Chapter 135: Alert (Please subscribe!)
The "Tulip Bubble" that occurred in the early seventeenth century may be the earliest speculative activity and financial bubble on Earth since historical records.
Although as early as 1608, a Frenchman exchanged jewelry worth 30,000 francs for a tulip bulb, this was insignificant compared to the huge bubble created by tulips in the Netherlands.
In 1634, if the initial price of a tulip bulb was one thousand yuan, then in just one month, its price could reach twenty thousand yuan!
This means that the value of a tulip bulb could increase by 2,000 percent in a month! Twenty times! In February 1637, a tulip named "Eternal Augustus" was sold for 6,700 Dutch guilders, enough to buy any mansion on the canal in Amsterdam! At that time, the average annual income of the Dutch was only 150 Dutch guilders.
Such huge profits almost drove everyone crazy, whether they were nobles, citizens, farmers, craftsmen, boatmen, attendants, clerks, even chimney sweeps and old ladies in second-hand clothing stores, all joined in the tulip carnival...
Once such a huge bubble bursts, the consequences will be extremely tragic.
A typical speculative craze, this... is Bruno's memory of the tulip bubble in his previous life.
However...is this really the case?
Although the "tulip bubble" has often become a synonym for speculative activities, the above content contains a lot of exaggeration.
However, it is indisputable that the "tulip bubble" that occurred in the 17th century did have a significant impact on the market, and it did make some people rich and some people lost all their money.
What Bruno has to do now is to bring a feast and carnival of tulips to the world!
Moreover, he will do his best to lay the groundwork for his plan early, and try every means to divert people's attention away from the Idar Territory, so as to maximize the coverage of this tulip feast and make as much money as possible from the Idar Territory!
In the past, even though Bruno knew that such a method could bring huge profits and wealth to the Idar Territory, he would not use it easily.
After all... this move is too insidious and extremely likely to arouse jealousy. It is completely contrary to the concept of wretched development that Bruno has been implementing in the Idar Territory, and it can even be said to be a complete departure from it.
But... Bruno couldn't wait any longer! Because just yesterday, Bruno finally received a battle report from the northern border of the empire! An Odin cavalry of up to 10,000 people, led by the famous Odin Empire general, Portia Mariano, penetrated diagonally from the Forest of Monsters and penetrated deeply into the heart of the empire!
This almost caused the situation in the north of the Norman Empire to collapse instantly, and the original defense plan was completely in vain! Because, including the territory of Dolin, the nobles whose territories were near the Forest of Monsters had already sent the noble private soldiers originally used to defend their territories to the fortresses in the northern border.
This directly led to the fact that these noble territories were almost in an undefended state.
The reason why these nobles dared to send out all the private soldiers in their territories was because of the existence of the Warcraft Forest! The Warcraft Forest, located at the junction of the Norman Empire and the Odin Empire, can almost be called a forbidden place for humans and a kingdom of Warcraft. It is one of the only two places in the entire continent where humans rarely set foot!
It is said that in the Forest of Warcraft there live Warcraft that are far superior to the level of the Great Wizard and have enough power to crush humans.
Although these news were just rumors in the beginning, any human who entered the Warcraft Forest would never return!
Even if they are lucky enough to survive, they are either crazy or stupid, which is terrifying!
Fortunately, the Warcraft tribes entrenched in the Warcraft Forest seem to have no interest in the human kingdom outside the forest. For hundreds of years, there has never been any news of Warcraft attacking humans.
Even Duke Dorin's fief, Dorin Territory, is adjacent to the Forest of Monsters.
A hundred years ago, the Odin people tried to cross the Forest of Beasts and directly attack the Norman Empire, but... the Odin army with a total number of more than 20,000 people that entered the Forest of Beasts disappeared in the Forest of Beasts.
No one was seen alive, and no one was seen dead! So there was no need to fight a war, and the task of consuming population and saving food was accomplished directly...
Therefore, the Norman Empire has almost regarded the Forest of Beasts as a natural barrier for the empire to defend against the Odin people.
But this time, the Odin cavalry actually treated the Forest of Monsters as nothing and passed through it, which almost made everyone smell a long-brewing conspiracy.
Why could the Odin cavalry travel freely in the Forest of Monsters? This was the question of almost all the noble lords who knew about the development of the war in the northern border, including Bruno! However, since the Odin people had broken through the original northern defense line, and it was an established fact that the Odin army had passed through the Forest of Monsters.
So at this moment, it was too late for the Norman Empire to focus on "why". What it should focus on most was "what to do"! Because, under the crazy offensive of the Odin people, not only a large area of the Norman Empire was occupied by the Odin people, but even the aristocracy of the Norman Empire suffered heavy losses.
It was easier to deal with great nobles like the Duke of Dorin who had "moved" to St. Lawrence early on, but those nobles such as earls and viscounts who reacted a little slower almost all became captives for the Odin people to use for negotiations in the future.
As for those nobles with lower titles, such as barons, knights, etc., every one of them became the souls of the dead under the knife of Odin.
Even the soldiers who surrendered in the northern fortresses were killed by the Odins! After all, the Odins launched the attack because of the population explosion and food shortage. With so many captives, even if each person only had one bite of food, it would be a huge expense over time! The supplies that the nobles of the northern border sent to the front before the war were almost not used before they became the spoils of the Odins, and they didn't even have to plunder everywhere.
However, even if the war in the northern border continues to deteriorate, it will be impossible to defeat Idar within a year or so.
After all... Idar Territory and the surrounding eastern part of the empire are also known as wild and desolate places!
Who would go to the East to fight for nothing?
Besides, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Although the Odin people are attacking fiercely at this stage, if they want to compete with the Norman Empire in terms of population and foundation, they are probably still far behind.
Therefore, no matter how much the situation in the northern border of the empire deteriorates, it actually has little to do with the Idar Territory.
But... what surprised Bruno the most and made him gradually alert was the reaction of the Emperor of Saint Lawrence! When the most elite soldiers in the empire were quickly mobilized by Saint Lawrence... they did not rush to the north to help immediately, but instead began to gather in the central part of the empire, which seemed like they were just sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between the two tigers.
This is what makes Bruno most alert! And...
(End of this chapter)
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