Wealth couple, Dharma ground, these are the four elements of spiritual practice.
Among them, "wealth" ranks first in importance to immortal cultivators.
The importance of "wealth" is not only for an individual cultivator, but also for a family or sect of cultivators.
The prosperity of the Zhou family is not only in terms of population and land, but also in terms of financial income.
The financial income has a balance of tens of thousands of spiritual stones every year. Such a cultivating family with a good way of making money will not be able to decline as long as it does not suffer a dimensionality reduction attack from a higher level.
When Zhou Yang left the family, he took away 70% to 80% of the spiritual stones in the family's treasury.
But now seventeen years have passed, and the Zhou family has stored as many as 250,000 spiritual stones in the treasury. This ability to make and save money is unique to the Zhou family in the boundless sea of sand cultivation world.
However, the Zhou family's huge financial income is not without its hidden worries.
This worry is very simple, that is, as dozens of monks in the Zhou Family Baiyi Hall who have practiced immortality and hundreds of arts produce various magic weapons, magic talismans, and elixirs year after year, and sell them on a small profit but quick turnover basis.
Going out has made the market in the Chihu Mountain Oasis Cultivation World and the surrounding Cultivation World nearly saturated.
If it weren't for some small cultivating families and many monks who have the habit of hoarding magic weapons and spiritual talismans as backup resources, many things might not be sold now.
Generally speaking, the market has reached a point where supply exceeds demand.
The Zhou family's financial hall staff have already acquired very good macroeconomic knowledge through Zhou Yang's many lectures and explanations, as well as the various intelligence information they have come into contact with in charge of finance.
Zhou Guangyun talked about many financial worries of the Zhou family and also gave many solutions discussed by the financial hall.
For example, temporarily reduce the supply of low-level magic weapons, elixirs, and talismans, hoard them in the warehouse, and wait for market demand to pick up before slowly selling them.
Another example is the expansion of long-distance trade caravans, allowing the caravans to carry these accumulated goods to further places for sale.
Although these practices will temporarily reduce the Zhou family's income, they are completely worth it in the long run.
We are not afraid that the market will shrink, but we are afraid that the market will collapse. Once the market collapses, the price to be paid to establish a stable market will be very high.
"I know the basic situation, and I have a solution in mind for this matter, but this plan does not conflict with Guangyun's plan, so you can do things like hoarding goods, and you can also do things about expanding long-distance trade caravans.
But the task of the trade caravan is not to sell goods, but to buy large quantities of spiritual talismans, Bigu Pills, healing pills and other goods!"
In the meeting hall, after Zhou Yang listened to the financial elder Zhou Guangyun's report on the Zhou family's finances, he thought for a moment, then nodded and stated his arrangement.
Hearing his words, not only the laymen of the Zhou family in the palace were surprised, but even Zhou Guangyun, who was in charge of the finances, frowned and couldn't help looking at him and asked: "Tai Shang Elder, can you tell me why this is?
?Our Zhou family has thousands of acres of spiritual land, and we also domesticate thousands of red turkeys and tinder rabbits. There is absolutely no need to buy things like Bigu Pill!"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yang, who has always been very open-minded, shook his head directly this time and said: "I can't say the reason for the time being. In short, you just do as I say. I will let Guangxiang take out 100,000 low-grade spiritual stones from the inner treasury.
Buy these things for you!”
One hundred thousand spiritual stones!
Hearing Zhou Yang say such a huge number without blinking an eye, everyone in the Zhou family sitting in the palace, except for a few foundation-building monks and the financial elder Zhou Guangyun, were stunned for a while.
These people all know that the Zhou family is rich. After all, the Zhou family has done a lot of spending money over the years. These people also heard Zhou Guangyun's previous annual income report.
But now that Zhou Yang so easily said that he would spend 100,000 spirit stones to buy some inconspicuous Bigu Pills and low-level spiritual talismans, these people were still surprised.
Many people were shocked and at the same time, their mouths moved slightly, trying to say something.
But before these people spoke up, Zhou Guangyun, the person involved, had already responded: "My niece understands and will obey the orders of the Supreme Elder!"
For a moment, those who wanted to speak immediately bit their lips to hold back their words.
In the Zhou family, Zhou Yang's orders are the laws of heaven. Zhou Guangyun, the financial elder, has already said to abide by the orders. If they still dare to rebel, are they trying to rebel?
"So, does anyone have any suggestions? Everyone can speak freely. As long as they are suggestions that you think can be beneficial to the family, as long as they are flaws in the family system or other deficiencies that you have discovered, you can take this opportunity to speak out.
We just took this opportunity to make corrections!”
Zhou Yang looked at the tribesmen who were hesitant to speak, smiled slightly, and asked everyone for their opinions with a smile.
Opening up channels of speech and accepting opinions is the policy Zhou Yang set when he held his first family meeting.
He knew very well that with his own eyes, he would definitely not be able to see all the things happening in the family. The family managers he appointed might also deceive him for various reasons.
And at the family meeting, those who deceived him, those things that were deliberately hidden from him, and those injustices that happened within the family can all be exposed by an ordinary clan member.
He used this method to give those monks at the bottom of the family an opportunity to "reach heaven to listen", which was the most effective channel for complaints.
However, in the past, the Zhou family had a small number of members and the family was in a period of rapid growth. Related dirty things rarely happened. No one would openly confront a member of the clan in a family meeting and go to court.
But this time, after Zhou Yang said something that he could speak freely, someone from the Zhou family immediately stood up.
I saw a young member of the Zhou family in yellow clothes standing in the back row of the hall. He stood up directly from the ground, looked at Zhou Yang with respect and expectancy, and said loudly: "The Supreme Elder Mingjian, the junior Zhou Tongming has something to ask the Supreme Elder to preside over."
justice!"
When Zhou Yang saw this, a strange expression flashed on his face. He couldn't help but look at this young tribesman who only had the fourth level of Qi training and asked: "It is the job of the law enforcement elders to bring justice to the tribe. Why didn't you go to the law enforcement elders but to me?"
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Being looked at by a Zifu period monk like him, even though his gaze did not contain any oppressive power, the young monk Zhou Tongming's face tightened and he quickly replied: "In reply to the Supreme Elder, this junior has approached the law enforcement elder.
However, the juniors do not agree with the handling of the law enforcement elders, so I took the risk of asking the Supreme Elder to uphold justice today!"
After Zhou Yang heard this, he continued to ask: "Even so, according to the family rules, you can still appeal to the clan leader. Doesn't it mean that the clan leader's decision cannot satisfy you?"
"Yes, this junior still disagrees with the clan leader's treatment!"
Zhou Tongming raised his head and took a deep breath, ignoring the strange looks in the eyes of other tribesmen, and loudly answered Zhou Yang's question.
Zhou Yang's curiosity was aroused now, and he said with a slight smile on his face: "Then tell me, what do you want me to do for you?"
"This junior is a monk from [Feng Yue Tower]. Although he is also of the Zhou family's blood, his blood relationship with other monks is separated by generations!"
"Although Guangyin is a monk of the Guang generation, he is only one year older than the junior, and he was born in the same Fengyue Tower. The two of us grew up together and studied together. We are childhood sweethearts. We love each other deeply.
We have made a lifelong commitment in private!"
"But after the law enforcement elders and the clan leader learned about the incident between the junior and Guang Yin, they forcibly separated the junior and Guang Yin on the grounds that it was against human ethics, and sent Guang Yin to the distant Haoyang Cave Spirit Vein to take care of the mountains.
Lingtian, the two of us have not been able to see each other for several years without talking to each other, and even strictly prohibited other tribesmen from delivering letters to the two of us!"
"The younger generation knows that the family has never supported intermarriage among monks within the clan, but there does not seem to be any relevant rules strictly prohibiting it in the family's clan rules."
"What's more, it is human nature to love a man and a woman. We immortal cultivators pay attention to obeying nature and responding to people. Why do we have to be bound by those vulgar etiquette and cannot happily act according to our own wishes?"
"So I would like to ask the Supreme Elder to speak out and establish clan rules for this matter, so that the clan members who are related by blood for more than five generations can intermarry with each other, so that the love between this junior and Guangyin can be fulfilled!"
In the meeting hall, Zhou Tongming completely ignored the strange looks in the eyes of other tribesmen in the hall, looked directly at Zhou Yang with an excited face, and spoke loudly and loudly about his request.
After he finished speaking, he immediately knelt down on the ground with a bang, his head banging and kowtowed heavily to Zhou Yang, shouting: "I beg the Supreme Elder to show mercy and help this junior and Guangyin!"
The sound of kowtows and shouts echoed in the meeting hall one after another.
Zhou Tongming seemed to have made up his mind that he would not stop if Zhou Yang did not agree.
Zhou Yang frowned when he saw this scene, feeling quite dissatisfied with Zhou Tongming's behavior.
Although he also knew that the other party's fundamental purpose in doing this was to grasp his last life-saving straw.
The change in his expression naturally did not escape the observation of Zhou Guangxiang and other monks in the first two rows closest to him.
Seeing his frown, law enforcement elder Zhou Guangkun, who had looked a little ugly after Zhou Tongming came out, immediately stood up and looked at Zhou Tongming and shouted loudly: "That's enough! Zhou Tongming, what do you want to do? You want to die.
Are you here to threaten the Supreme Elder to make an exception for you? Do you still have family rules and laws in your eyes? Do you want to rebel?"
As soon as Zhou Guangkun finished his drink, the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang also said: "It is against human ethics for an aunt and nephew to fall in love. My Zhou family has always adhered to the order of elders and younger ones. You and Guang Yin grew up in the school together.
, how can you not know this? Knowing this and knowingly committing the crime, what shame do you have to ask the Supreme Elder to make an exception for you?"
As soon as the two heavyweights spoke, Zhou Guangtai, the elder of the Zhou family, immediately agreed: "What the patriarch said is absolutely true. If we monks of the Zhou family don't even abide by the most basic human ethics, wouldn't it mean that other people will be called upon to do so?" Are the family members laughing their heads off? Zhou Tongming, please get up quickly and don’t take advantage of the Supreme Elder’s compassion to cause trouble!"
However, facing the scoldings of these heavyweights of the Zhou family, Zhou Tongming, who was kneeling on the ground, acted as if he had never heard of it. He just kept kowtowing and shouting: "I beg the Supreme Elder to show mercy and help this junior and Guang Yin!"
Because he knocked too hard and did not use magical power to protect him, his forehead was now a bloody mess, and his rather handsome face was dyed red with his own blood.
Many tribesmen around him who were similar in age saw this scene with unbearable expressions on their faces, but due to their status, no one dared to stand up and plead for him.