The Fourth Financial Crisis

Su Yuanfeng didn't know the details of Yang Lu, so naturally this kind of taken-for-granted suggestion would have no results.

After hearing Su Yuanfeng's suggestion, Yang Lu resolutely refused: "Our Qingning Chamber of Commerce has a shallow foundation and relies on these small tricks to make a living within the Haiya system. There is definitely no reason to sell these tricks. In addition, we have already negotiated cooperation with Elder Han, so it is really difficult to regret it temporarily!"

Just when Su Yuanfeng was about to say something else, Jiang Hua'an made the first decision: "I think Advisor Yang has handled the issue of outlying islands very well. You know, the participants behind the outlying island trade are not only our mortal enemy Haiyuan Island. The senior leaders of the seven major sects are more or less indirectly involved. The pressure we face in Zhongzhou is already very great. It is best not to make additional enemies. For today's Haiya Sect, survival is more important than development and growth! "

In Yu San's family in Haiya City, the person who has the most distant relationship with Yang Lu is actually Jiang Hua'an.

Therefore, when Su Yuanfeng saw Jiang Hua'an speaking for Yang Lu, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said: "City Master Jiang, are you worried that our Su family will use the offshore trade to counterpress your Jiang family?"

Facing Su Yuanfeng's ridicule, Jiang Hua'an was not angry at all. Instead, he sneered with a slightly disdainful tone: "President Su, you are judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart. If I, Jiang Hua'an, didn't express my support, I would just rely on Do you, the Su family and the Han family, have the ability to monopolize trade on outlying islands and force the trade giants in the Eastern Ocean to retreat?"

Facing Jiang Hua'an's squeeze, Su Yuanfeng was speechless.

Indeed, now that Han Xinhe and the Qingning Chamber of Commerce have joined forces, they still dare not monopolize the outlying island trade alone. Although the Su family's comprehensive strength is stronger than the Han family, they dare not say that they can withstand such pressure from all directions. In the end, they still have to Let Jiang Hua'an come forward to stand up.

There is very little hope of circumventing Jiang Hua'an to facilitate this matter.

Although what Jiang Hua'an said was true, openly exposing the matter did make Su Yuanfeng a little embarrassed.

But after all, it was Su Yuanfeng who proposed this matter, and Jiang Huaan and Yang Lu obviously didn't support him, so he could only reluctantly cup his hands and said: "Since the current Haiya Chamber of Commerce is not suitable for making enemies everywhere, then I will first look at this matter." Forget it, I’ll maintain the current model for the time being on the outlying islands, and we’ll look for opportunities to discuss it in the future!”

At this point, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's position in the outlying island trade has been officially confirmed.

After getting Jiang Hua'an's promise, Yang Lu didn't want to delay.

Just as he was about to stand up and say goodbye, Jiang Hua'an suddenly changed the topic and mentioned another matter: "Oh, by the way! Lin Jianxing did not hesitate to detonate the powerful landmine of the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce, but also wanted to force Yuntianhua to step down. Could Advisor Yang just Don’t have any ideas?”

Yang Lu was slightly stunned and said: "City Lord Jiang, what do you mean?"

Jiang Hua'an smiled and said: "As the saying goes, there must be monsters when things go wrong! If the landmine of the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce was so easy to detonate, how could Lin Jianxing wait until today? But Lin Jianxing had just returned from Haiya City in defeat, and he did not hesitate to risk the backlash. Is it a little too hasty to trigger the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce case at my own huge risk?"

As the saying goes, heroes think alike.

The questions raised by Jiang Hua'an were almost identical to those raised by Mo Yunlan when he met with Cheng Shuying.

Although Yang Lu was not as well-informed as the two big guys, he showed a thoughtful expression after receiving Jiang Hua'an's reminder: "Indeed... you mean that Lin Jianxing would rather take huge risks to remove this landmine." There must be a last resort behind the detonation?"

Jiang Hua'an smiled and nodded: "Consultant Yang is indeed a smart person, and some things can be revealed at a glance!"

Yang Lu had far less information than Jiang Hua'an, so he humbly asked: "It seems you have some judgment?"

"We have made some judgments, but we haven't mastered the key evidence yet." Jiang Hua'an and Su Yuanfeng looked at each other, and after seeing Su Yuanfeng nodded, he explained slowly: "You should know that today's economy in the world of cultivation The environment is very harsh, and many vassal sects have serious financial problems. However, there are thousands of vassal sects in Zhongzhou, and the situation of each sect is different. Even if there is a thunderstorm, there must be a first-come, first-served order. Now each sect is in They are gritting their teeth and holding on, not because everyone thinks that the economic situation of the cultivation world will improve in the future, but because they want to wait for the sect that is worse than themselves to be shocked first, and then force the Wuliang Sword Sect to cover up for them..."

Jiang Hua'an's statement was actually not unfamiliar to Yang Lu.

Some time ago, Rong Sheng mentioned to him that when Chen Ming, the leader of the Shanying Sect, held a conference of the Open Door Sect, he called on all the disciples of the Shanying Sect to overcome the difficulties together and asked everyone to take the initiative to receive less salary from the sect. As a result, it triggered The disciples within the sect were strongly dissatisfied.

In order to appease the dissatisfied disciples of the Mountain Eagle Sect, Chen Ming even openly pointed out that as long as the other brother sects could not withstand the thunderstorm, the Mountain Eagle Sect's good days would come.

Chen Ming's theory of comparison is almost completely consistent with Jiang Hua'an's statement:

Anyway, the economy of the cultivation world is hopeless, at least the ordinary vassal sects can't do anything about it. Now they can only wait for some unlucky guy to get thunderous first, and then force the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Lingshi Reserve Bank to find a solution for everyone.

Seeing the expression of deep approval on Yang Lu's face, Jiang Hua'an knew that he had understood what he meant, so he continued to explain: "But you have to know, everyone has an idea of ​​the economic status of the major vassal sects in Zhongzhou. . Those sects that work for Lin Jianxing are basically the worst in business conditions. The sects with better operating conditions are all supporters of President Lu back then, and most of them are not willing to serve as pawns for the leader. Logically speaking, these The sect of the Chushu Sect should be the most affected..."

Yang Lu said thoughtfully: "You mean to say that it is precisely because the sects of the sects under Master Lin are about to collapse that he is so anxious to find a way to protect these sects?"

Jiang Hua'an said with some ambiguity: "Yes, but it's not entirely right! Leader Lin is so anxious to attack the Haiya Department because he is probably eyeing the huge wealth under our control, which is only the wealth that our Haiya Department has accumulated over the past seven thousand years. Only in this way can he fill the financial holes for the vassal sects under his command; and Leader Lin did not hesitate to detonate the collapse of the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce and also wanted to take control of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, probably in order to get the Lingshi Reserve Bank to come forward and help the vassal sects under his command. Keep all the bad debts..."

In fact, when President Li Qingyang was in charge of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, the Wuliang Sword Sect had repeatedly urged the Lingshi Reserve Bank to cover the bad debts of the vassal sects of the Wuliang Sword Sect. However, President Li Qingyang was firmly opposed to this kind of damage to the credit of Lingshi Coin. Because of his behavior, this matter has never been implemented. Although Yuntianhua is relatively useless in other aspects, he can still adhere to the attitude of non-violence and non-cooperation on this issue of principle, which makes Lin Jianxing very angry.

After hearing what Jiang Hua'an said, Yang Lu couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything wrong with that?"

Jiang Hua'an knocked on the table and said: "The business conditions of the vassal sects of the World Sect under Master Lin are more than a little worse than those of the World Joining sects. As a result, now even the World Joining sects such as the Luoxia Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect, which have unique resource endowments, The sects have all fallen into financial crisis, but the world-born sects under Master Lin are not in trouble, don’t you think it’s strange?”

"So, does City Lord Jiang have any ideas?"

Jiang Hua'an shook his head and said: "This is exactly what I can't figure out. Previously, we also thought that Leader Lin should have jumped over the wall in a hurry, so we kept arguing with Liu Hanxing on the issue of Shantang to delay time, waiting for them to have a thunderstorm. , naturally they can't take care of us. But I didn't expect that Liu Hanxing could actually deal with us for more than a year, which led to the irreversible intensification of the conflict between the two parties. To be honest, a showdown with Leader Lin was actually not The result we hope to see is even the worst result..."

I see!

The reason why the Haiya Sect insisted on arguing with Liu Hanxing was actually to wait for the sect under Master Lin to explode. As a result, the life-sustaining ability of the sect under the command of Master Lin was far beyond Jiang Huaan's expectation. This resulted in the two sides finally being unable to delay. A complete showdown.

Seeing Yang Lu's expression of sudden realization, Jiang Hua'an waved his hands and said: "Forget it, it seems that Consultant Yang doesn't know what's going on behind this, so I just mentioned it casually. No matter how the sects under Master Lin have managed to survive for so long Yes, it seems that it will soon be unable to survive, otherwise Leader Lin will not act more and more impatiently. Now that the collapse of the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce has reached its final showdown, we in the Haiya Department can only wait and see. It’s changed!”

Seeing that Jiang Hua'an didn't seem to want to say anything else, Yang Lu nodded, thanked him for the advice, and took the initiative to say goodbye to the two big guys from Haiya City.

…

After leaving the Haiya City Lord's Mansion, Yang Lu used the communication spell to contact Wang Ziwei again, but still did not get a reply from the other party. In order to avoid a long night and dreamy dreams, Yang Lu immediately took the spirit boat provided by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and headed straight for the Wuliang Mountains.

This was not the first time that Yang Lu had taken the route between Wuliang Mountains and Haiya City, and since Li Qingning had successfully advanced to the foundation building stage, there was no need for the Haiya Sect to arrange a special spirit boat driver, so the two of them came on the familiar route. Arrive at the headquarters of Wuliang Sword Sect.

However, the headquarters of the Wuliang Sword Sect at this time was completely different from before.

The originally orderly mountain gate of Wuliang Sword Sect is now as lively as a farmer's market on Earth. Before entering the boundaries of Wuliang Mountains, the chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations in Wuliang Mountains are faintly heard.

According to convention, there should be disciples guarding the mountain gate of the Wuliang Sword Sect who are responsible for checking the identities of monks entering and exiting the Wuliang Sword Sect. However, at this time, the gate of the Wuliang Sword Sect was wide open, and there were a large number of unidentified cultivators wearing the costumes of various local sects. As he was driving the escape light in and out, he didn't see anyone blocking him at all.

Thanks to this, the two people's flying spirit boat drove in almost without any obstruction.

While passing through the mountain gate, Yang Lu also took a special look at the place where the mountain-guarding monks were originally stationed, and found that the few disciples of the Wuliang Sword Sect were still there. However, they just watched indifferently as a large number of inexplicable foreign monks entered and exited the mountain gate. There was no intention of coming forward for interrogation. It was obvious that he had received instructions from his superiors in advance.

And as the two people's spirit boats approached the headquarters of the Spiritual Stone Reserve Bank, the situation became even more chaotic.

There were still several miles away from the headquarters of Lingshi Reserve Bank, and there was a huge noise in the distance, and a large amount of chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations continued to stir, as if thousands of troops had gathered together.

With his extraordinary hearing, Yang Lu could even hear thunderous roars of lions, echoing endlessly among the peaks of the Wuliang Sword Sect headquarters:

"The Luo Family Trading Company is completely unconscionable!"

"The thief Yuntianhua, give me back my hard-earned money!"

"The Lingshi Reserve Bank will only work for the tiger!"

"I don't care about the rise of the Wuliang Sword Sect, I only care about the dignity of the monks at the bottom!"

"Lingshi Reserve Bank is the umbrella of Cultivation Capital!"

Hearing the shouts one after another, Yang Lu knew without guessing that these guys must be cultivators from the vassal sect who came to make trouble at Lingshi Reserve Bank, but he did not expect that the situation at the scene would be so heated.

In addition to the thunderous protests, you can also see huge magic marks rising into the sky from time to time, and then exploding like fireworks, because this group of troublemaking cultivators all have good cultivation (cultivation) If it’s too low, you won’t be defrauded.) This protest scene looks countless times cooler than Occupy Wall Street on Earth.

Yang Lu pointed at a huge magic image launched into the sky by the cultivator, turned to Li Qingning who was driving the spirit boat and asked: "Who is this person? Why does everyone like to launch his image into the sky?"

Li Qingning replied: "This person is Bo Qing, the leader of the Infinite Sword Sect during the Second Heaven's Crisis. Every time a cultivator loses money or is cheated of money, he likes to emit leader Bo's spell images to protest. .”

When Yang Lu heard this, he suddenly showed an expression of realization.

According to the official statement of the Wuliang Sword Sect, Lin Jianxing, the current head of the Wuliang Sword Sect, is the 26th generation head of the sect. However, this number is not counted from the founding of the Wuliang Sword Sect, but from the end of the Second Heavenly Crisis. Counting this, the leader of Bo Qing can be regarded as the first leader of Wuliang Sword Sect in modern times.

When Master Bo was in power, it was the darkest era in the entire Kyushu cultivation world in the past seven thousand years.

According to historical records in the world of cultivation, after the Second Heavenly Crisis, the traditional spiritual stone currency system has completely collapsed. The price comparisons of seven types of spiritual stones with different attributes, as well as gold, silver and precious metals and other ordinary currencies are very confusing, even in every cultivation sect. They all have their own monetary policies and official exchange rates. A large number of cultivators personally go to the market to cut leeks. Black market exchange transactions are rampant. Ordinary cultivators with no background are miserable due to the huge fluctuations in exchange rates.

Often I just bought a magic weapon today, and the price of the magic weapon dropped by half the next day due to huge exchange rate fluctuations. I sold the magic weapon tomorrow, and the price of the magic weapon doubled again in two days.

Faced with this chaotic situation, all major overlord-level sects have used different coping methods, and the philosophy of leader Bo Qing is very idealistic. He believes that the biggest culprit behind the chaotic economic situation in Kyushu is those greedy capital speculators, so he advocates using an iron fist to suppress cultivation capital.

In order to prevent Cultivation Capital and Cultivation Sects from joining forces to cut leeks, Bo Qing, even at the expense of his own merits, forcibly killed the leaders of the Cultivation Sects who had the greatest complaints from the public, and tried to stabilize the hearts of the people of Zhongzhou. And this iron-blooded method that pleased people's hearts also made Head Bo Qing regarded as a spiritual pillar by all cultivators who hated the rich in later generations.

Now that these troublemaking cultivators who "occupied the Lingshi Bank" have brought up Bo Qing's image, they are obviously threatening to eradicate the Lingshi Reserve Bank, the umbrella of cultivator capitalists, just like the head of Bo Qing did.

Looking at the images in the air, Yang Lu couldn't help but smacked his lips and said: "So this is the head of Bo Qing who forcibly split up the Haiya system! It's just that this person's method is a happy one, but it violates the basic laws of social operation. , after all, it was a temporary solution rather than a permanent solution, and in the end it was Yellen’s currency reforms that really turned the situation around.”

Li Qingning spread his hands and said: "Those who make trouble don't care about this. What they want is this kind of happy result."