Of course, just having merit is not enough, there must also be supporting punishment measures. This punishment does not need to be done by Jiang Chen.
The so-called law of heaven is clear, and retribution is not good. As the manager of the City of Undeserved Death, if you do good deeds and perform meritorious deeds, you will naturally be punished if you do not do well.
This punishment is sent by the law of heaven. It cannot be avoided and can only be resisted. It will only affect your cultivation at first. If you don't repent, it will eventually turn into a punishment from heaven and destroy you.
The supervision of heaven, clear rewards and punishments, and the powerful backing of Jiang Chen make the disciples of Shangqing Palace unable to be influenced by outsiders. Although this cannot guarantee that they will not make mistakes 100%, it can also eliminate the possibility of them making mistakes to the greatest extent.
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Now it seems that Jiang Chen's method is still acceptable. At least they have managed the city of Fusi very well for their own path.
As for whether they will change in the future, Jiang Chen cannot guarantee it. The only thing he can do is to try to avoid this possibility.
The management staff of Wusi City are changed every thousand years. This is something Jiang Chen has long thought about. He cannot let them stay in office for too long, lest their mentality changes.
This is enough to ensure that even if there is a problem with the managers of the City of Wasteland in a certain term, there will be a chance to correct the chaos if the next term is replaced.
As for the management personnel of Wusi City for several consecutive terms, there are problems, then this is not a problem of the system, but a problem of Shangqing Palace, which needs to be cleaned up in time.
"Normally speaking, as long as I don't die and my mentality doesn't change, the general policy will not go wrong."
Jiang Chen knows that there is another way to prevent the corruption of people's hearts, and that is to continuously become stronger. As long as he is strong enough and does not change his original intention, then his will can be carried out, even if the people below have the intention.
If you are dissatisfied, you don't dare to violate it openly and secretly. The most you can do is to do something within the rules.
In this way, although there are minor problems, the overall policy will not waver, and the overall situation is still good and positive.
This method was not the first one that Jiang Chen thought of. The first person who thought of this method and did it was Taoist Hongjun. He directly followed Taoism, replaced the heart of heaven with his own heart, and divided the world between good and evil.
Said that the strength has become the strongest in the world, no one!
Because Daozu is strong enough, Daozu's will has been implemented and has not wavered to this day. Xuanmen is still the right way, and its mission is to save the world and save people, and people's hearts have not fallen.
Looking at the entire prehistoric period, who among the Xuanmen dares to do bad things blatantly? No one, including those with great supernatural powers, dare not do bad things blatantly. At most, they can do shameful things secretly without daring to expose them.
This is the embodiment of the implementation of Tao Ancestor's will. Immortals are different from mortals, and they are not allowed to kill ordinary people. Immortals can be free, but they must not build on the suffering of others.
As long as the Taoist ancestors do not perish, the Xuanmen Immortal Way will always be the right way.
As long as a person is strong enough, what can he do? Daozu used himself as an example to tell everyone in the prehistoric era that as long as he was strong enough, his rules would be the rules of the entire prehistoric world, and his view of good and evil would be the view of good and evil of heaven.
It is not an exaggeration to say that today's concepts of good and evil emerged under the influence of Taoist ancestors. Before Taoist enlightenment, there was no good and evil in heaven and earth, only strong and weak. The strong were always right and the weak were always wrong!
This is what is called spreading virtue to the world.
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"In a world where the power of an individual can destroy the world, a powerful existence has such a great influence on the world that it can even influence the direction of the world."
Jiang Chen understands very well that no matter how perfect a policy is, problems will arise if it is implemented by people.
After all, policies don’t speak, but people do. And if you want to prevent your policies from being misinterpreted, the best way is not to formulate a complete set of punishment measures, but to make yourself stronger.
As long as you are strong enough, your words are the absolute truth. No one dares to violate it, and no one dares to act like a monster.
"Get stronger!"
With a sigh, Jiang Chen's figure disappeared from the spot and arrived at the city lord's palace in Fusui City.
There is a city lord's palace in the City of Fusi. This is Jiang Chen's mansion, which is similar to a human palace. It is where he and his civil and military ministers handle official business.
Although Jiang Chen is not in the City of Wasted Death all year round, the City Lord's Mansion is not deserted. On the contrary, it is extremely lively. Basically, the disciples of the Shangqing Palace work here to deal with various matters in the City of Wasted Death.
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In the city lord's palace, in a certain hall, several figures wearing black official robes were gathered together and looking at the documents in their hands.
This document is also a treasure. It was obtained from the Jiang family of the human race. Its function is similar to the computers of later generations. All the information gathered from the streets, streets, and yamen of Wansi City will be classified into categories and appear in this document.
Otherwise, it would be useless to say that the city is so big and there are so many problems that need to be compiled every day. If you read the documents one after another, you won't have enough time to just flip through these documents. There will be no time to deal with official business.
"I've met the ancestor!"
Jiang Chen's figure suddenly appeared in the hall, which really startled everyone, but soon after they recognized who it was, they knelt down on the ground in excitement and kowtowed to Jiang Chen.
Judging from the fact that they could recognize Jiang Chen's identity at a glance, they had a close relationship with Jiang Chen and must have met Jiang Chen.
In fact, although Jiang Chen is the founder of Shangqing Palace, not many of his disciples have ever seen him in Shangqing Palace.
Because he was away from home all year round and rarely in Shangqing Palace. Even if he went back occasionally, he would either leave in a hurry or stay in seclusion in Shangqing Palace and rarely communicate with his disciples.
It can be said that the Shangqing Palace is becoming more and more prosperous and famous today, which is all due to Zhang Daoling. It was because of him that he opened the gates widely, preached to the world, and preached vigorously, so there were tens of thousands of Shangqing Palace disciples.
Regarding the Shangqing Palace, Jiang Chen did three things in total. The first thing was to create the Shangqing Palace. The second thing was to accept Zhang Daoling as his disciple. The third thing was to reshape Cangshan Mountain.
The remaining matters, such as how to develop the Shangqing Palace, recruiting disciples, and teaching disciples, are all handled by Zhang Daoling.
In the huge Shangqing Palace, Zhang Daoling was the only disciple of Jiang Chen. The rest of the disciples were all taught by Zhang Daoling and were either his disciples or his disciples.
This shows how irresponsible Jiang Chen is!
Now these disciples actually know Jiang Chen, which shows that they were Zhang Daoling's disciples during his lifetime, and they were among the first batch. They had visited Jiang Chen with Zhang Daoling back then. This was a unique benefit for the first batch of disciples.
If it were the second group of disciples, they might not have met Jiang Chen.
As for why it is said that they were alive, it is naturally because they are dead. To be honest, among Zhang Daoling's first batch of disciples, the majority were those with poor qualifications, while those with good qualifications were rare.
The reason is very simple. Before joining the Shangqing Palace, Zhang Daoling was just a casual cultivator. He was not as good as those famous sects. Naturally, he could not receive many good disciples. Anyone who could see through it would be accepted as his disciples. This resulted in the qualifications of this group of disciples.
If you are low, it will be difficult to achieve any great achievements in the future.
But things were different starting from the second group of disciples. Zhang Daoling became prosperous and became a disciple of Jiang Chen and a disciple of the Sage of the Shangqing Dynasty.
Therefore, the standards for accepting disciples have been raised. Those with poor qualifications will not be accepted; those with low talents will not be accepted.
Such polarization resulted in two situations. After hundreds of years passed, most of the second group of disciples became immortals and were able to live freely in the world. However, due to their limited qualifications, many of the first group of disciples ran out of life.
The soul has gone to the underworld.
However, although the qualifications and talents of this group of disciples are not good, they are lucky. They are Zhang Daoling's first disciples. They share the same hardships, how can they not have feelings?
In addition, they were the first batch of disciples of Shangqing Palace. If they were all wiped out, the saint would not look good.
Therefore, based on various considerations, Zhang Daoling specially asked Jiang Chen for a favor on their behalf, asking Jiang Chen to give them another chance.
After all, he was the only disciple, so he still had to give them face. So, Jiang Chen thought about it and gave them two choices.
The first is to let them bring the Shangqing Daoyun to reincarnation, so as to ensure that after their reincarnation, their new bodies will have the talent to become immortals. At that time, the disciples of Shangqing Palace will come forward to transform them one by one.
Return, return to the path of immortality.
In this way, when they succeed in cultivation, they can recover their past life memories.
Basically, all the great sects of immortality have this arrangement for their disciples who cannot become immortals. After all, as the disciples are passed down from generation to generation, who can guarantee that every disciple can become an immortal?
And reincarnation gives them a guarantee. If it doesn't work in this life, then come back in the next life. If it doesn't work in the next life, then go to the next life...
Anyway, the sect will not give up on you, and sooner or later you will become an immortal.
This is the benefit of joining a large sect. It will not only protect you for one life, but also protect you for life after life. If it were you, would you refuse to join a large sect?
The second option Jiang Chen gave to his dead disciples was to convert to Shintoism and join the Yinshen system.
At that time, Jiang Chen happened to be carrying out a pilot reform of the City God system within the Shangqing Palace, but could not find suitable manpower. There is no doubt that these dead Shangqing Palace disciples can be said to be the best candidates.
At that time, the choice Jiang Chen gave them was that some of them would stay in the human world and be city gods to protect them, and some of them would go to the City of Fusi to manage the ghosts.
Whether to reincarnate or to convert to the Shinto way is a question. In the end, a small number of those disciples chose to reincarnate and continue to follow the immortal path. But most of the disciples chose to stay and convert to the Shinto path.
They have given up on themselves and think that their qualifications are just like this. If they cannot become immortals in this life, they will be miserable in the next life. In this case, they might as well switch to Shinto and try their best.
Anyway, as the Patriarch, there is no need to trick them. Of course, if you trick them, wouldn’t it be better? Even for his own face, the Patriarch will give them a lot of compensation afterwards!
In ancient times, it was despised for a disciple to kill his master, and vice versa, it was equally despised for a master not to treat his disciples as human beings.
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"You guys, please get up!" Jiang Chen waved his hand to let them get up, and then asked with great concern: "How are you doing here? Have you ever encountered any trouble?"
"Master Qi, it's good for us here!"
"As for the trouble, with the masters of the Underworld taking care of us, no force dares to come and provoke us without opening their eyes!"
The five disciples in the hall looked at each other, and finally the eldest one came forward and reported back to Jiang Chen.
The Shangqing Palace is just a new force. Even if it bears the name of Shangqing Sage, it is difficult to conceal its humble nature. Others may not say anything about this situation, but they still look down upon it in their hearts.
But it is like this. The City of Fusi occupies such a precious land, blocking the passage between the human world and the Netherworld, and there are no other forces coming to fight for it. Why do you think it is, is it because you are worried about the Sage of the Supreme Purity, or is Jiang Chen's reputation too great?
neither!
The main reason is that the city of Wansi is in the name of Ming Si. Ming Si is a force created by Emperor Fengdu, and it is also the strongest force in the Netherworld today. Even if Emperor Fengdu falls, there are still two people in Ming Si.
Zunzhunsheng is in charge.
This kind of strength is enough to intimidate all directions. The city of Fusi is guarded by Hades underground and Jiang Chen is guarding above ground, so naturally no one dares to mess with it.
One of the only two quasi-sages left in the Ming Division is from the human race and is related to the Jiang family. From this, we can see the strength of the Ming Division's support for the City of Wan Si.
Jiang Chen knew all these situations, but he still asked this question. The main purpose was to express his concern for the City of Wan Si. In other words, to make these five disciples feel his concern for the City of Wan Si.
People's hearts are fickle, and these disciples are good now, but in the future, who can guarantee that they won't change?
What if they see that Jiang Chen has not been coming to Waishi City for many years, think that Jiang Chen doesn’t care about Waishi City, and then try to manage the city, causing a big mess in the end? Wouldn’t that be looking for trouble for Jiang Chen?
Therefore, Jiang Chen expresses his concern for Wusi City from time to time, which can serve as a warning to them, telling them that I still care about Wusi City and you should not mess around.
Knowing this in their hearts, these disciples will have scruples when doing things in the future and will not dare to adjust the bottom line easily.
"Well, Ming Si is now in charge of an elder of our clan. With him around, there will indeed be no problems in the city of Wan Si. But it is better to rely on people and heaven than to rely on yourself. You still need to practice hard and strive to protect Wan Si as soon as possible.
This burden of the city.”
After the warning, Jiang Chen began to draw the big picture. If you want the people under your command to follow you and work hard, it is not enough to make them fear you, you must also let them see a bright future.
Jiang Chen is now promising them that as long as the city of Fusi is managed well, their future will definitely be indispensable.
"Thank you, Patriarch!"
"We will definitely manage the City of Fusi well and never let it get into trouble."
The five people heard Jiang Chen's hint and expressed their sincere excitement.
Next, Jiang Chen first encouraged the five people, then asked them about the situation in Wusei City, and finally asked them to take them around the city.
But at this moment, an unexpected disciple happened.