Chapter 133: Sniper Tulip (Part II)
I have to say that Lao Wang's luck is indeed good, the time when the merchant appeared on the exchange and the time when Lao Wang sold tulips in successive segments was just right, and the crowd at the exchange kept their attention because of the previous door breaking and the merchant's shouting, they looked at the merchant fixedly, trying to figure out the meaning of the words of the visitor.
After they understood, they chose to look at Lao Wang first, and then at the merchant who was still pouring his breath at the door, and they all felt a little confused, and the thought in their minds at this time was: How can there be people like that Dutch madman? Sell tulips at this time.
The merchant eased up, he saw the appearance of the crowd at the exchange, and knew that his movement just now might be a little bigger, but now that the matter was urgent, he couldn't care much about it, hurriedly grabbed the stairs, ran to the trading counter in a few steps, and said loudly to the trading administrator who was still looking at him like a hysteria: "I want to sell tulips, all kinds of grades, a total of 600 boxes, look, this is my list!"
I saw him take out a scribbled bill from his arms, and then slap it on the counter with a "pop" sound.
This hand shook the administrator's soul, and he agreed repeatedly, took the list of goods from the merchant's hand, and then compared the quotation board to prepare for the transaction.
The merchant looked at the administrator's methodical movements, and only felt that this thing was so unfavorable today, and he couldn't wait to go in and help him.
He clenched his fists tightly, and his heart was burning urgently, but he didn't dare to show too much urgency on his face, the administrators of these exchanges were shrewd as ghosts, once they saw something wrong and terminated the transaction, he had to jump into the sea and commit suicide.
The transaction went smoothly, and the crowd gradually lost interest in the merchants, and everyone came to make money, and there was no time to delay too long on others.
There was only one person, the one who had planned everything, and at this time he was still staring at the two people trading in the counter like a wolf - Wang Mancang.
Lao Wang's heartstrings are no less tense than the businessman at this time, this is not to say that Lao Wang cares whether this guy's transaction can be successful, but his appearance represents the landing of tulip speculators who lost their fortune in Sweden in Hamburg, and whether the final tulip bubble collapse can be formed depends largely on whether they can stir up the Hamburg market.
Wang Mancang continued to wait with a patient and anxious ambivalence, he couldn't hear the loud voice of the people in the exchange again, he rubbed his eyes, turned his head no longer to stare at the merchant in the transaction, but aimed that frightening gaze at the door of the exchange, the strength of that gaze, as if he wanted to pull something out of it.
Miraculously, Lao Wang's gaze seemed to really work, and the street outside the exchange was in a commotion again, just like the situation less than 5 minutes ago, the door was knocked open again, this time it appeared, it was also a dusty businessman, his state was even worse than the previous one, his clothes were tattered, he was panting, and his face was still stained with gunpowder smoke and blood, obviously he had arrived here after a vicious fight at sea, he opened his mouth, and before he could speak, the poor door of the exchange was knocked open again.
The man who crashed in was much stronger, and his hurried footsteps did not stop, and by inertia, he knocked the unlucky guy in front of him directly, but at the same time he lost his center of gravity, and tripped over the person he knocked away, and the two of them were so entangled, and they made a rolling gourd together, and entered the hall from the steps of the exchange.
The Port of Hamburg Exchange for the past two days seemed more like a comedy club than a formal business place, with all sorts of baggage and excitement so much that the madman Van der Kamp seemed inconspicuous here.
The two panicked businessmen rolled to the middle of the exchange hall, and without caring about the pain, they scuffled and tore each other to get up from the ground, and then pushed and rushed to the side of the trading desk, squeezing the first merchant who had not had time to complete the transaction to the side, and shouted the same line to the trading administrator who was stunned again: "I want to sell tulips!"
The first merchant who rushed to the Hamburg Exchange finally sold the tulips in his hand, he saw the two people who came after, with all his strength, almost frantically squeezed back to the counter, pressed the hand of the administrator, dropped the seal representing the establishment of the transaction, and then collapsed on the side of the exchange counter like soft mud as if he had been drained of his strength, and he turned his head weakly, just to see the two peers who were still scuffling the quotation and yelling at the administrator, and suddenly began to point at them, and began to laugh hysterically.
The people in the exchange have long been dumbfounded by the succession of situations, selling tulips and selling tulips, such a little disregard for decent scuffles, and laughing as if they are crazy, what is going on?
Someone thinks of the madman Van der Kamp's previous behavior, things can't be so coincidental, could this Dutch arms dealer know something in advance?
As soon as the idea popped into people's minds, things changed again.
After a burst of laughter, the merchant sitting on the ground finally stopped laughing, and slowly stood up in the eyes of everyone, with tears still hanging from the tears of laughter in the corners of his eyes.
His expression had regained his composure, and the laughter just now might have made his voice a little hoarse, so he cleared his throat and said something shocking in the eyes of everyone: "The Swedish tulips are finished, colleagues, if you still want to keep some money, sell it quickly." ”
When the two merchants who came in later, who were still tearing apart, suddenly gave up killing each other, and began to become enemies.
They shouted something to the exchange administrator who had stopped moving, and at the same time began to cover the mouth of the talking merchant, as if this short sentence would ruin their family.
In fact, they will really go bankrupt because of this short sentence!
The originally quiet exchange began to have a buzzing sound, and people naturally associated the Dutch madman with the scene that appeared in the exchange, their whispering voices became louder and louder, and their voices became more and more panicked, and some people had begun to twist their bodies uneasily, as if they wanted to squeeze to the trading desk, throw away the tulips in their hands first, and see the situation first.
Lao Wang said to Ferdinand beside him: "Dear Ferdinand, have you ever seen a herd of cows?"
"What did you say, Captain?" asked Ferdinand, puzzled.
Lao Wang did not answer directly, but said to himself: "Just like the current situation, the herd will be completely quiet because of a particularly panicked cow, and then all the cattle will start to look at the panicked cow, and then the herd will slowly begin to stir, at this time, as long as there is a little external force, the herd will be completely shocked, they will lose the ability to judge calmly, and begin to run away, even if the cause is just a hornet, which is enough to make the stupid herd lose order." ”
Ferdinand listened to Wang's analogy of the exchange, and looked up at all this, and he already had a vague sense that the direction of the matter was all arranged by Monsieur van der Kamp, so that all his actions up to this point could be explained.
"Ferdinand, let's hurry up and find a corner and sit down, I'm afraid it's going to be chaotic, we'll have to hide, it's not good if we get hurt by mistake." Wang turned around and patted Ferdinand on the shoulder, and the meaning of his words was very interesting.
The seafarer could only respond to Lao Wang simply: "Uh... Well. He was pulled by Lao Wang and sat down on the two small stools in the most corner of the exchange, which are the positions that the quotation board workers usually use to take a short rest, which is very inconspicuous, but enough corners.
Ferdinand thought of Miss Lilu's solemn face, and then thought of the behavior of Lao Wang and these businessmen, and he felt that the answer in his heart was like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, breaking free from its shackles, and it was about to come out, but the patterns on this butterfly were so terrifying that he didn't have the courage to see it!
He cast his gaze on the door of the exchange for less than 10 seconds, and the door, which had been devastated today, was once again slammed open, and this time, it was completely opened, and there was no sign of closing, because a bustle of people rushed into the Hamburg Exchange!
Within the next half hour, the Hamburg Bourse was filled with a steady stream of people who, in anxious voices, and in the language of various countries, expressed the same meaning: "We want to sell tulips!"
The external force that shocked the herd is coming!
No matter how stupid the people of the Hamburg Stock Exchange are, they are now starting to wake up, and in addition to the flow of people who want to squeeze in, the original people in the exchange have also begun to crowd the counter, they have lost the ability to think independently, and all they can show is stupid and panicked group behavior.
The exchange urgently closed tulip trading for half an hour, and until the cause of the incident was clarified, the trading of such trade goods must not be reopened.
And the big local capitalists, big aristocrats and big chaebols have also received news from their own eyes - the collapse of the Swedish tulip, and this collapse is now spreading, and now it has swept through northern Europe, and this terrible rout has reached Hamburg.
The smart ones among them directly loaded the tulips in their hands into the ship, and since the guys in Stockholm didn't care whether everyone lived or died, they could also use the time difference to pass the hot potato in their hands to the next person.
The rest of those who are not so smart began to sell the inventory in their hands, trying to reduce losses as much as possible in this madness, it doesn't matter if the net worth shrinks, as much as you can keep, the exchange does not receive the goods, they bypass the exchange and sell the tulips directly on the market, but they may be so anxious that they forget that although the exchange has closed the tulip trading, the reference trading price of the tulip is still set by the exchange.
The scene that once occurred in Stockholm was played out in Hamburg with even more turbulent momentum, and the price of tulips on the exchange quotation board completely detached from the price of Amsterdam and began to decline at an almost straight speed, because the collapse of Sweden brought enough panic, and the Hamburg market also had enough soil to brew all this, and the tulip collapse that Lao Wang planned and expected officially began.
Wang and Ferdinand sat on the small stool in the corner they had found, watching the scuffling, distraction, and crying people in the exchange, as if everything was happening here and now on Judgment Day.
When Wang Mancang heard Tan Liang describe the situation of the Stockholm Stock Exchange before, he also felt that Boss Tan, as a music worker, added a little opera-style exaggeration when describing the situation on the scene, but now it seems that Boss Tan's description is not false at all.
"Ferdinand, I think it's almost time now, are you willing to risk your life for me to go out and buy 300 boxes of top-quality tulip bulbs, or do you think it's okay to wait?" asked the old king, as if asking Ferdinand for advice.
Ferdinand stood up when he heard this, bowed to the old king, and said, "Everything is as you wish, Mr. van der Kamp, your wisdom is incomparable, Miss Lilu has made me all at your command, which is quite the right decision." ”
He has already surrendered to the five bodies that Lao Wang admires, this weapon dealer's business level is as amazing as his combat level, but it is even more crazy, he can actually launch a speculative disaster for his own benefit, this kind of character, in time, will become a legendary admiral.
"Captain...?" Ferdinand asked, as if he had thought of something, hesitated for a moment, and then opened his mouth.
"Huh?" Wang raised his eyebrows and looked at Ferdinand, who was a little hesitant.
"Now the value of tulips has shrunk by less than 50%, which is a lot of money, but why don't you wait until its price drops down to a lower level and then buy the tulips that you need to pay off?"
Lao Wang laughed, this issue had just been discussed on their team channel, and he said to Ferdinand: "You can't drive people to a corner, so far is enough, go ahead." ”
Ferdinand seems to understand whether he understands or not, he took the order, it is not easy to sell tulips now, but it is not too easy to buy from the holder, and the people who urgently need to stop the loss heard Ferdinand's willingness to purchase, and almost rushed up to peel the seafarer alive, Lao Wang's joke came true, Ferdinand really risked his life to help him buy tulips.
After some tearing and struggling, Ferdinand handed the ABN AMRO cheque equivalent to 340,000 silver swords to a Germanic merchant who had been certified by the exchange, and the other party thanked him that the tulips were in his warehouse, and asked the kind gentleman to tell him the exact location of the loading, and he would deliver the goods in good condition.
Lao Wang listened to Ferdinand's report, and the two looked at each other tacitly, and then laughed.
Up to now, Wang Mancang has not only been able to return 300 boxes of top-quality tulip bulbs to the East India Company as promised, but also received about 250,000 silver horse swords after deducting the lease interest, which is also a loss to Lao Wang's good eyes, and he did not choose to buy tulips at the bottom price.
Sniper Tulip Project with great success!