Even in modern times, there is no shortage of Lu Rongyu No. 2682 tragedy, a brutal incident in which 11 people worked together to kill 22 crew members.

The lack of any social system on the sea is the time when it is most likely to induce the deep dark side of human nature, and the Age of Discovery is also known as an era of crazy depravity of human nature.

In addition, deviations from the course of ocean voyages, resulting in fresh water supplies, food shortages, and other unforeseen events, can often lead to complete failure of sailing plans.

In those days.

To find a civilized place on the vast sea, and successfully establish diplomatic relations and trade with it, or find a place to replenish supplies, is as low as the probability of buying a 5 million yuan jackpot in the Chinese welfare lottery, some because of the ocean-going ships because there is no supply to kill each other cannibalism, and finally float to the beach or when a ship passes by and is rescued, it is basically difficult to survive a few normal people.

Many of these real-life situations are even more absurd and real than those in the famous "Life of Pi" story.

What's more interesting is.

At that time, the Portuguese, who had mastered the navigation routes between the East and the West, and the Spanish regarded their own shipping routes as "state secrets".

And if the people of other countries are kept under strict seals, and if any country dares to take a piece of their bowl, they will plunder the ships of that country and send them to hell halfway.

You know, predatory piracy was encouraged in Western countries at the time.

It was through this monopoly that the Portuguese controlled the spice trade for a long time and made huge profits, and the British overseas colonization also made the Spanish merchant ships returning from the Americas and loaded with various goods and treasures as the main targets of plunder.

In order to deal with the large risks of long-distance trade, in order to raise capital and share risks, the modern method of share fundraising has emerged.

That is, shares are recruited before each voyage, and the capital is returned to the investors after the voyage, and the profits are distributed to a certain extent in proportion to the shares.

In view of the long-term nature of some businesses, the joint-stock companies of the Americans in the mid-16th century and later did not return the shares to the investors, but reserved the funds in addition to the dividends as capital for the further development of the company.

This led to the emergence of the first joint-stock company, the infamous British East India Company, founded in 1602.

The company was granted a royal charter for the East India trade for 15 years by Queen Elizabeth I of England.

And it was given many administrative powers and military functions.

Over time, the East India Company not only became a commercial trading empire, but also took the opportunity to dominate India until it was dissolved by the British government in 1858.

Given that the company was the first company limited by shares to organize its own mercenaries, issue currency, enter into treaties with other nations, and had additional power to colonize the colonies, the Dutch at that time enthusiastically bought shares in the East India Company, and even decent people such as the mayor became shareholders in the East India "pirate" company.

Later, due to the limited number of stocks that could not meet everyone's needs, the Netherlands finally established the world's first stock exchange, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, around 1602.

Thus appeared the world's first stock exchange and the first stock.

Subsequently.

In 1609, the Bank of Amsterdam was born.

On the other hand, almost all of Europe borrowed money from Amsterdam, including the King of Sweden, the King of Denmark, the Tsar of Russia, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Elector of Saxony, the City of Hamburg, and even the American rebels in the American Revolutionary War.

Without the financial assistance of the wealthy merchants in the city, and without the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in the Netherlands, neither side would have won the war.

Afterward.

Trading on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was growing rapidly, not only with shares of the East India Company and other companies, but also with government bonds such as Dutch public bonds and British government bonds.

By the middle of the 17th century, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange had begun to gather a number of stockbrokers.

They all had fixed seats, divided into several factions to fight trading wars, and made money from the rise and fall of stock prices or bond prices, and the world's first financial billionaires were born.

But.

This kind of securities trading method similar to the most primitive at the end of the 16th century actually has a great space for behind-the-scenes operation, a trader can collude with the boss of the exchange, through the inside information known in advance, and wait for the actual price to be lower than the customer's purchase expectation and order price, he first quickly buys and then empty the white wolf, and uses the time difference to earn the difference in price and resell it to the purchase customer of the entrusted transaction.

In the modern era with highly developed computer technology, this method has even been added by brokerages to supercomputers for "lightning instruction" trading, which is also the same use of supercomputer computing advantages to carry out empty gloves white wolf on Wall Street - "lightning trading".

There are also some shady securities transactions, which are unavoidable even in modern times, after hundreds of years of financial development.

For example, illegal insider trading behaviors such as insiders of securities trading insider information and persons who illegally obtain insider information continue to be prohibited repeatedly before the insider information is made public, such as buying and selling securities, or divulging such information, or advising others to buy or sell the securities.

In layman's terms, this is similar to the cheating activity of playing a poker game with an acquaintance standing behind the scenes and peeking at the hole cards, which is extremely unfair to other investors involved in trading in the market.

Straight to the point.

Boss Chen is on the list of securities trading types here~ I also saw some pirates who are said to have a privateer license for the "Empire on which the sun never sets" in the Eternal Continent, stock securities issued in order to go to sea to loot and purchase materials and raise funds, as well as other strange commodity futures trading content on various continents, which made his eyes flash an inexplicable light.

Isn't the funny fund-raising and robbery behavior of modern Somali pirates the old routine of the Age of Discovery? Chen Xuyuan, who has some history of financial development and profit-making methods on the earth, actually has many ways to accumulate raw capital by playing a "zero-sum game" with small and broad interests.

However, with a big force like the Syndicate Federation behind him, he can't stay now and play some "Monopoly" financial game with these financial bosses, otherwise he can make reasonable use of some loopholes in history here and earn a lot of original capital accumulation.

At this time.

He suddenly remembered the main purpose of this trip, so he asked tentatively: "I want to know where the local smugglers (i.e., smuggler leaders) ~ can be found? If you don't know, you can also help me ask other colleagues, and I will pay for the corresponding information." ”

Could it be that this customer is also here to buy slaves~~~ or is it **?