Don’t just talk about interpersonal relationships. At critical moments, even they themselves can be sacrificed to the high-level money-making enterprise.
Of course, on the surface, it seems that with continuous promotions and raises, there is hope of breaking free, but how easy is it to repay the usurious loans of the Gold Sequence bankers?
In order to develop the financial industry and promote their own career advancement, they have developed countless financial products; those who don’t get trapped are the exceptions.
With the highly efficient work of these clerks.
Tulip bulbs are dug out of the ground, still covered in fresh soil, packed into sacks, and loaded onto waiting carriages.
Whether it’s distributors or third-level markets, as soon as they appear, people quickly wave gold pounds and buy them out.
A few rare items are put up for auction, and in the blink of an eye, can be exchanged for a property.
Unfortunately, no matter how fervent it is from top to bottom, new tulip bulbs cannot appear out of thin air, and the supply quantity in a given space and time is very limited.
Not earning more money is a loss.
Even if the guilds and suppliers are anxious, pounding their chests and jumping up and down, they are powerless.
Tulips originally came from the West Coast of the Star Moon Empire, and later came to the East Coast along the trade route and the nine Crusades.
The climate and soil conditions of the Netherland Kingdom are very suitable for the growth of tulips, gradually becoming the largest tulip cultivation and trade base on the East Coast.
But limited by the previous Famine Hunter breeding technology and not-so-vigorous demand, the planting scale has never been very large.
The most crucial point is that tulips have only two reproduction methods: one through seeds; the other through the propagation of tulip bulbs.
If propagated through seeds, it takes at least 7-12 years to achieve a more ideal bulb.
What is traded in the mass tulip market has never been the flowers, but rather these bulbs, which are easy to store and transport.
Plant the bulbs in the spring, and they will bloom in April or May, with a flowering period of only about ten days.
The nobility urgently need them for balls, so it is very convenient for the Famine Hunters to forcibly accelerate the process.
And every September, new bulbs grow from the roots of those tulips in the ground, with new bulbs at most doubling in size from when they were planted.
If priced by weight, the value can also double.
So, only in September every year, will there be new bulbs on the market to meet the ever-growing demand for tulips.
Catherine’s purchase plan began just in time, and with the arrival of September, the entire tulip market in the Netherland Kingdom was pushed to a climax.
But due to the natural supply limit, the selling price remains high.
In a luxurious villa next to the tulip plantation.
A group of influential figures, parasitic in the Netherland Kingdom and holding real power, are also hotly discussing this grand wealth.
"I’m very happy to make a fortune, but the lack of supply, preventing me from making more money, causes me much distress.
If only I could have ordered more tulips to be planted this spring."
"Who could have predicted that this year’s market changes would be so drastic?
The North Sea Empire Lancaster Royal Family, the Iris Kingdom Valois Royal Family, and many countries’ upper classes are following the trend and chasing tulips.
In just two months, the prices of ordinary bulbs have multiplied several times.
We failed to plant in advance and expand production, and even if all the bulbs in the ground were dug up, they wouldn’t satisfy the market demand."
Most of the dozen gentlemen present were already elderly, yet each was immaculately dressed, with sharp spirits, and even every strand of white hair managed meticulously.
Unlike the group outside of frontline clerks braving the elements.
It is probably a real portrayal of "vigorous old men, languid young men."
Among them, the President of the Tulip Trading Guild, William Jones, saw his wealth soar in this period, earning in two months what he couldn’t in a lifetime.
Yet, in this conference room, he still ranks low.
Infected by his emotions, other moneyed and powerful figures also lamented:
"The total number of bulbs is truly limited, so even with higher unit prices, the market cap is already in sight.
If we had prepared earlier, we could have expanded our influence tenfold, a hundredfold, reaping huge wealth from half the continent.
Seeing this, it seems we can only plant bulbs more quickly in the coming spring to take action by this time next year.
But by then, the war between the Orthodox Alliance and the Protestant Alliance will probably be in full swing. Will there still be so much hot money in the market to drive up the price of tulips?"
"Alas! Not earning this fortune, it’s more painful than being killed."
Sitting next to President William Jones, however, is Hal Black, who secretly pledged allegiance to Byron, part of the same "Freemason Society" as all the noble gentlemen here.
Hearing the complaints of his colleagues, Black pretended to ponder for a moment, then "kindly" reminded:
"President Jones and gentlemen.
Everyone is usually so clever, how come you’re all stuck in the lagging mindset of those practitioners at this time?
This year’s output is at the end, but next year’s output is still there.
And it will expand threefold, fivefold, even tenfold from this year’s base.
Isn’t this the perfect source?
Besides those aristocrats in every country, do most buyers truly want bulbs? They want speculation to make money."
The others were only momentarily stunned, then each one’s eyes lit up: