In the county town of Luo'an County, Jian Minggang in the county guard was talking secretly with the secret envoy, and in the branch building of the Nanzhou Bank in Luo'an County, which was just a few streets away, Wu Shenxuan was also discussing the situation with Fang Zhicheng from the headquarters of the Nanzhou Bank.

"Although the situation in Dongdingzhou has continued to be turbulent in the past two years, Yuan Yonghan has become stronger and stronger, and the other two parties are afraid that they will not last long.

"After all, compared to the other surrounding states, our Nanhai Prefecture has the best conditions, but the strength is the most dispersed, even if our Nanzhou Bank tries its best to maintain the situation, but I am afraid it will not last too long in the long run!"

When Wu Shenxuan said this, his face was full of helplessness: "Maybe it's really going to change!" ”

Fang Zhicheng on the side said: "The headquarters is also aware of the problem, but Brother Wu, you also know the situation in our Nanhai Prefecture, and it is not easy to change!" ”

"The head of the headquarters once said during a casual conversation that if we don't integrate the counties, our Nanhai Prefecture will sooner or later become a meal on the plate of other states, but if we integrate the counties, then the first one to finish is our Nanzhou Bank!"

When Fang Zhicheng spoke, he also walked to the balcony, looking at the city under the balcony and the county guard in the distance: "Alas, the situation is difficult!" ”

"If we knew two years ago that there would be this situation, we should have been more cautious in our choice of Hetai, at least, the 50 million loan that year was too hasty, at that time we didn't know that Xu Teng was ambitious, but we thought that we could control his ambitions, and now, he directly turned against us."

Wu Shenxuan shook his head: "If you didn't support Xu Teng at the beginning, how could you and I still be standing here chatting, I'm afraid that the entire Nanhai Prefecture will fall into the hands of Yuan Yonghan, and our bank will be destroyed long ago!" ”

"There was no strategic mistake in the original choice, in the face of Yuan Yonghan of Dongding Prefecture sending troops to Hetai County, once the Hetai defense line is lost, it is almost equivalent to exposing the entire Nanhai Prefecture to Yuan Yonghan's troops, although there are other counties in the hinterland of the rear, but without the support of the strategic defense line such as the Hetai defense line, each county is fighting on its own, how can it be possible to resist Yuan Yonghan's hundreds of thousands of troops?"

"If Nanhai Prefecture does not exist, how can I live alone in Nanzhou Bank?"

Wu Shenxuan's words made Fang Zhicheng silent.

As a member of the Bank of Southern State and one of the senior management of the third department of the Strategy Committee, he naturally knows very well how special the Bank is.

The influence of Nanzhou Bank in Nanhai Prefecture is too great, and the banknotes issued by it are the only banknotes that can be circulated in various counties in Nanhai Prefecture, and its cashier's checks are deeply trusted.

But that's just the surface.

In fact, in so many years, Nanzhou Bank has already completed the layout, using strong capital to indirectly affect the situation in various counties, and successfully become the creditor of almost the entire Nanhai Prefecture, just Luohai County alone, owes Nanzhou Bank more than 100 million Hengyuan loans.

Now the civil strife in Luo'an County, all of them owe a lot of debts to Nanzhou Bank, even Lin Ziran, who has only risen for less than two years, is no exception, Lin Ziran is considered to be a little, only a million.

Jianminggang, on the other hand, directly used the financial income of the three counties and one district as collateral and borrowed no less than 10 million yuan.

Those feudal towns said that the Nanzhou Bank directly lay on the entire Nanhai Prefecture to suck blood, although this is an exaggeration, but in fact, it is so.

Even Fang Zhicheng himself would not deny this statement in private.

But!

They're banks!

They are born to exist for profit, if it is not to make money, why would they work so hard to support this feudal town today and that feudal town tomorrow.

Even if it weren't for the profits, Nanzhou Bank wouldn't have directly smashed 50 million Hengyuan to support Hetai County two years ago to resist Yuan Yonghan's attack.

Because, at present, Nanhai Prefecture, which is scattered and sandy, has the living space of their Nanzhou Bank, and once the internal unification or other external big feudal towns come over, they will occupy Nanhai Prefecture.

Then the Bank of Southern State will be finished in an instant.

Because all the top executives of Nanhai Prefecture knew that no powerful feudal town would allow such an influential bank as Nanzhou Bank to appear.

This is also a very contradictory place within the Bank of Southern State!

They did not allow the unification of Nanhai Prefecture with feudal towns within Nanhai Prefecture, but in the past ten years, they did not oppose or even support the maintenance of the army and combat effectiveness of the feudal towns of various counties.

From the point of view of the Southern State Bank, it is better for the major feudal towns to be extremely weak, so that they can be more easily controlled.

However, if the strength of these feudal towns is not enough, those large feudal towns in the next state will be killed in minutes, and many of the feudal towns in the next state are large feudal towns.

Dongding Prefecture next door is one of them, there are only three feudal towns in a huge state, and any feudal town can beat any feudal town in Nanhai Prefecture, and Yuan Yonghan, the patrol envoy of Dongding Prefecture near this side of Nanhai Prefecture, has an army of more than 200,000 people.

Therefore, the Nanzhou Bank really did not dare to weaken the power of these feudal towns, but would support them when necessary.

Two years ago, the 50 million loan provided by the Nanzhou Bank for the Battle of Hetai in one go is a typical example!

Although Nanzhou Bank has money, it will not take out tens of millions at every turn, which has to consider the risks and returns.

In fact, with the situation of Hetai County at that time, they could not afford to repay these loans for decades.

However, Nanzhou Bank still did not hesitate to provide a full loan of 50 million yuan to Hetai County.

Why?

Because Hetai County is located in the easternmost part of Nanzhou Prefecture, next door is Dongding Prefecture.

At that time, Yuan Yonghan, one of the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou, sent troops to the west, trying to seize Hetai County, and then set foot in Nanhai Prefecture, which was mired in civil strife, with the intention of completely controlling the state.

In the face of such a crisis, Nanzhou Bank did not hesitate to directly smash 50 million.

In fact, not all of this money was given to Hetai County, only part of it was given to Hetai County, and another part was only borrowed in the name of Hetai County, but it was actually a loan to Luohai County and several other surrounding counties.

Because no matter how much money is given to Hetai County, they can't stop Yuan Yonghan, and they have to unite several counties.

With the financial support of the Bank of Nanzhou and the support of ordnance, Hetai County at that time greatly expanded its army to resist, and the other four counties such as Luohai County more or less sent troops to Hetai County to assist in defense.

In the end, more than 100,000 allied troops of the five counties of Nanhai Prefecture were gathered on the Hetai defense line, and even this almost did not stop Yuan Yonghan's westward advance.

That is, last year, the other two major feudal towns in Dongding Prefecture wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble and sneak attack Yuan Yonghan's lair, and Yuan Yonghan, who felt unstable behind his back, took the initiative to withdraw his troops.

This large-scale battle of Hetai is, to a certain extent, a battle fought by the Nanzhou Bank and troops from various counties and towns!

Moreover, at that time, the Nanzhou Bank was extremely passive, and no one was willing to send troops when it took the initiative to throw money, and in the end it was still threatened and lured, so the five-county coalition army was gathered, because even if it was a small feudal town in Nanhai Prefecture, people would not necessarily take care of the Nanzhou Bank 100%.

Even many feudal towns are looking forward to Yuan Yonghan killing him, because their idea is that I can't unify Daheng anyway, it is better to fight the world with the powerful boss, and it is good to have a duke, marquis or something like that in the future, after all, it is cool to be a small feudal town now, but maybe it will be destroyed one day.

So the situation at that time was quite bad for the Southern State Bank.

It can be seen from this that after all, the Bank of Nanzhou is using money and weapons to influence the situation in Nanhai Prefecture, and this kind of behavior can only follow the trend and cannot forcibly promote anything.

They are exploiting the ambitions of the feudal towns to achieve the core interests of the bank!

For example, Lin Ziran wanted to unify Luo'an County, Nanhai Prefecture and even the entire Daheng, and Nanzhou Bank used this to influence the entire situation.

For example, on that day, the Nanzhou Bank said to Jian Minggang or Lin Ziran or even any of the feudal towns: Our bank will provide you with funds and ordnance to help you unify Nanhai Prefecture.

As long as the conditions are not excessive, then any feudal town will agree, even if the conditions are excessive, these feudal towns will also agree.

The difference between the two is that after the unification of Nanhai Prefecture, how to deal with Nanzhou Bank.

If the conditions were not too excessive, at most the Nanzhou Bank would have been co-opted, and if it was an ordinary large bank under official rule, then after the unification of Nanhai Prefecture, it is estimated that this feudal town would have to uproot the Nanzhou Bank and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.

Never, don't underestimate the ruthlessness of the feudal towns!

Unfortunately, Nanzhou Bank also knows this!

Therefore, they will never support a particular feudal town alone, especially a strong feudal town, but play a balanced policy, and they will support the weak one.

But on the side of Hetai County, there is a deviation!

Under the threat of Yuan Yonghan's hundreds of thousands of troops, in the case of the imminent complete collapse of the Hetai defense line and the imminent fall of Nanhai Prefecture to Yuan Yonghan, Nanhai Prefecture had no choice but to choose to unreservedly support Hetai County.

As a result, Xu Teng, the county guard of Hetai County, got most of the 50 million loans, and the recruitment of troops and horses had already expanded a lot, and in the past two years, this person was extremely strong, and he had already sent the other four counties to the Hetai defense line to fight together, and absorbed most of them by various means.

Now he has an army of 100,000.

What's more important is that after Yuan Yonghan withdrew his troops, Xu Teng, who had an army of 100,000 troops, turned his attention back to Nanhai Prefecture!

Just like all the powerful feudal towns in the past twenty years, including the three former Luo Hai County Guards and the former Luo Guang Garrison Cheng Lingfeng.

Xu Teng also wants to unify Nanhai Prefecture, and he dreams of it!

He analyzed in detail the previous four failed attempts to unify Nanhai Prefecture, and finally set his sights on the Nanzhou Bank.

If you want to unify Nanhai Prefecture, you must first get rid of Nanzhou Bank, otherwise with this-stirring stick, he will never expect to unify Nanhai Prefecture.

So in the downtown of Hetai County, the soldiers of the firing squad raised their guns and aimed them at the 'rebels' of the Nanzhou Bank, who had been sentenced to death.

Following the command of the lead officer, the soldiers pulled the trigger, and after the gunshot, a line of people fell, and then another group of people who were also dressed in Nanzhou Bank uniforms were escorted up.

The gunfire continued!

On this day, the river was full of blood!

More than 1,400 people were shot without exception all the direct staff members of the Nanzhou Bank in Hetai County and the personnel who had a deep relationship with the bank!

When the news spread to other places, it caused a huge wave in an instant, and in Luohai City, the Nanzhou Daily, which was under the control of the Nanzhou Bank, directly declared the matter as the 'Hetai Massacre'.

Xu Teng, the leader of the warlord who had lost his conscience, raised his butcher knife and killed the unarmed civilians!

But the newspaper had just been printed, and the newsboys were just beginning to get it and sell it on the streets, and the patrolmen took all the newspapers.

At the same time, Shao Bing personally led his soldiers to surround the headquarters building of the Bank of Nanzhou.

Shao Bing looked at the headquarters building of the Bank of Nanzhou in front of him, he naturally knew that there were a lot of armed personnel guarding it, but so what.

I saw him wave his hand: "Let the siege artillery fire, Lao Tzu will raze this Nanzhou Bank to the ground!" ”

Several heavy guns, which had been prepared for a long time, directly began shelling.

Just after the round of shelling, someone in the building waved a white cloth and shouted surrender: "Don't fight anymore, we surrender." ”

A moment later, hundreds of people threw down their weapons and came out one after another, and in addition to some of them were armed personnel, in fact, more were staff members of the Nanzhou Bank in professional attire, and the top management of the Nanzhou Bank was not sent out.

It's just that in the past, they were decently dressed and glamorous, and even faced Shao Bing calmly, and even dared to threaten Shao Bing in words, but now they have become lost dogs.

One of the slightly older directors stepped forward with anger on his face: "Shao Bing, do you know what you're doing, without our financial support, you won't even be able to pay your military salary next month!" ”

Shao Bing looked at this person, thinking of this person's arrogant attitude in the past few years, and then thinking of the fiasco suffered in Luo'an County last year, he was immediately furious, directly pulled out his waist knife, and after taking two steps forward, he directly raised the knife with both hands and slashed right up and down left.

The knife flashed, and the head fell to the ground!

Blood sprayed Shao Bing's face!

Shao Bing threw down the waist knife, took the handkerchief handed by the guards and wiped the blood on his face, turned his head to look at the head on the ground, and then spat out, and a sentence came out of his mouth: "What a thing!" ”

"Pass the order, arrest all the rebels of the Nanzhou Bank, and execute those who dare to resist on the spot!"

This scene directly scared the other people from Nanzhou Bank who surrendered stupidly!

Shao Bing threw down his handkerchief and turned to leave, and the adjutant on the road followed him, his face was still a little worried: "My lord, will it be more urgent to deal with it like this, maybe we should leave some of their manpower and let them cooperate with us to raise funds?" ”

Shao Bing snorted coldly: "If a bank is extinguished, it will be destroyed, if it weren't for the fact that they can finance and help me raise military expenses in the past few years, when they first entered Luohai City, this county would have destroyed them directly." ”

"But these bold guys, last year, they dared to stumble on this county, if it wasn't for Xu Teng's old guy to persuade me, this county uprooted their Nanzhou Bank last year!"

"As for the problem of funds, the Nanzhou Bank is gone, and this debt naturally does not have to be repaid, and the interest of tens of millions of dollars a year can be freed up, and then their vaults will be raided, and then other industries will be raided, and some are money!"

When Shao Bing said this, the adjutant was still a little worried: "All copied?" Isn't that too much of an impact! ”

Shao Bing stopped, then stared at his adjutant and said, "Who the hell dares to have an opinion on killing the pigs raised by himself in this county?" ”

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