Since the Great Voyage, countless riches have converged on the Franco.

This made the purses of countless Franco-rich nobles fuller and fuller.

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

Extravagance began to become fashion, new palaces, new castles, porcelain from the East, carpets from Persia, gold and silver plundered from the New World, all the riches became ornaments for people to embellish and decorate themselves and boast of.

Gradually, they began to use porcelain as ornaments, hanging them on their walls, decorating their palaces with the most pompous colors, even the dome of the church, which was expensive at this time, and the buildings became more and more magnificent, and people competed to wear the most gorgeous services, like peacocks opening the screen.

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

Because of the complexity of purple pigment and its extreme scarcity, this noble color admired by the Byzantine court could not be consumed even by ordinary princes in later generations.

Can ...... now

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

When the salon was over, all that remained was the whispers of a group of merchants and nobles.

People asked about the never-before-seen flowers.

The news began to spread, and immediately afterward, it was discovered that the wife of the governor of the northern province also had such a flower on her chest.

So, it got a name, called Tulip.

It's a beautiful name, as noble as the flowers themselves.

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 selling tulip bulbs.

Someone started to see a business opportunity and started buying these bulbs and letting the farmers cultivate them.

And the number of aristocrats who want to buy tulips has also begun to increase day by day.

As has happened throughout history, the Francos have a morbid love for tulips.

This comes entirely from the traditions of their own culture.

Moreover...... When it became apparent that tulip bulbs, although some people were selling, they were still hard to find, and the merchants who bought tulip bulbs soon discovered the Dutch's talent for business.

Many businessmen began to stock up on goods.

It is said that the Queen of France requires three tulips to be changed in her bedroom every day, and she must always have a gorgeous tulip on her chest.

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

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Liu Wenshan drank white water.

The tea he brought has been drunk, which is the most distressing thing about his trip, without tea, it is like a man without roots, and it seems that all of a sudden, life has become imperfect.

He listened carefully to Liu Jin's advice.

"Godfather, my son really admires those Dutch merchants, their ability to hoard goods and spread the word is really eye-opening." Liu Jin looked down on Francois before, but now, he found that the intelligence of these people was not under him, and at this time, his face couldn't help but be full of admiration.

The Dutch merchant was famous for his Franc machine, almost as much as the Venetian merchant.

They have a very high sensitivity to goods, and 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 royal family and nobles of Francois through various relationships, and constantly aroused people's love for tulips, and even hired painters to create various artistic works on tulips.

A court painter, invited to Habsburg Austria, painted a portrait of Augustus Ottavian commanding his army at the Battle of Fasaro, with a tulip pinned to the bright cuirass of the Roman Augustus.

It seems to be on display, and the tulips represent victory, honor, and honor.

At the court of France, merchants presented such precious flowers to the queen, which immediately won her affection.

As a result, tulips began to skyrocket under their joint hype.

In just half a month, the price has tripled.

And...... Still in short supply.

"Don't rush the bulbs out, little by little." Liu Wenshan thought for a while, continued to drink white water, and he muttered for a moment: "We must always maintain the imbalance between supply and demand, and we must also ensure that those Dutch merchants are profitable." ”

"We can't let tulips skyrocket on our own. The reason why it is valuable is that it can make countless merchants profit from it, so only by maintaining the current small amount of goods can those merchants who have hoarded tulips continue to build momentum for tulips and sell them at a higher price. ”

"However, this is the only thing that will be delivered, let's ...... What kind of money do you earn? Liu Jin muttered.

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

The price of tulip bulbs is still rising.

By this time, it was no longer the businessman who perceived the profit.

Even the ordinary burghers of the Nord Province, even the peasant families of France, or the clergy from Rome with a keen sense of smell, the petty nobles of Vienna began to feel the craze.

It is a difficult thing for anyone to make a profit, and the farmers need to work hard to get a little harvest; Sailors need to take great risks, nine deaths, in order to have the possibility of improving their situation; The Swiss mercenaries, with their own blood and sweat, earned only small profits.

But when someone finds out, it turns out that there is no need to take risks, there is no need to pin your life to the belt of your pants, or even ...... No need for any work, just ......

Some farmers in the north-west of France began to sell their cattle for some tulip rhizomes, and then ............ When their neighbors laugh at their delusions.

A miracle happened.

The bulbs exchanged for one cow have begun to have the hope of exchanging three cows for just ten days.

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

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

Everyone who has it is convinced of it, even fanatical, and they tell it 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 went about telling legends of these bulbs, and their storytelling skills were far more sophisticated than those of the French peasants, and they whispered about the princes and nobles who were buying tulips.

This bulb...... No one even bothered to bother cultivating flowers, but rather treasured them and sold them for a price.

However, the human heart will never be satisfied.

When its price doubles, people are in ecstasy and just hide it in their hands, hoping that it will rise even more.

When its value increased tenfold, and even someone directly began to use the tulip rhizome to trade real estate with people, all the tulip rhizomes on the market were secretly hidden and refused to be sold.

No one is selling, but countless people are buying.

People began to believe that this myth will not be broken, because everyone believes that the rhizome of tulips has an incomparable value.

This is no longer just a small group of businessmen behind the scenes, and even citizens who have borrowed money to buy tulip bulbs have even begun to appear.

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

No one can resist the temptation to increase their assets like crazy.

Think about it, a small farmer, because of the early purchase of tulips, in the blink of an eye, his wealth continues to grow, and his financial situation gradually becomes less optimistic.

In this situation, the aristocracy had both the need to show their wealth with tulips and the need to keep their finances sound.

Since the Great Voyage, the Spaniards brought back untold quantities of gold and silver, which led to the increasing depreciation of the precious metal, as well as the entire Francis currency.

With the depreciation of the currency, the continuous shrinking of wealth, which led to inflation, led to a sense of anxiety among all classes of the entire Franco.

Accumulated countless generations of wealth, hidden in the castle, originally thought to be able to sit back and relax, but as early as decades ago, people found that the accumulation of ancestors became less and less valuable.

And now...... Tulips appeared.

The aristocrats began to rush to order.

There was even a mutated tulip, which was no longer purple-red, but purple-red, with white dots, and at auction, its price was actually sky-high, worth 1,300 Spanish gold coins.

At banquets and salons, the well-dressed nobles who liked to talk about painting and war had no heart to discuss these issues, and they kept repeating the stories they had encountered, which were added to the vinegar as if they were ...... The best things in the world are discovered by themselves.

One month......

Tulip bulbs, which have skyrocketed thirty-fold.

One cow became thirty cows.

The French count, who was in charge of finance, asked the king to take out a portion of the gold coins from the treasury for the purchase of tulips.

In fact...... The Austrian king of Habsburg was also thinking about this at the same time.

The first to act was the governor of the Habsburg family in the Northern Province, who was the first to use the gold and silver in the treasury to invest, and now the Northern Province's finances have jumped to the top of the whole Franco, and its assets have increased thirteenfold.

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These chapters will be written more tired, the mind is constantly at war, I don't know whether to write in detail or abridged, if you write in detail, and I'm afraid that the reader will feel verbose, write less, and I'm afraid that I can't explain the cause of the tulip bubble, everyone give some advice.