The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 166

The outlying islands are isolated overseas and the land is barren. It has been a situation of separate rule since ancient times.

However, the long-term isolation has also made the outlying islands rich in a variety of cultivation medicinal materials that have long been extinct from the outside world. The major cultivation chambers of commerce can use the most common mortal materials in exchange for these precious cultivation materials. The main port is still full of ocean-going merchant ships from major cultivation chambers of commerce all year round.

Although the lords of outlying islands are generally inextricably linked with overseas cultivation forces, the trend of mortals on outlying islands rejecting cultivators has long been ingrained. However, facing the infiltration of external forces, the outlying islands have always maintained a relatively united situation.

Even though Governor Lu briefly unified the outlying islands, there was only one chief executive of the outlying islands in name only.

However, this political structure that had lasted for hundreds of years was completely broken with the strong intervention of Huoyun State forces.

Due to the huge economic benefits of the outlying islands, the major forces in Kyushu have tried to conquer the outlying islands in the past few thousand years, but the outlying islands have been a mortal country for tens of thousands of years, so it is obviously not so easy to be conquered by the cultivation forces.Under the barrier of thousands of miles of smoke and waves, the infiltration of outlying islands by external cultivation forces ended in failure.

After Tian Daxiao, the new head of the Shenhuo Sect, took over the power of Huoyun State, he also formulated a strategy to attack outlying islands.

The outlying island is located in the southwest of Huoyun State, and it is more than 3 miles away from the mainland of Huoyun State. Compared with Zhongzhou, which is close to the water and towers, the traffic between the outlying island and Huoyun State is extremely inconvenient. Therefore, the traditional partner of Huoyun State in the outlying island, There is only Shi Yi, the owner of Guhong Island in the northeast of the outlying island. It is undoubtedly as difficult as climbing the sky to leverage the situation on the outlying island.

As early as 15 years ago, when Tian Shangcheng, the former head of the Shenhuo Sect, was about to run out of life, he secretly crossed Chencang and dispatched a mortal army from Huoyun Prefecture to raid the outlying islands, but ended in disastrous failure.

After hearing that Tian Daxiao was planning to intervene in the outlying island situation, the major cultivation forces including the Wuliangjian Sect didn't take it to heart. After all, if the outlying island was so easily conquered, how could it be Tian Daxiao's turn?

In the history of the cultivation world in the last few thousand years, only President Lu Yang once temporarily unified the outlying islands by relying on the initial stage of Jindan. How can Lu Xing, a pawn who runs long errands, complete a feat that even the Immortal Feisheng failed to complete?

However, the development of the matter was far beyond the expectations of all parties.

The situation on the outlying islands changed suddenly in just half a year. Even the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, which was closely connected with the outlying islands, was caught off guard.

According to Xu Tong, the lord of Yanbo Island, a few months ago, the Shenhuo Sect sent a cultivator with a golden wheel of merit to the outlying island.Although this female monk named Tian Beixi only had a mere Qi-refinement stage cultivation, it only took a few days to unite the indigenous forces on Guhong Island, and then began to invade other areas of the outlying island.

For this kind of thing, the major lords of the outlying islands didn't pay much attention to it at first.After all, monks had limited aura reserves in the early days of qi refining, and there was no way to replenish aura in the outlying islands. Even if the tens of thousands of mortal troops were exhausted, they could still consume this life-or-death cultivator of the Shenhuo Sect.

However, when the lords of outlying islands organized an army to fight against the rebellion on Guhong Island, they suddenly discovered that they couldn't beat this practitioner in the Qi Refining Period!
For some reason, Tian Beixi showed a combat power far superior to that of ordinary early-stage Qi refining monks.

According to the dictation of the outlying island lords who participated in the battle, the aura in the body of this cultivator of the Shenhuo sect seemed to be endless, and the destructive spells were endless.

However, there is no aura environment inside the outlying island, and even items containing aura such as spirit stones cannot be brought in. How can the little aura reserve in a monk's body in the early stage of Qi refining last for so long?
Faced with this completely unrealistic thing, all the major lords of the outlying islands began to wait and see.

However, Tian Beixi did not let them go.

With unreasonably powerful spells and very cunning means of using troops, she wiped out the lords in the northeast of the outlying island one by one. Even if these lords built strong castles, they couldn't resist Tian Beixi's pervasive attack.

Now the major lords of the outlying islands panicked completely.

Although the ordinary cultivators who invaded the outlying islands in the past were powerful, everyone could understand them. However, the details of Tian Beixi were not clear to everyone. Until now, the lords of the outlying islands did not know what level of cultivation she was.

If the situation continues to deteriorate like this, the Outlying Islands may be doomed!

Fortunately, Tian Beixi also seemed to need time to recover his aura, and the speed of advancement was not fast. It took several months to barely unify the northeast of the outlying islands, giving other outlying island lords a rare respite.

After deliberation, the major lords of the outlying islands finally decided to resort to the strategy of driving tigers and wolfs away!
The rulers of the outlying islands are also well aware of the conflicts among the seven factions of Kyushu. If Huoyun Prefecture really completely controls the outlying islands, it will undoubtedly deal a heavy blow to the interests of other cultivation forces.

Especially the Nominal Sword Sect, the nominal suzerain of the Outlying Islands, will never allow the forces of Huoyun State to expand to the coast of Zhongzhou!
Therefore, the major lords of outlying islands have asked for help from familiar cultivation forces, trying to use the power of external practitioners to drive away Tian Beixi. As for the requests of various cultivation forces to take advantage of the fire, the lords of outlying islands have all agreed. After all, no matter how strong other cultivation forces are , it is also impossible to completely control outlying islands like Huoyun State!

And Xu Tong, the lord of Yanbo Island, sent the appeal letter to the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and the Wuliang Sword Sect respectively.

After reading the content of the appeal letter, Yang Lu looked up at Su Yuanfeng again, only to see Su Yuanfeng shrugged and said: "You have seen the situation, now the forces of Huoyun Prefecture have occupied a quarter of the outlying island, even if Xu Tong of Yanbo Island The lord wants to help you catch people, but he can't go to the Shenhuo Sect's territory to enforce the law."

Yang Lu put the request for help back on the table in front of Su Yuanfeng, frowning and said: "So what is the Wuliang Sword Sect going to do next? Are you going to sit back and watch the Huoyun State forces conquer outlying islands?"

"Of course the Wuliang Sword Sect will not sit still!" Su Yuanfeng crossed his hands, his expression became serious, "In the past three months, the Wuliang Sword Sect has provided a large amount of combat supplies to outlying islands through the channel of our Haiya Chamber of Commerce. Steward Wei Ji smuggled into Yanbo Port with the last batch of support ships."

Yang Lu frowned and said, "Then President Su thinks, how long will it take to decide the outcome of the outlying island war?"

Su Yuanfeng replied in a deep voice: "It won't be too long! At the request of the Wuliang Sword Sect, our Haiya City has carried out a three-month secret military mobilization. Within ten days, the mercenaries under the Haiya Chamber of Commerce will be Will land on outlying islands!"

Although Kyushu's comprehension world is a typical high-magic society, there are still cold wars.

Since a cultivator needs to deduct a lot of merit to kill a person, the cost of using a cultivator to slaughter a mortal army is too high. Therefore, wars in the realm of comprehension often show the situation of cultivators against cultivators, and mortals against mortals.

Among them, the struggle of the cultivators determines the outcome of the war, but the occupation of the territory and the cleaning of the battlefield still require a mortal army to carry out.

Because the status of cold weapon warfare is very marginal, the technology of cold weapon warfare in the Kyushu cultivation world is not very advanced. However, in the outlying islands where there are no practitioners, cold weapon warfare has become the real protagonist.

If the Wuliang Sword Sect wanted to support their allies on the outlying islands, they could only send a mortal army to land and fight.

Hearing that Haiya City will send mercenaries to join the battle directly, Yang Lu couldn't help asking: "What do you think the odds of winning this war are?"

Su Yuanfeng tapped lightly on the door, added soundproofing to the room, and then slowly said another thing: "You should have heard the story of Tian Daxiao. He is the first chairman of the Lingshi Reserve Bank. Chief analyst. Because he speaks like a fortune-telling magic stick, many people think that he has achieved today's achievements by luck..."

Yang Lu has heard Tian Daxiao's story for a long time, and its legendary nature is no less than that of Li Qingyang.

It is said that when President Lu Yang launched the fourth-generation Lingshi currency system, there were many voices of doubt in the market, especially when he announced that he would sell the shares of the water Lingshi mine controlled by the Wuliang Sword Sect to the public to support the credit of Lingshi coins. At that time, the public opinion in Zhongzhou generally believed that President Lu had gone crazy in order to issue Lingshi coins.

Since everyone believed that the Lingshi Reserve Bank would end sooner or later, the price per share of Lingshi Mines was only 5000 yuan when it was listed.

However, when the market was full of doubts, Tian Daxiao, a monk of the Shenhuo Sect who came from Huoyun State across the ocean, showed amazing courage and published many classic violent comments that were later called "Daxiao Quotations":

"5000 yuan is the starting point of a bull market!"

"10000 yuan is still a baby bottom!"

"The target price of Lingshi Mine stock price is 100000 yuan!"

"The era of the third Lingshi financial crisis is the era of equity investment!"

"The father of Lingshi coins is going up, and the father of Lingshi coupons is going down!"

……

As the saying goes, if the words are not surprising, although most practitioners scoff at "Da Xiao Quotations", Tian Daxiao still has a large number of staunch fans with his excellent eloquence and amazing talent for jokes.

Everyone knows the final result of the matter. President Lu Yang directly borrowed tens of billions of Lingshi coins at low interest rates to the Wuliangjian faction through the channel of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, and then let the Wuliangjian faction come forward to purchase the shares of the Lingshi mine. The dividend income of Lingshi Mine covers interest costs, and risk-free arbitrage is carried out, which violently pushes up the stock price of Lingshi Mine.

After this series of financial scandals, the stock price of Lingshi Mines has soared all the way, until now it is 10 yuan per share!

Tian Daxiao not only relied on 10 times the leverage to buy more Lingshi mines, and became a rich man in Huoyun State, but also made a fortune with his followers, and even President Lu himself noticed him and recruited him to Lingshi. Shi Reserve Bank served as the chief economic analyst and became Li Qingyang's registered mentor.

Just because Tian Daxiao's family history is so outrageous, the world's evaluation of Tian Daxiao is also polarized.

The loyal believers in "Da Xiao Quotations" insist that Tian Daxiao is the embodiment of the stock god, while those who don't believe in Tian Daxiao think that Tian Daxiao is a gambler with amazing luck.After Tian Daxiao gradually came to power in Shenhuozong, the economic reforms he implemented were even more controversial, which also made his reputation more polarized.

No matter how outsiders evaluate Tian Daxiao, in Yang Lu's view, Tian Daxiao is definitely a wise man!

If Tian Daxiao is really an idiot, how could he come up with a high-level financial operation such as letting the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce conduct cross-border capital operations in Fire Cloud State, hollowing out the main body of the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce, and transferring benefits to Fire Cloud State?

As for Tian Daxiao's violent comments in his early years, in Yang Lu's view, it is also a manifestation of his political wisdom.

When President Lu Yang carried out the currency reform, Tian Daxiao only had a mere mid-stage foundation-building cultivation, and he was still a foreign monk from Huoyun Prefecture. If he wanted to become famous in Zhongzhou, the headquarters of the Wuliang Sword Sect, he could only choose not to be astonishing and die endlessly!
Tian Daxiao was not the only one who was optimistic about President Lu back then.

Yang Lu's brother Chen Ping's ancestor, Chen Kui, the legendary tycoon of Haiya City, also bet 500 years ago that Lingshi Reserve Bank and President Lu would win a big victory. You can only be a country tyrant.

And Tian Daxiao relied on the name of the stock god to advance all the way, and finally became the head of the majestic Kyushu Seven Schools!

Others laugh at him as being too crazy, but I laugh at others for not being able to see through.

No matter how others comment on Tian Daxiao, Yang Lu always has a high opinion of Tian Daxiao.

Su Yuanfeng obviously had similar views with Yang Lu. He took a sip of the spiritual tea on the table, and said slowly: "With all due respect, Tian Daxiao is definitely the most scheming existence among the top leaders of the seven major sects in Kyushu. Only our President Li Qingyang can barely fight against him, and head Lin of the Wuliang Sword Sect, as a half-way monk of the Transcendence Sect, is no match for this person at all!"

After Han Fulai and Xu Yannan, this is the third person who proposed a similar idea to Yang Lu.

However, Yang Lu did not intervene, but only showed a respectful expression, so Su Yuanfeng continued to add: "Since Tian Daxiao chooses to deploy outlying islands, it is impossible not to predict the reactions of other sects, especially the reaction of the Wuliang Sword Sect. But he still chose to do this, which shows that he must have prepared a corresponding backup. What's more, Liu Hanxing is solely responsible for the Wuliangjian faction's reinforcement work for outlying islands, this guy is simply..."

Having said this, Su Yuanfeng suddenly stopped.

Yang Lu felt that he probably wanted to complain about something, but he forcibly endured it.

After all, Su Yuanfeng hadn't broken his face with Liu Hanxing yet, and he clicked on it suddenly, because he wanted to save face for the head disciple of the Wuliang Sword Sect, and didn't want to say any nasty dirty words on the spot.

"...Anyway, I'm not very optimistic about the future situation of outlying islands." In the end, Su Yuanfeng ended his speech hastily with very blunt words.

Yang Lu doesn't care whether the outlying island is controlled by the Wuliang Sword Sect or the Shenhuozong. If the outlying island is completely controlled by the Shenhuozong, Yang Lu can turn around and ask the Shenhuozong to help arrest people.

After all, Li Qingyang and Tian Daxiao have known each other for 500 years, and Li Qingning is still Tian Daxiao's junior, so there is a high probability that the other party will give the Qingning Chamber of Commerce this face.

In response to Su Yuanfeng's reminder, he just didn't take it seriously and said: "As long as President Su is willing to provide a channel, I am ready to go to the outlying island in person."

Su Yuanfeng was surprised when he heard the words: "Are you going in person? Do you have a golden wheel of merit?"

Yang Lu knew that this matter would not be concealed sooner or later, so he admitted it openly: "President Su, please don't say anything to the outside world!"

"Sure enough, talented people come out from generation to generation!"

Su Yuanfeng waited for a long time before finally accepting the fact that Yang Lu possessed the golden wheel of merit, but Yang Lu just smiled modestly and didn't say much, as if it was just a trivial matter.

After the shock gradually faded away, Su Yuanfeng pondered for a moment and said: "Since you have made up your mind... how about it, the mercenaries of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce will officially set sail in a few days, and you can join this fleet together. Go to outlying islands!"

"Then thank you President Su for your great assistance!"

(End of this chapter)