Late at night, on the streets of the imperial capital of Berelli. Linzi and Cohen sneakily weave through the dark streets in cloaks, like two thieves who pry doors through windows. Occasionally, dragoons rode past them, and both of them would quickly run into the dark shadows of the street to avoid the wary gaze of the dragoons.

As soon as Lin Qi paid the bill, the two had a supper at a tavern at the back door of the Fifth University, and then Korn took Lin Qi out and walked down a street with no lights towards the eastern part of the city.

The dragoons and brass hats caused great trouble for the two of them along the way, and many times they had to hide in wolves, so as not to be discovered by their sneaky whereabouts. Korn couldn't help but curse with a grin, all of them were good deeds done by those damn thieves - one was the theft of No. 1 Shenghui Street, the other was the theft of the crown of the Victory Palace, plus several major gods had accidents in the imperial capital one after another, and now the imperial capital's security force is much stronger than before.

If it weren't for Lin Qi's strength being much stronger than these dragoons and bronze hats, and if it weren't for Lin Qi's spiritual power, which had been able to spread out for tens of meters and discover the movements of these people in advance, the two would not have known how many times they had been caught.

"The gods curse those damned thieves so that they never see the lovely gold coins!" Coin grunted, shrunken and hurried forward with Lin Qi in tow. Lin Qi touched his nose a little wolfly, it seemed that all the big cases in the imperial capital had something to do with him recently?

After cautiously moving forward for a long time, the two finally came to the famous Golden Lily Square in Dongcheng District.

This square has a long history, and it already existed when the imperial capital was built. This small square is surrounded by many of the most famous banks on the mainland, especially all the big banks of the Empire, whose headquarters are located here.

Banks that can have a separate building near Golden Lily Square are the kind of behemoths that can destabilize a country for a while with a single move. It was once said that if all the banks in the Golden Lily Square of the Gallic Empire were united, they would have the power to subvert an empire with their wealth alone.

Kou En came here in the middle of the night with Lin Qi's third watch, and Lin Qi couldn't help but glance at Kou En secretly.

"My most respected professor, you're not going to rob the vault here, are you?" Lin Qi blinked desperately, staring at Professor Cohen. In the entire imperial capital, Golden Lily Square is the only forbidden place where the garrison force is better than the Victory Palace, because of the financial resources of these big banks, the daily security of the entire Golden Lily Square is maintained by an elite and powerful mercenary group.

'Tu', this is the name of the mercenary group that guards the Golden Lily Square, which is also the only officially recognized large mercenary group in the Gallic Empire, and its history can be traced back to the Hundred Years of Land Island War, in which the "Tu" gave the emperor a great help.

Not to mention anything else, there are only twelve Heavenly Rank Warriors stationed in Golden Lily Square! On weekdays, there are only four Heavenly Rank soldiers stationed in the Victory Palace, and the defensive power of the Golden Lily Square is three times that of the Victory Palace!

Lin Qi was very curious, could it be that Professor was a hidden supreme master, and he could easily kill the twelve heavenly ranks?

Korn glared at Lin Qi, he shook his shriveled arm, and coughed a few times in a low voice: "Nonsense, Lin Qi, I want to give you a special extracurricular tutoring class today, I want you to understand one thing, looting this kind of thing, you don't necessarily have to use violence to complete!"

Shaking off his cloak, Korn led Lin Qi to a granite building across the square.

Although it was late at night, the Golden Lily Square was still brightly lit, and there was a circle of lampposts along the square, and the bright street lamps illuminated the square. Some carriages are parked outside some buildings, and the carriages of these carriages always have a shiny family coat of arms hanging on them.

Lin Qi glanced at these coats of arms, all of them belonged to some well-known wealthy nobles, but Lin Qi didn't understand, could it be that these big nobles had the habit of talking about business in the middle of the night? If they wanted to do something secret, they had to come to Golden Lily Square in the middle of the night, why did they have to hang out their own coats of arms?

Several guards in pale cyan armor stood by a fountain pond not far away, looking at Korn and Lin Qi with cold eyes. In the huge Golden Lily Square, only the two of them are the most sneaky, and they don't look like good things. They wore heavy cloaks, and their entire bodies were tightly covered by heavy and wide cloaks, and no matter how they looked at them, they had an evil aura.

Two of the guards walked towards them as if nothing had happened, but before the guards could arrive, Korn had already led Lin Qi to the building. Lin Qi glanced at the building, the door of the building was inlaid with a huge coat of arms of pure gold, and looking at the pattern on it, this was the famous Silver Fir Elephant Bank of the Empire.

Korn knocked heavily on the door of the Silver Fir Elephant Bank, and heard footsteps inside, and then, with a muffled sound, a small door opened on one side of the gate, allowing only one person to pass through Guò. Korn muttered a few words and led Lin Qi into the small door. The wizened old man who had opened the door walked out of the door, took out a coat of arms and shook it at the two guards who were approaching this way, and the two guards walked back slowly.

The small door closed behind the two of them, and the wizened old man led Lin Qi and Koen forward down a dimly lit corridor, and after several circles in the corridor, the three of them came to a brightly lit and even slightly dazzling room.

Several well-dressed middle-aged people were sitting upright behind a long table, and Kou En pulled Lin Qi to sit opposite these middle-aged people, separated by a long table with a width of one meter and a length of three meters.

"Distinguished guest, according to your appointment, we are ready for a qiē. Several middle-aged men didn't seem to care about Lin Qi and Cohen's strange attire, and one of them, with a cheerful energy, placed a large square cowhide bag on the long table.

Korn opened the leather bag and examined the few contracts in the leather bag in the bright light for a while, then he nodded in satisfaction. He knocked lightly on the table and muttered a few lowly to Lin Qi, who hurriedly took out the golden ticket, counted out the eighteen million gold coins and handed them to the middle-aged people on the other side of the long table.

Several middle-aged people quickly and carefully checked the golden ticket handed over by Lin Qi, and then they showed a happy and somewhat mysterious smile at the same time. They nodded solemnly to Lin Qi and the others, and then left the room with the golden tickets.

Then Cohen and Lin Qi quickly left the Silver Fir Elephant Bank, and took advantage of the shadow of the building to come to another bank next door.

The same thing happened, Korn took Lin Qi in and out of the headquarters of these big banks a dozen times, and exchanged all the gold tickets on Lin Qi's body into a contract. In just over an hour, Lin Qi's total of nearly 100 million golden tickets were spent, in exchange for a stack of contracts in Kouen's hand.

"Professor Cohen, what are you going to do?" Lin Qi was heartbroken, and at the same time worried. What the hell is Korn going to do? What's going on with these contracts? Nearly 100 million gold coins, Lin Qi has never spent so much money in his life. Even though he spent a lot of gold on Hellhammer last time, he still got a lot of weapons and ordnance.

But Cohen's behavior this time was too strange.

Korn smiled mysteriously, and he pointed to the opposite side of Golden Lily Square, a dark building made of black volcanic steelstone.

"This is our goal, Iron Wall Bank!" Korn's face was very strange, and he bit his beard a little proudly and smiled: "Iron Wall Bank, the real economic lifeline of the Great Prince Thuram, started by preparing military expenses for the countries of the mainland at the end of the Hundred Years of Land Island War, and is now one of the most powerful banks in the mainland. ”

Patting the contracts on his hand vigorously, Korn squinted his eyes and sneered: "These contracts I want you to pay for are all internal loan documents between Tiebi Bank and other banks. ”

Lin Qi listened quietly to Korn's explanation, and then he was so frightened by Korn's big appetite that he was covered in a cold sweat!

According to Cohen, these banks, whether private family or state-owned, are insatiable monsters. Generally speaking, the people of the mainland deposit their gold coins in the bank, and the bank issues gold bills for these gold coins, and then charges a fee when the gold bills are cashed, which is the only source of income for the bank according to the understanding of ordinary people.

But in pursuit of profits, how can a bank be stupid enough to hide its golden coins in a vault?

Even if a million gold bills are exchanged for cash or other denominations, how much is the handling fee? Maybe a big banker will eat up the handling fee at dinner. Therefore, banks will use the gold coins deposited by others in their coffers to lend to operators in various industries, and obtain high interest returns.

But gradually, the appetite of these bankers grew, and they were pleasantly surprised to find that no one would know how many gold coins they had in their vaults! If they only had 10 million gold coins in the treasury, but if they issued gold bills with a denomination of 100 million gold coins and then used them to invest, they could still get huge interest returns!

As a result, the amount of gold bills issued by these banks became larger and larger, because ordinary people were accustomed to the convenience brought by gold tickets, and no one liked to run around with heavy gold coins like Lin Qi! Therefore, as long as no one opened their vaults, the gold tickets they issued were exactly the same as the gold coins.

So, there are more and more golden tickets, far more than the number of gold coins they actually have in their treasury!

So, occasionally there will be certain customers who, for some reason, extract in large quantities nowadays!

And when there is not enough gold in the treasury, some of the big banks will borrow cash from well-connected banks.

Or when they make certain investments or participate in shares, these banks will also borrow from each other.

All in all, it's very complicated.

And Professor Cohen took so many loan contracts from the Iron Wall Bank, just to swallow the Iron Wall Bank in one bite!

The Iron Wall Bank that can rank in the top 10 in the whole continent! (To be continued)