Since the great voyage, countless wealth has gathered to Franchise.

This made countless nobles of Francis and their wallets plump.

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

Luxury began to become fashion, new palaces, new castles, oriental porcelain, Persian blankets, gold, silver and all wealth plundered from the New World became jewelry used by people to embellish and decorate themselves and boast about others.

They gradually began to hang porcelain as ornaments on their walls, decorating their palaces with the most exaggerated colors. Even the domes on the church were used with expensive glass at this time, and the buildings became more and more magnificent. People were competing to wear the most gorgeous service, just like peacocks spreading their tails.

The only thing that is the most beautiful color in the world is really expensive.

Because the production of purple pigments is complex and extremely scarce, this noble color advocated by the Byzantine court could not afford to consume even ordinary princes in later generations.

But now...

When people looked at this purple-red flower that was pinned on people's chest, they suddenly attracted everyone's attention.

After the salon, what was left was just the whispers of a group of merchants and nobles.

People asked about this never-before-seen flower.

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

So, it got its name, called tulip.

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

After more than ten days.

The Queen of France appeared at the banquet wearing this flower.

Soon after, merchants began selling tulip bulbs in the northern province.

Some people began to see business opportunities, started to acquire these bulbs, and let farmers cultivate them.

The number of nobles who sought to buy tulips began to increase day by day.

As happened in history, the Francis people had a pathological love for tulips.

This comes entirely from the traditions 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 purchased tulip bulbs quickly discovered the Dutch's talent for doing business.

Many merchants began to stock up on goods.

However, the nobles rush to order this kind of bulb. It is said that the Queen of France required that she need to change the tulip arrangement three times a day in her bedroom, and there must always be a bright tulip on her chest.

This can grow tulip bulbs, and suddenly, it starts to become popular.

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Liu Wenshan was drinking white water.

The tea he brought had been drunk, which was the most troublesome thing he had during this trip. Without tea, it was like a man without roots, and it seemed that his life became imperfect all of a sudden.

He listened carefully to Liu Jin's report.

"Godfather, my son really admires those Dutch merchants. Their ability to stock up on goods and promote them is really eye-opening." Liu Jin had looked down on the Franchise people before, but now he found that the intelligence of these people was not inferior to him. At this time, his face was full of admiration.

Dutch merchants are famous for Francophones, which are almost comparable to Venetian merchants.

They have extremely high sensitivity to products. Once they find it profitable, they immediately purchase the tulip bulbs released by Liu Wenshan on the market.

After the acquisition, on the one hand, they began to show the noble brought by tulips to the Francis royal family and nobles through various relationships, which constantly aroused people's love for tulips. They even hired painters to create various artistic works on tulips.

A court painter was invited to Austria in Habsburg to paint a portrait of the Aucun Swodavi commanding the army to obtain the Battle of Fassaro, and a tulip was placed in front of the bright breastplate of the Roman Aucunus.

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

In the French court, merchants presented such precious flowers to the queen and immediately won the queen's love.

So, tulips began to soar under their joint hype.

In just half a month, the price has tripled.

And... it's still in short supply.

"Don't rush to release the bulbs, just put them a little bit." Liu Wenshan thought for a while and continued to drink white water. He pondered for a moment: "We must always maintain an imbalance in supply and demand, and also ensure that those Dutch merchants are profitable."

"We cannot let tulips soar by relying on our own efforts. The reason why it is valuable is that it can allow countless merchants to make profits from it. Therefore, only by maintaining the small amount of stocks available now can those merchants who have hoarded tulips continue to build momentum for tulips and sell tulips at a higher price."

"But, if we only sell this little product, what money can we make?" Liu Jin murmured.

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

The price of tulip bulbs is still rising.

By this time, it was no longer the businessman who noticed profitability.

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

For anyone, profit-making is a difficult task. Farmers need to work hard to cultivate to gain some results; sailors need to take huge risks and die for a lifetime to improve their situation; Swiss mercenaries even earn little profits with their own blood and sweat.

But when someone discovered that he didn't need to take risks, he didn't need to put his life on his belt, or even... he didn't need any work, he just...

Some farmers in northwest France began to sell their oxen, buy some tulip rhizomes, and then... when their neighbors mocked them for their delusions.

A miracle happened.

The bulbs exchanged for a cow have begun to have hope of exchanging them with three cows in just over a dozen days.

The people around them became rich overnight just because they bought bulbs. The people who own bulbs repeatedly told the people around them that they believed in themselves.

Tulips...noble...luxury...it is a gift from God. Everyone needs it. Its value is far more than now.

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

Many farmers have made a lot of money.

Some young citizens began to take out all their savings.

They also spread all over the place the legend of these bulbs. Their ability to tell stories was far more clever than that of the French farmers. They whispered about the legend of princes and nobles who had their daughters seeking tulips.

This bulb... no one even wants to spend time cultivating flowers, but treasures them and wait for the price.

However, human hearts will never be satisfied.

When its price doubles, people will only hide it in their hands while ecstatic, hoping to increase more.

When it became worth ten times more valuable, and some people even started to trade real estate with people using the rhizomes of tulips, all the rhizomes of tulips on the market were hidden and refused to sell them.

No one sells it, but countless people are buying it.

People began to believe this myth and would not be broken, because everyone believed that the rhizomes of tulips had unparalleled value.

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

The nobles realized this terrible trend and they began to participate.

No one can resist the temptation of crazy asset appreciation.

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

In this case, the nobles used tulips to show their wealth and to maintain their financial stability.

After the voyage, the Spaniards brought back countless gold and silver, which led to the increasing depreciation of precious metals and the entire Francoin currency.

With the depreciation of the currency and the continuous shrinkage of wealth, the inflation caused by the decline of the currency has led to anxiety among all classes of Francis.

We have accumulated countless generations of wealth and hidden in the castle. We originally thought we could rest assured, but decades ago, people discovered that the accumulation of our ancestors has become less and less valuable.

And now... the tulips have appeared.

The nobles began to rush to order.

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

At banquets and salons, the nobles who were well-dressed and liked to talk about painting and war had no time to discuss these issues. They repeated the stories they encountered over and over again. These stories were added to the fire, as if... the most beautiful things in the world were discovered by themselves.

One month...

Tulip bulbs, thirty times.

One cow turned into thirty cows.

The Earl in charge of finance in France asked the king, hoping to take out some gold coins from the treasury for purchase of tulips.

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

The first move was the governor of the Habsburg family in the Northern Province. He first used the gold and silver in the warehouse to invest. Now, the finances of the Northern Province have jumped to the top of the entire Franc, and its assets have increased thirteen times.

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Chapter completed!