Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Yin Qingyuan smiled: "The financial reduction plan is the responsibility of Yuan Yidian, and I have no right to participate. I know that the Intelligence Section has heavy tasks and great responsibilities, but this matter is not under my coordination. To be honest, let alone you, even My personal funds have been reduced.”

Lu Guangdao: "Disciple knows that this matter is not under the jurisdiction of my uncle. However, we have difficulties in scientific research. We also ask my uncle to say a few words for us when discussing matters in the sect. If we reduce it by ten or twenty thousand, there is nothing to say, but This is too much of a loss.”

"There are six departments under the Secret Academy, but we alone have reduced our number by 50,000. It's hard to justify."

"Although our funds are a bit high, we can handle a lot of things. We are responsible for the intelligence of the entire Chu State and even Xingang. If we don't feed the people below, who is willing to do such a deed?"

"If we all fail to do our best, we will end up losing more than tens of thousands of spiritual stones."

Yin Qingyuan smiled and said: "No one is willing to reduce the funding for spiritual stones, but the sect is indeed financially tight. There is nothing we can do about it. If this continues, I'm afraid we won't even be able to pay out salaries. You have your difficulties, sect The sect also has difficulties. I will talk to Yuan Yidian about the information department, but it is not up to me to decide whether it will be useful. "

"Thank you, uncle. Disciple, I will leave."

Yin Qingyuan nodded slightly.

The two stood up and left the cave. Lu Guang said: "Junior brother Tang, please go to the Headmaster's office, and I'll go to Uncle Shi."

The two then parted ways.

Not long after Tang Ning's trip, she arrived in front of Luo Qingshui Cave. With a wave of her hand, the talisman disappeared into the room.

Soon, the thick fog rolled in, and a ray of light flashed out. Yang Chang bowed his head and saluted: "Senior Brother Tang, master, please come in."

The two of them came to a hall and made an appointment to have tea. Luo Qingshui came in from the outside. Tangning stood up and saluted: "Disciple pays homage to the master."

"You're here, sit down! Why are you here?" Luo Qingshui walked to the main seat and sat down, and asked.

Tang Ning sat down as he was told: "This disciple has taken the liberty of bothering Master Uncle Qing Xiu because of the reduction of departmental funds. Senior Brother Lu Guang and his disciples just went to visit Master Yin to discuss this matter in detail. He suggested that I come to you, and he went I’m looking for Uncle Shi, hoping to get more funds.”

Luo Qingshui smiled and said: "Back then, it was him who manipulated you behind the scenes when you were imprisoned. Why are you still being instigated by him today to come to my place to lobby?"

Tang Ning said: "Didn't my uncle say that? The reason why the disciple was imprisoned was because he acted carelessly and was no different from others. To be honest, although the disciple has resentment towards Lu Guang, it is not to the point of deliberately being an enemy. situation.”

"If it's his personal selfishness, let alone helping him, I would like to throw rocks at him and step on him."

Luo Qingshui smiled after hearing this.

Tang Ning continued: "But this matter is a public matter of the Intelligence Department and concerns everyone in the department. As a supervisor of the department, how can I stand by and ignore it? Things that harm others but do not benefit oneself are ordinary things. A smart person wouldn’t do it, let alone hurt others and himself!”

"Although I am stubborn, I have not reached this point yet. As far as the reduction plan is concerned, once the funding for fifty thousand spiritual stones is reduced, I personally think it is too much!"

Luo Qingshui said: "It's good that you can separate public and private matters. I agree with Yuan Yidian's plan to reduce finances. Of course, they will handle the specific matters."

"Let me tell you the truth! Junior Brother Peng talked to me about this matter when he was first appointed as the head coach. I promised him not to interfere in this matter and would fully support him."

"It's not just you, the funds of everyone in the sect have been reduced accordingly, even me, the headmaster, has been the same."

"You came to me today, you are in the wrong door. Only Junior Brother Peng can make the decision on this matter. You can only help me by asking him."

Tangning understood. It seemed that when Peng Wanli publicly supported Luo Qingshui as the head coach in the last few days, they must have reached some kind of agreement in private: "In that case, the disciple resigned."

Luo Qingshui nodded, and Tang Ning exited the cave and came to the meeting hall.

About a quarter of an hour later, Lu Guang also came and asked, "How is it? What did the headmaster say?"

"There is no other way. Only Uncle Peng has the final say on this matter. What is Uncle Shi's attitude?"

Lu Guang shook his head.

Tang Ning had already expected that Shi Mingsui was the master of the Qingxuan Palace and was in charge of the sect's personnel. How could he interfere with the sect's finances? Moreover, the subordinate departments of Qingxuan Palace have also cut their funding. It is too late for him to visit Qingxuan Palace, and he is even more worried about the Intelligence Department. This matter has nothing to do with him. With Lu Guang's little face, it is impossible to persuade him.

"It seems there is nothing we can do. It is inevitable to reduce the funding of ministries and departments. How will the funding of ministries and departments be adjusted in the future?"

"Let's stick to the old method! Three, three, two, two distribution methods."

"If there are only 30,000 spirit stones, I'm afraid it won't be enough no matter how you calculate it."

"Just reduce the operational budget a little bit."

Tang Ning frowned slightly and said nothing. The two talked for a while and then left.

Tang Ning went directly to the alchemy room. Since the clam shells had fallen off the branches and leaves of the fairy mother-of-pearl clam, she didn't know if it could grow again.

Therefore, he focused his main energy on alchemy, spending only a few hours a day irrigating the pearl oysters and spending most of his time in the alchemy room.

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Time flies, and several years have passed.

In the past few years, his alchemy skills have become more and more proficient, and the success rate of the Vitality Pill has reached 70 to 80%. During this period, he also tried to refine the Strengthening Pill dozens of times.

But he still hasn't been able to successfully refine a complete elixir. It should be said that there is a far cry from it.

Every pill has turned into a puddle of powder before the main ingredient is inhaled. In the eyes of outsiders, there is no difference between refining the Vitality Pill and the Strengthening Pill. They are both using the same method to control the spiritual fire.

In fact, they are far from each other, and the delicate balance between them is difficult to explain to outsiders.

Whether it is the neutralization of the medicinal properties, the solubility of the pills, or the control skills of the spiritual fire, all the balances are far beyond the comparison of the Vitality Pill. Therefore, for so many years, he has not succeeded once.

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At Xiuyuan Peak, in front of the elixir department's shop, a ray of light fell, revealing the figure of a handsome man. It was Tang Ning. He came here directly after leaving the alchemy room to buy and sell some elixirs.

In the wooden house, a round-faced man was sitting cross-legged. He was Duan Zhengtang, a newly promoted foundation-building monk in the Alchemy Department.

Sensing someone entering, he opened his eyes, stood up and said, "Senior Brother Tang, you are here again. Are you buying elixirs this time, or selling elixirs?"

In the past few years, Tang Ning has often come to this peak to sell the vitality pills she refined, so all the managers of the pill department know that he is such a powerful person.

Tangning flipped her left hand and took out bottles of elixirs from her storage bag. There were forty bottles in total: "Junior Brother Duan, please calculate how many spirit stones you have!"

Duan Zhengtang took the pill bottles, opened the bottle caps, inspected them carefully, nodded and said: "There are a total of 1,200 vitality pills and 48,000 spirit stones. Senior Brother Tang, do you need anything else? "

The market price of the Vitality Pill is fifty spirit stones, but if it is sold privately to a shop, the market price is 20% lower, so it is sold for forty spirit stones.

Tang Ning said: "No, just give me the spirit stone!"

"Okay, please wait a moment." Duan Zhengtang asked his disciples to guard the shop, then he left the room and turned into light.

About a quarter of an hour later, he returned here, pulled out a storage bag and said, "A total of 48,000 spirit stones."

Tangning took the storage bag, entered it with her consciousness, and checked it out.

Duan Zhengtang said with a smile: "Senior Brother Tang has refined so many Yuan Qi Pills in less than half a year. His skills are quite perfect. I think you might as well just come to our Pill Department. Sooner or later, you will be the deacon." of."

Tang Ning said: "It's just a trivial skill, but An Gan can do it all. If he hadn't been short of money, he wouldn't have delayed his practice and went to make elixirs."

At his current level, there is no problem in refining twenty or thirty Vitality Pills every day, but he needs to spend part of his time irrigating the pearl oysters and meditating to restore the depleted spiritual energy.

Therefore, after half a year, I only refined more than a thousand pills.

"Senior Brother Tang, why should you be too modest? We both know that without decades of hard work, you cannot reach this level. Refining alchemy is not something that can be accomplished overnight."

The two chatted for a while, and Tang Ning left the room and came to the meeting hall.

When the disciples on duty in front of the hall saw him, they quickly bowed and saluted.

"Go and invite Junior Brother Zhao to come to my house and have a talk."

"Yes." A disciple responded and flew away with his flying sword.

Tang Ning returned to the cave. Not long after, the storage bag on his waist trembled. He took out the formation disk and took the talisman into his hand. Sure enough, Zhao Liheng had arrived.

Outside the house, Zhao Liheng saw the thick fog billowing and clearing a path. He flashed into the inner room and came to the house. He bowed his head and said, "Senior Brother Tang, why are you calling me?"

"Li Heng, sit down! In recent years, the moods of the disciples in our department have been at odds with each other! Have you noticed it?" Tang Ning said.

Because the sect reduced the funding for the Intelligence Department, only 100,000 spirit stones were distributed every year, resulting in a serious shortage of funds. Lu Guang also cut the rewards and operational funds for each disciple, causing complaints within the department and only doing things with merit.

Zhao Liheng sat down and said, "Yes, I have heard about it a long time ago. Especially the captains of the subordinate action teams are very dissatisfied."

Tang Ning said: "I said before that I would reform the department's finances and clarify and plan the system for using the department's finances, but the time has not come yet. It's almost time now. I will have a showdown with him at the next meeting. If he If you don’t agree, I will exercise my supervisory decision-making power and directly take over the department’s finances. I hope you can support me when the time comes.”

Zhao Liheng was slightly shocked: "I don't know what senior brother Tang has planned?"

"I have made a set of financial regulations for the ministry, which will redistribute and plan the use of the department's funds. This will not damage the interests of anyone else, except Lu Guang." Tangning flipped through with her left hand and took out a file. Handed it to him: "Take a look!"

Zhao Liheng took the file and read it carefully, then pondered: "If we want to use the decision-making power, do we have enough votes?"

"There is no more suitable opportunity than this. Everything is ready now. All we have to do is win over Xu Yuan."