The Fourth Financial Crisis

Shopping malls are like battlefields.

When making business decisions, emotion is the most taboo thing.

Miss Qingning doesn't act like a qualified business leader at all, but more like a rich lady who does whatever she wants.

Yang Lu once worked for Qianyi Capital, a well-known private equity firm. The chairman of Qianyi Capital personally told him that entrepreneurs are the single most important factor in determining the success or failure of a company.

As the ace fund manager of Qianyi Capital, Yang Lu has personally interviewed the chairman of countless listed companies. If he encounters a company chairman with this kind of behavior, he will immediately blacklist the company permanently and never see him again. . With such a leader at the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, it’s a miracle that it didn’t go bankrupt!

Although he was complaining in his heart, Yang Lu did not show any dissatisfaction on the surface. He just smiled bitterly and said: "Since it is a difficult matter for Miss Qingning, I can only do my best."

Qingning himself seemed a little embarrassed to throw away the burden for new job seekers, and said with slightly red cheeks: "Actually, you just saw the thing. Our Qingning Chamber of Commerce is a licensed supplier of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, and we have large sums of money all year round. The pressure is on the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, but the Haiya Chamber of Commerce suddenly and without reason extended the settlement deadline, which caused a big problem in our capital turnover..."

Facts have proved that Miss Qingning's personality is not suitable for leading a company, but it does not mean that her IQ is not good. In terms of basic business literacy, she is actually pretty good.

Through her narration, Yang Lu also understood the main dilemma currently facing the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

Although the various forces in Haiya City are complicated, the most powerful one is undoubtedly the "Haiya Department" with the Golden Core Stage monks.

The Haiya Chamber of Commerce monopolizes the trade and transportation routes of the entire Haiya City, thus providing a steady stream of financial support to the Haiya Sect and providing valuable cultivation resources to the Haiya Sect cultivators;

Through the resource support of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, the Haiya Sect has cultivated a large number of cultivators who are loyal to the sect. With these cultivators as the backbone, they can firmly control the city lord's palace in Haiya City;

As the spokesperson of the local forces in Haiya City, the City Lord's Mansion provides a protective umbrella for Haiya Bank and Haiya Chamber of Commerce, preventing other forces from directly intervening in the huge interests of sea trade. At the same time, it can protect one party and accumulate merit for the cultivators of Haiya Sect;

The Haiya Chamber of Commerce can penetrate its influence into the financial field through Haiya Bank. Even the Haiya Pavilion where Yang Lu stayed last night is a high-end banquet venue run by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, the "Haiya System" is a powerful local interest group established based on the maritime trade business in eastern Zhongzhou.

What is even more commendable is that the Haiya Sect did not inflate itself because of its strong strength, but honestly transferred the core tariff collection power to the Wuliang Sword Sect for free in exchange for the recognition of the Wuliang Sword Sect, the overlord of Zhongzhou. and support.

As the leader of the seven major sects in Kyushu, the Wuliang Sword Sect has ruled Zhongzhou for countless years. However, the rule of the Wuliang Sword Sect has a fatal weakness, that is, there is a serious shortage of cultivators.

Mortals with cultivation qualifications are only one in a thousand, and the Wuliang Sword Sect has a very high entry barrier. It is more difficult to recruit new disciples than ordinary sects.

Even if the birthplace of the Wuliang Sword Sect covers the entire Zhongzhou, the entire sect only has more than 20,000 monks in total. With just these people, it is obviously not enough to effectively rule Zhongzhou, which is larger than the earth.

It is precisely because of the shortage of cultivators that for the sect's finances of the Wuliang Sword Sect, the cost of tax collection has become an issue that must be considered - that is, how to collect the most taxes with the least manpower.

In response to this very real dilemma, the Wuliang Sword Sect was forced to adopt the strategy of a tax collector, focusing only on the core economic lifeline of Zhongzhou, entrusting all local governance rights to local forces like Haiya City, and charging these places The tribute paid by the power.

However, there is a huge hidden danger in the tax collector policy, that is, unsupervised local forces are likely to slowly develop into local lawless emperors.

The Infinite Sword Sect is far away from the sky and the emperor, and cannot go to the local forces to check the accounts. Even if it sends special personnel to inspect the local areas, there is still the possibility that the inspectors will collude with the local forces.

For a long time, the Wuliang Sword Sect has been studying new tax sources.

In addition to the tributes from vassal sects, customs duties are obviously one of the lowest-cost taxes to collect. Even after the British colonists opened the door to the Qing Dynasty, the first department they took over was the customs.

The Haiya Sect has painstakingly managed a huge ocean-going trade network across Kyushu, but it has transferred the most important tariff collection rights to the Wuliang Sword Sect for free, which is undoubtedly a great gift to the financial department of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

This kind of sensible behavior naturally won the full support of the Wuliang Sword Sect's financial department [Du Zhi Tang], and the Wu Liang Sword Sect's special trade representative Lu Anping was the tax commissioner sent by Du Zhi Tang to Haiya City to collect customs duties.

There is the protective umbrella of the senior officials of the Infinite Sword Sect, and there are interest groups formed by local forces below.

The entire Haiya system has almost dominated Haiya City. Even if external forces want to enter Haiya City, they must act in accordance with the rules set by Haiya City. Although the Qingning Chamber of Commerce has a mysterious background, it is obviously unable to challenge the authority of the Haiya system.

As a monopoly of ocean trade, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce’s position in the industrial chain is extremely strong, and it has also seriously misappropriated the interests of upstream and downstream chambers of commerce. In particular, the payments of upstream and downstream suppliers are basically tied to Haiya Bank for a long time. will be actually issued. As a supplier of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, it is not uncommon for the Qingning Chamber of Commerce to be owed payment.

But recently, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce suddenly extended the payment deadline without any reason, which caught the Qingning Chamber of Commerce off guard.

In order to deliver the goods required for export to the Haiya Chamber of Commerce in a timely manner, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce needs to dispatch expatriates to major commercial centers in Zhongzhou to raise export products of Zhongzhou specialties. Whether it is the acquisition of these commodity inventories or the salary of expatriate personnel, it will put pressure on the Qingning Chamber of Commerce's capital chain.

Normally, this kind of thing would not be considered a fatal injury. However, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce suddenly announced recently that the economic situation in Donghuang Prefecture has been turbulent, which has brought difficulties to the sales of Zhongzhou's export commodities in Donghuang Prefecture. The Haiya Chamber of Commerce must reserve more cash to cope with the uncertainty of the foreign trade situation.

It is under this banner that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce increased its efforts to seize funds from the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, causing the Qingning Chamber of Commerce to be financially overwhelmed.

The Qingning Chamber of Commerce has also requested funds from other chambers of commerce in Haiya City, but other chambers of commerce have stated that the current foreign trade situation is unclear, and Haiya merchants may have to press their own payments in the future and refuse to provide financial support to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

In response to the unreasonable behavior of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, Miss Qingning has sent people to negotiate with the Lord of Haiya City many times, trying to make the Haiya Chamber of Commerce comply with the "Zhongzhou Sect Management Regulations" formulated by the Wuliang Sword Sect and the "Haiya Sect" formulated by the Haiya Sect. "City Management Measures".

However, the clerks at the Haiya City Lord's Palace were obviously experts in the field of football. The employees of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce who were sent to communicate were sent back inexplicably without even knowing which department was specifically responsible for the matter.

This is why Miss Qingning was so dissatisfied with her staff that she even broke up her most beloved spiritual tree case.

Yang Lu once interned at the Central Bank and was no stranger to the work style of bureaucrats. Upon hearing this situation, Yang Lu immediately smelled something was wrong.