Chapter 570 Friedrich Regrets
Who is Heidi? The assistant to the dignified Prince of Hedingen! Although Germany is a republic like France, the royal family here still has a very high status.
This trend has also spread to China. It's a different era now, but there are still people who claim to be descendants of the royal family. Just like a certain celebrity, his ancestor was clearly a rag collector, but he insists on saying that he is a descendant of the royal family. The only thing missing is that he changed his surname to "Guarjia".
But although the Guargiya clan produced many concubines in the Qing Dynasty, they didn't produce any celebrities. The most famous one was Oboi, and we have to thank Master Jin Yong for that...
Besides, the Guwalja clan is the largest of the eight major Manchu surnames, with a total of 756 branches! Many of them come from poor families!
Still trying to fool people with your so-called 'royal blood'? You forgot about it so early in the morning!
In fact, it is the same in Germany. The nobles are not as good as "Wangwang" in decline. Khedira has aristocratic blood. According to German customs, he can also be called "Prince", but isn't he still his own bodyguard?
But Friedrich was different. He had the title of 'Prince of Hedingen'! What did that title mean? He could easily borrow hundreds of millions from the bank just for that title!
Just like his cousin, Prince of Hohenzollern, Carlos Patrick Hohenzollern, who relied on this title to cheat people and was eventually imprisoned for four years. After being released from prison, he continued to cheat people and then committed suicide by jumping off a building in a luxury hotel...
The reason why he was able to cheat money so easily was very simple: in the eyes of the Germans, the Hohenzollern family was not involved in politics, and their existence represented Germany's cultural heritage.
But the Hohenzollern family is not involved in politics?
Hehe...Isn't it okay if I believe it? Isn't Friedrich a military man?
But Xiao Peng doesn't care about his identity! Since we want to cooperate, we must first determine the status of both parties! Friedrich was spoiled by the Germans and is so proud, but Xiao Peng is not German!
Moreover, Xiao Peng was not worried that he would do something bad to him. Among the various countries in Europe, there were actually many countries that had good relations with China, but they were generally poor countries in Eastern Europe, and the country with the deepest economic and trade cooperation with China was actually Germany.
Germany has one thing in common with China: pragmatism. Just like their cooperation with Russia on the natural gas pipeline project, they're determined to do it no matter how much sanctions the US imposes.
With this pipeline, Russian natural gas can bypass Ukraine and enter Europe. The Germans can use cheap natural gas and earn "tolls". So no matter how much the Americans shout, they won't listen and just do their own thing.
The same thing happens in their attitude towards China.
Almost all of the EU's economic and trade cooperation with China is led by the Germans. Although Germany is also in a trade deficit with China, why not use Chinese products to improve their quality of life?
Therefore, in the entire EU, Germany has the deepest cooperation with China.
This is not because Germans like China, but because they are "pragmatic".
Xiao Peng had been treated unfairly on Norderney Island a while ago, and now Norderney Island was even willing to beat someone up for Xiao Peng. Was it really because Xiao Peng's rescue moved them? It was also more because they were "pragmatic."
If an island that relies on tourism for its development is repeatedly reported to have "racial discrimination", it will have a huge impact on their development. If it affects their income, it is not worth it, so the pragmatic Germans chose to bow their heads.
Even though Xiao Peng directly drove Heidi away, he dared to do so because he was very confident that Friedrich would definitely come to him!
In fact, Xiao Peng's guess was not wrong.
"Mr. Friedrich, this is what happened!" Heidi said into the phone. "And then they kicked me out! How could this Chinese guy have such an attitude? He has no manners!"
Friedrich on the other end of the phone remained silent.
"Mr. Friedrich, are you still there?" Heidi asked hurriedly when she heard no sound on the phone.
Friedrich said, "I'm here."
Heidi said angrily, "Mr. Friedrich, that Chinese guy went too far! He kicked me out like that and showed no respect to you! He's totally disrespectful to you! What right does he have to do this?"
Friedrich said calmly, "Why? Because he found the ship!"
"What?" Heidi's eyes widened. "How did you know? He didn't say anything about the ship!"
Friedrich sighed and said, "This is my fault! I thought he would value his country's antiques very much! It seems that he is not. He is a pragmatic person like me!"
"Mr. Friedrich, why don't I understand?" Heidi asked in confusion.
Friedrich explained, "Merchants are driven by profit, but Xiao Peng isn't one to treat money as dirt. It's not that he's uninterested in those antiques from his country; he's simply found something more valuable. He's most likely confident because he's found the whereabouts of the sunken ship."
Heidi was silent for a moment before asking, "Mr. Friedrich, are you mistaken? Didn't you say that the fact that he was filming this large-scale documentary as a pretext meant that he was prepared to search there for years?"
Friedrich sighed. "Yeah, I originally thought this matter wouldn't bear fruit for at least a few years, so I didn't take it seriously. Now it seems I was terribly wrong! Sigh, actually, I had a hunch, so I asked you to go over quickly to make amends this time. It seems I made a mistake on top of a mistake. Now things are getting complicated!"
"What's the trouble?" Heidi asked.
Friedrich said, "There's a limited edition Louis Vuitton assortment bag in front of you that costs $50,000, and $100,000 in cash on the other side. Which one would you choose?"
Without even thinking, Heidi replied, "One hundred thousand dollars, of course!"
Friedrich said, "Xiao Peng is now facing the same choice! While those Yuanmingyuan artifacts are valuable, they're naturally not as precious as gold to a true businessman. So... let's put it this way, even without our neglect of him, he might have ditched us and gone it alone. Now that we have this excuse, he can do just that!"
Heidi didn't know what to say after hearing this: "Mr. Friedrich, what should I do now?"
Friedrich thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think he's doing now? Playing games?"
Heidi said, "Yeah, when I entered his room, I saw a mess on the floor. It was even messier than my nephew's room!"
"Hiss... We don't have much time!" Friedrich said, "Come back first!"
"Not much time? What do you mean?" Heidi asked.
Friedrich took a deep breath and said, "He's ready to start salvaging!"
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