did you choose me?
No one joins?"
There was a contemptuous smile on Danny's lips, and he pointed to the door and said: "Originally I didn't want to tell you the reason, lest you be embarrassed, but if you insist on asking, I'll tell you - have you seen that door? Originally, I raised it
A dog guarded the door of our Apostolic Association, but you beat it away unexpectedly, so I had to find you to replace it!"
Being compared to a dog would make anyone angry, but Shi Zhijian still smiled lightly: "Is that dog from before, Lawrence, the president of the London Chamber of Commerce?"
"Not bad! You are very smart!"
"Thank you for the compliment!" Shi Zhijian bowed slightly, very gentlemanly. Downey said proudly: "Now, would you like to replace Lawrence as my dog?"
Everyone else looked at Shi Zhijian with a proud look on their faces, thinking that he had no room to refuse.
The Arab prince and French Charles once again showed envy on their faces. For them, not to mention being a dog of the Apostles, even being a grandson is an honor!
Only His Highness Wells held his chin and looked at Shi Zhijian with a strange expression.
"Sorry, I refuse!"
With a bang, the scene exploded!
"What? He actually refused? Refused to join the Apostles?"
Now everyone almost screamed in surprise.
The Arab prince and French Charles were even more shocked!
His Royal Highness Wales looked thoughtful.
Looking at Donnie as the leader of the Apostles Association, he was stunned at first, and then angry!
Extremely angry!
In his opinion, this Shi Zhijian is simply ungrateful!
In terms of race order, white people come first, then yellow people and black people!
Shi Zhijian, as the second-ranked yellow man, dared to refuse his kindness, which is simply unforgivable!
"Mr. Downey, you must be curious as to why I rejected you? The reason is very simple. I like to be a human being, not a dog!" After Shi Zhijian finished speaking, he glanced at the people around him, "Of course, I know that many people
I am happy to help you as a watchdog here. Everyone has their own ambitions, so you can’t force yourself!"
"What did you say?"
"Be bold!"
"Damn it!"
This group of people had never been ridiculed like this before, and they were all furious.
"Also," Shi Zhijian continued, "You just said that the most powerful thing in the world is money. With money, you can buy everything and control everything, including oil, land and other resources. Does that also include what I am currently developing?
New energy?”
Shi Zhijian's words made Donnie startled. Shi Zhijian knew he was right when he saw his expression, and continued: "You must be very curious about the new energy sources I am researching, and you are afraid that this kind of resource will break your monopoly on the resource field. To put it simply
, cars and motorcycles need gasoline to work properly, and gasoline is refined from petroleum. If one day people abandon gasoline and use the electric cars and electric bicycles I developed, will the oil you hoard depreciate in value?
"
"Of course, these are all my guesses. Maybe you don't covet the new technology I developed, but simply want to win over me and let me be your dog, but -"
When Shi Zhijian said this, he waved his arms towards Downey and others as a gentleman, "But... we have different paths and we don't want to work together!"
After saying that, Shi Zhijian never looked at these people again, turned around and prepared to leave.
Seeing Shi Zhijian turning around to leave, Downey's face turned extremely ugly, and the others looked shocked.
"Sorry, Mr. Downey, I brought him here, I'll see him off!" Wells said to Downey politely, then turned around and chased Shi Zhijian.
Looking at Shi Zhijian's back, everyone said angrily: "This is so outrageous!"
"Yeah, so ungrateful!"
"What do you think of the Apostles? You can come when you want and leave when you want?"
"Mr. Downey, what are we going to do? Do we want to show some shame to that damn Chinese?" a member of the Apostolic Church asked Downey-Rothschild.
Downey had a very strange look on his face. He suddenly burst into laughter, laughing like crazy, and his painted face became distorted——
Then, the laughter stopped abruptly!
His face was expressionless, as if the person who just laughed loudly was not himself at all.
"God, what an interesting person this is, he can actually guess my thoughts! Yes, I covet the new technology he developed, maybe it will be a new technology that changes the world. It is a pity, if it were not for us
These big shots help him promote it, but no matter how capable he is, he can only reach this point!"
"Then what we have to do is..."
"Of course I'm waiting for the good show!" Downey took out the handkerchief from his arms, threw it away gracefully, and dipped the corner of his mouth with a trace of unruliness on his face: "Although his 100,000 electric bicycles have been sold, but
Without the support of a huge industrial system and no factories to help him produce, what if he has the technology and raw materials? If he can’t do it, he can’t do it. Then he will have to kneel down and beg us? Hahaha!”
The laughter was deafening and echoed in the hall.
…
"Ajian, walk slower!"
His Royal Highness Wells called Shi Zhijian from behind.
Shi Zhijian came outside, the elevator door opened, he walked in, and turned around to see Wells also coming in.
Boom!
The elevator closes.
Shi Zhijian pressed the down button, and the elevator began to slowly descend.
"Why are you chasing me here? Why don't you get in touch with the people in the Apostles' Association?"
"Contacts are useless!" Wells swore, "These people are all arrogant. Many times, even I can't stand it!" After a pause, "If my uncle hadn't insisted on me joining this organization,
, I won’t bring you here!”
"But, Ajian! You were so awesome just now, especially when you made that Donnie laugh so hard, I almost couldn't help but applaud!"
Shi Zhijian smiled bitterly: "I offended so many big people in one breath and you applaud me? Do you think I died too slowly?"
"No way, I've been secretly canonizing you as my idol since just now! How about it, are you surprised?"
"What a surprise, I'm almost shocked!" Shi Zhijian teased, "But why do you seem to hate that Downey so much?"
"It's not like that, it's very annoying!" The elevator door opened, and Wells followed Shi Zhijian out of the elevator.
"You don't know that Downey is simply lawless. Ever since I joined the Angels, he has been acting dictatorially, as if he is really God and can control everything. He doesn't take me, a descendant of the British Empire's royal family, seriously at all!"
"That's not all. This despicable and shameless arrogant has a very evil heart! He killed countless people in order to make money! As for Saudi Arabia, they let them continue to fight in order to obtain oil. The British side manipulated the financial stock market.
It has left countless investors bankrupt and homeless!"
Wells became angrier as he spoke and clenched his fists, "It's a pity that my ability is limited and I can't fight him hard, otherwise I would have to vent my anger on behalf of those people!"
Shi Zhijian knew that what Wells said about "limited abilities" was actually modesty. Although the British royal family is no longer in charge of the British Empire, the capital of the British royal family is unimaginably rich. Just repairing Buckingham Palace every year costs a lot.
Millions of pounds, not to mention the land, real estate, stocks and bonds, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, various antiques, etc. owned by the royal family, the value is simply immeasurable!
Because of this, the current British royal family is more like a wealthy capitalist, and the power they possess comes from the wealth they occupy. In order to keep this wealth rising and doubling, many members of the royal family have chosen to work with the Apostles.
Organize cooperation, exchange information, and manipulate the market together to squeeze every drop of blood and sweat from the people!
