Chapter 20: The Crazy Gentleman's Orchid

Orchid: Lycoris family, native to Africa.

This is the description of the plant in the later encyclopedia.

This plant was originally a wild plant in Africa, and then it was spread to Europe and the United States, cultivated as an ornamental plant, and later spread to RB, where it was loved by some flower lovers in RB.

In the thirties, the puppet Manchurian Empire was established in the northeast, and Pu Yi ascended the throne as the emperor and became a puppet emperor.

This is the official record for the first time that Junzilan has entered China.

Later, the puppet Manchurian regime collapsed, and everything in the temporary palace was looted and scattered, among which this Junzi Lan also went to the people.

By the end of the 70s, the orchid began to enter the flower market, because of its scarce quantity and "royal blood", so the market was priceless, and the price was extremely high.

Because the puppet Manchurian regime was established in the northeast, most of the cultivation areas of Junzilan were also in the Guanwai area, and the place where the price was speculated was also concentrated in a provincial capital city outside the Guan.

In the early eighties, the price of Junzi Orchid continued to rise, and the price of a pot of Junzi Orchid was even more than ten times or even dozens of times the monthly income of the people at that time.

This sharp change in price attracted the attention of the local authorities, and in order to curb the price of this flower, the local government specially formulated a "price limit order", stipulating that the price of each pot of Junzi orchid should not be higher than 200 yuan.

In 84 years, the attitude of the local government suddenly came to a 80-degree turn, no longer to limit the price of the orchid, but to set the orchid as the city flower, they even want to take the orchid as a pillar industry, just like the Dutch tulip, to become a local landmark plant, but also to export to earn foreign exchange, drive the local economic development.

In the heyday, a pot of Gentleman's Orchid can be sold to 150,000 or 60,000 yuan, and the next little one, there are also sold 30,000 or 40,000, 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, so high price, the people with a keen sense of smell across the country gathered outside the Guan, and hyped up the price of this rare flower.

At that time, there were even newspapers named after Junzi Orchid, wall calendars with Junzi Orchid as the pattern, and even singers, painters, cross talk actors, calligraphers and other people from all walks of life also praised Junzi Orchid, and the local government even stipulated that each family should raise at least one pot of Junzi Orchid.

Things got to the point of extreme madness.

A small pot, some people make a fortune for it, some people die for it, some people go crazy for it, and "green gold bars" have become synonymous with Junzi Orchid.

This abnormal situation lasted for nearly a year, and finally attracted the attention of the relevant departments, for this phenomenon, someone wrote a special editorial, to pour cold water on this phenomenon, and after the People's Daily forwarded, the local government was shocked, began to urgently discuss countermeasures, overnight changed the tax ratio of the Junzi Orchid transaction, the previous small proportion of taxes, changed to 60 percent of the transaction amount.

Then they began to interrogate and arrest people, and some of the people who made the most noise went directly to prison.

After the promulgation of this policy, the Zhengjunzi Orchid market suddenly became depressed, the price dropped several times a day, and the flower market where people came and went in the past, in an instant, the door was full of birds, and many people didn't even want flowers, and left directly.

In that short period of time, the garbage that filled the big city outside the gate that occupied the largest area was a pot of Junzi orchid.

In this commercial bubble of drumming and spreading flowers, the first batch of people who spread flowers made a windfall, and the last people who received flowers became wronged people, and there were no less than 10,000 people who went into debt for it.

The malicious speculation in the capital market was wiped out in an instant under the iron fist of our people's government.

Some people still have lingering feelings when they talk about this farce years later.

Under the wash of time, many people have forgotten or don't know at all that this kind of thing happened in a city outside the Guan, but Guan Xiaojun still remembers this incident many years later, because his father Guan Yunshan was one of the victims.

In the previous life, at the beginning of the eighty-fifth year, a few outsiders got the news out of nowhere, knowing that there was an old man who liked to raise flowers and plant flowers in Guandimiao Village, Fengshan Township, so they came all the way to visit Guan Zizai, and when they saw Guan Zizai in the yard full of flowers, these people were very tempted and wanted to buy more and take them away.

These people are extremely generous, and the price they give is difficult for people to refuse, but for all the flowers that are in good condition, they can give twenty yuan a pot, and even a little better, they can even give fifty yuan, and Guan Zizai is the most proud of a few pots of peony flowers, they even gave three hundred yuan a pot, but unfortunately Guan Zizai does not sell.

These people couldn't buy peony flowers, so they retreated to the next best thing and began to buy other flowers, such as roses, tulips, and junzi orchids, but everything that was in good condition was bought by them.

For these people who buy flowers, they can't ask for it.

He has raised flowers for so many years, and the entire yard covering an area of three or four acres has been filled, and there is almost no place to stay, but if he wants to sell it, no one buys it, and no one wants to give it away, and he is reluctant to throw it away.

Although he knew that these people would spend such a high price to buy their own flowers, there must be great profit margins in them, but Guan Zizai was already in his nineties, and he was no longer interested in wanting to know the reason behind the matter.

This incident caused a lot of trouble, and the people in the whole village came to see the excitement, and Guan Hongda and his son were also among the people who watched the excitement.

When asked what these people are buying flowers, these people just said that the price of flowers has risen sharply recently, and they want to sell them in big cities to make a little difference.

These words can deceive ordinary people who have never gone out, but they can't deceive Guan Hongda and his son.

Guan Hongda saw something unusual from their small movements in carrying flowers: when these people were carrying other flowers, they were all casually placed in the carriage, but when carrying Junzi Lan, they were careful to handle it gently, just like carrying fragile porcelain, this cautious look instantly let Guan Hongda know the true purpose of these people.

They are obviously here to buy all the varieties of flowers in Guan Zizi, but in fact, it is just a means of concealment, what these people really want is hundreds of pots of Junzi orchids in Guan Zi's yard.

It's just that even if they know the true intentions of these people, Guan Hongda and his son don't understand why Junzilan is so valuable, the countryside is closed to information, and there is not even a newspaper, and the two of them didn't know that at that time, in a city outside the customs of the motherland, a legend about green gold bars was being staged.

It wasn't until a few months later that Guan Yunshan accidentally learned the crazy news of Junzilan outside Guanwai from the newspaper, Guan Yunshan was surprised at that time, and then he was excited, he felt that this was a huge business opportunity, so he urgently took out 30,000 yuan from the kiln factory, regardless of the dissuasion of his parents and family, and took the train directly to Guanwai.

When he arrived in that city, it was May, and it was also the craziest time for Junzilan, at the beginning, because of a little capital, he bought and sold a few times, and he also made some money, but just when he was about to do a big job, suddenly a basin of cold water was poured on him, and the government's new policy came out!

Guan Yunshan's 30,000 yuan was lost overnight, and he returned home in an extremely embarrassed manner, and slept for several days before he dared to go out to meet people.

But Guan Yunshan has always had a heart that dares to dare to do, and he has been seen in the most important waves of the development of the motherland's market.