The Fourth Financial Crisis

When Yang Lu returned to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, Li Qingning was already waiting for him eagerly in the reception room.

However, in the reception room of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce at this time, not only Li Qingning himself, but also Ji Sihan and He Mingyuan, two senior professional managers under Yang Lu and senior corruption masters, were also eagerly waiting for his return.

During the time when Yang Lu and Li Qingning participated in the battlefield outside the territory, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce was in a state of panic.

After all, the Cultivation Chamber of Commerce is dependent on cultivators and cultivator families. If Li Qingning and Yang Lu accidentally stumble on the battlefield outside the territory, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce will lose the meaning of its existence.

If it weren't for Butler Zhou who was in charge of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce headquarters, and Xu Yannan also sent two registered disciples in the Qi Refining Period to Yangjiang Port, and also hired Chen Ping to help guard the gate (this unlearned guy didn't know anything except guarding the gate) will do other things), indirectly expressed Jindaomen's support for the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. There are already a large number of employees in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce who are ready to find another company to take over.

Even so, without the strong restraint of He Mingyuan and Ji Sihan, I am afraid that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce would have been in chaos during this period.

As soon as the overseas battlefield ended, Yang Lu received a message from Butler Zhou. While introducing the recent situation of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, he also specially praised the two "loyal ministers and good generals" promoted by Yang Lu.

Butler Zhou is also a veteran cultivator who has experienced many battles. Although he has no actual management experience, he has never eaten pork and has seen pigs run away. He can still roughly distinguish the level of managerial ability.

It is quite remarkable to be able to maintain the normal operation of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce in the absence of the two main backbones of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

If Butler Zhou only admired Yang Lu's management ability before, now he is also completely convinced by Yang Lu's vision of people.

It often takes decades of long accumulation for other chambers of commerce to cultivate talents, but Yang Lu was able to pick out people from the Qingning Chamber of Commerce just like pulling a carrot, and selected two management masters who combined theory and practice.

What’s even more unbelievable is that not long ago, these two were the most ruthless corrupt criminals in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce!

After Yang Lu returned to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, the first thing he did was to hand over work to He Mingyuan and Ji Sihan.

When He Mingyuan and Ji Sihan learned that Yang Lu was back, they both paid great attention to it and called their direct team members over to warmly welcome him. When Yang Lu arrived at the reception room of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, their subordinates were like The civil and military ministers in the court were arranged on both sides of the conference room, with a sense of boundaries between wells and rivers.

Seeing that Li Qingning sat in the second seat of the reception room very consciously, leaving herself the center seat, Yang Lu did not be polite to her, smiled at the eldest lady, and sat directly on the main seat.

Glancing at He Mingyuan and Ji Sihan, who were too angry to say anything, Yang Lu first waved to the wretched Ji Sihan: "Aren't you going to report to me? Don't be so formal, let's just discuss the matter! Luan Shicheng Mine is Qingning Chamber of Commerce is the most important asset in Zhongzhou, so please ask Manager Ji to report it in advance."

Luanshi City is a city founded on mining. It is located in the coastal hills to the north of Haiya City. The entire city was built along a huge, crater-like circular mine, presenting a funnel-shaped urban layout with a low center and high sides. , forming a perfect equilateral triangle with Haiya City and Tianshu City due west of Haiya City.

It was precisely because Luanshi City was not far from Haiya City that Ji Sihan was able to take two days to lead his men by boat down the Qinglan River and return to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce headquarters to stand by before Yang Lu returned to Haiya City.

Luanshi Hills is rich in a variety of completely different types of minerals. In addition to pyrite and copper-zinc ores similar to those on the earth, a basic metal unique to the Kyushu cultivation world - black iron - can also be found in the veins here.

Dark iron is a commonly used material for casting low-level magic weapons. The standard flying swords of the disciples of the Haiya Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect are all made of dark iron. This kind of dark iron is different from any element known to the earth. Yang Lu didn't even know Whether this thing is a metal compound or a metal element, this cultivation metal has a magical property: it can infuse the cultivator's spiritual consciousness and mana into it, allowing the cultivator to manipulate items made of black iron like a part of the body freely.

In the Jiuzhou cultivation world, there are many metals with similar properties. Fire Cloud Fine Gold, a specialty of Huoyun Prefecture Hongshi Nature Reserve, is one of them, but Xuantie has the largest reserves and the cheapest price among this type of cultivation metal. It exists, and almost 80% of the magic weapons in the Qi refining period will use it as one of the main materials to some extent.

After countless years of mining, the surface veins of the rocky hills have been nearly exhausted.

In order to dig out more black iron ore, Guyun Sect, the overlord of Luanshi City, began to dig underground tunnels in the past few thousand years, and dug a huge artificial mine system directly under Luanshi City.

With the large-scale mining of ores, every few years, there will be branch veins that are abandoned by the Guyun Sect due to the decline in mineral quality. The Guyun Sect is digging deeper and further into the mines every moment. Look for rich mineral resources with higher mining value.

The Xuantie Mine acquired by the Qingning Chamber of Commerce is a shallow branch vein of the Luanshicheng mine system. After hundreds of years of continuous mining, the quality of its mineral deposits has declined to the point where it is difficult to maintain the mine's profit and loss balance.

As a standard labor-intensive industry, even if the ore veins of the Cultivation World can rely on the power of the Immortal Formation to cut and transport the ore, the sorting of the ore still requires a large amount of mortal labor. Whether a mine like this at the break-even point can be profitable is very important. Test the refined management capabilities of the mine management.

As long as you are not careful, you will spend several years in vain.

Although Ji Sihan has not been in charge of Yang Lu's mine for a long time, and has only been in charge of it for half a year, he was originally a senior manager of the mine and was very familiar with the mine's ins and outs. If he had If you work hard, after such a long time, you should almost achieve staged results.

Yang Lu had never doubted Ji Sihan's abilities. Not only was Manager Ji strong in his own abilities, he also had a powerful mine management team under his command. Not only was this management team extremely efficient, but when they were smuggling ore and reselling them, they He could even kill people, silence them, destroy corpses and eliminate traces, and continuously defeated several investigative operations organized by He Mingyuan.

A management team with such operational capabilities can be regarded as the elite among the elite on Earth. Even a regular army would find it difficult to mobilize such suicide squad members who "sacrifice their lives for profit."

In order to give a gift to Consultant Yang, Ji Sihan had tried his best in the past six months.

When he heard that Yang Lu was the first to call him to report on his work, Ji Sihan immediately perked up and quickly said, "Consultant Yang, our Xuantie Mine has made great achievements in the past six months!"

"Oh? Come and listen!"

"Although there are currently only 2,218 mortal miners employed in our mines, 188 fewer than last year, our ore production in the past six months has reached 80% of last year's full year, excluding operating costs and Immortal Formation assets. Taking into account depreciation and three major expenses, the net profit in the first half of the year is expected to exceed 100,000 spirit stone coins!"