Castle Lord's Mansion.

Ling Xiao, the source of all the recent turmoil in Blue Jade City, was sitting on the Taishi chair at the moment, flipping through the documents submitted by Jia Tian.

On his left and right sides were the heads of the eleven remaining immortal cultivation families in the city, they were sitting on pins and needles, the expressions on everyone's faces were unnatural, and the tea in their hands seemed to be bitter and unusual.

In just three days, some of the many immortal cultivators led by the Lan family perished, and some were expelled, and the remaining eleven were originally in Blue Jade City, and Lan Yu couldn't think of them at all.

Unexpectedly, now the city is reshuffling, but their little transparency is revealed.

Of course, this matter is worth celebrating in the past, after all, it has finally come to an end, but it can be put to the present...... In front of them was a great evil star that had destroyed dozens of clans in a flash, and they didn't even know if they could see the sun tomorrow, and they couldn't even think of the idea of celebrating.

Ling Xiao didn't notice everyone's thoughts, he was full of attention to the documents in his hand.

After the collapse of the clan, most of the property in the city was confiscated and fell into the hands of Ling Xiao, including the precious spirit stone vein.

The spirit stone vein is different from the often said spirit vein.

The spiritual vein refers to the underground vein that constantly breathes the spiritual energy and removes the essence, and produces pure spiritual energy; The spirit stone veins can also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the output does not overflow, but forms the "spirit stone" commonly used by monks.

There are also many kinds of spiritual stone veins, and most of the low-grade ones cannot be called ore veins, but should be called "ore piles".

The ore pile can only mine first-order and second-order spirit stones, and the scale is generally very small, and in just a few years or more than ten years, it will be exhausted and completely disappear.

A higher-grade spirit stone vein can not only produce spirit stones above the third and fourth orders, but also have its own "pulse", which can independently absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to replenish itself, and then continuously produce spirit stones.

This kind of is the real "spirit stone vein", as long as it is not over-mined, hurting the root of the vein, the spirit stone will be like a fine stream of water, which can benefit the future generations.

The one near Blue Jade City belongs to this category, with a good "pulse", which can produce third-order and below spirit stones every year, with a profit of about 18 million!

In the past, nearly half of the output of the spirit stone veins would be taken away by the five great golden pills of the Yongle Kingdom every year, and the remaining half would only be divided by dozens of immortal cultivators in the city.

The stronger the family, of course, the more it will share, such as the overlord-level Lan family, which can share about 2 million every year, equivalent to 20% of the total, and the profit is quite considerable.

"Now that the five great golden pills are gone, and the dozens of clans are gone, congratulations on your annual income of 18 million."

Song Lu appeared behind Ling Xiao at some point, staring at the documents on it, and said with a little envy.

"Are you stupid?"

Ling Xiao said angrily.

The spirit stone vein was well known, and a congratulatory letter had already been sent from Liang Zhi's side, very happily congratulating Ling Xiao on recovering Blue Jade City, and conveying the meaning that the spirit stone vein would be handed over to the latter with full authority.

The premise is that Yongle City will not transfer any more materials to this side!

In the future, the various expenses of Blue Jade City, such as military rations and salaries, will mainly rely on this spirit stone vein! If Ling Xiao swallowed the spirit stone alone, would there be so many people left in the city who were waiting to be fed, would they all drink the northwest wind?

"Even if you don't take it all, you still earn a lot every year!"

Song Lu snorted, a little disdainful.

It's a big lucrative deal, what is there to hide, and I won't rob you!

Ling Xiao rolled his eyes and snorted, "You don't know the cost of raising a legion, I can't tell you clearly!" ”

Song Lu was not convinced, and asked rhetorically: "Do you understand again?" ”

"I know a little bit better than you."

Ling Xiao began to read the next volume of documents.

It does cost a lot of money to raise a legion.

Take the Cloud Legion as an example.

With a full complement of 731 people, all the foundation building monks, even according to the lowest level of the Immortal Sect outside, they will get twenty or thirty thousand spirit stones every year, right?

According to 20,000, the salary and expenses of the Chengyun Legion for a year alone are as high as 14.62 million spirit stones!

This is still the base salary!

Brothers, pin their heads to the waistband of your trousers and be born and die with you, and if you don't give more benefits, fools will die for you!

There should always be an elixir to improve cultivation every month, right?

There must be spiritual food for three meals a day, how can you have the strength to train if you don't eat enough?

The army is lonely, and occasionally you have to take a vacation to take the brothers out to find a girl to relax, right?

What, you say let the brethren pay for themselves?

Okay, don't sleep too hard at night, you see I'll be done in a few days!

Not to mention the wear and tear of the armor weapon, the bonus, pension, and retirement payment for the selection of outstanding soldiers...... Although the amount is not large, it can't bear the large base, and it is a huge expense.

In short, the annual cost of a legion is at least more than 20 million spirit stones!

And the "big family" of the Longxing Dynasty, the cost of cultivating the legion is even more extravagant, like the personal soldiers under the command of Liang Zhi, and the annual expenses even reach nearly 30 million!

Ling Xiao originally thought that the Chengyun Legion should also be worthy of such a consumption standard, but after seeing the output of the spirit stone vein, this idea was completely dispelled.

20 million spirit stones every year, which is also very good, we still have to learn more from the revolutionary martyrs, and give full play to the revolutionary spirit of hard work and simplicity and not afraid of difficulties!

Although military spending can be reduced, Ling Xiao still has to ensure the basic supply of 20 million spirit stones every year.

Unless Ling Xiao didn't plan to continue cultivating the Chengyun Legion, it would be even more impossible.

The Chengyun Legion has been formed, and the most difficult grass creation stage has been passed by Liang Weaving, and in the future, it only needs to simply invest in spirit stones to continue to have legion-level combat effectiveness.

Holding a powerful force in his hand, in the world of cultivating immortals where fists are respected, the importance is self-evident.

What's more, the Chengyun Legion was formed on the basis of the good seedlings carefully selected by the Dragon Star Dynasty, and its potential was much greater than that of ordinary legions, how could Ling Xiao give up?

The problem is in front of us, relying on the annual output of the spirit stone vein alone, even the most basic expenses of the Chengyun Legion are not enough, let alone expanding the establishment and forming a reserve or something.

The only thing that comforted Ling Xiao was that in the past three days of counterinsurgency operations, more than 50 million spirit stones had been seized from the hands of the major immortal cultivators, and there was no need to worry about spirit stones in recent years.

However, it is a good idea to plan ahead.

In addition to the spirit stone veins, there are other industries in Blue Jade City, such as spirit plants and magic weapons, and the annual taxes of these two pillar industries are not low.

However, now that the power in the city has been reshuffled, the number of monks has decreased sharply, and the industrial structure of the past can only be used as a reference.

Thinking of this, he finally put down the file, looked up at the seat in the seat, and then waved his hand to summon Jia Tian, who had been waiting outside for a long time.

Jia Tian already knew what Ling Xiao was going to do, and as soon as he sat down, he smiled and beckoned everyone to discuss business.

At present, the primary purpose is to solve the problem of how to divide the many vacant industries in the city after the destruction of dozens of immortal cultivation families.