"Mr. Black, are you saying we should mimic the futures exchange of the Online Financial Street and establish our own tulip futures?"
The financial product of "futures" is nothing new.
It was first invented by the two mysterious figures of the Online Financial Street, [Mr. Wednesday] and [Lady Friday], and has been sold for an unknown amount of time.
Who among us has not purchased the famous whale oil futures from the Online Financial Street?
Due to the existence of the "Living Hatch," whale oil trading has a natural cyclical nature, and no one knows the exact output and transaction price of the new batch of whale oil until the end or the beginning of the month.
Occasionally, there are unexpected wealth gains, drawing numerous people eager to participate.
Everyone instantly grasped the nuances of the concept and silently praised the keen insight of Hal Black.
The president of the Tulip Guild, William Jones, was visibly pleased and laughed heartily:
"Mr. Black is right, the greatest problem we’re currently facing is precisely the imbalance between tulip supply and demand.
If we release next September’s output into the market using the ’Guild Standard Trading Contract’ method.
And make a clear agreement that when the tulip bulbs are harvested, we must settle based on the current trading price. Doesn’t this kill two birds with one stone?
Tulip futures are indeed a tailor-made brilliant idea for us!"
Thus, with a few words, tulip futures made their first appearance in this world.
As the cake expanded tenfold, others too began rubbing their hands in readiness, preparing to pool funds to join this grand feast.
From today, the tulips traded in those small taverns were no longer physical bulbs but ’Guild Standard Trading Contracts’ on sheets of paper.
It eliminates the cumbersome steps of warehousing, transport, and entry, only requiring a handover of money and contract, and picking up goods upon settlement day with the contract.
The convenience of trading increased manifold instantly!
What used to take several days for a trade now can be done countless times in a single day.
As for whether these people would suffer losses?
Jokingly, with the game rules and the source of goods in their hands, how could the establisher ever lose?
The high-ranking members of the "Freemason Society" had no idea what this thin futures contract, written on sugar cane paper, truly signified for them.
Only Black knew the last shackle restraining bubble expansion had declared collapse, and this trend was fated to sweep across the nation and even the entire East Coast.
In this fervent atmosphere, the highest-ranking meeting host at the head of the meeting room suddenly spoke:
"Gentlemen, the idea of tulip futures is indeed a good one.
We can use this opportunity to harvest the wealth of the entire country and even surrounding nations, to support the Orthodox Alliance’s war.
Everyone must remember that the immediate priority of our Netherland Kingdom is to help the Orthodox Alliance win the religious war.
If we operate well, in the end, not only will the money we spend still belong to us, but even the land and country of the Protestant Alliance could be ours.
We are now infinitely close to the goal of being ’World Nobles’!
Winning this war, the future Material World will be the era of us Great Bankers."
The Freemason Society members present placed their hands on their chests in salute and solemnly promised:
"Yes, Lord Cromwell, we can distinguish between primary and secondary."
The person sitting at the head was none other than the Kingdom’s Guardian of the Netherland, president of the Freemason Society, the fifth-order legendary "Banker" Elon Cromwell of the Remit People.
He was also the Minister of Finance of the kingdom, and the de facto controller of the Parliament, appointed as the ’Protector of the Realm’ by the young King.
Byron’s underling, that Mad Hunt Servant and [Love and Desire Elf] Salome, was his daughter.
The ’Protector of the Realm’ Elon Cromwell directed his sharp gaze at everyone and continued with the pre-war mobilization:
"You all must remember, regardless of how much time has passed, the Three Religions Sacred City has always been our ancestral land of the Remit People.
If we can rebuild the nation, that will be our unchanging choice.
Last time when even the West Silver Empire was destroyed by [Lord of Two Seas and Two Lands] Muhammad II, the male members of the Royal Family were completely wiped out.
This brutal act terrified everyone.
Even the radicals in the ’Monetary Restoration Party’ no longer propose returning to the ancestral land, opting instead to found a nation overseas.
Now, our once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity has finally arrived."
A sophisticated world map was projected from his ornate gem rings, depicting two red battle lines, one in the east and one in the west.
"The strength of our Orthodox Alliance is beyond doubt.
Although the Pyrenees Empire is fighting on both the east and west lines, the strongest North Sea Empire of the Protestant Alliance cannot focus all its efforts on the war either.
Guarding the end of the Third Ring Current Zone, its enemies will only be more numerous and stronger than those of the Pyrenees Empire.
The Pope promises that during the expansion of the Corridor of Truth, an additional reduction in the support from the Silver Law will be carried out, causing greater losses to them.
The North Sea Empire has provoked a hornet’s nest in the Eastern Continent, and there will undoubtedly be a continuous stream of kin and colonizers coming to attack them.
Even the beast tides spontaneously formed in the Sea of Monsters will be enough to keep them busy."
Seeing members of the Freemason Society nodding in agreement, he raised his tone dramatically:
"If we can help the Pyrenees Empire defeat the Star Moon Empire, dominating the Inland Sea and even the West Coast.
Although it may be impossible to partition the Three Religions Sacred City to us, granting us a place outside the city to build the nation is certainly feasible.