Chapter 111 Fighting for people's hearts
Chi Moran was the first to oppose Zhong Yuan's proposal to rectify various competitions held at the outer gate, which made the elders of the Qingyingzi family regret it very muchβthey didn't speak up earlier to oppose it, allowing the other party to seize this opportunity.
"Of course, it is a good thing to properly motivate them, but the current situation is that there are too many incentives, and it is too much to know, and I didn't say that I want to stop it, but it does need to be rectified. β
Zhong Yuan explained.
It was naturally impossible to stop this matter, although he was a passerby to the Divine Sword Sect, but he didn't want to be hated by all the outer disciples.
"My proposal is to regularize these games. He said, "It's too difficult for those outer sect elders to pay out of their own pockets, although they are thinking about the future of the sect, but we can't let them pay so much." I propose that the power of the competition be vested in the sect, and the prizes will be provided by the sect, and the ranking will be determined by the sect. β
This is to take the right of the competition to the sect, the sect is responsible for holding it, and the sect also provides rewards, and all the glory belongs to the sect, which avoids factional disputes.
However, the Qing Yingzi clan could not accept such a proposal, if everything belonged to the sect, it would be difficult for them to make those outer disciples favor them, which also made it more difficult to control the Elder Council in the future.
Elder Hu raised objections at that time: "Master, I think it's good that you want to regulate the competition of outer disciples, but it is not appropriate to take the power to hold the competition into the sect. I think we should also involve some enthusiastic private individuals to increase its flexibility and diversity, and give more choices to the disciples. β
His opinion was unanimously agreed by the members of his line of Presbyterians.
The competition between the two major factions in the outer gate also made them miserable, but it was even more impossible for them to completely give up the interests of this area.
If they are all owned by the sect, it will be difficult for them to win the hearts of the people, so this point must be opposed.
Their line holds the financial power of the Divine Sword Sect, and they originally came out of Fulongguan, which is much more generous than the people of the original Divine Sword Sect, and they are more confident in fighting resources.
Of course, Xu Shentong and Chi Moran and the others didn't want to fight each other for resources, although they got the things that Cheng Yifu gave from Zhong Yuan, but they didn't have any other inputs, and those things had to maintain the cultivation needs of many disciples, and the resources were still relatively difficult, and they couldn't compare to others.
However, in order to compete for the hearts and minds of the people, they could not oppose Elder Hu's proposal yet.
Xu Shentong said: "Elder Hu is also right, although such competitions need to be regulated, but we should not block the way for private organizations to hold these competitions, we should pay equal attention to public and private, and develop long-term." β
When he said this, the members of the Elder Council of Chi Moran and their clan also nodded yes.
Looking at their insincere expressions, Zhong Yuan had a moment of trance - this is similar to the phenomenon of some countries on the earth to curry favor with the people in order to vote.
Aren't they participating in such a competition just for the sake of future votes?
As for whether it will be beneficial to the long-term development of the sect, who can take care of it?
Introducing this kind of system into the cultivation realm, I really don't know if it's good or bad.
The two major factions both mean this, there is no need for him to insist on his opinion, shook his head, and smiled: "It seems that I am still not thoughtful, and the sect should not control everything, and the right to hold this kind of competition should be given to private individuals, but what I mean is still not to be overflowing, and effective supervision is needed." β
How to avoid flooding is a topic that needs to be discussed.
Like the Inner Gate, the Outer Gate also has six powerful elders, all of whom are appointed by the powerful elders of the inner gate, and there are two major factions, each of which is three.
After some discussion, or bargaining, the final result of the elder council is that every year, the outer gate holds a sect competition, all outer sect disciples must participate, the top 100 have rich rewards, organized by the sect, funded by the sect, and the top ten can directly enter the inner gate.
In addition, each outer sect elder can hold a competition in his private name every year, with his own standards and prizes, but the process also needs to be supervised by the sect.
This means that the competition of more than ten times a year is suppressed to seven, and the sect is given the right to supervise, which can ensure the fairness of the competition.
There is also a rule that the size of the contest held in the name of a private person cannot exceed half of the size of the contest held by the sect.
Whether a disciple participates in the competition or not is entirely voluntary, and he or she may not be forced to participate.
Moreover, the results of the competition are not counted in the sect's file, that is, the sect will not recognize such results.
With a ceiling on specifications, there is no need to worry about the competition for resources intensifying.
Another derivative issue that was also discussed at the meeting was that for the sake of better survival of the fittest, those elders of the outer sect could not give the cultivation resources of the outer disciples in their private name.
In most of the Xiuzhen sects, the outer disciples generally live in a free-range state, survival of the fittest, and only the best group of people can stand out and become inner disciples.
In the middle, the sect will not take care of anyone else, which may delay many people, but no one cares.
Because no sect can withstand too many outer sect disciples pouring into the inner gate, not to mention small sects, even those major sects cannot withstand it.
If they get enough resources to cultivate and practice guidance, at least half of those outer disciples will be able to enter the foundation building realm.
Ordinary sects recruit a large number of outer disciples every year, just like the Divine Sword Sect, which recruits a thousand outer disciples every year.
If 500 of the 1,000 disciples recruited every year enter the inner gate, in terms of the 200-year-old Shouyuan of the foundation building monk, in less than a hundred years, the inner gate of the Divine Sword Sect will have tens of thousands of inner disciples, not to mention that the Divine Sword Sect can't bear the resources needed for the cultivation of so many inner disciples, even if the resources of the entire Qiu Kingdom Cultivation True Realm are taken, it is not enough for them to cultivate.
Think about it again, how many Jindan monks and Yuanying monks will appear with such a large base of foundation building monks?
Growth is growth, but this kind of viral growth will inevitably be opposed by the entire cultivation world.
Because this has seriously squeezed the living space of the other sects, if you want to develop, you must frantically plunder resources and wage war against other sects.
The consequence of the vicious competition between the two factions is that in a few decades, the Divine Sword Sect will fall into a serious resource crisis, and if this problem is not solved, it will be a great hidden danger to future development.