After waiting two days, the bank finally agreed to lend Lin Qi the money, but actually getting the funds disbursed would take another day.
This also made Lin Qi realize that the Lehmer National Bank's liquid funds were already close to exhaustion.
They had no idea where the bank had scraped together this money. It might have been the last bit they had left.
In fact, what had happened in Lehmer had also happened in the Federation before.
Capital flowed out, countless factories shut down and went bankrupt, workers lost their jobs, and the crime rate rose...
The Federation's response at the time could be said to have been swift, but it still had no particularly good solution.
In the end, it could only cooperate with Federation-based capitalists and use underhanded methods to keep some foreign capital and industries in the Federation, denying them any chance to escape.
The Federation had the confidence to do this because it was a vast country with a sufficient population and military.
Population represented the future.
Nagaril had a large population, and in just a few years, its commerce had already begun to take shape.
There was no helping it. With so many people, if each person spent one sol on consumption, it was equivalent to every Federation citizen spending four sols.
Nagaril's per capita income looked very low, as though everyone could barely afford to spend money. But once the population was large enough, the final effect was still the same!
Lehmer lacked population. In a Small Country with only a few million people, once foreign capital fled, the already-inactive local financial and economic market began to shrink rapidly. The National Bank had no money. This was no joke and no story—it was simply a fact!
And now, Lin Qi had stepped on