The Fourth Financial Crisis

Winter is the off-season for foreign trade. Since Yang Lu's interview work was coming to an end, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce had no issues that required Yang Lu and Li Qingning to deal with in person for the entire day.

Since the door was kicked open by Butler Zhou, Li Qingning couldn't stay in his office for the time being. On a snowy night, after all, it was most comfortable to sit in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's reception room and warm up by the fire.

Although the Qingning Chamber of Commerce has installed a civilian constant-temperature array, the heating effect of this type of civilian array is not ideal. In the Kyushu cultivation world, spiritual energy is the most precious resource between heaven and earth. According to the rules established by various sects, there is an upper limit on the amount of civilian spiritual energy used in each region. The general principle is to distribute it according to the total output of local spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

As for how to specifically measure the "output of spiritual energy from heaven and earth", there is actually no quantitative conclusion in the world of cultivation.

However, according to the second law of cultivation proposed by the cultivation economist Bo Nanke during his lifetime - the law of conservation of spiritual energy, the total annual output of heaven and earth spiritual energy is a fixed number. If the consumption of heaven and earth spiritual energy in a certain place exceeds the output, the local The spiritual energy will become thin.

According to this theory, the concentration of spiritual energy in the Kyushu cultivation world today is lower than that in the ancient and medieval times, because there are too many cultivators and immortal formations.

Haiya City has a large population, and compared to famous mountains and rivers with sparsely populated areas, the supply of spiritual energy is tighter. Within the Haiya system's sphere of influence, not only is excessive use of spiritual energy a very serious crime, but the operating efficiency of all civilian immortal formations must be deliberately lowered to maintain the sustainable use of local spiritual energy.

Not only that, if the Haiya Sect discovers that the concentration of spiritual energy in Haiya City has dropped significantly, thus affecting the combat effectiveness of the cultivators of the Haiya Sect, the Lord's Palace of Haiya City will also issue an "Emergency Restriction Order on Civilian Use of Spiritual Energy" to temporarily suspend civilian use in the city. The immortal formation will operate until the concentration of spiritual energy in Haiya City returns to normal.

After the "Civil Reiki Emergency Restriction Order" is promulgated, not only will all the constant-temperature fairy arrays be forced to close, but even the Reiki street lights used for lighting will be extinguished, causing great inconvenience to the nightlife of Haiya City citizens. Therefore, the "Civil Reiki Emergency" The entry into force of the "Restriction Order" was also jokingly called "opening the gas limit" by the residents of Haiya City.

Although the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's civilian constant-temperature fairy array is only a reduced version, it is already a symbol of Li Qingning's status. Many ordinary chambers of commerce and teahouses and restaurants with insufficient backgrounds cannot even apply for a construction permit for this scaled-down version of the constant-temperature fairy array. In winter, they are forced to close their doors.

If it is during the day, the constant temperature fairy array of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce can barely maintain a relatively comfortable indoor temperature, but when the time comes at night, it clearly shows signs of being unable to do its job.

As a cultivator, Li Qingning was not afraid of cold or heat, but Yang Lu and Murong would inevitably feel a little cold after sitting for a long time, so Li Qingning ordered Murong to light a fire in the room to warm the entire reception room.

Looking at the snow under the light of the fire outside the window, even Yang Lu, who has experienced various high-end enjoyments on earth, can't help but sigh: a warm room and a cold winter night have always been the most perfect combination!

The three of them just sat on the floor around the fire.

With two beauties, Li Qingning and Murong, by their side, even if they are just chatting, playing cards, talking about novels, stories, anecdotes, or casually browsing the works of ancient cultivation economists, it will feel particularly warm and comfortable.

Although Li Qingning is a famous lady in the world of cultivation, she is also a young girl who is only 22 years old. After getting along with each other for this period of time, her relationship with her two peers, Yang Lu and Murong, has naturally become quite good. After work, we can often get together to play cards, tell stories, and talk about family matters.

Murong was a little reserved at first, but because Yang Lu was very open-minded and had no mentality of being inferior to others as a mortal, and Miss Qingning was also a sweetheart, the atmosphere between the three of them was obviously better than at the beginning. Much more natural.

Yang Lu could tell that Li Qingning also enjoyed the feeling of sitting together with friends and gathering together. For a young lady of the chamber of commerce like her, perhaps such a warm experience was her most rare experience!

In order to pass the time, Yang Lu even taught the two women how to play poker. In the Kyushu cultivation world where entertainment is relatively scarce, the playing cards introduced from the earth quickly aroused the interest of Li Qingning and Murong, and the three of them just joined a table to fight the landlord, because the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is the biggest common topic among the three. , as the topic of the card table continues to advance, the focus of everyone's discussion naturally moves closer to the aspects of cultivation economics and sect management.

Li Qingning comes from an academic family. Even a temporary group like the Qingning Chamber of Commerce has a collection of all kinds of books. While Yang Lu plays cards with the two girls, he will look through the wisdom of these sages from time to time.

The book Yang Lu was holding in his hand at this time was the work of Bo Nanke, a famous ancient cultivation economist——

"The Courage to Act: The Beginning and End of the Second Lingshi Financial Crisis"

This book is a life memoir written by Bo Nanke, a tenth-level Nascent Soul monk, in his later years after his failed attempt to ascend.

As the leader of the Wuliang Sword Sect when the Second Lingshi Financial Crisis broke out, Senior Bo Nanke has made astonishing academic achievements in many different academic fields. His all-round performance can be called the Isa of the Kyushu cultivation world. Sir G. Newton.

Not only was he the founder of the contemporary "Lingshi Numismatics" theory, he personally founded the Kyushu Monetary Union, the predecessor of the current Lingshi Reserve Bank, but he was also a great cultivation scientist who proposed the famous Three Laws of Cultivation in the cultivation world through controlled experiments. ——The law of conservation of spiritual energy, the law of large numbers in spiritual roots, and the law of spiritual energy absorption efficiency.

Relying on the long lifespan of a monk in the late Nascent Soul, this senior Bo Nanke also achieved many other strange academic achievements, such as the "Cultivation Method Shorthand Technique" and "Immortal Technique Memory Rules" that are now used by cultivators in Kyushu. "etc.

Bo Nanke's failure to ascend to the immortal world is also recognized as the biggest regret in the world of cultivation in the past ten thousand years.

After Li Qingning used two 3s to blow up Yang Lu's four 2s, he saw that Yang Lu kept reading Bo Nanke's works and couldn't help but curiously said: "Yang Lu, it seems that you like the works of senior Bo Nanke very much. !”

Seeing his four 2's blown up by Li Qingning's cheating, Yang Lulu did not change his composure and threw out two 4's with his backhand: "Senior Bo Nanke's monetary theory is very interesting. The Kyushu Monetary Union he founded is indeed unique. Machine."

Seeing that Yang Lu's four 2s were blown up by Li Qingning's two 3s, and then Yang Lu used two more 4s to control it, Murong no longer knew how to play his cards, so he had no choice but to say "pass".

However, after hearing what Yang Lu said, Murong couldn't help but interject: "But everyone says that Governor Lu Yang has the highest attainments in cultivation economics, but I don't think you seem to have carefully studied Governor Lu's works... …”

At this time, Li Qingning threw out two Jacks very naturally, controlling Yang Lu's 4, without any sense of shame in cheating.

Yang Lu just smiled and shook his head: "I'm sorry... It's not that I think President Lu Yang's theoretical level is not good, but that President Lu Yang's theory is very, uh... makes me feel a sense of déjà vu, but it's Bo Nan Senior Ke’s theory is more novel and more inspiring to me.”

At this time it was Murong's turn to play his cards again.

Looking at the two jacks played by Li Qingning and the two queens in her hand, Murong finally said "I'm sorry". An honest person like her could no longer control this magical card game!

When Li Qingning heard Yang Lu praising Bo Nanke, although he cheated to win, his expression was obviously not good.

If we were to choose who is the greatest cultivation economist in the history of the cultivation world, there are only three candidates recognized by the cultivation world:

Ms. Yellen, the originator of true economics who created the three-standard currency system and ended the first financial crisis;

Senior Bo Nanke, the legendary cultivation economist who founded the Kyushu Monetary Union system and ended the second Lingshi financial crisis;

Governor Lu Yang, the master of cultivation economics, created the Lingshi credit currency system and ended the third Lingshi financial crisis.

According to the current mainstream view in the cultivation world, the number of people who support President Lu Yang should be the largest, followed by the number of people who support Senior Bo Nanke, and the number of people who support Ye Lun is relatively the smallest, and there is a clear gap between the number of people who support the first two.

Seeing that Yang Lu put most of his energy into studying Bo Nanke's works, the two women obviously acquiesced that he was a "Bo Nanke sect".

Li Qingyang is the assistant and named disciple of President Lu Yang, and Li Qingning is naturally a staunch supporter of the "Lu Yang Sect".

After playing the last card in her hand and unilaterally declaring her victory, the beautiful young lady immediately retorted: "President Lu Yang has been blessed with seven golden wheels of merit, which is higher than the six golden wheels of merit of Senior Bo Nanke. Obviously the way of heaven is also I think President Lu is even better. Not to mention, Senior Bo Nanke failed to ascend throughout his life, while Senior Lu Yang achieved the status of an immortal."

Yang Lu immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, then took the initiative to shuffle a round of cards for the two ladies, and explained: "President Lu is indeed a great cultivation economist! I just said that senior Bo Nanke's theory inspired me more. I don’t mean to belittle Governor Lu. If we talk about his contribution to the Kyushu cultivation world, Governor Lu is naturally greater. After all, in addition to establishing the Lingshi Reserve Bank, he also prepared the Wuliang Sword Sect Stock Exchange and the Cultivation Financial Supervision Committee. Senior Nan Ke is not as far away as him!"

What Yang Lu said was the truth.

Although Governor Lu Yang's theory of cultivation economics is more advanced and his contribution is more outstanding, these theoretical results of Governor Lu Yang are highly similar to Earth's theoretical results and have no enlightening significance for Yang Lu.

On the contrary, it was the Jiuzhou Monetary Union system founded by Bo Nanke that made him feel bright.

He originally thought that the Kyushu Monetary Union system was a mutated version of the Bretton Woods system, but after careful study, he found that its underlying principles were completely different from the Earth's Bretton Woods system.

Considering that neither Li Qingning nor Murong had any foundation in "Lingshi Numismatics", Yang Lu did not give an in-depth explanation of this. He just had a perfunctory attitude of "anything the young lady says is right."

Seeing Yang Lu take the initiative to admit defeat, the beautiful young lady suddenly smiled charmingly: "I will continue to call you a landlord... I know that you also support President Lu Yang! I have grown up listening to President Lu's stories since I was a child. I don’t know if I can achieve the same level of achievements as President Lu in this life.”

Yang Lu forcibly resisted the urge to complain, not having the nerve to dampen Li Qingning's enthusiasm.

When it comes to theoretical level, Yang Lu thinks he is not much inferior to Governor Lu. If Li Qingning is willing to study the knowledge he imparts as seriously as Murong did, his future achievements may not be comparable to those of his predecessors. Just look at Li Qingning's three days of fishing and two days of sunbathing. Yang Lu felt that it was difficult for her to realize her lofty ideals due to her poor attitude towards learning.

Through this period of getting along with each other, Yang Lu already knew the details of Li Qingning quite well.

Li Qingning possesses the rare cultivation aptitude of the best wind spirit root. From the time he entered the Immortal Sect at the age of 16, in just over 3 years, he has cultivated from the lowest level of introducing qi into the body to the state of perfect qi refining.

She has not advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage in the past two years, not because she cannot afford the Foundation Establishment Pill, but because according to the Heavenly Dao Agreement jointly signed by the seven major sects of Kyushu, every Qi Refining Stage monk must participate in at least one extraterritorial battlefield trial. Qualified to continue to advance to the foundation building stage.

Therefore, Li Qingning must wait until the extraterritorial trial is completed at the end of this year before he can be qualified to continue practicing, otherwise he will have to bear the terrible penalty of breach of contract.

With this heaven-defying spiritual root qualification, even if Li Qingning does not practice meritorious deeds, it will not be a problem to practice in seclusion step by step until the golden elixir stage. If he follows the sect and does a little meritorious deeds, he might be able to reach the Nascent Soul realm. I don’t know what inspired this young lady to run away from home and run the Chamber of Commerce!

Li Qingning didn't know that Yang Lu was secretly complaining about her. She was addicted to Landlords and couldn't extricate herself.

Staring at the cards in her hand, the eldest lady's beautiful face turned slightly red with excitement. She even couldn't help but rub her white hands together. Looking at her undisguised expression of elation, Yang Lu knew it without guessing. She's dealt a good hand.

Sure enough, Li Qingning raised his hand and played a bunch of cards: "Shunzi, 345678910J, does anyone want it?"

Murong hesitated for a moment and said in an uncertain tone: "This is 45678910JQ, I can take care of it now!"

However, Li Qingning did not continue to play tricks this time, but directly threw out four cards domineeringly: "So what if I manage it? Four 2's exploded!"

When Yang Lu and Murong saw this, they expressed that they couldn't afford it.

Li Qingning immediately smiled proudly and threw four cards out of his hand again.

"Three aces and a five. I have two cards left. If you can't afford it anymore, I will win this one!"

Seeing Li Qingning's face full of confidence, Yang Lu chuckled: "I'll blow up 4K for you!"

"Why do you have a bomb in your hand again?"

"Luck, just luck!"

Li Qingning saw that his winning card was gone, and he suddenly became anxious: "Is 4 K great? I won't blow it up for you!"

Yang Lu was immediately speechless and said: "You just told me that two 3's can blow up my four 2's, so I accepted it, but now it's okay, you said that one 3 can blow up my four K's, is this okay? Play?"

Li Qingning's face turned red, but he still refused to admit defeat and said: "Then you can also use a 4-tube to plug my 3!"

"I'm not stupid. Do you think I don't know that your last card is King Zhang?"

Seeing that Yang Lu ruthlessly exposed the fact that he was cheating, Li Qingning was so anxious that he even forgot that he was a cultivator and rushed forward and pushed Yang Lu to the ground. He suppressed Yang Lu with his body and said reluctantly: "I asked someone to make this deck of cards for you. Can't you play according to my rules?"

The temperature next to the stove was quite comfortable. Both Yang Lu and Li Qingning were wearing thin clothes. Between two layers of thin cloth, their bodies were transmitting warm body heat to each other. Feeling the seductive elasticity of Li Qingning's long legs, and the breath-taking feeling that was so close to her when she spoke, Yang Lu couldn't help but joked: "No objection, of course no objection! There is an old saying in our hometown that appearance is justice. Miss, you are simply the embodiment of justice!"

Hearing Yang Lu's teasing, Li Qingning finally realized that her posture was very indecent. She rolled and jumped away from Yang Lu as if she had been burned. The soft touch disappeared, making Yang Lu smack his lips in regret.

If it were placed on Earth, a girl of Li Qingning's age would probably be able to make dirty jokes casually.

Looking at Li Qingning's fair and smooth face with a drunken blush, she was speechless for a long time. She was not a female boss of a chamber of commerce, but an innocent girl who had never experienced anything in the world!