Cultivation Begins From The Desert

The division of interests involved in all aspects after the separation of the family is of course not something that can be explained clearly in a few words.

In the case of a matter of self-interest, the majesty of Zhou Yang, the elder of the family, was automatically ignored by most Zhou family monks.

Whether it is those who are qualified to open up a branch, or those who are in the Qi training period, they all take turns to speak out for their own interests.

These Zhou family monks actually know that since Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang, the two Zifu monks of the family, have proposed a plan to "separate the family" and come up with a detailed plan, they will definitely not cancel it because of their opposition.

How can the arm be twisted over the thigh!

Since ancient times, the world of cultivating immortals has always 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.

But this does not mean that the suggestions of these middle and low-level monks will definitely be adopted by the two highest powers in the family.

Since the two top family leaders cannot cancel the separation plan through opposition, they can only seek the maximum benefit for themselves within this plan.

How should the Zhu Ji Dan be distributed after the separation?

If the branch monks do not receive family benefits and enshrining, how can they obtain family contribution points to exchange for foundation building pills?

Are the cultivation spiritual lands owned by the family's main line, Lingshan, open to other family monks?

Can branch cultivators enjoy family subsidies if they want to learn all the arts of cultivating immortals?

Does the maternity subsidy benefit the monks of the family branch?

Will genius monks appear among the descendants of ordinary family monks still enjoy the benefits of the family's original subsidies?

If there is no new foundation-building monk in a certain branch after the foundation-building cultivator sits down, is it necessary to continue to keep this branch?

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It can be said that what Zhou Yang thought of, hundreds of Zhou family monks thought about it together, and thought of bringing it up.

What Zhou Yang didn't think of, these people also brought it up with the help of their brains.

From big things like exchanging foundation building pills to small things like subsidizing low-level materials involving dozens of low-grade spirit stones, everything big and small was asked by people with immediate interests.

And Zhou Yang didn't mean to be impatient with these, whenever a clansman raised a new question, he would think carefully before responding.

He knows that every seemingly small decision he makes here today will affect the interests of countless Zhou family monks in the future for thousands of years.

Although he can still "patch" the rights and responsibilities of the main line monks and branch line monks after the separation, the supplementary regulations made at that time cannot be as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as the current first version of the regulations.

So he would rather work harder at this time than to work hard to make up for his mistakes in the future.

After discussing and discussing like this for a full day, all the matters after the separation were finally settled.

Generally speaking, the general direction that Zhou Yang thought was correct. After the separation, the Zhou family was still the Zhou family. When facing outsiders, all Zhou family monks, no matter the main branch or ordinary monks, had a name——Zhou family monk.

Internally, the main monks, branch 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, some Zhou family monks would first use various connections to find contacts, hoping to "interpret" themselves in advance.

Once such "appointed personnel" appear, it will inevitably cause great dissatisfaction among other monks, and then generate resentment and hostility towards the "appointed personnel" and the elders behind them.

Everyone is a member of the Zhou family, there is no distinction between top and bottom, I am better than you, why is this position not given to me?

But now, after the distinction between the main line monks, branch line monks, and ordinary monks has been determined, when competing for management, if there is not much difference in ability, it is natural that the main line monks have priority over branch line monks, and branch line monks have priority over ordinary monks.

At this time, if you want to ask why he didn't give it to you, you can tell you openly, that's how the family rules are set, who told you that you were not as good as him!

The same is true for the exchange of Foundation Establishment Pills. The main line can obtain the exchange right of one Foundation Establishment Pill every 20 years, and the branches can obtain the exchange right of one Foundation Establishment Pill every 30 years. This exchange right is the highest level of priority.

For example, for example, the Zhou family can only produce eleven Foundation Establishment Pills every thirty years in the future, and there are ten main veins and branch veins, and there is just one family contribution point that is enough to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills. Qi training nine-level monks, ordinary family monks can only wait for the Qi training nine-level monks in each main vein and branch to exchange first, and when there are remaining foundation building pills, they can exchange for foundation building pills.

In Zhou Yang's previous life, some schools recruited new students. As long as they passed the pass line, foreign students gave priority to domestic students, and new students from the region gave priority to foreign students.

This system is naturally criticized and ridiculed, but it has continued and is gradually accepted by people.

Absolute fairness cannot exist in any world, especially in the world of cultivating immortals, 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 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 only be betrayed and defeated by those he personally supported.

And even if he can forcefully suppress those who betrayed him in the end, the new generation of helpers he supports in the future will continue to betray him for the benefit of future generations, unless he can ask everyone to have no offspring like him and no disciples Do not marry a wife!

But wouldn't that be more cruel to those people?

Therefore, he must face up to this family privilege, and let people know the privilege clearly, so that people can understand that there are privileges in this world from an early age.

At the same time, he also gave ordinary monks the opportunity to break their privileges and have privileges.

That is, as long as there are top-grade spiritual root monks among the descendants of ordinary monks, they can immediately get better treatment than the main line monks, break the privilege and directly set them as "foundation establishment seeds" by default, and obtain the right to use foundation establishment pills to establish foundations.

If ordinary monks can succeed in building a foundation, they can naturally "get the Tao by one person and benefit future generations", allowing themselves and their descendants to become members of the privileged class.

Moreover, following the principle of entry and exit, if a certain branch of the Zhou family fails to produce new foundation-building monks for a hundred years after losing its foundation-building monks, the territory and branch status of its branch will be lost. The family took 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 separation 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 to pave the way for getting out of the boundless sand sea in the future. .

Another ulterior motive is to confirm the legitimacy of the family bloodline, to make sure that the family bloodline dominated by him is the orthodoxy of the Zhou family's direct line.

After spending a lot of effort to confirm the separation, Zhou Yang also heaved a sigh of relief, feeling like a big rock had fallen to the ground.

At this time, he was actually very fortunate that the concept of "everyone is equal" did not come out in this world, and the concept of "the strong are respected" is the mainstream consciousness of this side of the world. Under this mainstream consciousness, his establishment of privileges, division The reform of the class will not encounter too much resistance, and there will be no fierce resistance as imagined.

Thinking about it, these monks of the Zhou family are already a group of privileged class members compared to those monks of small families, who are helpless casual monks.

Since they were young, they have enjoyed privileges and benefits that those small family monks and casual cultivators did not have. It is naturally easier for the privileged class to accept such things as privileges than anyone else.

Because they have long adapted to the existence of this kind of privilege, their desire to become branch cultivators and main cultivators is of course much stronger than the idea of ​​opposing privileges.

After trying to understand everything, Zhou Yang's expression relaxed, and he looked at the Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators in the hall with a smile on his face and said: "Whether you want to open up a branch, you can decide for yourself after careful consideration. Basic monks can apply for opening branches for free, this is the special preferential treatment given to you by the family, if future monks want to apply for opening branches, 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 hesitated.

In the end, Zhou Yuanyao, who was the most senior, was the first to speak out: "I am willing to open up a branch, but I want to choose the Yuquan Lake Oasis as the root of the branch. I wonder if Brother Jiu will allow it?"

Zhou Yang heard the words, and immediately replied: "The Yuquan Lake Oasis is the place where my Zhou family made a fortune, and it is the ancestral land of my Zhou family. If other people want to choose this place as the root of the branch, I will not allow it."

After he finished speaking, he paused again, looked at Zhou Yuanyao with doting eyes and smiled softly: "But Yaoer, you are different, since you have applied, then Yuquan Lake Oasis will be handed over to your lineage to fight Take care of it, I hope you and your wife can take care of it well and prevent my Zhou family's ancestors from falling!"

As for why Zhou Yuanyao was different, no one present except Zhou Guangxiang knew, and no one dared to ask.

In fact, regarding Zhou Yuanyao's true identity, it was an unresolved mystery of the Zhou family, and various speculations were circulated endlessly in private.

But no one dared to talk about this in front of Zhou Yang, and no one dared to ask Zhou Yuanyao about it. After all, Zhou Yuanyao was Zhou Yang's "righteous sister" in name.

With Zhou Yuanyao taking the lead, the other Zhou family foundation builders, except for Zhou Fuyun, who has just established the foundation and is a daughter, made it clear that he would not open up a branch, Zhou Guangqing, Zhou Tongyao, Zhou Tonghua, and Zhou Tongmin all spoke out to open up a branch. wishes.

Zhou Yang also fulfilled his promise on the spot, dividing the Lingmai and oasis of Haoyang Mountain to Zhou Guangqing as the root of the branch veins, and then in the new immortal world where Xijiaozhou is located, he chose three small oases to raise the Lingmai to the third-level inferior, as the remaining The branch foundation of the next 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 Lingshan as the branch foundation.

However, in the previous opinions, many ordinary monks of the family expressed their concerns about those branch monks, fearing that if the existing Lingshan was used as the root of the branch, there would be problems in the transfer of family business resources in the future.

So after careful consideration, he decided to use this new solution.

He didn't think it was unfair to do so. Compared with Zhou Yuanyao and Zhou Guangqing who paid more for the family, no matter whether it was Zhou Tongmin who succeeded in building the foundation thanks to the legacy of his father Zhou Guangtai, or who enjoyed the preferential treatment of the family's "Seed Project". The successful Zhou Tongyao, or Zhou Tonghua, did not contribute much to the family, and of course they cannot be generalized with the previous two.