The Fourth Financial Crisis

At the same time as Yang Lu met with the masked man, the Lingshi Reserve Bank also held a temporary meeting in the Wuliang Sword Sect's meeting hall.

Lingshi Reserve Bank is nominally jointly organized by the seven major sects in Kyushu, but Wuliang Sword Sect, as the original initiator, has absolute say in Lingshi Reserve Bank. This is also a valuable legacy left to Wuliang Sword Sect by the founders of Lingshi Reserve Bank. political legacy.

The office of the Lingshi Reserve Bank is located at the core of the Wuliang Sword Sect, with an independent building complex. However, whenever an important meeting is held, the Lingshi Reserve Bank will borrow the sect's meeting hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect. This also reflects the Wuliang Sword Sect's meeting hall. Jianpai and Lingshi Reserve Bank have a close cooperative relationship.

If we have to make an analogy, the relationship between the Infinite Sword Sect and the Lingshi Reserve Bank is probably between the relationship between the US government and the United Nations, and the relationship between the US government and the Federal Reserve.

However, after the third Lingshi Reserve Bank President Li Qingyang took office, the relationship between the two parties changed subtly.

The first president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, Lu Yang, and the second president Li Rui were both monks from the Wuliang Sword Sect, while Li Qingyang was an expatriate monk from the Golden Sword Sect. This would inevitably make the senior officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect Heartbroken.

There are even rumors that Lin Jianxing, the head of Wuliang Sword Sect, has repeatedly proposed the idea of ​​replacing Li Qingyang.

This statement is not unfounded. In recent years, many proposals of the Lingshi Reserve Bank have been unilaterally rejected by the Infinite Sword Sect.

It’s just that Li Qingyang is recognized by the Jiuzhou cultivation world as the greatest existing cultivation economist. Even the Shenhuo Sect, which has always had a quarrel with the Wuliang Sword Sect, highly respects Li Qingyang’s academic level, not to mention the past few hundred years. The three immortals who ascended to the immortal world all had old friendships with Li Qingyang at one time or another.

Even the dignified leader of the Infinite Sword Sect cannot shake Li Qingyang's supreme position in the field of cultivation finance!

Now the attitude of the senior officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect towards the Lingshi Reserve Bank is to "delay". As long as they drag it until President Li Qingyang is driving to Hexi, they can arrange for one of their "own people" to regain absolute control of the Lingshi Reserve Bank. .

Despite the undercurrents surging among various forces, the regular meeting of the Lingshi Reserve Bank was still held as usual.

At this moment, the meeting hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect was already filled with hundreds of cultivators. These cultivators are all middle- and high-level financial officials of the Lingshi Reserve Bank. Their lowest cultivation level is at the foundation-building stage. There are even a few golden elixir stage and even Nascent Soul stage monks sitting in the front row.

Half of the cultivators present were wearing the unique blue and white robes of the Wuliang Sword Sect, and more than 30% of the cultivators were wearing the costumes of the six sects of the other eight major states. In addition, about 10% of the cultivators were wearing bright yellow gold robes. Daomen robes, as well as a handful of cultivators from small sects in uniforms of various numbers were present.

From the composition of the financial officials of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, we can also see the balance of power between the various sects in the field of cultivation finance.

As the founder of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, the Wuliang Sword Sect occupies half of the Lingshi Reserve Bank.

Under the shadow of Li Qingyang, the Golden Blade Sect also defeated the six major sects in the other eight states and became the second largest faction in the Lingshi Reserve Bank. Then there were representatives of the six major sects belonging to different factions.

At the core of the meeting hall, there sat an extremely old-looking monk from the Golden Sword Sect.

Jiuzhou cultivators all possess the art of preserving their appearance. If a cultivator appears to have an old face, most of them are signs that their lifespan is about to end and their body's true energy is about to be dissipated. The remaining life span will not exceed five years at most.

This old man who is guarded by countless senior masters is none other than Li Qingyang, the current president of Lingshi Reserve Bank!

The theme of this extremely high-level meeting was to discuss the issuance of spirit stone coins in the next year.

Regarding the attitude of monetary policy, there is actually no fundamental difference between cultivators and earth capitalists. Everyone hopes that the central bank can open the floodgates and release the water. Only by opening the floodgates and releasing the water can assets appreciate indefinitely.

But the problem is that it is always the rich who own assets, and the poor have no assets. Under the credit currency system, opening the floodgates will only expand the gap between the rich and the poor infinitely and aggravate the imbalance of social distribution. Because of this, President Li Qingyang is a staunch anti-water-liberal person.

He has a hawkish statement that is well-known in the Jiuzhou cultivation world - as long as I am in charge of the Lingshi Reserve Bank for one day, the Infinite Sword Sect will never be reduced to the Unlimited Quantitative Easing Sword Sect!

It is precisely because Li Qingyang has always adhered to a selfless attitude and has been in charge of the monetary policy of the cultivation world for hundreds of years. He is not swayed by the interest groups composed of cultivators from various sects. Over the years, there has never been any major trouble in the cultivation financial world. This also earned Li Qingyang the reputation of being the definition of Poseidon in Cultivation Finance.

However, at this Lingshi Reserve Bank meeting, President Li Qingyang was obviously a little out of energy.

When many middle and high-level cadres of Lingshi Reserve Bank took turns to speak, Li Qingyang did not express anything. His cloudy eyes were only slightly closed, making people suspect that he was not listening to the reports of the people below at all.

Everyone around President Li Qingyang knows that the old president's biological age has deteriorated to a level equivalent to that of a mortal around 80 years old. Being able to sit here and preside over the meeting is barely supported by panacea and magical secrets.

Perhaps realizing that Li Qingyang was already old, the atmosphere of the speeches at this meeting became obviously stronger. Many remarks that had not been dared to be made public before were also mentioned secretly this time.

For example, a cultivation economist from the Wuliang Sword Sect proposed that Luo's Commercial Bank, one of the top ten commercial banks in Zhongzhou, is now facing a debt crisis. In order to avoid triggering systemic financial risks, the Lingshi Reserve Bank should immediately issue Lingshi coins. reveal all the details.

If it were in the past, Li Qingyang would definitely have rebuked this kind of statement about paying for the cultivation capitalists.

But this time, Li Qingyang didn't seem to hear him and just let this bold guy finish his words. This made many financial officials from the Wuliang Sword Sect become even more bold in their speeches.

In contrast, cultivators from the Golden Blade Sect seemed unusually silent. They knew very well that the Wuliang Sword Sect allowed a cultivator from the Golden Blade Sect to serve in the Lingshi Reserve Bank entirely because of the face of President Li Qingyang.

If they lose the protection of President Li Qingyang, the situation of these Jindaomen financial officials can be described as precarious, and no one has the intention to speak at this time.

Without a debate opponent, the radical financial officials of the Infinite Sword faction are completely acting alone.

These monks of the Infinite Sword Sect have been talking for a long time, and they feel a little boring, because even if they talk nonsense, as long as Li Qingyang is still sitting in the position of president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, he can still veto all their proposals with one vote.

Soon, the meeting place gradually became quiet, and everyone's eyes fell on Li Qingyang.

Noticing everyone's gazes, Li Qingyang gently knocked on the table as if waking up from a dream, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yan Nan, why didn't you speak today..."

Xu Yannan, who was personally appointed by Li Qingyang, was recognized as a rising academic star by the Golden Knife Sect.

Although he was only in the middle stage of foundation building, due to his profound knowledge in cultivation finance, he was promoted by Li Qingyang to be the monetary policy observer of the Lingshi Reserve Bank in Haiya City. He was responsible for statistics on foreign trade data between Zhongzhou and other major states, and compiling the entire cultivation world. The most authoritative price index - Haiya Comprehensive Price Index.

Unlike most Jindaomen financial officials, Xu Yannan did not speak, not because he had nothing to say. In fact, he had long expected that Li Qingyang would name him to speak.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the influence of the Golden Knife Sect in the Lingshi Reserve Bank will inevitably gradually decline with the death of Li Qingyang. Of course, Li Qingyang himself knows it well.

And he, Xu Yannan, is Li Qingyang's only hope!