Chapter 23 Joint Fruits

Author: Carp and Carp Immortal

Chapter 23 Joint Fruits

[Tsk tsk tsk tsk, you will not win, you will be a good match, Mr. Preparation for the Grand Master.], Seeing that he really won the prize, Apollonia sent a mockery from the void, [You don’t want the fortune before, but now you can’t hide your face if you speak again.]

"How could I know so fast? Is this too accurate? Why did I hit a critical hit at once and hit a full 2.7 million taels?"

[Blame me? You obviously blame yourself for not trusting me. And if I have a numerology, I can still get shot? I have told you that understanding the hexagram is more important than the hexagram. Don’t blame anyone else, right?]

"Shangluo Immortal Master." Palka looked at him with a look of difficulty and asked in a voice, "Can you promise us? Can you save Chichen Itza? Save the Mayans? If you are too busy and cannot give us some advice, can you bring a message to your commander and find a great immortal master to save us?"

"Um"

Shangluo thought about it. The court must have known this kind of thing. It was easy to help Maya city-states restore the country, but the court turned a blind eye to it. This must have had some profound meaning, and he did not intend to easily get involved.

However, based on personal emotions, he still wanted to help the person who invited him to have a cream cocoa for an afternoon. After all, he also helped himself verify Apollonia's reliability. But Apollonia is really too reliable.

The surroundings are empty. The huge office has been moved out, and all those who can be moved out to pay the bill have been paid out. The business of the entire Chichen Itza Hotel has also been a lot of decline, and their lives are not good.

"Or, that's it." Shang Luo raised his head, "I want to ask Maya why this is the case first. From my perspective, all the 17 Maya city-states went bankrupt at the same time. This is a very strange thing. What is the reason for all this?"

"Then, it's not a long time to speak. Master Shang Xian, have you ever eaten bananas?"

"Banana? Eat."

"No, you haven't eaten it." Palka looked into his eyes, "To be precise, you haven't eaten the real 'banana'. Do you find it strange that many banana-flavored drinks and banana-flavored snacks and the 'banana' you usually eat are completely different?"

Shang Luo thought for a while and nodded.

He does have this feeling. For example, banana-flavored potato chips, banana-flavored candies, and banana-flavored soda, which tastes completely different from the bananas you usually eat.

"Then why is this?"

"Because the 'banana' has long been extinct. 37 years ago, a sudden infectious disease swept the world's banana plantation industry. All banana plantations in 17 Mayan city-states died in just three months. All bananas around the world were extinct within one year. Now there are only a few 'grained orchards' in the Yanping County Prince in Nanyang. They strictly isolated the outside world and retained several real banana trees. The annual output is very limited, and most of them are used as tributes and gifts to give to people."

"Why did the world become extinct so quickly? Bananas are not human, and bananas don't run away."

"Because bananas are different from other crops. The banana industry was born on a coincidence - because all bananas are actually replicas of the same banana. The banana was called 'big bark banana' and was discovered by a captain named Mike from a small island in Jamaica. The banana is a rare triploid seedless banana - full flesh, high sweetness and aroma, but cannot reproduce naturally because of the lack of seeds. Since then, 'big bark banana' has been planted in tropical regions around the world, and all bananas are cultivated through asexual reproduction."

"No wonder those banana-flavored snacks are a little wrong now. It turns out that they taste like big bark bananas. Is big bark bananas extinct very suddenly?"

"Yes. That was really too sudden. Some people said it was in Africa, some said it was in Southeast Asia, and some said it was in Maya. But that was no longer important. The impact of 37 years ago destroyed the global banana industrial park. There was no banana entering the consumer market for four years in the world."

"But there was no harvest in one season, which will really make you all go bankrupt?" Shang Luo still couldn't understand why it went bankrupt.

Maya gave birth to a very ancient civilization, which is very suitable for agricultural production. There are favorable conditions for rain and heat in the dense rain forest, and with the current blessing of agriculture, the yield has soared. It is hard to imagine that Maya will collapse all due to the disappearance of a banana variety.

"Of course it is impossible under normal circumstances. The warehouse in Chichen Itza was designed for combat readiness. When we resisted the Spanish invaders, we could hold on to the castle for several years without going out-but at that time, all Mayan city-states accepted the "New Dawn" plan of United Fruit. United Fruit purchased bananas at a price slightly higher than the market price, and it was almost unlimited.

"The Mayans are excellent farmers. We completed the plantation transformation of almost all lands within five years, and all large bark bananas were replanted. The banana yield was 50 times that of the beginning. However, the combined fruits were still not satisfied, and the purchase price increased instead of falling. As a result, the final waiters also invested in the cultivation of bananas."

Palka fell into a meaningful pause. Everything behind it was self-evident. When the big bark banana quickly became extinct, the impact it caused was conceivable.

"And then you went bankrupt?"

"At that time, I came back from studying in Nanjing Imperial College. After returning from my studies, I originally wanted to show my skills, and the commodity futures trading market was a very new thing at that time. I thought this kind of "futures trading" could bring prosperity to the planting industry, but to meet the standards of futures trading, it is necessary to plant high-quality bananas. So under my leadership, Mayazhu City State and Nanyang Lanfang Company jointly established United Fruits to coordinate the production of bananas in Mayazhu City State. Unexpectedly, United Fruits actually turned their backs.

"After that banana extinction, we defaulted on a large scale in the commodity futures trading market, and even the insurance companies were bankrupt. Mayan countries were in a financial crisis and had to sell their countries to pay off their debts. You should know that the size of each Mayan city-state is only similar to that of a county in Kinai, and Chichen Itza is only a slightly larger county. Our size is really unbearable to withstand the historical impact, and with a large population, we can only trade the country in exchange for aid, and in the end there was no major trouble. Now we are planting another banana found a few years later, but I can never go back to what I was like."

"Why don't you report to the court?"

"Are you kidding? Even if you sell your country through bankruptcy and treason, I am still the king of Chichen Itza. But if you don't say that you have a big deal of 1,000 pounds, you will not break the sky if you really want to get into Yujing? At that time, none of our 17 city-states will be able to escape and will all be removed from the ban. Fortunately, everything will be resolved peacefully in the end. The livelihood of the people is the same as before, and no major events that alarm the emperor."
Chapter completed!