Chapter 19 I Really Am the Bank President
"What kind of clickbait headline is this? Can you believe it?" Seeing this title, Zhang Menglong could only laugh in speechlessness; if whoever came up with this title went to work at UC, they\'d be directly promoted to head of the publicity department!
Luckily, Wang Ling hadn\'t posted his photo, otherwise Zhang Menglong\'s phone would probably have blown up with calls from his friends by now. He knew he couldn\'t keep this secret for long, but he figured he\'d delay it as long as possible.
What really gave Zhang Menglong a headache now was how to spend this 100 billion US dollars in just one year. If he slacked off for even a day, an extra 100 million Huaxia currency would appear in his account each day. Such days made him utterly frustrated, thinking when in the world could he ever spend it all?
Moreover, he had to constantly check whether the recipient of his spending was one of his properties, otherwise, despite all the effort to spend a large sum of money, he\'d end up finding out it was all for nothing as it was his own business!
"Thunderstruck! The heavens collapse and the purple-gold hammer, purple lightning..."
"What the hell, why did my ringtone turn into this nonsense?" Just as Zhang Menglong was about to continue looking online for money-spending strategies, his phone suddenly rang.
"Hello, may I ask who\'s speaking?" Zhang Menglong asked politely out of habit.
"Mr. Zhang, hello, I am the President of Huaxia Bank of Jiangnan City. We\'ve just..."
"Nutcase!" Without letting the person finish, Zhang Menglong hung up the call. "What kind of people are these, pretending to be a bank president? I might as well be a descendant of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. How come scammers are getting so low-level in their tricks these days?"
A city-level bank president, busy all day with a myriad of tasks, how could they have the time to call him? Without a second thought, Zhang Menglong categorized the call as a scam.
Furthermore, if it were really a call from the bank, it should come from a bank number, right? Clearly, this was a personal mobile number—the scammer\'s techniques were seriously outdated, weren\'t they?
"This..." On the other end of the phone, a middle-aged man looked at his own phone in disbelief. He had never imagined that he, the president of Huaxia Bank, would be mistaken for a scammer and hung up on?
A few days ago, their city-level branch had received an astonishingly huge sum of money, a whopping 100 billion US dollars! Even for the entire history of Huaxia Bank, such a terrifying amount of funds had never been moved.
As the president, his annual income was directly linked to the amount of savings, and the bonus this deposit could bring him goes without saying. To him, Zhang Menglong was no less than his benefactor.
Just today, the account had seen transactions amounting to several billion Huaxia currency, which was a drop in the bucket compared to the huge savings, but it caused him a bit of concern. If one day this deposit were to be transferred out, it would be nothing short of a catastrophe for him.
Therefore, no matter what, he must keep this VIP client, absolutely not allowing him to transfer out these funds easily!
The best way to entice customers to deposit money is to offer them sufficient benefits. The wealth that this sum could create for the entire Huaxia Bank was unimaginable, so even offering a higher interest rate was negotiable.
If this money were to be used to purchase some long-term financial products, even an interest rate of four or five percent per year wouldn\'t be a problem! The key was that the money must be retained!
That was why the middle-aged man thought of contacting this customer as soon as possible, and using his personal phone might seem more sincere.
But unexpectedly, he had been treated as a scammer, which was somewhat amusing and frustrating.
Yet, even after being called a scammer, for the sake of this money, he still had to get in touch with the customer. So the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and dialed Zhang Menglong\'s number again.
"Mr. Zhang, hello, I really am the President of Huaxia Bank\'s Jiangnan City branch. My name is Gu Anshan, and you can..."
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"Damn it! You scammer, just can\'t get enough, can you?" Zhang Menglong blurted out impatiently as soon as he saw the phone number, he was already annoyed, "Are you ever going to stop? If you keep harassing me, I\'ll just transfer tens of millions into your cell phone account to let you experience what it\'s like to be charged with possession of unexplained property!"
Gu Anshan was baffled by these words. In his decades of life, it was the first time someone had threatened to transfer money into his account. If a normal person suddenly found tens of millions in their account, it would be surprising if the authorities didn\'t come for a \'tea talk\', and if one couldn\'t explain the source of the wealth, they could indeed be convicted!
"What kind of god-level move is this? Even if one is rich, they shouldn\'t play like this, right? Is he trying to crush someone to death with money?" Gu Anshan was actually rendered speechless by Zhang Menglong\'s threat.
"Definitely a scammer!" Zhang Menglong hung up the phone once again, "Such low psychological tolerance and still being a scammer, truly a disgrace to scammers everywhere!"
"He hung up on me again!" Gu Anshan had been hung up on twice in a row.
In all of Jiangnan City, who knows how many people want his private number, and how many want to exchange a few words with him, hanging up on him? That\'s a joke—unless their head is filled with water!
But in the face of this customer, he truly didn\'t dare show any temper. If he angered this person, and they transferred the money to another bank, he might as well prepare for early retirement!
"Branch Manager? Why the long face? Is something troubling you?" The secretary, who had just walked in, saw Gu Anshan\'s troubled expression.
"Isn\'t it because of that Honored Card client? I just tried to call and arrange a visit, but he mistook me for a scammer and hung up on me twice!"
"Is that so?" Secretary Liu couldn\'t help but smile, "In that case, Branch Manager, why don\'t you use our bank\'s number to send a text message to that client? That way he should believe you."
"Right, why didn\'t I think of that!" Gu Anshan\'s eyes lit up, "You always have the solution!"
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"Ding!" Zhang Menglong, who was watching various Middle Eastern tycoons\' lifestyles, received a text message on his phone.
He thought to himself, it couldn\'t be another payment coming through, could it? The 100 billion has already left him gasping for air, if a few more payments come through, he might as well give up on inheriting the family treasure!
"Mr. Zhang, I am Gu Anshan, the man who just called you. I truly am the Branch Manager of Huaxia Bank in Jiangnan City. If you don\'t believe me, you can check my name on the official website!!!"
"The bank Branch Manager for real?" Zhang Menglong was dumbfounded, not expecting the man he had hung up on twice to think of this method. Worthy of someone who could be a Branch Manager.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
A moment later, the same number called again, and this time, Zhang Menglong didn\'t hang up.
"Haha, Branch Manager Gu, sorry about that, I\'ve never received a phone call from a bank Branch Manager before, my apologies, haha!"
Although Gu Anshan had a bitter face on the other end of the phone, he still spoke as if it was no big deal, "Mr. Zhang must be busy with numerous daily affairs, I was the one who disturbed you, I should be the one to apologize."
"Do you need something, Branch Manager Gu?" Zhang Menglong asked.
"It\'s like this, you have deposited a substantial sum in our Jiangnan City main branch, and I would like to discuss the matter of this deposit with you. When would you have time, so I can pay you a visit?"
"Oh, I see," Zhang Menglong nodded, "I\'ll be free tomorrow afternoon, but I\'ll just come to the bank myself, it\'s not very convenient for me here."
Zhang Menglong temporarily did not want others to know where he lived.
"That\'s fine, I\'ll await your arrival at the main branch tomorrow afternoon!"
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