What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

"I can't lose!" Fandi said, "One tulip costs one hundred Roll coins. This is impossible!"

"What if?" A devilish smile appeared on Fran's face.

"If I lose, you can do whatever you want!" Vanti thought for a moment and said, "After all, I am the deputy director of the Inquisition! I still have some judgment."

"Hmm!" Fran was very satisfied with what Fandi said, so she said, "I don't want you to do anything casually, just promise me one thing when the time comes."

"One thing?" Fanti looked at the little Loli in front of him with some disbelief.

"Yes, one thing! I haven't decided what to do yet, but don't worry, I will definitely not let you do anything bad. I won't let you go against your beliefs either!"

"Okay! I agree to your bet!" Fan Di said, "You'd better keep your promise."

"It's a deal!" Fran immediately drew up a contract and carefully placed Vanti's and her own fingerprints on it.

Feuerbach saw this and immediately showed a helpless expression on his face. He obviously felt that Fran was doomed to lose.

After doing all this, Fran carefully put the contract into her pocket, and then comforted Feuerbach, "Don't worry, I dare to sign a contract, of course I have my own considerations!"

"You'd better really be..." Feuerbach said carefully, "Besides, the price of tulips has begun to slow down in the past two days. It's no longer rising as wildly as before!"

"That's because this is the highest price that the citizens of Vienna can afford!" Fran said, "Now the people who are crazy about tulips are either ordinary people in Vienna or some small vendors. Their purchasing power is limited! So far, most of them are bought by us. If we sell them off, the whole market will fall madly.

fall!"

"But at least this way, we can still make money." Feuerbach said, "I've calculated. We now have twenty warehouses of tulips. If we sell all the tulips in them, we can make 100,000 magic crystal coins. Even if we deduct the cost of acquisition and the cost of the warehouse, our profit will be around 30,000!"

"It's only thirty thousand! How can I, Fran, only make this much money?" Fran said, "Besides, if I sell it now, the buyers must be the common people in Vienna! You know, I never like to make money from common people."

"Then whose money are you going to make?" Fanti was stunned after hearing this.

"I will make money from whoever has money!" Fran said with a smile.

“Who has money then?”

"Of course it's the major chambers of commerce in Vienna, and the various nobles who own land and stores!" Fran said, "In my opinion, they are the main force that drives up the price of tulips."

"Them?" Fan Di said, "I advise you not to attack them. They are very smart."

"Smart? I think they think they are smart. Otherwise, the Holy Roel Empire wouldn't have gotten to this point." Fran said, "And what I want to make money from are these people who think they are smart."

At this point, Fran picked up the goblet on the seat and swirled the liquid (actually milk tea) inside elegantly and confidently. She took a deep look at the busy street scene outside the window, and then continued

“It’s hard to make money from fools, because they won’t believe easily if they don’t understand! It’s hard to force them to pay! It’s also hard to make money from truly smart people! Only those who think they are smart…they have the ambition and greed to make a lot of money, but they don’t have the ability to make a lot of money!”

Just wait! They will be here soon.

Chapter 16 Flower Card

The day after Fran and Vanti made the bet, the Shinra Church issued an urgent notice to all citizens of Vienna in the name of the Saint.

The general idea is, please don't hoard tulips! Don't engage in opportunistic behavior! The Holy Roman Empire strongly condemns such behavior.

No warnings, no orders! Only condemnations.

Rather than a notice, this is an appeal, and appeals are often the most useless.

Moreover, this notice sounds like Shinra expressing its impotent rage because it cannot buy tulips.

At the same time, the Shinra Church also openly purchased tulips on the market, but because the prices were too high and people were generally unwilling to sell, the final harvest was very little.

Although the amount of tulips purchased by the Shinra Church was insignificant compared to the total stock in the market, it was a signal to everyone that the Shinra Church had not given up on purchasing tulips. This move undoubtedly gave a shot in the arm to the price of tulips, and the price, which had already begun to slow down, rose again.

But at this moment, a piece of news caused a huge stir in the city of Vienna like a bombshell.

The civil war among several major duchies in the north of the Holy Roel Empire has intensified!

In order to weaken the enemy's strength, these principalities began to plunder and attack the caravans on the trade route indiscriminately, regardless of friend or foe. As a result, all the tulips originally scheduled to be sent to Vienna were blocked, and some carriages were even burned directly by the war.

The remaining caravan had to take a detour, but only God knew when they would arrive.

Of course, this is actually news fabricated by Fran! In fact, those grand duchies have already begun to plunder caravans indiscriminately, but no one has mentioned this matter before.

Perhaps the news was not explosive enough, so Fran decided to add some more spice to it. To this end, she organized several convoys and brought carts of burnt tulips to Vienna. At the same time, Christina also organized people from the Inquisition to secretly burn the tulips that were to be transported along the way.

After several operations, the citizens were convinced that no new tulips would be shipped to Vienna in the short term. As a result, the price of tulips soared again, and soon exceeded 60 rol coins per flower.

But to Fran's disappointment, those big businessmen and nobles still hadn't taken action. They were still watching and waiting for the right opportunity.

Their caution was beyond Fran's expectations.

But Fran was not worried, and immediately used her second trump card - the flower card.

She wanted to use a certificate to replace the tulips circulating in the market, so that people would not have to worry about the tulips withering! And she could also firmly grasp the right to issue this certificate.

Of course, when she proposed this idea, no one at the scene could understand her, let alone understand what this certificate was for. However, Fran did not answer, she wanted to explain it to them through her actions.

That night, a strange advertisement was circulated in various pubs:

“Good news, good news!”

"Vienna's largest flower shop, Wenfangge, has closed down!"

"The bastard boss Huang He owed 3.5 million spiritual energy coins from gambling and drinking and whoring, and ran away with his sister-in-law!"

"We have no choice but to use tulips as wages!"

"Tulips originally cost more than sixty or seventy yuan! Now they are only forty Rolls!"

"Huang He, you bastard, you are not a human being! Give me back my hard-earned money!"

"Huang He, you bastard, you are not a human being! Give me back my hard-earned money!"

After a day of brainwashing, the advertisement quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Vienna.

However, the citizens were not interested in the story of Huang He and his sister-in-law, but the tulips mentioned in the advertisement caught their ears firmly.

Really only forty Rolls? You must be kidding!

With the current crazy growth, anyone who sells tulips is a fool! But this flower shop not only sells them, but also charges only for 40 Rowe coins? These people are not really mentally retarded, right?

The next morning, citizens came to Wenfang Pavilion to try their luck, hoping to get a chance to see the real thing. This caused a long queue to form in front of the previously unknown Wenfang Pavilion.

What if it's true?

On the opening day, sharp-eyed citizens discovered that the clerk actually appeared with tulips in his hands.

The citizens seemed to be discovering the beauty of tulips for the first time. They cheered after seeing the gorgeous petals, and the citizens at the front of the line were even more excited and started to get ready to buy some.

However, just as everyone was about to rush to buy flowers, Huang He, who had run away with his sister-in-law, appeared in front of everyone. He told the citizens that selling flowers was only secondary, and the most important thing was that he wanted to expand a new business - keeping tulips for safekeeping.

It has been several days since the tulip storm. Flowers are like other things, they will wither.

This really worried the original owners of the tulips!

But ordinary people don't have the equipment to prolong the freshness of tulips, so they can only pray that they can sell them before they completely wither. But other buyers are not fools, and no one would buy half-dead tulips like yours.

This means that if the daily price increase does not reach a certain value, it will not be able to make up for the loss caused by the withering of the tulips themselves, and the owner will suffer losses! With this mentality, citizens obviously cannot keep the tulips with peace of mind, and only want to sell them while they are still fresh.

It is for this reason that the price of tulips in the market has not been able to soar, and has remained at around 60 Rolls. Some tulips of poor quality have even seen their prices plummet.

Huang He said that he was here to solve this problem for everyone (so that everyone can trade flowers with peace of mind).

He had imported a magic circle from the northern Feruman Empire at a high price. (In this world, no one would doubt anything that had anything to do with magic.) This magic circle could not only keep the existing tulips fresh, but also repair the withered flowers and restore their glory.

This is the so-called tulip deposit service. Of course, the deposit is not free, and it requires five Roll coins each time. Afterwards, the depositor will receive a wooden flower card with special magic fluctuations on it, which cannot be faked.

From then on, anyone who comes to the Fragrance Pavilion with the sign at any time will receive a gorgeous tulip moon.

Five Roll coins in exchange for a Tulip Moon that will never fade, this sounds like a very good deal.

However, not many people came to handle the storage business on the first day, and everyone was just waiting and watching.

After all, the price of tulips has reached a very scary level now. We are not confident to leave the flowers in Wenfang Pavilion. What if you, Huang He, really run away with your sister-in-law?!

As a result, most citizens left after today's tulips were sold out, and only a few came over to ask questions.

However, they did not completely trust Wenfangge. The tulips they had were already in a dilapidated state. If they continued like this, their investment would be lost. So they decided to give it a try and inquire about this business.

These citizens paid five Roll coins with doubt, and the employees of Wenfang Pavilion handed the flower cards to the citizens very readily.

The so-called flower sign is actually a wooden sign with a mysterious pattern engraved with several lines on the yellow surface.

If you don't count the childish-looking pattern in the middle, this so-called flower card is just an ordinary wooden board. There's nothing special about it. As for the magic fluctuations, ordinary people can't feel that thing.

So the first batch of depositors put it in their pockets without thinking too much.

But they probably never imagined that this ordinary wooden sign would cause a storm like a huge wave in the next few days, which might be even more terrifying than the tulips.

Chapter 17 Brother, do you want to buy a card?

Fran had already anticipated that the flower brand would be unpopular. New things always take time to be accepted by the public. However, she didn't have time to let everyone slowly accept it, so she planned to find some people to speed up the process.

Wenfang Pavilion still continues to sell tulips. Although the number is limited and first-come-first-served, it still attracts a large number of citizens to line up.

Whenever Huang He started to sell tulips, the trustees prepared by Fran would immediately come up and exchange the flowers in their hands for the brands. This kind of crowd effect quickly led the hesitant citizens behind him.

However, even so, the sales of the flower brand were still very poor.

For two consecutive days, apart from the people he arranged, only a hundred or so citizens chose to deposit the flower cards. However, Fran's goal had been achieved. Now all the citizens of Vienna knew about the existence of the flower cards. Now that the popularity had been established, the next step was to increase everyone's acceptance.

That very night, flower cards appeared on the black market in Vienna.

Unsurprisingly, these flower cards were also coldly received in the black market, and were only sold for around four or five yuan, and each card was sold for no more than thirty Tongbao, far lower than the price of tulips. Most of those who bought the cards were just trying to get a bargain.

The next morning, there was a long queue at the entrance of Wenfang Pavilion as usual. People were mainly here to pick up tulips. However, Huanghe stipulated that flower cards should be given priority, so other people lined up and patiently watched the citizens exchange some withered tulips for flower cards.

However, unlike previous days, today, in addition to some people exchanging tulips for tags, there were also several people who were ready to exchange the flower tags in their hands for tulips.

They were all people who had found bargains on the black market the day before and came to exchange with the mentality of giving it a try.

When the clerk handed him a gorgeous tulip, the money exchanger immediately blurted out excitedly: "Wow! This is actually real! I bought this brand yesterday with more than 30 Rolls! I made a lot of money! I made a lot of money! I should have bought a few more!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the citizens who were queuing to buy flowers were almost in an uproar! They looked at the man walking away with the tulips with envy, and at the same time believed the flower brand a little more.

After that, the clerk would ask every citizen who bought flowers whether they wanted to use the flower card instead of the tulip. If they exchanged in these two days, they could also waive the handling fee of 10 Luoer coins. As a result, a large number of citizens were tempted this time.

For several days afterwards, Wenfang Pavilion used intensive means to promote its flower brands, such as on-site lucky draws and discounts for purchases over a certain amount, and it also welcomed all citizens who came to exchange for flowers without any obstruction.

The fame of the flower cards spread quickly, and soon the first spontaneous transaction of buying flower cards with money appeared in Vienna. Although many people still have a wait-and-see attitude towards flower cards, the transactions related to flower cards are increasing at a visible speed.

But Fran still thinks it's not enough!

In order to continue to increase her popularity, Fran threw a large number of flower cards into the black market and sold them at low prices. Anyway, flower cards are anonymous and no one knows where they come from. The number of flower cards on the market is far less than the inventory in her warehouse, so there is no need to worry about the problem of being squeezed and exposed.

At first, the price of flower cards was always lower than that of tulips. However, as time went on, citizens found that the two items were almost equal in value, so who would want to carry around tulips that could be lost or withered at any time? They all chose to exchange them for flower cards.

Before long, flower cards became in short supply, and their prices soared, eventually becoming exactly the same price as tulips. Later, some citizens even went to Wenfang Pavilion to deposit their tulips, and Fulan's warehouse was once again overwhelmed.

Without the worry of flowers withering, the price of tulips soared again.

In just a few days, the price of tulips exceeded one hundred Roll coins! This made Fanti stunned, and there was a little more admiration in his eyes when he looked at Fran.

But just when everyone thought that Fran would stop and start selling tulips, Fran remained silent!

Hoarding and reselling items are things that only low-end players do! Issuing virtual currency is the real wealth harvester! The current price of flower cards is far from reaching the bottleneck! Besides, those big chambers of commerce and nobles have not yet made their move, and it is their money that we are going to harvest.

At this time, the flower trade in the market has been completely replaced by flower signs. This small wooden sign has become a hard currency comparable to gold.

As tulip prices soared again, more and more people joined the speculative frenzy.

When the price broke through the 100 Rawl Coin mark, the nobles and chambers of commerce who were still waiting and watching could no longer sit still and joined the carnival.

The way a large chamber of commerce plays is naturally not the same as that of ordinary people.

They did not rush to announce their exit, but first secretly and frantically purchased flower cards. After accumulating a certain amount of flower cards, they announced their joining in a high-profile manner, followed by another surge in the price of flower cards.

In order to put on a show, the big chamber of commerce even loaded money and flower signs on a horse-drawn carriage, and then linked them together to parade on the street to let others see their determination.

Every time a show is staged, a large amount of funds will flow in! And every time a sum of money flows in, it can drive the price to rise again. It is like blowing up a balloon, making the price of tulips continue to expand.

Later on, most of Vienna's prominent chambers of commerce and nobles went out of business, and the prices of tulips and flower cards reached a new high - 200 Rolls.

Fran also learned that the major chambers of commerce had organized a temporary alliance for this purpose.

Compared to ordinary people, the Chamber of Commerce has more capital, more methods, and of course more greed. They not only want to speculate on prices, but also want to further expand the scope of the tulip storm to include all the cities around Vienna. The more people come, the higher their profits will be.

Their strategy was undoubtedly very successful. With their strong publicity, people from towns around Vienna came in groups, hoping to get a piece of the tulip storm.

Under such a frenzy, the city of Orila, as a neighbor of Vienna, naturally did not want to be outdone. According to Vanti's intelligence, the nine major families in Orila City have invested a huge amount of wealth in tulips, including the Yellow Wolf Chamber of Commerce where the Yellow Four Wolfs are located.

Every day, a large number of carriages disguised as adventurer mercenaries enter the city of Vienna, carrying bags of magic crystal coins.

Under the frenzy, the price of tulips would experience explosive growth every day. In a short period of time, its price doubled again, reaching a height of 400 Rolls!