Thousands of sparks

Chapter 41
The Interior Office of Newsail is a purgatory mess.If you want to use the simplest words to describe the situation here, Du Sande will use a wisecrack that he has seen in TV dramas in his previous life to express it.

The place is so poor that thieves have to cry and leave fivepence when they come in, and then wipe their tears and help them lock the door again.

According to the account book data that Director Escobar ordered his subordinates to produce, two months before the current fiscal year, the entire Nuxal Internal Affairs Bureau has actually gone bankrupt.

All employees' wages must be paid at least three months in arrears. This is no longer a "problem" but an "old rule" in the Newsea Interior Bureau.According to Escobar, this rule started before he took office.

Of the 110 million gold pounds allocated by Olin to the Newsail Home Affairs Bureau each year, 55 gold pounds will be issued directly in the form of 25-year imperial war bonds.

These Imperial War Debts are an important initiative in the maintenance of the Empire and the War of the Confederation, as well as an important responsibility of the Home Office as the executive branch of the Empire.

Holding a 55-year war bond of 25 gold pounds, Escobar was a little worried at first about how he should live his life.But later he found out that at least his former director had paved a way for him to be safe.

The war national debt is used to pay two-thirds of the fixed wages of all employees. In order to compensate the "self-sacrifice" spirit of these headquarters employees, a free canteen was opened inside the Internal Affairs Bureau for everyone to feed their families. During the season, five months' worth of coal will be distributed directly to everyone.

There was no place to accept the remaining war debt of about 20 pounds, and they were stored in the treasury of the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Can't starve to death, can't freeze.Moreover, one-third of the income can be stably entered into the pockets of the employees, which barely made the staff of the Internal Affairs Bureau bear it.

This tolerance is 20 years.

The Home Office's two-thirds war bond issuance rules have remained unchanged for 20 years, yet coal and food prices have continued to rise. Twenty years ago, feeding all the employees and their families across the board wasn't a big deal.Five months' worth of coal isn't all that expensive either.But now... In order to maintain the purchase of canteens and heating coal, the Ministry of the Interior has to continue to borrow from the outside world, and promises to repay it with the next year's appropriation.

This is a plan to quench thirst with poison.But Director Escobar simply had no other choice.Compared with 20 years ago, Olin's appropriation to the Newsale Department of the Interior has increased by less than 15%, while the price of coal has quadrupled and the price of food has more than doubled.The huge increase in spending has made the economy of the Interior Bureau completely unsustainable.

Fortunately, the majesty of the administrative department is still there, and in another five years, the war bonds can be cashed.Director Escobar has used his flexible bottom line to finance and borrow everywhere, and he can barely maintain the status quo, but if he wants to do something... I'm afraid it will be impossible.

"This is our situation." Director Escobar muttered as he wiped the oily sweat from his brow with a handkerchief, "My lord, if there is no special appropriation from the House of Commons, the Department of the Interior can only guarantee that we will not spend five years Will be completely bankrupt. But any new missions...we're afraid we won't be able to execute them."

Du Sande rolled his eyes. He really didn't expect that the Interior Bureau, which looks so magnificent on the outside, would be so poor.There are a lot of war bonds in the vault, and even the bureaucrats have to deduct two-thirds of their salaries!
But you can't trust what other people say, and Du Sande himself has some doubts.

Of the 110 million gold pounds, 55 gold pounds are war bonds, of which 25 gold pounds are used to pay employees as wages, so according to the two-thirds calculation, there are about 3000 gold pounds in cash paid to the employees.

What about the rest of the money?What about the remaining 46 gold pounds?
"Our two welfare measures have spent a total of 16 gold pounds this year." Director Escobar said with a bitter face, "Then 26 gold pounds were used to pay the interest on the previous loan, leaving only [-] gold pounds pound."

Of the remaining 20 pounds, [-] were allocated to the church by the Home Affairs Bureau as charitable funds.The operation of the charity hospitals established by the church basically depends on this allocation.

The Bureau of Internal Affairs also needs to spend 55 gold a year to maintain public roads and buildings, to maintain and green the surrounding areas of the Upper Albin Interplanetary Landing Field and the railway station, and to pay the gas company for the gas required to light the gas street lamps... …All in all, if there is no apportionment of war bonds of [-] gold pounds, in a lucky year, the Home Office may have a balance of several thousand gold pounds per year.

"We really don't have any money now, my lord!" Speaking of his sadness, Escobar even burst into tears, crying like a fat man of three hundred catties, "My lord, I have tried my best in this situation. What kind of education and medical security are you doing on a large scale... You, you just take me to the coat of arms management office and kill me!"

The fat man and the little boy looked at each other, and the air in the director's office was warm but anxious.

After a while, Dusand was about to say something to ease the atmosphere, but suddenly there was a hoarse cry outside Escobar's office.

"Master, master, please save my sister!"

Dusande frowned, he quickly stood up and looked out the window, a thin and small figure appeared downstairs.The figure raised its head, knelt on the ground and cried, "She has been sick for several days, please, sir, please see her doctor!"

In his arms, there was a dry and thin person who was almost as thin as a skeleton.Dusande narrowed his eyes, and then saw the dry braids on the man's head in the light of the gas lamps that periodically brightened in the building.

It was a little girl.

Two goblins appeared on both sides of the thin figure, and the high-level one stretched out its legs to kick people, "Hurry up and get out, don't look where this is!"

She probably wanted to calm her frightened fragile heart, so she was going to vent her anxiety by maintaining order through violence that she was not good at.

Just as the thick and short legs stretched out, there was a sudden gunshot from the director's office on the third floor.The crisp sound was accompanied by the loud sound of glass shattering, and the thick leg was immediately retracted in fright.

"Go down and have a look." Dusand took back the smoking Type 52 pistol, and walked towards the door without looking back. Fat women should change jobs."

Escobar, whose legs were trembling tremblingly, asked cautiously, "What do you think... how should we deal with it?"

"Arrange a job for her to clean the boiler first. We'll see if we need to make further adjustments later." Dusande's face was ugly, and he walked downstairs quickly, feeling very uncomfortable.

The little girl who was held in her arms... seemed to have lost her breath.

　Today's second update~
　　
　
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