"According to the Hui patriarch, the Zhou family currently has a total of 195 monks, including 1 monk in the Zifu period, 3 monks in the foundation building period, 24 monks in the ninth layer of qi training, 34 monks in the late stage of qi training, 57 monks in the middle stage of qi training, 67 monks in the early stage of qi training, and 9 children below the qi training period. ”

"In addition, our Zhou family currently has 34 foreign relatives monks, including 2 monks in the foundation building period, 3 monks in the ninth layer of qi training, 8 monks in the late stage of qi training, 15 monks in the middle stage of qi training, and 6 monks in the early stage of qi training. ”

"As for the number of mortals in my Zhou family, the number of secular mortals with the bloodline of my Zhou family should be about 320,000, and the number of mortals with foreign surnames should be 110,000, of which the number of mortals of the Zhou family on the Chihu Mountain Oasis is about 160,000, and the number of mortals with foreign surnames is about 40,000. ”

Zhou Yuanchang held an account book in his hand, and in a low voice, he brought out the information of the Zhou family personnel one by one.

From the data reported in his words, it can be known that although it is already a real Purple Mansion family, the Zhou family is far from the Purple Mansion family like the Chen family in terms of the number of monks and mortals.

In this regard, it will take at least a hundred years or even longer for the Zhou family to compare with the Chen family.

After Zhou Yang listened to Zhou Yuanchang's words, his brows furrowed, and he lowered his head slightly as if thinking about something, and after a while, he looked at Zhou Yuanchang and continued to ask: "Then Eleventh brother, can you tell me that how many percent of the family monks who have been born over the years are the descendants of the family monks, how many percent are from the family's mortal descendants, and how many percent are from the Fengyue Tower?"

When Zhou Yuanchang heard this, his face was bitter, and then he said stubbornly: "I need to check the information on this matter before I can answer, patriarch, you wait first." ”

After speaking, he hurriedly opened the storage bag and took out a large stack of materials and spread it out in front of him, his divine sense quickly swept over the various information recorded on it, and silently counted the number of people involved in his heart.

After nearly a quarter of an hour passed like this, he wiped the sweat that had already appeared on his forehead, and he hurriedly looked up at Zhou Yang and said, "Patriarch Mingjian, just now I checked the identity information of all the monks in the family in the past fifty years, and found that forty percent of the monks born in the family in the past fifty years are from the descendants of the family monks, forty percent are from the descendants of the family monks, forty percent are from Fengyue Tower, and two percent are from the descendants of the family's mortals!"

"The number of mortal monks is only 20%?"

Zhou Yang frowned, as if he couldn't believe the authenticity of this data.

"Yang'er, this matter is indeed true, the descendants born of the combination of two simple mortals, the chance of appearing a spiritual root is said to be one in ten thousand, but in fact it may be even lower than this!"

"So don't look at us monks always saying that mortals are the foundation of the immortal cultivation world, but in fact, even those casual cultivators, there are many people who are descendants of immortal cultivators and mortal women, not real pure monks born of mortals!"

Zhou Xuanhao saw that his son seemed to understand the truth inside, and had to speak out to solve his doubts.

The news he said is not really a person who has been in contact with this aspect for a normal year, and he really doesn't necessarily know it.

Although Zhou Yang had also gone with his elders to test the spiritual root for the mortal descendants of the oasis a few times before, he really didn't know that much about this aspect of things.

After all, his cultivation has improved very quickly, and he really doesn't know as much about grassroots matters as those grassroots cultivators.

Zhou Xuanhao also knew so clearly because when he was young, he happened to encounter the decline of the Zhou family, and he had experienced a long period of time at the grassroots level.

"Well, it's true that I was negligent in that regard. ”

Zhou Yang nodded, but admitted it very simply.

Then he frowned, looked at the people in the hall with a straight face, and asked, "You have also heard what the internal affairs elder said just now, so now do you have any good suggestions for the shortage of manpower faced by the family and the matter of accelerating the growth of the number of monks?"

"Patriarch Qiyu, I have a suggestion. ”

Zhou Guangxiang quickly responded after Zhou Yang's voice fell.

"Oh, Guangxiang, tell me, what's your suggestion?"

Zhou Yang looked at the heir he had chosen, and a look of encouragement appeared on his face.

With his encouragement, Zhou Guangxiang's face became a little more confident, and he couldn't help but say aloud: "My suggestion is divided into two parts, one is that we rebuild Fengyue Tower outside Fang City as soon as possible, and increase investment in Fengyue Tower." ”

"In the second part, we want to increase the amount of the family birth subsidy fund, and at the same time encourage those clansmen with poor spiritual root qualifications to give birth to offspring as soon as possible to contribute to the family, and even give special rewards to monks who have given birth to multiple offspring!"

"Guangxiang's suggestion, I personally think it's good, what do you all think?" Zhou Yang said as he looked at the other monks in the hall and asked everyone's opinions.

"The benefits of Fengyue Tower, everyone has seen it in the eyes over the years, if our Zhou family wants to increase the number of monks, this must be opened, as for the increase in the amount of the birth subsidy fund, I think it is no problem, now our Zhou family has a rich background, and it is enough to support it for a long time if we take out a small part of it to invest in it. ”

Zhou Xuanhao immediately nodded and agreed with Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion, and also said the reason why he agreed.

And Zhou Guangxiang, as Zhou Guangxiang's younger sister, of course would not object to his brother's suggestion.

In this way, the high-ranking monks of the Zhou family reached a consensus.

However, Zhou Yang did not immediately announce the adoption of Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion because of this, but looked at the seven deacons and elders including Zhou Yuanpeng, the elder of Chuangong, and asked, "What do the deacons and elders think?"

His inconspicuous little action suddenly moved the hearts of Zhou Yuanpeng and the other seven deacons and elders.

The status of the deacon elder in the family is equivalent to that of the foundation building monk, this is what Zhou Yang said personally, and what he is doing now is practicing this.

This respect is especially important for the seven deacons and elders.

The new elder system of the Zhou family had just been established and implemented, and the authority of the seven deacons and elders had not yet been so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

At this time, if Zhou Yang, the patriarch, did not support and respect the seven deacon elders he had elected, how could the other clansmen be in awe of these seven deacon elders and really treat them as monks in the foundation building period?

Cast it with a peach, repay it with a plum.

This is the basic principle of life.

When the seven deacons and elders heard Zhou Yang's words at this time, they were moved in their hearts, and at the same time, they also nodded in agreement with Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion.

Now the people of the Zhou family who have a little eye know that Zhou Yang is cultivating Zhou Guangxiang to become the successor.

In view of the newly established system of deacons and elders of the Zhou family, it is obviously an extremely important matter whether the new patriarch can obtain the approval of the seven deacons and elders.

Zhou Yang can obviously decide whether to pass Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion in a word, but he still has to ask for everyone's opinions, the meaning is already obvious, that is, to pave the way for Zhou Guangxiang to establish prestige.

If the seven deacons and elders can't see this, they really don't deserve to be in this position.

Among them, Tan Qiu, the foreign affairs elder of the Zhou family, that is, the late Zhou family elder Zhou Yuanchun Fujun, after agreeing with Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion, he said again: "Patriarch Qiqi, I also have a suggestion, I want to discuss it with the patriarch and the elders and clansmen. ”

"Oh, Elder Tan, please say that. ”

Zhou Yang's eyes flashed with a different color, and he smiled and waved his hand in response.

Tan Qiu got his consent, and immediately said loudly: "When the patriarch talked about the duties of the foreign elders, there was a clause that said that it was to introduce outstanding talents for the family, so I would like to ask the patriarch, in addition to recruiting people to recruit outstanding talents, can you also use the method of recruiting guests to worship and recruit some outstanding casual cultivators for cultivation and motivation?"

"What Elder Tan means is that we can recruit a monk with a foreign surname as a guest of the family, and then let him work for our Zhou family by giving him a fixed welfare offering every year and giving him task rewards, is this my understanding correct?" Zhou Yang looked at Tan Qiu with blazing eyes, and asked with a slight surprise in his tone.

"Patriarch, you're right, but I also want to add that for some casual cultivators who have outstanding talents in cultivating immortals, we can not only recruit them as family guests, but also provide relevant inheritances and resources to cultivate them, so that they can serve the family after they have learned something. ”

"Even, for those who are particularly talented, we can also use the Tsukidan and the Third-Order Inheritance as a lure to ensure that after the foundation building is successful, they are willing to sign the [Nether Blood Contract] and serve the family for the rest of their lives!"

Wow!

As soon as Tan Qiu's words were finished, it immediately caused an uproar in the main hall.

"Ridiculous, simply ridiculous!"

"Elder Tan, do you know what you're talking about?How precious is Zhuji Dan, the children of our Zhou family still need to work hard to earn contribution points to exchange!"

"But it's good for you, with a mouth, this Zhuji Dan will become Bigu Dan, and anyone can take it!"

"You say, what do you say you are doing? Do you want our Zhou family to perish?"

Angry shouts sounded from the council hall, but it was Zhou Yuanpeng, the elder of the Gong Transmission who was sitting in the same row as Tan Qiu, couldn't help but get up and pointed at Tan Qiu and scolded angrily.

As soon as Zhou Yuanpeng's angry scolding fell, Zhou Yuanliang, who was also an elder of the Zhou family, immediately agreed loudly: "Brother Ten is right, I also resolutely disagree with handing over the Zhuji Dan to outsiders for use, not to mention outsiders who do not have the blood of the Zhou family, even if they are relatives of our Zhou family, they are not qualified to use this kind of treasure!"

After Zhou Yuanliang, the general affairs elder, Zhou Yuanchang, the internal affairs elder, also shouted: "Patriarch, I have no objection to absorbing talents from outside to join the family, but if we have all the qualifications and talents, as long as the outsiders with qualifications and talents are absorbed into the family and given special preferential treatment, then in the long run, will the Zhou family still be the Zhou family of the Zhou family?"

"If the high-level monks of the Zhou family all become monks with foreign surnames one day, then can the bloodline of our Zhou family still be passed on?

"Please think twice, patriarch!"

Zhou Yuanchang said that in the end, he actually fell to his knees on the ground.

He knelt down this time, and those members of the Zhou family who were also excited because of Tan Qiu's suggestion also knelt on the ground facing Zhou Yang one after another, kowtowing and shouting, "Please think twice, patriarch!"