Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis

Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis Chapter 98

2022-04-02

Chapter 98 Mine Corruption Case

Facts have proved that He Mingyuan is indeed capable.

Although he failed to capture the suspect in the Luanshicheng Xuantie Mine, in just a few days, he had already figured out the situation of the Luanshicheng Mine.

As everyone knows, Luanshi City is known for its mineral richness in Central Plains.

The Xuantie Mine acquired by Li Qingning originally belonged to Cloud Sect, the overlord of Luanshi City. It's just that this mysterious iron mine has entered a period of exhaustion, and even if a lot of manpower is invested in mining, it can only get a meager profit.

If it is Earth's black-hearted capitalists, they can completely squeeze workers to death and squeeze profits by reducing costs infinitely, but Nine Provinces cultivation world will not allow this to happen.

The reason is simple, the population of mortals is related to the speed at which the cultivator accumulates merit.

The cultivation forces in Central Plains are like local officials in China, and the population is the biggest KPI of the cultivation sect in these places. Therefore, the sects in all major places attach great importance to social governance and hope to attract more mortals. population.

Like the culture sect with poor social governance, not only will the Immeasurable Sword Sect be punished, but the local mortals will also vote with their feet to leave the area controlled by this Sect and go to the cultivation sect with a higher standard of living. range migration.

The reason why the Seacliff Sect can become the strongest cultivation force in the nearby area, suppressing the solitary Cloud Sect and the Shanying faction, is because the mortal living standard and population of the mortals in the seacliff area are much lower than those of Tianshu. Both City and Luanshi City have absolute advantages, thus providing Seacliff Sect with more cultivation seeds and sources of merit.

If the living conditions of the miners in Luanshi City were too miserable, and even a large number of miners were killed, the local mortals would definitely migrate to the neighboring Seacliff City and Tianshu City with better living conditions. Sect absolutely impossible to sit back and watch this happen!

So different from Earth's binary game of laborer-capitalist, the cultivation world is actually a three-dimensional game of laborer-capitalist-cultivator. Capitalists oppress laborers, laborers kidnap cultivators, and cultivators supervise capitalists.

The three use each other, and then check and balance each other.

Therefore, as a labor-intensive industry, managing mines has always been very difficult for cultivation capital.

Under the circumstance that the capital cannot act wilfully, as long as the management of the Xuantie Mine is slightly oversight, the mining profits will be completely wiped out, and there may even be a huge loss in turn.

And mine management happens to be the most complicated in all industries!

From the time when the ore is mined to the final sale and conversion into profit, there are not only many intermediate links, but also many people who handle it.

The senior management of the mine may be corrupt, and the middle-level sales and procurement personnel will also be tricky, and even the grass-roots miners have the conditions to be petty. The largest diamond factory in Earth, De Beers-Botswana Diamond Factory, is specially set up. Five complex security inspection procedures were carried out, and each entry and exit took up to half an hour.

This is not to prevent thieves and robbery, but to prevent front-line workers from embezzling high-grade diamonds!

As long as the management is slightly lax, this kind of mining enterprise will fall into the dilemma of leaking air from all sides...

According to He Mingyuan's research on grass-roots miners, the corruption of Luanshicheng Xuantie Mine The problem existed as early as the management period of Gu Cloud Sect, but Luanshicheng is the home of Gu Cloud Sect after all, and the overall corruption situation is still controllable.

However, due to the fact that the management resources invested and the profits obtained are not directly proportional, Gu Cloud Sect finally chose to give up this mysterious iron mine, which was about to be exhausted and had a very low gross profit margin, and sold it to the company. Li Qingning, a foreign businessman.

Previously, Gu Cloud Sect always took a high-pressure attitude towards corrupt personnel, so Luanshicheng Mine could barely make any profit or lose money. The iron ore mines are completely gone.

Having lost the home court supervision of the local tyrant, the corruption of the Xuantie Mine can already be described as regardless of the law and of natural morality.

What's even worse is that the lone Cloud Sect staff who was in charge of supervising the Xuantie Mine, even in turn, directly colluded with the corrupt personnel inside the mine, and completely emptied the entire mine by cooperating with the inside and the outside. .

The corruption tactics of these gangsters are very simple and crude, that is, they directly regard high-grade ore as low-grade ore, sell it to ore traders at low prices, and then take huge rebates from traders in turn. .

This is a clumsy maneuver, but it's hard to find real evidence.

However, He Mingyuan found a key breakthrough in the case from the Seacliff City Commodity Exchange.

According to He Mingyuan's judgment, no matter where these ore traders buy the black iron ore, they will eventually pull the black iron ore to Seacliff City, the trade center city, for shipment.

Because they have no other shipping location to choose from.

No matter which world it is in, commodity trading has obvious regional agglomeration. Whether it is a commodity buyer or a seller, they all want to do transactions in the place with the largest commodity throughput. The larger the commodity throughput in a certain place, the more fair the transaction price is, the smaller the information asymmetry between buyers and sellers, and the less likely it is to be Cut leeks.

Even if Earth is such a huge global market, there are only two major crude oil trading markets, Brent and U.S. oil, and only two major gold and silver trading markets, London and COMEX. Copper, aluminum, nickel, Zinc is basically only one in London.

Even without physical foreign exchange transactions, the turnover of a city in London occupies one third in the world.

Just like London and New York started out because of ports and trade, Seacliff City has naturally become the largest commodity trade distribution center in the eastern part of Central Plains by virtue of its location advantage of overseas trade routes.

The place where Yang Lu was attacked by the Tingheyu Pavilion killer was the storage yard of the Great Chamber of Commerce goods.

These cargo yards covering several square kilometers are stacked with various commodities worth tens of billions of Origin Spirit Stone Coins all year round. This massive commodity inventory also constitutes various types of commodities in Seacliff City. Priced Sea Calming Divine Needle and Pricing Anchor.

No one, not even the Seacliff Department, can manipulate a commodity market with such a high volume of traffic!

This is why everyone says that the [Sea Cliff Price Index] compiled by Xu Yannan is the most authoritative currency price index in the entire Central Plains, and it can even indicate the balance of currency supply and demand in the entire culture world to a certain extent. .

As the most common raw material for Qi Refinement Realm's Flying Sword, black iron ore has always been a commodity that every Great Sect must purchase.

Just like Earth government procurement needs to strictly prevent the procurement personnel from favoritism and fraud, the Great Sects in the Central Plains southeast part basically require the procurement personnel to purchase at the market price in Seacliff City in order to prevent their own Sect procurement personnel from stealing.

The open price and open transaction records can minimize procurement corruption, which is why X East self-operated has become the designated procurement channel for units at all levels in recent years.

For example, Seacliff Sect stipulates that when the Seacliff Sect Artifact Refining Hall purchases raw materials, the time from the issuance of the purchase order to the completion of the purchase shall not exceed three days. Price shall prevail.

If the actual purchase price is higher than the benchmark price, Seacliff Sect will deduct the purchaser's performance bonus accordingly. If the actual purchase price is lower than the benchmark price, 50% of the remaining part will be included in the purchaser's performance bonus .

For these ancient culture sects with a history of tens of thousands of years, this is the most basic incentive and restraint mechanism formed in the process of Sect management, and it is also the institutional foundation for the existence of each Great Sect. Like the Ancient Sect, which has been developed for tens of thousands of years in some online articles, the management level is still primordial like a soil workshop. This situation does not exist in the Nine Provinces cultivation world.

(end of this chapter)