The Fourth Financial Crisis

After Zhu Ziming came to his senses, he couldn't help but said in shock: "You mean... Ye Chen is a descendant of the founding family of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce?"

Fei Fan showed a look of recollection and said with some emotion: "That happened almost twenty years ago. If you didn't take the initiative to mention it, I would have even forgotten it. In fact, Ye Chen's family had already lived incognito in Tianshu City. For many years, due to the bad relationship between the Shanying Sect and the Haiya Sect, they had never been discovered by the Haiya Sect. But just twenty years ago, the news suddenly leaked about them for some unknown reason, and they were captured by the cultivators from the Haiya Sect. The capitalists found out and sent people to kill him. In the end, it was Chen Ming who held the Mountain Eagle Sword and personally fought off the late Jindan assassins from Tinghe Yu Pavilion, thus saving Ye Chen's life."

Zhu Ziming subconsciously sat up straight and said in a suspicious tone: "This matter is not trivial. How did you know about it?"

"After all, I have been the elder of the Mountain Eagle Sect's Law Enforcement Hall for more than thirty years!" Fei Fan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he mentioned his previous position. "According to the practice of the major vassal sects in Zhongzhou, all intelligence personnel of the Mountain Eagle Sect have always been The law enforcement elder is in charge, and I first heard the news about the remnants of the Ye family living in Tianshu City from the Haiya Sect, and then personally reported it to Chen Ming!"

Zhu Ziming still had a look of disbelief on his face and continued to question: "But Chen Ming doesn't seem to trust you!"

Fei Fan sneered and said with a look of disdain: "Of course Chen Ming didn't trust me, and even took over my intelligence department personally afterwards, but this was completely concealed! Not long after I reported the relevant information to him, the two A mysterious and powerful master of the golden elixir stage fought at the residence of the remnant of the Ye family, and then our Mountain Eagle Sect suddenly had a new disciple with a mysterious background. Even if Chen Ming kept it secret, as long as my brain is not broken , and you can definitely guess what happened after that!”

After hearing the important information brought by Fei Fan, Zhu Ziming looked very solemn. Seeing that Zhu Ziming was silent, Fei Fan also said that he was not satisfied with his intelligence, so he continued to add: "From then on, I began to secretly pay attention to Ye Chen's situation. However, Chen Ming protected him extremely closely. Not only is he in disguise every time he visits him, but Ye Chen almost never leaves his residence, so I can't get any useful information at all."

Zhu Ziming nodded and continued to ask: "Elder Fei should have heard about this Zhongzhou Sword Conference!"

Fei Fan gave an affirmative answer: "I have read it from the "Cultivation Financial Weekly". This old boy Chen Ming is really ruthless. He actually taught the descendants of the Ye family the forbidden technique Gengjin Body Transformation Technique. No wonder Ye Chen is able to break out of the siege. It is estimated that only people with a blood feud can have the perseverance to practice such a terrifying forbidden technique."

However, Zhu Ziming snorted coldly and said: "How can he, Ye Chen, break out of the siege? If the Supreme Elder Cheng Shuying hadn't stood up for him, what qualifications would he have to get the ticket to the Infinite Sword Sect?"

Fei Fan is also a veteran of officialdom. He can reveal some things at a glance. He suddenly showed an expression of sudden realization and said: "I see! After all, the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference has long ceased to be a platform for selecting talents for the Wuliang Sword Sect. Since Lin Jianxing took over two hundred years ago, ...Uh, ahem, it turns out Elder Cheng is standing up personally, no wonder!"

Fei Fan originally wanted to say that the nature of the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference had changed since Lin Jianxing took over as the head of the Wuliang Sword Sect, but he suddenly realized that Zhu Ziming was the spokesperson for Lin Jianxing's first disciple, Liu Hanxing.

So he forcefully swallowed half of what he said.

Zhu Ziming naturally knew that Fei Fan wanted to complain about Lin Jianxing's incompetence, but he had no loyalty to Lin Jianxing and Liu Hanxing. He just wanted to use the power of these two people to make a comeback.

To be fair, Zhu Ziming actually felt that Lin Jianxing was ambitious and talented, but Lin Jianxing was the strongest man in Zhongzhou and the boss of the Wuliang Sword Sect. He held the highest power in Zhongzhou and could not be arbitrarily arranged. Therefore, he simply pretended not to understand Fei Fan's meaning. Continued to ask: "So is that legend true? The Ye family of Zhongzhou holds the secret that can subvert the entire Haiya system?"

Fei Fan carefully considered his words before answering very carefully: "The predecessor of the Mountain Eagle Sect was the tribe of the Ye family in Zhongzhou. After the Ye family was exterminated, the Mountain Eagle Sect broke away from the sea with the support of the Wuliang Sword Sect. Cliff system. Starting from the first generation of Mountain Eagle Sect leader, before each generation of Mountain Eagle Sect leader succeeds, they need to go to the Mountain Eagle Sect leader’s secret room to hand over work to the previous leader alone, so Chen Ming is likely to have control over There are many ancient secrets that we outsiders don’t know..."

However, Zhu Ziming did not buy this answer: "Elder Fei, you are an old man who has been working in the Mountain Eagle Sect for more than a hundred years. Haven't you heard of any specific rumors?"

A trace of struggle flashed across Fei Fan's face, but in the end he confessed honestly: "I heard that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce has a secret archive that stores the debts owed to Haiya by the major cultivation families and cultivation sects in Zhongzhou over the past thousands of years. Ya Chamber of Commerce’s debt of gratitude…”

Zhu Ziming raised his eyebrows and said, "What is a debt of gratitude?"

Fei Fan said with a serious expression: "You should know that the business of Haiya Chamber of Commerce is complex, and outsiders cannot see the real operation of Haiya Chamber of Commerce. Over the past thousands of years, countless cultivators and families have asked Haiya Chamber of Commerce to entrust their services. Some of them want to ask the Haiya Chamber of Commerce to transfer assets to launder money, and some want to pay back the money they owe to the Haiya Chamber of Commerce... Whenever a similar situation occurs, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce will ask them to sign a document. The mysterious document of the [Reciprocal Agreement].”

"A reciprocal agreement?"

Hearing this unfamiliar term, Zhu Ziming wondered: "Is this some kind of special contract with heaven?"

Fei Fan took a deep breath and confirmed Zhu Ziming's statement: "That's right. Whenever the other party owes the Haiya Department a huge favor, but cannot offer conditions that the Haiya Department is satisfied with, the Haiya Department will suggest that the other party sign this agreement. A reciprocal agreement, and swore to Tiandao to abide by its terms. The terms of the so-called reciprocal agreement are all formulated according to the needs of the Haiya System. As long as certain special requirements of the Haiya System are completed, the Haiya System will unconditionally help the other party solve the current situation. Difficulties, no strings attached!”

Zhu Ziming pondered silently for a moment, then suddenly took a breath and said: "What a vicious plan, what a terrible plan!"

Zhu Ziming was quite smart and understood the horror of this reciprocal agreement almost instantly.

Because the terms of this reciprocal agreement are all formulated by the Haiya Sect, the Haiya Sect can almost add any conditions that it needs the other party to meet in the agreement, for example: "If your sect has a Nascent Soul stage monk in the future, , you must help us three times." Another example is, "If someone from your sect will serve at the top level of Wuliang Sword Sect in the future, we must arrange the personnel we want to arrange for Haiya City" and so on...

Furthermore, reciprocal agreements take full advantage of human nature and artificially separate the advantages and disadvantages of the agreement.

The seniors who asked the Haiya Sect for help enjoyed the benefits brought by the reciprocal agreement, but the obligations could be borne by the juniors of the sect who did not know how many years later. In this case, even if the other party had the ability to open other Haiya Sect wanted conditions, we might as well insist on signing a reciprocal agreement, as Comrade Keynes famously said -

In the long run, we are all dead!

Over the course of thousands of years, the Haiya system has signed countless reciprocal agreements.

Although many of the parties who signed the agreement, such as some cultivator families whose families were in decline, have disappeared in the long river of history, the number of reciprocal agreements that are still in effect is definitely not small!