Such experiences made them naturally distrust and dislike casual cultivators...
Therefore, even when they need to hire outsiders for help, they will instinctively reject casual cultivators.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Zhou family has never encountered anything that required large-scale hiring of outsiders to do things. If you have never done it before, you naturally have no experience.
Zhou Chun, on the other hand, does not have the deep-down repulsion and disgust towards casual cultivators. Secondly, due to the influence of his past life memories, he is very familiar with hiring people to do things, so naturally it is easy for him to think of these things.
But Zhou Chun only needs to know these things in his heart, and naturally he won't say them out loud.
At this time, seeing that everyone was satisfied with his suggestion, he took advantage of the situation and put forward a reform proposal that he had thought of before the war started.
"Since the two supreme elders and other elders have no objections to hiring casual cultivators, I would like to express my other thoughts here."
"I have discovered before that many things in the family cost the clan members a lot of money.
Time has seriously hindered the development of family monks in other immortal cultivation skills, and also left them with a lack of opportunities and time to go out and hone themselves."
"So I was thinking at that time, can we take out some unimportant things, such as feeding monsters and beasts, taking care of medicinal fields and spiritual herbs, and entrust them to casual cultivators?"
"If ordinary casual cultivators are hard to trust, we can also choose some cultivators from small families to do this, or even train these small families into vassal families that specialize in raising animal seeds and medicine for our Zhou family!"
The result was just as Zhou Chun expected. After hearing his suggestion, someone immediately raised a different opinion, and that person was Zhou Chongshan, the second elder who had always been relatively conservative.
Zhou Chongshan said slowly: "I don't think your idea is appropriate, Zhengchun. The reason why our Zhou family lets the people do the work of raising monsters and taking care of the medicine fields is not to save money, but to borrow money."
This will hone them and allow them to have a clearer understanding of the habits of monsters and elixirs, so that they can apply what they have learned."
"If casual cultivators are hired to do these things, not to mention the amount of spiritual coins spent, what if they do evil behind the family's back? What if they learn the family's beast-taming skills?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhou Chun reply: "Of course I have thought about what the second elder said, but life is different, and everyone is different. Even if my Zhou family is passed down the art of controlling beasts, it is not
Every clan member will like these things, and as elders and senior officials, we don’t necessarily have to let them learn these things.”
"The art of controlling beasts is certainly the specialty of our Zhou family, but it can't just be this. For example, formations, weapon refining, alchemy, and talisman making, our Zhou family should also train some people to do it. At least they must be able to do it.
Just make it your own on commonly used low-level magic spells, elixirs, and magic weapons!"
"And Second Elder, you also know that if you want to achieve success in these skills, each one will consume a lot of resources, and it will also take up a lot of monks' time."
"As for worrying about rogue cultivators causing harm, we can also use a grading method to divide the important monster species such as red-eyed dragon vultures, dragon-clawed monitor lizards, dragon-scaled horses, octagonal water deer, red flame diamond monkeys, etc. into the highest level. Only
Let the family monks take care of the contact, and let the other ordinary monsters be taken care of by hired people, so that the losses caused by their mischief will not be too great.”….
"As for skills, there is no need to worry. Even if the casual cultivators learn some of the beast-taming skills of our Zhou family, what will happen? Can they build animal gardens and cultivate monsters like our Zhou family? Can they master beast spirits?
Pill, how to refine the demon spirit pill? Can they learn the secret beast-control techniques of my Zhou family?"
"Without the secret elixirs and secret techniques of my Zhou family, and just learning some ways to tame monsters, how could it pose a threat to my Zhou family!"
Having said this, Zhou Chun continued: "I know that it will cost a lot to train some monks who know how to make formations, alchemy, weapons, and talismans, but if we don't do it, we will never do it.
There will be!"
"The family has gained a lot this time, and will be able to get a steady stream of income from the wilderness in the future. I think it's time to do these things!"
After he finished speaking, he saw that Zhou Chongshan also looked thoughtful, thinking about what he said.
Zhou Chongshan has indeed always seemed a bit conservative when it comes to family reform, but he is not a truly rigid and conservative person who doesn't know how to adapt.
Being conservative can also mean being cautious, because he cautiously views every change he makes to the family and is very concerned about the impact of such changes on the family, which makes him appear conservative when facing such changes.
If he thinks twice and thinks that the benefits of the change far outweigh the disadvantages to the family, then he will not oppose the change.
Zhou Chun also understood this through dealing with him again and again.
So every time there was a change to be made, Zhou Chun would consider it from his perspective and look for something he could accept.
From this aspect, it is precisely because of his conservatism that Zhou Chun can do better.
At this time, after Zhou Chongshan thought for a while, he looked at the two supreme elders above.
Then he asked softly: "What do the two supreme elders think of the patriarch's idea?"
"I think it's right
What Chun said makes sense. If our Zhou family wants to regain its glory in the future, we must not just focus on the three acres of land within the family, but we should also open our eyes to the outside world."
"If the monks in the family can be given more time to go outside to see, hone themselves, and discover their own talents, it will naturally improve the family's heritage in all aspects."
Zhou Daoyi nodded gently and first expressed his support for Zhou Chun.
Looking at Zhou Mingde, after frowning slightly, he also said: "I generally agree with what Zhengchun said, but even if the family is rich now, when it comes to cultivating those tribesmen who make alchemy and weapon refining,
We should also proceed slowly, and we must not act too hastily or take too big steps to avoid wasting the family's resources."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Chun responded respectfully: "Yes, this junior will definitely remember the teachings of the Supreme Elder and will definitely implement this matter carefully."
Seeing this, Zhou Chongshan nodded and said, "Since both the Supreme Elders think this matter is feasible, I have no objection."
Next, Zhou Chun talked about some of the family's income and expenditure and some plans for future development, and then ended the meeting.
After the meeting, Zhou Chun took out the harvested second-level magic weapons for the elders to choose first. The remaining ones will be temporarily stored in the family treasure house and will be slowly looked for opportunities to sell in the future...
Now we have just experienced a war. Because of the war, many monks died, and many monks obtained the enemy's relics. As a result, the price of magic weapons in the market has plummeted a lot.
A magic weapon that originally required four hundred spirit coins can now be purchased without even needing three hundred spirit coins.
Therefore, except for some monks who are in urgent need of spiritual coins, most cultivating families will not choose to sell their magic weapons in exchange for spiritual coins at this time.
And just half a month after Zhou Mingde and the others returned to the Zhou family, an unexpected person came to the Zhou family.
"Fellow Daoist Lin came to the Zhou family this time to convey a message to Senior Lin?"
On the Pagoda Peak, Zhou Chun personally took Lin Wan'er who came to visit into the mountain gate, and then he unabashedly asked about the purpose of his visit.
Ever since the fourth-level mid-grade red fire dragon in Chilongtang was killed by Jin Chixuan's men, Zhou Mingde had been waiting for Lin Hongyu to take the initiative to contact the Zhou family.
Now more than half a month has passed, and Lin Waner, the goddaughter adopted by Lin Hongyu, finally came to the Zhou family again.
At this time, facing Zhou Chun's inquiry, Lin Wan'er nodded without hesitation and replied: "It is indeed my godmother who asked me to come, but I can only deliver the letter from my godmother to Senior Zhou in person."
"Understood, then Zhou will take fellow Taoist monks to see the Supreme Elder."
Zhou Chun nodded and immediately took Lin Wan'er to Zhou Mingde's cave on the top of the mountain.
When he arrived at the cave, Zhou Mingde was overjoyed when he saw Lin Wan'er. When she explained his purpose and handed over the jade slip of Lin Hongyu's letter, he couldn't wait to take it into his hands and look at it.
He quickly read Lin Hongyu's message on the jade slip, then looked up at Lin Wan'er with a twinkling gaze and asked, "Miss Lin, have you met Taoist Fellow Lin?"
When Lin Wan'er heard what he said, she was slightly startled, and then said respectfully: "I met my godmother four days ago, and she gave this jade slip to me at that time!"
"Then take a look at the contents of this jade slip for yourself!"
Zhou Mingde said, and handed the jade slip in his hand back to Lin Waner.
Seeing this scene, Lin Wan'er's eyes suddenly froze slightly, and then she took the jade slip and started to read it.
After she read the contents of the jade slip, her expression suddenly changed and she was speechless for a long time.
After waiting like this for a quarter of an hour without seeing her say anything, Zhou Mingde could only speak out: "I can't comment on this arrangement made by fellow Taoist Lin. If Miss Lin has no intention of working for the Zhou family, I and the Zhou family will
I won’t force my Taoist friends.”
After hearing his words, Lin Waner, who had been silent, finally responded.
He shook his head slightly and said, "No, I didn't mean that. Since it is my godmother's arrangement, I will naturally not object!"
After speaking, he said in a low tone: "Just
It’s the junior who can’t figure it out. Since my godmother is going to Chengguo to recuperate, why doesn’t she take the junior with her? Even if the junior has low cultivation, he can still help her look after the door and run errands!”
It turns out that although Lin Hongyu has not forgotten the benefits she promised to the Zhou family, but now that she is seriously injured, she does not dare to meet Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi in private easily.
So she went to Chengguo to recuperate first, and after she recovered from her injuries, she came back to meet Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi to give them the benefits they had promised.
Perhaps in order to win the trust of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, or because she really wanted to find a place for Lin Waner to settle down, she informed in the letter that she would stay with the Zhou family to work for her.
And in order to make the Zhou family feel at ease to accept Lin Wan'er, she also suggested that Lin Wan'er use Qing Jiao Qing Qing's dragon spiritual blood to practice the "Secret of Dragon Transformation".