Clivia is not a native thing in China. Its origin can be traced back to southern Africa, and later spread to Europe and Japan.
The Japanese brought this thing to China when they invaded, and it became an ornamental item in the court of the then puppet state of Manchukuo.
Later, Clivia came into the public eye and began to be cultivated among the people.
The climate and soil in Changchun are more suitable for the growth of Clivia, so Clivia was cultivated here before liberation, but only as an ornamental flower village.
In 1978, a market for Clivia began to appear in Changchun. Due to the shortage of supply, the price continued to rise, and a pot of good orchid could be sold for several hundred yuan.
This attracted the attention of the government, and the Changchun government issued a price limit order, stipulating that the maximum price of a pot of Clivia is capped at 200 yuan.
This was the most famous price limit order at the time.
In 1982, Guo Yi, a Changchun native, held a charity exhibition of Clivia under the pretext of rescuing the national treasure giant panda. In just a few days, the exhibition sold nearly 20,000 yuan worth of tickets priced at 50 cents. This made the Changchun Municipal Government see the people's enthusiasm for Clivia and the potential value of Clivia.
Therefore, the Changchun Municipal Government launched a window economy, calling on every household to raise three to five pots of Clivia.
In this way, Clivia has a broad mass base in Changchun.
Wan Feng originally planned to use Li Yang's pseudonym to make some money here and then withdraw, for fear of unnecessary trouble in the future.
However, because there were so many people involved, they couldn't agree on a single story, especially Li Mingdou, who couldn't think of anything. Then he thought that Chang Chun's situation at the time wasn't considered illegal, so he had no choice but to use his real name again.
After Wan Feng mastered the knowledge about Clivia, there was still about a month before Changchun named Clivia as the city flower. Wan Feng planned to use this month to visit several Clivia trading markets in Changchun.
At that time, Changchun had four large and several small trading markets, all named something like flower, bird, fish, insect or seedling and flower market.
Wan Feng appeared at Jiutai Flower Market with Yang Jianguo and Li Yong.
This is the most famous Clivia trading market in Changchun. It is said that there are eight categories and more than one hundred varieties of Clivia sold here.
After entering the market, it was indeed filled with birdsong and flowers. Pots of Clivia of various varieties were in bud, vying for beauty.
Now is not the season for Clivia to bloom. It is still more than three months away from blooming, so the Clivia in the market is all lush green.
However, even when the flowering season comes, Wan Feng doesn't think these Clivias will bloom, as most of them have no more than ten leaves.
Clivia usually needs to have thirteen or fourteen leaves to bloom, which means it will only bloom after a growth period of more than two years. The Clivia here obviously has not met the conditions for flowering.
Perhaps it is because of the existence of the price limit order that some valuable orchids never appear in public and can only be traded in secret.
Wan Feng originally planned to purchase a few pots of valuable mature orchids, but after seeing this situation, he gave up the idea.
Once the price limit order is lifted, those precious mature orchids will naturally appear on the market. By then, it will be still in time for him to deal with the seedlings he has and sell them here immediately.
"How much are these flower seedlings per pot?"
Wan Feng stopped in front of a stall selling flower seedlings.
The flower seedlings sold on this stall all have four or five leaves, which are similar to those cultivated by Wan Feng.
"Sixty-five. If you buy in bulk, you can get five bucks cheaper."
Wan Feng said a few perfunctory words and left the stall.
I don’t know if it’s related to his purchases this month, but the price of flower seedlings has now broken through the 50 yuan mark and is heading towards 70 yuan.
Wan Feng suddenly felt like he was managing a stock.
Wan Feng knew almost nothing about stocks. He had never traded stocks in his previous life.
Although there were countless people around him speculating in stocks in 2008, he never had such an idea.
A fortune teller told him that he had no chance of making money.
In his previous life, he was somewhat of an idealist, so he often had his fortune told. He didn't know whether the fortune tellers were accurate in other aspects, but everyone agreed that he had no extra income in his destiny.
Therefore, in his previous life, he did not gamble or buy lottery tickets, so naturally he stayed away from stock funds.
Although he did not buy stocks, he studied them in his spare time. Finally, he summed up an experience: the fluctuation of stocks is closely related to the country's policies, changes in a certain international region and even the world situation.
Therefore, he once asked the stock traders around him a most basic question: Do you watch the News Broadcast while trading stocks? Can you understand the News Broadcast?
The News Broadcast is a very interesting program, but people who don't know how to watch it will find it boring and full of obscure and clichéd prose.
But those who know how to read will see things in it that cannot be explained literally.
The answers Wan Feng received to this question were almost the same: no one watched the News Broadcast.
Since you don't read it, there is naturally no question of whether you can understand it or not.
It's ridiculous that you, a person who doesn't even watch the news, can make money by speculating in stocks.
Wan Feng clearly remembered that in his previous life, a head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission made a speech on television and in newspapers. The general meaning was that stocks were not something ordinary people should play with, and that it was time to do some serious business.
That's not what it said, but that's what it meant.
Now those shareholders were not happy about this, saying that they were being discriminated against, and they cursed the leader harshly on the forum.
When Wan Feng saw the news, he immediately reminded his friends to sell their stocks.
At that time, stocks were in the limelight. It seemed that if you just closed your eyes and grabbed any stock that was destined to hit the daily limit, you could make a lot of money.
His friend's response to Wan Feng was: "Every stock is going up like crazy right now, and you're asking me to sell my stocks? You're crazy! You're not buying stocks because you're jealous of us getting rich!"
See? This is what it means when your good intentions are taken for granted.
At that time, Wan Feng laughed. The boss had already told you clearly that small retail investors should leave the stock market as soon as possible. The winter of the stock market is coming, and if you don't run away, you will die in it.
They have said it clearly, it’s your business if you don’t believe it.
Sure enough, just two or three months later, the stock market turned red overnight, and continued to fall to the point where it was left with nothing but underwear.
If there were no limit on the price drop, all the investors in the stock market would probably lose everything. Even so, countless people would still lose everything.
His friends who did not listen to his advice not only lost all the money they earned, but also suffered heavy losses.
At this time, Wan Feng, walking in the trading market, felt like a stock investor. Thousands of people around him were the same as him, all eager to get rich overnight.
The only difference is that he knew that day was the freezing point while others didn't, so he could get rich overnight while the fate of others depended on his vision.
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