Chihu Mountain, the newly built hall of the Zhou family.

This newly renovated council hall of the Zhou family is not much different from the council hall on Yuquan Peak in general style, but the space inside is more spacious, enough to accommodate thousands of people to discuss matters in it.

At the same time, the decoration in the council hall is also much more exquisite, not only are there more than 20 jade lamps made by the monks of the Zhou family with light jade, but there are also hundreds of "pure heart futons" on the ground.

This "pure heart futon" is a common auxiliary instrument for low-level immortal cultivators to meditate and practice in their daily lives, and it is woven from "concentrating grass", which has the effect of purifying the heart and concentrating the mind.

However, there are so many futons here today that they must be dissatisfied, because the people who participated in this family meeting are all the real elites of the Zhou family, and they are less than forty people except those who are unable to leave with heavy responsibilities.

"I have gathered all of you today to hold a small family meeting to discuss a few important matters. ”

"I also know that all the clansmen here are busy with clan affairs and time is pressing, so I won't listen to you report on those family affairs today, and directly explain the things to be discussed. ”

In the council hall, Zhou Yang sat on a cold jade bed at the top, his eyes swept over the dozens of Zhou family monks sitting on the top plate, and when he opened his mouth, he went straight to the topic.

"First of all, since my Zhou family has been promoted to the Purple Mansion family, some outdated rules of the family need to be changed, that's right, I mean about the fact that the clansmen will be automatically promoted to the family elders after being promoted to the ninth level of Qi training!"

"The second thing, my Zhou family is now more and more in the number of monks, and there are more and more things to face, the original rules of the General Affairs Hall in charge of the affairs of the whole clan are out of date and need to be changed. ”

"The fourth thing, as the family gets bigger and bigger, the number of family members is increasing, and some bad signs have begun to appear, today I will call you here, that is, I want you to first self-examine and self-correct, and then inquire and guide other clansmen after you go back, so as to establish a clear and honest family style of integrity, kindness, diligence and honesty for my Zhou family!"

He finished saying what he wanted to say one by one, and then stopped and waited for the monks of the Zhou family to carefully reflect the meaning of what he said.

After waiting for nearly two quarters of an hour, he looked at everyone and said, "Now let's talk about the first thing, you also know the situation of this matter, as the conditions of the family are getting better and better, the cultivation of the family cultivators to the ninth layer of qi cultivation is not known how many times easier than before, so that the family now has as many as twenty-two elders of the ninth layer of qi training, and it is expected that there will be only a lot more in the future." ”

"I don't want to talk about what the ancestors thought when they formulated the system of cultivating the ninth layer of Qi to be promoted to the elder of the family, what I just want to tell you is that if this system does not change, as the number of elders increases, the status of the family elder in the hearts of the clan will definitely get lower and lower in the future, and the status in the eyes of outsiders will also be lower and lower. ”

"If you, as the elders of the Zhou family, can't get the respect you deserve in front of outsiders, then how can you make people respect the Zhou family?

Hearing his words, the faces of some of the Zhou family elders present changed slightly, and then some people showed thoughtful expressions on their faces, and some people showed anxious and worried expressions on their faces, but no one dared to say anything immediately.

What can be clearly seen is that those who show thoughtful expressions are all people who have been promoted to the elder of the family for ten or twenty years.

When these people were promoted to family elders, there were only a few elders of the Zhou family, and they really understood the difference between the meaning represented by the family elders at that time and the meaning represented by the family elders now.

And those who showed anxious and worried expressions, most of them were people who had been promoted to family elders in the past ten years, and these people were finally promoted to family elders and enjoyed the benefits of elders that they had envied before, so they were naturally worried that Zhou Yang's proposal to reform the rules for the appointment of family elders at this time would weaken their welfare benefits.

These people didn't dare to say anything, but they all looked at the white-haired old woman who was sitting in the same row as many foundation building monks in the first row in front of them.

The white-haired old woman is Zhou Yuanchun, the current elder of the Zhou family.

As the great elder of the Zhou family and the great-granddaughter of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, Zhou Yuanchun is indeed qualified to sit in the same row as those foundation building monks.

And after feeling the gaze of the younger generations behind him, Zhou Yuanchun, who was already one hundred and eighteen years old, suddenly got up tremblingly and arched his hand towards Zhou Yang, and said in a hoarse voice: "Patriarch, we all know this truth, you should directly talk about your opinions and thoughts!"

"Sixth sister, you're old, let's sit down and talk. ”

Zhou Yang glanced at this white-haired clan sister who had not lived for two years, and his mood was also a little complicated.

After the death of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, most of the inheritance was given to this granddaughter, except for one exception, that is, the family contribution points accumulated by him.

Originally, Zhou Minghan had at least 30,000 family contribution points, but before he died, he destroyed all these family contribution points and left nothing behind.

Zhou Yang understood very well the reason why Zhou Minghan did this, that is, he didn't want Zhou Yuanchun to exchange it for Zhuji Dan to use for her two lower-grade spiritual root sons after getting this huge contribution point.

So when Zhou Yuanchun took the magic weapons and spirit stones left by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan a few years ago, and wanted to exchange him and his father Zhou Xuanhao for family contribution points, he and Zhou Xuanhao both refused.

Because of this, the relationship between Zhou Yuanchun and them suddenly became a lot, and I thought that I also had some resentment towards them in my heart.

Despite this, Zhou Yang didn't think that his father and son had done wrong.

The Zhou family has limited resources, and it is impossible to waste the precious Zhuji Dan on Zhou Yuanchun's two mediocre sons.

In fact, as long as her two sons can show other superhuman talents in addition to the spiritual root, Zhou Yang is actually willing to give her a chance.

It's a pity that her two sons don't have this kind of talent, not to mention, they are still a little pampered and arrogant, so how can Zhou Yang be willing to waste the precious Zhuji Dan on such an unworthy person?

"My opinion is very simple, in the future, family cultivators, only in the Purple Mansion period, can they be promoted to the Supreme Elder, and those who succeed in building the foundation can be promoted to become the family elder. ”

"Of course, the monks in the foundation building period should focus on cultivation, and should not focus on specific family management, so the family should also select some people with excellent relevant abilities among the ninth-level Qi cultivation monks, and grant the position of deacon elder to be responsible for the management of various family affairs. ”

"The number of deacons and elders is fixed at seven, which are divided into the elders of the meritorious service, the elders of internal affairs, the elders of general affairs, the elders of finance, the elders of law enforcement, the elders of public security, and the elders of external affairs, and each elder is responsible for one aspect of the management of family affairs. ”

"The elders of internal affairs are responsible for reviewing and evaluating the promotion of family personnel, counting the number of family monks and mortals, and cultivating the realm of monks and immortals; the general affairs elders are responsible for handling the reports submitted by the family monks, and are responsible for publishing various family entrusted tasks and private entrusted tasks. ”

"The financial elder is responsible for reviewing and counting the income and expenditure of the family's property, and managing and operating the family estate; the law enforcement elder is of course responsible for the implementation and supervision of the family rules and family laws; the security elder is naturally responsible for maintaining law and order in the family territory, including eliminating demon beasts and arresting the delinquent monks; and the foreign affairs elder is mainly responsible for foreign exchanges and trade and introducing outstanding talents to the family. ”

"These seven deacons and elders are equal in status to the family foundation monks, all clansmen must bow when they see the elders in public, and the benefits they receive every year should be raised to 300 contribution points!"

Zhou Yang looked at the Zhou family monks present, and said in a deep voice what he had been thinking about for a long time.

For a moment, the entire council hall fell silent.

"Seven, seven elders, will this number be too small? Patriarch, you want to improve the efficiency of the family's work, we all understand, but the number of seven elders is too small, right? In case any elder has something to retreat or has an accident, we don't even have a person to replace him!"

It was not Zhou Yuanchun, who had just asked, but Zhou Yang's brother Zhou Yuanpeng.

Zhou Yuanpeng ranked tenth among his peers, two years younger than Zhou Yang, and according to the life span of a Qi cultivation period monk of one hundred and twenty years, he could live for about ten years.

Moreover, because of his meritorious work in discovering a new mortal food crop "Baisha Taro", he had been rewarded with special contribution points by the family, and he also had a lot of prestige among the current elders of the Zhou family.

"Tenth brother, I naturally have considered what you said, so what I want to say is that since you want to get rich family benefits and obtain a superior status, you naturally have to make sacrifices. ”

"Therefore, once you become a family elder, you should not think that you will make any further progress on your path, and you should not do such a thing as retreat unless it is a retreat to recuperate from your injuries!"

"As for the person in place, that has to do with the second thing I'm going to talk about next!"

Zhou Yang said lightly, his eyes swept away the Zhou family elders whose expressions were uncertain, and then said:

"The second thing is that I want to set up seven management bodies in the family, including the Chuangong Hall, the Internal Affairs Hall, the General Affairs Hall, the Punishment Hall, the Finance Hall, the Public Security Hall, and the Foreign Affairs Hall, and the head of each institution is a corresponding elder, and one or two deputy hall masters are appointed to assist the hall master in handling the affairs of the church. ”

"These seven halls are directly responsible to the patriarch and the council of elders, and the quota number and personnel recruitment review of each hall ultimately require the patriarch's signature to be valid!"

"You people, even if you don't have the ability to become elders, can compete for the position of deputy hall master or deacon in the hall, as long as you can join these seven halls, you can all get a certain amount of position subsidies, to ensure that even if you are over sixty years old, you can continue to receive family welfare offerings!"