Of course, the division of interests involved in all aspects after the separation cannot be explained clearly in a few words.
When it comes to their own interests, the majesty of Zhou Yang, the supreme elder of the family, is automatically ignored by most Zhou family monks.
Whether they are those foundation-building monks who are qualified to open a branch line or those in the Qi-training stage, they all take turns speaking out for their own interests.
In fact, these Zhou family monks all know that since Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang, two monks from the Purple Mansion family, have proposed a "family separation" plan and come up with a detailed plan, they will definitely not cancel it because of their objections.
How can the arm be twisted past the thigh!
Since ancient times, the world of immortal cultivation has respected the strong. As strong men, Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang were willing to listen to the suggestions of middle and low-level monks like them. This was because people gave them face and did so for the sake of the overall situation.
But this does not mean that the suggestions of these low- and middle-level monks will definitely be adopted by the two most powerful people in the family.
Since they cannot make the two top family leaders cancel the family division plan through opposition, they can only seek the best interests for themselves within this plan.
Regarding how to distribute the foundation building pills after separation?
How can branch monks obtain family contribution points to exchange for foundation-building pills if they do not receive family benefits and offerings?
Are the various spiritual cultivation sites on the main line of the family Lingshan open to monks from other families?
Can offshoot monks who want to learn the various arts of cultivating immortals enjoy family subsidies?
Does the maternity subsidy benefit monks from the family branch?
If a genius monk appears among the descendants of an ordinary monk, will he still enjoy the benefits of the family's original subsidies?
If after a branch of the Foundation-Building Monk has passed away, no new Foundation-Building Monk appears in that branch, is it still necessary to keep this branch?
…
It can be said that what Zhou Yang thought of was brought up by hundreds of Zhou family monks after thinking about it together.
What Zhou Yang didn't think of, these people worked together and came up with it.
From big things like exchanging Foundation Establishment Pills to small things like subsidy for low-level materials involving dozens of low-grade spiritual stones, people with immediate interests asked about every detail.
And Zhou Yang didn't show any impatience towards any of this. Whenever a tribesman raised a new question, he would think carefully before responding.
He knew that every seemingly small decision he made here today would affect the interests of countless Zhou family monks for thousands of years to come.
Although he could still "patch" the rights and responsibilities of the main line monks and branch line monks after the separation in the future, the supplementary regulations made at that time could not be as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as the first version of the regulations now.
So he would rather be tired and suffer at this time than have to work hard to make up for his mistakes if he makes a mistake later.
After discussing this for a whole day, all the matters after the separation were finally decided.
Generally speaking, there is nothing wrong with the general direction that Zhou Yang thought. After the separation, the Zhou family will still be the Zhou family. When facing outsiders, all the monks of the Zhou family, regardless of the main branches or ordinary monks, have one name - the Zhou family.
monk.
Internally, main line monks, branch line monks, and ordinary monks each enjoy different rights and responsibilities.
When rights and responsibilities are clear, internal conflicts will be smaller when competing for internal resources.
For example, in the past, in order to compete for the position of a mine manager, when the difference in ability between them was not particularly large, some Zhou family monks would first seek connections through various connections, hoping to "definitely" decide on themselves in advance.
Once such an "appointed person" appears, it will inevitably arouse great dissatisfaction among other monks, and then create resentment and hostility towards that "appointed person" and the elders behind him.
Everyone is a member of the Zhou family, there is no distinction between superior and inferior. I am more capable than you. Why is this manager position not given to me?
But now, after the distinction between main line monks, branch line monks, and ordinary monks has been determined, when competing for management, if there is not much difference in ability, the main line monks will naturally give priority to the branch line monks, and the branch line monks will give priority to ordinary monks.
At this time, if you want to ask why it was given to him but not to you, I can tell you openly and openly that this is how the family rules are set, and you are not as good as him because of your background!
The same applies to exchanging Foundation Establishment Pills. The main line can obtain the exchange right for one Foundation Establishment Pill every twenty years, and the branch line can obtain the exchange right for one Foundation Establishment Pill every thirty years. This exchange right is the highest level priority.
For example, the Zhou family can only produce eleven Foundation-Building Pills every thirty years. The main veins and branch veins add up to ten more, and one of them can collect enough family contribution points to exchange for the Foundation-Building Pills.
For ninth-level Qi-training monks, ordinary family monks can only redeem the Foundation-Building Pills after the ninth-level Qi-training monks in each main line and branch line have redeemed them first.
In Zhou Yang's previous life, some schools recruited new students. As long as they passed the passing mark, foreign students were given priority over domestic students, and students from within the region were given priority over foreign students.
This system has naturally been criticized and ridiculed, but it has continued and been gradually accepted by people.
Absolute fairness cannot exist in any world, especially in a world like the world of immortality where the strong are respected.
The descendants of the strong will naturally have more privileges than ordinary people.
If you don't face up to this kind of privilege and just insist on pursuing absolute fairness and equality for everyone, then even a legendary figure like Zhou Yang who personally created an unprecedentedly powerful family will eventually be betrayed and defeated by those who he personally supported.
And even if he is finally able to forcefully suppress those who betrayed him, the new generation of helpers he supports will continue to betray him for the benefit of future generations, unless he can ask everyone to be like him and not have offspring or accept disciples.
Don’t take a wife!
But wouldn’t that be more cruel to those people?
Therefore, he must face up to this kind of family privilege, clearly display the privilege to let people know, and let people understand from an early age that privilege exists in this world.
At the same time, he also gave ordinary monks the opportunity to break their privileges and have special privileges.
That is, as long as a high-grade spiritual root monk appears among the descendants of ordinary monks, they will immediately receive better treatment than the main lineage monks. Breaking the privilege is directly designated as a "foundation-building seed" and gaining the right to use the foundation-building pill to build a foundation.
If ordinary monks can successfully build the foundation, they can naturally "achieve the Tao for one person and benefit future generations", allowing themselves and their descendants to become members of the privileged class.
And following the principle of incoming and outgoing, if a branch of the Zhou family fails to cultivate new foundation-building monks for hundreds of years after losing its foundation-building monks, the territory and branch status of its branch will be forfeited.
The family took it back and everyone became ordinary family monks again.
For the main vein, it is relaxed to within three hundred years!
Of course, Zhou Yang's original intention to implement the family division plan is not limited to the above. His real intention is to use this enfeoffment model to better rule the family's huge territory and prepare for the future to step out of the boundless sand sea.
.
There is also an ulterior motive, which is to confirm the legitimacy of the family bloodline and to confirm that the family bloodline headed by him is the orthodox direct line of the Zhou family.
After spending a lot of effort to finalize the family separation, Zhou Yang breathed a sigh of relief and felt like a big stone fell to the ground.
At this time, he was actually very glad that this world did not have the concept of "everyone is equal". The concept of "the strong is respected" was the mainstream consciousness in this world. Under this mainstream consciousness, he established privileges and divided
Only then will class reforms not encounter too much resistance and not form the fierce resistance imagined.
Thinking about it, these Zhou family monks are now a group of privileged class members compared to those monks from small families and helpless casual cultivators.
Since childhood, they have enjoyed privileges and benefits that those small family monks and casual monks do not have. Naturally, it is easier than anyone else to accept the privileges of the privileged class.
Because they have long been accustomed to the existence of such privileges, their desire to become branch monks and mainline monks is of course much stronger than their opposition to privileges.
After thinking about everything, Zhou Yang's face relaxed, and he looked at the several Zhou family foundation building monks in the hall with a smile and said: "Whether you want to open a branch, you decide for yourself after careful consideration. As the existing foundation building of my Zhou family,
All basic monks can apply to open a branch line for free. This is a special preferential treatment given by the family to you. If future monks want to apply to open a branch line, they must first collect 100,000 family contribution points!"
Hearing his words, several foundation-building monks in the audience couldn't help but look at each other, their eyes flickering and hesitating.
In the end, Zhou Yuanyao, the oldest person, was the first to speak up: "I am willing to open a branch, but I want to choose the Yuquan Lake Oasis as the foundation of the branch. I wonder if Ninth Brother will allow it?"
Zhou Yang heard this and immediately replied: "The Yuquan Lake Oasis is the place where my Zhou family made its fortune, and it is the ancestral land of my Zhou family. If others want to choose this place as the foundation of their branch, I won't allow it at all."
After saying that, he paused again, looked at Zhou Yuanyao with a doting look in his eyes, smiled softly and said, "But Yao'er, you are different. Since you have applied, from now on, the Yuquan Lake Oasis will be left to your lineage.
Take care of it, I hope you and your wife can take good care of it and prevent the ancestral land of my Zhou family from declining!"
As for why Zhou Yuanyao was different, no one present except Zhou Guangxiang knew it, and no one dared to ask.
In fact, Zhou Yuanyao's true identity and origin is considered an unsolved mystery in the Zhou family, and various speculations are circulating privately.
But no one dared to talk about this in front of Zhou Yang, and no one dared to ask Zhou Yuanyao herself about this. After all, Zhou Yuanyao was Zhou Yang's "sworn sister" in name.
With Zhou Yuanyao taking the lead, several other Zhou family foundation-building monks, except Zhou Fuyun who had just established the foundation and was born a girl, made it clear that he would not open a branch line, Zhou Guangqing, Zhou Tongyao, Zhou Tonghua, and Zhou Tongmin all expressed their intention to open a branch line.
will.
Zhou Yang also fulfilled his promise on the spot, dividing the spiritual veins and oasis of Haoyang Mountain to Zhou Guangqing as the branch foundation, and then selected three small oases in the new cultivation world where Rhinoceros Continent is located to raise the spiritual veins to the third-level low-grade, as the remaining
He laid down the branches of the three people and sent people to help them expand the oasis.
According to his original intention, he actually wanted these people to receive an already developed spiritual mountain as the foundation of the branch.
However, in the previous listening to opinions, many ordinary monks of the family expressed their concerns over the branch monks, fearing that using the existing Lingshan Mountain as the base of the branch would cause problems in the transfer of family industry resources in the future.
So after careful consideration, he decided to use this new plan.
He didn't feel there was any unfairness in doing so. Compared with Zhou Yuanyao and Zhou Guangqing who had paid more for the family, whether it was Zhou Tongmin who relied on his father Zhou Guangtai's legacy to succeed, or who enjoyed the preferential treatment of the family's "Seed Plan".
Neither Zhou Tongyao nor Zhou Tonghua, who had a successful foundation, made a great contribution to the family. Of course, they cannot be generalized with the previous two.