If you owe the bank a hundred taels, you’re the bank’s slave;
but if you owe the bank a million taels, you’re the bank’s boss!
Lin Xiao, a top investment banking hotshot, returns to the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty. From then on, the entire Ming world changes.
The Shanxi merchants are hoarding grain?
Lin Xiao: “Drive prices up in reverse, settle with physical delivery, and blow the bulls out of the water!”
Japanese pirates are looting the southeast?
Lin Xiao: “Issue Ming government bonds and hire Western mercenaries. We’ll use capital to blast you into oblivion!”
The Jiajing Emperor wants to pursue the Dao?
Lin Xiao: “Your Majesty, you can apply for a special cultivation loan at the bank.”
From a small granary in Qixian to the border trade bureau in Datong, from the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau to the London exchange.
Lin Xiao builds a credit system and harvests wealth from around the world.
Years later, the Queen of England is lining up to deposit money in Lin Xiao’s bank, while the Ming emperor frets in his study because Lin Xiao has cut off his credit.
And Lin Xiao gazes at the currencies across the world, all bearing his portrait: “There’s nothing in this world I can’t buy!”
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