The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 691
After learning about this from Wen Hanqing, Yun Tianhua couldn't sit still anymore.

However, seeing that Wen Hanqing chose to tell him this in private instead of directly reporting it to Lin Jianxing, Yun Tianhua also knew that his previous judgment was correct. This elder of the Wuliang Sword School who is known for his neutrality still looks down on Lin Jianxing in his heart.

After all, everyone now knows that Lin Jianxing is eager to take him down as the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank. If Wen Hanqing's position is in favor of Lin Jianxing, she only needs to notify Lin Jianxing of the matter, and Yuntianhua can only take the blame and resign on the spot up.

So Yun Tianhua immediately asked Wen Hanqing to help keep it secret, and directly entrusted Pan's firm to help investigate the source of this counterfeit banknote.

Wen Hanqing can naturally understand Yun Tianhua's concerns.

Since there are counterfeit banknotes in the market, there is a high probability that there are ghosts inside Lingshi Reserve Bank, so Yuntianhua can't entrust the insiders of Lingshi Reserve Bank to carry out the investigation no matter what!
If someone with a heart finds out about this, Yun Tianhua may be taken down before the truth is revealed, and even his own life may be in danger. After all, Yun Tianhua knows all about criminal gangs that can commit such crimes. The forces behind it are by no means simple!
In contrast, Pan's Commercial Bank is a private property of the Pan family, with business outlets all over Kyushu. Whether in terms of confidentiality or execution, a private company like Pan's Commercial Bank is far better than a bureaucratic organization like Lingshi Reserve Bank.

Just as Yun Tianhua expected, Wen Hanqing did not hesitate, and agreed to help him on the spot. Under his personal instruction, Pan's firm quickly mobilized its forces to start an investigation.

Since these two banknotes were printed in the Yuntianhua era (otherwise the two banknotes would have been printed with the private spell marks of Li Qingyang, Li Rui, and even Lu Yang), their circulation time is not long, which is also It greatly facilitated the investigation work of Pan's Commercial Bank. After careful investigation, the source of the two banknotes was quickly investigated.

The origin of one of the notes is quite simple.

It was originally a batch of cash provided by Lingshi Reserve Bank to Haiya Bank last year. This batch of cash was stored in Haiya Bank's vault for more than half a year. It was withdrawn from the public account opened at Haiya Bank, and Jin Yongji, the head of the Yaoguang faction, brought it to the auction site.

Since the entire circulation process has not found any doubts, it means that it should be genuine.

However, the origin of the other banknote is very suspicious.

First of all, this banknote was taken out by a certain Jindanqi elder of the Liuyun Sect in the Arctic State who participated in the auction.

Since the headquarters of the Lingshi Reserve Bank was established in Zhongzhou, most of the cash circulation started from Zhongzhou, and the Lingshi coin cash circulating in other big states was generally an older version than Zhongzhou.

The Arctic State is not only located in a remote location, but also the Haiyuan Chamber of Commerce, the leader of the Arctic State’s ocean trade, has always had a bad relationship with the Zhongzhou Ocean Trade Leader, the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce. In Guangcheng's territory, there is almost no direct communication with the chamber of commerce under Liuyunzong.

Considering that the Lingshi Reserve Bank has not released the Yuntianhua version of banknotes to the Arctic State in the past two years, and the Lingshi Reserve Bank has issued cash for less than a year, and it is now circulating in the territory of Liuyunzong. Not something normal.

And according to the elder of the Flowing Cloud Sect, the banknote in his hand did not come from the sect's salary, but the money paid to him by merchants from Zhongzhou when he sold the Frostgrass in a certain city in the Arctic State.

As we all know, Frostgrass is the most common ice-type elixir in Kyushu.

Whether it is to help practitioners who practice ice-attribute skills to break through the bottleneck of the realm, or to refine pills that strengthen the casting effect of ice-attribute spells, it is one of the indispensable accessories, and the market demand is very huge, and Liuyunzong The elders were able to cultivate to the golden elixir realm, mainly relying on the unique secret of cultivating Frostgrass in large quantities handed down from their ancestors.

This does give the note a plausible origin.

And under normal circumstances, the maker of counterfeit banknotes will certainly not only produce a few counterfeit banknotes.

When you find a counterfeit banknote, there are often a large number of counterfeit banknotes in circulation in the market, so Pan's firm immediately sent people to Fangshi, Arctic Prefecture, where the elder Liu Yunzong opened his shop to conduct on-the-spot investigations.

Through in-depth research in this city, the local branch of the Lingshi Reserve Bank found a large number of Lingshi currency banknotes from the Yuntianhua era, and its circulation ratio even exceeded that of Li Qingyang's era.

You must know that Li Qingyang has served as the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank for 200 years, and the Lingshi currency banknotes have been strengthened through special cultivation spells, and the natural wear rate is much lower than that of the earth's banknotes. Therefore, the Lingshi coins issued in the Yuntianhua era The total amount of banknotes is not even a fraction of that of Li Qingyang's banknotes, and most of them are concentrated in Zhongzhou.

However, in this remote Xiuzhenfang city in Arctic State, the amount of Yuntianhua banknotes in circulation actually overwhelms the amount of Li Qingyang banknotes. Not only that, but also the neighboring port that has more trade with this remote city In Hefang City, the circulation ratio of Yuntianhua banknotes is also significantly higher than the normal level.

Investigators quickly realized that there must be ghosts here!

After collecting some Lingshi coin banknotes for comparison, the investigators of Pan's Commercial Bank found another Lingshi coin banknote with the same number as Zhongzhou in the local area, but the reason why they did not find more banknotes with the same number is that It's not that there are only these counterfeit banknotes in total, but that Pan's firm really doesn't have the energy to correct so many Yuntianhua banknotes one by one.

But it is enough to have these evidences. At this point in the investigation, Pan's firm can almost confirm that the Yuntianhua banknotes from Zhongzhou should have started to circulate in this arctic city, and gradually spread to nearby cities. And this batch of Yuntianhua banknotes of unknown origin should all be counterfeit banknotes!
Such a huge amount of counterfeit banknotes flowed in without leaving any traces, not to mention that there are only a handful of Zhongzhou cultivation forces who have recently come to the Arctic Zhoufang City to purchase a large number of cultivation materials. After further investigation by Pan's Trading Company, they will soon The source of the target was locked on Qing Yunzong, a vassal sect of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

The mainstream cultivation method of Qing Yunzong is the ice-type mental method. Not only that, a certain elder of Qing Yunzong's foundation period just happened to come to this square city to buy a lot of supplies recently.

If he had only purchased the special products unique to the Arctic State, this elder of Qing Yun’s Foundation Establishment Period would not have been targeted by the investigators of Pan’s Firm so soon. Resources, and even specially purchased hundreds of tons of black iron, and transported back to Zhongzhou by ocean-going merchant ships.

As we all know, Zhongzhou is originally a state of mineral production, and Luanshi City is famous in Kyushu for its black iron ore production capacity.

Elder Qing Yunzong did not go to the nearby Luanshi City of Zhongzhou to buy the black iron ore, but went to the Arctic state where minerals are scarce to buy the black iron ore at a high price and then transported it back to Zhongzhou. This strange incident impressed the merchants in Fang City of the Arctic state very deeply. , and even the other resources that this elder of Qing Yunzong bought with a large sum of money were also noticed by interested people.

(End of this chapter)