The Fourth Financial Crisis

The main palace of Haiya City is located in the center of Haiya City.

Unlike the courtyard-style building layout of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, the City Lord's Mansion is an oriental tower with a rather fantastic architectural style.

Its total height is dozens of meters, and it is also the highest building in the entire Haiya City. From a mechanical structure point of view, this tower is quite close to a modern high-rise building, but it has a gable-shaped roof with very oriental characteristics. It’s as if modern designers have forcibly added antique elements to their architectural works.

Nearly half of the civil servants of the City Lord's Palace in the entire Haiya City area work in this strange-style high-rise building.

In the Jiuzhou cultivation world, the time of cultivators with cultivation qualifications is very precious, and they will definitely not be too involved in the mundane affairs of the city lord's mansion. Therefore, similar to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, except for some at the top of the city lord's mansion who are "cultivating merit" Cultivators and most of the staff in the City Lord's Mansion are just ordinary mortals.

According to Li Qingning, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce unilaterally extended the delivery period of accounts payable, which is suspected of disrupting normal business order. According to the provisions of the "Zhongzhou Sect Management Regulations" and the "Haiya City Management Measures", the Haiya City Lord's Palace must do this Matters will be dealt with seriously.

If Miss Li Qingning comes to collect debts in person, the Haiya City Lord's Palace will definitely send cultivators to receive her equally. But if a mortal chamber of commerce employee like Yang Lu comes forward, they can only negotiate with the mortal civil servants of the City Lord's Palace.

Fortunately, the senior officials of the Wuliang Sword Sect have always promoted themselves as "the rule of law in Zhongzhou", and even the Haiya Sect cannot openly confront them. Therefore, even if the Haiya Sect really intends to harm the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, they will never leave any evidence on the bright side. .

This gave Yang Lu the opportunity to find a breakthrough!

Of course, the senior leaders of the Haiya Sect are not fools. As the saying goes, "There are policies from above and countermeasures from below." No matter which world the central government makes decisions, as long as there is no personal supervision by a big leader, many inexplicable problems will occur at the local level.

Local commercial disputes like the Qingning Chamber of Commerce are simply trivial matters for the Wuliang Sword Sect that rules the entire Zhongzhou. Precisely because the Wuliang Sword Sect has no time to take care of such trivial matters, the Haiya Sect has also figured out a set of rules that are both overt and treacherous. The method is specially used to fool the Wuliang Sword Sect's requirement of "rule of law in Zhongzhou".

In order to deal with commercial disputes such as the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, the Haiya City Lord's Palace has set up three functional departments that are not subordinate to each other.

There is a General Affairs Department that is responsible for communicating with major chambers of commerce, an Arbitration Department that is specifically responsible for commercial arbitration, and an Ocean Trading Department that is specifically responsible for coordinating maritime trade business.

On the surface, all three departments appear to be in charge.

But this is exactly the biggest problem!

According to Yang Lu's work experience, in any bureaucratic organization that relies on systems to do things, if there are many people who can take care of something, it means that even if something goes wrong, no specific person will be responsible. And if something goes wrong and no specific person is responsible, then it is impossible for anyone to take care of it from the beginning!

As the saying goes, "Many people are responsible means no one is responsible." Haiya School can clearly 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 something happens to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, you will suddenly find that as long as Jiang Hua'an, the lord of Haiya City, does not personally come forward to coordinate the matter, none of these three departments will be useful!

Therefore, Haiya City only seemed to be doing things according to the rules, but the actual power was still firmly in the hands of the city lord Jiang Hua'an himself.

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

Although Yang Lu had seen the essence of the matter very clearly, he still submitted Li Qingning's name cards to these three departments.

Seeing Yang Lu's regular way of doing things, Butler Zhou couldn't help but said with disdain: "I wondered if you had any special abilities, but I didn't expect that you still have to go to these yamen. Our Qingning Chamber of Commerce has done this kind of thing many times. All over, it’s useless!”

"As the saying goes, everything depends on people. If different people do the same thing, the results will be very different!"

Butler Zhou obviously didn't believe Yang Lu's statement, and pouted repeatedly: "I think you are a tough-talking guy. If you fail to complete the task, you will be kicked out by the eldest lady herself!"

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

It's useless to explain this kind of thing. In the final analysis, the facts still have to speak for themselves. Even if he talks nonsense now and fails to get anything done in the end, he is just humiliating himself.

While the two were talking, they had already arrived at the large office of the General Affairs Department of the Lord's Mansion of Haiya City.

The decoration style of the General Affairs Department's office is quite similar to that of a large antique oriental study. More than ten long mahogany tables with simple shapes are lined up along the wall, separated from each other by embroidered screens. Each long table is stacked with Thick documents.

When Yang Lu visited, there were about seven or eight staff members working at their desks in this classic office. Since there was no printer, the staff were all concentrating on splashing ink without knowing what they were doing.

There are also several long cases without staff behind them. Reminiscent of the fact that the General Affairs Department is responsible for communicating with major chambers of commerce, these staff who are not at their desks are most likely out for field work.

Seeing the clerks busy writing, Yang Lu couldn't help but curl his lips and said: "Everyone said that the Wuliang Sword Sect attaches great importance to leaving traces, and no matter what they do, they must leave a work ledger. Today, when I saw it, it was indeed well-deserved."

Butler Zhou said helplessly: "It's just a formality to deal with inspections. The time of a cultivator is so precious. The immortal master sent by Wuliangjian to inspect local work cannot personally inspect the work at the grassroots level! He can only inspect these tasks. There is a ledger. Having a work ledger does not necessarily mean that the work is done well, but without a work ledger, the work is definitely not done well.”

While the two were chatting softly, Yang Lu also handed over Li Qingning's name card. The person in charge of receiving them was a middle-aged man with a lazy expression. Judging from the way he reluctantly got up from his seat, it was obvious that he was that A kind of traditional government employee who just comes to work and is waiting to get off work.

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

Yang Lu didn't care about the other party's perfunctory attitude, but handed over his hand and said: "As for the Haiya Chamber of Commerce's default in payment to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, we plan to make a formal complaint to the Haiya City Lord's Palace. Since you are the main person responsible for connecting with the major chambers of commerce, People, I guess they should know the ins and outs of this matter.”

The clerk of the General Affairs Department nodded reluctantly and said: "Our General Affairs Department is responsible for the communication and coordination of major chambers of commerce. Of course we know about this matter. You have also approached me many times... But you should know very well what our situation is. !”

Yang Lu then said politely: "Since you know this matter, why can't the matter be resolved for so long?"

The clerk of the General Affairs Department did not answer the question directly, but picked up a thick stack of documents from the desk: "I have answered this question many times. Since you still come to ask, I will answer it again. According to As for the functional division of labor in our General Affairs Department, we are only responsible for liaison work with major chambers of commerce. We are a pure communication and coordination department and have no authority to directly intervene in this matter. This is clearly stated in our department charter! "

Yang Lu took the document and found that "Functional Plan of the General Affairs Department of Haiya City Lord's Mansion" was written on the cover. This should be the official name of the departmental charter of the General Affairs Department. The thickness of this department charter is close to that of a book, with 47 pages.

Randomly glancing at the contents, Yang Lu found that between the lines of the department's charter, all the words "comprehensive promotion, overall planning, practical attention, in-depth implementation, strict control, unswerving, consolidate and improve, pay close attention to implementation, and significantly improve" High-end words such as ", proactive, upright and innovative, and responsible".

He suddenly had a strong feeling: this kind of document was not written for him to read!