Beast-controlling fairy clan

Now all the elders of the Zhou family know about the mysterious reward after the Zhou family entered the top thirty in the "Hundred Clans Conference".

Therefore, the elders are not surprised that Zhou Mingde said that there will be many places where the Zhou family will need large-scale employment.

But Zhou Chun's current answer made several elders frown.

Zhou Mingde also frowned slightly and said, "Hiring outsiders is certainly a solution, but can outsiders be trusted?"

"Those casual cultivators are all selfish. If you have breasts, you will be a mother. It's okay to hire them as thugs for things like resisting the beast tide. If it involves dealing with other forces or resource extraction, even if If there is supervision, there is no guarantee that they will not try their best to betray the family’s interests!”

Of course Zhou Chun also knew this.

At this time, he said calmly: "The elder Taishang is very reasonable, but he ignored the composition of casual cultivators."

"In the eyes of big families like us, those cultivating families that do not have a fixed mountain gate station or a foundation-building monk are all casual cultivators!"

"But everyone knows that besides not having a mountain gate station or a foundation-building monk, those people are actually a family of immortal cultivators, with families and children!"

"In addition, there are many casual cultivators who have husband-wife, father-son, master-disciple relationships. These people also care about each other."

Having said this, Zhou Chun glanced at Zhou Mingde and the elders who were thoughtful, and then said: "So in my opinion, we can have two sets of standards for hiring casual cultivators. When encountering the kind of monsters that need to be cleaned up and resisted, Anyone can be hired to deal with the beast tide attack, but for more delicate matters, only those who have a family and a family to care for can be hired to do it."

"Of course, if we want to do this well, we usually have to invest more manpower to collect information on casual cultivators. This way, when we need to hire people to do things, it will be easier to find people directly, and we can also hire people for this kind of thing. Let the casual cultivators do it!”

"We can even make a little investment in some casual cultivators with good character and decent talent, such as allowing them to meditate at the Zhou Family Mountain Gate for free, selling some cultivation resources to them at cost, or providing them with half cash and half spiritual coins as loans. Give them a magic weapon."

"Perhaps not every investment can get a return, but as long as half of the investment can get a useful return, it will also make the family less stretched in terms of manpower in the future!"

After he said this, he saw Zhou Mingde and all the Zhou family elders lowering their heads and thinking about his words.

After a while, Zhou Daoyi spoke first: "Dashan, Zhengchun, what you said is really enlightening. They are all practical!"

Zhou Mingde also nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, it would be difficult for me to realize this if it weren't for Zhengchun who mentioned this."

Their difficulty in realizing this is related to their own growth experience.

From childhood to adulthood, they grew up in a powerful Zhou family. They have always had a disdain for casual cultivators from the bottom of their hearts, and they have seen all kinds of ugly things done by casual cultivators for a small amount of profit.

Such experiences made them naturally distrust and dislike casual cultivators.

So even when it comes time 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 dislike of casual cultivators. Secondly, due to the influence of his past life memories, he is very familiar with hiring people to do things, so it is easy for him to think of this.

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 objection to hiring casual cultivators, I would like to express my other thoughts here."

"I have discovered before that many family affairs consume a lot of time from the clan members, which seriously hinders the development of family monks in other directions of cultivating immortals, and also leaves 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 monster beasts, taking care of medicinal fields and spiritual herbs, and entrust casual cultivators to do them?"

"If ordinary 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 as expected by Zhou Chun. After hearing his suggestion, someone immediately expressed different opinions, 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 leaves the work of raising monster beasts and taking care of the medicine fields to our clansmen is not to save money, but to borrow money." This will hone them, allowing them to have a clearer understanding of the habits of monsters and elixirs, and enable them to 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 skill of controlling beasts, it is not Every clan member will like these, and as elders and senior officials, we don’t necessarily have to let them learn these.”

"The art of controlling beasts is certainly the specialty of our Zhou family, but it can't just be this. For things like formations, weapon refining, elixir refining, and talisman making, our Zhou family should also train some people to do it. At least they must be able to do it. We need to produce our own commonly used low-level magic talismans, elixirs, and magic tools!"

"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 important monster beast populations such as red-eyed dragon vultures, dragon-clawed monitor lizards, dragon-scaled horses, eight-pointed water deer, and red-flamed diamond monkeys into the highest levels. Let the family monks take care of them, and let hired people take care of the other ordinary monsters, so that the losses caused by their mischief will not be too big."

"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 a beast garden to cultivate monsters like our Zhou family? Can they master the beast spirits? How to refine pills and demon spirit pills? Can they learn the secret techniques of controlling beasts from my Zhou family?"

"Without the secret elixirs and secret techniques of my Zhou family, and just learning some methods of taming monster beasts, 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!"

"And this time the family has gained a lot 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 Zhou Chongshan also looking thoughtful, thinking about what he said.

Zhou Chongshan has indeed always seemed a bit conservative when it comes to family changes, 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 views every change he makes to the family cautiously 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 from 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.

Then he asked softly: "What do the two Supreme Elders think of the patriarch's idea?"

"I think what Zhengchun said makes sense. If our Zhou family wants to regain its glory in the future, we can't just focus on the three acres of land within the family. We should also open our eyes and look at the outside world."

"If we can allow the family monks to have more time to go outside, hone themselves, and discover their own talents, it will naturally improve the family's heritage in all aspects."

Zhou Daoyi nodded gently and expressed his support for Zhou Chun first.

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 a step 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 treasury 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 brought 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-level 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 her purpose and handed over the jade slip of Lin Hongyu's letter, he couldn't wait to take it into his hand 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 look and asked, "Have Miss Lin met fellow Taoist 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 first: "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 that, he said in a low tone: "It's just that I don't understand. Since my godmother is going to Chengguo to recuperate, why doesn't she take this junior with her? Even if my cultivation is low, I 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 she 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".

The first update today, there will be another update tonight.