Li Xingzu has made a lot of money by operating in the Dutch stock market.

At the same time, it also caused many Dutch investors to go bankrupt.

Zheng Zhilong said: "The Dutch government has suspended the exchange of guilders for Chinese silver dollars. We probably only exchanged 20 million Huaxia silver dollars, and we still have nearly 300 million guilders in our hands that cannot be exchanged. ”

"It seems that the Dutch are not stupid, we can't exchange these guilders for silver dollars or gold and silver, so we can only buy Dutch assets."

However, at present, the Netherlands is a mature business society, and the prices of real estate and other properties are somewhat high.

If you want to buy industries such as ports and terminals in the Netherlands, I am afraid that you will completely collapse the Dutch economy.

After all, it was only the Dutch financial industry that was brought down by the previous operation, and the actual industry was not affected.

Originally, he had made a lot of money, and he could withdraw from the Dutch market with the East India Company.

Now the Dutch government does not let itself go.

Then you can only short the Dutch industry.

About a decade ago, the Dutch began to hype tulips like crazy.

Now, with the collapse of stocks, the price of tulips has fallen, but it is still ridiculously high.

The Dutch who speculated on tulips did not invest in the stock market because they had no money, but they escaped the catastrophe.

Especially for some rare varieties, a tulip bulb can be sold for 4,000 guilders, or a large villa.

More than 10 years ago, Li Xianzhong built a greenhouse out of glass in Beijing and cultivated all kinds of tulips.

The Netherlands is famous for its high-end breeds, such as Admiral Liefken, Admiral Von der Eyk, Viceroy, Generalissimo, etc.

Even the "Eternal Emperor" (Semper Augustus), which is extremely rare to produce purple-white stripes due to lesions, was mass-produced by Chinese horticulturists.

In addition to these, Huaxia has also cultivated its own unique tulip varieties, such as the "Taoyuan Three Knots" with three colors, and the "Seven Capture Mengshu" with 7 patterns, as well as the "Tai Bai Xing", "Meishan Six Monsters", "Eight Immortals Across the Sea" and other varieties that the Dutch have never seen.

When these novel varieties appeared in Amsterdam, they immediately attracted the attention of the Dutch, so that tulips ushered in another climax, and the price continued to rise.

Tulips are sought after by Dutch merchants because of their long cultivation cycle, which takes 3-7 years from seed cultivation to flowering.

Even if the bulbs are introduced from the cue ball, it takes a year, and only a maximum of 2-3 bulbs can be produced per cue ball.

But in China, tulips have long been mass-produced, and their huge production is far beyond the imagination of the Dutch.

However, at this time, with the popularity of tulips again, more and more Dutch people fell into madness.

Many tulip speculators have made money, and more and more Dutch people have begun to mortgage their properties for loans and start speculating on tulips.

Even businessmen from other parts of Europe were drawn to Amsterdam by the tulip craze.

The price of tulips is rising every day, and Li Xingzu even made a move to fry a "Eight Immortals Across the Sea" to 50,000 guilders.

Some Dutchmen who had already made money before also began to regret that they had made a move too early, so these people once again invested their money in tulips.

It really fulfills the saying: If you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy.

After making a lot of money selling rare tulips, Li Xingzu began to sell tulips.

Countless tulips were removed from the Chinese merchant ships.

No matter how rare the varieties are, they are directly hundreds of copies appear in the trading market.

Tens of thousands of ordinary tulips appeared in the trading market.

The appearance of a large number of physical objects made the tulips collapse instantly, and the price fell by as much as 8% in just one day.

When the price fell to 1 percent, speculators who had previously earned a large amount of guilder decided to take the opportunity to "buy the bottom".

Soon the price of tulips was pulled back to 3%.

But in the next few days, tens of thousands of tulips were sold every day, and even if it was only 1% of the original price, they could not afford to take it anymore.

Eventually, tulips were beaten to the "price of cabbage", and discarded tulips could be seen everywhere on the roadside.

And those tulip speculators who escaped the stock market crash, except for a few who successfully evacuated from the high position, everyone else lost a fortune.

Many people are in debt because of tulips.

Every day in Amsterdam there are Dutch people who commit suicide because they go bankrupt.

In order to repay their debts, those people had to sell their assets at a low price, mainly real estate and factories.

But the original stock market crash has already harvested a large number of rich people.

Now that tulip futures have also collapsed, where is there anyone to take over their industry?

The economy of the Netherlands as a whole completely collapsed.

Property in Amsterdam is only one-seventh of its peak, and it is full of businessmen selling their property at a bargain.

Amsterdam is the financial center of Europe, and the bankruptcy of the Dutch has directly affected the whole of Europe, with real estate in Paris, London, Lisbon, Seville, Genoa, Venice, Rome and other places plummeting to varying degrees.

Among them, the United Kingdom, which is the closest to the Netherlands and has the closest economic ties with the Netherlands, is the most serious.

The economy of Europe as a whole is in recession.

Li Xingzu took the opportunity to buy a large number of Dutch properties at a low price, from mansions and estates in Amsterdam to docks and shipyards, he bought almost everything in the Netherlands.

Since the guilder was the common currency in Europe, he also bought some of his properties at low prices in London and Paris.

This economic crisis directly disrupted the plans of the Europeans.

These countries, due to the collapse of their economies, are in extreme internal chaos, and are full of masses who are antibodies to the government, where is there still the spare money and troops to support Poland against China?

On the other side, Li Shizu, who was well prepared, began to teach Poland a lesson.

Poland and Europe are clamoring to organize a coalition against China, which is the best excuse to send troops.

The Swedes did not want to go to war with China in the first place, and now the financial crisis that has swept through Europe has also affected Sweden.

It also made them firm in their position of "no war".

However, Sweden is far away from the Netherlands, the epicenter of the storm, and has a relatively small impact.

Trade with China helped them get out of their domestic crisis.

After signing the Non-Aggression Pact with the Kingdom of Sweden, the representatives of China began to attack Poland.

A 100,000-strong Chinese army surrounded Smolensk, an important town in eastern Poland.

Władysław IV naturally would not watch this city, which had cost countless troops and money to recapture, fall into the hands of the Chinese.

So he personally led an army of 50,000 to rush there for reinforcements.

And the brave 20,000 Polish hussars charged the Chinese position.

After all, when the Cossack cavalry charged, the Poles did not see it with their own eyes.

Of course, they did not know the true power of the Huaxia rifle.

Otherwise, Władysław IV would not have dared to declare war on China.

At this time, the Chinese army had already dug trenches and was ready for battle.

Under the fire of 12-pounder "Napoleonic field guns" and "Qianxi 1635" rifles, the Polish cavalry fell in pieces.

These Polish hussars, who had almost no opponents in the head-on battle, could only die in the face of the guns of China.

The reason why they are still charging is because they want to wait until the rifles of the Huaxia people are extinguished.

But what awaited them was a continuous firepower output.

In the end, the Poles collapsed anyway.

Wu Sangui put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and said: "In the face of modern rifles, the era of cavalry has finally come to an end. ”

"Order the cavalry to attack, and be sure to destroy the remaining Polish hussars."

The Cossack cavalry and the Chinese cavalry then pursued the retreating Polish hussars from both sides.

Although the Polish hussars performed very bravely, they were pursued by less than 50,000 cavalry and finally ended up in a complete annihilation.

Seeing the annihilation of his most elite hussars, the morale of the Polish army plummeted.

The remaining 30,000 infantry were no match for his cavalry, although the Polish infantry phalanx also had a number of muskets and spearmen.

But under the blows of the Chinese cavalry and artillery, their formation was quickly torn apart.

And the Cossacks gave full play to their characteristics of being good at pursuit.

They appeared like ghosts and suddenly appeared behind the Poles.

Even Władysław IV himself was beheaded by the Cossack cavalry.

The Polish army was defeated in this battle, and only four or five thousand of the 50,000 cavalry finally fled back.

The death of Władysław IV left Poland in a state of leaderless chaos.

While the Poles were still arguing over the choice of a new king, the Chinese cavalry had already arrived in Vilnius, the capital of Poland.

To make matters worse, the Ottomans also crossed the Carpathians and invaded the Polish plain from Hungary.

The Polish system had left the country in disarray, with the provinces fighting their own battles and unable to organize effective resistance.

Soon the Chinese conquered Smolensk, Minsk and other important towns, while the Ottomans took Krakow in southern Poland.

Half a month later, Vilnius, the capital of Poland, surrendered to China at the vote of the Som parliamentarians.

At this point, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was divided between China and the Ottoman Empire.

The Chinese Empire finally gained the coastal areas of Europe, but the port of Riga, which originally belonged to Poland, had long since been seized by Sweden.

Li Shizu's current advance direction was Western Europe, so he did not want to conflict with the Kingdom of Sweden in Northern Europe, so the Chinese army forcibly occupied the port of Danzig, which was originally part of Prussia, on the border with Poland.

At this time, the Holy Roman Empire was made up of hundreds of large and small states.

The largest state within the empire was Austria, and although Prussia formed the United Kingdom with Brandenburg, Prussia did not share a border with Brandenburg itself.

Prussia was an enclave, surrounded by Poland.

The Chinese Empire took the port of Danzig by the way, which was equivalent to cutting off Prussia's foreign ports and turning it into an enclave in the interior of Europe.

The Chinese Empire formed an alliance with the two powerful empires of the north and south, the Ottomans and Sweden, and naturally did not have to worry about the reaction of Brandenburg and the Holy Roman Empire behind it.

Voltaire of France once commented on the Holy Roman Empire, saying that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire at all.

And the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV, who had annexed large territories with China in recent years, was also full of confidence at this time.

He even wanted to capture Vienna, which was located in the heart of Europe.

The 80,000 Ottoman army was invading Austria at this time, and Austria, which was too busy to take care of itself, certainly did not have time to take care of the occupation of Danzig by China.

Li Shizu saw that the strength of the Kingdom of Brandenburg was not very good, so he sent troops to completely occupy Prussia.

This time, Brandenburg sent 12,000 soldiers to try to cross the Polish border to support Prussia, but this number of troops did not influence the situation of the war at all.

No sooner had Brandenburg's army crossed the Oder than it was swept away by a combined Chinese cavalry and a Cosatter cavalry.

The Chinese dragoons soon formed a rifle phalanx to shoot at these so-called Teutonic heavy knights, and the remaining cavalry were outflanked and quickly devoured the cavalry that had entered Poland.

The defeated Brandenburg was eventually forced to accept the fact that China occupied all of Prussia.

The acquisition of the port of Danzig was of great significance to the Chinese Empire, which finally had its own port in Europe.

But at this time, the anger of the whole of Europe against China was almost at its peak.

On the one hand, the Chinese occupied large territories of Tsarist Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian principalities, and now they have even annexed Prussia, which is not far from Western Europe.

More importantly, Li Xingzu, the third prince of China, set off a storm in the Netherlands, causing a large number of Europeans to go bankrupt.

Even the churches that had been supporting the East Ryukyu Company in the past did not dare to publicly defend the East Ryukyu Company under pressure from the people.

The biggest loss was naturally the Netherlands, the most financially developed country, and the Dutch foreign exchange market, banks, stocks, futures, and real estate all collapsed, and they were all "robbed" by Li Xingzu.

Like a vampire, he sucked up the wealth that the Dutch had worked so hard to accumulate over the years.

So the third prince of China had a new nickname "European Vampire".

Of course, after the Netherlands was hit hard, it also began to improve the relevant financial system.

For example, there is a limit on the price limit of stocks, and once the stock rises and falls by more than 10% in a single day, trading will be stopped.

In addition, once an individual holds more than 10% of the total share capital of a listed company, it must be publicly explained, etc.

At this moment, representatives from five countries, including the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal and France, gathered in London, England.

Now Europe has entered its darkest hour, the Chinese have taken Prussia, and the Ottomans are attacking Vienna, the "heart of Europe".

In addition to the threat of force, the "European vampire" Lee Heung-jo is robbing the wealth of all of Europe.

They unanimously agreed that it would be difficult to stop Li Xingzu by relying on normal financial means. Only by relying on force to rob the East Ryukyu Company of its great wealth in Amsterdam could the infiltration of the Chinese be stopped.

So the five countries decided to jointly send troops to attack the East Ryukyu Company.

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