Zhou Li's seemingly irrelevant words made Lin Ziran fall into deep thought.
What does he mean?
Is it just that no one after Duke Meng can unify Nanhai State?
Although this is indeed true, why do you say it now?
unless……
Lin Ziran had a vague guess in his mind, but he was not sure that his guess was correct, so he asked: "What is the explanation for this?"
Zhou Li did not answer directly, but asked instead: "Sir, you should know something about our bank. If someone unifies Nanhai Prefecture, what will happen to our Nanzhou Bank?"
Lin Ziran didn't have to think about this issue at all. Any vassal town that unified Nanhai Prefecture would uproot the Nanzhou Bank without hesitation.
No matter how bad it is, we must completely consolidate it and make this bank a financial tool under our control.
No matter which one it is, Nanzhou Bank will completely change and even become history!
Because no ruler, including Lin Ziran himself, would tolerate the existence of such a weird bank under his rule. It is not only a big arms dealer, but also has a large number of weapons. It also uses abundant funds and ordnance supplies either explicitly or
He secretly intervened in the battles of various vassals and towns, and obtained huge benefits in this way.
It's not that such an enterprise cannot exist, but it must be under one's own control and obey one's own orders in order to exist.
If such enterprises are not under their control, any feudal town will uproot them without hesitation.
Lin Ziran didn't say anything, but Zhou Li saw it from his expression. He only heard Zhou Li say: "Since Mr. Lin can predict this result, other people can naturally predict it, such as the board of directors of our bank!"
"For the board of directors, the current Nanhai State is the best Nanhai State. Anyone who tries to unify Nanhai State will become the enemy of the board of directors."
"The previous governors of Luohai County all wanted to unify Nanhai Prefecture, but they owned the most elite county in Nanhai Prefecture. In the end, they all failed without exception!"
"In his early years, Cheng Lingfeng also tried to unify Nanhai Prefecture based on Luo and Guang counties. In the end, Guang'an County rebelled. In the past few years, he has been trying to regain Guang'an County and reintegrate Luo and Guang counties. Now, he has even lost Luo'an County!"
"If Cheng Lingfeng hadn't been stubborn and insisted on reintegrating Luo and Guang counties, he would still be able to hold on to his position as county governor!"
Zhou Li continued slowly: "It's a pity that he insisted on integrating the two counties of Luo'an and Guangzhou, so Jianminggang and Feng Haozhong became customers of Nanzhou Bank one after another. During this war, Nanzhou Bank provided at least 100% of the financial services to the vassal towns in Luo'an County.
received an arms loan of more than five million."
"Because Luo'an County has a relatively important strategic position, if Luo'an County is used as the basis to integrate Guang'an County, it will be enough to challenge several surrounding counties and even unify the entire Nanhai Prefecture."
"Now that Luo Hai County has been divided, Mr. Lin, do you think the board of directors will let others unify Luo Hai County?"
Although Lin Ziran had already guessed a lot, he was still surprised when Zhou Li said it himself.
What Nanzhou Bank did was even bigger than he expected!
Zhou Li continued: "Sir Lin, you should be able to rest assured now. The business cooperation between our Nanzhou Bank and you will not change because of some small things!"
Lin Ziran nodded slightly. According to Zhou Li's statement, his cooperative relationship with Nanzhou Bank should be able to continue, and it will last for a long time.
Until you want and have hope to unify Nanhai State!
Before that, I will become a potential partner of Nanzhou Bank. Not only will I cooperate, I may even get their support.
Just like Jian Minggang, Feng Haozhong, Li Kun and others before.
Before Zhou Li, Lin Ziran wrote a written approval note to him, allowing the business firm under Zhou Li's private name to receive a monthly ration of 300 barrels of kerosene.
Zhou Li left with the approval slip satisfied.
What he said is actually not a secret. Although outsiders don't say so, most people who have studied the situation in Nanhai Prefecture in depth can guess what role Nanzhou Bank played in the civil strife in Nanhai Prefecture.
Almost every war between vassals and towns has the shadow of Nanzhou Bank behind it. From supplying ordnance to directly providing loans, Nanzhou Bank not only made huge profits in this process, but also changed the situation of the entire Nanhai Prefecture.
The direction is in your own hands.
This made Lin Ziran particularly curious, how did the management of Nanzhou Bank, especially the board members, survive to this day?
In particular, large feudal towns such as the governor of Luohai County should have enough strength to kill Nanzhou Bank. Even if it cannot be uprooted, it should not be a problem to kill Nanzhou Bank's local institutions.
The headquarters of Nanzhou Bank is in Luohai City. It would only take a matter of minutes to kill their headquarters in a feudal town.
But why wasn't it done?
Lin Ziran made some guesses, but it was still difficult to figure out the details of Nanzhou Bank.
This Nanzhou Bank is full of weirdness.
But no matter how weird it is, it has nothing to do with him for the time being. Even in the early stage, he can still use Nanzhou Bank to develop and strengthen himself.
Doesn't Nanzhou Bank want Nanhai Prefecture to be divided all the time? Doesn't it want Luo'an County, a large county, to be divided? Then it should support its own small feudal town. Otherwise, Jian Minggang or Feng Haozhong will unify.
Luoan County.
In order to verify his idea, he quickly found Zhou Li again. Of course, this time it was not a private conversation, but a very formal conversation.
Lin Ziran plans to apply for a batch of loans from Nanzhou Bank, and the collateral is naturally part of the shares of Qingshan Petroleum Company.
He didn't plan to apply for too much, he just applied for 500,000 constant yuan, and used 20% of the shares of Qingshan Oil Company as collateral, which will be repaid with interest one year later.
This loan is just a trial and an attempt.
He wanted to test his guess and confirm Zhou Li's statement.
As a result, although Nanzhou Bank did not directly agree, it did not refuse directly. Instead, it replied that it would send a special team to negotiate the loan.
Their reaction was as predicted by Lin Ziran, which also confirmed Zhou Li's statement.
Faced with this situation, Lin Ziran's first thought was not to be grateful to be able to obtain loan support from Nanzhou Bank, but to have a strong sense of crisis.
After getting the reply from Nanzhou Bank, Lin Ziran thought about it for most of the night, and finally made up his mind and called Ding Quankun from Qingshan Town.
For a son of destiny who is determined to unify Nanhai State, even the entire Daheng, and even the entire Blue Star, he can certainly cooperate with Nanzhou Bank at this stage, but he will definitely fall out with Nanzhou Bank in the future.
Now, he has to prepare for a falling out in the future.