Chapter 1478: Defend Europe that belongs to us!

At the foot of the Alps, on a private estate by Lake Wolfgang in Austria.

Lister Lohir stood in front of the villa and looked at his watch. In less than a minute, he saw two cars approaching from the distant entrance, and he immediately revealed a smile.

Soon, the car pulled up in front of him, and after the door opened, a man in his fifties with blonde hair walked out.

'Your Royal Highness, welcome.'

Lister Lohier greeted him with a broad smile.

Victor Hohenzollern returned the smile and said, 'Mr. Lister, call me Victor. I'm really sorry to have kept you waiting.'

'Yes, Mr. Victor, you've actually arrived just in time,' Lister Lohier said with a smile, not insisting on the title.

After Germany's defeat in World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated, although he retained the title of King of Prussia and the throne continued to be passed down in the House of Hohenzollern, which was recognised by the royal courts and governments of Europe.

But the Kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia was not a complete kingdom after all, unlike countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain, where it was possible not to address the prince in informal or public situations.

'Is Mr Jacob in there?' Victor Hohenzollern asked.

'Yes,' Lister Lohir nodded.

'Who else is here?' Victor Hohenzollern smiled and nodded, and then asked.

'There is also Gianni Agnelli, Peter Wallenberg, Karl Frick, and Salen Francisco,' Lister Lohir immediately informed him.

Victor Hohenzollern's brow furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but glance at Lister Lohir again.

It was normal for the first three people to come here, but he couldn't help but think that the Rothschild family had invited Francisco Salen, which made him think.

It seems that the pressure on the Rothschild family is greater than expected, otherwise they would not have invited Francisco Salen.

He knew that the Francisco family's relationship with the Jews in the past was not very good.

Victor Hohenlohe could not ponder this for long, and at the invitation of List Rohan, the two of them walked together inside.

Sure enough, once inside, they saw a group of people chatting.

When they saw Victor Hohenlohe enter, people like Jakob Rohan also stood up. After a while of small talk, everyone took their seats.

Apart from the Rothschild family's Jacob Rothschild and the head of the Rothschild family's Austrian branch, List Rothschild, everyone else was here alone, with their bodyguards and assistants outside.

The seven people sitting around actually represented six powers. Each was a top European bigwig, a figure whose stomping of the feet could shake a country's economy.

Victor Hohenlohe need not be mentioned. The House of Hohenlohe ruled Prussia and Germany for more than 500 years. Although it moved out of Germany for self-protection after World War I, it returned to Germany after World War II and is one of the core families of the German consortium.

Karl Freick, patriarch of the Freick family, whose father once built a steel giant that surpassed ThyssenKrupp. The Freick family was closely involved in both world wars in Germany. Although the Freick family suffered losses due to the fall of the Third Reich, it also relied on Austria, a neutral country, to transfer most of its assets. After the war, it rebounded and rose again in West Germany, and its influence spread to West Germany, Austria, Sweden and other countries.

Peter Wallenberg, comparable to the Swedish royal family in Sweden, is the patriarch of an invisible family that adheres to the creed of 'being there but not visible'.

Peter Wallenberg took over the Wallenberg family behemoth from his father in 1982 and is a man determined to reform.

Gianni Agnelli, the Italian godfather of industry and patriarch of the Agnelli family, took over the Agnelli family from his grandfather in 1966. Under his leadership, the family's jewel, the Fiat Group, expanded wildly and became a supergroup with businesses covering various fields such as automobiles, aviation, telecommunications, insurance, finance, newspapers and magazines.

The Agnelli family has also spread its tentacles to various fields and is known as 'Italy's private royal family'!

As for the last one, Salen Francesco.

Compared to the other families here, the Francesco family is the most unresourced and is a parvenu.

But whether they are jealous or disdainful, it is undeniable that the Francesco family is now indeed qualified to sit at the same table as them.

Although Francisco's cousin died in 1975, the legendary figure had helped Germany invade the Soviet Union, and after World War II, he made himself regent, appointed the current King of Spain as the heir to the throne, and was able to rule Spain dictatorially for decades in the post-war European environment.

Over the course of decades, even a pig can be fattened up, let alone a family.

In terms of capital, the Francisco family can be said to be the number one family in Spain today!

However, due to the death of Francisco Franco, the influence of the Francisco family in the Spanish military has waned. Coupled with the failure of someone being incited to launch a military coup six years ago, the king of the Bourbon family took the opportunity to purge, causing the influence of the Francisco family in both the military and the government to fall to its lowest ebb.

The various families that had been suppressed in Spain for decades, as well as the newly emerging ambitious people, naturally coveted the vast wealth of the Francisco family.

This situation, with wolves surrounding him, put Sarun Francisco under a lot of pressure, and he had to frantically think of ways to form alliances and intimidate his enemies, both overt and covert.

So this time, faced with the invitation from the Rothschild family, even though he knew there were certain risks, Salen Francisco was determined to come to Austria for the rewards of success.

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'Time's up, looks like no one else is coming?'

Garni Agnelli looked at the old wall clock on the wall. It was already past the agreed-upon 3:00 p.m. He looked at Jakob Rothschild and said slowly.

Jakob Rothschild said with a relaxed expression, 'Maybe the others are still stuck in something.'

'But it doesn't matter, the most powerful people in Europe are already sitting here, and that's enough.'

Although they knew it was exaggerated flattery, everyone at the table couldn't help but smile.

'Let's get started then.'

'Jacob, let everyone hear your ideas together.' Peter Wallenberg shifted his buttocks back a little to change to a more comfortable position, and looked at Jacob Rothschild with burning eyes.

After looking around the room, Jacob Rothschild wasted no time in saying solemnly, 'Honestly, everyone, our family is currently facing great difficulties. We invited you here because we want to relieve some of the pressure.'

'But more importantly, we want to maintain the European order.'

'Europe is our Europe. After the war, Europe was in ruins, and there was nothing we could do about being a vassal of the United States.'

'But over the past few decades, European countries have regained most of their strength, and Europe has reached a critical moment of renewal.'

'For so many years, we have successfully kept Rockefeller, Morgan, and other American consortia out.'

'If they manage to break in this time, then Europe can forget about reviving. The United States will be able to plunder Europe at will. Faced with those American consortia and those emerging forces in Asia, will we still be the ones calling the shots in Europe's economic and social order?'

'We will lose the ability to resist!'

'So today I have gathered everyone here to discuss the topic of how to defend Europe that belongs to us!'