"Butler, something happened at home and I would like to ask for leave." The maid whispered.
The housekeeper frowned, "How many days will it take?"
The maid thought for a moment and answered, "Three days, no, five days."
"All right."
The maid was happy to leave after successfully requesting leave.
The butler pursed his lips, looking extremely annoyed - in the past two days, more and more servants had been asking for leave, claiming that they had family matters.
This is not normal.
Most people's family conditions are not good, and they are reluctant to take leave to rest even if they are sick. But now, they ask for three, five, or seven days off.
...Is someone trying to poach our employees?
The housekeeper was worried and planned to report the situation to the master.
As I turned the corner, I heard the maid who had just asked for leave say excitedly, "I've got my leave! I'll go to the market tomorrow and buy tulips!"
Someone nearby was surprised and said, "Tulips are a commodity that only nobles can afford. How can you afford it?"
The maid clenched her fist and vowed, "If you sell the house, you can afford it."
The maid next to him was even more astonished. "You're planning to sell your house to buy tulips? You're crazy!"
There was a hint of fanaticism in the maid's eyes, "I'm not crazy! I made this decision after careful consideration."
"Just think about it. In just two years, the price of tulips has increased from more than 1,000 to more than 6,000. How much money is that?"
"I sold the house and made a fortune by buying tulips. It would be great if I could turn one house into two."
"If the price goes up a bit, I can buy a house and land with the money I earn, and I won't have to be a maid anymore!"
Thinking of the bright future, the maid's eyes sparkled with dazzling light.
The maid wanted to persuade her companion not to be impulsive, but as she listened, she became more interested. "Is this deal reliable? What if the price of tulips falls after I buy them?"
Hearing this, the maid smiled bitterly and said, "At first, I was just like you, afraid of this and that, so I watched the price of tulips soar from 4,200 to 6,000."
"I finally understand. The brave will die of overeating, while the timid will die of starvation."
"If you want to get rich, you can't be timid!"
The maid wanted to say something else.
The maid waved her hand and interrupted impatiently, "I have made up my mind. No need to persuade me."
Maid: "...I'm not trying to persuade you, but I want to ask, if you want to buy tulips, where should you go?"
The maid became interested and told all the news she knew.
The two were chatting so enthusiastically that they didn't notice the butler passing by and leaving quietly.
It turns out that the reason for taking leave was to buy tulips.
They clearly can’t afford it, but they would rather sell their house and get involved. What are these people thinking?
The butler was speechless.
But since others had their own ideas, he could not persuade them. In the end, he could only shake his head and walk away quietly.
**
Coincidentally, Kane was also thinking about something similar.
In the evening, the father and daughter had dinner together, and Kane casually mentioned, "How much money do you have left?"
Christie's heart skipped a beat.
She answered cautiously, "Not much money, but some jewelry in the house, and a few good fields to my name."
Kane asked again, "Can you lend me the money first?"
Christie put down her cutlery and looked directly at her father, "What do you want to do?"
Kane is ambitious. "From the current situation, tulip prices can continue to rise. I plan to make a big move!"
"Didn't you buy a batch of tulip bulbs?" Christie asked puzzled.
"Such opportunities are rare. It would be a pity to miss them!" Kane said solemnly, "I plan to invest all the funds I have."
"If the plan goes well, after completing this job, I can make back the money I lost while guaranteeing for others!"
In fact, this is an understatement.
According to estimates, after compensating for the losses, their family will be richer than before.
Christie stared at her father, speechless for a long time.
The man in front of me who is sure that he can make money is so similar to me when I was playing games before!
I was thinking that the product would be snapped up by countless people and would become more and more valuable in the future. I could make more money by doing this or that, but I didn't realize that the premise was not true at all.
The game ends when it ends, and you can easily get yourself into trouble if you are not careful.
The air suddenly became very quiet.
Kane gently persuaded, "I promise that when I make money, I will return you the principal and interest together."
Christie bit her lip and remained silent.
Kane was somewhat helpless. "If you are still worried, forget it. Just pretend I never said anything about it."
He was holding the cutlery and was about to eat when his daughter asked him seriously, "Father, are you planning to sell all the land at home? Please don't do that."
"Why?" Kane wondered.
The question "Why" stumped Christie.
Gritting her teeth, she omitted the system and just said that she had seen similar cases in books. This was hype, and when people started to go crazy, it meant that the game was about to come to an end.
Before he could finish, Kane interrupted with a smile, "Tulips are different from those scams you said. This flower is precious and rare. Even if the price drops, it is unlikely to drop too much."
Christie wanted to persuade him, but when the words came to her lips, she was stunned - tulips are loved by countless people, maybe there will be a different ending?
Was it really right for me to stop my father so resolutely?
What if it turns out that preventing my father from investing more money is preventing my own family from getting rich?
After thinking about this, Christie suddenly lost her confidence. She hesitated, not knowing what to do.
"Okay, forget about it, just pretend I never mentioned it." Kane consoled, "I won't interfere with your tulip trading, and you shouldn't stop me from making a decision."
Christie ate her dinner and suddenly lost her appetite.
She thought to herself that it was necessary to call the system out and get things straight.
**
After dinner, Christie hid in the room and called softly, "Yunluo, are you there?"
The man in the suit appeared, "I'm here."
Christie recounted what happened during the dinner, and then mustered up her courage, "I think what my father said makes sense. Tulips are so precious, maybe they will be an exception."
Yun Luo: "Didn't I tell you that you must keep a clear mind when participating in hype. You must know what game you are playing, and you must not be deceived by lies, and you must not believe in sweet talk."
Yun Luo: "Look at you, you get shaken by whatever others say."
Yun Luo: "There are no exceptions in the game of hype. To think this time is different means you have been deceived by the sweet talk."
Christie, "..."
The host sat in the corner with his knees hugged, feeling confused and not knowing who to trust.
Even though the system and her father held opposite opinions, she felt that both of them made sense.
Yun Luo: "If you can't hold on, you can stop now. Anyway, you have already made five or six times the money."
Yun Luo: "But there is one thing. After the trading is stopped, no matter how much the price of tulips rises, you can't be tempted, let alone buy them back."
Yun Luo: "When the game is over, you must leave without looking back. If you can't bear it later and buy the bulbs again, it's better not to sell them in the first place."
Christie looked distressed, "I really don't have the confidence that I can do it..."
After buying the tulip bulbs, she wanted to sell them countless times over the past year.
Buy, hold, and sell at high points. It is easier said than done!
During this period, she didn't know how she managed to get through it. She reminded herself countless times every day that she had to be patient and fulfill her promise to the system.
Day after day, I finally waited until today.
Christie's mind was in a mess, with many thoughts mixed together.
After a long pause, she asked, "You said before that you would notify me when the price reaches a high point. Now that you want me to sell, does that mean that the price has reached the top?"
Yun Luo: "No, people just started going crazy."
Yun Luo: "According to calculations, it will take some time."
Yun Luo: "I asked you to stop because, on the one hand, I've made enough money, and on the other hand, I saw that you couldn't hold on any longer."
Thinking of her father's desperate and crazy efforts, Christie inexplicably felt the burden of supporting the family on her shoulders.
She gritted her teeth and said, "I have endured for more than a year. There is no reason why I can't hold on in the end. I won't leave. I want to keep playing!"
Yun Luo: "It's your life, you make the decision."
**
Christie witnessed the price of tulips rise from 1,020 to 6,000, and she thought she had seen a lot. However, it was not until the late stage of the hype that she understood what "madness" meant.
There were not just one or two people who were willing to sell their property to participate in the tulip speculation, but a large number of them.
Some believed that the tulip mania would last forever. Poverty would be gone forever, and everyone would become rich.
Whether nobles or commoners, craftsmen, servants, merchants, or old women mending clothes in second-hand clothing shops, almost everyone joined in the hype.
I thought it was crazy to sell an ordinary tulip for 6,000, but a month later, the price doubled to 12,000!
…
"This is crazy, this is crazy." Christie was terrified and kept repeating this sentence every day.
What shocked her even more was that even at this point, the system hadn't said to sell.
Finally one day, a newly cultivated, one-of-a-kind rare tulip was sold at a sky-high price.
Its value is equal to that of a luxury house in the city center, which is equivalent to 30 years of salary for ordinary people!
At this time, Yun Luo appeared and said, "Transfer all the tulips and tulip bulbs in your hands as quickly as possible."
Christie had been waiting for this sentence for a year.
Hearing this, she felt relieved, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Christie thought to herself that she had to sell the bulbs even if it was a little cheaper.
Unexpectedly, people were so crazy about tulips. When they heard that she was willing to transfer them, many people were crazy about buying them.
Some people even raised the price on their own initiative, saying that they would buy the bulbs even if they had to use gold, silver, jewelry, or real estate deeds as collateral for a loan.
Christie disagreed.
She sold the bulbs in batches, and the only requirement was that the transaction partner must pay in full. If the buyer did not have that much cash, she could pay with jewelry or land.
In just two days, all the tulip bulbs were sold out, and Christie became rich overnight.
Christie was not happy about becoming rich overnight.
After finishing her chores, she found her father and solemnly warned him, "Dad, the hype is about to end. Please make sure to sell all the tulip bulbs you have."
Hearing his daughter say this, Kane immediately smiled and said, "I think it will continue to rise in the future."
Christie believed in the system. Seeing that her father didn't listen to her advice, her face turned pale, and she was angry and anxious. She couldn't help but shout, "Isn't it enough to make so much money? Why don't you want to stop?!"
The author has something to say:
The same goes for shoe speculation, as well as agricultural products such as garlic and Pu'er tea.
In 2009, hot money controlled the entire garlic industry chain, claiming that "garlic can kill viruses and treat H1N1 influenza", and artificially hyped up garlic prices.
The purchase price was 0.5 yuan per catty in 2008, and reached a peak of 8-9 yuan per catty in 2009. (16-18 times)
[Do you feel like you are living in a different world? Capital is hyping up everything and making a lot of money, but many people don’t know about it. ]
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The real tulip bubble in history
Before the bubble burst, tulips' total increase was as high as 5,900% compared to the previous year.
A tulip named "Semper Augustus" is worth the same as a mansion on the canal in Amsterdam, which is 45 times the annual income of the average person.
The data in the article has been slightly modified, the actual situation is more exaggerated
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