Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 577 Institutional Reform
After seeing Xu Zhilan off, Li Xiangming immediately convened a meeting to discuss the tiered system of membership fees.

This reform was not easy to pass—everyone was still resentful about the 10,000 spirit stones they had paid as a membership fee.

To reduce obstacles, Li Xiangming ordered Master Shen to inscribe four levels of identity tokens: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise. He then distributed the Azure Dragon token free of charge to the five existing factions in the alliance, ensuring they enjoyed the highest level of security.

Other factions that wish to gain the protection of the Demon Suppression Camp must join the alliance, which means purchasing an alliance identity token.

The Azure Dragon Token costs 15,000 spirit stones, while the White Tiger Token and Vermilion Bird Token cost 10,000 and 5,000 spirit stones respectively. Even the cheapest Black Tortoise Token costs 2,000 spirit stones.

Whether it's ten thousand or two thousand spirit stones, it's still a huge amount.

The vast majority of cultivation forces simply cannot afford it.

However, the alliance fee can be paid not only with spirit stones, but also with pills, talismans, magic weapons, and spirit pets. As long as it is valuable, the alliance will accept it all.

The alliance welcomes all cultivators above the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and two thousand spirit stones, which translates to just ten people.

If they are willing to send out late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, a mere three people can receive the protection of the alliance—of course, the Demon Suppression Camp will prioritize protecting holders of the higher-level Azure Dragon Token, White Tiger Token, and Vermilion Bird Token.

what?
You don't want to contribute money or manpower?

no problem!
The alliance also wants the rights to transfer and share profits from spirit fields, spirit mines, and various market industries.

Selling off the profits from the next few years is better than abandoning these businesses and packing up to leave, right?
Taking this opportunity, Li Xiangming also launched a points system.

Each faction sent cultivators into the Demon Suppression Camp to fill the huge hole of the alliance fee. But in addition to these participating cultivators, the alliance also had high-ranking members like Qiu Changzhang and Xu Zhilan who served the alliance.

Can't they represent the contributions of Immortal Ape Manor and the Xu family to the alliance?

It necessarily means that.

Since Li Xiangming has already decided to commercialize the alliance, he might as well quantify their contributions as well.

From now on, every cultivator who serves the alliance, including those in the Demon Suppression Camp, will receive a stipend based on their rank. However, this stipend will not be spirit stones or cultivation resources, but rather alliance points.

Unlike merit points, league points cannot be redeemed for physical items.

In fact, it could be said that the level of points is meaningless to an individual cultivator.

However, each person's points will be allocated to the power behind them based on their origin. The alliance will then take 50% of the spoils based on the points of these powers and distribute them as dividends.

As for the remaining 50% of the spoils, they were preserved, partly to repay the alliance's debts, and partly to purchase various equipment and resources that the alliance urgently needed.

"Leader Li, what is the significance of this points system?"

Luo Wanlin spoke blankly, and even secretly glanced at Xie Jun.

He had just joined the alliance on behalf of the Luo family and had finally grasped the complex mechanisms within the alliance when he encountered alliance reforms the very next day, leaving his head spinning.

Not to mention Luo Wanlin, Xie Jun, Madam Xu, and Qiu Changzhang were all staring longingly at Li Xiangming.

"The alliance is newly established, and currently only the Demon Suppression Camp has an incentive mechanism, which is the existing merit system. The cultivators of the Demon Suppression Camp fight bloody battles on the front lines and have made outstanding contributions, so they should be rewarded. But the alliance has more than just the Demon Suppression Camp. The Support Hall, the Control Hall, and the Manufacturing Office will gather a large number of cultivators. These people serve the alliance and should also receive merit."

Li Xiangming scanned the crowd and said in a deep voice, "The problem is that the alliance is currently heavily indebted. If the merit system is fully implemented, it will be too much of a burden on the alliance. Introducing a points system can reduce the proliferation of merits, lower costs, and at the same time help balance the interests within the alliance."

After he finished speaking, the meeting fell silent.

Everyone was lost in thought.

Li Xiangming was also pondering this.

Regarding how to resolve the beast tide crisis in Pudong, he originally had only a vague idea: to unite all factions and form an allied army to protect themselves while fighting the monsters.

This idea is something that almost anyone could come up with.

The real challenge is how to make it happen.

The alliance of Gushe has already taken its first step.

Do not!
This is the second step.

However, it is still extremely imperfect.

Or rather, the Gushe Alliance itself was a sudden idea that Li Xiangming came up with while supporting Gushe Ridge at the invitation of the Xu family. As for why the alliance had to be commercialized?

Li Xiangming's idea was simple—given the Li family's current situation, they were stretched thin in both manpower and resources. He quantified each family's contribution to ensure the Li family firmly held the top position in the alliance.

This status was not determined by the Li family's strength.

It's debt!

If the alliance can pay off this debt, then the Li family will not only successfully lead the various forces in Pudong to suppress the beast tide and gain unimaginable prestige, but will also reap tens of thousands of spirit stones from it.

The rise of the Li family is unstoppable.

But can the alliance really eliminate that enormous debt with the materials from the captured monsters?
Li Xiangming had no confidence in this.

His promises to the Xu family and the Immortal Ape Manor were nothing but empty words.

The reason the Xu family was willing to take this opportunity was because they themselves were on the verge of collapse; or rather, in the Xu family's view, they were the founders of the alliance with the Li family.

Therefore, the Xu family took everything in the alliance very seriously. The Immortal Ape Manor, on the other hand, maintained an indifferent attitude.

But the alliance can't consist of only three factions. Will the newcomers still be able to benefit?
Putting everything else aside, the Luo family doesn't eat it.

The only family truly willing to extend credit to the alliance for strategic resources such as the Golden Bow was the Xu family.

As the alliance's debt piles up higher and higher, will the Xu family still be the sucker?

It's impossible even if you think about it.

Xu Zhilan's reminder made Li Xiangming realize the drawbacks of commercial alliances.

The massive debt will suppress, and continue to suppress, the enthusiasm of alliance members.

He must do everything he can to solve the debt problem.

In other words, he has to take the most difficult path—making the league profitable.

Before that, he also had to resolve the internal conflicts within the alliance, namely the distribution issue.

So far, the alliance's only gains have been the materials from the captured monsters.

When these monster materials were seized, such as in the great victory at Gushe Ridge, who contributed the most?
Li family!

According to the alliance contribution theory, the Li family received the most monster materials.

But in addition to that, the Li family is also the alliance's largest creditor.

The alliance must retain a significant portion of the monster materials to repay its debts!

The Li family's contributions, coupled with their inexhaustible debts, resulted in over 80% of the spoils seized by the Demon Suppression Camp bearing their name.

Other factions, not gaining any benefits, are naturally unwilling to risk their lives for the alliance.

The points system redefines alliance contributions. The battle merits of the Demon Suppression Camp cultivators are only included in the merit system, where they enjoy personal benefits and no longer represent contributions from all factions.

Each party's ability to speak out depends entirely on their points.

Taking the Xu family as an example, before the reform, the Xu family cultivators risked their lives in the Demon Suppression Camp, but the battle merits they obtained were far lower than those of the Li family.

Since the Xu family only has fifty cultivators, while the Li family has eighty, plus the eighty former members of the Demon Suppression Camp representing the Li family, totaling one hundred and sixty cultivators, how could the Xu family compete with the Li family?
After the reform, the battle merits of the Demon Suppression Camp cultivators will not be counted in the points system.

The Xu family could, outside of the Demon Suppression Camp, such as through the Imperial Workshop, order their weapon refiners to produce equipment like the Flying Star Crossbow and the Golden Palace Bow, thereby increasing the Xu family's contribution.

It should be noted that the Li family is not known for its expertise in weapon crafting.

The Xu family, or other alliance members, could very well earn enough points in the production process to compete with the Li family.

Of course, Li Xiangming's repeated abandonment of his own advantages to promote the reform of the Gushe Alliance was not out of boredom.

The points system not only eases internal conflicts and encourages active participation in the alliance, but also has the potential to create a super production base—as more and more skilled craftspeople flood into the Imperial Workshop, the needs of the Demon Suppression Camp become negligible. Li Xiangming will then have the opportunity to sell the Imperial Workshop's output to the Pushui Market.

Isn't this more profitable than selling cheap monster materials?
(End of this chapter)