Chapter two hundred and sixty-seven: teach by words and deeds!
"How did you think about the news I had someone pass on to you?"
"Should you accept my conditions and become a vassal of my Zhou family, or should you give up the oasis and find another place to go!"
In the cave, Zhou Yang's golden-red eyes dimmed, his pupils returned to black and white, and he looked at the five foundation-building monks. In a low voice, he asked directly about the five people's choices.
When he first learned that three medium-sized oases attached to Chihu Mountain were occupied by casual cultivators for cultivation, he gave these people two choices.
Either surrender to the Zhou family, pay 30% of Lingshan's output to the Zhou family every year, and obey the Zhou family's orders.
Or just pack up everything, pack up and leave within three years.
Now that three years have passed, it is time for these five people to give him an accurate letter.
Hearing Zhou Yang's question, Guo Shaoyang and the other five people looked at each other, and then Guo Shaoyang, who had reached the eighth level of foundation building, cupped his hands and replied: "Thank you, senior, for your tolerance and giving me three years to think about it. I will wait for you."
After careful consideration and deliberation in the past three years, I have decided to submit to the Zhou family and am willing to be a vassal of the Zhou family!"
"But this junior is brave and wants to ask senior to agree to a small request from junior and others."
The joy that had just risen in Zhou Yang's eyes immediately subsided because of Guo Shaoyang's last words. He looked at a few people with no expression of joy or anger and said lightly: "Oh, do you still have requests? What requests? First, let's start with
Come and listen!"
Ma Shaoyang felt happy when he heard that he did not refuse directly. After hearing this, he quickly responded respectfully: "Senior clearly understands that the request of junior and others is very simple, that is, junior and others heard that senior is good at refining weapons, and senior
My wife and father are good at alchemy, and they would like to exchange spiritual stones and spiritual objects with the elders for some magical weapons and elixirs suitable for our practice."
"How important it is for me to say that it turns out to be something like this!"
"This is easy to say. As long as you don't have second thoughts in the future and serve the Zhou family loyally, my Zhou family can sell you a share of the third-level magic weapons, elixirs, and spiritual talismans."
Zhou Yang's face softened, and he smiled and agreed to the request of Ma Shaoyang and others on the spot.
After finishing speaking, he paused again and said in a loud voice: "In addition, you might as well spread the news to your former casual cultivator friends. Just say that in a few years, my Zhou family will build an immortal cultivator on the Chihu Mountain oasis.
In Zhefang City, various rare treasures will be put up for sale, and Taoist friends from all over are welcome to come and support them!"
Establishing a city was a plan that Zhou Yang had long had in mind.
There is no doubt about the importance of the market to a power.
By establishing a market, you can not only collect the "poll tax" and sell and rent out shops to make a profit, but you can also maximize profits by selling excess spiritual objects within your influence and give priority to purchasing the spiritual objects obtained from casual cultivators.
In short, there are so many benefits to establishing a market, so much so that any family that cultivates immortals would want to establish a market to increase the family's income.
But obviously not everyone can build a city.
A market must not only have the power to protect the market and enable people to do transactions in the market with confidence.
The most important thing is that there must be enough attractive treasures flowing out of the city.
If in a market you can use spiritual stones to buy various elixirs, magic weapons, spiritual talismans and other treasures commonly used by cultivators, then the popularity of this market will definitely not be too bad.
On the other hand, if there are only a few treasures available for purchase in the market, and they are all mediocre, then not many immortal cultivators are willing to come all the way to trade in the market.
It is precisely because of these requirements that in the entire boundless sand sea cultivation world, only the Zifu family is qualified to establish a city.
The Zhou family has now been promoted to become the Zifu family, and has a third-level existence in elixirs, weapons, talismans and other immortal arts. Naturally, it also has the qualifications and conditions to establish a market.
According to Zhou Yang's plan, as long as Zhou Guangxiang is successfully promoted to a third-level formation mage and has the ability to deploy third-level formations, he will find a suitable place to build a market on the Chihu Mountain Oasis, and then send out invitations widely.
Monks from all over the world came to participate in their own Zifu celebrations and to build momentum for the opening of Fangshi.
"Great! If you, senior, can establish a market on the Chihu Mountain Oasis, there will definitely be many casual cultivators willing to come here and rely on you!"
Ma Shaoyang and others were overjoyed and agreed to Zhou Yang's request without even thinking about it.
If a market for immortal cultivators can be opened up on the Chihu Mountain Oasis, the Zhou family will certainly be the biggest beneficiary, followed by those of them who have decided to rely on the Zhou family. Of course, they have no reason not to support it.
In order to get these people to work hard to help publicize this matter, Zhou Yangdang even took out some third-level magic weapons, spiritual pills, and spiritual talismans and made a deal with the three of them.
Anyway, except for the elixir, he has so many of these things that he can never use them all. Who can he sell them to?
After Ma Shaoyang and the other five people left with a satisfied thank you, Zhou Guangxiang, who had been watching from the side, finally spoke.
"Uncle Jiu, would you be too kind to these five casual cultivators?"
"Those oases and Lingshan Mountains were originally assigned to our Zhou family by Huangshamen. Even if we drive them away, they would not dare not leave, and outsiders will not find any reason to accuse our Zhou family."
"You want them to be used by my Zhou family. My nephew understands, but we only take 30% of their income. Isn't it too cheap for them? Not to mention that you also brought out so many third-level treasures that are not common on the market.
Sell to them!"
While he expressed the questions in his mind, he looked at Zhou Yang with a pleading look, hoping that Zhou Yang could help him answer his questions.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but laugh and said: "Hehehe, so Guangxiang, you still need some experience!"
"Yes, I can indeed drive away Ma Shaoyang and the others, but you have to know that they have been living around the Chihu Mountain Oasis for tens or hundreds of years, and have accumulated a deep reputation in the surrounding casual cultivator circles.
, if our Zhou family drives these people away as soon as we move to the Chihu Mountain Oasis, what will those casual cultivators think of us?"
"I know, you will say that it doesn't matter what they think of us. Anyway, our Zhou family is a cultivating family, and we are naturally not in the same camp as the casual cultivators."
"But think about it, if we want to establish a market, who will be the main source of customers? Are they the monks from various immortal cultivating families who are thousands of miles away from Chihu Mountain, or the casual cultivators who hunt monsters and find spiritual objects nearby?
"
"Now instead of driving away Ma Shaoyang and the others, I will generously reward them with those oases and spiritual mountains, and support them in recruiting disciples and establishing a family to develop. If they are smart, they will use their reputation among casual cultivators.
Help us speak and attract people to come."
"After those low-level casual cultivators hear this news, they will understand that our Zhou family is different from those families that discriminate and suppress casual cultivators. They are more willing to do business with our Zhou family."
Zhou Yang Xunxun taught the successor he had chosen, his voice was deep and long, which made a deep impression on people and was unforgettable.
After he finished explaining the reasons, he spoke in a serious tone and warned Zhou Guangxiang in a deep voice: "Guangxiang, you have to remember that our Zhou family is different now. In the past, our family was different."
There are few villains, so in order to grow the family quickly, you can only focus on profits and not care about reputation."
"But now our Zhou family has a big business and has become a famous family in the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sand sea. Therefore, when you act in the future, you must pay attention to maintaining the family's reputation. The continuous benefits brought by a good reputation
, but those few oases with little potential can’t be compared with Lingshan!”
"When the family meeting is held, I will emphasize this matter to all the monks so that everyone will remember this!"
When Zhou Guangxiang heard what he said, his expression became stern, and he quickly bowed and saluted: "Thank you Uncle Jiu for your teachings. My nephew will definitely remember Uncle Jiu's teachings today. In the future, he will definitely put the family's reputation first in his actions and never damage our Zhou family."
The name of the family!"
"It's good that you understand, but Uncle Ninth has one more thing to teach you. Reputation is important, but for the sake of mere fame, you must not let family monks suffer injustice when they have conflicts and disputes with outsiders!"
"We want to maintain the reputation of the family, but what needs to be maintained even more is the unity and cohesion of the family!"
"Outsiders are always outsiders. We can only share wealth and honor, but not adversity!"
"Only those who share the same bloodline as us, and only those who share weal and woe with the interests of our entire Zhou family, can truly deserve our trust and trust."
"As the family leaders, we cannot treat our own clansmen badly. We must not let those clansmen who have shed blood and sweat for the family feel cold towards the family!"
Zhou Yang stood up and walked to Zhou Guangxiang, reached out and patted his nephew's shoulder gently. With a solemn look on his face, he informed the nephew of his philosophy.
Treating family heroes well is something Zhou Yang has always insisted on doing. The various reward measures he has formulated are all to reward those clan members who have made contributions to the family.
Because of these, he was able to accumulate such high prestige within the clan and have so many clan members love and worship him.
Those who have benefited from these measures are his staunchest supporters within the family. These people all believe that following him as the patriarch, they will have meat to eat, wine to drink, and money to earn.
It is precisely because these people believe that he will not harm them or the family that every time he puts forward some unprecedented reform suggestions, everyone is willing to implement what he says, whether they understand it or not.
Although Zhou Guangxiang still doesn't quite understand the truth behind this, but out of admiration and admiration for Zhou Yang, he still nodded vigorously and said: "My nephew understands, I must remember Uncle Jiu's teaching today, or dare not forget it!"
"It's good that you understand, but don't be impatient. You are still young and you still have a lot of time to learn how to be a qualified patriarch. Uncle Jiu and I were taught step by step by the old patriarch!"
Zhou Yang nodded, smiling and comforting his nephew with his own experience.
ps: I definitely won’t be able to catch up with two chapters tonight, so I won’t update in the early hours of tonight. I will update two chapters together tomorrow during the day, and three updates the day after tomorrow!