Chapter VIII The Conference on Cultivating Monetary Policy
While Yang Lu and the masked guest met, the Lingshi Reserve Bank also held an extraordinary meeting in the Wuliang Sword Sect's Deliberation Hall.
The Lingshi Reserve Bank is nominally jointly organized by the seven major sects of Jiuzhou, but as the original initiator, Wuliang Sword Sect has absolute voice in the Lingshi Reserve Bank, which is also the precious political legacy left by the founders of the Lingshi Reserve Bank to the Wuliang Sword Sect.
The office location of the Lingshi Reserve Bank is located at the core of the Wuliang Sword Sect and has an independent building complex. However, whenever an important meeting is held, the Lingshi Reserve Bank will borrow the Wuliang Sword Sect's sect conference hall, which also reflects the close cooperative relationship between the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Lingshi Reserve Bank.
If you have to compare, the relationship between the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank is probably between the relationship between the US government and the United Nations, and between the US government and the Federal Reserve.
However, after Li Qingyang, the president of the third Lingshi Reserve Bank, took office, the relationship between the two sides changed subtly.
The first president of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank, Lu Yang, and the second president of Li Rui, are all monks from the Wuliang Sword Sect, while Li Qingyang is an extraditional monk from the Jindao Sect, which will inevitably make the senior executives of the Wuliang Sword Sect feel resentful.
There are even rumors that Lin Jianxing, the head of the Wuliang Sword Sect, has repeatedly proposed the idea of replacing Li Qingyang.
This statement is not unfounded. In recent years, the Lingshi Reserve Bank has unilaterally rejected the Wuliang Sword Sect.
However, Li Qingyang is recognized by the Jiuzhou cultivation world and the greatest cultivation economist. Even the Shenhuo Sect, which has always had a rift with the Wuliang Sword Sect, also highly praised Li Qingyang's academic level, not to mention that the three immortals who ascended to the fairy world in the past few hundred years have had more or less old friends with Li Qingyang.
Even the head of the Wuliang Sword Sect could not shake Li Qingyang's supreme position in the field of cultivation finance!
Now the senior executives of Wuliang Sword Sect are "dragging" towards the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank. As long as they are dragged to President Li Qingyang, they can arrange a "person" to regain absolute control of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank.
Although the forces of all parties are already undercurrents, the regular meeting of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank is still held as usual.
At this moment, hundreds of cultivators were already sitting in the Wuliang Sword Sect's conference hall. These cultivators were middle and high-level financial officials of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank, and their cultivation was at the lowest level and had the foundation-building stage. There were even a few golden elixir stages, and even the Nascent Soul stage cultivators sat in the front row.
Half of the cultivators present were wearing blue and white robes unique to the Wuliang Sword Sect, and more than 30% of the cultivators were wearing costumes of the six sects of the other eight states. In addition, about 10% of the cultivators were wearing bright yellow golden sword robes, and a few small sect cultivators wearing miscellaneous uniforms attended.
From the composition of the financial officials of Lingshi Reserve Bank, we can also see the power comparison of major sects in the field of cultivation finance.
As the initiator of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank, Wuliang Sword Sect occupies half of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank.
Under the shade of Li Qingyang, the Golden Knife Sect also surpassed the six sects of the other eight states and became the second largest faction of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, and then the representatives of the six sects belonging to different factions.
At the most core position of the Seminar Hall, a very old-fashioned monk sat upright.
All cultivators in Jiuzhou have the art of maintaining their faces. If monks have an old face, most of them are signs that their lifespan is about to end and their true energy in their bodies is about to be dissipated. The remaining lifespan will not exceed five years at most.
This old man who was guarded by countless senior experts is Li Qingyang, the current president of Lingshi Reserve Bank!
This highly standard meeting was held to discuss the issuance of spirit stone coins in the next year.
There is actually no essential difference between the attitude towards monetary policy, whether it is a cultivator or an earth capitalist. Everyone hopes that the central bank can open the gate and release water. Only by opening the gate and release water can the assets appreciate unlimitedly.
But the problem is that those who own assets are always rich, and the poor have no assets. Under the credit and monetary system, opening the gate and letting water flow will only expand the gap between the rich and the poor, aggravating the imbalance in social distribution. Because of this, President Li Qingyang is a firm anti-water release faction.
He has a hawkish speech that is well-known in the Jiuzhou cultivation world - as long as I take charge of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank for one day, the Wuliang Sword Sect will definitely not 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, and has not been shaken by the interest groups formed by cultivators of major sects. Over the years, there has been no major chaos in the cultivation finance world. This has also won Li Qingyang the reputation of the sea god needle for the cultivation finance definition.
However, at this meeting of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank, President Li Qingyang was obviously not energetic.
When many middle and senior cadres of Lingshi Reserve Bank took turns to speak, Li Qingyang did not say anything. His turbid eyes were just slightly closed, making people even suspect that he was not listening to the reports from the people below.
Everyone around President Li Qingyang knows that the old president's physiological age has deteriorated to the level of about 80 years old. Being able to sit here to host the meeting is already barely supported by magical medicines and secret magic of immortals.
Perhaps because he realized that Li Qingyang was already old, the smell of gunpowder in his speech at this meeting became significantly stronger, and many remarks that had not dared to make public were also secretly mentioned this time.
For example, a cultivation economist from the Wuliang Sword School proposed that the Luoshang Commercial Bank, the third largest commercial bank in Zhongzhou, has faced a debt crisis. In order to avoid causing systemic financial risks, the Lingshi Reserve Bank should immediately issue Lingshi coins to provide a guarantee.
If it were put in the past, such remarks that would pay for the capitalist of cultivation would definitely be angrily scolded by Li Qingyang.
However, this time Li Qingyang seemed to have not heard it, and let this bold guy finish his words, which made many financial officials from the Wuliang Sword Sect speak even more boldly.
In contrast, cultivators from the Golden Sword Sect seemed extremely silent. They knew very well that the Wuliang Sword Sect could allow cultivators from the Golden Sword Sect to work in the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank because of the face of President Li Qingyang.
If President Li Qingyang loses the protection of President Li Qingyang, the situation of these Jindao Sect financial officials can be described as being in danger, and no one has the heart to speak at this time.
Without debate opponents, the financial officials of the radical Wuliang Sword Sect were completely singing a one-man show.
After talking about these Wuliang Sword Cultivators for a long time, they felt a little bored, because even if they were talking in a vague way, as long as Li Qingyang was still sitting in the position of the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, he could still reject all their proposals with one vote.
Soon, the meeting scene gradually became quiet, and everyone's eyes fell on Li Qingyang.
Noting everyone's eyes, Li Qingyang tapped the table lightly as if he was waking up from a big dream, and said in a hoarse voice: "Yan Nan, why didn't you speak today..."
Xu Yannan, who was personally ordered by Li Qingyang, is a recognized academic star in the Jindao Sect.
Although he only had the mid-term cultivation of foundation building, due to his profound foundation in cultivating finance, he was promoted by Li Qingyang to be a monetary policy observer in Haiyacheng by Lingshi Reserve Bank. He was responsible for counting foreign trade data between Zhongzhou and other major states, and compiling the most authoritative price index in the entire cultivation world - the Haiya Comprehensive Price Index.
Unlike most Jindaomen financial officials, Xu Yannan did not speak because he had nothing to say. In fact, he had expected Li Qingyang to name a name and let him speak.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the influence of the Golden Knife Sect in the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank will inevitably gradually decline with Li Qingyang's death. Of course, Li Qingyang himself knows it well.
And he, Xu Yannan, is Li Qingyang’s only hope!
Chapter completed!