Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

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Frenzy began to spread like a plague.

To a certain extent, the entire Franz machine is also in the age of just enlightenment, with a large amount of gold and silver pouring in, but the commodity economy is not prosperous. Apart from turning wealth into luxury goods, it is difficult to give birth to new industries for the time being.

The industrial revolution has not yet started, which means that most of people's investment is only in the relatively primitive hoarding of goods.

When tulips became popular, almost all of a sudden, they became the target of all classes.

There is something in the world that is not only noble, but also resistant to terrible inflation.

And in the process of continuous skyrocketing prices, Liu Wenshan was behind the scenes, planning the overall situation.

Most of the Dutch and Spaniards who worked for him were Wang Xizuo. Wang Xizuo changed his face and became a Portuguese businessman who got rich from the Far East.

And everyone he recruited had the wishful thinking that he was just employed by an ordinary businessman.

Their work is very detailed. Some people are only responsible for inquiring about the price of tulips in the northern province, and some are responsible for purchasing tulips at any time, or shipping and inventorying tulips. There is an exchange of bonds. Someone is responsible for guiding the boat.

They are like workers at every station on the production line, who are only responsible for making the parts they have at hand, and they don't know much about how these parts are finally assembled and what machines they become.

Not only that, some people with energy have also become Wang Xizuo's friends. No one will notice that this man named Wang Xizuo once haunted the Spanish court, let alone a few years, it is enough to make a person become In another way, and for this era, the northern province is too far away from the Spanish court.

The northern province's finances are tied to tulips, which has spawned many lords and even the royal family to gather their targets here.

Because the price of tulips keeps rising, it is too late for people to trade goods. Smart people have begun to invent a new method. They directly sign sales contracts with merchants who have goods. Although the goods are still piled up in the warehouse, But in just a few days, the contract has been transferred to seven or eight people, and the price of the contract has increased several times.

As for whether there are tulips in the warehouse, or how many tulips there are, no one cares anymore.

The essence of the market is that in this world, anything can be secondary, but confidence is the most important. As long as everyone believes that this contract has value, then it is a priceless treasure.

This is like a famous painting. When no one cares about it, it is just a doodle on paper, but once someone believes that it is valuable, then it is worth a lot.

Of course, although tulips in history were sought after, their skyrocketing process lasted for decades.

But at this moment, behind this, there is an invisible hand slowly pushing.

Liu Wenshan hides in his room every day, constantly picking up his pen and checking something. He needs to maintain a myth of rising prices.

In this myth, how to roughly calculate the demand in the market and at the same time determine how many tulip bulbs need to be produced is a very labor-intensive task.

Every day at his desk, he had to wear extremely thick lenses. In his mind, he was constantly thinking, and his mind was full of numbers.

…………

Dresden is the capital of Saxony.

This is the center of the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire of Saxony.

The Wetina family has always ruled here.

The Marquess of Alston is not young and has a big belly.

He has the old tradition of the nobles of Shinra, and even at this age, he personally takes his knights to hunt.

only……

Today, he was dressed in hunting attire, carrying a whip, and rushed into a banquet angrily.

The vassals of the Marquis of Oston and their wives looked at the Marquis of Oston who broke in in surprise.

The Marquis said angrily: "There are damn tulips everywhere, everywhere, you, your wives, farmers, even the drivers and soldiers, they are all talking about tulips."

The vassals looked at the Marquis of Alston in panic.

The Marquis of Alston said: "Tulips are destroying our traditions, this damn thing, this damn thing..."

He actually took out a tulip bulb in front of everyone, then recklessly took out a knife and cut the bulb in half.

People seem even more disturbed, it's... money, bulbs are money...

The Marquess of Alston, like a mad lion, cut off a tulip bulb in front of everyone, put it in his mouth, and began to chew.

The ladies and ladies have already let out a cry of alarm.

They couldn't understand that such a beautiful thing in this world would be treated so rudely.

The Marquis of Alston kept chewing, and said: "Taste it, it tastes not much better than garlic, this is what you treasure, it tastes the same as garlic, you have to taste it Do you want to taste it? And its damn flower, what is the value of this damn flower, you tell me, it can neither be eaten, nor can it be turned into a weapon, fight for us, let alone feed farmers, it At most, it can only be used to feed horses. They are not worth the price at all, you are all crazy, all of Europe, are crazy."

Vassals frown

.

Someone couldn't help saying euphemistically: "Your Excellency, based on this, then nothing in this world is valuable."

Although people refute.

But... Many people felt their hearts beat.

Is it really garlic?

The basin of cold water poured on them by the Marquis of Alston made them suspicious.

This little episode spread quickly.

Although almost everyone who owns tulips scoffs at this, thinking that the monarch from the German states is too reckless.

But……

Wang Xizuo hurriedly found Liu Wenshan: "It's not good, Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu...it's not so good. In the northern province, the price of bulbs began to drop slightly, and many people began to feel wavered, and some people began to sell bulbs. gone."

Liu Wenshan raised his head and looked at Wang Xizuo. He looked very calm and frowned slightly: "Really? Oh, I got it."

"Mr. Liu..."

"This is indeed a troublesome thing." Liu Wenshan subconsciously picked up the teacup, but unfortunately, there was only white water in the teacup, and he frowned again, and then said: "The price of tulip bulbs comes from people's constant appreciation of its price. People believe that as long as they buy this thing, they can not only sell it at any time, but even make a profit from it.”

The implication is that once the price starts to fall, the panic will intensify. At that time, the myth that has been established with countless efforts before will completely become a phantom.

Liu Wenshan said with a smile: "You go and arrange, through our merchants, to buy a large number of bulbs, as much as you want, today at fifteen gold a catty, tomorrow at sixteen gold coins..."

"This..." Wang Xizuo looked at Liu Wenshan in surprise: "But, although we have sold a lot of tulips before, the price at that time was not high. If people sell crazily, we...we can afford it." ?"

Once you can't take it, it's over.

Liu Wenshan said indifferently: "At the same time, the news was released that people in Daming highly respected this kind of bulbs. It is said that some people want to buy bulbs and send them to Luzon in the Far East, where there will be smugglers from Daming who are willing to Buy them at sky-high prices. Well, go ahead."

Wang Xizuo looked very disturbed.

With such a high price, the purchase of bulbs, the gold coins they have now, simply cannot last today.

Therefore, in the northern province, many businessmen began to buy bulbs at high prices.

At the beginning, people who were a little panicked began to ship, and once their bulbs were sold on the market, they were sold out in a blink of an eye.

By the next day, instead of falling, the bulbs began to rise.

All of a sudden, the sell-off disappeared.

People immediately felt at ease about the previous gossip.

After a few days, no one is willing to sell the bulbs on hand, and the bulbs on the market are still priceless.

Afterwards, more and more people began to buy bulbs anxiously, and the prices were getting higher and higher.

In a blink of an eye, the Marquis of Alston became the joke of the whole of Europe. In countless salons and banquets, the nobles wantonly mocked that German bumpkin, because almost every noble who owns a bulb is worth a lot. is rising day by day.

In the countryside, dozens of farmers even joined together to buy a bulb and wait for it to appreciate in value.

The merchants racked their brains and looked for sources of goods everywhere.

Shiploads of bulbs sold out quickly.

Even the Habsburg family in Austria noticed this phenomenon.

People began to deeply believe that this thing not only has value, but also has become a sharp weapon against the ever-increasing price of precious metals, not only in Europe, but also in Ottomans, the Ming Dynasty in North Africa and the Far East, the wealthy dynasty that defeated the Spanish expeditionary force, Also thirsty for this bulb.

But at this moment, it was precisely the time when Liu Wenshan was crazy about shipping.

Ships that transported a large number of bulbs arrived at Franji in a steady stream, and warehouses of bulbs were sold at an astonishing price.

People spend their life savings buying these bulbs, but they never circulate in the market, but store them up, waiting for the day when their price will continue to rise.

Everyone is calculating the latest price of bulbs, and then calculating how much their wealth has increased.

But at this moment, Liu Wenshan looked at the dazzling numbers on the wall, and the corner of his mouth slightly curled up: "It's time!"

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