Chapter 494

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

O Xun slashed through his white skin, letting the dark red blood that spurted out flow along his wrist and all over his body.

His female companion had pale blue eyes and slender fingers; seeing so much blood, she did not panic but instead embraced O Xun's trembling body, tore open the white hemp robe, and wrapped it around his wrist.

Nine Ogaku men successively slit their own wrists; after losing at least one-third of their blood, they let the women beside them bandage them up.

"What is this for?"

"To pledge allegiance to you." O Xun lay weakly in his female companion's arms. They had a strict and loyal spousal system, with no exceptions.

Chen Yi blinked and looked at Yin Sen Guan.

"They no longer have the curse, so they will not be discovered by the Dragon God." Yin Sen Guan thought he was worried about that.

"The Ogaku people's allegiance is unto death." O Xun shouted loudly, followed by the remaining nineteen members of the royal family.

Chen Yi grunted "en" and did not feel any effect of a coercive oath. He did not really believe in this.

"Naked Bear, arrange housing for the Ogaku people, give them one month to familiarize themselves with the environment of Jiangning, and then find them jobs." Chen Yi then turned his head again and said to O Xun: "You are not allowed to leave Jiangning City; the boundary is the Ring City Highway. In addition, you must remember three rules: first, no killing or injuring people; second, no robbery or theft; third, no raping women... or men. Understand?"

"Understand." O Xun was somewhat disappointed; he had hoped allegiance would bring a better response, but Chen Yi's reaction was almost no response at all.

Jin Douna directed the high-level students to silently move the gold and platinum onto armed escort vehicles, which were then sent to the Jiangning Head Office by a semi-professional Inspection Team. With body techniques generally at levels seven or eight, they were equivalent to a group of characters like Chen Zhen and Huo Yuanjia wielding military equipment; unless encountering field combat, they almost had nothing to fear from special raids within the city.

Fourteen knights from the Fire Dragon Temple and Water Dragon Temple lingered in the basement, curious about the grand scale of the Central Storage Area and the allegiance and whereabouts of the Ogaku people; to them, either was worth more than gold.

A busy night quickly passed; Chen Yi brought home a brick-sized piece of gold, shaped it on the road into a little pig with a round face and round eyes, and placed it in the living room as a memento.

Chen Rongxi heard the sound upstairs, "thump thump thump" ran downstairs, and then saw the round-faced, round-eyed little pig on the windowsill.

Her eyes immediately widened, and she said with a smile that was not quite a smile: "Second Brother, you've been on a business trip for so long, and you made a statue of yourself to bring back?"

"Fortunately I don't have a younger brother to give it to." Chen Yi handed the little pig over.

Chen Rongxi caught it in one hand, her arm immediately sank, and she almost dropped it to the ground.

"You haven't been practicing your body technique well." Chen Yi patted her head and comfortably lay down on the sofa. In his student days, this was the most comfortable posture next to lying on a desk.

"The family has been out of food for many days; where would I get the energy to practice kung fu?" Chen Rongxi pitifully hugged the gold pig and said: "It's all your fault; Dad and Mom are busy until after dinner every day."

"That busy?"

"Dad has to see guests even on weekends, what do you think?" Chen Rongxi said unenthusiastically: "Now he's busier than when he ran a company; what's there to do as a small bureau chief?"

"A small bureau chief." Chen Yi coughed once and laughed: "If he became a high official, he'd be a Deputy Provincial-level Cadre; further still, he could manage the twenty million people of Jiangning. When the Han Dynasty was first established, the emperor governed only twenty million households; excluding the fiefdoms, the population of the Central Plains wasn't even twenty million."

Chen Rongxi looked at him doubtfully and said: "You've become smarter."

"Have I?"

"You used to be the most impatient with memorizing numbers and dates."

Chen Yi smiled smugly; what the Knowledge Solvent was best at was memorizing numbers and dates.

"Are you hungry?" Chen Rongxi took out two leftover dishes from the refrigerator, placed them on the table, and said: "Mom called back the old chef, and cooks once every night, but I can't always finish it, and I'm too embarrassed to throw it away."

"I'll eat it." Chen Yi was truly hungry.

His little sister automatically heated up rice for him, with an expression of being glad it was dealt with.

Chen Yi wolfed down the meat and rice, and drank an entire bottle of water.

"The Siren is due for its year-end inspection." Chen Rongxi suddenly said.

"What?"

"The Siren is about to undergo a host inspection, a complete shutdown inspection, so I guess keeping the administrator account will be a bit difficult. The year-end inspection has already been scheduled." The little sister was a bit disappointed; supercomputers were extremely rare—even a developing country like China, even mobilizing the whole nation's strength, could not produce two on average per year—this was determined by overall industrial technology, unrelated to mental power.

At the same time, supercomputers became obsolete just as fast; merely with the spirit of learning, there was no chance to use a supercomputer. "Siren" was Chen Rongxi's best toy in over a year; losing it would render the software she designed useless.

Chen Yi pondered for a moment; if he used the "Skill Copy Scroll" again, he might gain another 15% control over "Siren," but that was only 15%.

"I'll buy a supercomputer." Chen Yi suddenly said.

"Really?" Chen Rongxi felt that making tea and pouring water was truly not wasted.

"Jiangning needs its own computer, and a data center and such." Chen Yi lightly tapped his forehead and laughed: "We can't rely too much on Southeast Province."

Chen Rongxi didn't care what his goal was; thinking of having her own supercomputer made her so happy she couldn't sit still.

Chen Yi also thought it was not bad; he didn't want, at certain times, to have data storage and computer problems choke his neck. Institutions like Jiangning Bank and Jiangning Public Security Bureau had much of their information stored at the Southeast Province Supercomputer Center outside the city—a huge underground data center where tall, densely packed cabinets were like a maze, with their own maintenance team and central air conditioning; in fact, a supercomputer center itself was a company of considerable value.

Chen Rongxi suddenly thought: "If the supercomputer is placed in China, high-frequency trading can't be done."

Chen Yi said indifferently: "Lightning trading has been legislated against; high-frequency trading isn't worth anything anymore."

"That's good." Chen Rongxi had tens of millions in her account, and her concept of money was even weaker.

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Jiangning Bank.

Gao Qiu arrived at headquarters with sleepy eyes, his suit wrinkled into a jacket, and his shirt buttons were even in the wrong places. For someone who worked fourteen hours a day, a wake-up call at four in the morning was indeed detestable.

"Is it necessary for me to come?" Gao Qiu rubbed his forehead and asked: "What is it that can't be said over the phone?"

The manager on night duty was also rubbing his forehead, like two stags preparing to mate, and said: "Mr. Chen's envoy has arrived."

"Envoy? Why use that word." Gao Qiu smiled as he put on his door card and entered through the back door.

Fully armed Inspection Team Members stood guard with long spears in front of the treasury, like a grand ceremony.

Jin Douna stood before gold taller than a person, her whole person shining dazzlingly.

No wonder she's called an envoy! Gao Qiu thought; the manager had probably been thinking of terms like royalty just now.

"Deposit gold." Jin Douna smiled at him, possessing the exotic charm of the Korean Peninsula, and a waist so slender it was deadly, swaying gracefully as if embedded in formal wear, enough to make a group of men lose their souls.

"How much?"

「1,250 tons. 」

「Fine. 」Gao Qiu said dizzily, just then facing the duty manager's eyes.

The latter used his protruding goldfish eyes to show his surprise at that moment.

1,250 tons of gold was 130 cubic meters, a yellow solid mass two meters high, over six meters wide, and over ten meters long, its volume barely differing from that of an elephant.

Thinking again of its value.

Gao Qiu's brain had already begun turning rapidly, like a true banker.

After more than half a year of exchange, Jiangning Bank Headquarters had already accumulated six hundred tons of gold, and adding this over one thousand tons of gold, Jiangning Bank's gold reserves would exceed those of the state.

In other words, gold vouchers would possess extremely strong credit. Although they could not compare to the state, they would absolutely exceed most developing countries—some black African small countries' total national assets were not worth 2,000 tons of gold, including their real estate, overseas assets, and domestic mineral deposits.

Even before World War II, gold was no longer mere gold; its payment and clearing capacity was destined to leverage several times, tens of times, or even hundreds of times its own amount in currency.

Gao Qiu was completely awake: 「Hurry, has the inspection been done? 」

「In progress. 」The duty manager had made phone calls for several tens of minutes, his ears were hot. He had found over ten bank staff members nearby to count and inspect, but the speed could not be increased.

Gao Qiu stood under the air conditioning, waiting quietly; he did not want to hastily store the gold—this was a major responsibility—and at the same time did not want to stay away from the gold.

In this world, few people had seen 1,000 tons of gold with their own eyes.

Needless to say, the lucky bank staff who saw the gold, though exhausted to the bone, were afterwards very willing to use it as prime conversation material, such as "my gacha dog eyes finally had a chance to be blinded by gold."

Jin Douna's little trick worked; without Jiangning Bank convening an eye-catching high-profile press conference, the gold story naturally spread like wildfire, and some bank staff's rule-breaking mobile phone photos also circulated online—the photos were actually professional productions by Martial Arts Hall students.

Not only did gold bond sales skyrocket, but gold exchanges also obviously decreased.

Using precious metals was actually not convenient; under current circumstances, gold's usability in Jiangning was worse than the US dollar, but its storage and value-preservation ability was extremely strong, far surpassing the US dollar. Gold bonds took a middle ground between the two, and with more than half a year of good reputation and Jiangning Bank's support, this explosive surge could be called accumulation leading to a breakthrough.

Gao Qiu was the happiest person, issuing over 40 billion yuan of gold bonds in one breath, and they existed under Chen Yi's Jiangning Bank account; daily investments also belonged to Jiangning Bank's portion.

If it were a small family bank in Northern Europe, a client like Chen Yi could support the bank by himself.

However, Gao Qiu's happiness did not last long.

Just as the meeting ended, the assistant quietly stopped him: 「The central bank has sent people. 」

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