After the two ghosts arrived at the place, Bai Wuchang couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked first, "Da Wan, what important thing do you want to tell us that you are hiding from them?"
"You're not going to persecute us again, are you?" Hei Wuchang looked at her suspiciously and guessed.
Wen Wan raised her eyebrows in dissatisfaction and quickly argued with him: "...Xiao Hei, what are you talking about? Can you please stop making me sound like a gangster? What do you mean by persecuting you?"
Hei Wuchang snorted coldly and recounted what had just happened, unwilling to be outdone. "Putting us on a pedestal and cutting off our financial resources, isn't this persecution?"
"How can this be called destruction?" Wen Wan disagreed with his words and tried to defend herself earnestly, "Isn't this all for your own good?"
"Tianrui adores you guys so much, wouldn't he be heartbroken if you guys ruined your image? You guys finally got a little fan, and if you lose him halfway through, wouldn't you be heartbroken too?"
"Besides, isn't it a good thing to be a good official who is honest and loved by the people? Wouldn't everyone be happy?"
"Being a good and honest official is a good thing." Hei Wuchang did not reject her opinion, but agreed with it very much.
But then he suddenly changed the subject and sighed, "But we have to live! How can we live without money? You know how meager the wages in the underworld are!"
Wen Wan nodded thoughtfully. What Xiao Hei said did make some sense. Whether you are a human or a ghost, you have to live, and living inevitably requires money.
Although ghosts do not need to eat and will not starve to death, and can survive regardless of how much money they have, the quality of life of rich and poor people is definitely much different.
The difference is not that big for ordinary ghosts, but it still has a great impact on officials like the Black and White Impermanence. After all, who doesn’t give gifts to their superiors in the workplace these days?
In this respect, the underworld is really no different from the human world. The underworld uses the same tricks as the human world, and there is no special inspection in this regard. It is so unscrupulous.
But...why can't the salary level in the underworld be raised?
Who would commit corruption if the salary is high enough? It is really puzzling!
She thought about it over and over but couldn't figure it out, so she used the simplest and most brutal method - ask directly!
"Speaking of money... I'm a little confused. Why are the salaries in your underworld so low? The underworld shouldn't cover a very large area, right? There shouldn't be a huge gap between first-tier and eighteenth-tier cities, right?"
"Even if there are differences between cities, if you convert them, you are roughly equivalent to central officials in the underworld, so your salary level should be the highest!"
Bai Wuchang couldn't help but let out a wry smile, and responded unhappily, "We are the highest! But the highest is only this much!"
"...The central government only has so many top officials. How can the employees of local private enterprises survive...can they survive?" Wen Wan was speechless and choked after hearing this. After a long silence, she asked a soul-searching question.
Bai Wuchang answered confidently, "No! That's why all our private enterprises have gone bankrupt!"
After discussing this topic, Hei Wuchang couldn't hold back his anger anymore and complained bitterly, "In the past, reincarnation was outsourced. It wasn't our job at all!"
"Then the company that contracted the reincarnation business went bankrupt, so we had to take over. But we were short-staffed to begin with, so we were always busy and had to work overtime all day long!"
"But we can't not rest. Although we don't have physical bodies and won't get tired, who can stand working every day? So we put off the unfinished work until the next day. If we keep putting it off, won't we have to wait in line for our next reincarnation?"
"Then... why is the underworld out of money? Why did those companies go bankrupt? When I lived in the Jingming Sect, weren't you living a comfortable life?" Wen Wan brought the topic back to the point with a puzzled look on her face.
Bai Wuchang sighed helplessly and explained carefully, "Times are changing. Most people nowadays are materialistic, and few people believe in supernatural things anymore."
"Ghosts' money comes from people. Only when people burn incense and paper money for ghosts can they have money to spend in the underworld. But most people nowadays don't believe in ghosts, so apart from Qingming Festival, few people go back to burn incense for their families."
"If I meet someone who is not filial, I might not even go to the grave during Qingming Festival, let alone sweep the grave and burn incense and paper!"
"Right!" Hei Wuchang nodded in agreement, then continued his brother's words and added, "Over time, everyone will be broke!"
"Then people will have no choice but to downgrade their consumption and stop buying expensive things. Those businesses that sell expensive things won't be able to make money and won't be able to continue, so they will go bankrupt and run away in waves!"
He concluded with a brilliant summary, "It's not the underworld that's poor, it's all the ghosts that are poor!"
Wen Wan raised her eyebrows subtly, then touched her chin thoughtfully. After a while, she suddenly suggested, "People just don't believe in ghosts, so they rarely burn paper for their families. So why don't you find a way to let them know?"
"...For example?" Black and White Impermanence asked in confusion. Their IQ really limited their imagination.
Wen Wan answered without hesitation, "For example, dreams! You can have those ghosts who are short of money go to your family members in their dreams and ask for money. If they don't give it, they will scold you! They will scold you every day! I don't believe that anyone would think it's a coincidence!"
Black and White Impermanence frowned as they pondered the proposal. After a long silence, Black Impermanence raised an objection, "I think your idea is a little unrealistic."
"Sending messages in dreams takes energy, and the underworld doesn't have the manpower to handle it. There are so many ghosts in the underworld who are short of money right now. If they all come to send messages in dreams, then won't everyone have time to get off work? Forget 996, even 007 probably won't be enough!"
"Why are you two so stupid?" Wen Wan couldn't help but want to laugh after hearing this, and finally couldn't help but scold with a smile: "Your IQ is so low, you really deserve to be poor!"
"Your brain isn't meant to be seen; it's only when you use it flexibly that its value is realized! If you had more time to think, learn, and use your brain, you would have become rich long ago!"
These words could be said to be devaluing the intelligence of the Black and White Impermanence, but they did not get angry. Instead, they asked seriously, "Do you have any good ideas?"
"Well... yes, but you have to do me a favor!" Wen Wan thought for a while and suddenly put forward a condition.
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