Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 801: Futures contracts and Muria civilization
Lower Republic, Antwerp.
Boom!
The wooden door of the tavern was pushed abruptly, and a rough figure waved an order form in his hand, rushing in fiercely.
Without waiting for the eyes to adapt to the slightly dim indoor environment, he opened his mouth and eagerly shouted:
"Mr. James, hurry! Hurry! Do you have any tulip bulbs? The Sack Empire has a big order!"
The middle-aged businessman who was hiding in a corner of the pub, sitting around drinking with a few of his companions, hurriedly put down the glass in his hand when he saw someone coming:
"It's Mr. Fitch. The common variety I harvested in September is 400 kilograms, and there are ten treasures. The price..."
Currently, there are two main types of tulip trading on the market: ordinary varieties and rare ones.
Ordinary varieties are priced by weight, while treasures are priced by head. The price between them is even greater than the difference between copper fur and golden lion.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Fitch, who rushed in, didn't even listen to the price, and waved his hand directly:
"I want it all! Where are the goods? Delivery soon!"
The business came to the door and naturally couldn't care about drinking any more. The tulip merchant named James hurriedly dropped his glass and followed the other party and rushed out.
The remaining businessmen who belonged to the Tulip Guild continued to drink and chat.
"It's another fortune. What a pity! The price of tulips has continued to rise recently, but the goods in our hands have almost sold out.
Moreover, the breeding cycle of both rare and common varieties is too long. No matter how high the market price, our supply in a short period of time will have a limit. "
"It would be nice if I knew the market conditions a long time ago. Even if the price was a premium, I had to purchase more in September."
"Oh! Who said no!"
All of you here are experts. It is very clear that there are only two ways for tulips to reproduce, one is to reproduce through seeds, and the other is to reproduce through tulip rhizomes.
If propagated by seeds, it will take 7-12 years to get an ideal bulb. It is never flowers that are traded in the bulk tulip market, but bulbs that are easy to store and transport.
Corm propagation is simpler.
The bulbs of tulips are like onions. As long as they are planted in the ground, bright flowers will bloom in April and May every year, and the flowering period is only about ten days.
In September of each year, new bulbs will grow from the roots of tulips, and the new bulbs will at most double their size when they are planted. If priced by weight, the value also doubles.
Therefore, no new products will be launched until September next year to meet the growing demand for tulips from customers.
"Hey! Guys, I have an idea to share with you."
Suddenly, one of the tulip merchants in the room spoke up, and after seeing everyone else looking over, he said mysteriously:
"Everyone, the biggest problem we face right now is the imbalance between supply and demand for tulips.
However, if we put ‘next year’s output’, pay attention! It’s the ‘output in September next year’, which will be put on the market in the form of a ‘guild standard sale and purchase agreement’...
A clear agreement will be made that when the tulip bulbs are harvested, they must be delivered at the current price. Isn’t this the best of both worlds? "
At first, the other people were at a loss and didn't understand how the things still in the ground could be used for trading, but when they slowly figured out what he meant, the eyes of a table of people suddenly lit up.
Unconsciously lowered their voices and said excitedly:
"This can be done, second!"
"Secondary!"
"...."
Although they don't have this concept yet, the world's first "futures contract" is destined to be released soon.
One thought of heaven, one thought of hell, oh, the great "Golden Lord" bless!
......
The Cathedral of St. Ivan’s city centre has now been renamed "St. Ivan’s Cathedral."
An independent temple was filled with students of all ages, and the professor in black uniform knocked on the blackboard:
"Come on, let's review the economics basics learned in the last class. Which student will tell you what are the factors that determine the price of a commodity?
Well, Mr. Osmond raised his hand the highest. Come on. "
A young man with short brown hair stood up excitedly and talked in the eyes of everyone:
"There are four main factors that determine the price. The first is cost, which determines the bottom line of the price; the second is the relationship between supply and demand. The stronger the demand, the less the supply, the higher the price;
The third is the information environment where buyers and sellers are located. The more information buyers have, the more cost-effective products they can obtain; the fourth is efficiency, with fewer intermediate links..."
The "Galliott National University" located in the suburbs is still under construction, but in line with the principle of the Grand Duke, the first batch of students has already been enrolled.
The faculty and staff overcame the hardware difficulties and borrowed part of the rooms of the "Black Iron Cross Church" cathedral as classrooms, and started teaching ahead of schedule.
At this stage, the "National University" is positioned as the highest institution in the Principality. It has a total of seven disciplines including liberal arts (including literature, history, philosophy, and art), law, finance, education, science and engineering, agriculture and forestry, and medicine.
Among them, science and engineering, medicine, liberal arts, and finance are the main subjects, with both industry, university and research.
Moreover, the National University has entered the pan-continental organization "Red Maple Leaf College Alliance" tentative list. According to the tradition of the college alliance, some outstanding talents in addition to the regular disciplines have the opportunity to be introduced into the extraordinary road.
Although the extraordinary power in the New World is far from being as mysterious as the relatively peaceful Old World, it is also a power that most ordinary people can expect in their entire lives, both because of knowledge and resources.
In addition.
Although the "National University" has been established for a short period of time, its faculty is already among the best in the world.
Art, history, science and engineering, agriculture and forestry, and medicine are all witches’ traditional superior projects. The witches who come to the Principality by the "Truth School" can be called a fish in water.
Although the conditions of the school need to be improved, the witches never thought that they would be able to enter and leave the church of the true **** in their entire lives, and the priests all greeted each other with smiles. The spiritual pleasure is no different from the material salary. NS.
The wizards of the "Mechanical Immortal School" gave the "Engineering" tremendous support. Even if the extraordinary part is eliminated, what is left is the most cutting-edge dry goods of this era.
Dr. Taylor of the "Visaari School", Leon, the master of potions, and the students of Aiwen in the "Tree of Life School", all have profound accomplishments in the fields of medicine or agriculture and forestry.
Even in the field of finance and economics, Ivan also captured the kingdom of Ilya, the heir to the handful of top capitalists.
The finale was Irvine, the great wizard and archduke who acted as the principal, with a far-sighted vision that surpassed the times.
"Galliott National University" has the foundation to become a world-class university.
Of course.
While improving the quality of the population, the pursuit of quantity has not been put down. The performance appraisal of "Mother of Water" Mellow began in August last year, and has successfully completed a net population increase of 5% by August this year. Great goal.
In addition to the government's macro guidance during this process, the Nemansians, who have a majority of male populations, and the Atrians, who have a majority of female populations, are also rapidly merging.
The Principality is making great strides towards the grand blueprint of a single subject nation.
Ivan also gave a new appointment to Count Milan Snette, as the Huron son-in-law, as the Minister of National Integration and Chief Astrologer of the Principality.
At the same time, thanks to the continuous urging of the "rest trees" in the inland areas on a large scale, they have completely transformed the interior of the continent into a state where the birth of spirits is forbidden.
Together with the full-scale culling of the werewolves on the existing spirits and ghosts, it may not take half a year before the Principality’s "Westward Expansion Project" can be officially launched.
In addition to the inherent "Black Sea Coastal Area", "Smashed Star Sea Coastal Area", and the "Elbert Mountains" full of gold mines.
In addition, the "Upper Itasca Valley" on the south bank of the Six Dalian Lakes in the central part, the lower reaches of the central rivers to the "Lower Itasca Valley" on the southern coastline, and the "Midwestern Great Area" which crosses the main basin of the Itaska River. "Plain area" can also start the first phase of development.
Starting from the most essential and livable parts of each area, we will fully explore the potential of this land from point to point.
At that time, don’t say that the population growth rate is 5%, it is 10%, and 15% is also in places where resettlement can be made.
In addition.
With the victory of the international war, the international status of Tulip and the Principality has been steadily improved, and a large amount of investment and personnel have poured into the Principality from all over the world.
Alvin also firmly grasped the people's livelihood field and began to open up the free market in other economic fields.
He knows very well that if the national economy does not become a stagnant pool, it is necessary to give full play to the subjective initiative of everyone and maintain the basic rules of the game for those who are capable and who are mediocre.
The students who are in class are one of his guarantees for maintaining the established rules and his own dominance, or they are the royal party firmly united by the monarch Ivan.
Each student is an extension of his dominance, and as the future spreads to all walks of life, his dominance will reach the most basic level of the principality.
The "Principality of Galliot", a mainland country, has suddenly become one of the emerging countries with the most development potential and competitiveness in this era.
In the steadily advancing construction of all aspects of the country, time suddenly came to the spring of 192 years in the Haiyuan calendar.
White Swan Castle.
"That's it. Those ghosts that are obviously from ancient civilizations have almost blocked the entire outer space. If we don't break through their defenses, we don't want to leave Hrag.
The most important thing is ~IndoMTL.com~ We don't even know which ancient civilization they came from? What is the intention to block the planet? Are you still out of control? ...."
Ivan and Jeros, who had finally returned from Falettis with Stephanie, sat opposite each other. On the table between them was a fist-sized weird thing that looked like a wooden "walnut kernel".
It is the core of the "Scaverer" brought back from space.
Ivan knew that this should be some kind of "chip"-like controller, but in the absence of comparison information, it is not easy to interpret it.
Jeros, who has been frowning since seeing this thing, squeezed his forehead and said slowly:
"This kind of stuff...maybe I know where it came from."
Slap——!
Jeros snapped his fingers as he spoke, and [Witchcraft Garden·Uluk Temple] opened.
"I may not have told you that the third-age "Muria civilization" in ancient civilizations is best at biotechnology!"