The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

With Lingshi coins in hand, Zhu Ziming can finally start to promote the construction of the official shantang. However, just choosing the address of the shantang for the first step, Zhu Ziming encountered difficulties again.

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

So Zhu Ziming had to buy a lot 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 immortals between the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Haiya Sect.

Liu Hanxing is a good crossing dragon, but the Haiya department is also a super local snake. If the Haiya department is annoyed by selling the land to Zhu Ziming, then this transaction is likely to be the last deal of the Chamber of Commerce in Haiya City .

Unless Liu Hanxing can uproot the Haiya system, who would dare to risk his life to offend the overlord who has ruled Haiya City for 7000 years?

This is not the worst thing.

As Zhu Ziming was looking for someone to buy the land, rumors spread in Haiya City at some point, saying that anyone who dares to sell the land to the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce would be openly confronting Haiya City, and Haiya City would have to make them pay. The price of bleeding.

Such intimidating rumors made it more difficult for Zhu Ziming to acquire land. He ran around Haiya City several times, but he didn't buy a piece of land.

Sea Cliff City was originally very expensive, and the land price was quite high. Now everyone knows that the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce must purchase a large amount of land, so they have quoted astronomical figures.

Of course it would be best if Zhu Zi knows the difficulty and retreats. Even if he still chooses to fight at all costs, he can still have an explanation for the Haiya family.

With 800 million Lingshi coins being maliciously frozen by Haiya Bank, Zhu Ziming has very limited funds at hand. If he really accepts the blackmail from these profiteers in Haiya City, after buying the land, Zhu Jiashang will settle the account There is no money left.

Zhu Ziming has already mortgaged his wealth and life by borrowing money from usury, even if he wants to continue to borrow money, no one will lend it to him.

There is no other way, Zhu Ziming can only bite the bullet and find Yang Chenglong, and ask him to come forward to urge the Haiya City Lord's Mansion to ban these rumors that hinder the policies of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

He didn't hold out much hope at first, but unexpectedly, Yang Chenglong didn't shirk, and actually visited the City Lord's Mansion with him.

When the two came to the Haiya city lord's mansion "aggressively" and accused Haiya of maliciously spreading rumors to hinder the pilot reform of Zhongzhou's social security system, Han Fulai, who was in charge of receiving them, said with an innocent face that our Haiya city did not spread rumors at all. , and even posted a rumor refuting notice at the gate of the Haiya City Lord's Mansion.

According to Han Fulai's tip, Zhu Ziming and Yang Chenglong really found the so-called City Lord's Mansion Rumor Refutation Announcement. The announcement did exist, and it was even pasted outside the back door of the City Lord's Mansion.

However, the place where the announcement was posted was facing a secluded and uninhabited alley. The total area of ​​the announcement was less than the size of a piece of A4 paper, and there were always two vicious Haiya faction practitioners guarding it with vicious gestures. He stared at the mortals passing by, with an expression of "Believe it or not, I believe it anyway" written all over his face.

This is not so much a rumor refuting announcement as it is an official endorsement of the rumor.

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

Up to now, Zhu Ziming is [-]% sure that these rumors spreading around are not rumors in the market at all, but public opinions created by the Haiya City Lord's Mansion itself. With Yang Chenglong and Ma Kezhang as two backers who don't work hard, Zhu Ziming can't find a breakthrough to solve the problem.

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

Fortunately, the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce was also the local snake in Haiya City back then, and they 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 who sold newspapers. The spiritual stone coins of cultivators spread various rumors while selling "Cultivation Financial Weekly".

When Zhu Ziming asked about the identities of the masterminds behind these newsboys, all the newsboys knew nothing. All newsboys are under control, otherwise there is no way to stop the spread of rumors.

However, Zhu Ziming did not sit still. In order to get out of the predicament, he actually came up with a way to fight poison with poison. He bought a group of local hooligans to spread the opposite public opinion, saying that the officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect have begun to prepare a list, and now they are obstructing the reform of Zhongzhou's social security system. People who have been killed will be completely liquidated by the Wuliang Sword Sect in the future.

It did work a bit at first.

But the good times didn't last long. On the next morning, the hooligans sent by Zhu Ziming to spread rumors were killed by killers who didn't know where. The method of killing chickens and monkeys directly scares Zhu Ziming's potential collaborators into the urine.

They didn't expect that the Haiya faction would actually dare to kill people in the street!
If the Haiya family wants to kill people without bearing karma, they must ask the killer of Heyu Pavilion to take action, and please listen to the killer of Heyu Pavilion to get rid of these mortal hooligans. The cost of each head may not be less than tens of thousands of Lingshi coins , so many hooligans were eliminated at the same time, which shows that the Haiya faction paid at least [-] to [-] commissions!
The Haiya faction does not hesitate to use thunderous means to get rid of these mortals. The meaning conveyed is very clear. Whoever dares to fight against the Haiya faction in Haiya City will only have one word in the result——

dead!
Now Zhu Ziming finally understands what is meant by "folk songs don't compete with official rumors". No matter how clever your communication methods are, if the official rumors can physically eliminate you, the spreaders of folk songs, what can you do?
Can you still report to Haiya City Lord's Mansion and "Cultivation Finance Weekly"?
Fueled by the Haiya faction, the spread of the rumors of Haiya City intensified, and soon spread to every corner of Haiya City, and several different versions were even derived.

Among them, the most popular version claims that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce has secretly hired a prefecture-level Jindanqi killer from Tingheyu Pavilion with a lot of money. If anyone dares to sell the land to Zhu Ziming privately, a beautiful killer will come to kill him immediately. Your whole family.

As for why it is a beauty killer, Zhu Ziming thinks it must be the result of deliberate embellishment by the rumor spreaders.After all, if you want to talk about listening to the killer of Heyu Pavilion, there is no way to mobilize the enthusiasm of mortal fools and fools to spread gossip. It can be seen that these guys who spread rumors are quite professional!

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

Therefore, the quotations of these chambers of commerce are getting higher and higher day by day, which means "love to buy, not to buy".

Seeing that the conventional methods were no longer feasible, Zhu Ziming finally decided to use the banknote ability in another way.

Although the financial strength of the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce is not comparable to that of the Haiya Department, after all, Zhu Ziming holds millions of Lingshi coins in cash, has Liu Hanxing as his backer, and is quite familiar with the various forces in Haiya City.

He knew that most of the major chambers of commerce in Haiya City were afraid of the coercion of the Haiya faction and did not dare to openly do business with the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce, but as the saying goes, there are always some people who are eager to spend money and dare to take risks and do some private transactions .

Therefore, Zhu Ziming quickly found a small independent chamber of commerce, Shunfeng Warehouse, with the help of Zhu's old relationship in Haiya City.

The chambers of commerce that do business in Sea Cliff City, no matter how big or small, are all fairies with backgrounds.

In the early years, Shunfeng Warehouse was also the private property of an elder of the Haiya faction during the foundation period. It specialized in providing a temporary foothold for both passengers and goods for foreign chambers of commerce. It had a rather large piece of land in Haiya city. The Chamber of Commerce is also not qualified to engage in this kind of profiteering business of sitting on the ground and collecting rent.

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

As the main supplier of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce has of course dealt with Shunfeng Warehouse, knowing that Shunfeng Warehouse is one of the landlords of Haiya City, and has fallen into operational difficulties.

This kind of land renting business certainly does not have any operational risks. The reason why it has run into operational difficulties is mainly because Hong Chen, the backer behind the SF warehouse and the former head of the internal affairs hall of the Haiya faction, died more than ten years ago. Exhausted and died.

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

In order to realize the dream of the family's class leap, Elder Hong not only collected money wantonly through the Shunfeng Warehouse during his administration, but also spent a lot of money to buy mortal women to enrich his harem and spread branches and leaves for the family. Until his death, he seemed to be tireless The stallion has bred thousands of offspring.

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

After each female employee joins the job, Elder Hong will intentionally or unintentionally hint to the other party that only by obeying the unspoken rules can they continue to work in the warehouse, in order to coerce the female employees to work for themselves, and even the most common saying of Elder Hong, "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 hierarchy in the cultivation world is not so easy to break.

Even though Elder Hong has been carrying out human-creation campaigns day and night, the probability of being born with cultivation qualifications is only one in a thousand. Among the thousands of descendants of Elder Hong, only one cultivator with inferior spiritual roots was born , and finally joined the Haiya faction with reluctance, and inherited the business of Shunfeng Warehouse after Elder Hong passed away.

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

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 counted, and only tangible assets such as land are considered, the total assets of the Shunfeng Warehouse The scale is also as large as 70 million Lingshi coins, which is 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 hadn't completely cooled down yet. Under the care of Elder Hong's relatives, old friends, and fellow disciples, no one dared to touch the piece of cheese at Shunfeng Warehouse for the time being.

However, with the passage of time since Elder Hong passed away, the old relationship of the year has gradually disappeared, and the protective umbrella of the Shunfeng Warehouse in the Sea Cliff System is also declining at a speed visible to the naked eye. This is reflected in the operation of the warehouse, that is, the hardware condition of the warehouse is deteriorating. .Even the ascetic subordinates under He Mingyuan couldn't help complaining about the harsh conditions of the Shunfeng Warehouse.

Of course, Hong Shiqi, the owner of Shunfeng Warehouse, is well aware of these situations.

He is now planning to barely maintain the business, and strive to recover as much cost as possible through the warehouse before Hong Chen's prestige dissipates, and realize the shadow of his ancestors as soon as possible, so it is definitely impossible to continue spending money to renovate the hardware facilities of the warehouse.

It is precisely because of the operating difficulties faced by the Shunfeng Warehouse that Zhu Ziming secretly contacted Hong Shiqi through the old relationship of the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce, hoping to buy the land of the Shunfeng Warehouse at a high price without telling the Haiya faction. This deal was raw and cooked, and then Hong Shiqi ran away with the money.

Of course, Zhu Ziming also knew that Haiya's eyeliner was everywhere in Haiya City.

Therefore, he will definitely not contact Hong Shiqi alone, but in the name of visiting various chambers of commerce, he publicly visited all the famous chambers of commerce in Haiya City, in order to cover up the secret transaction with Hong Shiqi, and the place of the banquet was given by Zhu Ziming. The fair election was held in Haiya Pavilion.

When Hong Shiqi came to the banquet, Zhu Ziming had already sent away seven or eight waves of guests who were used as cover. After Hong Shiqi entered the box, Zhu Ziming followed the previous practice and imposed strict soundproof restrictions on his box.In Zhu Ziming's view, no one should be able to see his real goal after he released so many smokescreens. As long as he negotiates the land transfer contract by cutting first and playing later, even the Haiya Department can't do anything to him.

However, what Zhu Ziming didn't know was that his every move in Haiya Pavilion had not escaped the surveillance of those who cared.

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

While the few people were chatting, on the floor under their feet, there was a mysterious magic circle glowing with fluorescent lights. Through this magic circle, all the voices in Zhu Ziming's box were transmitted in every detail!