When a family gets bigger, all kinds of shitty things can happen.
Zhou Yang had never imagined that the Zhou family monks could be an exception.
This time, he was a little surprised and angry when he first heard about Zhou Tongming's incident, but after he came back to his senses and thought about it carefully, he had a new understanding.
This matter is nothing new. After every large family reaches a certain level of population, this kind of thing is unavoidable.
What's more, in this world, there is no saying that people with the same surname cannot intermarry. It is common for secular mortals of the Zhou family to intermarry with each other. Even the concubines taken by many monks of the Zhou family are mostly ordinary girls of the Zhou family who have the blood of the Zhou family.
Therefore, in terms of customs, intermarriage between monks of the same race and surname is not unacceptable in this world, and is even widespread.
The current patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Guangxiang, has his own parents, who are of the same clan and have the same surname. Logically speaking, he should not have any objections in this regard.
But now he is righteously and clearly opposed to the marriage between Zhou Tongming and Zhou Guangyin.
Zhou Yang analyzed what he just said and soon discovered that what he opposed was not actually the intermarriage of the same clan but the same surname, but the "love between aunt and nephew".
Zhou Guangyin is Zhou Tongming's aunt in terms of seniority, although she is actually only one year older than Zhou Tongming.
But in a cultivating family like the Zhou family, which values order between elders and younger ones and promotes respect for the inferior and the inferior, this kind of messing up the seniority and human relations is undoubtedly a taboo.
If Zhou Guangyin and Zhou Tongming are allowed to marry, will the children they give birth to in the future be counted as the "Tong" generation or the "Fu" generation?
Should they continue to refer to each other as aunt and nephew in the future? Or as husband and wife? How should other tribesmen call them?
Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand why Zhou Guangxiang and others firmly oppose the marriage of Zhou Guangyin and Zhou Tongming.
However, it is clear that Zhou Yang looked at Zhou Tongming on the ground with his head full of blood, but he knew in his heart that if he insisted on Zhou Guangxiang's verdict, this descendant who was deeply involved in the love between a man and a woman would most likely end up with the family.
They turned against each other and even eloped and left home.
Zhou Yang knows better than anyone else in the Zhou family how powerful something like love is, and the extent of the information he has access to is far beyond the reach of monks like the Zhou family who have been trapped within their families all their lives.
And this thing can never be banned. As long as there are men and women in this world, this thing will never disappear and can never be killed.
So Zhou Yang actually had a headache on how to deal with this matter.
Of course he could make a special case for Zhou Tongming and Zhou Guangyin. With his prestige in the Zhou family, I believe no one would dare to accuse him for this.
But if this special case is made, what should he do if someone comes to him for the same thing in the future?
Moreover, he also needs to consider the opinions of Zhou Guangxiang and others, who are all managers he selected. If he directly denies their actions, it will be a major blow to their prestige.
After thinking about it like this, Zhou Yang's eyes flashed and he made a decision.
With a wave of his hand, he fired a soft magic power that knocked Zhou Tongming unconscious. Then he looked at the law enforcement elder Zhou Guangkun and asked: "Are there many cases like this in the clan?"
Hearing Zhou Yang's question, Zhou Guangkun quickly replied respectfully: "It has happened several times before. Later, after our advice and modification of the isolation measures, the tribesmen calmed down and figured it out, and no longer entangled each other.
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After speaking, he paused, then looked at Zhou Yang with a sincere face and said: "Sir, please forgive me for speaking bluntly. In your capacity, there is no need to pay attention to such a trivial matter. Don't look at the fact that the two of them are in love now.
Life or death, life or death, but as long as they can't see each other for five or ten years, when the impulse dissipates, they will naturally stop thinking and accept the reality."
Hearing this, Zhou Yang nodded first, then shook his head and said: "Your method may be good. The passage of time can dilute a lot of things, but if five or ten years later they still have not forgotten each other, what are you going to do? Continue.
Let them not see each other for ten or twenty years?"
"This..." Zhou Guangkun looked stunned, looking at Zhou Yang with his lips pursed, unable to answer.
"I understand what you mean. This kind of messing up seniority and human relations cannot be allowed to develop normally."
"But I don't want any of the children of the Zhou family to have grudges with the family because of this kind of thing, and thus do things that are detrimental to the interests of the family."
"I have an idea here. You all have to listen to it. If you think it is acceptable, we will do it this way in the future. If you think it still doesn't work, let's discuss it again!"
Zhou Yang looked at the elders who were all focusing on him and the Zhou family members in the hall, and spoke his thoughts in a deep voice.
"My idea is very simple. The formation master will set up a special illusion formation, and then put Zhou Tongming and Zhou Guangyin into the formation to accept the test. If they face various difficulties and obstacles in the illusion formation, they can still not forget each other and stick to each other until the end.
, then of course we, the elders, do not need to do evil things like beating mandarin ducks."
"But if the two of them cannot persevere in the illusion array until they finally pass the test, it proves that the love between the two of them is not as strong as they imagined. If they are still unwilling to end this relationship by then, we, the
As elders, it’s never too late to fight against each other!”
After Zhou Yang finished speaking, he glanced at everyone in the hall, waved his hand and said, "Now you can express your attitude."
"The junior agrees with the Supreme Elder's proposal, but at the same time, the junior also has a small suggestion, that is, if the two of them really pass the test, one of them must change his name, voluntarily give up his status as a family monk, and serve the family as a relative!"
As the clan leader, Zhou Guangxiang was the first to express his support for Zhou Yang's proposal and made concessions after Zhou Yang made his decision.
However, although he made concessions, he also made his bottom line clear.
When Zhou Yang heard his suggestion, he thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay."
"Everything must be obeyed by the Supreme Elder."
"Junior seconded the proposal."
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The Supreme Elder and the clan leader, who have the highest status in the clan, have reached an agreement, and it is difficult for other Zhou family members to dare to raise different opinions.
What's more, they are both of the same race. In the case of Zhou Tongming and Zhou Guangyin, no one is really willing to become enemies with them for the rest of their lives.
After reaching an agreement in this way, Zhou Tongming, who was in a coma, was quickly cured of his injuries and reawakened.
When he woke up and heard Zhou Yang's decision, he was so excited that regardless of the wound on his forehead that had just healed, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Yang to thank Zhou Yang: "Thank you, the Supreme Elder, for making it possible. Thank you, the Supreme Elder, for making it possible..."
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With the example of Zhou Tongming in the past, some members of the Zhou family came forward to tell Zhou Yang about the injustice they had encountered within the clan, and asked Zhou Yang to make the decision for them.
However, after Zhou Yang listened to each incident, he discovered that most of the so-called injustices encountered by these people were not really unfair treatment, but that they were subjectively dissatisfied with the handling methods of the family deacons, elders and clan leaders. Therefore,
Only after seeing Zhou Tongming successfully overthrowing the patriarch and law enforcement elders did he want to follow suit.
After finding out the truth, Zhou Yang naturally admonished and reprimanded these tribesmen who had evil intentions without mercy, and fined each of them three years of salary.
However, for some clan members who did encounter unfair treatment, he did not choose to protect those family managers. He directly punished those managers who made mistakes on the spot with salary or dismissal or demotion.
After such impartial treatment and rectification, Zhou Yang's prestige in the hearts of those tribesmen once again rose to a new level.
After what happened at this meeting spread, the new generation of the Zhou family and his relatives who were not familiar with him at first had a much stronger sense of identification with him as the Supreme Elder.
This is just like the people in Shengdou always hope that Lord Qingtian will uphold justice for them. When such Lord Qingtian appears, the people will soon regard him as a god and worship him.
"Okay, now that the requests of all the tribesmen have been processed, I will announce some things next."
In the meeting hall, after Zhou Yang had dealt with the requests of all the participating tribesmen, he suddenly stood up, looked at the many tribesmen in the hall, and said something he had been prepared to say for a long time.
"There are three things I want to say. One is that the conditions for the family to produce the Foundation Establishment Pill are fully met. From now on, every twenty years, the family will refine one or two furnaces of the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Start a [seed plan] within."
"The purpose of the [Seed Plan] is to support those members of the Zhou family who are expected to build a foundation. Those who want to sign up for the [Seed Plan] must meet one of the following conditions."
"The first is people who have outstanding talents in the four aspects of weapon refining, alchemy, talisman making, and formation formation; the second is people with super fighting talent and perseverance; the third is people with quick thinking and extraordinary wisdom.
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"As long as clan members meet the above conditions and are successfully selected into the [Seed Plan] through the family assessment, they can exchange the foundation-building pills from the family for half-price to use for their own foundation-building, with no limit on the number of times!"
"As for the second thing I want to say, the family has built a ninth hall, called the War Hall, which specializes in fighting and fighting. In the future, as long as there is no particularly serious matter, the family will only send troops to fight abroad.
The war hall monks participate, and all the monks selected into the war hall will receive a full set of standard equipment given free of charge by the family and practice special secret techniques for free!"
"The last thing I want to say is the third thing I want to say, which is to fully liberalize the family's guest recruitment system and recruit special talents that are beneficial to the development of the family from all the immortal world. For the outstanding ones, after being tested, we can even help them build their foundation.