50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 839 The Mysterious Island Ownership
Of the other two islands, the one in the Mediterranean is located in the Aegean Sea off Greece.

Greece has more than 6000 islands, of which more than 100 are privately owned, and most of them are passed down from generation to generation in the hands of various families.

According to the available information, although the island that was brought out is not small, covering an area of ​​5 square kilometers, most of it is mountainous with very little flat land, so the area available for building is very limited.

However, it is an island in the Aegean Sea, and the price is only $300 million, so it's not a bad deal to acquire it.

Sun Zhiwei pulled out the documents for that island as well, and finally looked at the island off the west coast of Africa.

This location seemed so familiar to him; the island's description only included an aerial view and its coordinates. He looked at the aerial view in the document, a puzzled expression on his face.

The overhead view shows an island with one large, one medium, and two small islands, plus a few small reefs.

The island the client is selling is the medium-sized, oval-shaped Bulawa Island. It is 24 kilometers long, 16 kilometers wide, and has an area of ​​67 square kilometers. Its highest point, Mount Fontainebleau, is 976 meters above sea level.

He took out a world map from his spatial storage and began to locate the island based on its latitude and longitude.

After going back and forth, he realized that he had actually been to this island before.

When he acquired a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine from America, he met up with his pilot team here.

He once established a secret submarine base on the northwest corner of Bulava Island. If nothing unexpected happens, that secret submarine base should still be there today.

The entrance to that submarine base is located 20 meters underwater beneath a cliff, and beyond that, there is a group of reefs, accessible only by a complex underwater passage.

When he was digging a tunnel in the underwater coral reef, he discovered that it was a black obsidian deposit.

Obsidian is an exceptionally hard substance; even a small collision with it would result in the destruction of the ship and loss of life.

Theoretically, no one would discover this underwater passage, and even if someone did, they probably wouldn't dare send anyone to investigate.

I'm afraid of encountering lone explorers who will pounce on me like hounds at the slightest clue or rumor.

He was puzzled as to why this small island would be put up for trade, since there are only 10 habitable islands in the entire Cape Verde region.

The island of Brava is not small. Although most of the island is mountainous and covered by forests, there is still a small town of 3000 people on the island.

An empty deserted island and an inhabited island are two completely different concepts.

He glanced at the island's information notes, which listed the name of the island's owner: Pierre de Capet.

"Cape" is no ordinary surname; it represents the history of an entire dynasty.

In the summer of 987 AD, before Notre Dame Cathedral even existed, a nobleman named Hugo Capet was placed on the throne of France by the feudal lords.

At that time, it was the end of the Carolingian dynasty in the West Frankish Kingdom, and France was in an era of domestic feudal fragmentation. The nobles of Paris were already quietly accumulating power.

After the last king, Louis V, died mysteriously from a fall from his horse while hunting, the princes schemed against each other, and for their own interests, they needed a compliant puppet.

After careful selection, they chose the emerging middle-class Capetian family and placed its founder, Hugo Capet, on the throne, unaware that this decision would completely rewrite European history. At the time of Hugo's coronation, royal power did not even extend beyond the outskirts of Paris.

For the next 200 years, the French throne was quietly passed down within the Capetian family, and the power of the Capetian family was also quietly increasing.

The fate of the Capetian dynasty took a turn in the Battle of Bouven in 1214.

Philip II, the Capetian king at the time, defeated the combined forces of England and the Holy Roman Empire.

It was only then that the feudal lords watching from the sidelines realized that the "puppet dynasty" that had once needed their support had become the most powerful royal machine in Europe.

在卡佩王朝统治法国的800年中，卡佩家族中一共出过38位法国国王、9位葡萄牙国王、11位那不勒斯国王与王后、12位纳瓦拉国王、9位西班牙国王和王后。

In addition, there were countless princes, dukes, and earls who ruled European noble families, with spheres of influence stretching from England and Naples to the Netherlands and Poland.

The most remarkable thing about the Capet family is not how powerful they are, but that they have integrated the art of rule into every aspect of life.

Capetian kings of all time fused institutions into culture, allowing power to permeate the fabric of daily life.

Few people today remember the unit of measurement "kilogram," which originated from a grain reform during the Capetian dynasty.

No one knows that the Louvre, which tourists stand on, is built on the defensive foundations constructed by Philip II.

Many people know that in France, a name preceded by "de" indicates noble lineage, but few know that "de" is the symbol of the Capet family.

From the Napoleonic Code to the headquarters of the European Union, from the fleur-de-lis emblem at presidential inaugurations to the expiration date labels in supermarkets, the specter of the Capetian dynasty still haunts the modern world.

It teaches us that true power lies not in the glint of swords, but in the price of bread, in court proceedings, and in school textbooks.

The Capet dynasty is no more, but the descendants of the Capet family are still active in every corner of the world, with countless different surnames inherited from Capet continuing the Capet family bloodline.

The fact that Sun Zhiwei suddenly saw this surname on this ordinary piece of paper seems to indicate that the ownership of this island is not simple.

However, there's no need to be too nervous. This is no longer the era of the Capetian dynasty. Although the Capetian surname has a long history, it doesn't mean that the Capetians are not to be trifled with.

Everything depends on clarifying the specific situation before he can decide how to respond. For now, Bulava Island remains one of his targets.

Sun Zhiwei resolutely pulled the last sheet of paper out of the document and placed it together with the two sheets of paper he had just taken.

With the islands chosen, there's no need to look at the real estate anymore.

He put down the document bag representing real estate and took out another bag containing information about securities and shares.

After a quick glance through the various stock and securities descriptions in the file folder, he discovered that many of them were shares of companies in emerging industries, and quite a few were still initial public offering (IPO) shares.

This is actually quite interesting. Later, various modern industries that gradually flourished, including electronics, computers, and environmental protection industries, mostly received initial investment from the nobility.

(End of this chapter)