The Fourth Financial Crisis

With the spirit stone coins in hand, Zhu Ziming could finally start to promote the construction of the official charity hall. However, just in the first step of choosing the address to open the charity hall, Zhu Ziming encountered difficulties again.

Since the Zhongzhou social security system reform pilot is completed, there will be only one official charity in the entire Haiya City. Therefore, the scale of this official charity will be very large, at least equivalent to dozens of the area of ​​the original Qingning Chamber of Commerce charity. times.

Even if the original Zhujia Chamber of Commerce headquarters still belongs to Zhu Ziming, it can only meet less than one-tenth of the land requirements.

Therefore, Zhu Ziming must acquire a large amount of land.

However, there are no fools in the chamber of commerce doing business in Haiya City. Everyone can see that the pilot reform of the Zhongzhou social security system in Haiya City is essentially a battle of gods between the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Haiya Sect.

Liu Hanxing is a good dragon crossing the river, but the Haiya Department is also a super local snake. If the Haiya Department is offended by selling land to Zhu Ziming, then this transaction will most likely be the last business of his chamber of commerce in Haiya City. .

Unless Liu Hanxing can uproot the Haiya system, who would dare risk his life to offend the overlord who has ruled Haiya City for seven thousand years?

This is not the most terrible thing.

As Zhu Ziming went around looking for people to buy land, Haiya City didn't know when rumors started to spread, saying that anyone who dared to sell land to the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce was openly going against Haiya City, and Haiya City would definitely make them pay. The cost of bleeding.

Such intimidating rumors made Zhu Ziming's acquisition of land more difficult. He ran around Haiya City several times, but failed to buy a piece of land.

Land in Haiya City was always at a premium, and the price of land was quite high. Now everyone knew that the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce had to acquire a large amount of land, so they all submitted astronomical quotations.

It would be best if Zhu Zi retreated knowing the difficulty. Even if he still chose to take action at all costs, he would still have an explanation for the Haiya Department. At worst, it would be a 50-50 split with the Haiya Department.

With eight million spirit stone coins being maliciously frozen by Haiya Bank, Zhu Ziming had very limited funds at his disposal. If he really accepted the blackmail from these profiteers in Haiya City, after buying the land, the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce would There is not much money left in the account.

Zhu Ziming had mortgaged his life and property by borrowing money at usury. Even if he wanted to continue borrowing money, no one would lend it to him.

With no other choice, Zhu Ziming had no choice but to find Yang Chenglong and ask him to come forward to urge the Haiya City Lord's Mansion to suppress these rumors that hindered the policies of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

He didn't have high hopes at first, but to his surprise, Yang Chenglong didn't shirk and actually paid a visit to the City Lord's Mansion with him.

When the two men arrived at the Haiya City Lord's Mansion "aggressively" and accused the Haiya Clan of maliciously spreading rumors and hindering the Zhongzhou social security system reform pilot, Han Fulai, who was responsible for receiving them, said with an innocent face that we in Haiya City did not spread rumors at all. , and even posted a notice refuting the rumors at the door of Haiya City Lord's Mansion.

Following Han Fulai's prompts, Zhu Ziming and Yang Chenglong indeed found the so-called rumor refuting announcement from the City Lord's Mansion. That announcement did exist and was even posted outside the back door of the City Lord's Mansion.

However, the location where the announcement was posted faced a secluded and deep alley. The total area of ​​the announcement was less than the size of an A4 piece of paper. There were also two vicious cultivators from the Haiya Sect guarding the area at all times. His eyes were fixed on the passing mortals, with an expression on his face that said, "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway."

This is not so much an announcement to refute the rumors as it is an official endorsement of the rumors.

Seeing this scene, Yang Chenglong could only regretfully say that since Haiya City had refuted the rumors, there was nothing he could do.

By now, Zhu Ziming was 100% sure that these rumors spreading around were not market rumors at all, but public opinions created by the Haiya City Lord's Mansion itself. However, in the face of Han Fulai's superb kicking skills that he had practiced for many years, he still couldn't With Yang Chenglong and Ma Kezhang as two backers who were unable to do anything, Zhu Ziming could not find a breakthrough to solve the problem.

So he had to investigate the source of the rumors himself.

Fortunately, the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce was also a local leader in Haiya City at that time, and it still had some connections in Haiya City. After a follow-up investigation, Zhu Ziming discovered that the source of the rumors was actually a few newsboys selling newspapers, and they all accepted strangers. The spiritual stone coins of cultivators spread various rumors while selling "Cultivating Financial Weekly".

When Zhu Ziming asked about the identity of the people behind these newsboys, they all had no idea. Even if Zhu Ziming did not hesitate to use his merits to lynch the newsboys, he could not torture out the mastermind. Unless Zhu Ziming could bring Haiya City to All newsboys must be under control, otherwise there will be no way to stop the spread of rumors.

However, Zhu Ziming did not sit still and wait for death. In order to get out of the predicament, he actually came up with the method of fighting fire with fire. He bribed a group of ruffians to spread the opposite public opinion, saying that the officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect had begun to prepare a list, and now they are blocking the reform of Zhongzhou's social security system. Those who will be killed will be completely liquidated by the Wuliang Sword Sect in the future.

This trick did have some effect at first.

But the good times did not last long. The next morning, the gangster sent by Zhu Ziming to spread rumors was killed by an unknown killer. The body was even thrown at the door of the original Zhujia Chamber of Commerce headquarters. This bloody Zhu Ziming's potential collaborators were frightened to death.

They didn't expect that the Haiya clan would actually dare to kill people on the street!

If the Haiya family wants to kill people without bearing karma, they must ask the Heyu Pavilion killer to take action. If the Heyu Pavilion killer gets rid of these mortal ruffians, the cost of each head may not be less than tens of thousands of spiritual stone coins. , so many local gangsters were eliminated at the same time, which shows that the Haiya Department paid at least 70,000 to 80,000 yuan in commission!

The Haiya Department will not hesitate to use thunderous means to get rid of these mortals. The message conveyed is very clear. Whoever dares to go against the Haiya Department in Haiya City will have only one word -

die!

Now Zhu Ziming finally understood what "folk songs don't compete with official songs". No matter how clever your communication methods are, if other people's official songs can physically eliminate the disseminators of folk songs like you, what can you do?

Could it be that you can still report it to the Haiya City Lord's Mansion and "Cultivation Financial Weekly"?

With the help of the Haiya Department, the spread of rumors in Haiya City became more and more intense. They soon spread to every corner of Haiya City and even spawned several different versions.

The most outrageous version of it even claimed that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce had secretly hired a prefectural-level golden elixir killer from Tingheyuge with huge sums of money. If anyone dared to sell land privately to Zhu Ziming, a beautiful killer would immediately come to kill him. Your whole family.

As for why he was a beauty killer, Zhu Ziming felt that this must be the result of the rumor spreaders deliberately adding fuel to the fire. After all, if you say that ordinary Heyuge killers can't mobilize the enthusiasm of ordinary people, stupid men and women, to spread gossip, it can be seen that these guys who spread rumors are quite professional!

Although rumors can only deceive those uninformed mortals, these rumors can spread so quickly, and the attitude of the Haiya Department has been clearly expressed. The Cultivation Chamber of Commerce that holds the real estate in Haiya City can also understand it.

As a result, the quotations of these chambers of commerce are getting higher and higher day by day, which means "if you like it, buy it, but if you don't, get out."

Seeing that conventional methods were no longer feasible, Zhu Ziming finally decided to use his money power in another way.

Although the financial resources of the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce are not on the same level as those of the Haiya Clan, Zhu Ziming still has millions of spirit stone coins in his hands, has Liu Hanxing as his backer, and is quite familiar with all the forces in Haiya City.

He knew that most of the major chambers of commerce in Haiya City were frightened by the pressure of the Haiya Clan and did not dare to openly do business with the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce. But as the saying goes, there will always be people who are eager to spend money and dare to take risks and do private business. .

Therefore, Zhu Ziming quickly found Shunfeng Warehouse, a small independent chamber of commerce that ran a warehouse business, using the old connections the Zhu family had in Haiya City.

Regardless of the size of the chamber of commerce that does business in Haiya City, each one has a goblin behind it.

In the early years, Shunfeng Warehouse was also the private property of an elder of the Haiya Sect in the foundation-building period, specializing in providing a temporary foothold for both passengers and goods for foreign chambers of commerce. It owned a considerable piece of land in Haiya City. Without the acquiescence of the Haiya Sect, ordinary people would The Chamber of Commerce is not qualified to engage in this kind of hugely profitable business of collecting rent on the ground.

Because the geographical location is pretty good and the price is relatively close to the people, although the hardware conditions of Shunfeng Warehouse are very simple, the business is quite good and it is widely welcomed by major suppliers of Haiya Chamber of Commerce. When He Mingyuan came for the first time on behalf of Luoxia City Branch When reporting on his duties in Haiya City, he and his subordinate Li Feng temporarily stayed in this warehouse, which is known for its high cost performance.

As the former main supplier of Haiya Chamber of Commerce, Zhujia Chamber of Commerce has of course dealt with Shunfeng Warehouse and knew that Shunfeng Warehouse was one of the landowners of Haiya City and had fallen into operating difficulties.

This kind of business that rents land definitely does not have any operating risks. The reason why it ran into operating difficulties was mainly because Hong Chen, the big backer behind the SF Express warehouse and the former elder of the Internal Affairs Hall of the Haiya Sect, was killed by Shouyuan more than ten years ago. Died from exhaustion.

This Elder Hong of the Haiya Sect is not from a cultivating family, but from an extremely ordinary grassroots monk. Elder Hong’s lifelong wish is to develop his family into a real cultivating family, and does not seek to be as glorious as the four major families in Haiya City. , at least to the level of second-rate families like the Haiya City Zhu family and Haiya City Chen family.

In order to realize his dream of rising up the family's class, Elder Hong not only made a lot of money through Shunfeng Warehouse during his rule, but also spent a lot of money to buy mortal women to enrich his harem and expand the family's branches. He seemed to be tireless until his death. The stallion has produced thousands of descendants.

It is said that when Elder Hong was alive, Shunfeng Warehouse almost only had female employees.

After every female employee joins the company, Elder Hong will intentionally or unintentionally hint to the other person that only by obeying the unspoken rules can they continue to work in the warehouse, in order to coerce the female employee to do something for him. Even Elder Hong’s most common saying is "You I don’t want to lose this job either.” It once became the most famous workplace joke in Haiya City.

Although Elder Hong's wishes are good, the highly solidified class in the world of cultivation is not so easy to break.

Even though Elder Hong has been working day and night to create humans, the probability of birth with cultivation qualifications is only one in a thousand. Among the thousands of descendants of Elder Hong, only one cultivator with inferior spiritual roots has been born. , and finally reluctantly joined the Haiya Sect, and inherited the Shunfeng Warehouse business after Elder Hong's death.

This person is Hong Shiqi, the current boss of Shunfeng Warehouse and a third-level Qi Refining monk.

Although the Shunfeng Warehouse business is relatively small, it is still relatively small compared to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce and the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce. Even if its franchise right to open a warehouse in Haiya City is not included, and only tangible assets such as land are considered, the total assets of Shunfeng Warehouse are The scale is also as large as 600,000 to 700,000 spirit stone coins, which is simply not something that a mere monk in the early stage of Qi refining can cover.

Fortunately, Elder Hong had just left not long ago, and the tea was not completely cold yet. Under the care of Elder Hong's relatives, friends, and disciples, no one dared to touch the cheese of Shunfeng Warehouse for the time being.

However, as Elder Hong passed away, the old relationship withered away. The protective umbrella of Shunfeng Warehouse within the Haiya system was also declining at a speed visible to the naked eye. This was reflected in the warehouse operation, that is, the hardware conditions of the warehouse were deteriorating. Even the ascetic-like subordinates under He Mingyuan couldn't help complaining about the very difficult conditions at Shunfeng Warehouse.

Hong Shiqi, the current owner of Shunfeng Warehouse, is certainly aware of these situations.

He is now planning to barely maintain the business, trying to recover as much cost as possible through the warehouse before Hong Chen's remaining power fades away, and realize the remnants of his ancestors as soon as possible, so it is definitely impossible to continue to spend money to renovate the hardware facilities of the warehouse.

Precisely because he understood the operating difficulties faced by Shunfeng Warehouse, Zhu Ziming secretly contacted Hong Shiqi through his old relationship with the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce, hoping to acquire the land of Shunfeng Warehouse at a high price without telling the Haiya Clan, and before the Haiya Clan could react, he secretly contacted Hong Shiqi. This deal was a waste of time, and Hong Shiqi was asked to take the money and run away.

Of course, Zhu Ziming also knew that Haiya City was full of informants from the Haiya Department.

Therefore, he would definitely not contact Hong Shiqi alone. Instead, in the name of visiting various chambers of commerce, he publicly visited all the reputable chambers of commerce in Haiya City to cover up the secret transaction with Hong Shiqi. The place where the banquet was held was designated by Zhu Ziming It was fair and square that Haiya Pavilion was chosen.

By the time Hong Shiqi came to the banquet, Zhu Ziming had sent away seven or eight waves of guests who were used as cover. When Hong Shiqi entered the box, Zhu Ziming once again followed the previous practice and implemented strict soundproofing restrictions on his box. In Zhu Ziming's view, no one should be able to see his true goal after he has released so many smoke screens. As long as he negotiates the land transfer contract by cutting off the land first and then announcing it later, even the Haiya faction can't do anything to him.

However, what Zhu Ziming didn't know was that his every move in Haiya Pavilion had not escaped careful surveillance.

In a private house not far from Haiya Pavilion, Han Xinhe was chatting with Yang Lu while paying attention to the situation in Haiya Pavilion. Han Fulai, as his uncle's follower, also sat beside them. As for Qing Qing Lin Musen, a newly recruited priest from the Ning Chamber of Commerce, was wearing a bamboo hat and standing behind Yang Lu like a security guard.

While several people were chatting, there was a fluorescent mysterious array running on the floor under their feet. Through this array, all the sounds in Zhu Ziming's box were transmitted in detail!