A few days passed by in a flash. On this day, Tang Ning was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed. There was a knock on the door outside. He opened his eyes and said calmly: "Come in."

Mu Tiancheng pushed the door open and walked in, bowing and saluting: "Uncle Master, Master Xu Qingwan from the Palm Print Department would like to see you."

"Invite her!"

"Yes." Mu Tiancheng responded and left. Not long after, Xu Qingwan came into the room. After bowing, the two sat opposite each other. Tang Ning said, "How is it? Have you finished checking the assets in the sect?"

Xu Qingwan flipped through her left hand and took out a stack of files: "This is the result of our investigation, which is almost the same as what was reported by various ministries."

Tang Ning took the file and looked through it. In fact, most departments within the sect had no fixed remaining assets. At most, they only had some talismans, magic weapons and other objects.

Only a few departments such as Herbaceae, Elixirology, and Spiritual Animal Husbandry have enough money.

Tang Ning read it carefully and had a rough understanding of the sect's assets.

Currently, there are a total of 2,300 magical weapons and 372 spiritual weapons in the sect.

There are 10,000 first-level talismans and one thousand, two hundred second-level talismans.

There are one hundred and twenty sets of first-level formation flags, and forty-three sets of second-level formation flags.

There are 2,500 bottles of first-level elixirs and 320 bottles of second-level elixirs.

There are thirty-five sets of first-level spiritual weapons and seven sets of second-level spiritual weapons.

The first-level medicinal herbs cost 35,000 beads, and the second-level medicinal herbs cost 5,400 beads.

There are also, for example, three thousand kilograms of Xuan Guang Stone, three hundred bottles of Xuan Yan Liquid, and one hundred carts of Yuan Yin Powder...

There are countless such materials for practice.

"I've thanked you for this period of time. Next, we need to inventory the assets outside the sect and register them one by one. Especially those shops, gambling houses, including various important resource areas. I think there should be a huge deficit here.

Big, the local officials will definitely conceal some information. You need to put more effort into getting the prepared data."

"I understand." Xu Qingwan nodded and said, "When are you going to implement the sect's financial changes."

Tang Ning said: "I forgot to tell you about this. During the last meeting, I proposed that Yuan Yidian directly release the spiritual stones, but they rejected it. Tomorrow, I plan to talk to the headmaster.

Winning his support. I have decided to make some changes to our original plan and am preparing to discuss it with you."

Xu Qingwan said: "What changes?"

Tang Ning said: "Implementing financial changes is not as simple as you and I think. It involves the interests of the upper echelons of the sect, so there is great resistance. It is probably impossible to achieve it in one step."

"Furthermore, I don't think the headmaster's intention is very supportive. When I talked about these things with him, he told me more than once that I should slow down and walk slower."

"If I rashly propose to directly reduce the funding by one million, even if the headmaster agrees, the other people in the palace will not agree."

"Because among the one million spirit stones, at least three or four hundred thousand were originally theirs. Although the sect had made many funding cuts before, it did not affect their interests. They just canceled the original subsidies for various departments.

Another amount of funding for various ministries and departments has been cut."

"Actually, they should get quite a bit, but this time it's different. Ministry funding has been reduced to very low levels."

"If this million goes down, if nothing goes out of the top, it may be difficult for the facial department below to function."

"Actually, the reason why Palace Master Luo waits for me to come to Yuan Yidian before implementing the sect's financial reform is because he wants to push me to the forefront. In this way, even if something goes wrong, it will be my responsibility and has nothing to do with him."

"Of course, there are some deeper considerations here that I won't go into. In short, he is now the hands-off shopkeeper and leaves all the matters to me. Even the distribution of spiritual stones for the sect's expenses this year has not been done by him.

Come back and let me make the decision directly."

"So I want to take a more compromise approach to make the opposition voice slightly smaller. I plan to put the one million yuan reduction in funds into the assessment and review."

"Aren't we going to encourage all the disciples of the sect to participate in the process of alchemy and weapon refining? I want to use these one million spiritual stones as an incentive to train a qualified Qi refining, elixir refining, and weapon making person in each hall and courtyard.

Fu disciples, I will return 10,000 spirit stones, and when I reach 100 qualified disciples, I will return 1 million spirit stones to them."

Xu Qingwan pondered: "In this case, wouldn't it mean that the funds have not been reduced?"

Tangning smiled and said: "Why is it not reduced? We will reduce it by one million first, and then return it one after another. During the process of returning, those disciples also cultivated their skills. They themselves can create the value of returning the spirit stones. This is a positive thing."

Suddenly, the reduced one million spiritual stones still remain unchanged?"

Xu Qingwan nodded and said: "I understand what you mean, but didn't the sect ask you to propose a plan to reduce the number of spiritual stones by two million?"

Tangning waved her hands and said, "Don't mention two million anymore. It's basically impossible. I've done my best to achieve this. I'm just a manager, and what I can do is really limited. Let them do the rest.

Do it yourself!”

"Okay, I will modify the plan according to your wishes." Xu Qingwan responded, stood up and left.

At noon the next day, Xu Qingwan sent over the revised dossier. The two discussed it for a while before she left.

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At nightfall, Tang Ning left the cave, and with the light rising, she came to Luo Qingshui's cave. She waved her hand and handed the talisman inside.

Not long after, the thick fog rolled, and a ray of light flashed out from inside, revealing a man with a fair face, bowing and saluting: "Master, please come in."

Tang Ning followed him into the inner room, went straight to Luo Qingshui's main room, stepped forward and saluted, "Disciple pays homage to the master."

"You're here, sit down!"

Tang Ning sat down as instructed, and Luo Qingshui said: "The inventory of the sect's assets is almost complete!"

"Yes, the inventory has been completed and registered."

"The next step of the sect's plan to train disciples to refine alchemy, refine qi, make talismans, and form formations should be carried out!"

"Yes, I have an idea and I came here to report it to the headmaster."

"Say it!"

"I want to simultaneously carry out the plan for the sect's disciples to learn skills and reduce the sect's financial expenditure. This is my preliminary plan. Please take a look at it." Tang Ning flipped it with her left hand, took out a file and handed it to him.

Luo Qingshui took the file, glanced at it and said with a smile: "Do you want to use one million spiritual stone funds as collateral to have each temple and academy hand over a hundred disciples with mature skills?"

Tang Ning said: "That's more or less what it means. Whether it's alchemy, weapon refining, talisman making, or array making, it's all tedious, time-consuming and labor-intensive. In fact, the disciples below may not be willing to really learn it, especially those who have reached the late stage of Qi refining.

Disciples are the main ones we want to cultivate."

"And most of these people are only thinking about building the foundation. They have to spend a lot of time on trivial matters such as elixir refining and weapon refining. There will definitely be a considerable number of people who are unwilling to do so, and the deacons of various departments may not fully cooperate with them to supervise them.

.”

"Now that the spiritual stone funds are used as collateral, whichever department cultivates a qualified disciple, we will permanently reward 10,000 spiritual stone funds. When the department's funds are involved, I believe they will be more motivated."

Luo Qingshui said: "Your idea is good, but I'm afraid it's not the right time to implement the budget reduction plan. Now the sect is confronting the Demon Sect in Yingxia Mountain. At this time, it's better to be still than to move. The frontline disciples are fighting against the Demon Sect. We are here

It is not appropriate for the rear to cut funds."

"It's better to wait for a while about the funding! Don't rush it, but train the disciples to make alchemy. The disciples who make weapons must do it as soon as possible. When are you going to start?"

Tang Ning said: "I will discuss with Senior Brother Zhuang tomorrow. If there are no problems with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, within three days, we can arrange for people to participate in the study of alchemy, qi refining, talisman making, and formation making techniques."

"I hope to form a separate team to carry out overall coordination work."

"Including the disciples selected from the Alchemy Department, the Weapon Technique Department, the Talisman Department, and the Formation Flag Department to teach skills and participate in the study, as well as the reserve personnel who specially provide them with raw materials, all join this team for unified command, so that I

I think the efficiency will be much higher.”

Luo Qingshui said: "This is a good idea. I will leave this matter to you. You are a highly skilled alchemist and the steward of Yuan Yidian. I think there is no one more suitable than you in the sect."

"No need to wait for tomorrow, I will invite Zhuang Xingqian here, and you can discuss a plan immediately! Tomorrow, I will summon the deacons from various departments to select disciples to join your coordinating team to learn skills."

"Here comes someone."

Luo Qingshui was obviously very concerned and interested in this matter. As soon as he finished speaking, a man from outside the house pushed the door open, bowed and said in salute, "What are your orders, Master?"

"Go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ask Zhuang Xinqian to come."

"Yes." The man responded, turned around and left the room.

After about a stick of incense, Zhuang Xinqian came in from the outside, bowed his head and took his seat.

Luo Qingshui said: "The inventory of the Yuan Yidian sect's assets has been completed. The next step is to let all the sect disciples participate in learning the skills of alchemy, weapon refining, talisman making, and formation making. There is no problem with the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

Zhuang Xinqian said: "I have told them a few days ago, asking them to step up their preparations. I want each department to send a steward and five skilled disciples to teach and teach the disciples of other departments in the sect."

Tang Ning said: "Five disciples from the three departments of Weapons, Talismans, and Formation Flags are about the same. But I hope to send a few more people to the Alchemy Department, because the main skill we teach to the disciples of the sect is alchemy."

"I think we should adopt a rotational form. Regardless of the elixirs, formation flags, weapons, and talismans, they cannot be accomplished overnight. They need to be accumulated over many years. At least they must be taught the most basic skills! And this one may require it.

It takes years.”

"I'm afraid a team with just a few people is not enough. I propose that in addition to deacons and supervisors, all disciples and stewards in these four departments should participate in the team that teaches and imparts skills."

"Divide them into four teams and take turns every three months. Only in this way can we ensure the efficiency of the sect's disciples' learning."
Chapter completed!