The Fourth Financial Crisis

Seeing Liu Hanxing stepping in to announce the break-up of the meeting for Yuntianhua, the representatives of the major factions immediately booed. However, this was the territory of the Wuliang Sword Sect after all, and it was impossible for them to stop Yuntianhua from running away.

Yuntianhua gave a bitter smile, and without saying anything else, he packed up his things and prepared to leave.

Although he is the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, he is also a golden elixir-level elder of the Wuliang Sword Sect and a junior of the head of Lin Jianxing. He is not qualified to discuss friendship with his peers like Li Qingyang.

So the press conference of the new Lingshi Reserve Bank Governor ended hastily, bringing almost no effective information.

Despite this, there are still many people with a sensitive political sense who realize that whether it is the domineering Vice President Liu Hanxing or the openly provocative monk Wanhua Valley, they represent a change in the attitude of all parties towards the Lingshi Reserve Bank. The Lingshi Reserve Bank under the leadership of Yuntianhua will definitely be completely different from the Lingshi Reserve Bank under the leadership of Li Qingyang.

Although Yang Lu could see that the crisis in the world of cultivation was approaching, he had nothing to do. After all, he was a businessman in Haiya City. Even if there was a solution, he could not implement it, not to mention that he had no clue at the moment.

Just the day after Li Qingyang's death, Yang Lu received a message from his master Xu Yannan summoning him.

Although strictly speaking, Xu Yannan could not do much to help the Qingning Chamber of Commerce during this period, but after Li Qingyang's death, Xu Yannan, as the flagship figure of the younger generation of the Golden Blade Sect, has become the largest backstage of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. Although the Qingning Chamber of Commerce already has many allies, when it comes to real problems, the nature of the allies and the backstage are obviously different.

After confirming that Miss Li's mood was okay, Yang Lu immediately rushed to the Lingshi Reserve Bank location without stopping.

Xu Yannan's office was still the same as before. Compared with other cultivation bosses in Haiya City, it looked extremely simple. When Yang Lu arrived, Xu Yannan was already waiting for him behind his desk.

Seeing Yang Lu, a junior whom Li Qingyang was highly optimistic about, Xu Yannan sighed and said, "You should have been mentally prepared for President Li's matter, so please convey my condolences to Miss Qingning for me."

Yang Lu nodded, and then asked about the business: "Master invited me here today, but do you have any advice?"

Xu Yannan took a deep breath and spoke slowly: "President Li is the mainstay of our Golden Knife Sect. The current fourth president of Lingshi Reserve Bank, Yuntianhua, although his cultivation level is higher than that of President Li, he is also close to the Golden Knife Sect. However, his prestige and ability are far inferior to those of Mr. Li. I think it may be difficult for him to face the strong pressure from Chief Lin..."

Hearing what Xu Yannan said, Yang Lu was also a little worried and said: "If that's the case, will there be any changes inside the Golden Knife Sect?"

Xu Yannan waved his hand and said: "The situation can be maintained for the time being. After all, the organizational form of our Golden Blade Sect is completely different from that of other sects. Most of the sect members work as consultants and professionals in various sects and chambers of commerce. They themselves are similar to casual cultivators. As long as the alliance exists, President Li is only the spiritual leader of the Golden Blade Sect, not a dictator like ordinary sect leaders."

Hearing what Xu Yannan said, Yang Lu couldn't help but ask a question that had been in his mind for a long time: "There are thousands of sects in Zhongzhou, why is it that only our Golden Blade Sect has such a unique organizational form?"

Xu Yannan smiled and explained: "You should also know that when the Golden Blade Sect was passed down to President Li Qingyang 500 years ago, the entire sect was already a single generation for ten generations. Although he was lucky enough to be appreciated by President Lu, all the visible territory in Zhongzhou at that time All of them have been occupied by major cultivation sects. If Mr. Li wants to complete the goal of reviving the Golden Knife Sect by his predecessors, he can only affiliate himself with a certain vassal sect of the Wuliang Sword Sect and become a vassal sect of the Wuliang Sword Sect. This is obviously not what it is. A long-term solution…”

Xu Yannan's words made Yang Lu couldn't help but think of the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce and the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce.

The Chen family of Haiya City and the Zhu family of Haiya City were both cultivator families that prospered during the Third Lingshi Financial Crisis 500 years ago, which completely coincided with the rise of Li Qingyang. These two families relied on their strong financial resources and did not integrate into Haiya City. Within the Yaxi system, two independent chambers of commerce were established on their own, becoming independent forces that made a living in Haiya City.

This business model, which operates independently under the banner of local cultivation forces, has now revealed huge drawbacks.

The Chen Family Chamber of Commerce and the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce can become independent forces in Haiya City, mainly because their ancestors once helped the Haiya Family survive the third Lingshi Financial Crisis. However, as the older generations of the two chambers of commerce gradually Withered, the favor accumulated in the early years gradually faded away, and the situation of these two chambers of commerce became very embarrassing.

In the Jiuzhou cultivation world where the return on capital continues to be low, the landowners of the Haiya family have no surplus food, so it is impossible for the upstream and downstream chambers of commerce to make big money without any reason. The suppliers and distributors who are able to make a living on the Haiya Sect's territory are basically the Haiya Sect's strategic allies and strategic partners, and they are all more or less intentionally taken care of by the Haiya Sect.

In other words, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce can make money mainly because the Haiya Department wants you to make money!

In this case, not receiving preferential treatment means being destined to be eliminated.

Therefore, as long as the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce has a good candidate with cultivation qualifications, it will use its money power to get them to join the aloof cultivation forces such as Golden Knife Sect, Extreme North Six Sects, Luoxia Sect, etc., and establish its own independent relationship network.

If it weren't for the fact that the Wuliang Sword Sect couldn't be entered simply with money, the Chen family would even try to get their own children into the Wuliang Sword Sect at all costs. Only in this way can the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce gain the attention of the Haiya Clan and avoid being completely marginalized by the Haiya Clan.

The Zhujia Chamber of Commerce is relatively not so lucky.

They don't have the courage of the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce, which is unwilling to let go of their children without trapping wolves. As long as the family has a cultivator, they will directly join the Haiya Sect.

To make matters worse, in the past 100 years, they did not have any seedlings with cultivation qualifications, which caused the relationship network established by the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce in the cultivation world to be completely unsustainable.

As we all know, the population of cultivators in Kyushu's cultivation world only accounts for one thousandth of the population of Kyushu.

If you don't engage in a special profession like maritime trade, ordinary people in Haiya City will never be able to visit Tianshu City next door once in their lifetime.

For families like the Zhu family and the Chen family, if there were no cultivators in charge, they would not be able to use the escaping light to visit relatives and friends, nor would they be able to communicate emotionally through communication spells. The relationship network they had worked so painstakingly would soon fall apart.

Because of this, the current Zhujia Chamber of Commerce was forced to be affiliated under Lu Anping's name and seek the protection of Master Lu.

However, the white gloves of becoming a boss are undoubtedly dancing on the tip of a knife. You have to offend many people on behalf of the boss and do a lot of dirty work. Just because others can't offend Lu Anping doesn't mean they can't offend the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce. This is why Yang Lu can completely wipe out the 500-year-old Zhujia Chamber of Commerce with a little trick.

All in all, small independent cultivation forces that do not have their own territory, such as the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce and the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce, are undoubtedly very fragile and can easily fall into decline and be lost in the long river of history.

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