"Tony, do you think I look good with this tulip?" Jessica, who was shopping with Downing, asked Downing with a beautiful tulip with a happy face.

"Of course it looks good, my Jessica looks good in anything." Tang Ning replied casually, but when he was paying the vendor, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he suddenly understood all this!

Then he hugged Jessica and kissed him heavily, and said excitedly: "Oh, dear, you are really my angel, the problem that has plagued me for so long has been solved by you at once!" ”

Jessica asked with a confused expression, "Huh?" I—I didn't do anything! ”

"You don't have to do anything, just follow me." With that, Downing took Jessica to a café in front of the market, drinking coffee and waiting for something.

Until the market closed, Tang Ning followed a person from a distance to a very secluded courtyard, and then secretly hid outside the window and peeked inside.

I saw that there were about four or five men inside, drinking and eating meat while laughing and chatting.

"How much did you sell today?"

"More than 3,000, where are you?"

"Not as many as you, but there are more than two thousand and almost three thousand!"

"I'm here too, you say, at this rate, will it take another five or six days for all the goods in our hands to be sold out?"

"Definitely! Speaking of which, our boss is smart, this is a broken shell that is obviously worthless in Italy, and these French guys are rushing to buy it like a baby! To be honest, I regret that we pulled less this time, I knew that I would have pulled an extra boat, this money is so easy to make! ”

"You know what? For the eldest brother, selling shells is all small money, do you know how much money I borrowed from those loan sharks with my eldest brother these days? Saying it scares you to death! ”

"Speaking of which, I was about to ask you, you said that we don't have collateral, so why are these loan sharks willing to lend us money?"

"Who says there is no collateral? The name of Mr. Hule, the richest man in the Americas, is the collateral, and now who doesn't know that our big brother is rich and rivals the country? Besides, don't you have his cheap big brother, sister-in-law and two nieces? This period of time has cost us so much money, and we can't come out at this time? ”

"That's right, that's right, we can't let them spend our money in vain! Speaking of which, these guys have had a much better time than us these days! I look unbalanced! ”

Just when a few big men were chatting, the guy who was suddenly sitting on the table and writing calculations raised his head and shouted: "Give me a little quiet, in case people hear and ruin my plan, I will collapse you one by one!" ”

"Big brother, don't worry, it's very remote here, there is no one around, you let the brothers be happy, and they are about to suffocate to death after being careful outside all day!"

Obviously, this so-called eldest brother is a liar pretending to be Yu Le, I saw that his expression slowed down a little and said: "I know that everyone has been working hard recently, but I don't know why I always feel frightened in the past two days, as if something is going to happen, otherwise, let's withdraw the day after tomorrow!" ”

"Huh? Withdraw the day after tomorrow? Then we will definitely not be able to put the goods in our hands! ”

Fake Yule said impatiently: "Oh, how much is that bit worth?" The important thing is that these tens of thousands of usury loans are in hand, our goal has been accomplished, and the sooner I withdraw to my hometown, I can be more down-to-earth in my heart. Alright, that's it, you pack up, and we'll leave Havre the night after tomorrow! So saying, he was about to leave.

But at this time, suddenly the door was kicked open from the outside, and Tang Ning walked in swaggeringly, sneering and saying to the fake Yule: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to leave Havre!" ”

When Yu Le saw that it was Tang Ning, he immediately asked in surprise, "To, Tony?" What do you mean, what do you mean? What are you doing here? ”

"If I don't come, how can I know about your plot? Mr. Hule? Oh no, maybe I should call you Mr. Wagner? Tang Ning scoffed.

Hearing the words "Wagner", False Hule's face changed: "You, have you been to Lorraine?" Then he said with a smug smile: "Even if you have been there, it is useless, you can't prove that I am Wagner at all, and even if you prove it, no one will believe it, because everyone is still counting on me to make money!" ”

"Hmph, do you think that after I expose your conspiracy, everyone will continue to believe you as a liar?"

"Oh! Conspiracy? What is my conspiracy? I'm taking everyone to make money and make a fortune together! ”

"You're done! Do you really think I don't know what's going on? In fact, aren't you the deformation of the Dutch tulip bubble back then? It's just that you're hyping it yourself, buying it yourself, and selling it yourself! ”

Downing's "Dutch Tulip Bubble" can be said to be the world's earliest recorded speculative bubble event, at the end of 1636, because tulips were introduced to Europe for a short time, limited quantities, and his image was very in line with the aesthetics of Europeans, of course, the most important thing was that some people took the opportunity to hype, so it triggered a classic speculative frenzy.

By 1637, the overall increase in tulips had reached 5,900%. But when the bubble burst, the price of tulips plummeted, and thousands of people lost their lives in the devastating devastation. And this inspiration came from the idea of buying tulips for Jessica at the market in the morning.

Although the "holy shell" in front of Justin is different from the tulip bubble in terms of operation, it is essentially the same truth, that is, even if the price of an item skyrockets through speculation, the producer has no way to increase the supply in the short term, so that the supply quantity cannot meet the demand, which provides room for speculation. Such examples have also happened in China, such as the "Crazy Junzilan Incident" in Changchun in 1984.

Then Tang Ning pointed to a few strong men in the house: "The people who have been selling holy shells in markets, parks and other places in the past few days are you, I guess Mr. Wagner, your so-called warehouses have been secretly emptied, right?" Although you spent 10,000 francs on the acquisition at the beginning, I guess you have already earned this money back in the past few days, not to mention that you have borrowed so many loan sharks, this time the harvest should be not small, right? ”

PS: Actually, this scam is closer to the folk rumor of selling monkeys, but I feel that it is not as tall as the tulip bubble......