The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 29 The General Affairs Department of the City Lord's Mansion

Haiya City Lord's Mansion is located in the very center of Haiya City.

Unlike the courtyard-style building layout of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, the City Lord's Mansion is an oriental tower with a rather fantastic architectural style.

Its total height is tens of meters, and it is also the highest building in the entire Sea Cliff City. From the perspective of mechanical structure, this tower is already quite close to modern high-rise buildings, but it has a gable roof with very oriental characteristics. It seems that modern designers have forcibly added ancient elements to their architectural works.

Nearly half of the official staff of the City Lord's Mansion in the entire Sea Cliff City area work in this strange high-rise building.

In the realm of comprehension in Kyushu, the time of cultivators with cultivation qualifications is very precious, and they will certainly not be too involved in the common affairs of the City Lord's Mansion. Therefore, it is similar to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, except that some of the highest levels of the City Lord's Mansion are "cultivating merit" Cultivators, most of the staff in the City Lord's Mansion are just ordinary people.

According to Li Qingning, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce unilaterally extended the deadline for the delivery of accounts payable, which is suspected of disrupting the normal business order. According to the "Zhongzhou School Management Regulations" and "Haiya City Management Measures", the Haiya City Lord's Mansion must respond The matter is dealt with seriously.

If Miss Li Qingning came to collect debts in person, the Haiya City Lord's Mansion would definitely send a cultivator to receive them, but if Yang Lu, an employee of the mortal chamber of commerce, could only negotiate with the mortal civil servants of the City Lord's Mansion.

Fortunately, the senior leaders of the Wuliangjian faction have always advertised themselves as "the rule of law in Zhongzhou", and even the Haiya faction cannot openly confront it. Therefore, even if the Haiya faction really intends to entrap the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, it will definitely not leave any evidence on the surface .

This gave Yang Lu a chance to find a breakthrough!

Of course, the top leaders of the Haiya faction are not fools. As the saying goes, "There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom." No matter which world's central government makes decisions, as long as there is no big leader to personally supervise the implementation, many inexplicable problems will appear at the local level.

Local commercial disputes like the Qingning Chamber of Commerce are trivial matters to the Wuliang Sword Sect who rule the entire Zhongzhou. It is also because the Wuliang Sword Sect has no time to take care of such trivial matters, and the Haiya Sect has also figured out a set of ways It is a method specially used to fool the Wuliang Sword Sect's requirement of "Rule of Law in Zhongzhou".

In order to deal with such commercial disputes as the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, the Haiya City Lord's Mansion has set up three functional departments that do not belong to each other.

There is a general affairs department responsible for communication with major chambers of commerce, an arbitration department responsible for commercial arbitration, and an ocean trade department responsible for coordinating maritime trade business.

On the face of it, all three departments seem to be in charge.

But that's exactly the biggest problem!

According to Yang Lu's work experience, in any bureaucratic organization that relies on the system to handle affairs, if there is a certain matter that many people can manage, it means that even if there is a problem with this matter, no specific person will be responsible.And if something goes wrong, there will be no specific person responsible for it, then it is impossible for anyone to take care of this matter from the beginning!
As the saying goes, "Many people are in charge, but no one is in charge." Haiyapai can say that we have arranged as many as three departments to handle this matter, which shows that we attach great importance to this kind of commercial dispute.

But when something happens to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, you will suddenly find out that as long as Jiang Hua'an, the owner of Haiya City, doesn't come forward to coordinate the matter, none of these three departments will be useful!
Therefore, Sea Cliff City only seems to be following the rules, but the actual power is still firmly in the hands of the city lord, Jiang Hua'an himself.

This is the political wisdom of the game between the local government and the central government!
Although Yang Lu had seen the essence of the matter very clearly, he still submitted Li Qingning's name cards to the three departments respectively.

Seeing Yang Lu's regular way of doing things, Steward Zhou couldn't help but sneered and said: "I also thought you have some special skills, but I didn't expect you to go to these yamen honestly. Our Qingning Chamber of Commerce has done a lot of this kind of thing. Over and over, it's useless at all!"

"As the saying goes, everything depends on human effort. The same thing is done by different people, and the result will be very different!"

Steward Zhou obviously didn't believe Yang Lu's statement, and he pouted again and again, "I think you're a stubborn duck. If you can't complete the task by then, just wait to be kicked out by the eldest lady!"

Yang Lu just shook his head and did not continue to defend himself.

It's useless to explain this kind of thing. In the final analysis, we still have to use the facts to speak. Even if he talks about it now and fails to get things done in the end, it is nothing but self-inflicted humiliation.

While the two were talking, they had arrived at the big office of the General Affairs Department of the Haiya City Lord's Mansion.

The decoration style of the office of the General Affairs Department is quite similar to an antique large oriental study. More than a dozen long mahogany desks with simple shapes are lined up along the wall, separated from each other by embroidered screens, and each desk is stacked. Thick documents.

When Yang Lu visited, there were about seven or eight staff members working at their desks in this classical office.Since there is no printer, the staff are all concentrating on splashing ink and don't know what they are busy with.

There are also a few long cases with no staff behind them. Thinking of the function of the General Affairs Department in charge of communicating with major chambers of commerce, these staff who are not at their posts are most likely out to work in the field.

Looking at the way these clerks were writing, Yang Lu couldn't help curling his lips and said: "Everyone says that the Wuliang Sword School attaches great importance to leaving traces, and no matter what they do, they must leave a work account. Today, I saw it and it really deserves its reputation."

Butler Zhou said helplessly: "It's all just a formalism to deal with inspections. The time of a cultivator is so precious. The immortal masters sent by Wuliangjian to inspect the work can't go to the grassroots to inspect the work in person! They can only inspect these tasks There is a ledger. Having a work ledger does not necessarily mean that the work is done well, but without a work ledger, the work must not be done properly."

While the two were chatting softly, Yang Lu also handed over Li Qingning's name card. The person in charge of receiving them was a middle-aged man with a lazy expression. Seeing his unwillingness to get up from his seat, it was obvious that A traditional government employee who arrives at work and waits to leave.

Noticing Li Qingning's autograph, the clerk of the General Affairs Department immediately frowned and said, "Why did you send someone here again?"

Yang Lu didn't care about the other party's perfunctory attitude, but cupped his hands and said, "We plan to formally file a complaint with the Haiya City Lord's Mansion about the Haiya Chamber of Commerce's arrears of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's payment. People, presumably should know the ins and outs of this matter."

The clerk of the General Affairs Department reluctantly nodded and said: "Our General Affairs Department is responsible for the communication and coordination of major chambers of commerce. Of course we are clear about this matter. You have also approached me many times... But you should be very clear about our situation, right? !"

Yang Lu then said politely: "Since you are aware of this matter, why has it been so long before it can be resolved?"

The clerk of the General Affairs Department did not directly answer this question, but picked up a thick stack of documents from his desk: "I have answered this question many times, since you still come to ask, then I will answer it again. According to The division of functions of our General Affairs Department, we are only responsible for liaison with major chambers of commerce. It is a purely communication and coordination department, and has no right to directly intervene in this matter. About this point, our department charter has been clearly written! "

Yang Lu took the document and found that on the cover was written "Functional Plan of the General Affairs Department of the Lord's Mansion of Haiya City" in large characters, which should be the official name of the departmental regulations of the General Affairs Department.The thickness of this departmental charter is already close to a book, with a full 47 pages.

Randomly glanced at the content, Yang Lu found that between the lines of this department's charter, all of them are "comprehensive promotion, overall planning, earnest attention, thorough implementation, strict control, unswerving, consolidation and improvement, vigorous implementation, and significant improvement , aggressive, upright and innovative, responsible" and other high-end vocabulary.

He suddenly had a very strong feeling: this kind of document was not written for him to read!

(End of this chapter)