Li Yuanping returned to the town, his heart was still angry and painful, his eyes were red as he entered the nave, and it was gloomy all around, and the two lights were like beans, flickering faintly.
He dragged his tired body, sat on the highest seat, and drew a document, but he couldn't read it, coughed irritably, and swallowed the blood.
Dou Yi hurriedly rushed in and climbed the steps, Li Yuanping said in a low voice:
"Ink research."
Dou Yi honestly finished grinding the ink, Li Yuanping waved his hand, he withdrew, Li Yuanping picked up the pen, slowly calmed down, and thought carefully for a while.
The position of the head of the family must balance the surnames inside and outside the clan, manage the spiritual fields, and distribute the clan salary, involving the interests of almost the entire clan from fetal breath to qi training.
Now that the Li family has received the great lineage of the Fu species and suppressed the family, they can naturally designate the head of the family at will, the wise are the king, and the fool obeys the order.
But once this precedent was established, in the future, the direct lineage of the Fu species would gradually drift away, and they would have different backgrounds, conflicting interests, and each supporting the same line, then there would be trouble.
"If that time comes, the position of the head of the family will become a means for a few monks to compete for power and profit and extort the family..."
"What's more..."
Li Yuanping's emotions calmed down, his thinking became more and more agile, and he said to himself:
"Looking at Ming'er's appearance, he is still useless after all, if the Li family is handed over to him, how can he suppress the foreign surnames? How can you control Li Jiman?"
In the hall, only Li Yuanping was left sitting tall, it was dim, his eyes stayed on the faint light, and his voice was low:
"In the final analysis, if there is a lack of great magical powers in the family to suppress it, the foundation can be built, and the purple mansion is difficult to hope, if it is not for the blessing of great luck, it will inevitably lead to decline or division......"
He looked at it blankly, the light and shadow of the morning sun had slowly risen from the front of the hall, and his brother Li Yuanjiao stood quietly in front of the palace gate.
Chenxi slowly climbed up the steps of the nave, and Li Yuanping said in a muffled voice:
"Today's patriarchal law is made by my great-grandfather, and there were only a few fetuses in the family in the past... How can I think of what it looks like today? Blindly inheriting the patriarchal law is probably not a good way."
Only then did Li Yuanping notice Li Yuanjiao standing in front of him, his eyes were shining, and he said softly:
"Brother, if I die, who should be the main leader in the family, suppress the foreign surnames, drive the mountains, manage the clan, and cultivate the younger generation?"
Li Yuanjiao paused and said hesitantly:
"The only one who can take on a big responsibility at the moment is Xijun, except for him, Xiyu is too good, Ximing and..."
"Xiyue is already so difficult! Several people are highly talented, and no one should be assigned to be in charge."
Li Yuanping continued:
"What if the Xiyue generation passes like this, and the Chengming generation has no male master?"
Li Yuanjiao vaguely understood something and replied:
"If that's the case, there's nothing we can do."
"Brother, I want to change the sect."
He stood up and said:
"The power of the head of the family is too great, it was set up by Xiang Ping Gong when he was alive, but how many people in the clan can get him? This method can centralize the profits, but it is too difficult to operate."
"It is impossible for the younger generations to come up with the superb means of strategy and low talent, Ximing This matter seems to be accidental, but in fact, his own family is no longer up to such a ruler, sooner or later, there will always be an accident."
Li Yuanjiao looked at him deeply, didn't say anything, and said gently after half a sound:
"Let it go, brother will help you watch."
Li Yuanping seemed to have completely recovered from his disappointment in his eldest son, but he had a more depressed taste, and said in a deep voice:
"First measure the spiritual land, make a book and record the book... Decentralization!"
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For the family, it is almost impossible to find out the private spiritual fields, and even the Qingchi Sect has no way to calculate the spiritual fields of the families under the Qing Dynasty, so they can only scribble according to the number of foundations built.
Without him, as long as the illusion array is covered, a small piece of land is inconspicuous in the vast mountains and seas, unless it is a coincidence, and the spiritual consciousness sweeps gently, nothing can be discovered.
Although the Qingchi Sect had a special secret method for breaking the formation, it was impossible to come to the door to inspect every inch of land, so naturally it could only be estimated according to the earth vein spirit vein.
This is also the reason why many ruins in the sea still exist after the battle of immortals and demons, the phantom formations of these sects are more advanced, and you can't find the entrance even if you hit your head.
However, Li Yuanjiao just asked for a legal review, and with a slight movement, he could clearly see every inch of land up and down the entire Li family.
"Sure enough..."
This matter was inevitable, and several Wang surnames under the Li family all privately developed spiritual fields, secretly surrounded the yard on the barren land that the Li family looked down on in the mountains and fields, arranged phantom formations, and planted rice privately.
This is not bad, over the years, the number of monks with foreign surnames has gradually increased, and they have also come into contact with many cultivation methods from scattered cultivation, and not all spiritual apertures have been sent to the Li family, and there are even monks with foreign surnames in the family who have gone out to look for opportunities and never return.
Li Yuanjiao's eyes swept away, and even several small sect monks of the Xiyue generation participated in it, only sighing silently.
"This land is barren and barren, but it can't stand it in vain! After all, no matter how good the fields in the clan are, most of the output still has to be handed over, so how can you have the pleasure of planting and harvesting by yourself?"
Li Yuanjiao slowly drew the catalogue and fell back into the palace, Li Yuanping had been writing hard for a long time.
Seeing Li Yuanjiao come back, Li Yuanping took the catalogue drawn in his hand, circled several immortal mountains, pondered for a while, and said softly:
"Brother, I carefully checked the road of Li Xia County and the Yuan family now, look at my method."
Li Yuanjiao lowered his eyebrows and took a look, and there were a few big characters at the beginning of the article:
"The clan is dual, and the peak town is mutually controlled."
Li Yuan's face was pale, his eyes were bright, and he explained:
"Now there are more and more monks in the family, I want to separate the clan system and the clan system, the upper clan and the lower clan, the immortals live separately, the monks enter the peak as the clan, and the mortals go down the mountain to the sect, unless they are appointed to eliminate demons, they are not allowed to go down the mountain."
"Once the foreign surname and clansmen have spiritual apertures, they will be sent to the main peak, Lijing Mountain, to practice, carefully taught by my monks, and those with high qualifications will continue to practice, and those with low qualifications will be sent to other peaks."
"Each immortal mountain establishes a mansion, scatters the children of the four veins, and sets up peak masters, pickets, and clan leaders...... All the spiritual fields under the mountain are no longer delegated one by one, but are dispatched by their respective immortal mountains."
Li Yuanping said softly:
"The monks of each immortal mountain took turns to assign and exchange, and the spiritual objects received were directly sent to Li Jing and sent to the Meichu Mountain Cave Mansion, as for the head of the family... Only the Lord is promoted and transferred, the clan is correcting the right and wrong in the clan, there is a law at home, and most of the corruption of spiritual objects is something that will inevitably be exposed!"
His eyes sparkled, and he continued:
"On the other hand, the reason why many foreign surnames and branch monks in the clan secretly grow spiritual rice, search for treasures, transport spiritual objects, and go out to seek the Tao is nothing more than that there is no other way to go in my family except to plant spiritual rice, and there is no room for growth, so naturally there is no subordinate heart."
"Now this method not only allows my family to not have to struggle to find a legitimate talent with no hope of cultivation to govern the family and maintain stability, but also fabricates a hierarchy of power to absorb these people into my family..."
Li Yuanjiao read the detailed regulations in his hand, which naturally contained not only a few words from Li Yuanping's mouth, but also a large number of pickets and restrictions, various cultivation restrictions, to limit corruption and rebellion.
"If this is the case, the manpower of the Clan Court in supervision will have to be doubled several times, and all kinds of power will also have to pay clan salaries to maintain integrity..."
Li Yuanjiao frowned and looked at it for a while, Li Yuanping's method could indeed favor most of the monks, but it also called the Li family's ruling cost greatly increased.
Li Yuanping smiled confidently:
"Cultivating immortality and seeking the Tao is the most greedy thing in the world, my family can produce elixirs immediately, as long as it is bound to these positions, I don't know how many people flock to it! What's more, the desire for power is one of the nine tribulations, how many people can resist it with a two-pronged approach?"
He said in a low voice:
"As long as the foreign surname and the collateral branch are wholeheartedly climbing to power, they can be used by me, and there is no need to produce a hero who can suppress them and drive them from generation to generation, even mediocre people are enough."
"Even on ordinary days, you can be promoted at will according to the list handed over by the clan's main courtyard, and you can even manage your family while practicing."
Li Yuanjiao gradually became moved, and took over his words:
"In this way, my family doesn't have to pay attention to foreign surnames all the time, as long as they take care of a few outstanding people in time, marry them with clan daughters, and suppress Xuanjian, they can sit firmly on the immortal mountain..."
"Not bad."
Li Yuanping said:
"Even if more clan salaries are paid, my brother is about to break through the foundation, and the family will definitely be very different at that time."
Li Yuanjiao nodded in agreement after all, and replied:
"But after all, it is difficult for us juniors to centralize power and delegate power and profit in order to seek stability, I don't know... I don't know how to meet the elders."
Li Yuanping also nodded silently and comforted:
"The most profitable may not be the most stable, and the family will gradually expand in the future, and sooner or later it will be impossible to divide powers in one person... My family can't afford to lose."
Li Yuanjiao chatted with him for a few words, his heart was heavy, and he went to Wutu Mountain by himself, preparing to cultivate a stable cultivation for a period of time, and then retreat to break through and build a foundation.
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Yuting Mountain.
The snow on Yuting Mountain was still white and dazzling, Li Xijun's eyes opened, and he exhaled white air, which hit the long sword in his hand, condensing into a thin layer of frost.
""Cold Truffle Snow Formula" is a third-grade technique anyway, exposing the snow and stepping on the cold wind."
His white clothes were fluttering, his cultivation had reached the level of qi training, and his cultivation was stable, and his true essence was as white as frost, flowing unpredictably beside him, and with the green blade in his hand, he was spotless.
In just over two years, the three Xiyue generations made breakthroughs one after another, adding three direct lineage qi training to the Li family.
Li Yuanjiao and Li Qinghong were in retreat before and after, and the direct line and foreign surnames in the family had made great progress, and there were not many small sects of the Yuanqing generation, and the Li family only had more monks in the small sects of the Xiyue generation.
According to the patriarchal law of the Li family, most of the descendants of Li Mutian's illegitimate brothers gradually changed from small sects to branches and withdrew from the stage of history because of the scarcity of spiritual apertures.
Due to the two great sects of the Li family's Xuanjing generation, Li Xuanling and Li Xuanfeng's temperate descendants, the Li family's four-vein small sect did not flourish until the third generation, with Li Xuanxuan's illegitimate son and Li Yuanyun's illegitimate son as the main ancestor, taking over the authority of the previous generation.
Of course, this matter is too good in Li Xijun's opinion, so that hundreds of mortal elders of the same generation as his father will appear above his head, and the patriarchal relationship between the estranged power center is one layer closer, and many contradictions can be cleared up.
"Young master."
An Siming came up with a sword, bowed to him, and asked respectfully.
Li Xijun has been in retreat for a year and a half, and suddenly felt that An Siming's spirit was different, as if he had a head start in life, and he seemed particularly diligent, and immediately smiled:
"But got married?"
An Siming was stunned, waved his hand again and again, and continued:
"Young master is joking, Young Master Xiyu is already waiting at the foot of the mountain."
Li Xijun drifted down to the foot of the mountain in the wind, and his brother Li Xiyu had been waiting for a long time, wearing light armor, looking twenty-six or seven years old, becoming more and more mature.
Li Xiyu is also practicing qi cultivation, practicing "Jianghe Yiqi Jue", married a woman from the Tian family, and the concubines are mostly chosen from the An family, so there are many children under the knees, most of whom are two or three years old.
Since Li Xiyu was a father, he grew up a beard, wore armor and tied his hair, and was quite dignified, greeted him with a smile and said:
"I haven't seen my brother for a long time."
Li Xijun nodded slightly, landed beside him, and the heavy horse on the side snorted and looked at him vigilantly.
Li Xijun's spiritual consciousness swept away, and the two sides were full of monks, mainly his concubines and foreign surnames from poor families, standing respectfully on both sides.
When Li Xiyu was a teenager, he loved his brothers the most and made friends with monks.
Li Xiyu waved his big hand, and everyone retreated one after another, the two of them paced on the bluestone road, Li Xiyu's voice was gentle, and he said with a smile:
"This year, you and Ximing practiced in seclusion, and things at home have changed a lot, and the head of the family has reformed the sect system, which is no longer what it used to be."
So what happened in the past year and a half came one by one, Li Xijun frowned, listening to him talk before and after, Li Xiyu said:
"Now this matter is easy, several immortal mountains have changed their systems, Daxing Palace, and all the monks are very cooperative... pay for your own efforts..."
"They will naturally cooperate!"
Li Xijun only went back and forth in his heart, and he knew clearly, his face was not very good-looking, and he said in a cold voice:
"The clan has given them power and salaries, and they are not fools, so they are naturally very happy!"
Li Xijun said, thinking to himself:
"No wonder the aura of Yuting Mountain has decreased a lot, it turns out that a monk has entered the mountain! The family should start building a spirit gathering array... It will not delay the practice of the direct lineage.'
Li Xiyu quickly smiled and rounded up the situation:
"It's not for nothing to let them go, the clan has all kinds of affairs, and they also run outside on weekdays, and now they can still earn some subsidies at home, so they won't let it..."
Seeing that he still didn't understand, Li Xijun saw that there was no one around, and sighed directly:
"Brother, the elders have no choice but to divide the power, and as a junior, they should feel ashamed......"