The Fourth Financial Crisis

As the weather gradually gets warmer, the Haiya City Immortality Conference, which Yang Lu jokingly calls the "Spring Festival of Cultivation World", is about to be held.

The existence of civilian immortal formations and cultivators has made the productivity level of the Kyushu cultivation world far more developed than that of the ancient earth, but its social organization form still does not exceed the scope of traditional agricultural society.

Although Haiya City is world-famous for its commercial prosperity, the number of citizens who live in Haiya City all year round is still only a small number. Most residents of Haiya area still settle in agricultural towns within a radius of several hundred miles around Haiya City. Countryside place.

Unlike Haiya City, which has a mortal administrative agency like the City Lord's Mansion, the Haiya Party rules most of the mortal agricultural settlements in the Haiya area by dispatching immortal masters stationed in the town. These resident immortals are the supreme rulers of their respective jurisdictions, possessing complete financial, personnel, and judicial powers.

Many great powers were gathered into one body, and the resident immortal master was the local emperor at the grassroots level in Kyushu.

The Haiya Party's management of the resident immortals is very extensive. They have neither specific requirements nor care about how the resident immortals govern their respective jurisdictions. They only regularly assess several major total indicators in their jurisdictions. The most typical one is Indicators include the total population of the jurisdiction, the total tax revenue of the jurisdiction, the population growth rate of the jurisdiction, etc...

Whenever the Immortal Ascension Conference is held, leading the age-appropriate immortal seekers in the jurisdiction to go to Haiya City to seek immortality is also an important KPI assessment indicator for the resident immortal master. If the number of age-appropriate immortal seekers increases significantly, the performance evaluation of the resident immortal master will be It will also be greatly improved.

The main reason why the Haiya Sect attaches so much importance to the assessment of the number of immortal seekers is because this number can truly reflect the economic situation of various places.

Even on modern Earth, it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of various statistical data. There are often contradictions between census data and vaccination data, and census data and primary school enrollment data.

Compared with the economic census, which wastes people and money and suffers from serious false reporting and underreporting, objective data such as the number of people seeking immortality is obviously more convincing. Because this kind of thing is a carrot and a pit, you can't fake it no matter what.

Jiuzhou cultivators have always believed in the work philosophy of obtaining maximum results with the minimum time cost. Using the number of immortal seekers to evaluate the performance of the resident immortal master has become the optimal solution for sect management work.

Although no one can tell the total population of the entire Haiya area, according to private estimates by major chambers of commerce, this number should be no less than 8 million, of which at least 7 million live outside Haiya City.

Based on an estimate of approximately 10% of the population aged 15-20 years old, Haiya City will need to receive approximately 700,000-800,000 foreign seekers at the same time during the entire Ascension Conference. Although there are still 10 days until the Ascension Conference officially begins, However, the total number of registered seekers has steadily exceeded 400,000, and this number is still rising.

Relevant departments of the Haiya City Lord's Palace have stated that the total number of immortal seekers in this Immortal Ascension Conference is expected to exceed the 800,000 mark for the first time.

For the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Haiya Sect, the significant increase in the number of immortal seekers means that the residents in the Haiya area live and work in peace and contentment, and the local cultivators receive more heavenly merits, which is undoubtedly a great good thing.

However, the serious social problems caused by the massive influx of population cannot be underestimated.

The huge influx of foreign people has caused all the inns and B\u0026Bs in Haiya City to be full. Even the seven-star inn Haiya Pavilion has been booked by the children of local tycoons and squires from all over the country, making it difficult to find a room. .

The indigenous residents of Haiya City also know that the Shengxian Conference is a rare opportunity to make money. Not only are all the vacant houses used for rent at high prices, but there are also many warehouses originally used to store foreign trade goods, as well as giant ocean-going merchant ships used for overseas trade. , have been converted into temporary dormitories, and they are planning to take advantage of the suspension of ocean trade to slaughter a wave of these foreign fat sheep.

Even the homeless shelter of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, which is like a pigsty, was forced into two teams of seekers who came all the way from the agricultural town near Haiya City to prepare for the Immortal Ascension Conference.

Of course, the two Haiya Stationed Immortal Masters who were responsible for leading the team were immediately arranged to stay in a regular inn by Li Qingning. There were only more than 160 mortal seekers packed into the shelter as densely as sardine cans.

Although the entire Haiya City has been operating at full capacity to receive immortal seekers, it is still unable to fully accommodate such a large foreign population. In order to relieve the huge housing pressure, the Wuliang Sword Sect specially dispatched patrol elder Liu Hanxing to use the immortal-level storage ring. With his power, many simple wooden houses were built around Haiya City to serve as temporary dormitories for immortal seekers.

Since it is a temporary dormitory, the conditions of this kind of room will definitely not be very good, but it will definitely be slightly better than living in a warehouse or shelter.

After the Immortal Ascension Conference in Haiya City ends, these temporary dormitories will be recycled and transferred to the next city hosting the Immortal Ascension Conference to maximize the turnover efficiency of the sect's fixed assets.

In addition, the huge migrant population has also brought huge logistical pressure to the municipal administration of Haiya City.

Unlike modern Earth, which has a developed public utility system, the urban service capabilities of the Kyushu cultivator world are still relatively backward. Fortunately, cultivators can solve most of these problems with their omnipotent magic.

But even if a cultivator has the ability to move mountains and reclaim seas, he can transport food for hundreds of thousands of people, use magic to move temporary dormitories for tens of thousands of people, use water spells to create tons of clean drinking water out of thin air, and even use spells to attack The illegal and criminal activities in Haiya City are still beyond their reach.

The most typical example is the transportation of excrement. Just transporting the excrement of hundreds of thousands of mortals out of the city is a very huge project. After all, even if a dignified cultivator does it himself, he can't dig out the excrement of mortals. !

Fortunately, in the world of cultivation, organizing municipal services is an act that can earn merit. Although cultivators will certainly not do such dirty work themselves, they can instruct mortals to handle this matter.

The main job of the mortal clerks in the Haiya City Lord's Mansion these days, apart from registering the information of immortal seekers and grouping them into groups, is to organize manpower to clean up the overload of mortal excrement in Haiya City. Even Han Fulai and his Ocean Trading Department came to serve as temporary manure diggers.

In addition, in order to ensure that there would be no chaos in the Immortal Ascension Conference in Haiya City, Liu Hanxing, the patrol elder of Wuliang Sword Sect, also issued an administrative order to request the three major cultivation forces in the vicinity of Haiya City - Linglong Pavilion, Guyun Sect, Shan The Eagle Faction dispatched 1,000, 500, and 1,500 cultivators respectively to assist the Haiya Faction in maintaining law and order.

The Haiya Sect itself has more than 7,000 cultivators. Coupled with the cultivators from neighboring sects who came to help, the entire Haiya City has almost gathered nearly 10,000 cultivators who are rarely seen on weekdays. In the past few nights, every time When Yang Lu was sitting in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, admiring the unique night view of the Jiuzhou cultivation world, he would see the monks' escaping light streak across the sky like a meteor shower.

About 400 years ago, under the leadership of the sect's management master Luo Shen, the Wuliang Sword Sect established the "Zhongzhou Urban Air Traffic Code", which unified the air traffic rules of the entire Zhongzhou Continent.

Under the constraints of the "Zhongzhou Urban Air Traffic Code", cultivators of different levels of cultivation are divided into different airspaces according to their escape speeds. They are not allowed to land at will in public areas and private areas that are not clearly marked. In addition, cultivators cannot fly When over the city, silencers must be maintained at all times to avoid disturbing the residents with huge noises that break the sound barrier.

Because of this, although the lights and shadows in the night sky of Haiya City are intertwined, they appear in an orderly state, just like the future urban air transportation network often shown in science fiction movies.

Generally speaking, the population flow of the Shengxian Conference is comparable to the Spring Festival. However, Wuliang Sword Sect and Haiya Sect, relying on their rich experience in the management of the Shengxian Conference, still firmly control the situation in Haiya City, and there is no large-scale chaos.