Wang Shouye nodded and asked everyone: "Elders, if you have anything to add, you can also ask it."
The great elder asked: "What about the mortals in the family? There are more than 100,000 people now. With so many people, we have to take care of them, right?"
Wang Daoyuan replied: "I want to settle the monks' affairs first, and then set up a general affairs hall to manage ordinary people.
Since the great elder asked, let me tell you in advance.
The family's management of mortals is also very careless.
Every place where mortals live is also based on a village, and the family sends people to inspect it regularly.
When managing mortals, monks also dealt directly with the village chiefs.
To find disciples with spiritual roots, it would be a waste of time to send clansmen to visit every village.
Therefore, I plan to manage the mortals in the family territory in separate areas. Several nearby villages will be divided into a township and set up a township chief to manage them.
In several neighboring townships, a town can also be set up with a town mayor to manage it.
The area close to Yuquan Peak is not very dangerous and can be completely left to mortal management.
In villages and towns in peripheral areas, the stewards of the guard hall can be placed in charge.
The management of these towns and villages, as well as the recruitment of children with spiritual roots, can be left to the General Affairs Office.
If the family has something to give, the General Affairs Office only needs to give instructions to the mayors of each town.
If a family wants to select tribesmen with spiritual roots, it only needs to notify them in advance and let ordinary tribesmen in each township and village directly bring their children of the right age to the town.
The monks only need to go directly to the town to test these disciples, which saves a lot of time.
Of course, if these mortal mayors and township chiefs deceive superiors and deceive subordinates, and use their power for personal gain, then they will be handed over to the punishment hall."
Fourth uncle Wang Shouyuan asked: "How do you manage the silkworms? White Jade Lingmulberry is planted and picked, and Gui Lingzhi Hall takes care of it.
The matters of raising forbidden silkworms and spinning silk are not under the control of Lingzhi Hall, which is very troublesome.
In addition, there are long-eared rabbits, jade-bone pheasants, golden chamois, and forest horses used for transportation.
If these things are left alone, the family's spiritual land will be ruined by them."
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said: "Thanks to my fourth uncle for reminding me, I only thought about solving big problems and almost forgot these things.
For industries that are currently too small to have a separate hall, a small hall can be established, called a division.
For example, to manage the sericulture industry, a Lingseri Company can be established.
To manage spirit beasts, you can establish a spirit beast department.
When the scale is large, you can directly upgrade it to a hall.
The manager of the Spiritual Candidates Department and the Spiritual Beast Department can be called the General Manager, and his subordinates can also manage multiple managers.
The Grand Steward is held by a non-elder clan member. His title and treatment are lower than those of the elders, and his authority and treatment are the same as or slightly lower than those of the elders.
Like the elders, all general managers are directly managed by the great elders.
I suggest that each church does not necessarily have to be managed by elders.
Some clan members have management talents, but their cultivation and contribution to the family are not enough to serve as elders. They can also temporarily serve as the general manager and manage the hall.
Where the responsibilities of various departments and departments overlap, they can be further divided.
By the way, Uncle Nine, how many monks are there in the family now?"
Uncle Jiu remembered these important data very clearly, without thinking at all, he opened his mouth and said: "Currently, there are eighty-five monks in the family.
Among them, there are still ten people from the Zhi generation, twenty-five from the Shou generation, more than thirty people from the Dao generation, and there are currently thirty-two.
There are also married couples and monks who have married into the family, a total of eighteen people."
Wang Daoyuan asked: "I heard that the probability of a mortal whose ancestor was a monk giving birth to a child with spiritual roots is one in ten at the highest and one in a thousand at the lowest.
There are more than 100,000 mortals in our family, and even though a large part of the clan is descended from our ancestors for more than thirty generations, the probability of giving birth to a monk is reduced to one in a thousand.
There should be at least a few hundred monks, the current number of monks in the family is less than a hundred, what's going on?"
The Great Elder replied: "There is indeed a saying that the mortal descendants of monks have a higher probability of giving birth to offspring with spiritual roots.
But this is not only a matter of bloodline, but also a matter of living environment.
Close descendants of monks live in places with strong spiritual energy, and occasionally eat spiritual grains, and some spiritual energy will accumulate in their bodies.
Their children, affected by the accumulated spiritual energy in their bodies, have a higher probability of having spiritual roots.
If you live in a place with thin spiritual energy and cannot eat spiritual grains, the probability of your offspring having spiritual roots is not much higher than that of ordinary mortals."
Wang Daoyuan pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that in order to increase the number of monks in the family, we must first gather the clansmen in places with abundant spiritual energy.
In addition, the family will provide spiritual grain for free to the close mortal relatives of the monks in the family, as well as the wives and concubines of each monk, after they become pregnant.
With the family's financial resources, it is impossible to provide for all the clan members, so we can only focus on the monk's close relatives first.
These matters can be left to the management of the General Affairs Hall in the future, but now they can only be managed by the great elders.
In the future, the treatment of clan members will also be changed, and monthly tributes will be distributed based on the size of the contribution.
However, these matters are relatively detailed and cannot be discussed clearly in a short while.
It’s better to set the general framework first and then gradually improve it later.
If there is no problem, then assign managers to each hall and the two departments.
I have been away from home for a long time and know very little about the internal affairs of the family. I am not sure which elder is suitable to take charge of which hall. It is better for the clan leader to discuss with the elders to decide."
After he finished speaking, Wang Shouye asked: "Do the elders have anything to add? If not, we will discuss which hall each elder has jurisdiction over."
None of the elders had any objections, and then they started discussing the issue of each elder's authority.
Spiritual plants, elixirs, and spiritual talismans are purely technical institutions and cannot be managed by people who do not understand them.
Fourth uncle Wang Shouyuan serves as the elder of Lingzhi and manages Lingzhi Hall.
The seventh uncle Wang Shouhong serves as the elixir elder and manages the elixir hall.
The fifth uncle Wang Shouyi serves as the elder of Lingfu.
Wang Shouyi is the biological son of Jiu Shugong and the father of Wang Daocheng.
Wang Shouyi is very similar to Wang Zhide. His cultivation talent is not bad, and his talent for spiritual talismans is also above average.
At this time, he was not only at the peak of his qi training, but also a second-level low-level spiritual talisman master.
It is only natural that he should serve as the spiritual talisman elder.
The tenth uncle Wang Zhihe was directly promoted to the merchant elder and managed the merchant hall.
Both the Guard Hall and the Transport Hall require strong enough fighting skills.
In addition, the transportation hall also needs to be familiar with waterways.
These two positions are best managed by the Eighth Uncle and the Ninth Aunt. The Ninth Aunt guards the northern part of the family all year round and has little to do with water transportation.
Therefore, the guardian elder is served by the ninth aunt Wang Shoujing, and the transportation elder is served by the eighth uncle Wang Shoujiang.
The Penal Hall was temporarily replaced by Wang Daoyuan.
The Finance Hall is too important and there are no elders who are good at finance, so it can only be directly managed by the great elder.
The mine hall is the most troublesome, including prospecting, mining, building various facilities, and managing the protection and logging of forest farms.
The most troublesome jobs are, of course, reserved for those who need the most experience.
Wang Daoyuan did not want to be the clan leader, so the position of clan leader for the next generation fell to Wang Daochang.
Therefore, Wang Daochang served as the mine elder and managed the family mine and forest farm.
The chief manager of the Spiritual Beast Department is held by his fifteenth uncle Wang Shouchang.
Wang Shouchang's cultivation talent is considered to be above average. He is over sixty years old and has reached the eighth level of Qi training.
He did not practice any art of cultivating immortals, but was only interested in raising spiritual beasts and was responsible for raising the forest-crossing horses.
Later, Wang Daoyuan acquired several spiritual beasts, and they were all under his control.
The Wang family had no inheritance of raising spirit beasts before. There were more spirit beasts. Wang Daoyuan would simplify the "Secret Code of Yuling Spirits" seized from Zhang Dacheng and give it to him.
Wang Shouchang had no objection to managing spiritual beasts.
The selection of the general manager of the Silkworm Company caused great controversy.