When Jenkins and Dolores walked up to the starting point of the red carpet under the towering stone steps of the theater while talking, Dolores hesitated and signaled that she wanted to hold Jenkins' arm.
No matter how stupid Jenkins was, he knew what it meant. The itinerary this afternoon and evening was a bit out of the ordinary, and he didn't want to give the girl the wrong signal here.
But before he could figure out how to politely refuse and come up with an alternative, Dolores had already taken the initiative to pull him back. Now Jenkins doesn't have to worry about it anymore, because he can't shake Her Royal Highness's arm away.
"Why are you frowning?"
When she walked into the resplendent hall from the door, Dolores asked.
"I'm having some trouble. The girl selling flowers just now is not a girl selling flowers. Well... To be more precise, although she is indeed selling flowers, it's not her job or part-time job, it's just a disguise."
Jenkins has the priesthood of [Protector of the Flower Girl]. Although the attached priesthood abilities are useless, at least it can be used to distinguish whether it is a flower girl.
He couldn't do anything in public just now, and he didn't know who the girl was after, so he only said it now.
He originally thought that after leaving the maelstrom of Nolan, his luck would be better, but he ran into trouble on the first day he came to Loen. This made him have to think about whether his arrival caused Nolan's frequent accidents in the past six months, or whether Nolan's frequent accidents affected his luck.
"No, no, you don't need to solve it. Dolores, just watch the show here seriously. The girl just now is just an ordinary person, even if we don't need to worry about it."
He hesitated for a moment and didn't express his other conclusion. He thought that the flower seller just now might not even be a girl, it was most likely a man with similar dwarfism and very good makeup skills.
Of course, this is just a feeling, there is no evidence to support it.
The ticket Dolores bought was of course a box. As a princess, she didn't need to be crowded in the rows of seats below like "ordinary" audiences.
The decoration and service of this theater are even better than Nolan's Royal Opera House. Although Jenkins is not very interested in opera, he likes the huge sofa very much.
To be honest, it is already equivalent to a single bed.
The name of the opera is [Crime of a Fraudster], and it is a very classic traditional repertoire. Nolan's Silver Jasmine Opera Company occasionally performed the play, though Jenkins hadn't seen it.
Speaking of scammers, none of the contemporary people can avoid the topic of [Fabry Scam]. Even though this matter has been concluded and concluded in January of this year, because of the kingdom's financial//departmental reform and the rise of church banks, this non-existent lady is still one of the most talked about figures in major newspapers one.
"I always thought it was a scam without any technical content. Anyone with time can do what I did. If you don't count the cost of the stamps I forged, there is no problem in completing the whole scam by one person .”
While waiting for the opening, Jenkins said to Dolores that the two had just talked about Fabry for some reason. Of course, both Dolores and Julia knew what was going on, and they had heard Jenkins complain about how troublesome it was, even before Jenkins reported himself.
"Actually, it's not easy to think of this attention. Then, in your opinion, is there any new type of deception that can be called complicated?"
asked Dolores, squinting at the cat on Jenkins' lap, for the cat was looking at her too, in a very human way.
Jenkins didn't notice what Chocolate was looking at, he just thought Dolores was asking a good question. Thinking that Her Royal Highness is now taking over the newly established financial//department of the kingdom, he felt that he had to answer seriously, so he thought carefully and replied:
"In my opinion, the so-called highest level of fraud is finance itself. But if you want to be more specific..."
He thought of the tulips Dolores kept in the greenhouse and the flower girl he met just now, so he continued:
"There are no ready-made cases, but we can make some virtual assumptions and bold deduction."
He reached into his pocket and took out some flower seeds under the expectant eyes of the cat. It was a gift from Dolores to Jenkins, the seeds of those tulips in the greenhouse. Dolores had grown some of the oddly colored tulips from this seed, so she gave some of the rest to Jenkins.
Chocolate lost interest at the sight of such a thing, jumped up from Jenkins' lap and jumped onto the table, ready to start a heroic fight with the dessert on the table.
"Why don't we take tulips as an example. The premise is that in the current season of Ruen, tulips are absolutely precious flowers, and some tulips with rare colors and special flower shapes can even be sold to the middle class. sky-high price."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Her Royal Highness, who nodded, and Julia added:
"Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is indeed a realistic assumption that nobles will not be stingy with such high-end flowers, especially in the current season."
"That's good, and it is well known that due to mosaic disease, special stripes and colors are prone to appear on the petals of tulips. And these flowers are regarded by the public as rare flowers with high prices, and merchants and markets agree with this view .Although tulips are expensive, not all tulips can be sold at sky-high prices, and the assumption and deduction I made is to use tulips to make quick profits in a short period of time.”
Seeing that neither the princess nor the maid spoke, Jenkins organized his language while recalling:
"This is actually not difficult, but it requires a lot of manpower to supervise the market. The first step is to stir up the value of tulips among the nobles, and make the general public recognize that tulips are an extremely rare flower. This is not difficult to do. It is understood that a large-scale auction, some trustworthy trustees, and a few newspapers with sufficient weight will do.
The second step is to take advantage of the hot topic of tulips created by the society, guide local businessmen to pay attention to this flower step by step, and recommend an example of making a fortune by selling tulips. This is actually not difficult, still need newspapers, and then controlled merchants and a large amount of liquidity.
The third step is very simple. As long as businessmen make profits, they will follow suit, and as long as followers make money, more people will follow suit. When a certain scale is formed, it is not only the wealthy businessmen who notice that this kind of flower can be profitable. Small shopkeepers with a little wealth and some middle-class people who are willing to take risks will all participate in this game.
And the leader of this game just needs to constantly control public opinion to make people believe that the price of tulips will only rise or not, and then exit at the right time-this is very important, so there is absolutely no problem in making a fortune. "