Chapter 274: Please think twice about the patriarch!
"From the perspective of the patriarch, the Zhou family currently has a total monk population of 195, including 1 monk in the Zifu stage, 3 monks in the foundation building stage, 24 monks in the ninth level of Qi training, 34 in the late stage of Qi training, and 57 in the middle stage of Qi training.
There are 67 monks in the early stages of Qi training, and a total of 9 children below the Qi training stage."
"In addition, our Zhou family currently has 34 monks from relatives, including 2 monks in the foundation stage, 3 monks in the ninth level of Qi training, 8 monks in the late stage of Qi training, 15 monks in the middle stage of Qi training, and 6 monks in the early stage of Qi training.
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"As for the number of mortals in my Zhou family, the number of secular mortals with the blood of my Zhou family now should be around 320,000, and the number of other mortals with other surnames should be around 110,000. Among them, the number of mortals from the Zhou family in the Chihu Mountain Oasis is about 320,000.
There are about 160,000 people, and the number of mortals with foreign surnames is about 40,000."
Zhou Yuanchang held an account book in his hand, and in a low voice, he handed out the Zhou family personnel information one by one.
From the data reported in his words, we can know that although the Zhou family is already a real Zifu family, the Zhou family is far from the Zifu family like the Chen family in terms of the number of monks and the number of mortals.
In this regard, it will take at least a hundred years or more for the Zhou family to compare with the Chen family.
After Zhou Yang heard Zhou Yuanchang's words, he frowned and lowered his head slightly as if thinking about something. After a moment, he looked at Zhou Yuanchang and continued to ask: "Then Brother Eleven, can you tell me the monks born in the family over the past few years?"
How many percent of the population are descendants of monks from the family? How many percent are from the mortal descendants of the family? And how many percent are from Fengyue Tower?"
When Zhou Yuanchang heard this, his expression turned bitter, and then he said bravely: "I need to check the information before I can answer this matter. Patriarch, please wait."
After saying that, he quickly opened the storage bag and took out a large stack of information and spread it out in front of him. His consciousness quickly scanned the various information recorded on it, and he silently counted the number of people involved.
After nearly a quarter of an hour passed, he wiped the sweat that had appeared on his forehead. He quickly looked up at Zhou Yang and said, regardless of putting away the materials on the floor, "Clan leader Mingjian, I just checked the family's records over the past fifty years.
According to the identity information of all the monks, it was found that 40% of the monks born in the family within the past fifty years are descendants of the monks in the family, 40% are from Fengyue Tower, and 20% are descendants of mortals in the family!"
"The number of mortal monks only accounts for 20%?"
Zhou Yang frowned, as if he couldn't believe the authenticity of this data.
"Yang'er, this is indeed true. The probability of a descendant born from the union of two simple mortals to have spiritual roots is one in ten thousand, but in fact it may be even lower than this!"
"So don't look at us monks who always say that mortals are the foundation of the world of immortality. But in fact, even among those who are casual cultivators, there are many people who are the offspring of immortality cultivators and mortal women. They are not truly pure beings born from mortals.
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Seeing that his son seemed to understand the truth, Zhou Xuanhao had no choice but to speak out to clear up his doubts.
The news he mentioned is not necessarily known to people who are not really exposed to this situation all year round.
Although Zhou Yang had gone with his elders to test spiritual roots for the descendants of mortals in the oasis several times before, he really didn't know that much about this matter in detail.
After all, his cultivation has improved very quickly, and he really doesn't know as much about things at the grassroots level as those monks at the grassroots level.
Zhou Xuanhao also knew so clearly because he happened to encounter the decline of the Zhou family when he was young and had experienced at the grassroots level for a long time.
"Okay, I was indeed negligent in this regard."
Zhou Yang nodded, admitting this point outright.
Then he frowned, looked at everyone in the hall with a serious face and asked: "You have heard what the house elder said just now, so now what do you think about the shortage of manpower faced by the family and about accelerating the growth of the monk population?
Any good suggestions?"
"To the patriarch, I have a suggestion."
After Zhou Yang finished speaking, Zhou Guangxiang responded quickly.
"Oh, Guangxiang, tell me, what is your suggestion?"
Zhou Yang looked at the successor he had chosen, with a look of encouragement on his face.
With his encouragement, Zhou Guangxiang's face became more confident, and he couldn't help but said loudly: "My suggestion is divided into two parts. One part is that we rebuild Feng Yue Tower outside Fang City as soon as possible and increase investment in Feng Yue Tower."
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"In the second part, we need to increase the amount of the family's fertility subsidy fund, and at the same time encourage those tribesmen with poor spiritual qualifications to give birth to offspring early to contribute to the family. We can even give special rewards to monks who give birth to multiple offspring!"
"I personally think Guangxiang's suggestion is good, what do you think?" Zhou Yang said, looking at the other monks in the temple and asking everyone for their opinions.
"Everyone has seen the benefits of Fengyue Tower over the years. If our Zhou family wants to increase the number of monks, we must continue to open this program. As for the increase in the amount of the maternity subsidy fund, I think there is no problem. Now our Zhou family
My family is rich, and if I invest a small part of it in this, it will be enough to sustain me for a long time."
Zhou Xuanhao immediately nodded in agreement with Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion and also stated the reasons for his agreement.
As Zhou Guangxiang's sister, Zhou Guangxiang would certainly not object to her brother's suggestion.
In this way, the senior monks of the Zhou family have reached a consensus.
However, Zhou Yang did not immediately announce that he would adopt Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion. Instead, he looked at the seven deacons and elders including Zhou Yuanpeng, the master of the practice, and asked: "What do the deacons and elders think?"
His inconspicuous little gesture immediately moved Zhou Yuanpeng and the other seven deacons and elders.
The status of deacon elders in the family is equivalent to that of foundation-building monks. This is what Zhou Yang said personally, and what he is doing now is to practice this.
This kind of respect is particularly important to the seven deacons and elders.
The new elder system of the Zhou family has just been established and implemented, and the authority of the seven deacons and elders is not yet deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At this time, if Zhou Yang, the clan leader, does not support and respect the seven deacons and elders he elected, how can other clan members respect these seven deacons and elders and really treat them as foundation-building monks?
Give him a peach and give him a plum in return.
This is the basic principle of life.
When the seven deacons and elders heard Zhou Yang's words, they were moved and nodded in agreement with Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion.
Now everyone in the Zhou family knows that Zhou Yang is training Zhou Guangxiang to become his successor.
In view of the Zhou family's newly established deacon-elder system, whether the new patriarch can gain the approval of the seven deacons-elder is obviously an extremely important matter.
Zhou Yang could clearly decide whether to approve Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion in one word, but he still had to ask for everyone's opinions. His intention was very obvious, which was to pave the way for Zhou Guangxiang and establish his prestige.
If the seven deacons and elders cannot see this, then they really are not worthy of staying in this position.
Among them, Tan Qiu, the foreign affairs elder of the Zhou family, who is also the husband of the late Zhou Yuanchun, the elder of the Zhou family, after agreeing with Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion, he said: "For the sake of the patriarch, I also have a suggestion that I would like to discuss with the patriarch and everyone.
Elders and clan members discuss this together."
"Oh, please tell me, Elder Tan."
Zhou Yang's eyes flashed with strange color, and he smiled and waved in response.
After Tan Qiu got his consent, he immediately said loudly: "When the patriarch first talked about the responsibilities of the foreign affairs elders, one of them said that they were to introduce outstanding talents to the family. So I would like to ask the patriarch, in addition to recruiting people to marry into the family, does this introduction of outstanding talents also include
Can we use the method of recruiting guests to worship and recruit some outstanding casual cultivators for training and motivation?"
"What Elder Tan means is that we can recruit monks with foreign surnames as family guests, and then let them work for our Zhou family by paying fixed benefits and giving them task rewards every year. Do I understand this correctly?" Zhou Yang
Looking at Tan Qiu with sharp eyes, he asked with a slightly surprised tone.
"Patriarch, you are right, but I would like to add that for some casual cultivators who have outstanding talents in cultivating immortals and various arts, we can not only recruit them as family guests, but also provide relevant inheritance and resources to support them.
Cultivate them so that they can serve the family after they are successful in their studies."
"Even for those with particularly outstanding talents, we can use the Foundation Establishment Pill and the third-level inheritance as inducements to make them promise that after the Foundation Establishment is successful, they are willing to sign the [Netherworld Blood Contract] and serve the family for life!"
Wow!
As soon as Tan Qiu finished speaking, there was an uproar in the meeting hall.
"Absurd, absolutely ridiculous!"
"Elder Tan, do you know what you are talking about? The Foundation Establishment Pill is so precious, and we, the children of the Zhou family, still have to work hard to earn contribution points to redeem it!"
"But if you open your mouth, this Foundation Building Pill will become the Bigu Pill, and anyone can take it!"
"Tell me, tell me, what are your intentions? Do you want our Zhou family to perish?"
Angry shouts rang out from the meeting hall, but Zhou Yuanpeng, the elder who was sitting in the same row as Tan Qiu, couldn't help but stand up and pointed at Tan Qiu and cursed angrily.
As soon as Zhou Yuanpeng's scolding stopped, Zhou Yuanliang, who was also the elder of the Zhou family, immediately loudly agreed: "Brother Ten is right, and I firmly disagree with giving the Foundation Establishment Pill to outsiders for use, let alone without Zhou.
Outsiders of our family's bloodline, even relatives who marry into our Zhou family, are not qualified to use this kind of treasure!"
After the general affairs elder Zhou Yuanliang finished speaking, the internal affairs elder Zhou Yuanchang also shouted loudly: "Clan leader, I have no objection to absorbing outside talents to join the family, but if we only focus on qualifications and talents, all outsiders with qualifications and talents will be absorbed into the family, and
Given special preferential treatment, if things continue like this, will the Zhou family still be the Zhou family of the Zhou family?"
"If the top leaders of the Zhou family become monks with other surnames one day, can the blood of our Zhou family be passed on? Will the countless low-level monks of our Zhou family still have a chance to succeed?"
"Clan leader, please think twice!"
When Zhou Yuanchang finished speaking, he knelt down on the ground.
He knelt down at this moment, and the Zhou family members who were also excited because of Tan Qiu's suggestion also knelt down facing Zhou Yang, kowtowed and shouted: "Clan leader, please think again!"