Chapter 139 We Have No Money in the Bank to Withdraw
"No... I'm sorry, sir, could you please repeat that? I didn't hear you clearly just now..." the girl's voice on the other end of the phone suddenly quivered.
Did this customer just say he wanted to withdraw 500 trillion Qingqiu Currency? She must have heard wrong!
This account number 01 was given away when the bank was first established, and its owner, other than the bank's president at the time, was unknown to anyone else, to the point that it was a secret within the bank.
But since this account was given away, it had never been used, and the balance had always been zero. In Qingqiu Bank, this had always been the most mysterious symbol.
Today, the dedicated phone for this account actually rang, and the caller wanted to withdraw 500 trillion Qingqiu Currency right off the bat. How could they not be suspicious?
"I said I want to withdraw 500 trillion Qingqiu Currency. Do you need me to repeat it again?"
"But sir, your account doesn't have that much money in it, and even though you are a top-level user of this card series, the overdraft limit is only 500 billion Qingqiu Currency," the girl said with a sigh of relief after checking the card's balance.
Right now, banks across the country are in crisis, and their own bank only has a total of 300 trillion in cash, let alone the long line of customers currently outside the bank. They were already thankful to be able to handle the sudden incidents over these couple of days.
If someone really did try to withdraw 500 trillion Qingqiu Currency at this time, it would be like cutting open a new wound on an old one—they simply could not produce such an amount of money!
Even their total savings were only about 2000 trillion Qingqiu Currency. What was the meaning of 500 trillion? A quarter of the bank's wealth filled by his money alone—how could that be possible?
"Really? My balance doesn't have that much money?"
"Yes, sir!" The girl spoke respectfully.
This card was quite old by now, and hearing such a young voice, it was probably the descendant of that original customer, likely having inherited this bank account from his elders.
But there was no money in this card, aside from the modest overdraft limit—it was practically a worthless card. It seemed this young man didn't quite understand the account.
Perhaps once, its owner was a person who had the world at his feet, otherwise he would not have received this first black card. But now, the current owner must have fallen on hard times. Otherwise, how could such a high-tier account have not a single deposit over so many years?
Having come to this realization, the girl's nervousness eased considerably, and she even started to wonder if she should allow the overdraft if the caller insisted. Their bank could end up with a bad debt if he couldn't pay it back.
"Then could you check for me, how many subsidiary accounts my account has?" Zhang Menglong asked. "The password is sb10086."
"Certainly, please hold on," the girl replied, though she was already feeling somewhat disdainful, her tone remained quite respectful.
"Click!" As she pressed the final key, the sudden influx of bank subsidiary accounts that popped up left her stunned.
She glanced at the final tally, and the shocking figure of 10,000 made her breathing grow much more labored.
These black card accounts could have an unlimited number of subsidiary accounts, but even the most active black card accounts today only had up to a few hundred subsidiary accounts. Was this person out of his mind to set up ten thousand subsidiary accounts?
"I believe I should have the right to access the funds in all of my subsidiary accounts, right?" Zhang Menglong inquired.
"Yes, sir."
"Then, could you check for me the total amount in these subsidiary accounts?"
"Please hold on a moment." Suddenly, the girl had a very bad feeling.
She casually clicked on one account, and the displayed balance of 270 billion Qingqiu Currency made her cheeks twitch.
"79 billion Qingqiu Currency!"
"12 billion..."
"43 billion..."
She successively opened more than a dozen accounts, and not a single one had a balance of less than 5 billion Qingqiu Currency! The highest one, over 100 billion Qingqiu Currency! She suddenly began to doubt whether the total assets of the sub-accounts in this account could really exceed 500 trillion!
"Isn't it ready yet?" Zhang Menglong suddenly became somewhat impatient.
"Sir... I'm sorry, there have been so many withdrawals lately, our system is a bit slow," the girl quickly logged out of an account with a hundred billion in assets and started totaling the savings amount via the system.
"Your bank isn't out of money, is it?" Zhang Menglong said in a mocking tone, "The elders in my family trusted your bank to deposit their money here. It won't be the case that it's not available when it's needed, right?"
"Please rest assured, sir, our Qingqiu Bank is the largest bank in the country, there's no possibility that money cannot be withdrawn!" Although her heart was filled with unease, how could the girl tell Zhang Menglong that the bank was almost out of cash?
"Sir, the query result is out, your total savings amount in the account is... is..." The girl's pupils suddenly dilated several times over.
"How much is it, just tell me?"
"It's close to 7.3 trillion!" The astronomical number almost made the girl doubt whether her own eyes were deceiving her.
7.3 trillion, equates to more than 6 trillion US Dollars—this is in cash deposits! What is the total wealth of the world's richest person? Isn't it also less than 200 billion US Dollars? And that includes real estate and stocks, the owner of this account is truly the undisputed richest person in the world!
"Oh, 7.3 trillion, huh," Zhang Menglong continued, "No matter, just withdraw 5 trillion for now, I'm already at the bank's entrance, is anyone coming to receive me? Your service is a bit lacking!"
"Sir... I will immediately send someone to greet you, please wait a moment!"
"I understand, be quick about it, I'm still busy going to another bank to withdraw money!" Find more chapters on empire
Zhang Menglong's statement only made the girl more panicked; he had savings not just in Qingqiu Bank? Could it be that in other banks he also had such terrifying amounts saved? That's impossible, right?
"No good, I must report this to the leaders immediately!" They simply could not handle this withdrawal order for 5 trillion Qingqiu Currency! Even if they emptied the bank, sold all the employees, and then sold the building, they couldn't come up with this 5 trillion Qingqiu Currency!
"Xiao Li, what's with all the panic?" another colleague next to the girl asked, "We're not in the mainland, and you know the quality of the Qingqiu people. If a customer is dissatisfied, it could lead to a complaint that gets you fired!"
"Sister Bai, that... The call just now was from the 01 VIP client!"
"What? That dormant account? I thought the owner of that account had been dead for a long time!" The woman known as Sister Bai laughed, "What? A zombie actually called you?"
"It was a young man, and he's one of our people from Huaxia."
"Well, that's great, it's much easier to chat with one of our own," Sister Bai murmured to herself, "Strange though, a Huaxia person is the Qingqiu Bank's Black Card 01 VIP client? That's really interesting!"
"Indeed, the secrecy level of this account is too high. If it wasn't for the client initiating contact, all I'd know is that this account exists, it's so mysterious!" another Qingqiu employee they got along with commented.
"But what exactly happened? Did they give you a hard time?"
"Not... " The girl forced a bitter smile, "He wants to withdraw money."
"What's the big deal with a withdrawal, it's not your money!"
"But he wants to withdraw 5 trillion Qingqiu Currency! Our bank simply doesn't have that much cash for him to withdraw!"