The Fourth Financial Crisis

Yang Lu's performance of "general knowledge" made both Chen Ming and Fang Jiancai very satisfied.

The three exchanged a few polite words and ended the meeting at Yingxiangding Teahouse in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

In the world of Jiuzhou cultivation, the contract of heaven is undoubtedly the most reliable guarantee, but the conclusion of the contract of heaven requires a small amount of merit as a price. Mortals can sign it casually, but cultivators will only choose to swear to heaven on extremely important occasions. .

Since Yang Lu became a cultivator, he had only made an oath of heaven once when Li Qingning taught "The Infinite Heart Sutra - From Beginner to Mastery".

However, when he first took the oath, Yang Lu had not yet obtained the training plug-in left by President Lu, so he could not calculate how much merit he had consumed through his personal panel. However, it was an indisputable fact that the oath of heaven required paying the price of merit.

Yang Lu was not qualified to make Fang Jiancai and Chen Ming a blood alliance, so the three finally only reached verbal cooperation.

In Yang Lu's view, it was enough to get things done to this extent, because the means Yang Lu used to restrain Fang Fang were not empty promises, but the reputation of the entire Gongdetang force.

For a superpower like Merit Hall, the binding force of reputation is no less than the contract of heaven.

The reason why Chen Ming and Fang Jiancai were anxious to find out the mastermind behind the scenes was because the chaos in Tianshu City had severely damaged Cheng Shuying's reputation.

As the superpower within the Wuliang Sword Sect, Gongdetang can drive countless local cultivation sects such as the Mountain Eagle Sect, mainly because Gongdetang and the local sects share common interests.

With the support of Merit Hall and Cheng Shuying, when local sects deal with the Wuliang Sword Sect, they will have senior officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect to speak for them, and there will also be Yuanying Stage monks who can stand up for them and solve problems that they cannot solve; and as a In exchange, the local cultivation sect was willing to give up part of its interests and obey the command of Gongdetang and Cheng Shuying, opening the door to convenience for him.

Without the support of local forces like Chen Ming, Cheng Shuying would be just a polished commander and would not be as influential as he is today.

However, there are prerequisites for this transfer of power. The core points are two points: first, Cheng Shuying must demonstrate the ability to solve problems for the local sect; second, Cheng Shuying must represent the overall interests of the local sect under his command.

If Cheng Shuying turns a blind eye to what happened to the Shanying sect, the local forces will inevitably lose confidence in him and think that he is no longer capable of fighting for the interests of his sect.

In the same way, if Gongdetang needs the help of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, it will cooperate with the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. When the Qingning Chamber of Commerce encounters difficulties, it will kick Li Qingning away. Other local sects will inevitably be criticized.

After all, everyone is down at times, and if you add insult to injury without moral ethics, who else would dare to be your pawn?

Even if you are a Nascent Soul Stage monk, it’s useless!

Ren Tianyuan and Qiu Longbo, the two supreme elders of the "Transcendental Sect" of the Infinite Sword Sect, are both Nascent Soul Stage monks, and their cultivation level is even higher than that of Cheng Shuying. However, in addition to Ren Tianyuan's hometown Guyun Sect, there is also Qiu Longbo's hometown Linglong Pavilion. There was simply no local force that listened to their orders.

Local cultivation forces are very realistic.

Today, when Li Qingyang stands up for himself, I am the Lingshi Reserve Bank faction; tomorrow, when Mo Yunlan speaks for himself, I am the Duzhitang faction; the day after tomorrow, when Lin Jianxing takes over the power alone, I can become the leader...

You Cheng Shuying can't protect me, why should I listen to your orders?

Everyone is doing business, what can you do to me?

Not to mention that it was difficult for Cheng Shuying to control the local sects at will. Even if the major policies of the Wuliang Sword Sect were resisted by most local sects, there would be no way to implement them.

At most, the Wuliang Sword Sect can only eliminate a few disobedient stab-headed sects, but can it also wipe out all the local sects in Zhongzhou? Even if you wipe out the local sects, who will govern Zhongzhou for you?

What's more, after a long period of competition, the local sects and the overlord sects in the Jiuzhou cultivation world have already formed a relationship that restricts each other. Both sides have me and me, and they infiltrate each other through interest groups. Therefore, it is difficult for you to abstract the Wuliang Sword Sect into a whole and say what the Wuliang Sword Sect is like...

Human biological instinct determines that humans like to transform abstract things that are difficult to understand into personalized objects. Only in this way can we better place personal feelings on them and develop subjective likes and dislikes.

After all, it is difficult for humans to have feelings for abstract things like mathematical formulas. I have never heard anyone say that Euler's formula is too despicable, and the Yang-Mills equation does not respect martial ethics. This is all caused by biological instinct...

Many modern marketing accounts are good at exploiting this weakness of human nature to incite the emotions of ordinary people and create a bunch of strange things like rabbits and eagles.

But personifying abstract things is actually a very unscientific methodology. Especially when analyzing a complex organization like the Wuliang Sword Sect, which has very obvious internal differences, this kind of personality analysis method will go a long way.

Because Cheng Shuying cannot represent the Wuliang Sword Sect, Mo Yunlan cannot represent the Wuliang Sword Sect, and even Lin Jianxing cannot represent the Wuliang Sword Sect. The Wuliang Sword Sect is only a conceptual entity, and the logic of its actions is not based on the sect as a whole, but on the sect. The result of the game between all the interest groups in the country.

It is precisely because of this that Yang Lu will not force Fang Jian to make an oath to him. Members of the interest group represented by Cheng Shuying have their own interests and demands, and this is their action logic.

This set of action logic cannot even be decided by Cheng Shuying himself, because this Yuanying stage monk is only the spokesperson of the interest group, not the entire interest group itself. Only when Cheng Shuying's actions are in line with the interests of the forces of Merit Hall, can he effectively grasp the supreme power as the "spokesman of the interest group".

As long as the Merit Hall and the Qingning Chamber of Commerce form an open alliance, Cheng Shuying will not fall out easily. If Cheng Shuying sees that the situation of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is not good today and openly turns against it, what will happen if it is the turn of other vassal forces in the future?

If Cheng Shuying acts recklessly regardless of the impact, the reputation that the entire Gongdetang power relies on will completely collapse.

After the reputation is bankrupt, no local sect will open a backdoor to the Cheng family chamber of commerce, no local force is willing to take care of the descendants of the Cheng family, no local sect will travel around to collect cultivation materials for him, and Cheng Shuying will not be able to promote a similar cultivation social security system. Reform such a large-scale meritorious project.

Without this kind of influence on the situation in Zhongzhou, he would have been forced to become a polished commander of the "transcendentalists" like Qiu Longbo and Ren Tianyuan, and would never be able to obtain massive merits.

The history of the Jiuzhou cultivation world has proven that without two or three golden wheels of merit, the probability of a monk from the Transcendental Sect breaking through the bottleneck of the mid-stage Nascent Soul is almost zero. Even if you have a holy spiritual root, it will be useless!

For a Nascent Soul stage monk like Cheng Shuying who has the hope of immortality, this is undoubtedly an unacceptable result.

Because of this, Mo Yunlan could not easily betray the interest group behind Du Zhitang and take over Li Qingyang's position as president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, and Cheng Shuying could not easily betray the interests of his sect and wantonly back-tattoo the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

This is called being in the arena and having no control over yourself!

Even if Yang Lu was put in Cheng Shuying's position, he would make the same choice.

Even great men like President Lu Yang and Senior Bo Nanke actually followed the trend. By providing various stakeholders with the reform plan with the largest common denominator, they ultimately promoted the economic reform that changed the situation in the cultivation world.

Even if you are a born saint, you will not be able to achieve great things without the support of the majority of stakeholders.