The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 477 Detention

Hearing the nonsense excuses given by the Haiya Department, Zhu Ziming's heart suddenly ran past ten thousand muddy horses.

The Chen Family Chamber of Commerce was originally the lackey of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. Of course, it can agree to any conditions, not to mention that the cash in the account of the Chen Family Chamber of Commerce was originally given by Haiya Bank. Haiya Bank froze the money. In fact, it is Haiya Bank Just get back the money that originally belonged to me!

More importantly, the so-called 800 million deposit is an outrageous figure, and the operating cost of the shantang is simply impossible to be so high!

As long as no one starves to death in the shantang, there will be merits from heaven, so when cultivators open shantangs, they provide the homeless with the most inferior meals, mostly expired coarse grains, even in order to save the budget. , and will also mix sawdust into the meal, so the annual relief cost of a homeless person is only about three yuan Lingshi coins.

This price is equivalent to the selling price (including freight) of half a ton of japonica rice from Luoxia City to Haiya City.

Based on this calculation, even if 15 mortal homeless people are rescued at the same time, the Shantang only needs to invest 20 Lingshi coins per year. Even if depreciation of fixed assets and management expenses are included, the annual operating cost of [-] Lingshi coins is more than enough.

Back then, Rong Sheng, the young generation of the Shanying Sect, was a bad pioneer, and he opened the Black Charity Hall in Qingyun City for eight years with only 5 yuan of Lingshi coins. , but the scale cannot exceed a hundred times. After all, the population size of Haiya City is there. If it is not forced, no one is willing to go to Shantang to eat pig food. It is impossible for one tenth of the population of Haiya City to take the initiative. Go to the shantang to be a human merit generator...
In fact, the conditions of Zhongzhou Shantang have not always been so bad.

Before the pilot reform of the social security system in Zhongzhou began, the shantang industry was the result of full market competition. It is not that no cultivators have used their brains to use higher benefits to attract ordinary people who do not need to be rescued to enter shantangs. Ping, however, this strategy of using card bugs to earn merits soon had a major negative impact because it violated the principles of economics.

When the cultivators raised the treatment of the shantang to a level higher than that of ordinary mortals, a large number of mortals indeed flooded into the shantang in a short period of time, and the cultivators who opened the shantang also took the opportunity to make a lot of merit. The act quickly created a severe shortage of local mortal labor.

As the original construction workers, laborers, and farmers flocked to the shantang to lie down, the cultivators gradually discovered that they had no mortals to command. China's fiscal deficit continued to expand, and the lack of labor soon triggered a local man-made financial crisis, which in turn detracted from the merits of the ruling sect.

So the local cultivation sect had to urgently issue a decree to stop this kind of shantang arms race.

From then on, the shantang could only provide mortals with a minimum guarantee of survival without starvation, and only those mortals who had completely lost their ability to work and take care of themselves would choose to enter the shantang to make a living.

This is the origin of the "equilibrium of shantang" in the cultivation world of Kyushu today.

Even if the two official shantangs run by the Wuliang Sword Sect completely monopolize the shantang business in the entire Haiya area in the end, each shantang can accommodate at most [-] to [-] mortal homeless people.

What's more, in the few years since the official charity hall was just launched, it is certainly impossible to take in all the homeless people in Haiya City immediately. In this case, the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce only needs to deposit 200 million spirits in the supervision account Stone coin cash is enough to ensure that there will be no problems in the operation of Shantang in the first ten years.

Compared with the operating costs of shantangs, the construction and construction costs are the real bulk of expenditure in the early stage of shantang operations in order to build shantangs that shelter tens of thousands of homeless people from wind and rain.And after the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce deposited 800 million Lingshi coins in cash into the Haiya Bank supervision account, it could no longer come up with enough construction funds.

As for why the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce has to deposit so much money into the custody account, it is Liu Hanxing's own problem.
In order to eliminate as many competitors as possible during the partner selection process, Liu Hanxing's minimum amount of supervision account was set according to the tolerance limit of the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce.

After Zhu Ziming put the money into the custody account, the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce has no more than 100 million yuan. If it is another ordinary chamber of commerce, it can mortgage some assets to borrow money. However, the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce has no other assets except cash. It can be mortgaged, and if you want to continue making money, you can only ask Liu Hanxing for help.

It's not that Zhu Ziming never thought of borrowing money from foreign chambers of commerce.

However, the reform of the social security system in Zhongzhou was originally an act of centralized power by the Wuliang Sword Sect. It would be good if other local chambers of commerce did not make trouble. Anyone who dared to help the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce would be the public enemy of all vassal sects.

Although Zhongzhou has a vast territory, there must still be some chambers of commerce who have heard the news and are willing to lick their blood. Yang Lu heard that there are several non-local cultivation chambers of commerce, and they all plan to take the risk of offending all local sects to give Zhujia chamber of commerce a helping hand to curry favor. Lin Jianxing, head of the Wuliangjian Sect, and Liu Hanxing, vice president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank.

However, these comprehension chambers of commerce had not had time to get in touch with Zhu Ziming, so they leaked out for some reason.

Helping the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce at this juncture is undoubtedly a provocation to all the local sects in Zhongzhou. Without Jiang Huaan personally visiting the door, the pressure from the cultivation forces from all over the world will be overwhelming. The final result is that these chambers of commerce are finally under pressure from all parties. They all said that they have no plan to cooperate with the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce.

When he heard about this kind of thing just now, Yang Lu also thought it was incredible.After all, even if there are chambers of commerce willing to lick their blood to support the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce, they can't declare with great fanfare that they will help the Zhujia Chamber of Commerce, and they must secretly cook things up.

However, the fact is that all foreign chambers of commerce who wanted to cooperate with the Zhujia chamber of commerce leaked the news due to various reasons, and the Haiya department would always let the news out first.

Yang Lu tried to side-talk with Han Fulai and Su Cheng, but the two said that this is the great power of the city lord Jiang, even if they are the core members of the four major families of the Haiya family, they don't know why the city lord Jiang can master such a thing. Strong intelligence network.

This reminded Yang Lu of what Su Yuanfeng and Li Qingyang had said to him.

The former once told him that Jiang Hua'an, the usually inconspicuous Haiya City Lord, is the true king of the Haiya family, even if the Su family and the Han family join forces, he is not his opponent; while the latter warned him to Be careful of Jiang Hua'an, because this City Lord Jiang is in Haiya City, but he has the ability to influence the political situation of the cultivation forces tens of thousands of miles away.

Now it seems that they may not have exaggerated.

Especially Li Qingyang, as the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, who stood at the pinnacle of the Kyushu cultivation world, he was always wary of Jiang Hua'an. No matter how he looked at it, Jiang Hua'an could never be just an ordinary city lord!
Seeing Jiang Hua'an's methods like a prophet, Yang Lu was also very fortunate. Although he chose to stand on the side of the Su family and the Han family, he had never completely torn his face with Jiang Hua'an, especially in the face of the powerful Wuliang Sword Sect. In the face of external pressure, the two sides have instead become temporary allies.

(End of this chapter)