The drama that caused a stir among the citizens of Fujian City was staged from the second month of August to September, and the popularity has not dissipated, far exceeding that of many previous plays. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is said that the actors of this scene will soon travel to the rest of the counties to perform there, and have already received several invitations.

More and more people are talking about this scene, and the autumn breeze after the Mid-Autumn Festival seems to have some kind of magic, not only blowing ripe rice, fruits, cotton peaches, but also making this discussion and love more mature.

And what the scene really wants to express has also penetrated into every corner of Fujian City with the arrival of the autumn wind.

September is not only the season of ripening, but also the time when that orchid gives birth to new rhizomes.

In the streets and alleys, people are talking about the theater, talking about the flowers in the theater, and talking about the flowers themselves.

When this flower first appeared, people commented that it was worth two silver coins.

And now, some people beat their chests and regret that they were worth two silver coins at the beginning.

Many legends began to appear in the market, at the dinner table, and in short conversations between parents.

For example, there was a person who liked flowers and the story behind them, so he spent ten silver coins to buy five pots when this flower first appeared last year.

Over the course of a year, one of the five pots of flowers sold for a high price of one hundred and ten silver coins.

The rest of the rhizomes grew with the excitement of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the four pots became more than a dozen pots, and some merchants from other places ordered these rhizomes early, and the payment was real silver coins, so it was not ambiguous.

It's not an overnight get-rich, but it's a year's worth of getting rich. Getting rich overnight is an ethereal legend, but getting rich within a year is a fact that is passed down by word of mouth.

Two silver coins became one hundred and ten, which seemed to be more profitable than any trade. Where, apart from war, is there such a good thing with fifty times the profit?

Those flowers that were ridiculed at the beginning were no longer ordinary flowers within a year, but became cash cows. All it takes is a gentle shake of these leaves, a smell of the fragrance, and a gentle turn of the earth to turn two silver coins into more, so why do anything else to do it?

Now that the new rhizomes are growing, they will be able to sprout the next spring, and two years later they will bloom with a pleasant flower. If you're lucky enough to have one that stands out from the rest, you might be able to sell for a hundred or even hundreds of silver coins.

Even if you're unlucky, even if it's an ordinary flower, there are still people who want it. People don't think about what the flower can do, they just think about how much it will become in a year.

This is a gentleman's flower that symbolizes justice, kindness, and love.

People thought so, and this thought was ...... by the horse-drawn carriages, the ships, the merchants, the plays that went out to perform, and the adventures of the crew It continues to spread outward from Mincheng, and there are many mysterious flowers after being given a special meaning, which bloom enchantingly, exuding the fragrance of a gentleman in the sun, devouring one silver coin after another, turning into one after another ambition to get rich, and also highlighting the ugliness and cruelty of the scenes.

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In a village not far from Mincheng, men are counting women.

"At the beginning, I said, this flower is beautiful, and I am a flower lover. We have a mill and a lot of land, but you are as stingy as a rooster. When I said I would spend two silver coins to buy one, you wouldn't let me. And now? Now you see, what is the price? The people who bought it in the first place have made a fortune. ”

"Even if it's not to get rich, what can I do if I buy such a flower? Didn't I earn this property with you? ”

A few days ago, he went to Mincheng to see the frenzy of those flower buyers, and he also knew the current price, where else could he say anything?

The man counted for a while, and then said, "Now that last year's flowers have sent out new rhizomes, if you want me to say let's buy some." If you're lucky, there's one flower that's in the best condition, and that's hundreds of silver coins. If you are lucky, you will be able to send out new rhizomes in two years, and you will not lose anything. It's hard to do anything these days, and where is there a more profitable way to make it? ”

The woman snorted, and this time she was no longer strong, and only said: "But now that the price is high, and our family doesn't have much money to spare, we have all loaned out, do we want to take it all back now?" That's a lot of interest. ”

The man smiled: "I have inquired a long time ago, and now there is a special flower market in the city, and everyone is buying new rhizomes, or next year's rhizomes." If you don't buy it, it's too late. ”

"Now we don't need to take too much, for example, let's buy next year's rhizomes, they can't take out the spot for a while, so we don't need to give cash, just take out a part of the deposit, and then set up a bill to mortgage something."

The woman was startled and hurriedly asked, "What do you want to mortgage?" ”

"What else? Land, mills, the most valuable things in our family. ”

"That's not going to work! This is the lifeblood of our family, this is not good! ”

The man said angrily, "What do you know? We can sell it, and I think the price will be even higher next summer. It's just a mortgage, and it won't be delivered until next fall, as long as we sell it before the fall, the mill and the land will still be ours. But we can have dozens or even hundreds of more silver coins in our hands, and we have nothing to lose, and we will only pay the money for the mortgage of the mill land when the time comes. ”

The woman thought about it and felt that this was really the case. It seems that the mill land has been mortgaged, but in fact it is not, as long as it is sold before the fall of next year and the mortgage arrears are returned, then the mill land will still be its own.

As for the most important of all: whether the flowers will be more expensive next autumn than they are now, she has not considered at all. Because it's a question that doesn't need to be considered at all, like the sun coming out of the east, who would consider whether it's possible or inevitable?

The only concern is whether these mortgages can be recognized, and what if those people don't? Mill land is the foundation of one's own family, and it is not something that money can measure, what if those people don't want money and only want mill land?

The man scoffed at the fear.

"Worried about what? A few days ago, everyone was buying and selling flowers, and they felt that there was no place for them to be sold, and there was no guarantee, so they all wanted the county government to come forward to guarantee. ”

"But it takes people and money to complete the flower market transactions and verify the bills, so a certain tax officer in the city came up with a good idea."

"It is stamped by the government on our bills, and each bill needs to pay a tax of three thousandths, but the name is very strange, what is it called stamp duty. You see, this is the seal of the government, and if someone breaks the contract, they will be punished. ”

"Not to mention that there have been a lot of strange things this year, because in the past, I thought about reducing taxes, and I never expected the county to collect a higher tax than the tax set by the state. But as soon as the stamp duty proposal came out, the majority of the county council agreed. You think, this is a government-stamped stamp, which is much more reliable than the credentials between the two, and everyone feels relieved when they get it. How much is 3 thousandths of a thousandth? In the past, many documents were not recognized, or forged, each has its own reason, and it is difficult for the magistrate to decide, which is a good thing for those commonly used bill transactions, and it has no impact on us, and we don't need this thing except this time. ”

When the woman heard that she had the seal of the government, she was relieved, and she rummaged through the boxes and found the vouchers of the mill and the land, and handed them to the man.

I thought in my heart that after reselling it next summer and making money, it would be time to repair and repair this house.

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In a small house in the city, a young girl clutched her bleeding head, looked at the empty window, and wept bitterly.

There used to be a pot of flowers that had sprouted new rhizomes, but now it is gone......

A few years ago, her family was fairly wealthy, with three looms, some surplus, and a small attic.

However, two years ago, my father became seriously ill and spent all the family's savings, but in the end it did not improve.

Just when the girl was close to despair, rumors of a mysterious disease cured by a mysterious flower began to spread in Mincheng.

When people are desperate, even if it's just a straw, they will hold on. The girl thought that since that flower could cure a strange disease, perhaps it could also cure her father's disease.

Two silver coins were too expensive for the family at this time.

The loom had already been sold, the house had already been sold, and in a year it was going to be taken away, and the money was almost gone.

Relying on her own labor for seven and a half hours a day and the last bit of money left in the family, the girl bought such a pot of flowers, which symbolized justice, hope, and kindness, and placed them on the windowsill.

She thought that the sailors must have been desperate when they were sick and bleeding, and the hope that this flower had brought them.

However, the disease still took away the girl's last relatives, and only the pot of flowers that seemed to be stained with human blood was left.

This is the only living creature in the family except herself, and every time the girl is desperate, she will look at this flower blooming in the sun and encourage herself to live strongly.

However, as if by a miracle, the flower that had been bought for two silver coins grew more and more expensive, and the flower on the windowsill gave out new rhizomes......

The girl heard about it, and went to ask, and now these rhizomes are already very expensive. She felt that it must be the ancestors who were sheltering her, and even her parents, who had become souls, were watching and taking care of herself in this flower.

She thought that she would dig up these rhizomes, sell them, and exchange them for money, so that she could live well. Thinking about the figure of the boy who kept appearing in my heart, I felt that if I got married in the future, I would be very happy to buy a few spinning wheels and looms with this money.

All of this seemed to be within reach yesterday, but it was all destroyed overnight.

Someone jumped into her house at night and knocked her unconscious on the head with a stick, and when she woke up, the pot of flowers was gone!

All hope was shattered the moment she woke up, the moment the sun rose!

Apart from crying, she couldn't think of any other way to vent her emotions, and there really wasn't ...... And after crying, all the previous dreams didn't even dare to think about it, and I didn't even have the qualifications to think about it.

For there was no house, no money, no loom, no spinning wheel, no land.

So if you don't go to the workshop to work, you'll be thrown into a workhouse.

If she didn't, she would be forced to take a job that would make her tremble with disgust when she thought about it, if that was called work.

Yesterday she still fantasized about happiness after marriage, within reach.

Now, she is looking forward to being hired.

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Somewhere in the city, a man looked at the dozen flowers in the room, watched the servants carefully transplant the rhizomes, and calculated how much they could be exchanged for.

He doesn't like flowers, not at all. But when the flower can be transformed into a sparkling silver and gold coin, it's a different story.

After that performance in the theater, he keenly smelled a business opportunity, and it was a business opportunity that seemed to make a fortune.

After learning a little about the rise in the price of these flowers over the past year, he was convinced that he had found a good way to make money by speculating.

He was a speculator, speculating on land, grain, cotton, dye...... I've seen a lot of scenes.

But those speculations seemed so low-level compared to these light flowers. He really couldn't think of any of the things he had speculated on that could make dozens of times more profit in a year!

The only thing he regretted now was why he didn't take out a thousand silver coins to buy them all when they cost two silver coins in the first place.

But it's not too late to jump in. Now that the Great Land Purchase Act has not yet been passed, and the commercial officials have some of the raw materials for the workshops in case there is speculation, and there are no new mines such as gold and silver mines, fertile fields and salt, etc., and in the short term there is nothing to hoard if the war cannot be fought.

The rest of the speculative profits were too low to compare with the excess profits of this light flower, and as the theatrical tales spread and the merchants came and went, he believed that the price of such things would get higher and higher, as long as someone took over at the right time.

So a month ago, he bought a dozen pots of flowers, some rhizomes for this year, and futures for a batch of rhizomes for next winter.

In order to turn these things into more money, he had a realistic play in the flower market: he asked people to buy a pot of noble, elegant, and unusual orchids for three hundred silver coins, and the pot of orchids was actually his, and the silver coins were also his, but only a small transaction tax was paid.

And this little bit of transaction tax has the effect of flower and rhizome futures rising a lot in one day.

Holders watch the market rise, and they are even more reluctant to get rid of it; And those who want to buy hoarding want it more and more, so they keep raising the price; However, this thing can't be changed in the short term, so the price is getting higher and higher.

It was a light flower, but now it has the weight of gold and silver coins, and those who don't love flowers have all sorts of reasons to buy it—they don't love flowers, but they love gold and silver.

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In this way, this flower, which everyone thought was the embodiment of justice, kindness, nobility, love, and hope, gradually became evil, ferocious, ugly, dirty, and hopeless......

More and more people are involved, the money is getting heavier and heavier, and more and more reason is being devoured.