The fanatic mood began to infect like a plague.

The entire Franc, to some extent, was in a just-civilized era, with a large amount of gold and silver pouring in, but the commodity economy was not prosperous. In addition to being used to convert wealth into luxury goods, it is difficult for the time being to give birth to emerging industries.

The industrial revolution has not yet begun, which means that most people's investment is only in the more primitive stockpiling.

When tulips began to become popular, they almost suddenly became a target that all classes sought after.

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

As the price continues to surge, Liu Wenshan is planning the overall situation behind the scenes.

Most of the Dutch and Spaniards who worked for him were represented by Wang Xizu, who changed his appearance and transformed himself into a Portuguese businessman who became rich from the Far East.

Everyone he recruited wishfully believed that he was only employed by an ordinary businessman.

Their work is very fine. Some people are only responsible for inquiring about the price of tulips in northern provinces, some are responsible for purchasing tulips at any time, or for shipping and inventorying tulips. Some are responsible for redeeming bonds. Some are responsible for transporting ships.

They are like workers at every station on the production line, only responsible for manufacturing the parts on their hands, and they don’t know much about how these parts will be assembled and what machines they become.

Not only that, some people with energy have also become Wang Xizuo's friends. No one noticed that this man named Wang Xizuo once appeared in the Spanish court. Not to mention several years, it was enough to make one person look like another. For this era, the northern province is too far away from the Spanish court.

The finances of the Northern Province were maintained on tulips, which gave birth to many lords and even royal families gathered their targets here.

Because the price of tulips continues to rise, people have no time to trade goods. Smart people have begun to invent a new method. They directly signed a sales contract with merchants in stock. Although the goods are still piled in the warehouse, 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 are, no one cares about them.

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

This is like a famous painting. When no one cares about it, it is just a graffiti painted on [m] paper. But once someone firmly believes that it is valuable, it will be worthless.

Of course, although tulips in history have been sought after, their surge has lasted for decades.

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

Liu Wenshan hid in the room every day, kept picking up his pens, calculating what he needed to maintain a myth of rising prices.

In this myth, it is very laborious to roughly calculate the market demand and at the same time determine how many tulip bulbs need to be produced.

At the desk every day, he had to wear extremely thick lenses. His mind was constantly thinking, and his mind was full of numbers.

…………

Dresden is the capital of Saxony.

This is the center of the elected state of the Saxon Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Vetina family has always ruled here.

Marquis Auston is not young, with a big belly.

He possessed the old tradition of the Shenluo nobles, and even at this age, he took his knights to hunt.

only……

Today, he was wearing hunting outfit and holding a whip and rushed into a banquet angrily.

The vassals of the Marquis of Auston were already looking at the Marquis of Auston who had broken into it in surprise.

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

The vassals looked at Marquis Auston in panic.

Marquis Auston said: "Tulips are destroying our traditions, this damn thing, damn thing..."

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

People seem even more uneasy, this...is money, bulbs are money...

Marquis Auston, like a crazy lion, cut off a bulb of tulips in front of everyone, put it in his mouth, and began to chew.

The lady and the ladies had already screamed.

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

Marquis Auston kept chewing, saying, "You taste it, it tastes no better than garlic. This is what you worship as treasures. It is the same as garlic. Do you want to taste it? And its damn flowers, what is the value of this damn flowers? Tell me, it cannot be eaten or turned into a weapon, fight for us, and it is even more impossible to feed farmers. At most, it can only be used to feed horses. They are not worth the price at all. You are crazy, and the whole of Europe is crazy."

The vassals frowned.

Someone couldn't help but say tactfully: "Your Excellency, if you take this into consideration, then nothing in this world is valuable."

Although people refute it.

But... many people were heartbroken.

Does it really taste like garlic?

The basin of cold water that Marquis Auston poured on them made them suspicious.

This small episode quickly spread.

Although almost all those who possess tulips scoffed at it, believing that this monarch from the German states was too reckless.

But……

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

Liu Wenshan looked up and looked at Wang Xizuo. He seemed very calm and frowned slightly: "Is that true? Oh, I understand."

"Mr. Liu..."

"This is indeed a troublesome thing." Liu Wenshan subconsciously picked up the teacup. Unfortunately, there was only white water in the teacup. He frowned again, and then said: "The price of tulip bulbs comes from people's confidence in the rising price. People believe that as long as you buy this thing, you can not only sell it at any time, but also 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 was built up by countless efforts before will become a phantom.

Liu Wenshan smiled and said, "You go and arrange it, through our businessmen, buy bulbs in large quantities, and you need as much as you want. Today you can get 15 gold per kilogram. Tomorrow, use 16 gold coins..."

"This..." Wang Xizuo looked at Liu Wenshan in surprise: "But although we had sold a lot of tulips before, the price for sale was not high. If people sold it wildly, can we... afford it?"

Once you can't afford it, you'll be done.

Liu Wenshan said lightly: "At the same time, it was said that in the Ming Dynasty, people also highly valued bulbs. It is said that some people hope to buy bulbs and send them to Luzon in the Far East. There, there will be smuggling merchants from the Ming Dynasty who are willing to buy them at a sky-high price. Okay, go."

Wang Xizuo seemed very uneasy.

At such a high price, they can't hold on to the gold coins they have on hand today.

So, in northern provinces, many merchants began to purchase bulbs at high prices.

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

On the second day, the bulbs not only did not fall, but began to rise.

All of a sudden, the sale disappeared.

People suddenly felt at ease about the previous rumors.

A few days later, no one was willing to sell the bulbs on hand. The bulbs on the market are still priceless.

After that, more people began to buy bulbs anxiously, and the prices became higher and higher.

In a blink of an eye, the Marquis of Auston became a joke in the whole of Europe. In countless salons and banquets, the nobles wanted to mock the German country bumpkin, because almost every noble with bulbs was increasing in value.

In the countryside, dozens of farmers even joined forces to buy a bulb together and wait for appreciation.

The merchants even dug up their minds and were looking for sources of goods everywhere.

The bulbs of ships were sold out soon.

Even the Habsburg family located in Austria have noticed this phenomenon.

People began to deeply believe that this thing is not only valuable, but also has become a powerful tool to resist the ever-lowering price of precious metals. It is not only Europe, but even the Ming Dynasty in the Ottomans, North Africa, and the Far East, and the wealthy dynasty that defeated the Spanish Expeditionary Force, were eager for this bulb.

But at this moment, it was exactly when Liu Wenshan was shipping crazy.

Ships that transported bulbs in large quantities continued to arrive in Francs, and bulbs in a warehouse were constantly sold at amazing prices.

People spend their whole life savings to buy these bulbs, but never circulate in the market, but store them, waiting for one day to continue to rise.

Everyone is calculating the latest price of the bulb and then converting how much their wealth has increased.
Chapter completed!