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Chapter 74 The Tulip Incident

"If anyone is willing to send their daughter to work, there will be food stamps for them!

It's okay if you don't want to work.

Anyway, now everyone can eat enough, can wear warm clothes, and don't let the daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law go out to work, and they can live well. "

Yang Ni shouted with a big horn.

"I listened to Mr. Zhao's words, I want our Chunhua to go to work.

See how well Yang Ni is doing as the head nurse?

Now, Yang Erxian doesn't have to work any more, he just sits and drinks at the intersection with a bottle of Erguotou every day.

Yang Ni can support a family by working alone! "

"Yeah! How many days have we had a good life?

Did you forget when you were hungry?

That taste is not good!
I don't care about you, I let our family to sign up.

Our family usually likes to sew and mend, so it is most suitable for her to go to the garment factory. "

"Hey! You guys! Really, for the sake of money, you don't even want your face.

It is impossible for me to let my daughter-in-law and daughter go to work in some factory. "

"..."

Someone was moved on the spot and asked his wife and daughter to sign up.

There are also people with conservative ideas who cannot accept this.

Zhao Cheng saw everyone's attitudes in his eyes, smiled lightly, and didn't explain much.

As long as someone takes the lead.

Food stamps of at least [-] yuan a month!
This temptation is really too great.

When these real workers get the money, those stubborn people should be jealous.

……

"My lord, there is something I have to tell you."

When the recruitment work was going on vigorously, Uncle Laigen came to Zhao Cheng with his hands behind his back and a cigarette pouch.

"Uncle Gen!
sit!
Come!Take a Huazi! "

Zhao Cheng took out a pack of soft Chinese, took out one, and handed it to Uncle Lai Gen.

He doesn't usually smoke.

But, smoking, smoking is the way of the world.

Occasionally, when the atmosphere gets hot here, he will smoke one too.

"Thank you sir."

Uncle Laigen took it with both hands, smiling until his wrinkles piled up.

Soft China!

In the supply and marketing cooperatives, a box costs 60 yuan!

It is simply more expensive than gold.

You know, this thing can only be bought with food stamps.

60 yuan food stamp... Now it is really a sky-high price!
Uncle Lai Gen took it, but he didn't want to smoke it, so he pinched it to his ear.

There are no outsiders here, only him and Mr. Zhao, and no one sees them after smoking. It's a pity, it's a waste.

I have to go out and smoke.

Zhao Cheng could see Uncle Gen's thoughts at a glance, smiled lightly, kept one for himself, and stuffed the pack of cigarettes in his hand.

"I don't usually smoke, Uncle Gen, take it!"

"This... How embarrassing is this?"

Uncle Lai Gen shied away, but he held the pack of cigarettes tightly in his hand and stuffed it into his pocket.

Soft China!

Taking it out makes people jealous.

"What did Uncle Lai Gen say just now?" Zhao Cheng asked with a smile.

"It's like this, my lord, recently we forced some foreigners to come here and look for people to exchange for food stamps.

Do you know how much you can exchange for a one-yuan food stamp? "

"Oh? How much?"

"80 Wen! This is yesterday's price.

It has already risen to 100 texts in the morning...

That's it, no one is willing to exchange it yet!
Everyone is holding food stamps in their hands, waiting for the price increase!
My lord, this is not acceptable!

I was walking on the street yesterday, so I went to the supply and marketing agency to have a look.

The business of the supply and marketing cooperative is obviously not as good as it was a few days ago.

People are holding food stamps, and they are reluctant to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy things! "

Uncle Lai Gen frowned. He was really worried about the supply and marketing cooperative and Zhao Cheng.

"Hahaha!"

Zhao Cheng listened and smiled.

"This is normal.

People's psychology has always been to buy up and not buy down.

These food stamps are getting more and more valuable.

It was sold for [-] Wen yesterday, but today it can be sold for [-] Wen in a blink of an eye.

It's no wonder that I don't feel uncomfortable!

It must be more painful than cutting flesh!

Who is willing to sell! "

Zhao Cheng thought of domestic housing prices in the 21st century.

Climb steadily.

The faster housing prices rise, the more people hold back and refuse to sell.

In the first-tier cities, it even happened that the price of the house has increased by 200 million just after the sale and the process has not been completed.

Then, the seller would rather pay liquidated damages than check out instead of selling...

And people speculate on real estate and not sell it, which pushes up housing prices even more.

This is human psychology, and it is the same wherever you go.

Now in the Netherlands at the same time, the price of tulips is getting higher and higher.

This is the 5th year of Chongzhen, which is 1632.

At this time, tulips were rare and expensive in Western Europe, and they were regarded as a symbol of wealth and glory.

Speculators are taking a fancy to the business opportunity, hoarding tulip bulbs, pushing up prices.

According to the historical trajectory, three years later, in 1635, the upsurge of speculating on tulips spread into a national movement.

People buy tulips no longer for their intrinsic value or for ornamental purposes.

But want to appreciate and make money.

This is equivalent to speculating in stocks.

It's just that tulips were fried at that time.

And the participation of the whole people.

The wealth in the society flocked to tulips like crazy, pushing the price of tulips up.

Someone saw the timing and set up a trading hall in Amsterdam, like a stock management office.

This is more convenient for the skyrocketing price of tulips.

In January 1637, the price of tulip bulbs had risen to 1 guilders.

It was also at this time that something incredible happened.

In just one month, the price of tulip bulbs skyrocketed from 64 dong to 1668 dong, an incredible increase.

I dare not write like this in novels. If I write it, the readers will call the author stupid, which is too outrageous.

But that's historical fact, what really happened.

At that time, everyone thought that the price of tulips would skyrocket indefinitely.

Just like a few years ago, people would believe that housing prices would skyrocket without limit.

So I forgot that a tulip is actually just a flower...

No matter how rational a person is, seeing people around them buy a tulip bulb today and earn more wealth tomorrow than you can earn in a year at work, they are no longer rational.

The wealth of the whole people and the whole society flocks to tulips.

And tulip prices, on February 1637, 2, began to collapse.

This is the biggest unsolved case in the history of world finance.

This morning, tulips were still being sold as usual in various exchanges.

Suddenly, someone started dumping their own tulip contracts.

Nobody knows what happened.

Then, the dominoes are toppled.

What followed was that people rushed to sell their tulip contracts.

Within two days, the price of tulips dropped from 1668 dong to 0.15 dong.

And that's pretty much its own value.

In later generations, there may be official intervention to prevent the price of tulips from falling for the sake of stability.

But not then.

This is a disaster for civilians.

(End of this chapter)