Chapter 506: Test (First Update!) ）

After announcing Hua Yiling's personnel appointment, Xu Yinglong asked all the ministers to make a report, explaining the operation of the guild during the time he and Hua Zizai left. After all, neither he nor Hua Zizi were there, and Shi Ming, the wolf family's uncle and nephew, and Tie Niu and others alone were not enough to support the entire guild.

Sure enough, after taking them to make reports one by one, Xu Yinglong heard a lot of questions. First of all, there are far fewer monks who come to register as guild members, and Shi Ming and the others have also discovered this problem, but they don't pay attention to it, and they think it's normal. After all, no matter what the organization is, there will always be some people who are reluctant to join, and as the tide passes, the number of people who come to join will definitely decrease.

But Xu Yinglong thinks this is abnormal, why do you say that? According to Xu Yinglong's understanding, there were more than 20 million people living in the Heavenly Demon City 120,000 years ago, and 90% of them were monks. Now the Heavenly Demon City has expanded beyond the outer city, and the area is almost three times that of 120,000 years ago. Although the proportion of monks has decreased with the influx of immigrants, it should be more than 40 million.

What is the concept of 40 million monks, and if you look at how many members there are in the union now, a little more than 140,000, not even 150,000, not even 0.5% of the total number of monks. According to Xu Yinglong and Hua Zizi's predictions, there will indeed be very few people in the guild who will have a little time to register as members, but that was after 60% of the monks in Heavenly Demon City became guild members, and now they can't reach this proportion at all, so it must be strange to say that this kind of problem has appeared so early.

As for the reason, Xu Yinglong has not sent someone to investigate for the time being, but if someone is really making trouble in secret, Xu Yinglong is not worried about how long they can hide. There is no absolute secret at this time. If you don't know, you can't do it unless you do. As long as someone is doing something in the dark. Then one day it will be revealed.

The second is that there are many fewer people who come to hand over tasks, and there used to be at least 1,000 people who came to post tasks every day. It is precisely because there are so many quests that so many adventurers are attracted to come. After all, the permanent and long-term task of collecting medicine and hunting demon beasts is not easy to do, and it is extremely dangerous, many people in order to hunt demon beasts end up becoming a delicious meal for demon beasts, if it is not necessary, I am afraid that no one is willing to risk their lives to fight with demon beasts.

Therefore, soon after the establishment of the Adventurer's Guild, daily escorts, finding objects and other tasks quickly became the most popular things for adventurers. Now that the number of daily tasks has dropped a lot, many people can't find anything to do, and many people don't want to come to the guild anymore.

There was another thing that caught Xu Yinglong's attention. That is, there are a lot fewer people who come to the guild to eat now, and this problem is not only seen by Xu Yinglong, but also attracted the attention of Shi Ming and others. After all, the unique dishes and drinks have attracted a lot of popularity to the Adventurers' Guild, and at the same time, the Guild has not created a huge economic benefit, so it can be said that the catering department has supported the entire guild for so long.

It's a bit absolute, but it's not too much. You must know that although the business of handing over tasks is the main business of the guild at present, it will definitely be the main business of the guild in the future. But so far, the profit earned by that piece is not very large, and the main reason is that there are often spirit stones sent out there. Because that piece of business includes the acquisition of medicinal materials in the hands of adventurers, as well as monster beasts, beast cores, furs, minions and bones, etc. If the adventurer is unwilling to redeem the huàn blade, the guild must pay the corresponding spirit stone.

The most important thing is that in order to attract popularity, Xu Yinglong and Hua Zizi unanimously set the price of these items very high. Some items are even priced about half the market price. Therefore, many guides, even if they are not adventurers, are vying to hand over their belongings to the adventurers to sell to the guild, so as to get more money, which leads to the guild to pay a large number of spirit stones and golden horns every day.

Correspondingly. Although other businesses do not need to pay for external expenses, the income is also very limited. Only the food and accommodation are unique to Heavenly Demon City. Therefore, a large number of spirit stones come in every day, so it is not too much to say that catering supports the operation of the guild. Now that there are fewer people coming to dine, the income of the catering department has of course declined, and it will affect the whole body, so Xu Yinglong and others will of course notice it for the first time.

In fact, according to Xu Yinglong's original idea, all the business of the guild is to form its own income chain, and there is no need for anyone to subsidize whom. Let's take the acquisition business that now needs subsidies from other departments, according to Xu Yinglong's plan, all the purchased medicinal materials and other items must be deeply processed while satisfying themselves, for example, herbs will eventually be refined into various levels of elixir, ores will be refined into various magic weapons, and the fur of demon beasts will be made into various protective armor, and the things that are deeply processed will eventually enter the sales process except for some of the things for personal use, so that the return of funds will be completed.

However, due to too many things during this time, the plan to refine pills, magic weapons and other things was put on hold, so the acquisition department needed financial subsidies from the catering department. Now Xu Yinglong is not very busy for the time being, and he has time to refine his plan.

But that's a matter for later, and now the most important thing is to figure out why there are so many fewer people coming to eat. Is it that the price set by itself is too high and has exceeded the consumption level of the monks, or is there a new competitor?

In addition, there is another problem that must be put on the agenda, that is, the adventurer's guild venue is still too small, 150,000 adventurers will be here every day, no matter which department is very crowded, especially in the morning and evening, this time is the peak period of the handover task, many people need to queue for a long time to handle the business, which makes those grumpy adventurers very unhappy, so it is imminent to open a branch.

However, it is not so easy to add a club site, and the buildings and internal equipment are not worried, and with the previous experience, it can be done quickly. But as before, Xu Yinglong is short of people.

Although there are a lot of people in the Adventurer's Guild now, whether it is the business department, the catering department, or the security department of Iron Bull, that department has a lot of people. But these people are either not up to standard in cultivation, or their cultivation qualifications are not good, and Xu Yinglong does not trust this part of people very much. It's okay under his nose, if he lets this group of people out to form a branch, Xu Yinglong didn't think about it, and he didn't dare to think about it, this is not realistic at all.

However, there must be a solution to the problem, which makes Xu Yinglong quite entangled. Fortunately, apart from these troubles, the guild is running smoothly overall, and nothing bad has happened.

At the end of the meeting, Xu Yinglong left Hua Yiling behind, since she has now replaced Hua Zizi and become the first vice president of the Adventurer Guild, plus now she is the only vice president of the union, so many times she needs to support the entire guild alone. Now that there is a problem with the guild, as for how to solve it, Xu Yinglong has some ideas in his heart, but he didn't say it, he wants to use this to test Hua Yiling to see if she has the ability to take charge on her own.

Hua Yiling was also there at the meeting just now, and she also heard what happened, so Xu Yinglong didn't go into too much detail. Xu Yinglong briefly explained the current crisis encountered by the guild, and he asked Hua Yiling to investigate the cause within three days and come up with a solution.

Xu Yinglong didn't hide it, he clearly told Hua Yiling, this was the first test after she took office. Although there is no reward for doing things well, and there will be no punishment for doing things badly, it is related to whether she can gain a foothold in the guild hierarchy. If things are done beautifully, then even if Xu Yinglong is not there in the future, everyone will resolutely carry out her Hua Yiling's orders as they did with Hua Zizi. On the contrary, if things go badly, I am afraid that some people will not be willing to listen to her words in the future. In short, the results of this test are important to her. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: The next shift is around half past eight