Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis

Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis Chapter 29

2022-04-02

Chapter 29 City Lord's Mansion Division of General Services

The main mansion of Seacliff City, located in the very center of Seacliff City.

Unlike the courtyard-style layout of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, City Lord's Mansion is a rather fantastical oriental tower.

Its total height is dozens of meters, and it is also the highest building in the entire Seacliff City. From the perspective of mechanical structure, this tower is quite close to a modern high-rise building, but it has very oriental characteristics. The Xieshan-style roof is like a modern designer forcibly adding ancient Wind Element to his architectural works.

Nearly half of the City Lord's Mansion civil servants in the entire Seacliff City area work in this bizarre high-rise building.

In the Nine Provinces cultivation world, the time of the cultivator with cultivation aptitude is very precious, and will certainly not be too much energy involved in the city Lord's Mansion, so it is similar to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, except for the City Lord's Mansion There are some cultivators at the top who are "cultivating merit", and the overwhelming majority City Lord's Mansion clerks are just ordinary mortals.

According to Li Qingning, the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce unilaterally extended the settlement period of accounts payable, which is suspected of disrupting the normal business order. It is stipulated that the main seat of Seacliff City must take this matter seriously.

If Li Eldest Young Lady Qingning personally came to collect debts, the main mansion of Seacliff City would definitely send a cultivator to receive them, but if a mortal Chamber of Commerce employee like Yang Lu came forward, he could only deal with City Lord's Mansion The mortal civil servant negotiated.

Fortunately, the top executives of the Immeasurable Sword Sect have always advertised themselves as "Central Plains under the rule of law", and even the Seacliff Sect cannot openly confront it, so even if the Seacliff Department really intends to harm the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, it will definitely not. Leave the handle on the surface.

This gives Yang Lu a chance to find a breakthrough!

Of course, the top executives of Seacliff Sect are not fools. As the saying goes, "there are policies from above, and countermeasures from below." No matter which central government decision in the world, as long as there is no major leader to personally supervise it, it will fall at the local level. Many unfathomable mystery problems arise.

The Qingning Chamber of Commerce This kind of local commercial disputes, for the Immeasurable Sword Sect that rules the entire Central Plains, is simply an insignificant trivial matter, and it is precisely because the Immeasurable Sword Sect has no time to take care of such trivial matters, Seacliff Sect It has also worked out a set of outward devotion but inner opposition methods, specially used to fool Immeasurable Sword Sect's "Legal Central Plains" requirement.

In order to deal with commercial disputes such as the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, the Seacliff City main house has set up three functional departments that are not affiliated with each other.

There is a general affairs department responsible for communicating with the Great Chamber of Commerce, an arbitration department specializing in commercial arbitration, and an ocean-going trade department specializing in coordinating maritime trade business.

On the surface, all three departments appear to be able to handle this.

But that's the biggest problem!

According to Yang Lu's work experience, in any bureaucratic organization that relies on systems to handle affairs, if there are many people who can manage something, it means that even if there is a problem, it will not be A specific person is responsible. And if something goes wrong, there will be no specific person responsible, then from the very beginning, it is impossible that someone will take care of it!

As the saying goes, "many people are responsible for no one", Seacliff Sect on the surface 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 disputes .

But when the Qingning Chamber of Commerce really happens, you will find out that as long as the Seacliff City chief Jiang Hua'an doesn't personally coordinate the matter, none of the three departments will be of any use!

So Seacliff City just seems to be doing things according to the rules, but the actual power is still firmly in the hands of City Lord Jiang Hua'an himself.

This is the political wisdom of the local and central game!

Although Yang Lu has seen the essence of the matter very clearly, he still submitted Li Qingning's famous posts to these three departments.

Seeing Yang Lu's obedient way of doing things, Steward Zhou couldn't help but scornfully said: "I also said that you brat has any special skills, didn't expect to run these yamen obediently and honestly. This kind of Our Qingning Chamber of Commerce has done this many times, but it is useless!”

“As the saying goes, the same thing is done by people, and the results will be very different if different people do the same thing!”

Steward Zhou obviously didn't believe Yang Lu's statement, and pouted again and again: "I think you are a dead duck with a tough mouth. When the time comes and can't complete the task, just wait for the Eldest Young Lady to sweep out the door in person!"

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

It is useless to explain this kind of thing. In the final analysis, it is still necessary to speak with facts. Even if he speaks out the flowers now, it will be nothing but inviting humiliation to oneself.

The two, while speaking, have come to the large office of the General Affairs Department of the Seacliff City main house.

The office decoration style of the General Affairs Department is quite similar to the antique large-scale oriental study. More than ten long redwood desks with simple shapes are arranged along the wall in turn, and they are separated from each other by embroidered screens. The long desks are stacked with thick documents.

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

There are also a few long cases that have no staff behind them. I think that the General Affairs Department is responsible for communicating the functions of the Great Chamber of Commerce. These staff members who are not at their workstations are most likely to go out to work in the field.

Seeing how these clerks were writing and writing, Yang Lu couldn't help twitched his lips and said, "Everyone said that Immeasurable Sword Sect attaches great importance to the work of leaving marks, and no matter what you do, you must leave your work behind. The ledger, when I saw it today, it turns out that name is not in vain."

Steward Zhou helplessly said: "It's all formalism to deal with inspections. The cultivator's time is so precious, Immeasurable Sword Sect came to the place to inspect the work. Immortal Master, you can't go down to the grassroots to check the work in person! You can only check and check these work ledgers. Having a work ledger does not necessarily mean that you did good work, but without a work ledger, the work will definitely not be done properly. ”

While the two were chatting softly, Yang Lu also handed over Li Qingning's famous post, and the person in charge of receiving them was a middle-aged man with a lazily expression, seeing that he was reluctant The appearance of getting up from the seat is obviously the kind of traditional government employee who just goes to work and waits to get off work.

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

Yang Lu didn't care about the other party's perfunctory attitude, Instead, he said, "We intend to file a formal complaint with the Seacliff City main mansion regarding the Seacliff Chamber of Commerce's payment to Qingning Chamber of Commerce. You should know the whole sequence of events.”

The clerk of the General Affairs Department reluctantly said: “Our General Affairs Department is specially responsible for the communication and coordination of the Great Chamber of Commerce. Of course we are aware of this matter. I have been looking for me many times...but what is our situation, you should be very clear about it!"

Yang Lu then politely said: "Since you all know this, why can't you get it? How to solve it?"

The clerk of the General Affairs Department did not directly answer this question, but picked up a stack of thick documents from the desk: "I have answered this question many times, since you still run Come and ask, then I will answer again. According to the division of functions of our General Affairs Department, we are only responsible for the liaison with the Great Chamber of Commerce, a pure communication and coordination department, and have no right to directly intervene in this matter. Regarding this point, Our departmental charter has been written clearly!"

Yang Lu took the document and found that the cover of it had the words "Functional Plan of the General Affairs Department of the Seacliff City Main Mansion" written in big words, which should be The official name of the General Services Division's departmental charter. The thickness of this departmental charter is close to a book, with as many as 47 pages.

After casually scanning the contents, Yang Lu found that between the lines of the articles of association of this department, all of them were "comprehensive promotion, overall planning, practical implementation, in-depth implementation, strict control, unswerving, consolidating and improving. , pay close attention to the high-end vocabulary of implementation, significant improvement, aggressiveness, integrity and innovation, and responsibility”.

He suddenly had a very strong feeling: This kind of document was written, not for him to see!

(end of this chapter)