Chronicles of Celestial Origins

In the Zhongzhi Peak Cave Mansion, Xu Yuan was sitting cross-legged, refining his Qi with his eyes closed.

The storage bag on his waist suddenly trembled. He opened his eyes, took out the formation plate a little, took the talisman into his hand, and then left the room in a flash.

Outside the cave, a handsome-faced man stood waiting. It was Tang Ning. Xu Yuan's light fell in front of him and he bowed his head and said, "Senior Brother Tang, I am sorry to welcome you. Please come in quickly."

The two of them entered the inner room and sat opposite each other. Tangning flipped his hands, took out six bottles of Vitality Pills and handed them to him, saying, "These are some Vitality Pills that I have refined recently. The rest have been sold to the Alchemy Department. There are a few bottles left for Junior Brother Xu. I have nothing to do today, so I sent them to you."

Xu Yuan took the elixir and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, Senior Brother Tang. It's a little trivial. Why don't I bother Senior Brother Tang to go there in person? Just say something and I'll get it myself." After that, he took out seventy dollars from his storage bag. Two spiritual stones are coming.

In recent years, in addition to selling the vitality pills refined by Tang Ning to the elixir department, some of them were also provided to several other managers in the department. Zhao Liheng, Xu Yuan and Wei Xian all purchased elixirs from him, all based on the price. Sold for forty spirit stones.

Anyway, it's not a sale to anyone. It's better to sell it to the Danyang Department than to a private person as a favor.

Tang Ning took the spirit stone, put it in her storage bag, and said, "Junior Brother Xu, our department has been a bit uneasy recently! Rumors are spreading, and the disciples below are complaining. I wonder if you have noticed it."

Xu Yuandao: "Since I established the foundation, the sect has begun drastic restructuring and reduction of funding. Our department has been the first to bear the brunt. In the past few years, funding has been reduced again and again. As the saying goes, from frugality to luxury, from luxury to frugality. Disaster."

"It is actually understandable that the disciples below have complaints. After all, they have been like this for so many years. Naturally they are not happy if their funds are suddenly reduced significantly."

Tang Ning said: "It's not an option to continue like this, haven't you noticed? The efficiency of our department has been getting worse and worse in the past few years. Most of the disciples who go out to perform tasks have not contributed much, and they often come up empty-handed when trying to find any clues. But I don’t see the possibility of major rectification.”

Xu Yuan pondered: "What does Senior Brother Tang mean?"

"The rules must be made clear. Those who have done well will be rewarded and those who have no merit will be punished. If you are lazy and unwilling to contribute, your basic salary will also be deducted."

Xu Yuan frowned slightly and said, "Will this arouse rebellious feelings? Since the funding of our department has been reduced, the disciples below have already complained. If we are punished again, we may cause trouble."

"In the final analysis, it is because of the drastic reduction in funds. The disciples have to practice after all. To put it bluntly, now the sect wants the horse to run away and does not let the horse eat grass. How can there be such a thing in the world? Those disciples It’s understandable that you don’t want to contribute.”

Tang Ning said: "Junior Brother Xu's words are reasonable. The root cause of such chaos lies in funding. Therefore, I decided to make a change in the department's finances and clarify the standardized use system of property."

"I think the three-three-two-two distribution system is no longer suitable for our department. In the past, the department's funding was as high as more than 200,000 spirit stones. There is certainly nothing wrong with this distribution plan, and all parties can obtain corresponding benefits from it."

"Until a few years ago, the sect had reduced the application subsidy for departmental spirit stone funds. According to this distribution plan, it could barely support it."

"But now, the ministry's funding has been reduced to 100,000, and this plan is obviously out of date. There are only 30,000 spiritual stones, and the disciple salary alone is 20,000. There are only 10,000 spiritual stones left. How can it support the operation of the ministry?"

"Now this distribution plan has seriously affected the normal operation of the department. As the inspector of the department, I cannot sit idly by and ignore it. It is time to make changes."

Xu Yuan was slightly shocked when he heard what he said, and then he realized his true purpose of coming here.

He was silent for a while and said, "What are you going to do, Senior Brother Tang?"

Tangning flipped through her left hand and took out a file: "This is the financial standard I created. From now on, the financial funds of the department will be reallocated according to this method. What do you think?"

Xu Yuan took the file and read it carefully, and said thoughtfully: "If this is the case, I'm afraid Senior Brother Lu will not agree."

Tang Ning smiled slightly: "This is not something he can say. Although he is the deacon of the department, the intelligence department does not belong to him personally. If he insists on refusing, I will exercise the supervisory decision-making power to directly take over the department's finances and promote This plan.”

Xu Yuan remained silent. He knew that once he used his decision-making power, he would break his face and declare a confrontation.

The feud between Lu Guang and Tang Ning was known to everyone in the entire department. In order to compete for the position of deacon, Tang Ning was imprisoned. This matter was also a big deal and is still mentioned by disciples from time to time.

But there is no harmony. Over the years, the two have maintained a subtle tacit understanding. If an outsider who doesn't know the inside story looks at it, they may still think that the two have a good relationship.

Now that this new financial allocation plan is coming out, it is obviously aimed at Lu Guang and will inevitably cause a head-on collision between the two. Over the years, he has tried to maintain an impartial and neutral attitude between the two.

One is the deacon of the department, the other is the inspector of the department, behind the one is the headmaster, and behind the other is the master of Qingxuan Hall.

The two of them were evenly matched, and he didn't want to offend anyone, let alone get involved in the struggle between the sect's factions.

Although Luo Qingshui now serves as the head coach, who knows what will happen in the future! The so-called thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, the situation is changing.

The room fell into silence for a moment, and Tang Ning was not in a hurry, quietly waiting for his statement.

After a while, Xu Yuan said slowly: "I want to think more about this matter."

Tang Ning said: "I know you may think that the reform plan I proposed is aimed at Senior Brother Lu Guang. In fact, I don't mean this."

"Now that the ministry has reached this point, it is impossible not to carry out financial redistribution planning. My plan has taken into account the vast majority of people. As for a small number of people, they should also understand the general situation and make some corresponding concessions, Xu Junior brother, if you want to think about it, think about it carefully!”

"I will propose this plan at the next meeting, and I hope that Junior Brother Xu can support it. This is not for myself or to compete with anyone for power, but for the normal operation of the entire intelligence department."

After that, Tang Ning got up and left the room, heading back to the cave.

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A few days passed by in a flash, and it was time for the ministry to discuss matters.

In the main hall, Wei Xian, Xu Yuan, and Zhao Liheng were sitting upright. Tang Ning came in from the outside, nodded with a few others and took her seat.

Not long after, Lu Guang came, walked to the main seat and sat down and said: "Everyone is here, let's get started! There are two main things in this meeting. The first thing is that the captain of the third team applied for foundation construction. What do I mean? The third team disciple Ma Yuan temporarily takes over his duties, what do you junior fellow apprentices think?"

Naturally, everyone had no objections.

"No objection, Junior Brother Tang, you can announce the appointment later."

Tang Ning nodded slightly. Since Zhang Yan passed away a year ago, the position of the department manager in charge of the action team was vacant. Zhao Liheng, Wei Xian, and Xu Yuan were all in the early stages of foundation building.

According to the consistent rules of the Ministry, being in charge of specific matters of the Ministry requires at least a mid-level cultivation level, so Tang Ning will hold this position concurrently for the time being.

"The second thing is that the spiritual stone funds received by our department this year have been used up so far, but the disciples must be rewarded when they go out to perform tasks. I think it is the same as in previous years. The department will write the receipts for them first, and then next year After receiving the funds and the spiritual stones, I will distribute them together. What do you think, junior fellow apprentices?"

None of them objected.

Lu Guang said: "Then let's do this first. Junior Brother Tang, you will call the captains of the subordinate teams to inform the department of this decision later. Junior brothers, if you have nothing else to do, this discussion will end here!"

"Ahem, let me say a few words!" Tangning suddenly said.

"What's the matter with Junior Brother Tang?" Lu Guang turned to look at him.

Tang Ning said: "The department's spirit stone funds have been exhausted, but this year is not over yet. Many things need to be handled by the people below. It is impossible not to give rewards. As for Senior Brother Lu's proposal just now, we can use the written evidence as collateral to receive the spirit stones in the coming year. I don’t have any objection to the method of removing stones.”

"But, what should we do next year? There is only so much funding in total, and it will not increase for no reason. Next year's funding will pay off this year's debt, and the year after next will pay off next year's debt. Year after year, the hole will only get bigger and bigger. What? It’s time.”

"It has only been less than four years since the sect reduced its funding. I remember that in the first year, the scientific funding was exhausted at the end of October."

“In the second year, the funds ran out in August.”

"Last year, it was half July."

"What about this year! It's only May and the funds have been used up. What will happen next year?"

"The debts are getting bigger and bigger, and the holes are getting bigger and bigger. It's not an option to continue like this. We can't rely on the sect to recover its 150,000-year spiritual stone funding!"

"Everyone should know in their hearts that this is impossible. Under the current situation, funding will not increase, and may even decrease."

"I think we should come up with a way, one to make up for the shortcomings, and the other to make the department run normally, so as not to always give the disciples a piece of paper."

Lu Guang said: "Junior Brother Tang, do you have any good suggestions?"

Tang Ning said: "In view of the current situation and lack of funds, I think there is a problem with the financial allocation of the ministry. I think the 33322 allocation method is no longer suitable for the current operation of the ministry."

"There are no outsiders here, so let's get straight to the point! It's impossible to spend 30% of the 100,000 yuan for the disciples under any circumstances."

"Disciples need 20,000 spiritual stones for their salary alone. Our department has heavy tasks. No matter how hard we squeeze, 10,000 spiritual stones are not enough."

"I propose to re-plan and allocate funds for departments and departments."

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the palace. No one spoke to answer. You could hear a needle drop in the empty palace, and the air seemed to become a little solemn.