In early September, the Lowland Republic was already filled with feverish excitement and the scent of money.
The time for harvesting bulbs had just arrived, and countless people stood waiting beside the limited tulip fields, waving Futures Contracts in their hands.
"Don't grab them! These are mine, my two hundred kilograms! Haha, I'm rich!"
"My ten premium specimens! I made eight hundred Gold Lions, eight hundred Gold Lions!"
Among the shouting crowds were handicraft workshop owners, small factory owners, and farm owners holding massive bank loans.
The real-economy revitalization plan approved as soon as Constance Harun took office as the Republic's Prime Minister had clearly failed to reach the places it was meant to.
There were merchants, citizens, sailors, and workers with some savings; even craftsmen, attendants, and maids who had almost no assets at all and had merely gone into debt to follow the trend.
This was because the "Futures Contract" launched by the Tulip Guild last year was essentially an "air trade." Both buyer and seller used their own credit as collateral and agreed to trade at the prevailing price once the bulbs were dug up in September this year.
And since the total number of tulip bulbs in the fields was limited, many people waited directly at the field edges with their delivery slips.
Only after watching the bulbs being dug up and stuffed into their bags with their own eyes did they finally feel secure.
Besides that,
there were also many foreigners from neighboring countries among the crowd, all foreign speculators drawn in by the aggressive promotion of the Eye of Wealth.
It could be said that the tulip craze had long since spread beyond the Lowland Republic alone and become a worldwide carnival of capital.
It was still too early to say who would be