From Chief to Ball

The girl heard about it and asked about it. Now these roots are very expensive.She felt that her ancestors must be protecting her, and even her parents, who had become souls, were looking at and taking care of her in this flower.

She thought, dig up these roots, sell them, and exchange them for money, so that she can live a better life.Thinking about the figure of the boy that keeps appearing in my heart, I feel that I will be very happy when I get married in the future, relying on this money to buy a few spinning wheels and looms.

All of these seemed within reach yesterday, but all of them were destroyed overnight.

Someone jumped into her house at night and knocked her head unconscious with a stick. When she woke up, the pot of flowers was gone!

All hopes were shattered the moment she woke up and the sun rose!

Apart from crying, she couldn't think of any other way to vent her emotions. There was really no... And after crying, she didn't even dare to think about all her previous dreams, and she didn't even have the right to think about them.

Because there is no house, no money, no loom and spinning wheel, and no land.

So if you don't go to the workshop to work, you will be thrown into the workhouse.

If she didn't go, she would be forced to accept some kind of job that made her shudder even thinking about it-if it was called work.

Yesterday she fantasized about the happiness after marriage, which was within reach.

Now, she is looking forward to being hired by others.

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In a certain courtyard in the city, a person looked at the dozen or so flowers in the room, watched the servants carefully transplanting those roots, and calculated how much they could be exchanged for.

He doesn't like flowers, not at all.But when the flower can be transformed into a shining silver and gold coin, it is quite different.

After the performance in the theater, he keenly sensed a business opportunity, and it seemed to be a business opportunity that could make a fortune.

After a little research on the rise in the prices of these flowers over the past year, he was convinced that he had found a good way to speculate and make money.

He is a speculator who has speculated on land, grain, cotton, dyes... He has seen many scenes.

But compared to these light flowers, those speculations seem so low-level.He really couldn't think of any of the things he had speculated on, which could earn dozens of times the profit within a year!

The only thing he regrets now is why he didn't take out a thousand silver coins to buy them all when they cost two silver coins each.

But it's not too late to get involved now.Today, the large land purchase bill has not yet been passed, and the business officer has some raw materials for workshops to prevent speculation. There are no new gold and silver mines, fertile fields, salt and other new mines. In the short term, there is no way to fight a war hoarding stuff.

The rest of the speculative profit is too low, and it can't compare with the excess profit of this light flower, and with the spread of those dramatic stories and the exchanges of businessmen, he believes that the price of this kind of thing will become higher and higher, as long as the time is right. It's time to find someone to take over.

So a month ago, he bought a dozen pots of flowers, some rhizomes of this year, and futures for a batch of rhizomes next winter.

In order to turn these things into more money, he asked people to perform a realistic drama in the flower market: he asked people to spend [-] silver coins to buy a pot of orchids that looked noble, elegant and unique, and this pot of orchids In fact, it was his, and the silver coins were his too, but only paid a small transaction tax.

However, this small amount of transaction tax has brought about a considerable increase in the futures of flowers and rhizomes in a day.

Holders watch the market rise and are even more reluctant to sell; while those who want to buy and hoard want more and more, so they keep raising the price; however, this thing cannot be changed in the short term, so the price is getting higher and higher.

This is a light flower, but now it has the weight of gold and silver coins. People who don't like flowers also have various reasons to buy this kind of flower-they don't like flowers, but they love gold and silver.

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In this way, this kind of flower that everyone thinks is the embodiment of justice, kindness, nobility, love, and hope gradually becomes evil, cruel, ugly, dirty, and desperate...

More and more people are involved, more and more money is involved, and more and more reason is devoured.

Chapter 30 Inquiry

This evil flower bloomed in Fujian city, but it brought a strange and deformed prosperity.

A large amount of currency and mortgages flow into the trading market. Many people want to hoard and get rich overnight, and many people want to do short-term buying and selling and resell as soon as possible.

In addition to the newly established place that was originally only for trading flowers, and now it has become a variety of futures exchanges in Mincheng, some teahouses and restaurants are also secretly trading.

False prosperity has driven consumption, and consumption has driven the income of the citizen class. Under the colorful bubbles, there is really a thriving scene.

Agronomy classes and gardening craftsmen have never been so popular, and all kinds of weird flower fertilizers have become popular.

The futures of flowers and rhizomes, as well as futures that have no shadow at all, are rising day by day. Although the increase is not large, there will always be someone to take over.If someone takes over, it means that someone has made a profit, and the person who has made the money will invest the money in new speculation or other industries.

The only problem is that the total wealth has not actually increased, but the originally worthless flowers have been turned into dozens or hundreds of silver coins.It would be wonderful if the flowers really turned into gold one day, but is it gold?

No one thought about it for a while, so it's gold now.

A bustling, a flower seller.

Therefore, when Li Yun, who came to Mincheng from the capital to look for the owner of the bottle of white phosphorus, entered Mincheng, the most frequently heard words were related to it.

As Mr. Mu's disciple, Li Yun certainly had to respect Mr. Mu's wishes, but he didn't resist the possibility that he might have another junior.

He saw the excitement of the husband with his own eyes, and he also saw the seemingly simple but detailed experimental report on the bottle.

For his favorite subject, he saw a new experimental idea, and also vaguely saw another new world of chemistry called quantitative analysis.

For the people he respected, seeing his husband so happy, and seeing his husband finally find another student who used his recommended quota to be directly nominated into the academy in his old age, was gratifying.

Even though he has never met, he has already agreed with this possible junior brother in his heart.

In fact, when he came here, he felt that he was [-]% convinced that the experiment must have been done by the young man named Chen Jian alone.

The reason why I have to see it with my own eyes is because my husband is a cautious and upright person.He would not give his recommendation quota to something that has not been personally confirmed. Now that he is too old to see it with his own eyes, he asks his disciple to check it on his behalf.

Li Yun originally thought that this young man would be well-known in Min City, just like himself.When I was a child, I liked these weird things like chemistry, combustion, ores, and I did some terrible things when I was a child. I accidentally burned my own hut, so I am quite famous in the local area.

He thought, this Chen Jian should be the same.

Soon, he verified his words.On his pier, the words he heard the most were flowers, the drunken sailor's adventures, orphans, Lei Zhengxing, and Chen Jian.

He was not interested in the first few names, but the last name made him very curious, so he listened attentively.

He thought that what was bound to this name would be words that he was familiar with, such as explosion, poisoning, and thick smoke.

However, unexpectedly, this Chen Jian's name was associated with evaluative words such as becoming famous at a young age and changing his past, as well as incomprehensible words such as drama and orphans.

Although I don't understand it, but after listening to it a lot, I know that this must be a trend in Fujian City.

He thought, Mincheng is very interesting, there are actually two young people named Chen Jian who became famous at a young age.But after thinking about it, his possible junior brother is still so far away from himself and his residence. Obviously, one can only be said to have become famous at a young age, and the other is about [-] steps away from becoming famous at a young age. up.

It’s just that after listening too much, it is inevitable to hear the words of whose son Chen Jian is, and when it comes to what the man named Henry Zhang said when he was in the capital, his heart can’t help but move.

So when a group of people were discussing there, Li Yun stepped in, sang a promise and said hello.

When everyone saw the badge on his chest, they couldn't help being a little awed.It was the emblem of Ji Xia Academy, made of brass, with a flag waving in the wind dyed red paint.

This was the mark that existed when the academy was first built hundreds of years ago, and it has never been changed. Later, after the bloody restoration and anti-restoration bloody battles, the badge was dyed redder, and it was more difficult to change it.

It has been a long time since those bloody incidents, but another meaning of this badge is even more admirable: most of the high-level people come from here, and most of the middle-level people are also students. Born in the palace, no matter how powerful and wealthy the family is, they still need to walk through it.