Chapter 575 The Truth Is Usually Embarrassing

As the central government of the global Roman Catholic Church, 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 empowers a council of bishops to manage the day-to-day affairs of the Vatican. The Vatican's legal system is based on Church canon law, and when Catholic canon law does not apply, the law of the city of Rome is used.

As a sovereign state, the Vatican can send diplomatic envoys to other sovereign states, and it can also accept diplomatic envoys sent by other countries. However, due to the small size of the country, diplomatic envoys sent by other countries to the Vatican generally set up embassies in Rome. An interesting consequence of this is that the Italian embassy in the Vatican is located within the country.

The Vatican has neither industry, agriculture nor natural resources. Financial revenue mainly comes from tourism, stamps, real estate rental, bank interest on special property funds, Sanskrit religious bank profits and tributes presented to the Pope and donations from believers. The Vatican has invested tens of billions of dollars in many countries in North America and Europe. Its capital has penetrated into many economic sectors in Italy, especially the bank credit and real estate system. The real estate alone reaches more than 460,000 hectares. Gold and foreign exchange reserves amount to 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 due to bank investment mistakes and increases in Vatican staff wages, the budget has been in deficit for consecutive years. In 1994, the Vatican's fiscal final accounts showed a surplus of only over US$400,000, of which revenue and expenditure were around US$200 million.

Most of the citizens of the Vatican are clergy, including bishops, priests, nuns, and the famous Swiss Guard, a volunteer corps of the Pope's Praetorian Guard. In addition, there are approximately 3,000 secular workers, who form the main workforce of the Vatican, but none of whom live in Vatican City.

But one thing is that the Vatican has established diplomatic relations with Taipei. However, due to the political stance of successive popes, it has never established formal diplomatic relations with the mainland. This may have something to do with Taipei's monetary foreign policy, or it is also Because there are more Catholics there, and due to historical reasons, the number of Catholics in the mainland is relatively small, and the relationship with the Vatican is weak. There is no interaction, and it is more like setting up one's own school.

This time John Paul II came to the capital to officiate the wedding of Fan Ting and Han Chu. Although it was low-key, the political impact it caused was great. Senior officials also hoped that the Vatican would change its tune and recognize the continent's sole legal status. Now that he can come here Bian'er, I have to say that it is an opportunity for both parties.

So when Fan Ting and Han Chu accepted Paul II's blessing, among the people watching the ceremony, everyone's thoughts were thinking about what kind of changes this matter might bring.

Minister Zhang leaned next to Fan Heng and asked, "Old Fan, which song are you singing today?"

Fan Heng also spread his hands and said, "It's all Wuyou's fault. I don't know anything about it."

Boss Zhu on the other hand seemed to understand this well.

There was no expression of surprise, which made people feel incomprehensible.

However, if you are serious about it and think about it for a while, you will know that this matter is not simple. If the senior officials don't know about it, how did such a large group of people without diplomatic relations get in? Especially those who have profound political influence. You must know that in addition to Paul II, there are four cardinals among this group of people.

At this time, the choir started "Ave Maria", and then John Paul II and others completed their tasks. After expressing their blessings to the newlyweds in Latin, they began to evacuate the scene and went to the security company opened by Fan Investment Group. Under the protection of the staff, he left in a hurry.

Then Fan Ting personally announced the official opening of Huafeng.com under S, and presented souvenirs of the opening ceremony of Huafeng.com to the guests. Compared with the previous wedding ceremony, this ceremony was naturally extremely simple, but then The scene that appeared made everyone have to pay attention.

Because Fan Wubing showed up, it was rare that he didn't have a girl with him. On such an occasion today, it was really not appropriate to bring a girl over, otherwise it would easily cause trouble.

"Everyone -" Fan Wubing pulled the microphone, and the originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent. Even the sound of the band packing up their instruments could be clearly heard.

Fan Wubing was quite satisfied with the effect, and then continued, "Today is my sister's wedding day, and it is also the day when Huafeng.com is launched. In addition, all my relatives and friends are here to come here. It can be said that it is a triple blessing. I am very grateful. On behalf of the couple and their families, I would like to express my gratitude again.”

The guests applauded in response, and then Fan Wubing said, "Thanks to everyone's care, Fan Investment Group has now become one of the largest groups with business operations around the world, and has a certain degree of influence in Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia and other countries. It is very gratifying to contribute to the economic development of various countries. On the occasion of my sister’s wedding, I would like to offer you a glass of wine and thank you.”

As Fan Wubing finished speaking, hundreds of staff pushed out carts full of champagne for everyone to disperse. When the sound of banging, banging, banging, opening sounds, everyone was shocked to see that they were pushing up. All the champagnes are famous et※netbsp; et※net champagne is actually sparkling wine, and it is the best variety among them. According to France’s regional nomenclature, only sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region is qualified to be called Champagne.

Of course, there have been similar sparkling wines in many countries named after Champagne. Later, they were constantly protested by the French Champagne Chamber of Commerce, and even sued in the international court of The Hague for decades. Finally, last year, the lawsuit was won. In other words, similar products in any country can no longer be called champagne, but can only be called sparkling wine, or names created by oneself, such as c**a in Spain, sekT in Germany, etc. This was also the case in China before. There are many domestically produced champagnes, but they are no longer available because they had to be canceled due to patent issues.

Champagne is a unique process. After the white wine is put into the bottle, a little sugar and yeast are added for a second fermentation, which produces a large amount of carbon dioxide and becomes bubbles. When the bottle is opened, the pressure causes it to make a popping sound, bringing joy. atmosphere of. Therefore, champagne is also called the wine of joy. On any occasion that is festive, or even wasteful, for example, when a new ship is launched, a bottle of champagne filled with wine must be broken, and a race car driver sprays a large bottle of champagne when celebrating a victory. As for a large party with a champagne pyramid, it attracts everyone's attention. focus.

The et※net champagne launched at this time was expensive, and more importantly, the quantity was huge. The service staff quickly built dozens of champagne pyramids on the spot, and then poured the opened champagne up for everyone to take. .

Then the food and drinks began to be served. The combination of Chinese and Western styles catered to most people's appetites. The eighteen-layer cake was also cut into small pieces and delivered to the dining table. However, cutting the cake was also quite laborious. Two large forklifts were used to carry the staff, carrying a special long zigzag knife for cutting.

Of course, because the previous cakes were placed in pieces, the cutting was just a gesture. After cutting the base with a knife, everyone opened the stand and took the cakes layer by layer.

At this time, eighteen armed helicopters flew over again, scattering rose petals like rain.

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

Fan Wubing smiled and said, "It is difficult, but if you grasp the opponent's seven inches accurately, you can capture it easily."

"Did you pay for it? 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 him with money, the title of Pope will be worthless. It is inconvenient to say that there are other reasons."

What he said is true. If John Paul II could be invited with money, then there would be so many rich people in the world. The wedding alone would keep John Paul II busy, and he would have no time to attend to it. Something else? Even if it is a loss-making sale and a family pays several million dollars in appearance fees, the money earned in a year will be enough for the Vatican to spend and there will be a large surplus, and the current fiscal revenue will not be on the verge of a deficit.

"Then what's going on? Others can't tell. Can't you tell uncle me?" Minister Zhang was very curious and pulled Fan Wubing to ask.

Fan Wubing was a little helpless about his shamelessness, so he leaned into his ear and said, "Isn't my most famous thing my medical skills? The condition for inviting him here is that I will treat him. Of course, the cost of the round trip is It’s also mine.”

"What's wrong with him? Didn't all cancers require surgery?" Minister Zhang asked with some suspicion.

"Same as the elder, 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 unexpected. I didn't expect that God's servants and spokespersons in the world would also need to seek medical treatment from you? What if this news spreads? If I go out, the status of Chinese medicine will be greatly improved. "

Fan Wubing shrugged his shoulders and said, "How can you dare to spread this kind of thing? No one wants to make it public."

Paul II didn't want to go public because of face issues, while Fan Wubing didn't want to go public because he really didn't have much energy to practice medicine.