[Tut-tut, you won't be useful if you have a chance, Mr. Prepare for the Great Master. Seeing that she really won the prize, Apollonia sent a taunt from the void, [You didn't want it to be lucky before, but now you can't wipe your face if you open your mouth again.] 】

"How did I know it was so fast? You're going too far, aren't you? Why did you hit a critical hit all at once, and directly hit 2.7 million taels? ”

[Blame me? It's all your fault for not trusting me. And if I had the numbers, what else would I have been shot? I've told you that hexagram interpretation is more important than hexagram. Let's not blame anyone, okay? 】

"Shang Luo Immortal Master." Palka looked a little embarrassed and asked in a suppressed voice, "Can you promise us?" Can you save Chichen Itza? Save the Maya? If you are too busy to guide us, can you bring a message to your teacher and find a great immortal master to save us? ”

"Hmm..."

Shang Luo thought for a moment. This kind of thing, the imperial court must know. It would have been easy to help the Mayan city-states recover, but the court turned a blind eye to it. There must be something deep in this, and he wasn't going to get into it lightly.

However, for personal reasons, he still wanted to help the man who had invited him to eat creamy cocoa for an afternoon. After all, he also helped himself verify Apollonia's reliability. It's just that Apollonia is too reliable.

It's empty all around. The huge office has been emptied, and all those who can move out to pay off have been paid out. The business of the entire Chichen Itza Hotel has also sunk a lot, and their life is not good.

"Or, so be it." Shang Luo raised his head, "I want to ask Maya why this is the case first. From my side, it seems strange that all 17 Mayan city-states went bankrupt at the same time. What is the reason for all this? ”

"So... It's not a long story. Master Shang, have you ever eaten a banana? ”

"Bananas? Eaten. ”

"No, you haven't." Palka looked him in the eye, "To be precise, you haven't eaten a 'banana' in the true sense of the word." Have you ever wondered that many banana-flavored drinks and banana-flavored snacks are completely different from the 'bananas' you usually eat? ”

Shang Luo thought for a while and nodded.

He does feel that way. For example, banana-flavored potato chips, banana-flavored candies, and banana-flavored soda are completely different flavors from the bananas you usually eat.

"And why is that?"

"Because the 'banana' has long been extinct. Thirty-seven years ago, a sudden epidemic swept through the world's banana farming industry, and all 17 Mayan city-states died in banana plantations in just three months. The world's bananas have also been extinct within one year, and now only a few 'Zhen Orchards' are still there in Yanping Junwang in Nanyang, which are strictly isolated from external pollution and retain a few real banana trees. The annual production is very limited, and most of it is given as tribute and gifts. ”

"Why is there a global extinction so soon? Bananas are not human, and bananas do not run. ”

"Because bananas are different from other crops. The birth of the banana industry was based on a coincidence – because all bananas are actually copies of the same banana. The banana was called the 'Big Mac Banana' and was discovered by a captain named Mike from a small island in Jamaica. The banana was a rare triploid seedless banana – with plump flesh, high sweetness and aroma, but it could not reproduce naturally because it was seedless. Since then, 'Big Mack bananas' have been grown in tropical regions around the world, and all bananas are cultivated through vegetative propagation. ”

"No wonder there's something wrong with those banana-flavored snacks right now, it turns out to be Big Mack's banana flavor. Did Big Mack's banana go extinct very suddenly? ”

"Yes... It was so sudden. Some say it started in Africa, some say it started in the South Seas, and some say it started in Maya. But that doesn't matter anymore, the shock 37 years ago destroyed the world's banana industrial parks, and not a single banana in the world has entered the consumer market for four years. ”

"But just one season without a harvest, will it really bankrupt you all?" Shang Luo still couldn't understand why he went bankrupt.

The Maya gave birth to a fairly ancient civilization and were well suited for agriculture. The dense rainforest has favorable conditions for both rain and heat, and with the blessing of agriculture now, the yield has soared. It's hard to imagine that the Maya could collapse all because of the disappearance of one banana variety.

"Normally, of course not. Chichen Itza's warehouses were designed for war readiness, and we were able to stay in the castle for years against the Spanish invaders – but at the time, all of the Mayan city-states embraced the 'New Dawn' plan of United Fruits. United Fruit buys bananas at a price slightly above the market price, and in almost unlimited quantities.

"The Mayans are excellent farmers, and within five years we were able to plantate almost all of our land, all of which were planted with Big Mac bananas, and the banana yield was 50 times higher than at the beginning. However, United Fruit is still not satisfied, and the purchase price has risen instead of falling. As a result, the last watchers also invested in the cultivation of bananas..."

Palka came to a meaningful pause. Everything that follows is self-explanatory. When Big Mac's bananas quickly went extinct, the impact was conceivable.

"And then you just went bankrupt?"

"At that time, I came back from studying abroad in Nanjing. When I came back from school, I wanted to make a difference, and the commodity futures market was a very new thing at the time. I think this kind of "futures trading" can bring prosperity to the farming industry, but to meet the standards of futures trading, you need to grow high-quality bananas. So under my leadership, the Mayan city-states and the Nanyang Lanfang Company formed United Fruit to coordinate banana production in the Mayan city-states. I never thought that United Fruit would be anti-customer-oriented.

"After that banana extinction, we defaulted on a large scale in the commodity futures trading market, and even the insurance companies were bankrupt. The Mayan states were in financial crisis and had to sell their country to pay their debts. You should know that each Mayan city-state was only about the size of a county in Kinai, and Chichen Itza was only a slightly larger county. Our size simply can't withstand the historic shock, coupled with the sheer size of our population. We had to sell the country in exchange for aid, and in the end we didn't make a big deal. Now it's a different banana that I found a few years later, but I can't go back to the way it was. ”

"Why didn't you report it to the court?"

"Are you kidding? Bankrupt and traitorous, I can still maintain the national honor, and I am still the lord of Chichen Itza. And if you don't say it's a big event weighing 1,000 catties, if you really want to stab Yujing, won't it break the sky? At that time, none of our 17 city-states will be able to escape, and all of them will be removed. Fortunately, in the end everything was settled peacefully. The livelihood of the people is the same as in the past, and there is no major incident that alarms the Son of Heaven. ”