Chapter 148 Mayor Sherlock's Policy
"Mayor Sherlock, welcome." A man wearing a black suit with a white vest lining strode forward and walked towards Zhou Mingrui.

Zhou Mingrui reached out and shook the man's hand, and replied politely, "Hello."

"Let me introduce myself. I am Andvar Solomon, the chief secretary of the mayor of Tingen City."

"Solomon?" Zhou Mingrui was a little surprised. This was the family of gods.

Endeavor waved his hand and explained nonchalantly, "It's just an ordinary family."

Indeed, in the world of ordinary people, what 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 of the extraordinary people, if they did not specialize in the history of the War of the Four Emperors and the gods walking on the earth in the Fourth Age, would probably think that this is just an ordinary family, and an extremely impoverished one at that.

Zhou Mingrui suppressed his thoughts, took out a thin piece of paper from the folded documents, and asked politely: "Secretary Andeva, why is the city's financial expenditure in Tingen so high?"

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

"In fact, Mayor Sherlock, the latest city budget figures have increased slightly."

Slightly rising?

Zhou Mingrui really wanted to laugh out loud at this joke.

However, since he had anticipated the possible troubles, Zhou Mingrui simply turned over the city's fiscal expenditures for the previous month.

"Secretary Andeva, the city's fiscal expenditure last month was 50 gold pounds, but now the figure has risen to 70 gold pounds?"

Endeavor remained calm and explained the rationale to Zhou Mingrui.

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

"In the current environment of rising prices, it is reasonable to have higher spending."

A little higher, that’s a little higher!
In less than half a month, you tell me that it is reasonable to spend nearly 70 gold pounds directly from the city's treasury?

"Tell me, how much did you spend this month?"

"From my perspective, the final expenditure was 120 million pounds."

"What if it's the entire city of Tingen?"

"Probably, maybe, about 500 million gold pounds... It depends on how the price increase is. You know, as public servants of the people of Tingen City, our salary is a very reasonable figure, and it is based on the gentlemen of Loen."

Grass!
How much is a gold pound?
The purchasing power of one penny is three to four yuan, that is, one penny is equal to 3.5 yuan, one soli is equal to 42 yuan, and one gold pound is equal to 820 yuan.

In Loen's income system, the weekly salary of an ordinary employee of a dock import and export company is 1 pound 10 soli, and the monthly salary is more than .

The wages of the lower class, represented by female factory workers, are 10 soli per week, or about 1600 soli per month. The wages of postmen are at the lower middle level, with a monthly salary of about 4000 soli.

Now because of the rising prices, the actual value of this money will definitely decline, but when calculated with such a large amount, it is almost equivalent to an expenditure of 41 billion!
This amount of money is only the monthly expenditure of Tingen City. If calculated for a year, it would be a huge number.

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

Even the Star God who pioneered destiny could not accept such a huge expense.

"Tell me about this money, what's going on?"

Endeavor nodded, then reached out to open the document that Zhou Mingrui pushed over, and analyzed and explained it.

“First, the city administration’s 3421 is for the salary expenses of its employees.”

"Wait, 3421 employees!"

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

"You told me that Tingen City needs 3421 employees!"

“That’s not actually the case.”

Zhou Mingrui raised his head and looked at Endeavor.

"According to last year's statistics, we need to recruit 300 more employees to meet the needs of the government agencies in Tingen." "For example."

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

"anything else?"

"..."

Through questions and answers, Zhou Mingrui quickly understood the operation here.

In a word, one working person and ninety-nine idlers get the same salary. And the key is that the ratio of these idlers to working people is becoming more and more unbalanced, and the number of idlers in Tingen City is constantly increasing.

"We need reforms and change the way the government operates." Zhou Mingrui pointed his hand forcefully at the financial report in front of him.

With so much expenditure, a considerable portion of it went into the pockets of these people, and the accounts are shocking.

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

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

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

“Transparent government.”

“Transparent government?”

Endeavor fell into thought.

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

Could it be that Mayor Sherlock is from some new party?
The new party proposed by the nascent capital…

The possibility is great.

"Yes, the policy I advocate is a transparent government." Sherlock, also known as Zhou Mingrui, tapped the table and described the core of the relevant political parties that appeared in his mind.

"But there is no precedent for this." Endeavor advised with some concern: "Mayor Sherlock, come here in case any problems arise."

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

"Then, what should we do?" Endeavor asked Zhou Mingrui modestly.

"First, we must make the government of the Kingdom of Loen public, so that the people will know what we are doing, what is right, and what is wrong..."

"..." Gulp, Endeavor swallowed his saliva.

This was the first time he had seen such an unreliable mayor, whose corruption was even more serious than that of the previous mayor.

The previous mayor was just greedy for gold pounds, but you, the new mayor, are planning to take us all to death!

"Mayor Sherlock, please think about it first. I am certainly not saying that your policy is wrong, but as a city, we need to follow the relevant policies of the royal family to carry out so-called government actions and reasonably adjust the personnel changes."

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

If it is changed, then how should we change Tingen City and even the world next?

"Well, Mayor Sherlock, can you draft a document of action guidelines?" Endeavor offered his opinion.

"Okay, that's exactly what I was thinking." Zhou Mingrui thought for a moment and added, "Go and inform those people to prepare for a meeting tomorrow to discuss the next work arrangements."

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

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

"I'll go and 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 p.m."

(End of this chapter)