"What, what did Uncle Tan and Mr. Tan say?" Takenaka, as the strongest mental power in the team, if there was something that Lao Wang and Tan Liang had discovered, and he hadn't moved here, it would be a serious mistake on his part.

"Bamboo, relax, it's not a matter of mental power detection, don't worry. Lao Wang knew the little guy best, so he comforted him first and then said: "Actually, it's those children who walk around the streets and alleys selling tulips in baskets, and the kind that humiliates the little sparrows inside, and today I don't know how they are all gone." ”

In fact, what Wang Mancang said is not accurate, there are still many children on the street, but their business has changed from tulips to newspapers, sugar cubes and cigarettes, and the things that really disappear on the street are just tulips.

"It's really gone, these kids don't sell tulips anymore. Mary lamented that no matter how wild she was, she was a woman after all, and her mood was somewhat unbeautiful when she saw the flowers in the street gone.

"It's really strange that the Netherlands is a country of tulips, just like our country doesn't see cherry blossoms in April. Takenaka glanced around, and was equally puzzled, the little guy was very alert, and it was very abnormal for the tulips on sale to disappear en masse, but the performance of the Amsterdam port area was very normal, this was not like a fight against them by the selectors, but like... It's like something changing in the world of trials under random space manipulation.

Thinking of this, Takenaka immediately said: "Uncle, we need to find a flower girl to inquire about the situation, this information may be closely related to our next mission." ”

Lao Wang also meant this, grabbed a child selling candy cubes in his hand, and showed a silver horse sword, and the dirty little girl immediately knew everything, and said everything.

It turned out that most of these flower sellers worked for Amsterdam's big florists or chambers of commerce, and if these 'masters' didn't give them work, then they wouldn't be able to get tulips to sell on the streets.

Just recently, these big businessmen seem to have fallen into some kind of curse, the tulips in their hands no longer flow, and naturally they no longer hire children to work, because of livelihood problems, these little guys have to change their doors to sugar merchants and tobacco merchants, and now Lao Wang and his party see on the street is the specific manifestation of this situation.

Selling flower girls is the bottom of Amsterdam's huge food chain, and if Wang asks a few more words, these are the things that can be taken out, but with this information, he can also analyze a lot of things in combination with the market, which is the only area where he is faster than Takenaka's brain.

Wang vegetable seller does lack systematic training in business, but as long as it is related to money, he has a kind of unusual sensitivity, and after thinking about the words of the flower boy, he immediately said: "Bamboo and Boss Tan go directly to the dock, the second modification should be tightened, and the sailing preparation will be completed as soon as possible, the sooner the better, there are still a few days before the start of the task?"

"22 hours, to be exact. "Takenakamichi.

"Okay, let's prepare first, I'll let you know the specific time of the voyage, now let's go our separate ways, I still have some things to investigate, Mary has a deep understanding of the Western world, both ancient and modern, and is stronger than us, so this time she will follow me to the exchange, and when the investigation is over, I will talk to you in detail in the team channel." Lao Wang spoke quickly, and everyone knew that he would never be ambiguous when he encountered serious matters, so he acted separately according to the order.

Takenaka and Boss Tan returned to the White Tulip to prepare for sailing, not to mention for the time being, just said that Lao Wang and Mary went directly to the exchange.

In the originally agreed plan, Lao Wang also came to the transaction consultation, and the information he needed to find was in the field of popular products, so that he could quickly buy and sell goods at the beginning of the task in the future, and use his quick reaction to avoid the selectors who accepted the opposing tasks, and seize the time to complete the task of making money first.

As a result, when he went to the exchange, Wang immediately found that the quotation of the Amsterdam Port Exchange showed that it was very unsatisfactory to him.

At this time, the profits of all kinds of goods trade are ridiculously low, and there are almost no commodities that have become popular in European society, even if they want to artificially create a trend, it is difficult to form a big trend in a short time, because these local goods in Europe have basically been popular again, and exotic goods have the conditions of fire, but the recent voyage to Africa has taken more than a month to reach Amsterdam, and they want to rely on exotic goods, and the time does not meet the standards of Lao Wang.

However, this is not to say that there are no popular products in the pan-European continent, there is one thing that is still strong, not only very popular with everyone, but also has formed a trend in the recent past, and it is tulips.

Whether it is a flower or a bulb, tulips have become the object of people's keen pursuit, and its price has risen wildly, a famous tulip called Childer, the selling price of a single plant has been as high as 1615 silver horse sword, what is this concept, that is to say, Lao Wang's total net worth is now not able to buy 40 such flower bones.

Lao Wang stared at the quotation board of the exchange, the trading price of tulips is trending well and has obvious fluctuations, and other trade materials are sluggish, which is very abnormal.

If it is said that in the place where he used to sell vegetables, assuming that one day only mung beans are sold at sky-high prices, and other vegetables are decent, an experienced old vegetable seller like Lao Wang can know without guessing that it is those wild health experts on the Internet or TV who are doing demons again.

Take mung beans to talk about things, they promote mung bean health, mung bean soup to cure all diseases and other unfounded but easy to deceive people health theory, so that it quickly became a popular health trend among the middle-aged and elderly groups, which triggered mung bean rush to buy, mung beans are in short supply for a short time, the value is naturally high, the written point of explanation, is that through speculation, a certain commodity that does not have such a high value itself is coaxed to a high price, not that they do it intentionally, but the real world information spreads quickly, and some information has soil, once it spreads, it will evolve and develop to such a point。

Back to the world of trials, the tulip in front of me is the "mung bean", this delicate and weak little flower is good to give to Mary, but in Europe, the tulip itself is only an ornamental flower, and even the medicinal value in Chinese medicine does not have, such a thing with very low value in itself has been fried like this in such a short period of time, in this era of relatively closed information, it can only show one point, someone is speculating!

"Mary, you have a lot of knowledge, there are no similar cases in the real world where tulips are so unreasonably crazy. Lao Wang asked Mary beside him.

The beautiful reporter looked at Lao Wang, her heart was pounding, half surprised, half attracted by the seriousness of this man just now.

Just when Lao Wang was analyzing the newspaper board just now, Mary already had a hunch, she always joked that Lao Wang, a vegetable seller, did not have a second ability for business, but I didn't expect that he really had, Lao Wang in front of her only stared at the quotation board for less than 20 minutes, and relied on the laws of the market and his own keen sense to deduce the early prototype of one of the three major bubbles in the history of the world economy, which can not but be said to be a genius, she replied with a trill:

"There's... Yes, the famous tulip bubbles, oh my God, exactly like what we were looking for!"

"Tell me briefly, if I'm right, the space is ruined. The old king turned around, with a serious face, and took Mary's hand in a hurry.

Mary had a rare red face, and she calmed down and said: "I worked in the economic sector for a while before I became a war correspondent, and I probably know that in the real world, tulips were introduced to Western Europe from Turkey, and then people began to have a craze for this plant, and the time was probably the early 17th century, which is the same as the setting of this trial world in the Age of Sail.

Less than 10 years after the fad for the wealthy to display the latest and rarest varieties in their gardens, this fashion led to a classic speculative frenzy, where tulips were no longer bought for their intrinsic value or ornamental use, but in the expectation that their price would rise indefinitely and make a profit, as you can see on the current offer boards. ”

"And then?" asked Wang, not even noticing that he had not let go of his grip on Mary.

Mary continued: "After that, when people realize that this speculation does not create wealth, but only transfers it, someone will come to their senses, and then the tulip bubble will burst, and the opportunity will be for some nobody to sell tulips, or when they sell tulips at a high price, others will follow, and soon, the market panic will come, and the frenzy of selling tulips will be on a par with the frenzy of buying before..."

"Needless to say. Lao Wang sighed, let go of Mary's hand and said, "The next thing should be the price collapse, and thousands of people will lose their family property in this big collapse, right?"

Mary squeezed the palm that was holding a little hot, and said in a slightly lost tone: "That's right, the tulip speculation crash is known as the 'tulip bubble', and it is called the three major bubbles in economic history along with the 'South China Sea bubble' and the '24-year Wall Street crash'. ”

"What a ruthless space!" Lao Wang finally concluded.

"How?" asked Mary.

"If you take a closer look at the quote board, this 'tulip bubble' arranged in random space should be taken from the real-world historical event element of the same name, but it is still slightly different. ”

Lao Wang pointed to the quotation board and said: "In the 15 days before today, in the first 10 days, the price of tulips has risen wildly, and since 5 days ago, the price has entered the stage of slowly rising but still making money, what does this mean?

"When, isn't the time when the bubble begins to brew when we're on a mission at sea?" Mary said, her eyes wide.

"Space this deflated calf~!" Lao Wang scolded and said very weakly: "This is to let us be forced to survive first to go to the sea to fight, and when the capable people complete the task and return to Hong Kong, the bubble is coming again, at this time the economic environment has been formed, because the task stipulates that both popular products and profits are traded, and those who want to make money must run tulip trading, and those who want to rob money will rob these fleets.

I was still wondering, why there was no punishment for these missions this time, it was enough to expect us to fight by ourselves, after this world, the rest of the people were either qualified players or those who survived, and in the formal assessment of the primary world, they would also die. ”

"Isn't it our job to buy and sell fashionables, it's tailor-made, how do you know everybody is going to do this?" wondered Mary.

"I really don't know, but if you look at the changes in Boss Tan's tasks, and there is still space for us to give us a brief introduction to the next task, I estimate that the tasks are all the same, at least in European waters, Boss Tan's previous solo mission was also to sell goods with ships, isn't this the single version of our mission?"

"Space has artificially divided us into two camps?" Mary exclaimed.

Lao Wang's eyebrows were twisted into a ball, and he continued: " That's not what, and the profit of this damn 16,000 silver horse sword, I just briefly calculated our account, according to the current increase in tulips, as well as the selling price of various ports, the most worthwhile, is to run Stockholm where we just returned, so that each profit can be about 5000 silver horse sword, we need to run four times in a down-to-earth run, each round trip is 7 to 8 days, the road can not be delayed, 30 days of task time is tight, the premise is that we are lucky, just enough money to buy ordinary tulips, you think, the selectors are not used to seeing money is not a thing, this timeWho can have 60,000 silver swords or the equivalent of their own currency?"

Mary followed and looked at the quotation board, and soon understood: "And in the process of trade, we are faced with an all-out and all-in situation every time, and the liquidity is locked to death, which makes it even more desperate." ”

"We still don't know what the selection of opposing tasks is, but I think that if we can't keep their tasks, we will force them to a dead end, and in the end, we will not die. The more Lao Wang spoke, the more he felt that there was a thousand pounds in his heart, which made him uncomfortable.

"We have improved a lot recently, and it is no longer Wuxia Amon, you have to have confidence in yourself. Mary patted Lao Wang's shoulder a little movingly, and helped him straighten his collar, like a virtuous wife, just like on the streets of Amsterdam in the real world.

"After seeing Scarface, I realized that if it wasn't for Boss Tan who was in a hurry and dragged on for a long time, what would we do?"

"Random space is the least if we win, we win, and we can do it next. Mary knew that Lao Wang was not someone who could be defeated by a little trouble, but at this time, men needed affirmation and encouragement. So she also cheered for Lao Wang like the so-called 'little women' she looked down on the most.

Lao Wang looked at Mary, only to find that this also wild woman looked a little different today, his heart moved, and Mary appeared in his mind wearing a wide-brimmed sunhat, holding a depressed face and munching on ice cream in his hand, and turned back to call him Lao Wang with a smile.

In a trance, Lao Wang felt that for the sake of the two of them, he had to fight hard!

A smile climbed up Lao Wang's cheeks, it was still that kind of simple and cunning contradictory combination, he took the initiative to brush Mary's dreadlocks for the first time, turned back and stared at the quotation board and said:

"Therefore, we have to think of an evil and crooked person this time before we can do this deal. Lao Wang gritted his teeth, his eyes were vicious, like an old wolf fighting in a shopping mall.

Mary was beside him, holding his palm tightly.