Chapter 322 The Theory of Development
“Grateful heart, thank you for having you...”
In the choir’s childlike singing, the believers who participated in today’s team building event of the Bright Church walked away one after another Go to the altar and put money in the donation box.
Frederick pushed a wheelchair behind the team. Françoise in the wheelchair put a few gold coins into the donation box. The local bishop behind the box nodded to him in thanks.
The sound of metal collision sounded, and the girl's pale face seemed to have a trace of blood.
It was Frederick's turn next. Instead of taking out the gold coins, he put in a folded note.
With a bright smile on his face, the bishop bowed 60° to Duke Wesson to thank him.
There are rumors in the world that Duke Wesson has never put a copper plate into the donation box, but every time he throws in the delivery coupon, it is worth a hundred gold.
When he walked out of the church, Frederick thought to himself why the church didn’t sell indulgences, otherwise he would buy two pounds and rob the church.
Outside the church is a snow-white beach. The tide has just ebbed at this time. Many locals walked out of the church and went to the beach to catch the sea.
The average height of the residents of this island is one head shorter than other places, whether due to genetics or other reasons.
The weather is quite good today, the temperature at noon is over 10 degrees Webster, there are not many clouds, and the sea breeze can only blow the hair on the side of the ears.
Françoise pointed to the beach, and Frederick pushed the wheelchair over.
Last winter, Françoise suffered from a very troublesome lung disease. If she walked too much or even talked too much, she would suffer from insufficient oxygen supply, dizziness and brain swelling, so she could only rest in a place with good air.
This island has a pleasant climate, fresh air, and rich aquatic products. It is easy to eat sea fish that are considered to have nourishing effects, so her family sent her here for recuperation.
Frederick pushed his wheelchair to the beach, and a crab not far away was pushed up by the waves.
Françoise’s servants laid out thick tarps and carpets, placed tea and snacks, and put in parasols.
Frederick helped Françoise from the wheelchair to the carpet, and the two sat down across the tea set and three layers of snack plates.
The waves were getting farther and farther away, the people rushing to the sea left with them, the servants also took a few steps back, and the world suddenly became quiet.
The two had a big argument through letters before, and Frederick didn't know what to say for a while.
After a while, he said slowly: "The swamps reclaimed in the lowland areas must not be used to grow tulips. Tulips today are beautiful bubbles, and they will disappear without a trace if you poke them."
Six or seven years ago, Frederick purchased thousands of hectares of swampland in the lowland areas through Françoise and Lilu. After one year of damming, two years of drainage, and three years of soil improvement, all the swampland became Good farmland.
Tulip sales were booming last year. Françoise wanted to use all the land to cultivate tulips, but Frederick naturally refused.
Nowadays, the demand for meat, eggs and milk in Wesson is growing rapidly. Frederick plans to build it into a livestock industry base, providing the territory with enough meat and cheese through convenient water transportation, and using livestock manure. When raising slimes, it is naturally impossible to go into the muddy waters of tulips.
However, Françoise insisted again and again, and Frederick refused without question, so the two quarreled. "Why?" Françoise asked in a low voice, "Why are tulips bubbles?"
Frederick replied: "What can tulips do? They can't be eaten or weaved. They have no other use except for viewing."
"This continent is willing to spend money on fun. There are not many people with big money. Most people will go hungry if they don’t budget carefully. Only a few people will pay for tulips in the end.”
“The most important thing is that tulips are plants and have a growth cycle. It doesn’t take long, you can plant a batch soon, and more and more will be sold on the market.”
“The price of a commodity is determined by the relationship between supply and demand in the market. Just like the price of grain, when there is a good harvest, the price of grain will be low, and in a bad harvest year, when there is less grain, the price of grain will be high.”
"The same is true for the price of tulips. Nowadays, more and more people and land are planting tulips, but the number of people who ultimately buy them has not increased, and the price continues to rise due to layer upon layer of resale."
"I speculate, When the tulip market becomes saturated and some people start selling at lower prices because they can’t buy them, the price of tulips will drop dozens or even hundreds of times in a short period of time.”
He saw it for the first time. The tulips were sent by Françoise when she wrote a letter nine years ago. At that time, this exotic flower had just spread from the east coast of the Inland Sea to the southern part of the Kingdom of Gaul through maritime trade in the Inland Sea, and soon spread to the north and lowlands. , grew well in the lowland areas, and then began to gradually become popular.
A few years ago, tulip cultivation technology achieved leapfrog development, new varieties continued to emerge, and this wave spread rapidly around.
It’s just that Frederick didn’t have that novelty and was not interested in tulips, and Maria brought Wesson’s popular trend to bird raising because she liked small animals, so there weren’t many in Wesson. I play this personally.
The Wesson State Department of Commerce is responsible for collecting economic information from various places, so the booming tulip market naturally came to Frederick's desk.
Frederick only glanced at it at that time. It had nothing to do with him. There were too many things in the territory, so he asked the Ministry of Commerce to continue to pay attention to it and then ignored it after using it to write papers.
The economy has its own laws. Regardless of whether the world has magic or not, the basic laws of supply and demand are the same.
Wesson's productivity has increased, but the theoretical guidance of economic activities has not kept up. Today's scholars lack foresight, and Frederick cannot ask too much for this.
For example, the phenomenon of supply and demand ratio and commodity prices is now known to many people, but there is no mature theory because no one can fully understand the relationship between value and price.
Françoise must be one of the people who didn't understand. After Frederick explained it, he could only shake his head. This kind of thing is really too much for the eldest lady who plays chess, calligraphy and painting all day long, and occasionally manages the manor. Stranger.
Frederick thought for a while, made up his mind and said: "I will live here next, and while I have time, I can calm down and write a book about business and trade."
According to the plan, he will next go to the Holy City to pay homage to the chief helmsman of the Church of Light, and then go to the Kingdom of Madeira and the Kingdom of Lisenberg to see the land that is not available in his "home" in the west of the continent.
Although the collapse of the tulip bubble may come now, if I can seize the opportunity to predict this phenomenon in my book, I may be able to promote the development of bourgeois political economics.
Françoise smiled when she heard that he was going to stay.
But the servants behind her were nervous. After all, Duke Wesson's reputation was there.
There were meetings at the construction site until ten o'clock in the evening for two consecutive days, which made me feel dizzy.
(End of this chapter)