Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 146: Increasing Income and Reducing Expenditure, Proposal for Reform [Subscription Request]

Pagoda Peak, inside Zhongping Hall.

Today, all the foundation-building cultivators of the Zhou family gathered in Zhongping Palace to discuss some major event that would affect the family's survival.

However, the importance of the matter being discussed is obviously no less than that of a major event.

Especially after the Zhou family’s financial problems were exposed, all the elders were shocked.

In the past, the elders of the Zhou family had the right to inquire about clan affairs and also had supervisory responsibilities.

But unless the patriarch is faced with a major decision that he cannot easily make, and he actively invites the elders to participate, the elders will not inquire into family affairs.

This is to show trust in the patriarch, and secondly, I don't want to waste time on these things.

After all, the real role of these elders to the family lies in the powerful combat power they can provide and the immortal cultivation skills they master.

Therefore, the patriarch is in charge of the family's internal and external affairs and is responsible for governing the family, while the elders are responsible for concentrating on practicing and providing combat power support. This is the operating model of many immortal cultivation families and even sects.

The Zhou family is no exception.

However, not asking about family affairs on a regular basis does not mean that the elders are completely ignorant of family affairs and do not understand the harm that certain things can cause to the family.

After all, anyone who can become a family elder has practiced for dozens or even hundreds of years and experienced all kinds of things, big and small.

With this experience, even a person without any talent can see the good from the bad of some things and understand the seriousness of some things.

The saying goes that an old person in the family is like a treasure.

Therefore, when Zhou Chun mentioned the impending financial repayment crisis of the Zhou family, all the elders present took it very seriously.

Indeed, as Zhou Chun said, although the population crisis is equally serious, it will take a long time for the outbreak to take effect, and we can still find ways to slowly resolve it.

But the fiscal repayment crisis is completely different.

The fiscal repayment crisis broke out and took effect very quickly.

If we wait until the crisis breaks out before thinking of a solution, it will be too late!

Therefore, at this time, all the elders temporarily put aside the population issue, and they only cared about one thing.

How to solve or delay the possible financial repayment crisis!
At this time, facing the expectant gazes of the clan leader Zhou Daoyi and the other clan elders, Zhou Chun also spoke freely: "To solve the financial crisis that the clan is facing now, there are only two ways, increasing revenue and reducing expenditure!"

"The family's current channels and methods for making money are still too few, which seriously limits the family's income. Therefore, we must find a way to expand new channels for making money and improve the profitability of existing channels!"

"Saving money means controlling and suspending some unnecessary expenses to achieve the effect of reducing expenditure."

At this point, Zhou Chun said without hesitation: "In fact, I have analyzed and studied the family's income and expenditure records over the past decade or so, and found that if it weren't for the huge sales of the Red Iron Mine and the Touch of Despair that provided the family with a lot of income, the family's financial repayment crisis would have started two years ago!"

Although he was bragging, what he said was true.

The clan leader Zhou Daoyi also nodded sincerely and said, "Yes, if it weren't for you, Zhengchun, who discovered the Chiyao iron ore vein and helped the family develop the Touch of Despair poison to stabilize the customer base of the Spirit Beast House, the family would have hardly had a single spirit coin left in its account!"

The other family elders naturally knew that these were all Zhou Chun’s achievements, and the looks they gave him at this time were full of appreciation and gratitude.

Zhou Chun shook his head and said, "But now the output of the Chiyao Iron Mine is close to exhaustion and will soon completely lose its value for large-scale mining. The price of the raw materials for the Touch of Despair has also increased a lot. It is difficult for this item to bring much effective income to the family."

"Then what should we do? Zhengchun, you just said you wanted to open source. Do you have any better ideas?"

The fourth elder Zhou Jiarui looked at Zhou Chun expectantly and asked, hoping that this amazing younger generation of the family could make further achievements for the family and extend their lives.

The other people also looked at Zhou Chun, their eyes full of anticipation.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately nodded and said, "Let's talk about how the family makes money now."

"At present, the family makes money in three main ways: shops in the market, rent from independent cultivators, and trade with other forces."

"Although the market shops seem stable at the moment, it is very good to be able to maintain the current income in the face of strong competitors. If we want to achieve any high growth, we must launch a new product with good effect and large production volume!"

"There is a lot of room for growth in the rental income from independent cultivators. Our Zhou family has a good reputation now, and has attracted many independent cultivators to settle down and practice around Jiufengling. If there are three to five hundred independent cultivators who regard our Zhou family as a place for cultivation, the annual rental income alone will be considerable!"

“Therefore, I suggest that the Zhou family can set aside some money to form a security team to protect the safety of the independent cultivators who have settled around Jiufengling, and severely crack down on the acts of robbing and killing others in the surrounding areas, so as to attract independent cultivators to settle down!”

"Of course, the consequences of doing so are obvious. It will attract deliberate targeting from some bandit cultivators, and we may also be plotted against by forces that are jealous of our Zhou family. Whether or not we should do this depends on the opinions of the elders."

"Finally, there is the trade income with other forces. There is also great potential in this area!"

When Zhou Chun said this, he couldn't help but look at the third elder Zhou Daoquan.

"The Zhou family's trade income with other forces was previously just large quantities of family specialty medicines and monster rations."

"But in fact, the monsters raised by our Zhou family can also become best-selling items!"

"I roughly calculated that with the current rate of increase in the number of cultivators in the family, many of the monsters raised by the family will reproduce faster than the increase in the family population."

"As long as there is enough food, high-quality monster species such as the Emerald Crowned Flying Snake, the Eight-Angled Water Deer, the Rock-Armored Python, and the Red Flame Wolf will reproduce faster than ordinary monsters."

"If the beast garden can supply even ten low-level monster cubs of various types to outsiders for contract every year, it can generate thousands of spirit coins for the family!"

After he finished speaking, the other elders also looked at the third elder Zhou Daoquan.

He has always been in charge of the Zhou family's zoo, and he is also responsible for all the training tasks.

He knew better than anyone whether it was possible to increase the output of monster cubs in the beast garden.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Zhou Daoquan hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Forget about the octagonal sambar deer. The population of this species is not enough for the family at present. It is not suitable for sale until the population exceeds fifty!"

"As for the other monster cubs, we can indeed release some of them for sale for profit. Ten per year shouldn't be a big problem!" Zhou Chun heard this and immediately said, "That's good. It can be regarded as opening up a new channel."

At this time, the fourth elder Zhou Jiarui suddenly changed his expression and said, "By the way, how is the Red Flame King Kong Monkey doing now? It has been seven or eight years, so it should have become a first-class upper-grade monster, right?"

"The Red Flame King Kong Monkey has indeed become a first-class superior monster last year, but it is not yet fully mature and has not yet mated with a female Red Tailed Monkey!"

Zhou Daoquan said this and continued, "But it should be soon. In three years at the slowest and one year at the fastest, it should be able to challenge King Kong Monkey for the position of the Monkey King!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Jiarui also sighed and said, "Well, I hope it can pass on its bloodline, so that my Zhou family can have another powerful war beast!"

At the beginning, Zhou Daoquan mentioned two routes for breeding the Red Flame King Kong Monkey population.

Now, several years have passed, and the golden gorillas have not been able to reproduce with the red-tailed monkeys to produce new red-flamed golden gorillas, nor have they been able to give birth to new golden gorillas.

If we want to truly realize the population of Red Flame King Kong Monkeys, the only hope lies in that Red Flame King Kong Monkey.

Zhou Chun then continued, "As far as open source is concerned, these are the only open source methods that can be implemented at present."

"Now let me talk about saving money!"

"It's actually harder to save money than to increase revenue, because the family has been saving as much as possible before, and we are saving money in all aspects!"

"There are only two ways I can think of to save money. The first is to change the rewards for future family missions. The original pure rewards for good deeds will be changed into some good deeds and treasures accumulated in the treasury, clearing out some useless inventory."

"Second, we encourage our clansmen to accumulate good deeds, which can be used to exchange for spiritual items for foundation building in the future!"

Saving money does not mean reducing the welfare benefits of our people!
Zhou Chun is very clear about this.

The reason for family unity, besides blood ties, is that family cultivators enjoy much better benefits than independent cultivators.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, cutting the welfare benefits of the tribesmen should never be done!

But even so, after listening to his suggestions for saving money, the second elder Zhou Chongshan still said: "I'm afraid we have to be cautious when exchanging for foundation-building spiritual objects!"

"The exchange of the Ascension Fruit caused quite a stir in the family. If we use this to lure the clan members to accumulate merits, it can certainly help alleviate the redemption crisis. But if a clan member really gathers enough merits through borrowing, how can we redeem it for him?"

It is not easy to obtain spiritual objects for foundation building!

Any kind of foundation-building spiritual object, even the spiritual object of the spiritual-ascension fruit, is something that can only be obtained by chance and luck.

Therefore, Zhou Chongshan’s statement is not groundless.

But since Zhou Chun made this suggestion, he must have considered this point.

He immediately said, "So we have to modify a clan rule. When a clan cultivator accumulates 5,000 clan merits through welfare offerings and mission rewards, he or she can become the clan's foundation-building seed and enjoy the priority right to exchange for foundation-building spiritual objects!"

"We can even take into account the good deeds left by our deceased fathers, so as to enhance the loyalty and sense of belonging of the family monks to the family!"

"In this case, if someone can still raise 6,000 or 7,000 family merits, it means that he must be someone who is widely trusted and respected by the clan members. Then, isn't it reasonable for us to do our best to support him in building his foundation?"

After hearing what he said, Zhou Chongshan fell silent and fell into deep thought.

After a while, before Zhou Chongshan could say anything, clan leader Zhou Daoyi clapped his hands and said, "Great! This is a great plan, and it makes sense."

"But if we want to modify the clan rules, we need the consent of the great elders!"

As soon as the clan leader expressed his support, Zhou Chongshan frowned, but ultimately did not raise any more objections.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun also responded: "Of course, everything discussed here today should eventually be reviewed by the Supreme Elder and implemented only after his approval!"

"So Zhengchun, do you have anything else to say?"

Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Chun and asked, his face full of encouragement.

He knew Zhou Chun very well and knew that Zhou Chun had made such a big fuss today. It must be not just about talking about these difficulties and troubles, and how to solve them. There must be other things to do.

Judging from Zhou Chun’s performance before, it is clear that Zhou Chun today is fully prepared.

So he was also looking forward to Zhou Chun's subsequent performance.

Zhou Chun was very grateful for his help and said, "Patriarch, please understand. I would like to take this opportunity to offer some suggestions on the reform of the family!"

Hearing him mention the word "reform" again, the second elder Zhou Chongshan's eyebrows twitched again, staring at him and said: "Oh, what do you want to reform? It can't be those things from last time!"

Zhou Chun seemed to have guessed what Zhou Chongshan would say, and immediately said with a smile: "Don't worry, Second Elder, the reforms I am making this time will not be that big!"

"Really? Then I'm all ears."

Zhou Chongshan's eyes flashed with a strange look, and he replied lightly.

At this time, Zhou Chun clasped his hands together and bowed to the senior members of the Zhou family in the hall. He said, "My dear elders, I have always believed that the original internal management structure of the family was not efficient enough, which slowed down the efficiency of work and wasted a lot of manpower and resources for no reason."

"And after the younger generations investigated and interviewed a large number of clan members, they also found that some clan members wanted to do something for the family and had the ability to do something for the family, but they had always been suffering from the lack of opportunities to do things in their suitable positions!"

"Therefore, I want to improve all aspects of the family so that these members can display their talents in the positions they like and are good at!"

Having said that, he took the initiative to tell the elders his plan without waiting for them to ask him how he wanted to reform.

"I am going to take back the power of the peak masters of each peak and set up five major halls within the family: the Internal Affairs Hall, the External Affairs Hall, the Hundred Beasts Hall, the Hundred Arts Hall, and the Hundred Medicine Hall. They will be responsible for the operation of all family affairs. Each hall will have a deacon and several staff members, and the staff will be replaced at an appropriate time!"

"At the same time, three deacons will be appointed to be in charge of finance, supervision, and punishment, and they will be directly under the jurisdiction of the clan leader."

"All deacons are responsible to the patriarch!"

Regarding the reform of various institutions within the family, do you have any good suggestions? Welcome to give some open and constructive opinions. Of course, don't mention things that are too modern! I have always been against teaching advanced ideas in the world of cultivation. It's too inconsistent!
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