I Have No Qualifications, The System Asked Me To Marry A Wife To Practice

Knowledge, like resources, has a tendency to concentrate upwards and it is difficult for the upper class to actively disseminate it downwards, promoting overall progress. As a result, the gap between the upper and lower classes will only continue to widen.

If this were on Blue Star, this tearing apart would result in revolution. After all, the upper class is only a small portion of the population, even if they control the most powerful military force. The majority of the armed forces are still made up of lower-class individuals. Regardless of the era, the upper class breaking through the bottom line will inevitably face reckoning.

However, Dongxuan Tian is different. The power of cultivators resides within themselves, making them the strongest force. This causes the lower class to lose their ability to hold the upper class accountable, ultimately resulting in the division between immortals and mortals.

This is the most solid barrier between cultivators and ordinary people in Dongxuan Tian. This barrier almost separates cultivators and ordinary people into two different species, further creating a significant disparity between the knowledge in mortal society and the knowledge in the cultivation world.

Therefore, from the perspective of someone like Chu Shen, the cultivation world and mortal society form an extremely bizarre scene.

On one hand, they can control the wind and rain, fly through the sky and dive into the sea, manipulate the living and the dead, and possess almost limitless abilities.

On the other hand, they are confined to ignorance, misery, and backwardness, unable to even have enough to eat.

To make matters worse, many cultivators enjoy the offerings of mortals but are unwilling to take on the responsibility of helping them, claiming that it is their destiny.

Over time, the vast majority of the knowledge possessed by cultivators is never considered for use in mortal society.

Therefore, Chu Shen sees cases like the Tai Ping Sect, which claims to be involved in the mortal world and cares for the people, but when faced with serious financial difficulties, they never consider using their knowledge to solve the problem.

Because in their eyes, the knowledge of the cultivation world is meant for the cultivation world, and the knowledge of mortal society is only useful in mortal society.

It's like being branded with a mental stamp.

Chu Shen was speechless.

Fortunately, after his bold reforms, especially after mobilizing the cultivators of the Taiping Sect, everything improved:

Instead of transforming ordinary fields into spiritual fields, they were able to improve the quality of the fields using the methods of transforming spiritual fields, providing better growing conditions for crops.

If there was no water, they organized the tenants to dig ditches and canals for irrigation. If there was really no water, the cultivators who understood the Cloud and Rain Technique could artificially create rainfall.

When the epidemic was severe, mortal methods were ineffective, and the cultivation pills were too expensive to be widely available. So they used cheap mortal medicinal materials and mixed them with inexpensive spiritual herbs that contained effective ingredients to refine simplified versions of epidemic prevention pills.

If pests were troublesome, they would kill them. They could also train the disciples of the sect to deal with small-sized situations and have them use flying swords to kill the bugs.

There were definitely many people in the Taiping Sect who complained, but with a series of measures, the situation in all aspects did improve. The sect's financial officers, who were originally at their wits' end, breathed a sigh of relief and stood firmly on Chu Shen's side, forcefully countering the complainers.

Cheng Suwei, in particular, often transformed into a flatterer, cheerfully exclaiming, "Chu Gongzi is amazing."

However, Chu Shen was not complacent. On the contrary, his expression became increasingly solemn.

He used many methods, but he only managed to slow down the collapse of the Taiping Sect's finances turned into a black hole. Every month, the Taiping Sect would still transport a large amount of resources, money, and food, which was equivalent to continuous bloodletting.

Even outside of the fixed schedule, they began to transport a portion of the resources, money, and food.

After a while, he finally asked Cheng Suwei in confusion, "Can't we stop the transportation of resources, money, and food? Even if I gave the Taiping Sect's finances a shot in the arm, it wouldn't completely solve this problem if we continue transporting like this, right?"

Cheng Suwei's response was to shrug her shoulders.

"This is not something I can decide. Uncle must have his considerations. Since there was no objection and the transportation efforts have been increased, something must have happened."

This matter quickly spread back to the Taiping Sect.

Jiangzhou Prefecture, one of the most important grain-producing areas in the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty and a crucial region for maintaining the national grain supply in recent years, has experienced a significant reduction in grain production. Ancient demons and droughts have appeared, causing widespread devastation.

This place happens to be one of the three major Taoist sites of the Taiping Sect. The Taiping Sect has issued instructions to the relevant sects and schools to transport supplies for emergency disaster relief.

Even the current ignorant and incompetent court of the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty has been greatly shaken by this major disaster and has announced relief efforts.

Nevertheless, according to preliminary estimates, the population loss in Jiangzhou Prefecture has already exceeded the threshold of two hundred thousand. The spread of local conditions has also made Chu Shen keenly feel the horror of "famine leading to cannibalism".

The impact of the "appearance of drought and demons, major disaster in Jiangzhou Prefecture" has just begun. In just over a month, there have already been shortages of grain in many areas.

In Nanping City, Chu Shen has seen many grain merchants rushing in and offering high prices to buy grain. As the situation develops, the price of grain continues to rise.

Misfortunes never come singly. Before the drought and demon disaster subsided, there was a rain of fire in the northwest of the Great Yan Immortal Dynasty, burning down five county towns and affecting over a million people.

This further pushed up the price of grain, and Nanping City was also inevitably affected.

During the previously stable period, the price of grain per dou was about twenty copper coins. After the drought and demon disaster, it rose by three to five coins, which was still relatively stable. With the purchase of grain by grain merchants from various places, it rose by another three to five coins.

After the rain of fire in the northwest, the price skyrocketed by ten coins per dou, and it is still slowly rising!

In other words, the grain prices in Nanping City have almost doubled at this point!

The cause of this increase in grain prices is not primarily due to the Northwest Fire Rain, but rather the consecutive disasters that have made the people of Nanping City, who have also suffered from disasters in recent years, become anxious. From the gentry to the common people, everyone has joined the hoarding of grain, causing a surge in grain prices.

Not to mention the grain merchants and wealthy households who take advantage of the situation to hoard and speculate. There are too many of them, and the grain prices are steadily heading towards fifty wen per dou.

Cheng Suwei has been too busy to find Chu Shen to talk about their relationship.

Jiangzhou Prefecture has been affected by the disaster, not only causing misfortune to the local people, but also bringing bad luck to the Taiping Sect. Since one of its three major Taoist sites is in Jiangzhou Prefecture, they not only have to provide disaster relief, but also organize manpower to suppress the drought demons.

Are drought demons, as ancient monsters, so easy to eliminate?

Chu Shen learned from Cheng Suwei that the Taiping Sect alone has lost as many as three Gold Core cultivators this time, one of whom was even at the peak of Gold Core and half a step away from Nascent Soul. It can be said that their losses were severe.

In order to completely solve the disaster caused by the drought demons, the Taiping Sect has dispatched many elite cultivators, and the Great Flame Immortal Dynasty dare not be negligent either, mobilizing a large number of cultivators to join the suppression.

Similarly, these subordinate vassals of the major sects are naturally not idle, including the Taiping Sect, which is involved in financial reforms, and they have to temporarily halt related matters and fully support the main sect.

In an atmosphere of unease, the Chu family welcomed the hundredth day celebration of a few little ones, which slightly lifted Chu Shen's somewhat worried mood.

He now has four children, two boys and two girls.

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