After receiving Lu Hanqiang's instructions, Gao Xu got out of the way with Chen Liang, returned to Lu Hanqiang's side, and protected Lu Hanqiang in the middle.
Liu Tao carefully kept his distance, and then ran forward in fear, and was about to kneel down to Lu Hanqiang, Lu Hanqiang waved his hand anxiously: "Don't kneel around, you don't have that idle time, say, what's going on in the east of the city." ” Liu Tao hurriedly stood up straight and reported: "Xiaguan also got the news, saying that there was a fire in Yili Bank in the east of the city, and I just ordered people to go to reinforcements, but someone urgently reported that the house of the Governor was burned, so he hurried here, and this is the situation." ” At this time, someone in the group of righteous neighbors suddenly shouted, "There is a living one here."
While shouting, I saw a group of strong men in the neighborhood coming over with an unrecognizable guy who had been beaten and threw it in front of Lu Hanqiang's eyes.
Lu Hanqiang didn't even look at it, and said to Steward Zhang: "Old brother, immediately count the dead and wounded in the neighborhood, the dead have two hundred silver, the injured one hundred, and each person who came to fight the fire was ten taels."
Then he said to Liu Tao: "You arrange a group of water dragons to go with me, this bastard, you will be sent back for interrogation immediately, I don't care what method you use, I will definitely ask for the details of the messenger." ” Talking about it, he didn't care about his own house with lingering smoke, and directly led a group of soldiers from the Nancheng Division to the fire of Dongcheng Yili Bank.
By the time Lu Hanqiang arrived at the fire with a group of brothers, everything was over, and the bank headquarters had become a fireworks ruin, although there were still people pouring water on the ruins, but it had long been to no avail.
Lu Hanqiang grabbed the black King Kong-like governor: "What's the matter, why is the fire burning and how is the loss" In fact, he already felt that something was wrong in the whole thing, and now it is to verify.
The governor showed two rows of white teeth and said in a hoarse voice: "My subordinates are derelict in their duties, why the fire is ignited, I don't know, it just started so suddenly, and the fire is uncontrollable, especially this headquarters is all wood, it can't stand the fire at all, and everything will be reduced to ashes in a blink of an eye."
Then he jumped angrily: the most annoying thing was the firefighting team of the Dongcheng Terracotta Division, not only was it obstructed by a group of idlers halfway, but when they arrived at the scene, there was no water in the waterwheel, and they also asked our local people to mention it in the well, these bastards.
"Our coffers have not been affected" "The vault was not affected because it was a cellar renovation.
At that time, there was a group of ruffians who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob, but fortunately, our bodyguards were loyal to their duties and were not affected by the fire, so there was nothing wrong. ” Lu Hanqiang breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the silver treasury was fine.
Lu Hanqiang and Xu Jie frowned and checked the fire, and at this time Xu Jie reminded in a low voice: "My lord, I think there is something strange about this matter." ” Lu Hanqiang nodded sullenly, "The fire is so fierce, the fire is so uncontrollable, coupled with the performance of the fire brigade of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, this is definitely deliberate."
If it is connected to the fire in my house, it is a very bad thing. ” Xu Jie nodded: "Our bank has robbed some people's jobs, and some people are giving us eye medicine for problems, so adults should urgently transfer some silver reserves, and there may be a run on tomorrow." ” was reminded by Xu Jie, Lu Hanqiang was immediately shocked, yes, those who opened banks were afraid of a run, and once there was a run, they would immediately go bankrupt, so they immediately called the president over: "How much cash do we have in our hands now?"
The governor immediately replied: "There are 570,000 dollars of silver in the cellar."
Lu Hanqiang waved his hand impatiently: "Don't say it, you can lead the staff to start tidying up the fire now, try to rummage through the unburned account books, and prepare for tomorrow's business." ” "But my lord, the account books have been burned, how we will open tomorrow, such a big thing has happened, if we open tomorrow, there will definitely be a run, only 500,000 cash, no matter what, we can't plug the huge depositor hole, so how can we deal with it?"
"If the account books are burned, we will open, even if there is a run tomorrow, we will open, this is an iron law, as for the run, we will find a way when the time comes."
The governor thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and said, "Then I will announce tomorrow that due to the burning of the account books, within ten days, only deposits will be collected, and no withdrawals will be issued, so that I can cope with tomorrow's tide." ” Lu Hanqiang nodded, this is a very reasonable explanation, so that it can be delayed for a few days, and then urgently transfer silver in other banks, or continue to absorb deposits, anyway, there will be time to get it.
So he opened his mouth to agree, but at this time, Xu Jie hurriedly stopped Lu Hanqiang's words: "Adults can't." ” Lu Hanqiang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "Why not" "If you do this, you can't cure the root cause at all, but it will increase the panic of depositors, and at the same time, it will show our dishonesty to depositors all over the world, so there will be endless troubles in the future, which will completely hit the saving habits we have just cultivated, which is harmful and not beneficial."
Lu Hanqiang thought about it and immediately understood Xu Jie's question, now Yili Bank, this emerging industry, has finally been accepted by the people through various means, so that the people can take out the silver buried in the ground and deposit it in the bank, and once the credibility is lost this time, all the previous efforts will be in vain, so this time everything will face a run.
"Well, it is precisely through this run that we can establish our reputation like gold and iron and fulfill our promise of free access, which can also be regarded as a kind of crisis marketing."
"My lord, but where to find this silver, this time waits for no one."
Kong Bangguo asked anxiously.
At this time, Cheng Guoyuan stepped forward again and quietly reminded: "Your Excellency may wish to enter the palace." ” Lu Hanqiang nodded: "Yes, when you go to the palace to find the emperor and find Wang Chengen, I don't believe it, Daming's internal money does not have 1.8 million silver, especially, as long as the emperor comes forward, everything can be done naturally, and there may be unexpected gains." ” Without further ado, Lu Hanqiang instructed Xu Jie and others to stay to help the president deal with the aftermath and prepare for the continuation of business tomorrow, and he hurriedly rushed to the palace with Gao Xu and Chen Liang.
At this time, you have to take these two dog legs, because this fire is obviously man-made, then those enemies of themselves may jump over the wall in a hurry, beat themselves with a stick, shoot a brick or something, this is a fatal thing, in any case, now I can't have an accident, even if I am hit by someone, maybe it will spread tomorrow, I was hit by a car and died, then the matter is really over. t1706231537: