Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 250 Confrontation ([-])

Lu Xingxian glanced at Chen Xuan. The financial discussion was just a process. As for how to write the accounts, he naturally wouldn't ask. He didn't want to get something signed and stamped.

He knew that Chen Xuan was very dissatisfied with Qin Gang, and this signature and pledge was equivalent to a show of power, telling Qin Gang clearly that the financial and internal affairs were in his own hands, and he could arrange whatever he wanted.

Lu Xingxian was also dissatisfied with Qin Gang, but this so-called "dismounting power" was unnecessary and just made people laugh.

Qin Gang waved his hand: "I remember that Junior Brother Chen said in the last meeting that there are only [-] spirit stones left in the ministry's finances. Now that a month has passed, [-] spirit stones have been used, and there are less than [-] spirit stones left. I don’t know what to do with the next expenses?”

"Naturally apply to the sect."

"I don't know how much subsidy I need to apply for?"

"Based on the cost of [-] spirit stones per month, [-] spirit stones are about the same."

Qin Gang nodded: "The Disciplinary Academy distributes [-] spirit stones every year, counting the salaries of the disciples, there are at least [-] spirit stones left. It has only been seven months now, and [-] spirit stones have been spent. And the department's expenses No reduction, in my opinion, [-] spirit stones may not be enough."

Lu Xingxian said: "What does Junior Brother Qin mean?"

Qin Gang said: "Everything is foregone, and if not forewarned, it will be abandoned. I think it is necessary to reduce expenses. As Junior Brother Chen said just now, some qi refining disciples go to a mission, and the funds and rewards are as high as three thousand spirit stones. Isn't it a bit excessive?" How tall is it?"

"Three thousand spirit stones are equivalent to a five-year salary for a tenth-level Qi Refining disciple. Shouldn't it be reduced appropriately? This is still a time when there is no war. What if there is a war? Doesn't the Department's finance cost more than [-] yuan a month. "

"Furthermore, the Zongmen's finances are tight now. It's no longer what it used to be, so it's even more important to cut expenses. I don't know what Brother Lu means?"

Qin Gang's approach was quite clever. He didn't use the false account books as an issue, knowing that it would be useless to expose the matter. He only said that the expenses were too high and should be reduced, so as to control the financial expenditure.

Lu Xingxian said: "Junior Brother Qin was transferred by the Supervision Department. He has not been in the department for a long time, so I don't know the specific details. The casualty ratio of this department is one of the best among all the departments in the sect. The tasks performed by the disciples are very dangerous. One mistake will kill you." Life is at stake, decades of hard work will be ruined, if it is not for high rewards, how can the following disciples be willing to do their best?"

"Take this mission as an example. The disciples of the sixth and fifth teams went deep into the enemy's rear to spy on information. The danger is very high. Once discovered, you can imagine the consequences. If you reduce the expenses, you may complain and refuse to do things sincerely. .It is absolutely impossible to let the horse run without feeding the horse.”

Chen Xuan interjected: "An important piece of information may even be related to the survival of the Zongmen. Decades ago, Jingbei discovered the ancient relics. The Zongmen has not confirmed whether it is true or not. A large number of members of the Xingshang Guild were mobilized, and senior brother Lu informed the head of the sect in time, so the sect confirmed the existence of the Jingbei ruins."

"As a result, he occupied the position first until the arrival of the Canglang Sect. The Canglang Sect rewarded tens of millions of spirit stones for this. Senior Brother Zhu knows the details of this matter. I heard that the first clue to the Jingbei Ruins was provided by Junior Brother Tang. From this we can see that, The importance of intelligence is much higher than the cost of spirit stones."

"And if you talk about the expenses of the departments, like the pill department and the weapon refining department, it costs up to [-] to [-] spirit stones a month. It's just alchemy and weapon refining in the sect. What he enjoys is the highest treatment in the sect."

"And the disciples in this department are performing the most dangerous and important tasks. From this point of view, the cost of more than [-] spirit stones per month can be regarded as frugal."

Qin Gang retorted: "Junior Brother Chen's remarks are wrong. The reduction of expenses I said was to reduce the mission subsidies for disciples, not to reduce the financial expenditure on intelligence. The example that Junior Brother Chen gave was about the chamber of commerce. But these are provided by the special funds of the sect, and what I am talking about is the financial expenditure of the department."

"Since Junior Brother Chen talked about the Medicine Pill and Artifact Refining Department, yes, their monthly expenses are indeed much higher than ours, but they also have income in addition to expenses. Hand over to Zongmen and put them in shops in various squares, they provide Zongmen with higher income than expenditure, but we only have expenditure but no real income."

"I propose that from now on, the task rewards, operation funds, and wear and tear allowances of the disciples of the department will be unified to form a standardized standard. If any disciples disagree, they can come to me. I will explain it to them in detail. I believe they can understand."

Of course the disciples will understand that these paper accounts are fake, he only needs to clearly stipulate the reward and punishment standards, and set the standards according to their actual receipts.

When discussing with Tang Ning and Zhu Xu, Qin Gang referred to this step as dredging from the bottom, which would greatly restrict Lu Xingxian's financial control.

Chen Xuan remained silent, while Lu Xingxian said slowly, still expressionless: "For so many years, the department has always been here. Reducing expenses is a big deal, involving many aspects, not only the student's operating funds and subsidies, There is also a financial subsidy for me to carry out the task."

"Today is the financial discussion. Junior brother Chen has already announced the financial expenditure situation for this month. As for the matter of reducing expenditure, it is not within the scope of today's discussion. We will discuss it next time."

Qin Gang didn't say anything, so the matter was temporarily closed.Lu Xingxian said two more things. One was about the private contact between a local family and the Mozong submitted by the Jiangdong Intelligence Station, and he sent his disciples to investigate.

The other thing is to replenish the manpower of the department. A few days ago, the sect opened its gate and accepted more than [-] children with spiritual root qualifications. In the past, each time it opened the gate, it only recruited a hundred people at most. This time It was an extremely rare big move, which took in more than [-] people.

Gein had suffered heavy casualties in his fight with the Demon Sect in the past few years, and all departments were short of manpower, so he made an exception and made a big move.

And because Lu Guang went to Qiyuan Island, Tangning was temporarily responsible for this matter, and asked him to pre-select children with good spiritual roots.

As long as the candidates are confirmed, the sect will directly arrange for these pre-selected children to enter the intelligence department once they have transformed into mortals.

After Lu Xingxian finished speaking, he announced that the discussion was over, and everyone left the hall and returned to the cave.

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On the next day, Tangning went to the meeting hall of the Precepts and Secrets Academy, and together with the Foundation Establishment monks from several other departments of the Precepts and Secrets Academy, they came to the Internal Affairs Division of the Internal Affairs Department.

The Department of Internal Affairs is a small department, similar to the Department of Herbs, with a total of more than ten disciples. The deacon of the Department of Internal Affairs is an old man with a bright head and a pale face, named Yan Yugang, who is the only foundation-building monk in his department.

He personally received the group of members of the Discipline Academy, welcomed them to the second floor of the attic, pointed to several piles of papers on the chopping board and said: "Brothers, here are all the materials for the sect's recruitment of disciples. According to the sect's regulations, For each department of the secret academy, you can choose fifteen disciples, and after they transform into mortals, the sect will directly arrange them into your department according to the roster."

"Didn't you say that more than [-] disciples have been recruited this time? There don't seem to be so many here." Tangning said, stacks of roll papers were neatly stacked on the desk, a total of twelve stacks, each with fifteen copies. Very easy to count.

Yan Yugang said: "One hundred and fifty people have been selected from Qingxuan Hall, Xuande Hall, and Yuanyi Hall. This is the list of remaining personnel."

"Junior Brother Tang, it's your first time to select disciples, so I don't know the details. Over the years, the sects have been selected by Qingxuan Hall, Xuande Hall, and Yuanyi Hall before we select, but all the disciples with excellent spiritual roots have been selected by them. , we all pick up other people’s leftovers.” Inspector Ke Machang said

Wang Boxuan from the Security Section said: "Fortunately, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are after us, and they also picked up what we left. Let's comfort you like this! I can be more relaxed."

Everyone here is the successor of the next deacon of their respective departments. If there is no accident, there is a high probability that they will take over the post of the next deacon.

Because the job of selecting disciples is the responsibility of the Foundation Establishment cultivator who is in charge of the specific affairs of the department, and the position in charge of the specific affairs of the department is generally a person with real power in the department, and it is defaulted that only the next generation of deacons will take up this position. It is an unspoken rule of the sect.

It's like the master of the Qingxuan Palace taking over the position of head.Therefore, the one with the lowest level of cultivation among the few is also a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Since he is the next successor to the deacon, his cultivation should not be too low. Without the cultivation of the middle stage of foundation establishment, he is not qualified to take up this position at all.

This is also the reason why Lu Xingxian did not send Chen Xuan here, but let Tang Ning take charge of this matter. Chen Xuan only had an early foundation cultivation, wouldn't it make him look inferior to the intelligence department?

The several departments under the Secret Jie Academy are all major departments, and each department has several foundation-establishment monks, and the deacons are all late-stage foundation-establishment monks.

Without this level of cultivation, it is difficult to be qualified for the post of deacon, and it is easy to be gossiped by others.

This is just like the court ministers in the secular world, all ministers pay attention to the ranking of qualifications, no kingdom will let a young man in his teens or twenties take the position of Sangong, no matter how foresight and ability he is.

In the world of practice, cultivation is the qualifications in the secular world, and the principles of the two are interlinked.

Tang Ning said, "Why did the third hall only choose fifty people, but we have more than them?"

Tian Jingxing from the secret security department said: "The secret academy has always had the highest casualties, so what's so special about choosing more people than them? Besides, they have selected all the good seedlings. Let's choose the rest from them. Two words. At most half of these people will be able to successfully transform into mortals, it’s not bad, although the overall number is more than them, the actual number will not be as good as them at that time!”

Ren Jun from the Department of Restraint and Occultism said with a smile: "This situation has happened in our department. Ten people were selected that year, but in the end only one succeeded in transforming."

Everyone picked up the files on the desk and looked through them one by one. The spiritual root aptitude, age, and family background of the new disciples were all recorded on it.

These selected disciples obviously have no background, at most they are children of local families, but those who have some background have been reserved privately, and they will not be selected by them at all.

The main thing to consider when selecting disciples was their spiritual root aptitude. Their age and family background were all fictitious. Tangning selected [-] students out of [-] files, all of whom were in the middle of the aptitude.

Those with high aptitude have already been selected by the third hall, and the rest are some middle-level spiritual root aptitude disciples. He searched through [-] files, but he didn't find a single high-quality disciple, but there were quite a few with low aptitude Waiting disciple.

Before the sect recruited disciples, disciples of lower spiritual roots were not accepted. This year, due to the shortage of manpower, an exception was made to recruit more manpower. Therefore, the requirements were not so strict, and those with lower qualifications were reluctantly recruited.

After they had finished selecting the disciples, they handed over the files to Yan Yugang to keep the records one by one, left the internal affairs department, and parted ways as if they were in the dark.

(End of this chapter)