The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 509

At the same time, the highest peak in Tianshu City, Eagle Soaring to the top.

Several high-level members of the Shanying faction who have not yet retreated are having a collective meeting to discuss the financial budget of the Shanying faction for this year.

Due to the bad consequences caused by the beast disaster in Tianshu City, the population of monsters in Tianshu Mountain Nature Reserve has been greatly reduced.

According to the results of the 2022nd census of monster density in Tianshu Nature Reserve recently concluded, the management department of Shanying faction, considering the current population density and natural growth rate of monsters in the reserve, believes that this year’s hunting license must be greatly reduced In order to maintain the sustainable reproduction of the monster population, the scale of reduction is expected to reach more than [-]% of that before the beast disaster.

The reduction in the number of hunting licenses issued will not only directly affect the income of the monster hunting industry, but also the income of the cultivator accommodation industry, hunting guide industry, and monster product industry in the Tianshu Mountains will be severely impacted.
Not only that, as Haiya City, the neighbor to the east of the Tianshu Mountains, and Yaoguang City, the neighbors to the west, are making a fuss because of the pilot reform. decrease, leading to a sharp drop in toll revenue.

This year, the total annual financial income of the Shanying faction has fallen below 1000 two million Lingshi coins. Since Chen Ming took over as the head of the Shanying faction, it has never been such a difficult year.

The financial director of the Shanying faction who is in charge of reporting was originally a mature and intellectual female foundation-building elder, but faced with the sad situation where a clever woman can't cook without rice, she can only pour bitterness on Chen Ming without image: " Master Chen, two of the three major financial pillars of our Shanying faction have suffered heavy losses. In addition, the entire Zhongzhou economy is in a downturn. The sect's finances have really come to an end!"

Although the other elders didn't speak, they all showed expressions of approval, obviously they knew about this situation long ago.

Compared with the sad-faced elders of the Shanying faction, Chen Ming was much calmer. He just leaned on the mountain eagle sword and said indifferently: "Elder Xin, don't we still have a papermaking industry? Now that the Wuliangjian faction is in power, this gang The guy doesn’t understand the business, so he will only redouble the work of leaving traces and pursuing accountability, and the demand for paper in Zhongzhou has skyrocketed. There should be no more prosperous industry than papermaking now!”

Elder Xin cupped his hands to Chen Ming and Fang Jiancai next to Chen Ming, and said, "Thanks to the wise leadership of Master Chen and the blessing of Elder Cheng Shuying, the profit of the paper industry this year has also reached a record high. , if it wasn’t for this, I’m afraid that I, the chief steward of the Mountain Eagle Sect, would really be unable to continue, but even so—”

Elder Xin still wanted to complain, but Chen Ming raised his hand and interrupted her: "Stop complaining about this anymore! Our Shanying faction is not the only sect with financial problems in Zhongzhou. We are supported by the paper industry, which is already more than other vassal sects It's much stronger. Even if our Shanying faction really can't survive, it must be that other sects with bigger problems will have problems first. We just don't want to be the sect that fell first, and wait for those worse than us There is trouble in the sect, and the Wuliang Sword Sect and Lingshi Reserve will definitely find a way to save the market!"

"So what are we going to do this year?"

"How about learning Haiya School and reducing the salary of all disciples by [-]%?"

"This is absolutely impossible!" It was not Elder Xin who answered Chen Ming this time, but Huan An, the new Law Enforcement Elder of the Shanying faction who had just succeeded Fei Fan, "Master Chen doesn't know something, and mortals today are simply unbearable." Driven by this, many low-level disciples were even forced to give up their cultivation time, and took up lowly mortal business, if we cut off the benefits of cultivators this year, there will be no one to work at all!"

As soon as these words came out, the elders of the Shanying faction echoed:

"That's right, I think no matter how difficult the sect's finances are, at least the basic operation of the sect must be maintained first!"

"Now the price of Qi Gathering Powder has increased again. It is said that it has exceeded 5000 Lingshi coins. If the salary and benefits are cut again, I think the disciples of the Mountain Eagle School will have to rely on bank loans to break through the realm in the future!"

"Cultivators are the foundation of the sect. Even if mortals starve to death, they must be protected first!"

"No matter how hard it is for mortals, I will bear the blame!"

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Hearing that all the elders who were pretending to be dumb just now jumped out to oppose the lowering of the wages of practitioners, Chen Ming, who has been the head of the Mountain Eagle Sect for hundreds of years, doesn't know what they are thinking.

However, some window paper cannot be pierced, especially Chen Ming's authority comes from the mountain hawk sect practitioners under his command. If you can't get out of Yingxiangding, you must pull a group and fight a group, and you must not push everyone to the opposite side.

It's like Chen Ming directly slapped Fei Fan away, seemingly reckless, but the other elders of the Shanying faction all made progress because of Fei Fan's downfall, and all of them benefited, otherwise, no matter how strong the backing is, Chen Ming would have difficulty Can suppress everyone's collective report.

The Haiya Department can cut off the welfare of practitioners in the system, mainly because all the high-level executives of the Haiya Department are bound to the collective interests of the Haiya Department. Even so, this behavior still encounters strong internal resistance. If Chen Ming likes to learn Haiya cuts the benefits of cultivators. The elders in front of him don't say they help suppress their subordinates. It would be good if they don't take the opportunity to stir up troubles.

So Chen Ming had no choice but to turn to Fang Jiancai and said: "Deacon Fang, you have also seen the financial situation of the Shanying faction. Now we really need the merit hall to give preference in performance evaluation."

According to the regulations of Wuliang Sword Sect, the sect with high performance evaluation can get tax incentives, and Fang Jiancai knew very well that Chen Ming invited himself to attend the financial meeting of Shanying Sect to complain to himself.

However, the evaluation of Gongde Hall is based on rankings. Sending Shanying to the premise is tantamount to pushing down other sects. Many sect leaders have already sent him private messages, threatening him not to go too far However, if he ignores the facts and forcibly improves the evaluation ranking of the Mountain Eagle Sect, he will definitely offend other sects, and none of the guys who can be the head of a local sect is a fuel-efficient lamp, and it is definitely not something that he can handle casually.

So Fang Jian had no choice but to smile wryly: "We can help the Mountain Eagle faction, but the strength cannot be much stronger than last year. With our strength alone, we may not be able to help you make up such a big deficit..."

Chen Ming also couldn't help sighing: "City Lord Jin of Yaoguang City is really good at tricks. He actually thought of robbing Shang under the banner of supporting the reform of the Wuliang Sword Sect. It's a pity that we don't have this condition!"

Speaking of looting from Shang, Chen Ming couldn't help but think of Ye Chen.

The largest commercial organization in the entire southeast of Zhongzhou is undoubtedly the Haiya Group, which integrates government and business next door.

As the saying goes, the worse the economy is, the better the black industry will be.

Chen Ming is very sure that even if the entire Zhongzhou economy falls into a depression, the Haiya Department will not be short of money. Not only that, Chen Ming even has a vague feeling that the root cause of Zhongzhou's economic crisis lies in these insanely wealthy comprehension capitalists.

Su Yuanfeng and Jiang Hua'an, two mid-level spiritual root monks, were able to advance to the golden core, entirely relying on their ability. If these resources were used to cultivate high-level spiritual root monks, even seventeen or eight would be enough, but even so , They are actually able to forcibly smash the realm, and even Han Xinhe, a low-grade spiritual root, is said to be trying to attack the golden core, which can make ordinary grassroots cultivators cry.

(End of this chapter)