Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 563 Discussion ([-])
Luo Qingshui nodded and said: "Junior Shi's words are in line with my wishes. Since the Demon Sect can place those disciples who have taken refuge in their cultivation families on the front lines to fight against us, and expand their influence and fighting power. We can also fight back in the same way as others." As a human being, you don’t have to stick to the rules. I’ll leave this matter to you Qingxuan Palace, what do you think, Junior Brother Shi?”

Shi Mingsui nodded slightly.

Luo Qingshui said, "Tangning, with regard to the fact that the Zongmen's finances are not being spent, do you have any measures or plans at the Yuanyi Palace?"

Tang Ning said, "As for the financial issue of the sect, we decided to solve it from two aspects. One is to reduce the cost of spirit stones and reduce expenses. The other is to expand production capacity and allow more disciples to participate in the wealth creation process."

"By reducing expenditure and expanding production capacity, we can achieve the effect of equal income and expenditure. We are currently formulating a plan for Zongmen's financial reform. If it is implemented smoothly, it can reduce the expenditure of one million Lingshi per year."

"Then increase the income of one million Lingshi by expanding the production capacity, so that the income and expenditure items can be balanced under the positive and negative conditions."

Luo Qingshui said: "Talk about the specific plan, how to control expenditure? How to expand production capacity?"

Tang Ning said: "How to reduce expenses, my initial plan is to not change the salary of the disciples, and only start with the Lingshi for the funds of each department."

"The average annual funding of this sect for each department is [-] million Lingshi, of which the average annual cost of the Internal Affairs Court is [-], the Foreign Affairs Council is [-], and the Secret Academy is [-]. The Qingxuan Hall is [-], and the Xuande Hall is [-]. [-], Yuanyi Hall [-]."

"This is the average expenditure of each hall in the past ten years. Recently, due to the plunder of the Demon Sect, the funds of each department have increased a little bit."

"The total funding is [-] million, and less than [-] million is actually used for departmental funds. As for the reason, I don't need to go into details, everyone must know."

"Why is there such a big deficit? Because the power is too concentrated, the deacons of each department completely control the distribution of finances. Under layers of exploitation, only less than a quarter, or even less than a quarter, of the funds are left to the bottom disciples to a fifth."

"There are specific problems we need to solve. Of course, we must take into account the actual situation. Our sect has been weak for a long time. The disciples below, including the sect's senior officials, have meager salaries, which are far from enough to consume the pills. lead to a huge shortfall in funding.”

"My solution is to increase salaries, reduce expenses, and spend all the money on practical things."

Luo Qingshui frowned slightly and said, "What's the standard for increasing salary and reducing expenses?"

Tang Ning said, "I'll keep it secret. The school's funding distribution has always been a three-three-two-two system. The private Lingshi income is put on the surface and directly added to their salaries. Of course, there must be a certain reduction. Then the funds are used as real department funds.”

"All factors will be taken into account, so it needs to be revised in detail, and finally a plan acceptable to all parties will be proposed."

Luo Qingshui said: "Isn't this a bit too idealistic? How do you ensure that after the salary increase, they don't use that part of the department's funds?"

Tang Ning said: "This is the key to the entire financial reform. We need to take back the control over the funds of each department. The deacons of the departments no longer have the right to control the funds. All the funds of the sect are directly detained in the Yuanyi Hall."

"We will have a clear set of rules and regulations, such as how much money is rewarded each time a disciple goes out to implement, and how much money is required to implement a plan."

"The disciples can directly go to the Yuanyi Hall to receive these expenses, instead of going through the department stewards and deacons, so as to prevent the shortage of funds."

After Tangning finished speaking, the hall fell into a brief silence. There was no sound for a while. After a while, Luo Qingshui said, "What do you guys think of this reform plan?"

Shi Ming said: "I'm afraid it won't work. The deacon management department itself has personnel and financial power. To completely deprive them of financial power is equivalent to disrupting our internal system."

"Furthermore, handing over all financial distribution rights to Yuanyi Palace, how can we ensure that those who hold the distribution rights in Yuanyi Palace will not benefit from it? In the end, things will return to that starting point."

"Moreover, once the deacon has no financial power, it is very likely that some people will simply ignore everything. Anyway, he only takes his own share of the salary and funds. The entire operation and maintenance of our sect depends on the deacons of various departments. in management."

"Once they let go, the entire sect will fall into a state of paralysis, and many financial problems will follow."

"For example, let everyone in the department go out to perform tasks every month, regardless of whether they have tasks or not, and let them perform them, so as to obtain corresponding funds."

"Or just make a false report or report indiscriminately. The deacon of the department and the steward Jiadi's disciples cheated out of expenses together. Have you ever thought about this problem? How to solve it?"

"I disagree with this plan."

After Shi Mingsui finished speaking, Yin Qingyuan followed up and said, "I also think the plan of Yuanyi Palace is not appropriate."

In fact, Tang Ning had expected in her heart that this plan might encounter many people's opposition, because depriving the deacons of the financial distribution rights actually also deprived the halls and courts of the financial distribution rights.

You must know that the funds are directly allocated to the various palaces and courtyards, and then distributed to the various departments by the palace courtyards. Now that the proposal is made to let the Yuanyi Palace distribute the funds, it actually replaces the financial allocation rights of the various palaces and courtyards. opposed by them.

"If this set of plans is not satisfactory, then the only option is to carry out the second set of plans, directly reducing the expenditure by one million," Tang Ning said.

Luo Qingshui said: "There is no need to rush the financial reform plan. It involves all aspects. You Yuanyi Palace needs to carefully consider and come up with a reasonable plan. The implementation of the specific plan can be discussed slowly in the future, and talk about the expansion of production capacity. Let’s plan! I am quite interested in how to expand production capacity.”

Tang Ning said: "The method is very simple. It is to allow more disciples to participate in the process of wealth creation. Our financial income mainly has three aspects. The first is spiritual mines, the second is taxation, and the third is the sect's shops, gambling profits from workshops and attics."

"Spiritual mines and taxes are immutable, unless the Demon Sect is defeated and half of the occupied Chu Kingdom is taken back."

"The only thing that can increase income is the profit of shops. We refer to the operation mode of chambers of commerce. Almost everyone in them participates in the link of wealth creation, so we decided to learn from this method."

"At present, there are only four departments in the sect that have the value of creating wealth: pills, array flags, utensils, and talismans. Among these four departments, there are only about a hundred people who are really capable of creating wealth. From this perspective, it is quite Because these more than a hundred people are supporting the consumption of [-] or [-] people in our entire sect."

"That's why more people must be involved in alchemy, weapon refining, formation flags, and talisman manufacturing, and let them create value for the sect."

"Of course, I know that no matter whether refining equipment, alchemy, talisman, or formation, you can't be proficient in a short period of time. Each department also has its own responsibilities. We only need to select talented and interested people to join them. "

"The sect has a lot of idle personnel. It's time for them to make a contribution to the sect. We can't just get paid and not work."

"I propose that in the four disciplines of pills, array flags, utensils, and talismans, select a few skilled disciples as mentors, and as a separate team, specially teach the disciples of other departments to learn pills, magic tricks, etc. Manufacturing and refining of utensils, talismans, and array flags."

"In all other departments, from the deacon down, everyone has to participate in the learning of these four skills, and they will be sent to the team to learn in turn by way of rotation."

"Select talented or interested disciples to learn this skill, and then stipulate how many pills, magic tools, talismans and array flags they must hand in every year."

"In addition, in addition to expanding the production capacity of elixir, talismans, magical instruments, and array flags, we can also try new skills, such as the production of spiritual wine and spiritual food. We can talk about these later."

Luo Qingshui said: "What do you guys think of this plan of Yuanyi Palace?"

Tong Quan'an said: "This is not bad, and we can strongly support it. We went to Qinghai Port Island to discuss spirit animal breeding with the chamber of commerce. Wasn't it also to increase income? If we can increase our income to a level corresponding to our expenditure, we don't need to cut back on funding." Well, over the years we have reduced the funds again and again, and the disciples below have complained a lot, if the reduction is further reduced, I am afraid that there will be trouble."

"I agree with the proposal."

Luo Qingshui: "What do the other juniors think? If you have any opinions, put forward any opinions, and discuss the matter thoroughly, so that the plan can be implemented."

Several people nodded slightly. This matter does not involve their own interests, and it can increase the sect's income, so no one objected.

Luo Qingshui said: "Zhuang Xingan, is there any problem with your Internal Affairs Department?"

Zhuang Xinqian said: "There is no problem in forming a team to teach other disciples, but I have a few doubts about this matter itself."

"First, no matter whether refining tools, alchemy, making talismans, or making formations, it is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It can be as short as a few decades, or as long as a hundred years. It's hard to say whether the disciples below will be willing."

"Second, are our resources enough? Artifact refining, alchemy, talisman making, and formation all require a lot of practice materials, especially for beginners. At present, there are not enough disciples in the four departments of this academy. How can we assign them to other students?" A beginner in the department?"

"Third, there is the problem of sales channels. After we increase production capacity, the market will not be able to eat so many things. Now that there are so many stores in Xingang, how can we ensure that other people come to our stores to consume."

Luo Qingshui nodded, "It's not unreasonable for Zhuang Xin to say this. This is indeed an objective problem. Tangning, have you considered this at Yuanyi Palace?"

(End of this chapter)