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Chapter 682: Tulips caused the country to fall, and the financial collapse! Confucius: Guan Zhong did this!

[With such a bank and the East India Company as a safeguard, the once weak and poor Netherlands instantly became an economic hotspot. ]

[The officially controlled East India Company was much richer and more powerful than those private English pirates and Spanish navigators.]

[They contracted ships on a large scale, hired them as employees of the East India Company, and finally pocketed their achievements.]

[As time went by, the company's profits grew and became larger and larger, and such wealth made the entire Netherlands rich.]

[Even Wang Ergou from the village was urged by the government to buy shares in the East India Company. Now that the company has made a fortune, it is natural to distribute dividends to everyone.]

【As a result, the entire Netherlands enjoyed the happiness of being rich, and this new country finally had cohesion. 】

"This can be considered an alternative way of winning people's hearts!"

Outside the sky, many spectators had strange expressions on their faces. They looked at the methods used by the Dutch top brass. Although they did not say anything, they had to admit that everyone was profit-seeking.

As long as you can make the people of the whole country rich, you are their leader!
It is obvious that with the help of the pioneering spirit, the Netherlands has entered the fast lane of development.

"A big deal. This is unthinkable in Daqin."

Veteran general Wang Jian looked at the Dutch merchants throwing money lavishly on the sky and couldn't help but speak.

The Netherlands was able to supply the entire country with one company and become wealthy because they had a small population, with a total size of only a few hundred thousand.

If it happened in China, such a good thing would not just be a matter for the common people.

The infighting among the powerful could destroy the East India Company.

Moreover, to satisfy the appetite of everyone in the world, the amount of money would be astronomical!

Just thinking about it made Wang Jian dumbfounded.

[With money, life will naturally be better. The Netherlands has started a vigorous infrastructure construction, and citizens have begun to enjoy life and the great new world. ]

[The new infrastructure and sophisticated urban aesthetics have made the capital of the Netherlands a paradise in the eyes of many wealthy people. In particular, this is a country of merchants! ]

[The rich people in Europe are proud to settle in the Netherlands. They bring all the wealth in Europe here.]

[This was also the beginning of the country's fall. With more people, there were more problems. Many merchants began to pursue flowers and plants.]

【And our protagonist today, Tulip, has officially made her debut. 】

Comment area:
“What a long pre-swing.”

"I have to say, tulips are really pretty."

"With a seven-year growth cycle, if it didn't look good, it would have been extinct long ago."

……

"Seven years, just for a bouquet of flowers?"

Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin touched his chin and expressed that he could not understand, although the people of Tang Dynasty also liked flowers, especially the rich and noble peony.

But it did not reach the point of paranoia. He could neither understand nor agree that it took seven years to cultivate such a bouquet of flowers.

However, his descendant Li Longji expressed his understanding, and his eyes revealed envy.

It takes seven years to grow such a gorgeous flower, I really want to see it with my own eyes!
Li Longji Li Sanlang has had a strong artistic talent since childhood, and he also wanted this beautiful flower.

From this we can see why these businessmen would pursue a flower. When material conditions can no longer satisfy them, the next stage is to pursue elegance and art.

[Tulips, this precious flower, was originally a plaything for the rich and a symbol of status, but one day, a flower farmer found a pure golden tulip in his home.]

[As we all know, tulips are called tulips, but their color is mostly reddish. This golden yellow variety is the first time I have seen it.]

[Whether it is a mutation or something else, it has become a rare species in the end, and this rarity is the best way to show your taste. ] [This tulip has become a favorite in everyone's eyes, as if their lives would be incomplete without this flower. ]

【In the end, everyone made a rule to let this flower be grafted and shared by everyone! 】

[This was originally a good proposal, but there was too little land in the Netherlands, and even less land for growing flowers. Many small merchants were afraid that they would not be able to grab the land.]

[In this case, you can only use your subjective initiative, which is to take the initiative, sign a contract with the flower grower, and pay the deposit in advance. ]

[After seven years, they will come with the balance to find the flower farmers and exchange tulips.]

Sounds good, right?

[However, this method has a bug. That is, if you have reserved the flowers and someone wants to buy them later, what should you do? ]

[There is only one flower, and it has not grown yet, so the only option is to buy the one that has been signed. ]

【This is the concept of futures! 】

"What a familiar term, Master, has this method been used before?"

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Gongye Chang looked at the sky and couldn't help asking.

Among the three thousand disciples, he was the one who was more interested in business. Although he was not as smart as Zigong, he was also very smart.

"That's right! Guan Yiwu used the same method before, and it worked well."

Confucius smiled and praised Gongye Chang.

Guan Yiwu is Guan Zhong. Without mentioning his later fate, his economic thinking was very avant-garde.

He had played with futures in the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and he did it with the State of Lu.

This left a deep impression on Confucius, a native of Lu.

So how did Guan Zhong play it? This has to mention a method called acquisition.

Guan Zhong took seven years to plan the plan. He first spent three years purchasing the cash crops grown by the people of Lu, making them accustomed to thinking that the merchants of Qi liked these crops.

So they began to switch to growing cash crops instead of growing crops.

Then, when the high-ranking officials of Lu were in panic, they used Qi's grain to exchange for their cash crops, thus successfully trapping the people of Lu.

Thus, his credibility began to be established.

At the beginning of the seventh year, he began to ask for credit. They had already worked together for seven years, which made the people of Lu trust him very much, so they readily agreed.

It was also in this year that Guan Zhong cut off the food supply to the State of Lu and sent troops to invade, forcing the entire State of Lu to submit to the State of Qi.

This is the huge impact of futures explosion.

Unfortunately, our country, the Netherlands, has also encountered such a situation.

[After many businessmen bought the contracts, a sudden hurricane and tsunami landed in the Netherlands. As a small coastal country, such natural disasters are unavoidable.]

[But there is a problem, that is, all the flowers planted in the field disappeared, uprooted. ]

[The flower growers can’t afford to compensate those nobles, and they can’t possibly compensate them. They are poor and alone, so the final losses will still be passed on to the people who bought the contracts.]

[You know, they paid real money. ]

[So, not surprisingly, the Netherlands exploded. ]

(End of this chapter)