Chapter 148 Mayor Sherlock's Policy

"Mayor Sherlock, welcome." A man wearing a white vest lining and a black suit strode forward and walked towards Zhou Mingrui.

Zhou Mingrui reached out to hold the man's hand and politely replied: "Hello."

"Introducing myself, I am Andvar Solomon, Chief Secretary to the Mayor of Tingen."

"Solomon?" Zhou Mingrui was a little surprised. This is the divine family.

Andeva waved his hand and explained nonchalantly: "It's just an ordinary family."

Indeed, according to the world of ordinary people, what kind of family glory can there be for a royal bloodline that has disappeared for who knows how many years?

In addition, let alone ordinary people, even most extraordinary people, if they did not specialize in studying the history of the Four Emperors War and the gods walking on the earth in the Fourth Age, they would probably think that this is just an ordinary family, and they are still extremely depressed. kind of.

Zhou Mingrui suppressed his thoughts, pulled out a piece of paper from the folded information, and asked politely: "Secretary Andeva, regarding the municipal financial expenditure of Tingen City, why is it such a large amount?"

Although Zhou Mingrui didn't know how to change everything here and what the operating model of Tingen City was like, he had a cheat, a cheat given by the collapsed Adam named Maozi.

"Actually, Mayor Sherlock, this latest city fiscal expenditure number has slightly increased."

A slight rise?

Zhou Mingrui wanted to laugh at this joke.

However, because he had already anticipated the troubles he might encounter in advance, Zhou Mingrui just revealed last month's city fiscal expenditures.

"Secretary Andeva, the city's fiscal expenditure last month was 500,000 gold pounds, but now the number has increased to 700,000 gold pounds?"

Andeva still showed no emotion, but explained the rationale to Zhou Mingrui.

"Mayor Sherlock, this is the basic living expenses of the city's civil servants in Argentina. In fact, this latest financial report has no reference value."

"In the current environment of rising prices, it is reasonable for expenditures to be a little higher."

A little higher, this is called a little higher!

In less than half a month, you told me that it is very reasonable to consume nearly 700,000 gold pounds directly from the city's finances?

"Tell me, what are your expenses this month?"

"Purely from my department's perspective, the final expenditure was 1.2 million gold pounds."

“What if it’s the entire city of Tingen?”

"Probably, maybe, almost 5 million gold pounds... It depends on what the price increase is like. You know, as the public servants of the people of Tingen City, our salary is a very reasonable figure. For reference They are all gentlemen of Loen.”

Grass!

How much is one gold pound?

The purchasing power of one penny is three to four yuan, which means that one penny is equal to 3.5 yuan, one sole is equal to 42 yuan, and one gold pound is equal to 820 yuan.

Within Loen's income system, the weekly salary of an ordinary terminal import and export company employee is 1 pound 10 suler, and the monthly salary is more than 5,000.

The wages of the lower class, represented by female factory workers, are 10 soles per week, and the monthly salary is about 1,600. The postman's salary is at the lower-middle level, with a monthly salary of about 4,000...

Now due to rising prices, the actual price of this money must have declined, but when calculated with such a large amount, it is almost equivalent to an expenditure of 4.1 billion!

This amount of money is only one month's expenses for Tingen City. If calculated over a year, this is such a huge amount.

Suddenly hearing so many numbers, Zhou Mingrui took a deep breath, sat down on the chair, and kept rubbing his forehead.

The star god who is carving out his destiny cannot accept such a huge expense.

"Tell me what happened to this money?"

Andeva nodded, then reached out to open the documents that Zhou Mingrui pushed over, analyze and explain them.

“First of all, 3421 of the municipal administrative department is the salary expenses of employees.”

"Wait a minute, 3421 employees!"

"Yes, Mayor Sherlock, what's the problem?"

“You told me that the city of Tingen needs 3,421 employees!”

"That's not actually the case."

Zhou Mingrui raised his head and looked at Andeva.

"According to last year's statistics, we need to recruit another 300 employees to meet the needs of Tingen City's government agencies."

"for example."

"For example, there are 24 assistant secretaries and 361 secretarial assistants under my leadership. These people are used to assist the mayor in managing the government affairs of Tintingen City."

"anything else?"

"..."

After asking and answering questions, Zhou Mingrui quickly understood the operation here.

To sum it up in one sentence - one working person and ninety-nine fishermen earn the same salary. And the key point is that the ratio of these gangsters to working people is becoming increasingly imbalanced, and the number of gangsters in Tingen City is constantly increasing.

"We need to reform and change the way the government operates." Zhou Mingrui pointed hard at the financial report in front of him.

A considerable part of such a large amount of expenses has gone into the stomachs of these people, and the accounts seen are shocking.

"Mayor Sherlock, what do you want to do?" Andeva asked politely.

Mayor Sherlock's actions will determine what Andvar should do next.

Zhou Mingrui took a deep breath, and relevant content appeared in his mind. After relevant policies were listed one after another, he compared them and found the best opening.

“Transparent Government.”

“Transparent government?”

Andvar was lost in thought.

This combination of words was something he had never heard before.

Could it be that Mayor Sherlock is from some new party?

New parties proposed by nascent capital…

The odds are high.

"Yes, my policy is to make the government transparent." Sherlock, also known as Zhou Mingrui, reached out and knocked on the table, describing the core of the relevant political parties that appeared in his mind.

"But there is no precedent for this." Andeva persuaded with some worry: "Mayor Sherlock, if anything goes wrong."

"Don't worry, I know what to do."

"So, what should we do?" Andeva asked Zhou Mingrui modestly.

"First of all, we need to make the government of Loen Kingdom public and let the people know what we are doing, what is right and what is wrong..."

"..." Gu, Andeva swallowed.

This is the first time he has seen such an unreliable mayor. The corruption is worse than that of the previous mayor.

The previous mayor was just greedy for money. You, the new mayor, are prepared to take us to death!

"Mayor Sherlock, otherwise, you should think about it first. Of course I am not saying that your policy is wrong, but that as a city, we need to follow the relevant policies of the royal family to carry out so-called government actions and adjust the personnel in a reasonable manner. change."

"I know." Zhou Mingrui waved his hand and looked at Andeva forcefully: "I will not change my decision."

If it is changed, how will Tingen City and even the world be changed next?

"So, Mayor Sherlock, can you draft a document for action?" Andvar offered his own opinion.

"Okay, I have this idea." Zhou Mingrui thought for a while and added: "Go and notify those people and prepare to hold a meeting tomorrow to discuss the next work arrangements."

"Okay, Mayor Sherlock, are there any new policies?"

"Not yet, let's deal with open government first."

"I'll inform them right away. What's the exact time tomorrow?"

Glancing at the wall clock, Zhou Mingrui replied: "The exact time tomorrow is 3:15 pm."