Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1325 Tulip Bubble

  Since the great voyage, countless wealth has gathered in Franz.

  This has made the purses of countless Francine nobles more and more plump.

  As early as a hundred years ago, in Italy, the Renaissance began to appear, which brought a new atmosphere to the whole Franz.

Extravagance began to become a fashion. New palaces, new castles, oriental porcelain, Persian blankets, gold and silver looted from the New World, and all wealth have become people's decorations and decorations. Boasting accessories.

They gradually began to use porcelain as ornaments, hang them on their walls, and decorate their palaces with the most exaggerated colors. Even the domes on the churches used the expensive glass at this time, and the buildings became more and more beautiful. The grander it is, the more people compete to wear the most gorgeous clothes, just like peacocks spreading their tails.

  The only fly in the ointment... is the most gorgeous color in the world, the price is really high.

  Because the production of purple pigment is complicated and extremely scarce, this noble color respected by the Byzantine court cannot be consumed by even ordinary princes in later generations.

  Can now...

  When people looked at the purple-red flower pinned to their chests, all of a sudden, this flower attracted everyone's attention.

  After the salon was over, all that was left was the whispering of a group of businessmen and nobles.

  People are asking about this never-before-seen flower.

  The news began to spread like wildfire, and then people discovered that there was also such a flower on the chest of the governor's wife of the Northern Province.

  So, it has a name, called tulip.

   This is a very beautiful name, as noble as the flower itself.

   After more than ten days.

  The Queen of France wore this flower and appeared at the banquet.

   Soon after, merchants in the Northern Province began to sell tulip bulbs.

   Someone started to see a business opportunity and started to buy these bulbs and let farmers cultivate them.

  The number of nobles seeking to buy tulips also began to increase day by day.

  As has historically happened, the Franji have a morbid love for tulips.

   This is entirely from the tradition of their own culture.

  And... When people gradually discovered that although some people were selling tulip bulbs, they were still hard to find. Those merchants who bought tulip bulbs quickly discovered the Dutch business talent.

  Many merchants began to hoard goods.

   But the nobles are scrambling to order this kind of bulbs. It is said that the Queen of France requires three tulip flower arrangements in her bedroom every day. She must always have a gorgeous tulip on her chest.

   This could grow tulip bulbs, and all of a sudden, it became popular.

  …

   Liu Wenshan drank plain water.

  The tea leaves he brought had already been drunk. This was the most distressing thing on his trip. Without tea, it was like a man without roots. It seemed that life became imperfect all of a sudden.

  He listened carefully to Liu Jin's report.

"Godfather, my son really admires those Dutch businessmen. Their ability to hoard goods and spread them is really eye-opening." Liu Jin used to look down on Franz, but now, he found that these people His ingenuity is not inferior to his own. At this time, his face can't help but be filled with admiration.

  The Dutch merchants are well-known in Franz, almost comparable to the Venetian merchants.

  They have a very high sensitivity to commodities. Once they feel that it is profitable, they immediately buy the tulip bulbs released by Liu Wenshan on the market.

After the acquisition, on the one hand, they began to show the dignity brought by tulips to the Franji royal family and nobles through various relationships, and constantly aroused people's love for tulips. They even hired painters to pay attention to tulips, Perform various artistic creations.

A court painter, invited to Habsburg Austria, painted a portrait of Augustus Ottawa commanding the army to win the battle of Phasalo. In front of the shining breastplate of the Roman Augustus, there is pinned a tulip.

  It seems to be showing that what tulips represent is victory, honor and dignity.

  In the court of France, merchants presented such precious flowers to the queen, which immediately won the queen's favor.

  Thus, under their joint hype, tulips began to skyrocket.

  In just half a month, the price has tripled.

   And… still in short supply.

"Don't be in a hurry to let the bulbs out, let them out little by little." Liu Wenshan thought for a while, continued to drink plain water, and pondered for a moment: "We must always maintain the state of imbalance between supply and demand, and ensure that those Dutch businessmen are profitable. .”

"On our own, we cannot let tulips skyrocket. The reason why it is valuable is that it allows countless merchants to profit from it. Therefore, only by maintaining the current small amount of delivery can we let those who have hoarded tulips Merchants continue to promote tulips and sell tulips at a higher price."

   "But, if we only sell this amount of goods, how can we... earn money?" Liu Jin muttered.

  Liu Wenshan smiled: "The time has not yet come."

  The price of tulip bulbs is still rising.

  By this time, it is no longer the businessman who perceives a profit.

  Even ordinary citizens in the northern provinces, even farmers in France, or priests from Rome with a keen sense of smell, and the little nobles in Vienna, gradually began to feel this upsurge.

For anyone, making a profit is a difficult thing. Farmers need to work hard to get a little harvest; sailors need to take huge risks and escape from death before they can improve their situation; Switzerland The mercenaries in the field even earn with their own blood and sweat, and what they earn is nothing more than petty profits.

  But when someone finds out, it turns out that there is no need to take risks, don’t need to pin your life on your belt, or even...do not need any labor, just...

  Some farmers in northern France began to sell their cattle to buy some tulip rhizomes, and then... when their neighbors laughed at their wishful thinking.

   A miracle happened.

  The bulbs that were exchanged for one cow, in just ten days, have begun to be exchanged with three cows.

  The people around them became rich overnight just because they bought the bulbs, and the people who own the bulbs repeatedly told the people around them a story they believed in.

  Tulip...Noble...Luxury...It is a gift from God, everyone needs it, and its value is far more than it is now.

  Everyone who owns it believes in it, even with fanaticism, they tell people over and over again, tirelessly.

  Many farmers have made a lot of money.

  Some small citizens began to take out all their savings.

  They also spread all kinds of legends about these bulbs everywhere, and their storytelling ability is far superior to that of French farmers. They whispered about the legends about princes and nobles begging for thousands of dollars to buy tulips.

  This corm... No one is even willing to spend their time cultivating flowers, but treasure them and wait for the price.

  However, the human heart can never be satisfied.

  When its price has doubled, people will only hide it in their hands in ecstasy, hoping that it will rise even more.

  When its value has increased tenfold, and some people even started to use the tulip rhizomes to trade real estate with others, all the tulip rhizomes on the market were privately hidden and refused to be sold again.

  No one is selling, but countless people are buying.

  People began to believe in this myth, and it will not be broken, because everyone believes that the rhizome of tulip has incomparable value.

   This is no longer just a small group of businessmen behind the scenes as the driving force, and even citizens who borrowed money to buy tulip bulbs in large quantities began to appear.

  The nobles realized this terrible trend, and they also began to participate in it.

  No one can resist the temptation of crazy asset appreciation.

  Think about it, a small farmer, because of the early purchase of tulips, his wealth continued to grow in a blink of an eye, but his own financial situation gradually became less optimistic.

  Under such circumstances, the aristocrats not only use tulips to show their rich needs, but also have the need to maintain their financial stability.

  Since the great voyage, the Spaniards brought back countless gold and silver, which caused the depreciation of precious metals and the entire Francophone currency.

  With the depreciation of the currency and the continuous shrinking of wealth, the resulting inflation has caused anxiety in all classes of the entire Francois machine.

  Having accumulated countless generations of wealth and hiding it in the castle, I thought I could sit back and relax, but as early as decades ago, people discovered that the accumulation of ancestors became less and less valuable.

   And now... tulips appear.

   The nobles began to rush to order.

   There was even a mutated tulip. It was no longer purple, but purple with white spots. At the auction, its price was actually sold at a sky-high price, worth thirteen hundred Spanish gold coins.

At banquets and salons, those well-dressed nobles who liked to talk about paintings and wars no longer had the time to discuss these issues. They repeated the stories they encountered over and over again. These stories were embellished, as if... The most beautiful things in the world are discovered by oneself.

  One month…

  Tulip bulbs increased thirtyfold.

  One cow became thirty cows.

  The earl in charge of finance in France asked the king to withdraw some gold coins from the treasury to buy tulips.

  In fact... the Austrian king of Habsburg was also considering this matter at the same time.

The first to act was the Governor of the Northern Province of the Habsburg family. He was the first to use the gold and silver in the treasury to invest. Now, the finances of the Northern Province have leapt to the top of the entire Francois. , its assets have increased thirteen times.

  …

These few chapters will be quite tiring to write, and there is constant battle between heaven and man in my mind. I don’t know whether to write in detail or briefly. If I write in detail, I am afraid that readers will feel long-winded. If I write less, I am afraid that I will not be able to explain the tulip bubble. Cause, please give your opinion.

  (end of this chapter)