In the Heavens

After the uninvited guests were dismissed, the atmosphere inside the Demon Slayer Alliance became more subtle. The duck in hand flew away, and no one felt well.

The few local tyrants in the Bashu martial arts are okay, not short of this little income, but the various factions in the northwest martial arts are tragic, and some people are still waiting for this income to pay pensions!

Kongtong Elder Guan Xiangdong was the first to break the silence: "Leader, he is just an eunuch. If we just let it go, won't it make people in the Jianghu laugh if it gets out?"

If Gu Dayong said this before he left, Li Mu would respect him as a man. If you say it now, it will only be worthy of a blank stare.

"Elder Guan, this is not an eunuch's problem.

The land deed in our hands alone is not less than 10,000 hectares. If other places are counted, the unclaimed land left after this war between good and evil may be as huge as more than 100,000 hectares.

Do you think there are so many industries, would a mere eunuch dare to touch them?

Except for the one in the Forbidden City, anyone in the world would burn their hands if they took these things. "

The Kongtong sect was already poor, and many disciples died this time, and even the head of the sect was hired in. They needed a sum of money to tide over the difficulties, and Li Mu expressed his understanding.

It's one thing to understand, but it's a bit too much to encourage him to be the first bird.

If he really swallowed these properties forcibly, he might be remembered by the one in the palace.

Although he was scolded miserably by the literati and was hailed as a model of ignorance, but looking at some specific practices after he succeeded to the throne, we can know that this freshly baked little emperor is not simple.

Using the hands of the Demon Sect to attack the Buddhist sect is absolutely perfect. If you succeed, you will earn blood, but if you fail, you will have no gross loss.

Judging from the current situation, it should be blood earning now.

If there is no accident, Fomen will suffer a great loss this time. Including the terrific Shaolin Temple, this wave will have to vomit blood.

It doesn't matter who is behind the scenes of the land, as long as things go into the emperor's pocket, nothing will be spit out.

Although everyone is doing things like hiding land in private, they can't be said on the stage.

If you are a smart person, you will obediently suffer from being dumb, as if nothing happened.

Li Mu doesn't think that Gu Dayong improvised the charge of embezzling the royal property. Maybe some of the land annexed by some temples really belonged to the royal family.

It's not difficult to operate. For example: secretly buying land, after completing the registration and archiving, deliberately sending it to the door for annexation.

This kind of thing is not clear at all. Regardless of how it was swallowed, even if it is offered by others and the property rights belong to the royal family, it is disrespectful if you take it.

If there is a quarrel, the emperor is justified. The feudal dynasty, even if it only embezzled a foot of the royal land, it was a capital offense.

The emperor can use this reason to pull out all the people involved in the case and wipe them out together, and copy them back home by the way.

"Leader, the eunuch only asked for the property of the White Horse Temple, and did not mention the land and real estate of other forces. Otherwise, we..."

Before Elder Diancang could finish speaking, Li Mu interrupted bluntly: "Elder Duan, I'm afraid you didn't understand the concept.

Don't you think it's too funny that a White Horse Temple just wants to satisfy the appetite of the palace man?

As far as Li knows, including Gu Dayong, half of the eight tiger eunuchs have left Beijing, and the former gang of ceremonial supervisors, hungry wolves, have also been sent out. "

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Speaking of this, if there are still people who don't know the seriousness of the matter, there is no need for rescue.

If you want to wrestle with the imperial court, you can't choose this time. Even if you want to negotiate, you have to wait for the strength of the various factions to recover before going to talk.

Take a step back, and the sky is brighter. Li Mu didn't want to confront the imperial court directly for some land.

For the Huashan faction, getting the Luoyang mansion is the biggest gain. The protection fee collected every year can generate much more income than the land that was divided up before.

In a sense, this is also a compromise. The imperial court collected land tax, population tax, salt tax, etc., and the martial arts sect divided up the commercial tax.

...

Coaxing and beating, a series of methods were used, and after exhausting all efforts, Li Mu finally appeased the rioting factions.

According to the past practice, at this point, the Demon Slayer Alliance has also reached the end of its life, and it is only a meal away from the alliance.

But Li Mu is not reconciled, for this alliance, he has been tossing and tossing for several months.

There are more than 30 martial arts schools, and the resources behind them are the Great Northwest and the Great Southwest, covering almost half of the Ming Dynasty.

It would be a pity if such a huge resource was not organized and used properly.

...

"Master, if I continue to dominate the position of leader, how about continuing the alliance?"

Compared with others, Li Mu still trusts his master more. He immediately chose to discuss with Zhou Qingyun about such a major event that would affect the whole body.

"Inappropriate! Most people in the martial arts are rebellious, and no one wants to have an extra mother-in-law on top of their heads.

The establishment of the Demon Elimination Alliance was not only due to the pressure from the Demon Cult, but also because the various factions did not want to become cannon fodder on the battlefield, which pushed us to fight Shaolin.

Even though Shaolin seems to have offended everyone a lot this time, as long as a few decades pass, all grievances and grievances will fade away with the passage of time.

If you forcibly dominate the position of leader, maybe everyone will not say much because of human feelings in a short period of time, and it will definitely cause a backlash after a long time. "

It could be seen that Zhou Qingyun was quite frightened by Li Mu's proposal. Unlike the Five Sacred Sacred Sacred Alliance, which huddled together to keep warm, the factions of the Demon Slayer Alliance were not under so much pressure.

Even if there is pressure, it is not because of the outside world, but because of the struggle between the various factions within the Demon Elimination Alliance.

Geopolitics is also applicable in martial arts. Because of the living space, there is no conflict between the big forces in the adjacent martial arts.

If we forcibly pull everyone together, I am afraid that before the foreign enemy strikes, internal conflicts will cause us to collapse.

"Master, what I mean is to maintain a loose alliance in name, there is no binding force between each other, and the leader is only responsible for organizing daily communication activities.

The main purpose is: to use the alliance's relationship network to open up trade routes between Guanzhong and the southwest and northwest.

In theory, as long as the operation is good, each faction can obtain certain benefits. "

Restricted by transportation and public security, except for the slightly prosperous economy of the Land of Abundance, the development of commerce and trade in the entire Northwest and Southwest lags behind the Central Plains as a whole.

The economy is not prosperous, and the local martial arts sect that collects protection fees will naturally have a hard time living in peace.

Like Huashan, Kunlun, Kongtong, Diancang... these well-known schools in the martial arts are all struggling on the verge of bankruptcy.

There is no way to solve the traffic problem. With the current productivity, it may not be solved in a hundred years.

But security issues can still be resolved. Regardless of bandits, bandits, hooligans, or tyrants, they are all low-level roles for the great martial arts sects.

Once the various factions work together, not to mention these small players, even corrupt officials in the court will have to stay away.

Eliminating the expenses of these links, it is difficult not to make money. If it is more ruthless, it will be even more profitable to directly engage in monopoly.

After hesitating for a while, Zhou Qingyun shook his head: "Although the plan looks good, the feasibility of implementing it is too low.

First, the imperial court will not allow such an alliance to exist, nor will the Sun Moon Sect, Shaolin, and Wudang sit back and watch us establish such an alliance.

Second, this is just our wishful thinking, and the factions may not buy it. At least the martial arts sects in the Shu region are unwilling to see our power go deep into the past.

Third, we lack relevant talents. There are many industries under the Huashan School, but it is still far from enough to establish a business network that connects the southwest and northwest.

Fourth, no money. The deficit of my Huashan faction has lasted for hundreds of years, and it can barely balance the income and expenditure in the peaceful years. Once a war breaks out, there will be a deficit.

These problems may be solved, but the cost is too great, we simply cannot afford it now.

Just digesting Luoyang Mansion and opening up the trade route to the south is enough for us to work for several years, and any more will exceed the limit. "

After hearing Zhou Qingyun's reason, Li Mu fell silent all of a sudden. Different worlds have different rules of the game, and the concepts of previous lives may not apply here.

Benefits are the main line, but martial arts is not only about benefits. Trying to integrate martial arts in vain by profit, that can only be said to be a dream.

From the performance of the representatives of the various factions in the alliance, it can be seen that those sects with rich wealth do not value money very much.

Even the elders Kongtong and Diancang who jumped out at the end don't mean they are greedy for money. It's more because his school is really poor, and he really can't bear to give up the duck he got.

If you think that you can buy them with money, then you are thinking too much.

One of the most important reasons why these sects are so poor is to stick to the bottom line.

If you let go of the bottom line, wouldn't it be easy for a group of martial arts masters to go out and make money?

If it's just a single problem, maybe the Huashan faction can try to solve it, but if it piles up together, it will kill people.

After sorting out his thoughts again, Li Mu slowly said: "Master is right, it is indeed a bit idealistic to rely on the Demon Slayer Alliance to build a business network.

However, we can still choose the next best thing, cooperate with each sect individually, and then gradually open up business routes from point to point.

With the incense accumulated in this war, it is just an ordinary business cooperation, presumably most sects will give us some face.

With a limit of 20 years, as long as all parties benefit from the cooperation during this period, even if there is no alliance, a business network will naturally form.

Not only can we cooperate in business, but we can also exchange resources for cultivation. "