nyslfriends Chapter 239 New Officials Take Three Fires
Chapter 239 New Officials Take Three Fires
Chu Shen did not reveal his plan in detail, but only had a discussion with Wang Chen about some ideas for institutional reforms.
These ideas sounded good, and Wang Chen thought they were not bad either. In the end, he supported Chu Shen to go ahead with them.
Not long after, the appointment of Chu Shen as the acting vice palace lord was conveyed to everyone in the Langxuan Heavenly Palace. Everyone knew that he was going to make certain reforms to the palace's system.
Of course, there were many dissenting voices regarding this appointment of the acting vice palace lord. However, the Langxuan Heavenly Palace was ultimately a cultivation sect, not a government. The orders of the sect's lord were much more effective than government decrees.
Not satisfied?
Then you can try challenging the sect's lord and see if you can take his position.
If you manage to take it, you can do whatever you want.
If you can't take it, what's the use of complaining?
Even those ancestors of the prestigious families and clans, faced with the sect's lord's command, could only reluctantly accept it.
They were not worried.
After all, wasn't Yan Shu also appointed as the acting palace manager in a similar way? What was the result? Didn't she end up being ineffective under their joint efforts?
Now, there is an acting vice palace lord with even weaker strength in the Spirit Gathering realm. How much of a threat can he be?
These people have not yet realized the power of the institutional reforms brought by someone.
Then the deputy palace master issued the first order - a major adjustment to the team of law enforcement disciples.
The organizational structure of the Langxuan Heavenly Palace is relatively complete.
The Holy Lord is the master of the Langxuan Heavenly Palace, not only holding the highest power of the sect, but also the guardian of the ancient Heavenly Court's Langxuan Book Pavilion and treasure, standing alone on the Langxuan Peak.
According to the needs, several deputy palace masters can be appointed as assistants to the Holy Lord. These deputy palace masters are often held concurrently by the peak masters of various immortal peaks, which can be considered as honorary titles.
If the disciples of the Holy Lord serve as deputy palace masters, they are often regarded as candidates for the Holy Lord. Yan Shu is of this type.
Below the Holy Lord are the nine peak masters of the immortal peaks.
The nine immortal peaks, needless to say, each peak belongs to an important department of the Langxuan Heavenly Palace.
For example, the Lingqi Peak specializes in supplying equipment such as magical tools, the Lingdan Peak is the department responsible for supplying elixirs, the Lingshu Peak is the department responsible for supplying talismans, the Lingshu Peak is the department for researching spells, formations, and other techniques, the Lingji Peak is the research and development unit for various spiritual power technologies, the Lingxi Peak is the intelligence department, the Lingjian Peak is the combat department, the Lingjue Peak is the department responsible for supplying mounts and battle pets, and the Lingyan Peak is the department for strange affairs such as sacrifices and prophecies.
However, there are some responsibilities that the nine immortal peaks cannot interfere with, so outside of the nine immortal peaks, there are four sect departments directly under the Holy Lord.
The first one is the law enforcement team that governs the law enforcement disciples. This is an independent supervisory force directly under the Holy Lord, and its formal name should be the "Law Enforcement Court".
The second sect department is in charge of the sect's public finances, including the Lingtian, Lingkuang, and trading markets belonging to the Heavenly Palace. All of these are under the supervision and control of this department. It also controls the distribution of sect tasks and is called the "Gold Control Court".
The third sect department is in charge of the allocation of human resources within the sect, as well as matters related to job promotion, and is called the "Personnel Allocation Court".
The fourth sect department is responsible for various miscellaneous tasks, as well as reception, dispatch, and diplomatic affairs, and is called the "Etiquette Court".
The position of the head of the four institutes is often held by the holy master, senior brothers, or disciples.
For example, Yan Shu had served as the head of the ritual institute before acting as the palace affairs proxy.
However, with the passage of time, many things have changed in the Langhuan Heavenly Palace.
For instance, the law enforcement disciples of the law enforcement institute, who are said to be directly under the holy master, are actually influenced by various factions formed by interests and backgrounds. When it comes to matters that touch their personal interests, can they truly remain impartial?
Similarly, can this complexity truly make the four institutes the most stable means for the holy master to command the heavenly palace?
Chu Shen doesn't believe so.
Therefore, after assuming the position of acting vice palace master, he immediately made significant adjustments to the law enforcement disciple team at the grassroots level.
The original organization was completely disbanded, disrupting the original hierarchical relationships and interest patterns. While this may not address the root cause, it can certainly address the immediate issue.
In addition, with the head of the law enforcement institute and most of the high-ranking officials being away on missions, this adjustment unexpectedly went smoothly.
The reason he did this was also to prepare for the upcoming population census. The law enforcement disciple team with established relationships also represents a very low cost for favoritism and corruption. Once the population census involves the families of certain law enforcement disciples, they will definitely manipulate the data, affecting its accuracy.
Since he cannot eliminate favoritism and corruption, he can only increase the cost of engaging in such behavior.
By changing the partners of a large number of law enforcement disciples and transferring them to different jurisdictions, he puts them in a relatively unfamiliar environment. If they want to engage in favoritism and corruption, they have to consider whether they will be reported by unfamiliar new companions.
The law enforcement disciples who are unaware of his intentions are certainly complaining, thinking that the new official is just causing trouble. However, they are then assigned the task of obtaining specific population data in their respective jurisdictions.
At this moment, the law enforcement disciples have not yet realized the seriousness and importance of this task. They are following instructions to conduct a population census of the official disciples within the inner court.
As the census project progresses, someone finally notices something amiss.
This time, in addition to the official disciples, the census also asks about their family relationships, household servants, and various other population details, including whether there are any pregnant individuals. The data collection is extremely detailed.
Ordinary people may not understand the significance of such detailed data, but the disciples from prestigious families know that this kind of census can expose their secrets.
Population data can have mysterious and profound uses!
However, the previous major adjustment in the law enforcement disciples' team is now showing its effect. The disciples from prestigious families can at most remind their own family members, but they dare not falsify the data in front of unfamiliar companions during the specific population census.
Chu Shen had issued a stern warning from the beginning that anyone caught falsifying data would be severely punished, and those who reported falsification would be rewarded generously!
Especially after a few law enforcement disciples who committed offenses were exposed and received ruthless punishments, the accuracy of the population data within the inner court was ensured to the greatest extent and presented to Chu Shen.
At the same time, the various cultivation families within the inner court sensed an impending storm and began to move intensively among each other.
However, considering the fact that Chu Shen had come out of seclusion and specifically supported a certain person, the upper echelons of most prestigious families were at a loss.
They still had reservations when facing this Holy Lord and couldn't handle the situation as freely as they did with Yan Shu. They could only endure and see what tricks Chu Shen, this young man, would play.
Soon, they found out.
Although the population within the inner court is not small, it is ultimately not as large as the population of those large-scale national levels. According to the relatively accurate data, the total population within the inner court is around three million, which is quite substantial but not as vast as the population at the national level.
Therefore, Chu Shen quickly ignited the second fire: "Equalize households, thoroughly investigate hidden households!"