My Little Pony: Changelings

Just when the residents of Manehattan were dreaming of gold, a piece of news came and shattered their beautiful dreams.

The turanite was no longer needed. After just one week of large-scale purchases, the price of turanite stopped rising and instead fell back to its original price, even hitting rock bottom.

For some reason, the residents of Manehattan began to march and demonstrate, demanding an explanation from the nobles, and that very evening, the stars stood up.

"Pony, ponies please be quiet. I need to speak."

Seeing the angry eyes of the horses, Qunxing Huanghuang continued.

"Everyone, the reason we purchased the Tran Stone is because I have a trade route in the west, and the price of the Tran Stone there can be sold for more than ten times."

Qunxing Huanghuang saw the shocked ponies below, nodded, and continued.

"However, since it was my first time doing this kind of thing, I had no experience. I made some money from Transy, but only two or three times as much. It was not as valuable as I imagined. The purchase price was greater than the selling value, so I gave up investing there and stopped the acquisition."

The ponies below obviously didn't buy it and continued to protest. Two or three times the profit was already very good. These noble ponies were too greedy.

If there is a 10% profit, people will go crazy; if there is a 50% profit, people will do anything desperate; if there is a 100% profit, people will take risks; if there is a 300% profit, people will trample on all human laws.

These damn noble ponies have no idea of ​​their own hard work.

"What about our Tran Stone?"

"Yes! Even two or three times is fine."

"That's right, that's quite a lot!"

Qunxing Huanghuang waved his hands, and everyone present fell silent again.

"Everyone, I didn't expect you to acquire so many Tran stones, but you are all members of Manehattan, and I will not give up on you. How about this, we both take a step back. You give me the Tran stones, and I will sell them on your behalf. How about that? I will only take a portion of it. Is that okay?"

In this way, the Tran Stone crisis was temporarily over. Every month after that, the ponies made a lot of profit from the sales, and their lives became richer. This spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. A large number of ponies flocked to Manehattan and asked to join. Since there was enough Tran Stone and they no longer needed it, they chose to provide investments to demand returns. For a time, the Duke of Sapphire became famous.

At Sapphire Manor, the aristocratic ball was held again. Piles of gold coins filled every corner. This was the scene for dividing the spoils... no, sharing the fruits of victory.

"Duke Sapphire, you are truly the greatest nobleman!"

"That's right, salute to our Lord Duke!"

Watching the other ponies celebrating, Qunxing Huanghuang took a sip of his wine glass and smiled contemptuously. He took advantage of the ponies' greed and sold the worthless Tran Stone for a large sum of money, then took back the Tran Stone for nothing.

Now those stones are all sold to other places at super low prices as start-up capital, and given to the first batch of ponies as so-called profits. The subsequent profits are the gold coins of those new ponies. It is just a typical Ponzi scheme, and the game continues until it can no longer be played.

As for how to get out of this situation, the Stars told the nobles that their trade route was just their own words. No one would believe them if they had seen it. So they asked the ponies to pick some representatives to go with them. But what could representatives who didn't know anything about this do? They angered the Storm King, who detained them all. Pirates are so unreasonable.

As for whether they believe it or not, it doesn't matter. The Storm King is real anyway. He can be found as long as he investigates carefully. Then he can join forces with other ponies and hold some of the representatives accountable for destroying the road, which will be another sum of gold coins.

Looking at this group of well-dressed aristocratic ponies, Qunxing Huanghuang couldn't help but smile.

"It's almost there, it's almost there. The more greedy you are, the more crazy the wave of resistance will become."