The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 316
As an investor with a professional background, Yang Lu also knows some programming knowledge of data processing.

But because he is not a professional programmer, and the difficulty of getting started with knowledge of formations for Kyushu cultivators is no lower than that of computer programming, and it takes years of hard work to enter the classroom, so he has not had the opportunity to study "Logic of Immortal Formation" carefully so far.

Seeing the masterpiece of comprehension programmers like Liu Yingbi, Yang Lu couldn't help but marvel at the magic of the formation.

After visiting the screen wall, Pan Yue took Yang Lu and the two into the banquet venue of Pan's firm.

As the largest chamber of commerce in Zhongzhou, Pan's Commercial House usually receives a lot of tasks, not to mention, there are monks from all over Yunlai City, so it is definitely impossible for Pan Yue to only entertain guests like Yang Lu and Li Qingning.In the banquet hall at this time, there were already other guests sitting and waiting.

But the number of distinguished guests entertained by Pan Yue himself was not many, there were only four or five people in total, sitting on both sides of the hall.

Although the costumes of these guests are varied, they look familiar.

According to Pan Yue's introduction, they all represented their sects in the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference not long ago, and achieved good rankings. As the seed players of each sect, they will all participate in the upcoming extraterritorial battlefield trials.

Therefore, this gathering organized by Pan Yue can also be regarded as a gathering of young talents in the Qi refining period of Zhongzhou. As Li Qingning, it must be more than enough to attend this kind of gathering.

In addition to these guests, in the center of the main hall, there are more than a dozen soft and graceful women in palace costumes dancing in front of the guests. These women exude faint aura fluctuations all over their bodies. Although the aura is not strong, they are definitely not ordinary mortals.

But although the guests sitting cross-legged on both sides of the hall were all men, they were all flipping through the brochures in front of them, and few of them paid attention to the beauties in front of them.

After seeing Pan Yue bring the two guests back to the main hall, the women in the hall finished dancing quickly, then saluted Pan Yue respectfully, and retreated to the sides of the banquet hall to serve.

"Pan Daoyou, the quality of your maidservants seems to be better than what I saw last time. It seems that in the past year's Ascension to Immortals Conference, you still found a lot of top-quality goods!" Noticing that Pan Yue came back and sat on the left A white-robed Confucian student suddenly smiled and said.

This person looked very familiar, he seemed to be one of the top sixteen contestants in the Zhongzhou Discourse on Swords Competition.

It's just that there are too many players participating in the Zhongzhou Sword Discourse Conference, and Yang Lu can't remember his specific name.

Pan Yue was obviously quite familiar with the white-robed Confucian scholar, so he immediately cupped his hands and replied, "You Daoist Chu praised me a lot. In the annual auction held by Pan's Firm, these female slaves with spiritual root qualifications are the most sought-after. Of course I want to replace them." Everyone will go all out. These contracted slaves are currently perfect, if fellow Taoists are interested, you can strike first."

Hearing that these beautiful dancers were all contract slaves, Yang Lu couldn't help being slightly surprised.

The price of contract slaves in the Kyushu cultivation world has always been high, and contract slaves with spiritual root qualifications are extremely rare. Each of them is priceless, and some prices can even be as high as 10 yuan in spirit stone coins. Can't afford such a luxury item!
These comprehension female slaves have such a high premium, apart from the extremely rare number, there is another important reason:
In the world of comprehension, there are some forbidden techniques like the Gengjin Transformation Body Jue, which can temporarily increase the speed of cultivation like the golden wheel of merit, but this kind of forbidden technique is against the law of heaven and will irreversibly damage the furnace "Spiritual Root Qualification.

This kind of cultivation method was once very popular among the demons outside the sky who were not bound by the law of heaven during the second crisis of the law of heaven. Since then, it has gradually declined because of the high cost to ordinary practitioners.

It is precisely because this kind of forbidden technique is only suitable for those who have spiritual root aptitude and are not protected by heaven, which increases the scarcity of comprehension contract slaves, making this kind of contract slaves only mastered by a very small number of high-level In the hands of high-level monks and comprehension families, some high-level monks even send them back and forth as gifts.

Hearing this statement, all the monks present raised their heads with expressions of interest.

As a female cultivator, Li Qingning subconsciously felt a little uncomfortable, but now Miss Li has grown a lot, and quickly restrained this negative emotion.

At this moment, Pan Yue turned his head to look at Yang Lu and introduced: "Speaking of which, among these newly trained female slaves, there is really one who bought it with 30 Lingshi coins at your Haiya City Ascension Fair The one who came, uh...it should be this woman!"

Following the direction of his finger, Yang Lu saw a young girl with a timid expression. Although this girl was wearing a gorgeous and charming palace dress, her expression looked a little green, and her real age did not seem to be very old.

Yang Lu estimated that her age should be roughly between Murong and Li Qingning.

Seeing Pan Yue calling her name, the woman immediately bowed to everyone: "Yu Ling has met Young Master Pan and Consultant Yang!"

"You actually recognize me?" Yang Lu pointed at himself in surprise, obviously he didn't expect to meet acquaintances in Yunlai City.

"I used to be a newspaper boy in Haiya City, and I am very familiar with Murong!" The girl replied very quickly, as if she was afraid that if she answered slowly, it would cause Yang Lu's dissatisfaction, "After hearing that Murong was hired by the Qingning Chamber of Commerce with a high salary, I also tried to go to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce to ask for an errand, and you personally interviewed me at that time, but I didn't have the blessing of Murong..."

Yang Lu suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment.

The low-level newsboys in Haiya City are a circle that is neither big nor small.

These newsboys walk around the streets every day, and even fight for land, most of them are familiar with each other.As an ordinary newsboy, Murong became an executive-level employee of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. This kind of good news quickly spread wildly in this small circle, so many of Murong's former colleagues also expressed their concern. I plan to come to Qingning Chamber of Commerce to try my luck.

It's a pity that Murong's experience cannot be replicated at all.

Although Yang Lu had indeed recruited some young people from poor backgrounds as the fresh blood of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, except for a few lucky ones like Shen Xiaotao, the vast majority of job seekers could not escape the result of being eliminated in the end.

Yu Ling is obviously one of the many job seekers who fail.

Although she failed to join the Qingning Chamber of Commerce as she wished, Yuling tested her spiritual root aptitude at the Haiya Immortal Ascension Conference, but for some reason, she did not take the opportunity to join the Haiya faction, but instead became a contract female slave of Pan's firm...

Even Pan Yue was a little surprised now.

He just casually picked a topic to say politely, but Yu Ling really knew Yang Lu, a fellow!

Yang Lu didn't intend to poke the other person's scars, and was ready to let it go with a nod, but Li Qingning had always been the kind of person who couldn't speak his head.

After learning of Yuling's life experience, before Yang Lu could stop him, Li Qingning sent out a soul torture on the spot: "Since you have spiritual root qualifications, and you are a newsboy from an innocent family, why don't you follow the right path and become a A contract slave of the Pan family?"

Hearing such a blunt question, not only Yu Ling was stunned, but even Pan Yue's expression was a little uneasy.

Can this kind of question be asked face to face?

After Yuling tested her cultivation aptitude, she was still sold into a contract slave. Obviously she was tricked!

It's just that Pan Yue couldn't say this, and Yu Ling didn't dare to say it, which caused the scene to fall into an awkward silence, and even a few guests sitting cross-legged showed expressions of wanting to laugh but embarrassed... …

In fact, the matter itself is not complicated. Yuling is indeed a contract female slave who was abducted by the Haiya faction and Pan's firm.

At the Haiya Immortal Ascension Conference, the spiritual root aptitude she tested was inferior earth spirit root.This kind of cultivator's aptitude can be called the Dalit of the Kyushu cultivation world, and it is even more pitiful than Yang Lu's low-grade water spirit root.

Unless it is a legendary figure like Li Qingyang with extremely high academic talent and invincible luck, otherwise, with such almost non-existent rubbish qualifications, no matter how much resources are invested, it will be difficult to break through the bottleneck in the late stage of Qi refining.

If the Haiya Department happens to be relatively short of manpower, they will be more willing to accept such inferior spirit root disciples as odd jobs.

But now that the Haiya sect has been in peace for a long time, the number of cultivators under it has been saturated. To the Haiya faction, this kind of unworthy spiritual root disciples who have no future can be regarded as tasteless. They are tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to discard them. resources are increasingly stretched.

Since there are not many more and one less disciples of the Haiya faction, it is better to trick her into signing a contract of sale, cashing in hundreds of thousands of Lingshi coins directly, and taking the opportunity to relieve the sect's growing financial pressure.In a sense, this kind of shitty thing about Haiya is basically on the same moral level as Murong's adoptive parents.

The main reason Murong was able to see through the plot of his adoptive parents and escape was because Murong himself had a high IQ.However, not all newsboys have the ability to teach themselves to read and write like Murong.

Compared with Murong, who opened his eyes by reading the "Cultivation Financial Daily", Yuling is a typical illiterate newsboy, and it is more appropriate to describe it as having long hair but short knowledge.In addition, the person who came forward to deceive her was the immortal master of the Haiya family who was superior and omnipotent in the eyes of ordinary people, which made it even more difficult for the young girl newsboy who had no deep experience in the world to resist.

So Yuling was so foolishly tricked into signing her own contract of prostitution.

Of course, considering that there are as many as a thousand low-grade spiritual root disciples joining the Haiya School each year, the Haiya School doesn't actually sell off anyone who is easy to deceive, and will definitely do a detailed background investigation in advance.

Yuling was selected as a target for abduction, but in fact she has inextricable relationship with Yang Lu.

Yuling's original surname was Ji, and his father's name was Ji Xiangde. He was sent to Yunlai City by Han Xinhe 20 years ago to be a personal servant for Xi Jinhu, the editor-in-chief of "Cultivation Finance Weekly".

The distance between Yunlai City and Haiya City is nearly ten thousand miles. Even if ordinary people take advantage of the Qinglan River waterway, it takes more than half a year to go back and forth. As Xi Jinhu's personal servant, Ji Xiangde obviously has no chance to return to Haiya City to see his daughter, so Just like Murong, Yuling, who is guarded by others, has become the orphan of a newspaper seller who lives on the street.

But after she tested the spiritual root aptitude, the information that her father was Xi Jinhu's servant was quickly investigated by the Haiya Department.

The Han family in Haiya City and the Xi family in Yunlai City are hard-core allies. When the Han family discovered the relationship between Yuling and Ji Xiangde, they notified the news to Xi Jinhu, who was thousands of miles away, through a message spell, and Xi Jinhu casually told Ji Xiangde, that's why Ji Xiangde asked Xi Jinhu for leave to return to Haiya City to visit Yuling.

If it was an ordinary mortal consumable, even if his daughter tested inferior spiritual root aptitude, Xi Jinhu, a majestic Golden Core stage monk, would not allow his servants to miss work without reason.Ji Xiangde was allowed to return to Haiya City to visit his relatives, which shows that Xi Jinhu must be quite satisfied with this servant, and is even willing to grant extrajudicial favors to meet some of his modest demands.

As we all know, every move of a big man is often seen by someone with a heart.

This is like the strongest relationship in the unit who never says who his backer is, and even deliberately avoids the topic of his backer, but everyone will eventually know who his backer is.Some secret relationships don’t need to be said at all. People who need to know will know when they need to know. On the contrary, it is the kind of backstage who never leaves their own three words, and often hangs "My dad is XXX" in the On the contrary, it is the lowest relationship account.

For a while, because of Xi Jinhu, Yuling directly became the focus of attention of the high-level officials of Haiya City. Even Han Xinhe himself was moved to accept Yuling as a disciple, and sold it to Xi Jinhu as a favor.

However, the development of things since then has exceeded everyone's expectations.

After stepping into the fairy gate, Yuling, who was penniless, soon fell into trouble because he had no money to buy cultivation resources. When sending letters to his father, he often complained that he had no cultivation resources, and he would definitely waste his life in vain.

Although Ji Xiangde has worked as a cleaner with Xi Jinhu for many years, but he doesn't understand the behavior of cultivators, and he doesn't know that his daughter has long been designated as the focus of the Haiya faction, and he doesn't realize that even Xi Jinhu If I don't open my mouth, the Haiya department is ready to tilt resources towards my daughter.

In order to obtain enough cultivation resources for his daughter, he even chose to secretly steal the red envelopes given to Xi Jinhu by his clients!

Because Ji Xiangde knew Xi Jinhu's living habits very well, and Xi Jinhu had no defense against him at all, he committed hundreds of consecutive crimes without being discovered by Xi Jinhu.

If Ji Xiangde can only achieve this level, maybe he can really get away with it.However, Ji Xiangde made a mistake. Instead of taking the stolen money with him, he deposited all 12 yuan of Lingshi coins into the Haiya bank account under his name, and then prepared to remit it to Yuling as a cultivation fund.

As we all know, the main function of the Lingshi Reserve Bank is anti-money laundering. A mortal with no background suddenly wanted to remit a huge amount of 10 yuan in Lingshi coins, which immediately attracted the attention of the staff of Haiya Bank. The situation was reported to monetary policy observer Xu Yannan, and when Xu Yannan found out that Xi Jinhu was involved in the case, naturally he would not let this hot potato fall into his hands, but directly transferred the information to the Law Enforcement Hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

Xi Jinhu can also be regarded as a well-known figure in the cultivation world of Zhongzhou.

Even if the mortal drinkers in Haiya City mention Xi Jinhu, they will praise "Old Xi is pertinent"!
After receiving the report about Xi Jinhu, the Law Enforcement Hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect attached great importance to it. After all, the mortals brought by Xi Jinhu suddenly transferred such a large amount of money, or transferred the money to Haiya City, a foreign trade port, which will undoubtedly make people imagine. Lian Pian:

Could it be that Editor-in-Chief Xi is going to defect to Fire Cloud State?
Although Li Feiyu hadn't defected at that time, it was not that there were no other Zhongzhou monks who had defected before.

Li Feiyu's defection has already made Lin Jianxing, the head of the Wuliang Sword Sect, a laughing stock. If Xi Jinhu, who is known as the mouthpiece of the Wuliang Sword Sect, also defected, the head of Lin Jianxing can be said to be disgraced both internally and externally!
This kind of thing must be seriously investigated and dealt with!
But the facts proved that both Xu Yannan and the Law Enforcement Hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect were overthinking.

There is a saying that "the most high-end corruption often adopts the simplest method of committing crimes". After a lot of manpower and material resources were deployed to investigate and unannounced, the Law Enforcement Hall found that Ji Xiangde was actually a low-level red envelope thief!
(End of this chapter)