The frenzy began to spread like a plague.

The whole Franco, to a certain extent, was also in the age of just enlightenment, with a large influx of gold and silver, but the commodity economy was not prosperous, and wealth was not used to realize luxury goods, and it was difficult to give birth to new industries for the time being.

The Industrial Revolution has not yet begun, which means that most of people's investment is still only in the more primitive hoarding of goods.

When tulips began to become popular, almost all at once, they became the target of all classes.

There is something in the world that is not only noble, but also resistant to terrible inflation.

In the process of soaring prices, Liu Wenshan is behind the scenes, planning the overall situation.

Most of the Dutch and Spaniards who worked for him were made by Wang Xizuo, who transformed himself into a Portuguese merchant who became rich from the Far East.

And everyone he recruited had the wishful thinking that he was just an ordinary businessman.

Their work is very detailed, some people are only responsible for finding out the price of tulips in the northern provinces, and some people are responsible for buying tulips at any time, or shipping and counting tulips. Someone makes an exchange for bonds. Someone is in charge of picking up the boat.

They are like workers at every station on the production line, only responsible for manufacturing the parts they have at hand, and they don't know much about how these parts are finally assembled and what kind of machines they turn into.

Not only that, but some people with energy have also become friends with Wang Xizuo, and no one will notice that this person named Wang Xizuo once appeared in the Spanish court, not to mention a few years, which is enough to make a person become another person, and for this era, the northern province is too far away from the Spanish court.

The finances of the Northern Province were tied to tulips, which gave rise to many lords and even royal families to focus on the tulips.

Because the price of tulips continues to rise, so that people have no time to trade goods, smart people began to invent a new method, they and the goods of the merchants, directly into a sales contract, although the goods are still piled up in the warehouse, but in just a few days, the contract has been transferred to the hands of seven or eight people, and the price of the contract, has risen several times.

As for whether there are tulips in the warehouse, and perhaps how many tulips there are, no one cares anymore.

The essence of the market is that in this world, anything can be secondary, but confidence is the most important, as long as everyone is convinced that the contract has value, then it is priceless.

It's like a famous painting, when no one cares about it, it's just a scribble on paper, but once someone is convinced that it is valuable, then it is worth a fortune.

Of course, although the tulips in history were sought after, the process of their skyrocketing lasted for decades.

But at this time, behind this, there is an invisible hand, slowly pushing.

Liu Wenshan hides in the room every day, constantly lifting the pen, checking what he needs, he needs to maintain a myth of rising prices.

In this myth, it takes a lot of effort to roughly calculate the demand in the market and determine how many tulip bulbs are needed.

Every day, he had to wear extremely thick lenses, and his mind was full of numbers.

…………

Dresden is the capital of Saxony.

It was the center of the Electorate of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire.

The House of Vetina has always ruled here.

The Marquis of Alston is not young, and he has a big belly.

He had the old tradition of the Shinra nobles, and even at this age, he personally took his knights to hunt.

It's just that......

Today, however, he wore a hunting outfit and carried a whip, and rushed into a banquet in a rage.

The vassals of the Marquis of Auston had already looked at the Marquis of Auston in amazement.

The Marquis said angrily: "Everywhere the damned tulips, everywhere, you, and your wife, the farmer, even the driver of the car, and the soldiers, they are all talking about tulips. ”

The vassals looked at the Marquis of Auston in horror.

Marquis Alston said: "Tulips are destroying our traditions, damn it, damn it......"

In front of everyone, he took out a tulip bulb, and then recklessly took out a knife and cut the bulb in half.

People seem more uneasy, which ...... It's money, bulbs are money......

Like a mad lion, the Marquis of Auston cut off a tulip bulb in front of everyone, put it in his mouth, and began to chew.

The ladies and ladies had already let out their exclamations.

They couldn't understand how such a beautiful thing in the world could be treated so rudely.

The Marquis of Auston kept chewing, and said: "You taste it, its taste is not much better than garlic, this is what you worship as a treasure, it is the same flavor as garlic, do you want to taste it, do you want to taste it?" And its damned flower, this damned flower, what is the value, you tell me, it can neither be eaten, nor can it be turned into a weapon, it can fight for us, and it is impossible to feed the peasants, at most, it can only be used to feed the horses. They are not worth the price at all, you are all crazy, all of Europe, are crazy. ”

The vassals frowned.

Someone couldn't help but say euphemistically: "Your Excellency, if you talk about it in this way, then nothing in this world is valuable. ”

Although people refute it.

But............ Many people's hearts were drumming.

Does it really smell like garlic?

The cold water that the Marquis of Auston poured on them made them suspicious.

This little episode quickly spread.

Although almost all the people who owned the tulips scoffed at this, thinking that the monarch from the German states was too reckless.

But......

Wang Xizuo hurriedly found Liu Wenshan: "It's not good, Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu...... Not so good, in the Northern Province, the price of bulbs began to fall slightly, and many people began to waver, and some people began to sell bulbs. ”

Liu Wenshan raised his head and looked at Wang Xizuo, he looked very calm, and only frowned slightly: "Is it?" Oh, got it. ”

"Mr. Liu......"

"It's a real nuisance." Liu Wenshan subconsciously picked up the teacup, but unfortunately, there was only white water in the teacup, he frowned again, and then said: "The price of tulip bulbs comes from people's confidence in its rising price, people believe that as long as they buy this thing, they can not only sell it at any time, but even make a profit from it." ”

The implication is that once the price starts to fall, the panic will intensify, and at that point, the myth that has been built up with countless efforts will become a complete illusion.

Liu Wenshan said with a smile: "You go and arrange, through our merchants, buy a large number of bulbs, how many you want, today with fifteen gold catties, tomorrow, with sixteen gold coins ......"

"This ......" Wang Xizuo looked at Liu Wenshan in surprise: "However, although we have sold a lot of tulips before, the price of selling at that time was not high, if people are crazy to sell, we ...... Can we handle it? ”

If you can't afford it, it's over.

Liu Wenshan said lightly: "At the same time, the news was released, and it was said that in Daming, people also highly respected such bulbs, and it is said that some people want to buy bulbs and send them to Luzon in the Far East, where there will be smugglers in Daming, who are willing to buy them at sky-high prices." Okay, go for it. ”

Wang Xizuo looked very uneasy.

At such a high price, the purchase of bulbs, and now the gold coins they have in hand, simply cannot hold on to today.

As a result, in the Northern Province, many merchants began to buy bulbs at high prices.

At first, the slightly panicked people began to ship, and once their bulbs were put on the market for sale, in the blink of an eye, they were sold out.

By the next day, instead of falling, the bulb began to rise.

All of a sudden, the sell-off was gone.

People suddenly settled down on the previous gossip.

After a few days, no one was willing to sell the bulbs on hand, and the bulbs on the market were still priceless.

After that, more people began to buy bulbs anxiously, and the prices were getting higher and higher.

In the blink of an eye, the Marquis of Auston became the joke of all over Europe, and in countless salons and banquets, the nobles mocked the German hillbilly, because almost every nobleman with a bulb was rising in value.

In the countryside, there are even dozens of peasant households joining forces to buy a bulb and wait for the value to appreciate.

Merchants are even more hollowed out, looking for sources of goods everywhere.

A boatload of bulbs sold out quickly.

Even the Habsburgs in Austria noticed this phenomenon.

People began to believe that this thing, not only has value, but also has become a weapon against the ever-low price of precious metals, not only in Europe, but also in Europe, even the Ottoman Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty in North Africa and the Far East, the rich dynasty that defeated the Spanish expeditionary force, also wanted this bulb.

But at this time, it was precisely when Liu Wenshan was crazy about shipping.

A large number of ships transporting bulbs arrived at the Franco, and a warehouse of bulbs was sold at an astonishing price.

People spend their life savings buying these bulbs and never circulating them in the market, but storing them up waiting for the day when their price will continue to climb.

Everybody is calculating the latest price of the bulb, and then how much their wealth has increased.

Liu Wenshan was at this time, looking at the dazzling array of numbers on the wall, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked: "It's time!" ”