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Late at night, on the streets of the imperial capital Borelli. wWw, QUanbEn-xIAoShUo, Com Lin Qi and Kou En sneaked through the dark streets wearing cloaks, like two little thieves who pried open doors and windows. Occasionally, a dragoon would ride past them, and the two of them would quickly run into the dark shadows on the street to avoid the vigilant sight of the dragoon.
Lin Qi had just paid the bill, and the two of them had a late-night snack at a tavern near the back door of Fifth University. Then Coen took Lin Qi for a walk and walked toward the east side of the city along a street with few lights.
The dragoons and copper hats caused great trouble to the two of them along the way. Many times they had to hide in embarrassment to avoid being discovered by their sneaky whereabouts. Kouen couldn't help but curse. It was all the good deeds of those damn thieves - one was the theft case at No. 1 Shenghui Street, the other was the theft case of the Crown of Victory Palace, plus several great gods had troubles one after another in the imperial capital, now The imperial capital's security force is much stronger than before.
If Lin Qi hadn't been much stronger than these dragoons and copper hats, and if Lin Qi's mental power hadn't been able to spread dozens of meters and detect the movements of these people in advance, the two of them would have been caught long ago. Second-rate.
"The gods cursed those damn thieves so that they will never see the lovely gold coins!" Kou En complained in a grumble, and led Lin Qi forward in a timid manner. Lin Qi touched his nose a little embarrassed. It seemed that all the recent big cases in the Imperial Capital were related to him? Was Cohen cursing him
After marching forward cautiously for a long time, the two finally arrived at the famous Golden Lily Square in Dongcheng District.
This square has a long history and has existed since the founding of the imperial capital. This small square is surrounded by many famous big banks on the mainland, especially all the big banks in the empire. Their headquarters are set up here.
Banks that can own an independent building near Golden Lily Plaza are the kind of behemoths that can destabilize a country for a while with one move. Someone once said that if all the banks in the Golden Lily Square of the Gallic Empire united, their wealth alone would have the power to subvert an empire.
Kou En brought Lin Qi here in the middle of the night, and Lin Qi couldn't help but look at Kou En secretly.
"My most respected professor, are you planning to rob the treasury here?" Lin Qi blinked desperately and stared at Professor Cohen. In the entire imperial capital, the Golden Lily Square is the only forbidden area with a stronger security than the Victory Palace. Because of the financial resources of these big banks, the daily security of the entire Golden Lily Square is maintained by an elite and powerful mercenary group.
Tu, this is the name of the mercenary group that guards the Golden Lily Square. It is also the only officially recognized large-scale mercenary group in the Gallic Empire. Its history can be traced back to the Hundred Years of Continental and Island War. In that tragic war "Tu gave the Imperial Army a great help.
Not to mention other things, just the twelve Heavenly Warriors stationed at Golden Lily Square were slaughtered! On weekdays, there are only four celestial beings stationed in the Victory Palace, and the defensive power of Golden Lily Square is three times that of the Victory Palace!
Lin Qi was very curious. Could it be that Professor Kouen was a hidden master who could easily kill twelve heavenly beings
Kou En glared at Lin Qi. He shook his withered arm and coughed a few times: "That's nonsense, Lin Qi. I want to give you a special extracurricular tutoring class today. I want you to understand something." Something like looting doesn’t necessarily have to be done with violence!”…,
After shaking his cloak, Coen led Lin Qi to a building made of granite across the square.
Although it was already late at night, Golden Lily Square was still brightly lit. There was a circle of lampposts along the square, and the bright street lights illuminated the square so that every detail was visible. Some carriages are parked outside some buildings. There is always a shining family coat of arms hanging on the carriages of these carriages.
Lin Qi glanced at these coats of arms. They all belonged to some well-known wealthy nobles, but Lin Qi didn't understand. Could it be that these nobles all had the habit of discussing business in the middle of the night? If they wanted to do something secretive and had to come to Golden Lily Plaza in the middle of the night, why would they hang out their coat of arms
Several guards wearing light blue armor were standing by a fountain not far away, looking at Kouen and Lin Qi coldly. In the huge Golden Lily Square, they were the only two who were the most sneaky, and they didn't look like good people. They were wearing heavy cloaks, and their entire bodies were covered tightly by the heavy and spacious cloaks. No matter how you looked at them, they exuded an evil aura.
Two guards walked towards them as if nothing had happened, but before the guards arrived, Cohen had already brought Lin Qi to the building. Lin Qi took a look at the building. A large pure gold coat of arms was inlaid on the door of the building. Looking at the pattern on it, this was the famous Silver Fir Elephant Bank in the empire.
Cohen knocked hard on the door of Silver Fir Elephant Bank, and heard footsteps inside. Then with a low mechanical sound, a small door opened on the side of the door, allowing only one person to pass through. Kouen muttered a few words in a low voice and led Lin Qi into the small door. The skinny old man who opened the door walked out, took out a coat of arms and shook it at the two guards approaching, and the two guards walked back slowly.
The small door closed behind the two of them. The skinny old man led Lin Qi and Kou En down a dim corridor. After going around the corridor several times, the three of them came to a room that was brightly lit and even a little dazzling. inside.
Several well-dressed middle-aged people were sitting behind a long table. Coen took Lin Qi and sat opposite these middle-aged people. The two sides were separated by a long table that was one meter wide and three meters long and faced each other.
"Dear guest, according to your reservation, we have prepared everything." A few middle-aged people didn't seem to care about Lin Qi and Cohen's weird costumes. One of them, with a cheerful energy, put a huge square The cowhide bag was placed on the long table.
Cohen opened the cowhide bag and examined some of the contracts inside the cowhide bag under the bright light, and then he nodded with satisfaction. He knocked on the table lightly and murmured a few times to Lin Qi. Lin Qi hurriedly took out the gold tickets, counted out 18 million gold coins and handed them to the middle-aged people across the long table. people.
Several middle-aged people quickly and carefully checked the golden ticket handed over by Lin Qi, and then they all showed happy and mysterious smiles. They nodded solemnly to Lin Qi and left the room with the golden tickets.
Then Coen and Lin Qi quickly left the Silver Fir Elephant Bank, and under the cover of the building's shadow, they came to another bank next door.
The same thing happened. Coen took Lin Qi in and out of the headquarters of these big banks more than a dozen times, and exchanged all the gold tickets on Lin Qi into contracts. In just over an hour, Lin Qi spent nearly 100 million worth of gold tickets in exchange for a stack of contracts in Kou En's hand.
"Professor Cohen, what are you going to do?" Lin Qi was heartbroken and worried at the same time. What on earth is Cohen trying to do? What's going on with these contracts? Nearly 100 million gold coins. Lin Qi had never spent money so lavishly in her life. Even though he spent a lot of gold coins in Hell Hammer last time, he also got a lot of weapons and ordnance. …,
But Cohen's behavior this time was too weird.
Cohen smiled mysteriously and pointed at a dark building made of black volcanic steel opposite the Golden Lily Square.
"This is our goal, Iron Wall Bank!" Coen's face looked very strange. He bit his beard and smiled proudly: "Iron Wall Bank, the real economic lifeline of the eldest prince Thuram, relies on the century-old continent. At the end of the island war, it started by preparing military expenditures from various countries on the mainland, and now it is one of the most powerful banks in the mainland."
Patting the contract in his hand vigorously, Cohen narrowed his eyes and sneered: "The contracts I want you to pay for are all internal loan documents between Iron Wall Bank and other banks."
Lin Qi listened to Kou En's explanation quietly, and then he was so frightened by Kou En's huge appetite that he broke out in cold sweat!
According to Cohen, these banks, whether they are private family-backed banks or state-backed banks, are greedy monsters. Generally speaking, people in mainland China deposit their gold coins in banks, and banks issue gold tickets for these gold coins, and then charge handling fees when the gold tickets are cashed. According to ordinary people's understanding, this is the bank's only source of income.
But in pursuit of profits, how could banks foolishly hide golden coins in their vaults
Even if one million gold tickets are exchanged for cash or gold tickets of other denominations, how much is the handling fee? Maybe a big banker would eat up all the handling fees in one dinner. Therefore, banks will use other people's gold coins stored in their vaults to lend money to operators in various industries, and obtain high interest returns.
But gradually, the appetite of these bankers grew bigger and bigger, and they were pleasantly surprised to find that no one knew how many gold coins they had in their vaults! If they only have 10 million gold coins in the warehouse, but if they issue gold tickets with a face value of 100 million gold coins and then use these gold tickets to invest, they can still get huge interest returns!
As a result, the amount of gold tickets issued by these banks has become larger and larger, because ordinary people have become accustomed to the convenience brought by gold tickets. No one likes to carry around heavy gold coins everywhere like Lin Qi! So as long as no one opens their coffers, the gold tickets they issue have the same effect as gold coins.
Therefore, the number of gold tickets is increasing, far exceeding the actual number of gold coins they have in the warehouse!
Therefore, occasionally some customers will withdraw large quantities for some reasons!
When there are insufficient gold coins in the warehouse, some big banks will lend cash to banks with good relationships.
Or when conducting certain investment activities or equity participation, these banks will also lend to each other.
All in all, things here are very complicated.
And Professor Cohen took so many loan contracts from Iron Wall Bank just because he wanted to swallow up Iron Wall Bank in one go!
The Iron Wall Bank ranks among the top ten in the entire continent! . )