When the parents-in-law thought for a long time and had no good ideas, they were reluctant to let go of such a big fat meat, and Liu Bu sighed very much.

Could it be that these salt merchants have such good lives? He has no choice but to deal with them.

Zheng Zining said: "These salt merchants love to play horses and raise opera troupes, but they don't like tulips. If they like tulips, they can cheat them a lot of money." She is talking about the corpse tulip fever that is popular in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is now an emerging country in Europe. It was originally a vassal state of Spain. After they became stronger, they began to seek independence. They defeated the powerful Spanish Empire and gained independence and freedom. They are a new capitalist country and are one of the main countries of the thirty-year religious war that is now in full swing. They are from the Protestant Alliance.

The Netherlands is very small now. It is just a small country in Europe, with more than 20,000 square kilometers. However, it has a huge colony overseas, and its warships are spread across the ports of countries around the world, with the title of a coachman on the sea.

Especially after defeating Portugal in the East, he captured Malacca City and controlling the Strait of Malacca, he became the most powerful young man in the East. The East India Company he established was also the largest force in Nanyang, stabilizing the Portuguese, the old colonial empire.

A very special thing that is popular in the Netherlands now is hype tulips.

This can also be regarded as the financial crisis caused by capital speculation. It can be named the first economic bubble event in modern history. The birth of the bubble is related to a flower that is very familiar to the people - tulips.

Tulips are native to the north and south coast of the Mediterranean. After the flower seeding is exchanged between water and land, it is brought to Western European countries and Asia Minor. The first tulip flower was introduced to the Netherlands in decades. In the lives of the upper aristocrats, tulips are often used as raw materials for making perfumes, and are also regarded as decorations that can decorate the living room and improve the courtyard level.

Tulip flower farmers gradually discovered that after a series of preferred breeding, the newly cultivated flower species can bloom into an extremely bright flower.

The news immediately reached the ears of princes, nobles, merchants and speculators, and then a rush to buy with different purposes was set off.

It takes about six years to grow tulips from planting to bloom. It is the first time to plant this fresh foreign crop in Western Europe. In addition, the cultivation technology is not good, which makes it even more difficult to cultivate tulips, which is not easy.

Citizens compete to buy ordinary tulips, while high-end tulips are tightly held by nobles and speculators. Tulips, as an aesthetic object, have become a special luxury that people are increasingly concerned about because they are loved and snatched by people!

At that time, Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, had long become the world's leading trade and commercial center, and the world's first securities and trading center was first born here.

The introduction of tulips has brought new highlights to this wealthy place like a bomb. As the prices of tulips continue to be raised by the market, a dangerous economic bubble has also formed quietly.

The tulip speculation market that everyone participates in is very popular. People first exchange farm tools and land booklets for a few tulips, and then satisfies the flowers on the land that no longer belongs to them to appreciate.

Some people even participate in a ridiculous bet organized by speculators because of their extreme desire to own tulip flower species. This kind of gambling often uses tulips and other items as bait to attract people to participate in competition.

Not being able to obtain tulip flower seeds became a sad thing that made the frustrated. It has to be said that the Dutch tulip economy has indeed touched all aspects of their lives, and its social consequences are dire and terrible.

The madness of tulip transactions is unimaginable to outsiders. When the price of tulips was fryed to the peak, the most gorgeous dowry for the noble ladies was a dazzling tulip. You should know that European aristocrats were the most luxurious.

Do you really think that a tulip can express the noble temperament and dignity? Of course it is true. At an auction in Alkmaar City, there was such an auction record that has not been refreshed so far: 99 tulips were sold at a price of 90,000 guilds."

This kind of thing is shocking! 90,000 Dutch guilds is equivalent to the total income of an ordinary family for more than 200 years. At that time, more than 70 commercial cargo ships could be purchased, and they could be used to hire 50 sailors to serve a fleet for two years at one time!

Tulip transactions have also penetrated into the public, and even small farmers who sell fish and vegetables have participated in tulip speculation. They spent the wealth they had finally accumulated to speculate, because the tulip market was sufficient and expected in the people at that time.

Some farmers and small vendors are willing to spend their entire lives and buy a tulip bulb in their fortunes. Most of the people who dare to take risks really make a big fortune in this courageous spirit of sharing life! This has changed their destiny.

This makes people sigh at the wonders of the capital market. Some people are content with the status quo for life and ultimately cannot get the rewards and wealth they deserve, but taking shortcuts and speculation can make people get rich overnight.

However, this investment method is not popular in the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty did not have stocks and futures at all (salt exception). It is not easy to copy such success, and it is not easy to operate such a market.

However, Liu Bu came up with another way to cheat money from here, that is, there are thousands of ways to cheat these people in the world.

Liu Bu remembered all kinds of strange tricks in later generations, and immediately thought of two things, told Zheng Zining, and asked her if there were any operating methods or talents in this field.

Whether it is Liu Bu or Zheng Zining, they are all big names, and they have a group of people under their command to do their jobs and serve them. It can be said that there are brave generals and officers who are good at fighting, and there are also people who are crowing and robbing.

Only after having these people will they become invincible and powerful.

Zheng Zining said: "No matter whether he is feasible or not, we have to give it a try. If we don't help them spend some money, we will be sorry for the conscience of heaven and earth, the poor people, and the Liu family soldiers who died on the battlefield."

Liu Bu discovered for the first time that he was so justified and so noble that he said with deep agreement: "That's right."

After thinking about such a trick, the couple suddenly became excited and couldn't sleep anymore. The couple had not seen each other for a day, and after three autumns, they had not seen each other for several months, and they became excited again.

The next morning, after Mi Zhu got up, he immediately summoned his local person in charge Wu Fugui. His father wrote him a letter, that Wu Fugui was responsible for everything in Yangzhou, and he could hand over anything to him. He was a trustworthy person.

Why can Wu Fugui gain such trust from Liu Yuanqiao? Because he was the one who followed Liu Yuanqiao when he was in the world. He once blocked the knife for Liu Yuanqiao, and almost earned it with his life.

That's why Liu Yuanqiao asked him to be responsible for his affairs in Yangzhou. In fact, his affairs in Yangzhou are equivalent to the General Fengyang in the Liu family system.

Wu Fugui smiled no matter who he saw, his face was full of smiles, even to his servants, as if he would never be angry, as if he was the kind of person without temper.

But strangely, when he saw Liu Bu, he looked serious and had no expression. What if he didn't know that he thought he was dissatisfied with Liu Bu and was angry with Liu Bu?

Liu Bu first asked Wu Fugui about business in Yangzhou. Wu Fugui also handed out the bill without any ambiguity and listed it for Liu Bu to show him all the income and expenditure.

Wu Fugui has something to be proud of, and there are also things he dares to stand up straight. That is, under his advocacy, the Liu family's business in Yangzhou is really booming, and its profits have increased by 20% in the past year. Such ability is very amazing. This is the reason why he dares to stand up straight in front of Liu Bu.

Wu Fugui does not have the ability of Liu Yuanqiao and cannot be a 8-faced Buddha, but he is also a person who speaks people and talks about ghosts. His smile is actually a disguise, and it is a way to pretend to be fierce and cunning. Only when he faces his own people, he will have a serious face and a serious face.

No matter who saw Wu Fugui, his first reaction was that he felt that this person was a hypocritical, despicable villain, a wealthy slave who did all kinds of bad things. He kept smiling forever. This was just equivalent to the hypocrisy of a fox. However, many people suffered from his smile and overturned in his gutter. He was also a well-known figure in Yangzhou. Although he was not famous for his absurdity and wealth, he was famous for his insidiousness and cunning. Anyone who knew him knew that he was not a good person.

After Liu Bu looked through the bill, he checked everything and said, "Uncle Wu, thank you for your hard work. I actually wanted to discuss something with you today."

Liu Bu said nothing to his father, and there was no secret. Since his father had already explained that Wu Fugui could be used, he would use this person without hesitation and hand over the tasks he wanted to do, because there was a minimum trust between them and their father and son.
Chapter completed!