Chapter 535 - Traces of a Traitor
Chapter 535: Traces of a Traitor
“Today, the Central Federal Government is holding a special financial meeting…”
“The decision has been made to issue an additional three-year national debt totaling 10 trillion Chinese yuan…”
The evening news was broadcast on the television.
Ling Ping’an could not help but raised his head and looked at the television screen.
“This decision has been made by the Central Federal Government to inform the relevant stakeholders such as Fusang, Silla, and Lanfang based on their obligations under the treaty…”
In the world, Fusang, Silla, and Lanfang had never tried to issue currency on a large scale.
This was a historical habit.
Since the Song dynasty, Fusang and other countries had used the Song dynasty’s money system as their own currency.
This had been especially true since modern times.
After all, it was very troublesome to issue currency on their own.
If they were not careful, they would face a financial crisis and cause the people to live in poverty.
By using the Chinese yuan directly, they would save a lot of trouble.
As for sovereignty?
Fusang, Silla, and other countries had long given up on it.
They could not wait to enter the world of Great Harmony on the next day.
However…
“Ten trillion?” Ling Ping’an frowned. No matter how insensitive he was to numbers, he still had the concept of trillion.
This was the largest scale of the national debt in history.
“So much money in the market…”
“I’m afraid prices will go up to the sky!” he muttered to himself.
He took out his phone and looked at the discussion on the social media platform.
Ling Ping’an’s expression changed again.
This was because almost all the experts and scholars were cursing loudly.
They were scolding the central bank for being too timid and not injecting enough money!
Only ten trillion?
The scale of the Federal Empire’s national debt should breakthrough 10 trillion by the end of this year!
In other words, these guys actually wanted more than 40 trillion national debt to be issued!
“This is simply crazy…” Ling Ping’an read these articles and watched these guys analyzing the current economic policies seriously.
One by one, they were all speaking with certainty.
The technology of virtual reality would drive the entire world’s economy to advance by leaps and bounds.
The golden age of the rule of virtue was right in front of his eyes (The rule of virtue was the Industrial Revolution era after the hundred-year war, the Federal Empire completed full-scale industrialization and urbanization in 50 years.).
Therefore, learning from the experience of the rule of virtue, the government of the new era had to increase the money supply to prevent the possibility of insufficient capital and currency liquidity affecting and slowing down the national economy.
Just by looking at these, Ling Ping’an understood.
These guys were creating hype!
They were afraid that the hype was not hot enough!
They were trying their best to stir up public opinion, adding fuel to the fire!
“It seems that capital has placed a lot of bets on the Legend of Nightmare!” Ling Ping’an thought.
It could make almost all capital clamor together.
It seemed that the Legend of Nightmare really could change the world.
It was just like the wave of mobile internet in the past.
Thinking about it carefully, it made sense.
The development of technology would inevitably bring about an increase in the wealth of the entire society.
Therefore, Ling Ping’an made himself a cup of tea with a peace of mind and sat down leisurely.
… …
At the Britannia Embassy in Xia.
Alucard looked at the balance of the account displayed on the computer.
These were all Chinese yuan foreign exchange transferred from the metropolitan territory of Britannia.
The total was 356 billion.
In addition, there was a 100 billion Chinese yuan oil futures to be delivered at the end of the year.
For Britannia, this was the national life-saving money.
It was the basic reserves used to maintain the country’s economy and people’s livelihood.
He picked up the mouse and clicked a button gently.
All the funds were used to purchase the latest three-year Federal Empire Treasury Bond.
Even if the interest rate was zero!
But…
He could get a total of 4,560,000 contribution points!
When the transaction was confirmed, Alucard couldn’t help but sweat.
“Fortunately…”
“I’m in the Imperial Capital… and I happen to have enough funds in hand!”
The Federal Empire issued a national debt of such a large scale.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any country, consortium, or organization!
Even the enemy would try to buy the eastern national debt.
For example, the Sacred Alliance held more than 500 billion Chinese yuan in bonds.
Why?
The answer was very simple.
Every 100,000 bonds could get one contribution point.
And contribution points could buy all kinds of transcendent being resources, cultivation techniques, and even custom-made top-grade transcendent weapons!
Just this alone was enough for everyone to go crazy.
And the bonds of the Federal Empire were issued anonymously.
Holding the treasury bonds was equal to holding the contribution points.
At the time the treasury bonds were delivered, the contribution points would be received.
Anyone could use their right to purchase transcendent being materials at any time.
For 200 years, this rule had never failed.
Therefore, the Chinese yuan and treasury bonds were the strongest currencies in the world.
Not only was it anchored to the world’s largest consumer market and manufacturing power, but it was also anchored to the transcendent being resources controlled by the Blackguard!
In this post-Kunlun star-setting era, where the Realm of Nightmare was about to move towards a semi-open era, no one would doubt the solvency of the Federal Empire and the Blackguard.
So…
This national debt was equivalent to giving money away!
4.6 million contribution points were enough to buy transcendent being materials that could forge a general-level sword.
That was the nuclear weapon of the transcendent being world.
It was the true foundation of a country and a man-made artifact!
As expected, when Alucard refreshed the computer page again, this batch of three-year national bonds with a total value of 10 trillion Chinese yuan had been sold out.
This meant that the person who made the move was not an individual.
It was the central banks of each country!
The central banks of every country in the world had probably used their full strength.
There might even be people who would sell everything they had to buy national bonds.
“Fortunately, because of Legend of Nightmare, I asked the country to mobilize all the available foreign exchange and futures!” Alucard said, “Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to make it in time for this feast!”
To the world, the national bonds of the Federal Empire were the best quality assets.
It was not only because there was no risk but profit.
It was also because of the transcendent being anchored to it.
It was just that in the past, its national bonds were very small.
Each issue was only a few hundred billion.
Moreover, because of the demands of its domestic interest groups and transcendent being families, the central bank did not dare to buy back the national debt from the market.
The Central Federal Government also did not dare to use its financial surplus to buy back the national debt. It could only pay back the debt by issuing new bonds to buy old ones.
This gave all the countries an opportunity.
The Butanians used two hundred years to gradually raise the total amount of national debt in their hands to 300 billion Chinese yuan.
And just now, Alucard’s operation made the total amount of the Federal Empire’s national debt in Britannia reach 750 billion Chinese yuan.
This would make Britannia the country with the largest amount of Federal Empire’s national debt in the Land of Qin.
But this was a good thing!
Alucard only took a casual look at the treasury bond market of the Federal Empire.
The yield of the newly issued three-year treasury bonds had already reached 3%.
This meant that someone was willing to purchase the treasury bonds of anyone at a premium.
Very quickly, this figure jumped to 5%!
Alucard looked at it and laughed.
This meant that he didn’t do anything but increase Britannia’s foreign exchange reserves by 5%!
In the blink of an eye, he made a net profit of over ten billion!
This was why everyone was crazily snatching the Federal Empire’s national debt!
This was giving money away!
Of course…
Alucard also understood that the national debt was this eastern country’s overt scheme.
They were using transcendent being resources as bait, reaping the wealth of the world.
The foreign exchange that countries had painstakingly accumulated had all turned into the national debt.
This in turn forced countries to export resources in exchange for foreign exchange.
And the change in the interest rate on the national debt of the Chinese yuan would form the tide of the Chinese yuan, manipulating the fluctuations in real prices.
Every change in the interest rate on the national debt would form a tsunami in the global financial market, manipulating the economies of the secular countries.
And for this, they only needed to pay some extra transcendent being resources.
This was the best solution.
And it was also in line with the philosophy of the East.
Those who were good at fighting had no outstanding achievements!
… …
“Ten trillion Chinese yuan…”
“It was sold out in a few hours!”
Zheng Kexing looked at the sold-out national debt displayed on the computer.
He gritted his teeth and clucked.
He knew very well that ever since great ancestors issued the national debt, the main force that bought the national debt had never been a foreign country.
Instead, it was the various factions within Federal Empire.
After the recovery of the spirit aura, the main force of the national debt became the various transcendent being families.
Therefore, he did not need to think much to understand it.
With the issuance of the national debt, all the transcendent being families in Federal Empire had probably used all their strength to support it.
“This is betrayal!” he panted.
The transcendent being families had already voted with their feet.
They had used their actions to express their stance and handed in their signatures!
The issue of the national debt could also be seen as the Central Federal Government releasing its dividends.
It was telling everyone that they would not suffer a loss if they followed him!
And the Central Federal Government had the confidence to do so.
Ten trillion Chinese yuan was equivalent to releasing 100 million contribution points at the same time.
These contribution points were enough to exchange for materials that could be used to forge more than ten general-level magic swords, and at the same time, the cost of forging them.
It must be known that a general-level magic sword was a man-made divine artifact!
Each one of them could suppress the foundation of a transcendent being family.
It could allow an ancient family to occasionally pass on generations without declining!
Therefore, these magic swords were not only hard to find materials.
They were also complicated to forge.
Just taking the Xuanji and Yuheng swords in Li Shouyi’s hands as an example, it was said that he mobilized the best transcendent being ore in the world.
At the same time, he invited the best thirty sword forging masters and spent more than a year forging them.
Thus, the Blackguard claimed that only a great country and a great people could forge a great sword.
These words were not bragging.
This was because the Blackguard was the only force other than the gods that could create their own magic sword of this level.
But the problem was…
Zheng Kexing remembered that in the past when he interacted with various transcendent being families in private, almost everyone was dissatisfied with the Central Federal Government.
Some people even acted more radical than him.
They were the Xie family from Liaodong, the Qin family from Liangzhou, and the Chen family from Beihai…
Countless people said the same thing: the world had suffered for a long time.
As long as someone raised their arms and called out, everyone would follow.
However, at the end of the day, they were competing to lick the dog.
Why didn’t these guys think about it?
Where did the transcendent being resources of the Blackguard come from?
Wasn’t it the output of the state-owned spiritual veins and spiritual lands that they occupied?
Wasn’t it them who forcefully distributed the resources and demanded that each family pay the output of their blessed lands and spiritual veins?
What they took out was just a drop in the ocean.
It was basically equivalent to the previous landlords who after receiving the rent from the tenant farmers, pretended to be kind and rewarded some money to the tenant farmers for the New Year.
“D*mn it!” Zheng Kexing couldn’t help but swore, “You can’t conspire with a b*stard!”
Although he was cursing fiercely, the fear in his heart was increasing day by day.
He didn’t dare to sleep, eat, or drink water these days.
He was afraid that once he closed his eyes, his head would be taken away in his dream, and he was even more afraid of being poisoned in his diet.
In his mind, he kept repeating the miserable scene after his failure.
His head was smashed and his brains flowed all over the floor.
His soul was tied up in the fire by the ghost.
This fear made him mad.
Sometimes, he even had the urge to hurt himself. It was as if he could cut off his own flesh with a knife to calm his anger and let his mind have a moment of peace.
This morning, he almost strangled his own son.
When his son came to see him, he had the thought: instead of being humiliated, trampled on, and tortured in the future, I’ll take you away.
He thought it was better for his son to die by his hand than live to be humiliated by his enemy.
Fortunately, his last bit of reason allowed him to control that impulse.
Zheng Kexing was panting deeply, and he put a large bottle of powerful tranquilizer into his mouth.
He only felt a little relieved when the tranquilizers that could cause an elephant’s heart to stop suddenly entered his mouth.
“Tomorrow… Tomorrow…”
“If I don’t succeed, I’ll die…” he muttered to himself.
This person in charge of the transcendent being in the Imperial Capital wouldn’t know that his eyes were red and his face was ferocious. His cheekbones were sunken and his entire person was as thin as skin and bones.
He would not know that there was a black worm lying on his shoulder. The worm screamed and whispered into his mind, magnifying his fear, arousing his uneasiness, and urging him to walk on the path of death.
Ring, ring, ring!
The phone rang at this moment.
Ring, ring, ring!
The continuous ringing of the phone made Zheng Kexing’s mania even more intense.
He panted heavily and stood up.
The worm on his shoulder opened its sharp mouth and bit hard on the flesh on his shoulder.
However, he seemed to have lost his sense of pain.
Instead, because of the biting, his mania temporarily calmed down.
Therefore, he walked over and picked up the phone.
“I am Zheng Kexing…” he said in a low voice. His voice was hoarse and he was exhausted. His eyes were in a trance.
“Old Zheng!” a steady male voice came from the phone, “I’m the Duke!”
When Zheng Kexing heard this voice, he suddenly woke up a little.
“Duke… What’s the matter?” he asked.
“Yes!”
“We just failed to spy on the customer service of Legend of Nightmare…” the person on the other end of the phone said, “After everyone entered that building, they all died…”
“I want to ask you, do you have any relevant information?”
Zheng Kexing listened. The worm that was biting his flesh and blood on his shoulder was nibbling at his flesh and blood.
His figure suddenly blurred.
His voice also changed abruptly.
It became strange, terrifying, and sharp.
It was like a vengeful spirit that had died tragically in the middle of the night demanding its enemy’s life. “All of you will die!”
He said, “All of you will die!”
The worm on his shoulder gnawed even harder.
“Traitor!”
“All traitors should die!”
The worm crawled into the flesh under his skin. “If we find you… Don’t even think about escaping!”
Zheng Kexing’s face slowly became as blurry as a melted candle.
He repeated, “Yes, I will die too!”
When the person on the other end of the phone heard that, he was so scared that he immediately hung up.
Zheng Kexing, on the other hand, laughed evilly.
He turned his head and looked at the worm on his shoulder.
The flesh on his face was melting and dripping.
He laughed.
It was like a statue in a wax museum, extremely horrifying under the light!
… …
In an underground garage in the capital.
In an old-fashioned phone booth, a man wearing a burqa put down the phone in his hand as if he had seen a ghost.
However, the terrifying, strange, and sharp whispers were still ringing in his ears.
“All of you will die!”
“All of you will die!”
“Traitors!”
“All traitors will die!”
“If we find you, don’t even think about escaping!”
He screamed, rolling and crawling towards a car not far away.
Then he ran into the car and immediately started the car. He drove at full power and rushed out of the abandoned garage in fear.
But he wouldn’t know that a shadow was sitting quietly on the passenger seat.
The shadow had no face and no facial features.
It just sat quietly and ran with him.