The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 23 Sea Cliff Department

Markets are like battlefields.

When making a business decision, the worst thing to do is to act emotionally.

This Miss Qing Ning's performance is not like a qualified business leader at all, but more like a rich young lady who does whatever she wants.

Yang Lu once worked in the famous private equity firm Qianye Capital. The chairman of Qianyi Capital told him personally that entrepreneurs are the most important factor in determining the success or failure of a company, not even one of them.

As the ace fund manager of Qianyi Capital, Yang Lu has personally interviewed the chairman of countless listed companies. If he encounters the chairman of a company with this style of behavior, he will immediately block the company permanently and never see him again. .With such a leader at the booth of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, it is a miracle that it did not go bankrupt!

Although he kept complaining in his heart, Yang Lu didn't show any dissatisfaction on the surface, he just smiled wryly: "Since it's something that can make Miss Qingning feel troublesome, I can only do my best."

To throw the burden on the new job seekers, Qingning himself seemed a little embarrassed, his cheeks flushed slightly, and he said: "Actually, you have seen the matter just now, our Qingning Chamber of Commerce is a licensed supplier of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, and we have large sums of money all year round. The pressure is on the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, but the Haiya Chamber of Commerce has recently extended the settlement period for no reason, which has caused a big problem in our capital turnover..."

Facts have proved that Miss Qingning's personality is not suitable for leading an enterprise, but it does not mean that her IQ is not good. In terms of the basic skills of business literacy, she is actually quite passable.

Through her narration, Yang Lu also understood the main dilemma that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is currently facing.

Although the various forces in Haiya City are intricate, the most powerful is undoubtedly the "Sea Cliff Department" with Jindan stage monks in charge.

The Haiya Chamber of Commerce monopolizes the trade and transportation routes of the entire Haiya City, thus providing continuous financial support for the Haiya faction and providing valuable cultivation resources to the Haiya faction practitioners;

With the resource support of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the Haiya Sect has cultivated a large number of cultivators who are loyal to the sect. With these practitioners as the backbone, they can firmly control the City Lord's Mansion of Haiya City;

As the spokesperson of the local forces in Haiya City, the City Lord's Mansion provides a protective umbrella for Haiya Bank and Haiya Chamber of Commerce, preventing other forces from directly intervening in the huge interests of the sea trade.
The Haiya Chamber of Commerce can infiltrate its influence into the financial sector through Haiya Bank, and even the Haiya Pavilion where Yang Lu stayed last night is also a high-end banquet venue run by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, the "Sea Cliff Group" is a powerful local interest group established relying on the maritime trade business in eastern Zhongzhou.

What is even more commendable is that the Haiya faction did not inflate itself because of its own powerful strength, but honestly transferred the most core tariff collection rights to the Wuliang Sword Sect for free, in exchange for the approval of the Zhongzhou Overlord Wuliang Sword Sect and support.

As the head of the seven major sects in Kyushu, the Wuliang Sword Sect has ruled Zhongzhou for countless years.But there is a fatal weakness in the rule of the Wuliang Sword Sect, that is, there is a serious shortage of practitioners.

Ordinary people who have the aptitude for self-cultivation are selected one in a thousand, and the Wuliang Sword Sect, which has a very high entry threshold, is more difficult to recruit new disciples than ordinary sects.

Even if the birthplace of the Wuliang Sword Sect covers the entire Zhongzhou, the entire sect only has a total of more than 2 monks. With only these people, it is obviously powerless to effectively rule the Zhongzhou, which is larger than the earth.

It is precisely because of the lack of practitioners that for Wuliang Sword Sect's sect finance, the cost of tax collection has become a problem that must be considered - that is, how to collect the most tax with the least amount of manpower.

In response to this very real predicament, the Wuliang Sword Sect was forced to adopt the strategy of taxpayers, only grasping the core economic lifeline of Zhongzhou, entrusting all the local ruling power to local forces like Haiya City, and collecting these places The offering paid by the power.

However, there is a huge hidden danger in the taxpayer policy, that is, unsupervised local forces are likely to slowly develop into local lawless local emperors.

The Wuliangjian faction is as high as the sky and the emperor is far away, so it is impossible to go to the local forces to check the accounts. Even if special personnel are sent to inspect the places, there is still the possibility that the inspectors and the local forces are colluding.

For a long time, the Wuliang Sword Sect has been researching new tax sources.

In addition to the offerings of the vassal sects, tariffs are obviously one of the lowest-cost taxes to collect. Even after the British colonists opened the door to the Qing Dynasty, the first department to take over was the customs.

The Haiya School painstakingly managed a huge ocean-going trade network across Kyushu, but transferred the most important tariff collection rights to the Wuliang Sword School for free, which is undoubtedly a great gift to the financial department of the Wuliang Sword School.

This kind of witty behavior naturally won the full support of the financial department of the Wuliang Sword Sect [Duzhitang], and Lu Anping, the special trade representative of the Wuliangjian Sect, is the tax commissioner specially sent by Duzhitang to collect customs duties in Haiya City.

On the top is the umbrella of the top leaders of the Wuliang Sword Sect, and below it is the interest group formed by local forces.

The entire Sea Cliff Department has almost covered the sky with one hand in the Sea Cliff City. Even if external forces want to enter the Sea Cliff City, they must honestly follow the rules formulated by the Sea Cliff City.Although the Qingning Chamber of Commerce has a mysterious background, it is obviously unable to challenge the authority of the Haiya Department.

As a monopoly of ocean trade, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce's position in the industrial chain and its strength have seriously encroached on the interests of upstream and downstream chambers of commerce, especially the upstream and downstream suppliers' payments, which basically have to be pressured by Haiya Bank for a long time will actually be released.As the supplier of Haiya Chamber of Commerce, it is not uncommon for Qingning Chamber of Commerce to be in arrears of payment.

But in the recent period, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce suddenly extended the payment period again without reason, which caught the Qingning Chamber of Commerce by surprise.

In order to deliver the goods needed for export to the Haiya Chamber of Commerce in a timely manner, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce needs to send expatriate personnel to the main commercial centers of Zhongzhou to raise the export commodities of Zhongzhou's special products.Whether it is the appropriation of these commodity inventories or the salaries of expatriates, it will put pressure on the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's capital chain.

In normal times, this kind of thing is not a fatal injury.However, the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced recently that the economic situation in the Eastern Barren State is in turmoil, which will bring difficulties to the sales of Zhongzhou's export products in the Eastern Barren State. The Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce must reserve more cash to deal with the uncertainty of the foreign trade situation.

It was under this banner that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce increased its share of funds from the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, causing the Qingning Chamber of Commerce to be overwhelmed financially.

The Qingning Chamber of Commerce also asked other chambers of commerce in Haiya City for capital turnover, but other chambers of commerce said that the current foreign trade situation is unclear, and that the Haiya merchants may also press their own payment in the future and refuse to provide financial support for the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

In response to the unreasonable behavior of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, Miss Qingning has sent people to negotiate with the Haiya City Lord's Mansion many times, trying to make the Haiya Chamber of Commerce follow the "Zhongzhou School Management Regulations" formulated by the Wuliang Sword Sect and the "Haiya Sect" formulated by the Haiya Sect. "City Management Measures".

However, the clerk of Haiya City Lord's Mansion is obviously also a master in the field of football. The employees of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce who were sent to communicate did not even know which department was in charge of this matter, so they were sent back inexplicably.

This made Miss Qingning so dissatisfied with her staff that she even cut off her favorite Lingmu long case.

Yang Lu once worked as an intern at the central bank and is no stranger to bureaucrats' work style.Hearing this situation, Yang Lu immediately sensed something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)