Starting in Saarhu, it is a bit difficult to make a comeback.

Li Xingzu made a lot of money by operating vigorously in the Dutch stock market.

At the same time, it also caused many Dutch stock investors to lose their money.

Zheng Zhilong said: "The Dutch government has suspended the exchange of Dutch guilders for Chinese silver dollars. We have only exchanged about 2000 million Chinese silver dollars, and there are still nearly 3 million Dutch guilders that cannot be exchanged."

"It seems that the Dutch are not stupid. We cannot exchange these Dutch guilders for silver dollars or gold and silver, so we can only acquire Dutch assets."

However, the Netherlands is currently a mature business society, and the prices of real estate and other industries are somewhat high.

If we want to acquire industries such as ports and terminals in the Netherlands, I am afraid that the Dutch economy will be completely destroyed.

After all, the previous operations only brought down the Dutch financial industry, and its industry was not affected.

Originally, after making a large sum of money and taking over the East India Company, I could withdraw from the Dutch market.

Now the Dutch government won't let itself go.

Then I can only short the Dutch industry.

About ten years ago, the Dutch began to hype tulips crazily.

Today, with the collapse of stocks, although the price of tulips has fallen, it is still ridiculously high.

The Dutch who speculated on tulips escaped disaster because they had no funds and did not invest in the stock market.

Especially for some rare varieties, a tulip bulb can be sold for 4000 Dutch guilders, or it can be replaced by a large villa.

Li Xianzhong built a glass greenhouse in the capital more than ten years ago to cultivate various tulips.

The Netherlands' famous high-end varieties such as "Admiral Liefken", "Admiral Von der Eyk", "Viceroy", "Generalissimo", etc., China can be said to be Everything you need.

Chinese horticulturists have been able to mass-produce even the extremely rare "Semper Augustus" with purple-white stripes caused by lesions.

In addition to these, China has also cultivated its own unique tulip varieties, such as "Taoyuan Sanjieyi" with three colors, "Seven Capture Menghuo" with 7 patterns, "Taibai Jinxing", "Meishan" "Six Monsters", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and other rare varieties that the Dutch have never seen before.

When these novel varieties appeared in Amsterdam, they immediately aroused the Dutch people's pursuit, bringing tulips to another climax, and the price continued to rise.

The reason why tulips are sought after by Dutch businessmen is because of their long cultivation cycle. It takes 3-7 years from seed to flowering.

Even if the bulbs are introduced from the cue ball, it takes a year, and each cue ball can only produce 2-3 bulbs at most.

However, mass production of tulips has long been achieved in China, and its huge output far exceeds the imagination of the Dutch.

But at this time, as tulips became popular again, more and more Dutch people fell into madness.

Many people made money as tulip speculators, and more and more Dutch people began to mortgage their properties for loans and began to speculate on tulips.

Even businessmen from other parts of Europe were attracted to Amsterdam by this "tulip" craze.

The price of tulips is rising every day, and Li Xingzu even sold an "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" for 5 Dutch guilders.

Some Dutch people who had already made money began to regret that they had taken action too early, so these people once again invested money in tulips.

It really fulfills the saying: if you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy.

After making a lot of money selling rare tulips, Li Xingzu began to sell tulips.

Countless tulips were moved off one Chinese merchant ship after another.

No matter how rare the species is, hundreds of copies appear in the trading market.

Ordinary tulips appear in the trading market in tens of thousands.

The emergence of a large number of physical objects caused tulips to collapse instantly, with prices falling by as much as 8% in just one day.

When the price fell to 1%, speculators who had previously made a large amount of Dutch guilders decided to take advantage of the opportunity to "buy the bottom".

Soon the price of tulips was pulled back to 3%.

But in the next few days, tens of thousands of tulips were being sold every day. Even if they were only 1% of the original price, they were unable to take over.

In the end, tulips were priced at "cabbage prices" and discarded tulips could be seen everywhere on the roadside.

As for the tulip speculators who escaped the stock market crash, except for a few people who made high-level moves and successfully evacuated, everyone else lost everything.

Many people are in debt because of tulips.

Dutch people commit suicide every day in Amsterdam due to bankruptcy.

In order to repay their debts, those people had to sell off their assets at low prices, mainly real estate and factories.

But the original stock market crash had already harvested a large number of wealthy people.

Now that tulip futures have collapsed, where will anyone take over their industry?
The entire Dutch economy collapsed completely.

The real estate in Amsterdam is only one-seventh of its peak value, and businessmen everywhere are selling their properties at a low price.

Amsterdam is the financial center of Europe. The bankruptcy of the Dutch has directly affected the entire Europe. Real estate prices in Paris, London, Lisbon, Seville, Genoa, Venice, Rome and other places have plummeted to varying degrees.

Among them, the United Kingdom, which is closest to the Netherlands and has the closest economic ties with the Netherlands, is the most serious.

Economies across Europe are in recession.

Li Xingzu took the opportunity to acquire a large number of Dutch properties at low prices. From Amsterdam mansions and manors to docks and shipyards, he bought almost everything in the Netherlands.

Since the Dutch guilder is a common currency in Europe, he also purchased some properties in London and Paris at low prices.

This economic crisis directly disrupted European plans.

Due to economic collapse, these countries are in extreme internal chaos, and are full of people who are against the government. Where can they find the money and troops to support Poland against China?

On the other side, Li Shizu, who was well prepared, began to teach Poland a lesson.

Poland is clamoring all over Europe to organize a coalition to deal with China. This is the best excuse to send troops.

The Swedes originally did not want to go to war with China, but now the financial crisis sweeping Europe has also affected Sweden.

This further strengthened their stance of "no war".

However, Sweden is far away from the center of this storm, the Netherlands, and the impact is relatively small.

And opening up trade with China will help them get rid of the domestic crisis.

After representatives of China signed the "Mutual Non-Aggression Treaty" with the Kingdom of Sweden, they began to attack Poland.

One hundred thousand Chinese troops surrounded Smolensk, an important town in eastern Poland.

Naturally, Wladyslaw IV would not just watch this city, which had cost countless troops and money to recapture, fall into the hands of the Chinese.

So he personally led an army of 5 people and rushed there for reinforcements.

And the brave 20,000 Polish Hussars launched a charge towards the Chinese position. After all, when the Cossack cavalry charged, the Poles did not see it with their own eyes.

Of course they don't know the true power of the Chinese rifle.

Otherwise, Wladyslaw IV would not have dared to declare war on China.

At this time, the Chinese army had already dug trenches and was ready.

Under the firepower of the 12-pound "Napoleon Field Cannon" and the "Qianxi 1635" rifle, the Polish cavalry fell in pieces.

These Polish hussars, who had almost no opponents in a head-on battle, had no choice but to die in front of Chinese guns and artillery.

The reason why they continued to charge was because they wanted to wait until the Chinese rifles went out.

But what awaited them was only continuous firepower output.

Eventually the Poles collapsed.

Wu Sangui put down the telescope in his hand and said: "In the face of modern rifles, the era of cavalry has finally come to an end."

"Instruct the cavalry to attack and be sure to annihilate the remaining Polish hussars."

Then the Cossack cavalry and the Chinese cavalry pursued the retreating Polish hussars from both sides.

Although the Polish Hussars performed very bravely, with less than 5 cavalry, they eventually ended up being annihilated under the pursuit of cavalry.

Seeing their most elite hussars wiped out, the morale of the Polish army plummeted.

The remaining 30,000 infantry were no match for the cavalry, although the Polish infantry phalanx also had many musketeers and spearmen.

However, under the attack of Chinese cavalry and artillery, their formation was quickly torn apart.

The Cossacks also fully demonstrated their ability to pursue.

They were as elusive as ghosts, suddenly appearing behind the Poles.

Even Władysław IV himself was killed by Cossack cavalry.

The Polish army was defeated in this battle, and only four to five thousand of the fifty thousand infantry and cavalry fled back.

The death of Władysław IV in the battle left Poland in a state of chaos without a leader.

While the Polish Sejm was still quarreling over the candidate for the new king, the Chinese cavalry had already arrived in Vilnius, the capital of Poland.

To make matters worse, the Ottomans also crossed the Carpathian Mountains and invaded the Polish plains from Hungary.

Poland's system has turned the country into a mess, with each province fighting independently and unable to organize effective resistance.

Soon China captured Smolensk, Minsk and other important cities, while the Ottomans captured Krakow in southern Poland.

Half a month later, Vilnius, the capital of Poland, surrendered to China with the vote of Sejm deputies.

At this point, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was divided between China and the Ottoman Empire.

The Chinese Empire finally obtained the coastal areas of Europe, but the Port of Riga, which originally belonged to Poland, had long been captured by Sweden.

Li Shizu's current direction of march is Western Europe, so he is unwilling to have a conflict with the Kingdom of Sweden in Northern Europe, so the Chinese army seized the Danzig Port on the Polish border, which originally belonged to Prussia.

At this time, the Holy Roman Empire was composed of hundreds of large and small states.

The largest state in the empire was Austria. Although Prussia and Brandenburg formed the United Kingdom, Prussia and Brandenburg themselves did not border on each other.

Prussia was an enclave surrounded by Poland.

The Chinese Empire was chasing rabbits and captured the port of Danzig. It was equivalent to cutting off Prussia's external ports and turning it into an enclave in the interior of Europe.

The Chinese Empire formed an alliance with the two powerful empires in the north and south, the Ottomans and Sweden. Naturally, there was no need to worry about the reaction of Brandenburg and the Holy Roman Empire behind it.

French Voltaire once commented on the Holy Roman Empire, saying that it was neither holy nor Roman, and could not even be called an empire at all.

In recent years, Ottoman Sultan Murad IV, who has followed China and annexed large areas of territory, is also full of confidence at this time.

He even wanted to capture Vienna, which is located in the heart of Europe.

The 80,000 Ottoman army was invading Austria at this time. Austria, which was too busy to take care of itself, certainly had no time to care about Danzig being invaded by China.

Li Shizu saw that the strength of the Kingdom of Brandenburg was not very good, so he sent troops to completely occupy Prussia.

This time Brandenburg sent 12000 soldiers to try to cross the Polish border to support Prussia, but this small amount of troops could not affect the situation of the war at all.

As soon as Brandenburg's army crossed the Oder River, it was raided jointly by Chinese cavalry and Gossart cavalry.

The Chinese dragoons quickly formed a rifle phalanx to shoot at these so-called Teutonic heavy armored knights. The remaining cavalry surrounded them and quickly ate the cavalry entering Poland.

The defeated Brandenburg was ultimately forced to accept the fact that China occupied the entire Prussia.

The acquisition of Danzig Port was of great significance to the Chinese Empire. China finally had its own port in Europe.

But at this time, the entire Europe's anger towards China was almost reaching its peak.

On the one hand, the Chinese have occupied large areas of Tsarist Russia and the Principality of Poland and Lithuania. Now they have even annexed Prussia and are not far from Western Europe.

More importantly, the third prince of China, Li Xingzu, set off a storm in the Netherlands, causing a large number of Europeans to go bankrupt.

Even the church that had always supported the East Ryukyu Company did not dare to publicly defend the East Ryukyu Company due to pressure from the public.

Naturally, the country that suffered the biggest losses was the Netherlands, which had the most developed finance. The Dutch currency market, banks, stocks, futures, and real estate all collapsed, and they were all "robbed" by Li Xingzu.

Like a vampire, he sucked away the wealth that the Dutch had worked so hard to accumulate over the years.

So the third prince of China got a new nickname "European Vampire".

Of course, after the Netherlands was hit hard, it also began to improve its relevant financial systems.

For example, if a stock has a price limit, trading will stop once the stock rises or falls by more than 10% in a single day.

In addition, once an individual's shareholding exceeds 10% of the total share capital of a listed company, a public explanation must be made, etc.

At this moment, representatives from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, and France gathered in London, England.

Now Europe has entered its darkest moment. The Chinese have taken Prussia, and the Ottomans are attacking Vienna, the "heart of Europe."

In addition to the threat of force, the "European Vampire" Li Xingzu is robbing the wealth of the entire Europe.

They all agreed that it was no longer possible to stop Li Xingzu by relying on normal financial means. Only by relying on force to rob the East Ryukyu Company of its huge wealth in Amsterdam can the Chinese infiltration be prevented.

So the five countries decided to jointly send troops to attack the Eastern Ryukyu Company.

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