Chapter 154: Buyi Can Be Proud of the Princes (I)

"You will find wealth, respect and trust here.

But it also requires a trivial premise - you have to have collateral that you can get your hands on: good slaves, rich land, ships to go to sea...... And so on.

The only condition for leniency is to have a certificate of honor of the noble lineage of the U-sang with a full seal.

Dedicated to providing noble customers with capital savings, position lending, currency exchange, commercial insurance, securities issuance and other services......"

——The "Service Instructions and Management Regulations" inscribed on the gate of the "First Exchange Office" of the Usang Empire

There is nothing strange about the Dumpsters, they are nothing more than gangsters composed of the sons of the samurai family of the fallen nobles of the Japanese Mulberry or the freedmen who have deserted military service. Perhaps it has something to do with the naming habits of the U-san people - there are no gods in the ash world, and there are no gods to defend at all, but they still lick their faces and call the pier "Mijintsu". However, there are indeed a few stone mountains outside Izumo Castle, and it is fitting that the city is named after the scenery of Izumo no Xiu.

Back to the point.

Abe Fuyi was originally a small leader of the Wonders in the Mijinzu area, but as a son of a samurai family, he tried his best to escape military service. His behavior is contemptible and despised by his neighbors. He could only gather a group of scoundrels to act as junior brothers, and rely on blackmail to come to the Wasang to do business in the dock area to survive. After a long time, he also said that he was a "cloth warrior".

The fire in Izumo Castle was finally extinguished, but the fire in the castle did not affect the "pond fish" - the materials used in the construction of the docks in Mijinzu were mostly cheap sea sand mixed with masonry, and the proximity to the sea did not affect the fire too much, except for some inevitable traces of smoke.

The influx of many of the city's residents into the docks has brought with it both narratives of the city's horrors and new opportunities for those with ulterior motives. Although Izumo Castle already looks like a ruin, it is like a dusty pearl in the eyes of the fascinator Abe Fuyi, waiting for him to pick it up.

"We're going to Shangluo, and there's a book about it. Those colleagues who had been showing off their might in Izumo Castle were burned to the ground with bald tails and quails, and they no longer had the strength to fight us. As long as we take advantage of the territory at this time, we will be able to form the first group of Wonders League to occupy Izumo City!

Wearing a specially bought fat robe, he was bare-chested and his breasts were exposed. He also deliberately used a short knife to cut off his trouser legs to show his chic style. Abe Buyi gave a passionate speech to the younger brothers, promoting the "Buyi Heroes Alliance" that he imagined.

But in fact, although the scoundrels who are begging for a living under the hands of this villain have responded to the call on the surface - as he said, Izumo City has too many opportunities to "get rich" after the fire, but they are all "hehe" in their hearts - who doesn't know that his usual trick is to suffocate others to death with a smoked crotch cloth.

Led a group of scoundrels out of Mijinzu and into Izumo Castle. In the past, merchants were weaving, and the streets with endless crowds of people were still a little steaming. Abe Buyi regretted that he had cut off his trouser legs, and at this time, he didn't need to look at it to know that his calves and stomach might have been steamed red.

But there is only one thing to regret, and "Shangluo Izumo City" must not retreat at all.

He believed that yesterday's catastrophe was just a burning stop in the paid story of Izumo City—a charred dot, a semicolon made of fire spirits. And before the exclamation point at the end of the next sentence, there must be at least his future title - "Cloth Hero" written in it.

Of course, what the hero will do, people like him will not know, but it is the instinct of the extortion of the stranger who has successfully integrated into his blood and bones-

"You guy, that means you. Wearing a purple robe and a copper mask, he doesn't look like a good son of a Japanese mulberry......"

Walking into the ruins of a commercial town that had almost been reduced to embers, Abe Fuyi and his younger brothers saw a strangely dressed foreigner among the ruins. Presumably the owner of a shop here, he was secretly sad in the ruins of his shop.

Seeing the stitches and needles, Fang shows the true character of a scoundrel. Under the eyes of the "cloth hero", the younger brother immediately pulled out the short knife of slaughtering fish and stepped forward to provoke and question, which means that "the blind shrimp and toad also have to take out two taels of oil".

But like most of the minor characters in the story who don't make it to the second episode, "I was really blind" is what they probably want to say afterwards — if they still have the chance.

The strange stranger dressed in a purple robe and a golden face just walked quietly past this group of strangers, patted his shoulders and pulled his clothes and feet without others being able to see them, and then completed the spell casting and calmly withdrew.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. ”

Davishal followed the leader of the wind who led him to a newly dug underground tunnel by the "Pickaxe" fire dwarf, and he stood in the commercial town to observe for a moment, in fact, he just wanted to confirm the disaster after the fire.

Just thinking that "there is still some heat left", someone "sent a pillow when he fell asleep".

With a smooth whisper and a crisp snap of his fingers, the seven people who were tapped on the shoulder, including Abe, turned around in unison.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang", the fist of the chosen one struck the body of the remaining companions, and after the muffled sound of a hammer beating the leather, the unchosen unlucky ones turned into ashes like sand sculptures scattered by urchins on the seashore.

Abe straightened the coarse cloth clothes on his body and took the lead out of the ruins of this commercial town.

The streets of Izumo Castle Midtown are wide enough to act as a barrier, so the buildings were relatively well preserved during the fire. In this area adjacent to the Senate, most of the inhabitants were members of the families of the colonial rulers of the vassal states, as well as the most powerful merchants of the Usang Empire.

The first exchange office of the U-sang Empire was located here.

The owner behind this building and this similar banking institution is His Excellency the Speaker of the Senate, and its actual operator is the grandson of the Speaker. At this time, the general manager of the exchange office was really anxious like a grandson.

"Whoever wants to fight for that chair in the office on the third floor in the future is a grandson.

Fire, why don't you burn it cleanly, and burn those merchants and the families of the king of Fanbang to death;

The price of land in Izumo Castle has increased so much compared to the actual value, but at the moment this catastrophe has to be borne by the insurance of the exchange office;

Naoetsu's large loan has not yet come and been recovered, and the damned general has emptied the safe of the exchange office;

Next, there is the possibility of a run......"

Self-pity could not alleviate his anxiety at this time, and his fingers gently rubbed the iron oak gate of the exchange house with a special reinforcement spell attached to it—this gate was still firmly guarded by the wealth of the exchange house for more than three hundred years due to the protection of constant spells.

The oak texture of the gate is in a swirl pattern, and yesterday's fire did not cause much damage to it except for blackening its outer side, but the heat of the extinguished flame seems to have been transmitted to the inside of the gate as if it had been rekindled, and the general manager who touched it even felt a little hot at this time.

In the end, however, it was determined not to break the 300-year-old tradition and open its doors to the exchange office as usual. A large number of spellcasters and garrisons have been secretly prepared to prevent the impact, and the nobles of the Senate have also said that they will not demand the insurance claims that need to be made after the burning of Izumo City for the time being.

Don't worry about it, open the door.

This core financial institution of U-Sang, which was originally developed to meet the demand for foreign exchange currency exchange in trade, opened his door, and the smoke and dust that had not yet dispersed were blocked by an invisible barrier.

This costly barrier of spells prevented harmful substances from entering the business hall, leaving only the slightly hot wind and the aroma of the fruit trees unfiltered. Breathing in the air with a faint sweet fragrance, the general manager of the exchange office wondered if there would be a chance to replace this filter barrier directly with a force field wall in the future.

There was no long queue outside the door - the lookout post had already reported the incident, and although it was still not to be taken lightly, the general manager did breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

After all, disasters are disasters, and people who have passed them are often immersed in the grief of losing their loved ones first, and do not bother to exchange the coins they have taken.

The general manager straightened his shirt.

Moreover, did last night's fire also cause some people's storage vouchers to be burned? No deposit can be withdrawn without vouchers, and this is an explicit provision in the "Regulations."

The general manager brushed the sleeves of his robe.

The guards in the city who took care of the fire last night must have given priority to the local people, and those uncontrolled people who were unruly would take advantage of the chaos to rob houses and houses, kill people and steal goods. It is best to kill businessmen from other places, and it is best to rob deposit slips.

The general manager loosened the waist knife.

He remembered what his blood grandfather, the de facto tyrant, had said to him last night—"If you can't guard the door of the First Exchange Office, then take the lead in disemboweling with this knife to apologize." ”

Looking at the saber on his waist again, the disgust in his heart is simply incomprehensible. After calling the servants, the general manager untied his saber and threw it over: "Go to the pawn counter and ask the counter manager what the value of this knife is, and send it to me in exchange for change." ”

Watching the servant run away quickly, he suddenly regretted it. What's going on, why is it so Meng Lang today, if-

"The first exchange office is open! It's really a reputable exchange office, please see if this futures bill can be withdrawn immediately. ”

A merchant dressed as a U-Sang man walked over, holding a bill for the delivery of futures products. The above content is not carefully read, it is nothing more than what the transaction is, the delivery date is geometric, but at the end of the note is written "If the transaction cannot be completed for any reason, the liquidated damages paid in advance to the first exchange shall be immediately used to compensate the rights and interests of the holder of this note." ”

Futures trading, a new type of financial product proposed by the general manager himself in the past two years, was originally intended to make up for the deficit in the bank treasury with the margin paid by the merchants in advance. But now it has become his lifeline, and the originally envisioned run and insurance claims adjusters have not yet come to the door, and the futures traders who had been persuaded by his staff to participate have come to the door to ask for liquidated damages.

The general manager, who gasped, wanted to drag it first, but the servant who had pawned his saber for money came running over, and a bag of silver coins that were obviously worth more than the saber clanged.

Just as the general manager's cold sweat broke out from his back, he just wanted to signal the mage in the shadows to quietly move to erase this person's memory, only to see more and more hurried businessmen rushing into the street market not far away. He had no choice but to shove the bag of money handed by the servant into the man's hand and ran quickly into the hall.

He wanted to use a spell to inform the grandfather of the Senate to send more people to help him quickly, but he heard the futures trader behind him weighing the weight of the money bag and muttering to himself:

"Send a strange thug to inform the exchange office that the futures transaction is going on normally, not to mention, the money will be settled before the accountant counts. This irresponsible attitude is particularly undesirable to give the money aside, and you have to withdraw the deposit as soon as possible......"

Who is the one who is wonderful?

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