Chapter 115 The Great Run
"Do you know? The officials of Jiuzhou Bank have bribed tens of thousands of taels of silver and ran to Nanyang. Now the military leader is preparing to send a fleet to Nanyang to catch him back! If we don't go to Jiuzhou Bank to retrieve the deposit, then our money will not be back!"
"Is it true? Those officials dared to greed for the money we put in the bank?"
"You don't know the news from the inside! Our military commander didn't say anything, but those officials under him were not greedy and secretly did a lot of unethical things behind the military commander's back."
"If Jiuzhou Bank really greed for our money, then I have to go to Jiuzhou Bank to get the money I have placed there. That would be my salary for several months."
"Everyone goes to Jiuzhou Bank to get back the deposit. If you don't hurry up, you will lose all your money!"
No one knows which alley in Jinzhou City originated.
At the beginning, rumors were only circulating among a small crowd, but later they spread ten to ten, ten to hundreds, spread throughout Jinzhou City, and even to other cities. Moreover, these rumors became more and more evil. First, the officials of Jiuzhou Bank stole tens of thousands of taels of silver from the bank, and later, there was news that the officials of Jiuzhou Bank colluded with each other and led to the bank's bank going bankrupt. In short, all the rumors were instigating people to go to Jiuzhou Bank to withdraw their deposits!
"Let us in, we are depositors, and Kyushu Bank has no reason to intercept us outside!"
"They must be guilty if they don't withdraw money to us. Everyone is about to squeeze in. If it's too late, there will be no money in the bank!"
Outside the headquarters of Jiuzhou Bank, groups of surging people surrounded this stone street and were blocked. They held the certificates for deposits at Jiuzhou Bank in their hands, and they all wanted to get the "few" deposits in Jiuzhou Bank one step earlier than others.
"Everyone calm down. It's not that we don't want everyone to come in, but there are too many people and we can't be busy. Please be calm!" The staff of Jiuzhou Bank said with sweat when they saw thousands of people blocking outside.
"Go and send someone to inform the military leader and explain the situation here." The head of Jiuzhou Bank asked anxiously.
"But sir, the gate is blocked by the common people, we can't get out at all..."
The huge change in Jinzhou City immediately aroused the alert of the Jinzhou City Patrol Team.
"Get up quickly, something happened to the Kyushu Bank in the west of the city!"
In the house of the inspection team, the inspector knocked on the gongs and cymbals with a long knife, awakening the patrol team members who were having lunch break. These team members were divided into several shifts, some were night shifts, some were lunch shifts, and some were morning shifts. Now the affairs are urgent, and almost all the patrol team members were alarmed, and under the leadership of the inspection team leader, they went to the street where Kyushu Bank is located to maintain public order.
"Who is gathering here to cause trouble? You have disrupted the order here, leave quickly!" The inspector came with hundreds of patrol team members and drove away the crowd with long sticks.
"Your uncle, we are here to get our deposits. What qualifications do you have to drive us away?!"
"That's right, the military leader said that we can come to get our deposits at any time. Why are you going to fight?"
The people in southern Liaoning were fierce. Seeing the patrol team's long sticks, they were even more violent. Thousands of people were pushing each other with the patrol team coming. Before, Chu Yun had strict orders that the patrol team was not allowed to enforce the law and injure people, so these patrol team members could not harm the people, so the two sides were just together.
The panic of the masses spread around with the Jinzhou City as the center, and similar rumors appeared in other cities one after another.
The Jiuzhou Bank in Fuzhou City was also occupied by panicked people. These people asked Jiuzhou Bank to repay the money and almost fought with the inspection team.
Chu Yun, who was setting up a battle situation in Fuzhou City, learned about the great changes in each city and was galloping in his heart. Isn’t this a bank run in later generations?!
"Sir, Fuzhou, Dalian Port, Jinzhou is in a hurry! Especially Jinzhou City, which is the headquarters of Jiuzhou Bank, has suffered the greatest impact. This unrest has also seriously affected production and transportation. As for us in Gaizhou, workers in Tieshan Mine have even absent from work and returned to the city to participate in the unrest, and the work in the mine has been completely delayed." Chen Ting was extremely anxious to hand over the letters of help from various places to Chu Yun.
Who caused this bank run? Chu Yun took letters of help from various places, and it was nothing more than similar to Gaizhou City, with news such as Jiuzhou Bank being blocked and nearby streets being paralyzed.
No matter who it is, this run storm really disgusted Chu Yun. Just when the main force of the army was about to make every effort to fight the Northern Expedition, a fire suddenly broke out in the rear, and it swept across various fields such as economy, production, and people's livelihood, almost half of the situation was broken. If you don't handle this matter well, let alone the Northern Expedition, maybe the momentum of good development will be abrupt.
"Es from all over the country are still coming to the front line of Gaizhou. The troops preparing for the Northern Expedition in Gaizhou are deploying defenses to prevent the Later Jin troops from taking the opportunity to go south." Chu Yun, who was impolite, could only turn off attack to defend first and stabilize the situation first.
"Do we need to send troops to various cities to disperse the people? If they are allowed to go down, they may burn and loot the banks in a day or two." Chen Ting asked.
"If necessary, the army needs to intervene, but it is absolutely necessary to conflict with the people easily." Chu Yun thought hard about the solution to future generations, "You ask the civil servants in each city to persuade the people to leave under the escort of the patrol team, and tell them that there is no problem with our bank. All this is a conspiracy of the Jin people!"
At this time, Chu Yun didn't know whether the rumors were caused by the Jin people's conspiracy or some common people became tigers, but he knew that someone needed to take the blame at this time, and the person who took the blame could only be the Jin people!
"By the way, you ask someone to take out all the silver from the warehouses of each city, put it openly in the carriage and pull it into the bank, then secretly transport it out, and then pull it in openly..." Chu Yun said again, "We will give them as much as they want."
"Wonderful, isn't this Dong Zhuo's plan? No, the young one has no intention of comparing the adult to Dong Zhuo..." Chen Ting said quickly.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Dong Zhuo conquered Luoyang, there were not many soldiers, so he asked his same army to enter the city repeatedly with great fantasy, giving the people in the city a lot of illusions.
"After all, this unrest is related to the confidence of the people. As long as the confidence of the people is restored, we can solve this storm." Chu Yun rubbed his temples, "But it is still not enough. We still need to find a few people to take the blame to intimidate the people..."
When Chu Yun was worried, the guards outside the house came to report: "Sir, Captain Ella has captured several Golden Spy and is waiting outside."
Chapter completed!