The wealth and the law are the four elements of practice.

Among them, the importance of "wealth" to immortal cultivators ranks first.

The importance of "wealth" is not only for a single immortal cultivator, but also for an immortal cultivation family and an immortal cultivation sect.

The strength of the Zhou family is not only in terms of population and land, but also in terms of financial income.

With a surplus of tens of thousands of spirit stones every year, such a wealthy immortal cultivation family, as long as it does not suffer from the blow of dimensionality reduction from a higher level, it will be difficult for it to decline.

When Zhou Yang left the family, he took away seventy or eighty percent of the stored spirit stones in the family's treasure house.

But now that seventeen years have passed, as many as 250,000 spirit stones have been stored in the Zhou family's treasure house, and this ability to make money and save money, the Zhou family is the only one in the boundless sand sea cultivation immortal realm.

However, under the large financial income of the Zhou family, it is not without hidden worries.

This hidden worry is very simple, that is, with the dozens of monks who have practiced the cultivation of immortals in the Zhou Family Baiyi Hall producing all kinds of magic weapons, spirit runes, and pills year after year, and selling them openly in the form of small profits and quick turnover, the market for the immortal cultivation world in the Chihu Mountain Oasis and the surrounding immortal cultivation world is close to saturation.

If it weren't for the fact that some minor immortal cultivators and many monks had the habit of hoarding magic weapons and spirit runes as backup resources, many things might not be able to be sold by now.

In general, the market is already on the verge of oversupply.

After Zhou Yang's many lectures and explanations, coupled with all kinds of intelligence information they came into contact with in charge of finance, the people of the Zhou family's financial hall already have very good macroeconomic knowledge after hearing and seeing.

Zhou Guangyun said a lot of hidden worries about the Zhou family's finances, and also gave many financial solutions to negotiate.

For example, temporarily reduce the supply of those low-level magic weapons, elixirs, and spirit runes, hoard them and put them in the warehouse, and wait for the market demand to pick up before slowly selling them.

Another example is the expansion of long-distance trade caravans, allowing caravans to take these accumulated goods farther away to sell.

Although these practices will temporarily reduce the income of the Zhou family, they are completely worth it in the long run.

It is not terrible for the market to shrink, but it is afraid that the market will collapse, and once the market collapses, it will be very expensive to establish a stable market.

"I know the basic situation, and I have a solution in my heart for this matter, but this plan does not conflict with your plan of Guangyun, so you can do the thing of hoarding goods, and you can also do the expansion of the long-distance trade caravan, but the task of the trade caravan is not to sell goods, but to buy goods such as spirit runes, Bigu Dan, and healing pills in large quantities!"

In the council hall, after listening to the report of the financial elder Zhou Guangyun on the Zhou family's finances, Zhou Yang pondered for a while, and then nodded and said his own arrangements.

Hearing his words, not only the laymen in the hall of the Zhou family were surprised, but even Zhou Guangyun, who was in charge of finances, frowned, and couldn't help but look at him and asked, "Elder Taishang, can you tell me why? Our Zhou family has thousands of acres of spiritual fields, and there are thousands of red turkeys and velvet rabbits, so there is no need to buy such things as Bigu Dan!"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yang, who has always been very open-minded, shook his head directly this time and said: "I can't say the reason for the time being, in short, you just do what I say, I will let Guangxiang take out 100,000 spirit stones from the inner library to buy these things for you!"

100,000 spirit stones!

Hearing Zhou Yang say such a huge number without blinking his eyes, everyone in the Zhou family present in the hall, except for a few foundation building monks and Zhou Guangyun, the financial elder, were all stunned for a while.

The Zhou family has money, and these people know it, after all, the Zhou family has done all kinds of things to spend money over the years, and these people have also heard the annual income reported by Zhou Guangyun before.

But now that Zhou Yang said so easily that he wanted to take out 100,000 spirit stones and buy some inconspicuous Bigu Dan and low-level spirit runes in everyone's eyes, these people were still surprised.

At the same time, many people were shocked, and their mouths moved slightly, wanting to say something.

But before these people could speak out, Zhou Guangyun, the person concerned, had already taken the lead in responding: "My niece understands, follow the orders of Elder Taishang!"

Suddenly, those who wanted to speak immediately bit their lipes and held back their words.

In the Zhou family, Zhou Yang's order is the rules of heaven, Zhou Guangyun, the financial elder, has already said to abide by the order, if they still dare to contradict it, do they want to rebel?

"So, who else has any suggestions to say no? Everyone can speak freely, as long as you think it can be beneficial to the family, as long as it is the defects of the family system or other deficiencies that you have discovered, you can take this opportunity to say it, and we will also take this opportunity to correct it!"

Zhou Yang looked at those clansmen who wanted to speak and stopped, smiled slightly, and asked everyone's opinions with a smile.

Widely open up and accept opinions, this is the policy set by Zhou Yang when he held the first family meeting.

He knew very well that he would definitely not be able to see all kinds of things that happened up and down the family with a pair of eyes, and those family managers he appointed could also deceive him for various reasons.

And at the family meeting, those who deceived him, those things that were deliberately hidden from him, and those injustices that happened in the family can be exposed by an ordinary clansman.

He used this method to give those low-level monks of the family a chance to "go up to heaven and listen", and the most effective channel for complaints.

However, in the previous Zhou family, the number of clansmen was small, and the family was in a period of rapid rise, and related dirty things rarely happened, and no one would openly tear their faces with a clansman at the family meeting.

But this time, after Zhou Yang said what he could say freely, someone from the Zhou family immediately stood up.

I saw a yellow-clothed young Zhou family disciple in the back row of the hall standing up directly from the ground, looking at Zhou Yang with a respectful and expectant face and saying loudly: "Elder Taishang Mingjian, junior Zhou Tongming has something to ask Elder Taishang to administer justice!"

Seeing this, Zhou Yang's face flashed, and he couldn't help but look at this young clansman who only had a fourth-level Qi cultivation and asked, "It is the job of the law enforcement elder to uphold justice for the clan, why don't you look for the law enforcement elder and look for me?"

Being looked at by a Purple Mansion monk like him, even if his gaze did not contain any oppressive power, the young monk Zhou Tongming's face was tense, and he hurriedly replied: "Back to Elder Taishang's words, the juniors have looked for the law enforcement elders, but the law enforcement elders' disposition, the juniors do not agree, so they will take the risk of asking the Taishang elders to uphold justice today!"

When Zhou Yang heard this, he continued to ask: "Even if this is the case, according to the family rules, you can also appeal to the patriarch, can't the patriarch's disposition satisfy you?"

"Yes, the younger generation still doesn't dare to agree with the patriarch's disposition!"

Zhou Tongming raised his head and took a deep breath, ignoring the strange eyes of other clansmen, and answered Zhou Yang's question loudly.

Zhou Yang's curiosity was also aroused at this time, and he smiled slightly on his face: "Then you say, what do you have to ask me to administer justice for you!"

"The younger generation is from the [Fengyue Tower] monk, although it is also the bloodline of the Zhou family, but the bloodline relationship with other monks is unknown, I don't know how many generations have passed!"

"And although Guangyin is a Cantonese monk, he is only one year older than his juniors, and he is also from [Fengyue Building], the two of us grew up together since childhood, studied together, can be described as childhood sweethearts, they love each other deeply, and they have made a lifelong covenant in private!"

"But after the law enforcement elder and the patriarch learned about the matter between the junior and Guangyin, they forcibly separated the junior and Guangyin on the grounds of violating human ethics, and sent Guangyin to the distant Haoyang Cave spiritual vein to take care of the spiritual field on the mountain, so that the two of us have not been able to see each other for several years, and even strictly forbade other clansmen to pass letters for the two of us!"

"The younger generation knows that the family has always not supported intermarriage between monks in the family, but there seems to be no relevant rules in the family rules that strictly prohibit it. ”

"What's more, it is human nature to love men and women, and we immortal cultivators pay attention to obeying the heavens and people, why do we have to be bound by those vulgar etiquette and can't act happily according to our own hearts?"

"Therefore, the younger generation is here to dare to admonish, and I want to ask the elder Taishang to make a statement to make a rule for this matter, and allow the clansmen with a blood relationship of more than five generations to intermarry with each other, so as to fulfill the love between the younger generation and Guangyin!"

In the council hall, Zhou Tongming completely ignored the strange eyes of the other clansmen in the hall, looked directly at Zhou Yang with excitement on his face, and said loudly what he had invited.

After he finished speaking, he directly knelt on the ground with a "poof", and kowtowed to Zhou Yang with his head "bang bang" and shouted: "Ask Elder Taishang to be gracious and fulfill the juniors and Guangyin!"

The sound of kowtows and shouts echoed in the council hall one after another.

Zhou Tongming seems to have made up his mind, if Zhou Yang doesn't agree, he won't stop.

When Zhou Yang saw this scene, his brows furrowed, and he didn't like Zhou Tongming's behavior in his heart.

Although he also knew that the other party's fundamental purpose in doing this was to grab his last straw.

His face changed, and naturally he did not escape the observation of Zhou Guangxiang and the other monks in the first two rows closest to him.

Seeing him frowning, Zhou Guangkun, the law enforcement elder who had a somewhat ugly face after Zhou Tongming came out, immediately got up and looked at Zhou Tongming and shouted: "Enough! Zhou Tongming, what are you trying to do? Do you want to threaten Elder Taishang with death to make an exception for you? Do you still have family rules and clan laws in your eyes? Do you want to rebel?"

As soon as Zhou Guangkun's cheers fell, the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang also followed closely and said: "My aunt and nephew are in love, it is against human ethics, my Zhou family has always pursued the order of the elders and the young, you and Guangyin have both grown up studying together in the academy since childhood, how can you not know this? Knowing this, you still knowingly commit a crime, what kind of face do you have to ask Elder Taishang to make an exception for you?"

As soon as the two of them opened their mouths, Zhou Guangtai, the elder of the Zhou family, also immediately agreed: "What the patriarch said is extremely true, if our Zhou family monks don't even abide by the most basic human dignity, wouldn't it make the people of other families laugh off their big teeth? Zhou Tongming, you hurry up for me, don't take advantage of the sympathy of the Supreme Elder to mess around!"

However, in the face of the reprimands of these heavyweights of the Zhou family, Zhou Tongming, who was kneeling on the ground, seemed to have heard of it, and just kept kowtowing and shouting: "Ask the Supreme Elder to be merciful and fulfill the younger generation and Guangyin!"

Because he knocked too hard and didn't use mana to protect him, his forehead was already a blur of flesh and blood at this time, and a rather handsome face was all stained red by his own blood.

Many people around him who were close to his age saw this scene, and their faces showed unbearable expressions, but because of their status, no one dared to stand up and plead for him.