The Fourth Financial Crisis

Although Yang Lu still doesn't know why Tian Daxiao insists on promoting trade negotiations between the Hanguang Sword Sect and Haiyuan Island, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly very suitable to be the middleman for this negotiation. After all, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce is the most important member of the Hanguang Sword Sect. External allies are also a key channel for the Han Light Sword Sect to break through the Haiyuan Island trade ban.

Every time the Haiya Chamber of Commerce encounters trouble, regardless of official or private matters, the Hanguang Sword Sect will send Golden Core masters thousands of miles away to support them. This shows the importance of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce to the Hanguang Sword Sect.

If they lose the help of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the Hanguang Sword Faction will surely fall into trouble again.

In fact, the Hanguang Sword Sect also knows that it is not a good thing to rely too much on the Haiya Chamber of Commerce's trade channels. Over the years, the Hanguang Sword Sect has not not considered looking for a backup tire for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce in order to get rid of its dependence on the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. .

But so far, they still only have one partner, the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

The reason behind this is not difficult to understand.

There are only a handful of ocean-going trading giants in the Eastern Ocean. Except for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, several other large chambers of commerce are like Pan's Chamber of Commerce. They are backed by the Yuan Ying period ancestors of the seven major sects and do not need the support of the Hanguang Sword Sect at all. ; Either it is like the Huaishan Sect, with its headquarters far away in Nanman State and unable to reach the trade routes of the Arctic State; or it is too small and unable to compete with Haiyuan Island. No matter who it is, it is difficult for anyone to be like the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. It just meets all the needs of the lightsaber faction.

It's not like the Hanguang Sword Sect has never thought of forming its own chamber of commerce.

However, there are so many cultivation forces who are jealous of the profits from ocean trade that it is not the Han Light Sword Sect’s turn to take advantage of this. If possible, the seven major sects also hope to have maritime trade power that is completely subordinate to them, and the Infinite Sword Sect does not want to interfere on its own. In every outlying island situation, they are forced to borrow the fleet and channels of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce.

However, after so many years, almost all the cultivation forces that wanted to get involved in the ocean trade field failed. Today, the trade pattern of the Eastern Ocean has not changed for hundreds of years.

The reasons behind this phenomenon are naturally multifaceted.

First of all, the political structure of Arctic State is not like that of Zhongzhou, where there is a certain hegemonic sect to open up the market across the continent. On the contrary, although the trade volume of Arctic State is large, the six major sects go their own way and implement strong local protection in their respective territories. policy, and the Hanguang Sword Sect’s own strength ranks last among the six sects in the far north. It is not qualified to negotiate terms with the other four large sects that have ancestors in the Nascent Soul Stage. Even the internal trade routes within the state cannot be negotiated. Completely opened up. .

Secondly, starting a chamber of commerce is a very high-stakes matter.

Li Qingning relied on his great-grandfather's strong background to open a Qingning Chamber of Commerce in the southeastern corner of Zhongzhou mainland, but he was almost killed by others, let alone a giant chamber of commerce that could compete with Haiyuan Island?

Not to mention Haiyuan Island, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce alone owns thousands of ocean-going merchant ships, directly employs nearly a million employees, and owns docks, warehouses, fleets, banks, factories, commodity exchanges, etc. There are more than ten different business sectors. If you include the large number of chores outsourced by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, such as land logistics and upstream and downstream suppliers, it is not surprising to say that the Haiya system affects the jobs of tens of millions of people. Pass.

And these people are not NPCs in real-time strategy games, which can be directly accessed by framing them with the mouse. They are all living people, and each one has his own small thoughts and interests. What's more, even if they are really only a few hundred There are thousands of NPCs, and players cannot click them just with the mouse.

You can imagine how difficult it is to balance the interests of these people and get the Haiya Chamber of Commerce up and running so that they can maintain a sufficiently competitive operating efficiency after deducting the friction of internal operations.

Moreover, due to the stagnant productivity, the degree of involution of the Kyushu Cultivation World’s chambers of commerce is also terrifying. There is no such thing as on Earth, where there are many companies with different profit levels in an industry. Only the Cultivation Chamber of Commerce with the highest competitiveness and efficiency is the only one. Only in this way can they be qualified to survive. Other chambers of commerce with weaker management capabilities will either be eliminated in the long competition process of thousands of years, or they will never be able to grow in scale and can only be forced to settle in a corner.

The Eastern Ocean is already the busiest sea area for trade in Kyushu. However, there are only a few maritime merchants who can expand the scale of trade large enough and maintain sufficient competitiveness at the same time.

Finally, after thousands of years of natural evolution by trade giants like the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the entire system has been running in for a very long time and has accumulated a lot of know-how. Although it still looks like a strong Caotai team, this The Tao Caotai team is also a Caotai team that has passed the test of thousands of years. It naturally has its own reason and significance for its existence.

Anyone with management experience may be aware that many seemingly meaningless bureaucratic systems will have unexpected negative consequences if they are removed at will.

These management know-hows also form an unbreakable moat for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce.

Even if Yang Lu has a higher perspective than Jiuzhou cultivators, he can only do some partial optimization. If he wants to manage this huge system like the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, he may not be able to do better than Su Yuanfeng and Jiang Hua'an. .

What even Yang Lu is not completely aware of is that the several ocean-going trading giants in the Eastern Ocean have their current status because of their own unknown secrets:

For example, Tingheyuge was jointly and secretly operated by seven super ocean traders, including Zhongzhou Haiya Chamber of Commerce and Nanman Prefecture Huaishan Chamber of Commerce, which provided them with huge intelligence assistance; another example is that Haiya Chamber of Commerce also controls A channel for laundering money overseas, while the Huaishan Chamber of Commerce operates the business of smuggling pure-blood monsters from Nanman State.

Without these secret gray profiteering channels and just doing normal trade in the open, even the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and the Huaishan Chamber of Commerce would not be able to maintain today's situation.

Haiyuan Island in the Arctic state can develop ocean trade mainly because of its very advantageous geographical location.

Just like Haiya City is located at the mouth of the Qinglan River, the largest river in Zhongzhou, Haiyuan Island is located on the only road from Arctic State to other continents. Even if Haiyuan Island does not do business, it just provides supplies along the way. Being able to make a lot of money like Singapore on the Strait of Malacca, it has an inherent advantage if it wants to carry out trade.

In contrast, the Hanguang Sword Sect has an unfavorable geographical location, is far away from other continents, and does not have any innate talents. If it wants to intervene in the overseas trade with deep water behind it, it can only be a meat bun and a dog, and there will be no return.

It is precisely because the Haiya Chamber of Commerce has an irreplaceable role for the Hanguang Sword Faction, so it is undoubtedly very appropriate for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce to step up and coordinate the trade negotiations between the two parties. At least the Hanguang Sword Faction must pay great attention to it, and its effect is definitely better than It would be much better if Tian Daxiao or the Shenhuo Sect came to lobby in person.

Wanting to understand this, Yang Lu continued to ask: "Haiya Chamber of Commerce does have the ability to put pressure on your Hanguang Sword Faction, but why does Haiyuan Island agree to negotiate with you?"

When this issue was mentioned, Qu Jing showed hesitation on the spot.