Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 509 Showdown
In the middle finger peak cave, Xu Yuan was sitting cross-legged, closing his eyes and practicing qi.

The storage bag at his waist suddenly trembled. He opened his eyes, took out the array plate, took the talisman into his hand, and then walked out of the room with a flash.

Outside the cave, a handsome man stood waiting. It was Tang Ning. Xu Yuan's light fell in front of him and Jishou said, "Brother Tang is here to welcome you, please come in."

The two entered the room and sat facing each other. Tangning flipped through her hands, took out six bottles of vitality pills, and handed them to him, "These are some vitality pills that I refined recently. The rest are sold to the medicine department. The remaining few bottles are for Junior Brother Xu, and I have nothing to do today, so I brought them over to you."

Xu Yuan took the elixir and said, "I'm sorry to bother Senior Brother Tang. For some trivial matters, why don't Senior Brother Tang come over in person? If you say something, I'll go and get it myself." Two spirit stones come.

In recent years, apart from selling the vitality pills refined by Tangning to the Dan Yao Department, some of them were also provided to several other managers in the department. Zhao Liheng, Xu Yuan and Wei Xian all bought pills from him. Sold at the price of forty spirit stones.

Anyway, selling it to someone is not selling it. It is better to sell it to a private person than to the Danyao Department, and it is also easy to be a favor.

Tangning took the spirit stone, put it in a storage bag, and said, "Junior Brother Xu, our department has been a bit unbalanced recently! Rumors are spreading, and the disciples below are complaining. I wonder if you have noticed it."

Xu Yuan said: "Since I established the foundation, the Zongmen has begun to drastically reorganize and reduce funds, and our department is the first to bear the brunt. Over the past few years, the funds have been reduced one after another. As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, and from luxury to frugality." Disaster."

"It's understandable that the following disciples have complaints. After all, they have come here for so many years. Naturally, they are not happy to suddenly reduce their funds significantly."

Tang Ning said, "It's not a way to go on like this. Haven't you noticed? The efficiency of our departments has been getting worse and worse over the past few years. Most of the disciples who go out to perform missions don't work hard. If they want to check for any clues, they are often empty-handed. And back, I don’t think it’s going to work without major rectification.”

Xu Yuan pondered: "What does Senior Brother Tang mean?"

"Regulations must be made clear, rewards for meritorious deeds, punishments for inactive ones, and for those who are lazy and refuse to contribute, even the basic salary will be deducted."

Xu Yuan frowned slightly and said, "This way, will it arouse rebellion? Since the funding of our department has been reduced, the disciples below have already complained, and if they are punished again, they may cause trouble."

"In the final analysis, it is because of the huge reduction in funding. After all, the disciples also want to practice. To put it bluntly, the sect wants the horse to run, but does not give the horse to eat grass. How can there be such a thing in the world, those disciples It’s justifiable not to contribute.”

Tang Ning said, "Junior Brother Xu's words are justified. The root cause of this chaos is funding. Therefore, I have decided to make a change in the department's finances and clarify the system for the standardized use of property."

"I think the three-three-two-two distribution system is no longer suitable for our department. From the previous department, the funds were as high as more than [-] spirit stones. Of course, there is no problem with this distribution plan, and all parties can get corresponding benefits from it."

"Until a few years ago, the Zongmen deducted the application subsidy for the Ministry's Lingshi funds, so it can barely support it according to this distribution plan."

"But now, the department's funding has been reduced to [-]. This plan is obviously out of date. There are only [-] spirit stones, and the disciple's salary is [-]. There are only [-] spirit stones left. How can the department be supported?"

"Now this allocation plan has seriously affected the normal operation of the department. As the inspector of the department, I cannot sit idly by. It is time to make changes."

Xu Yuan was slightly startled when he heard his words, and only then did he know his real purpose of coming here.

He was silent for a while and said, "What is Senior Brother Tang going to do?"

Tangning flipped through her left hand and took out a dossier, "This is the financial standard that I created. From now on, we will redistribute the financial funds of departments according to this method. What do you think?"

Xu Yuan took the file and read it carefully, then pondered, "If that's the case, Senior Brother Lu probably won't agree."

Tang Ning smiled slightly: "It's not up to him to decide. Although he is the deacon of the department, the intelligence department is not his own. If he insists on refusing, I will exercise the supervisory power to directly take over the finance of the department and promote This plan."

Xu Yuan remained silent. He knew that once he used the decision-making power, he would tear his skin open and show a confrontation.

Lu Guang and Tang Ning were at odds, and everyone in the department knew about it. In order to compete for the position of deacon, Tang Ning went to jail.

But discord is not reconciliation. Over the years, the two have maintained a subtle tacit understanding. From the perspective of outsiders who don't know the inside story, they may still think that the relationship between the two is good.

Now that the new financial allocation plan is released, it is obviously aimed at Lu Guang, which will inevitably lead to a head-on collision between the two. Over the years, he has tried to maintain an impartial and neutral attitude between the two.

One is the deacon of the department, the other is the inspector of the department, the head is behind the one, and the master of the Qingxuan Palace is behind the other.

The two were evenly matched, and he didn't want to offend anyone, let alone get involved in the struggle between sect factions.

Although Luo Qingshui is the head teacher now, who knows what will happen in the future!The so-called [-] years in Hedong and [-] years in Hexi, Feng Shui turns around.

The room fell silent for a while, Tangning was not in a hurry, and quietly waited for his statement.

After a while, Xu Yuan said slowly: "I need to think more about this matter."

Tang Ning said, "I know that you may think that the change plan I proposed is aimed at Senior Brother Lu Guang, but I didn't mean that."

"Now that the department has reached this point, it is impossible not to carry out financial redistribution planning. My plan has considered the vast majority of people. As for the few people, they should understand the general situation and make some corresponding concessions. Xu Since junior brother has to think about it, think about it carefully!"

"In the next meeting, I will propose this plan, and I hope that Junior Brother Xu will support it. This is not for myself, nor is it for fighting for power with anyone, but for the normal operation of the entire intelligence department."

After saying that, Tangning got up and left the room, heading all the way back to the cave.

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A few days passed in a flash, and it was time for the Ministry to discuss matters.

In the main hall, Wei Xian, Xu Yuan, and Zhao Liheng were sitting upright. Tang Ning entered from the outside, and nodded with several people before taking their seats.

Not long after, Lu Guang came, walked to the main seat and said, "Everyone is here, let's start! There are two main things in this discussion. The first thing is that the captain of the third team applies for foundation establishment. Disciple Ma Yuan of the third team is temporarily in charge of his position, what do you fellow apprentices think?"

Everyone naturally has no objection.

"No objection, Junior Brother Tang, you can announce your appointment later."

Tang Ning nodded slightly. Since Zhang Yan passed away a year ago, the position in charge of the action team was vacated, and Zhao Liheng, Wei Xian, and Xu Yuan were all at the early stage of foundation establishment.

According to the department's usual rules, the steward in charge of the specific affairs of the department needs at least the middle stage of foundation establishment, so Tang Ning will temporarily take up this position.

"Second thing, the spirit stone funds received by the department this year have all been used up so far, but the disciples have to be rewarded when they go out to perform missions. I think it will be the same as in the past few years. The department will write them first. In the coming year After receiving the funds and distributing the spirit stones together, what do you guys think?"

Several people did not object.

Lu Guang said: "Then let's do this first, Junior Brother Tang, you will call the captains of the subordinate teams to report the decision of the department. Junior brothers, if there is nothing else, this discussion will come to an end here!"

"Hey, let me say a few words!" Tangning said suddenly.

"What's the matter, Junior Brother Tang?" Lu Guang turned to look at him.

Tang Ning said: "The department's spirit stone funds have been used up, but this year is not over yet. Many things have to be handled by the subordinates. It is impossible not to give rewards. As for the pledge of written documents proposed by Brother Lu just now, the next year will receive spirit stones. I have no objection to the method of dialing down the stone again."

"But what about next year? There are only so many funds in total, and they will not increase for no reason. Next year's funds will pay off this year's debt, and the year after next year will pay off next year's debt. Year after year, the hole will only get bigger and bigger. What? Time is a head."

"It's been less than four years since the sect reduced its funding. I remember that in the first year, the department's funding was exhausted at the end of October."

"In the second year, the funds will be exhausted in August."

"Last year, it was July and a half."

"What about this year! It's only May, and the funds have been used up. What will happen next year?"

"The debt is getting bigger and bigger, and the hole is getting bigger and bigger. It's not an option to go on like this. You can't hope that the sect will recover the [-] yearly Lingshi funds!"

"Everyone should know in their hearts that this is impossible. Under the current situation, funding will not increase, and may even decrease."

"I think we should come up with a way. One is to make up for the gaps, and the other is to make the department operate normally, so that we don't always give the disciples a piece of paper."

Lu Guangdao: "Does Brother Tang have any good suggestions?"

Tang Ning said, "In view of the current situation and insufficient funds, I think there is a problem with the financial allocation of the department. I think the distribution method of [-], [-], [-], [-] is no longer suitable for the operation of the department."

"There are no outsiders here, so let's get straight to the point and say it straight! One hundred thousand funds, leaving [-]% for the disciples below, is impossible to spend no matter what."

"The disciples need [-] spirit stones for their salary alone, and our department has heavy tasks. No matter how crowded [-] spirit stones are, it will not be enough."

"I propose to re-plan the distribution of funds for the Ministry."

As soon as this remark came out, the hall was silent, no one spoke to answer, the empty hall could hear the sound of needles falling, and the air seemed to be a little dignified.

(End of this chapter)