Ning Zhiheng returned to his front door, unloaded the three suitcases, carried them inside, and locked the door securely.
Turning around, he saw three more large boxes of valuables. It seemed that having too much money was also a problem! He had no choice but to pull himself together, open the boxes, and sort and clean out all the valuables inside.
The gold he retrieved this time contained a large amount of British pounds and US dollars. After a rough count, it amounted to a total of 20,000 pounds and 50,000 US dollars. There were also 110 gold bars and some gold ingots. He was too lazy to count the legal tender.
It was already past 3 a.m. Ning Zhiheng had been running around all day and was exhausted. He just left the room full of banknotes and gold bars and refused to tidy up anymore.
He lay down on the bed, his consciousness entered his spiritual space, completely relaxed his mind, and entered into deep meditation!
The Lingtai Space is the best elixir. In just a few hours, Ning Zhiheng woke up in the morning feeling refreshed and free from fatigue.
He looked around at the room full of valuables and knew he would be busy again today. He filled four large boxes with all the gold bars, ingots and legal tender. The safes for pounds and dollars were also full, so he had to put them under the bed for the time being and deal with them when he returned.
Then he took some clean water and washed himself carefully before putting on his military uniform.
I rummaged through the drawer and found the business card of Chen Kangshi, the former manager of Nanye Bank. I never thought that I had just accepted his business card perfunctorily back then, but this time I would really need to use it. I carefully put the business card away.
After loading all four boxes into the car, they drove south to Yeyin Bank. Near the bank, they found a shop and used the shop's phone to call Chen Kangshi.
At this moment, Chen Kangshi, the department manager of Nanye Bank, was sitting in his office, absentmindedly flipping his pen back and forth on the table.
China's banking industry is still in a transitional period. Last year's monetary reform policy has benefited the three major state-owned banks. They have joined forces to suppress various private banks and rapidly expand their market share, like a greedy beast frantically plundering huge amounts of wealth in the financial market.
This monetary reform completely ended China's millennia-old silver standard system, with a tremendous impact. Faced with this unprecedented and massive reform, many poorly capitalized private banks, lacking sufficient reserves, were swept away by this surging tide and collapsed one after another!
This is also why Ning Zhiheng dared not invest his entire fortune in any bank. Even those globally renowned foreign banks, in the future, due to various reasons, fled mainland China in a panic amidst the rapid collapse of China's financial system and the rapidly deteriorating war.
In the following decade or so, only the United States, because its homeland was not ravaged by war, withstood this global catastrophe, making the dollar the world's strongest currency.
That's a story for later. At that time, the most stable currency in China was still the British pound. Against this backdrop, Ning Zhiheng felt that it was safest to keep his money in his own hands. Although gold held its value, it was really inconvenient to transport. He had more than two hundred gold bars, each weighing ten taels, not counting the smaller gold bars weighing one tael each and some gold ingots. Just moving them back and forth was very strenuous for him, so he had to get rid of them as soon as possible, otherwise it would be too inconvenient.
As for the legal tender, it was even more unacceptable to hold onto it. The Sino-Japanese War had not yet begun, and after only one year of issuance, it had already depreciated by 30%. There were still three months until the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. After the war broke out, the value of the legal tender would plummet until it became worthless and never rebounded. Therefore, Ning Zhiheng did not want to keep it in his hands for even a day.
Like all banks, Nanyang Bank is under tremendous pressure. It is only because of its strong foundation and the backing of the British government that Nanyang Bank has managed to weather this crisis, but it has not yet recovered. The urgent task now is to accumulate more gold and silver reserves to stabilize market fluctuations.
This crisis has left the bank's top management in a state of panic. It is said that Nan Ye Bank will be laying off a large number of employees. Although Chen Kangshi is a department manager, the scope of this layoff is so large that it is hard to say that he will not be affected. Thinking about it, he is middle-aged and has worked hard in the financial industry for half his life. If he loses his job at this age, given the current state of the financial industry, it will be impossible for him to find a suitable job. He has no other skills to make a living, and his family will have to live off their savings!
The best course of action now is to achieve certain results to avoid this layoff crisis. The most important thing right now is to raise enough real money and precious metals in the market.
He had mobilized all his connections, but the market situation was dire. Everyone was holding onto gold and silver to preserve their value, making it impossible to buy any. He had gained nothing so far, and thinking about this made him increasingly anxious.
Just then, the phone on his desk rang. He frowned, wondering what bad news awaited him this time.
Reluctantly, I picked up the receiver, and a deep, powerful voice rang out from the other end of the line.
"Is this Manager Chen Kangshi?" the other party asked.
"It's me. May I ask who you are?" Chen Kangshi asked, perking up when he heard an unfamiliar voice.
"I am Lin Yifan. I wonder if Manager Chen still remembers me?"
Lin Yifan, I vaguely remember this name, but I can't recall it right now.
"Uh! Ah! It's Mr. Lin! What brings you here?" Chen Kangshi reacted quickly, and although he didn't remember him, he still asked warmly.
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