Jincheng Kingdom has a radius of more than 2,000 miles and a population of nearly 180 million. It is considered a relatively large country here. Jiutian County is one of the forty-six counties of Jincheng Kingdom, with a population of several million. It is the western border of the country, and it is also the only way for Zhou Yang and his party to pass.
From there, they passed through Fengcang Kingdom and arrived at their destination, Wu Hai Kingdom, which belonged to the Tianxing Sect.
The above is the basic situation of the mortal country between the three cities of Dingbei.
The jade slips also mentioned the recruitment of mortal slaves by various sects.
Each sect does not want any kind of mortals, and the conditions for recruiting slaves are very harsh. They must be young adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five.
Nor is it to make everyone who meets the conditions a slave. In that case, the mortal country will not be able to exist.
The usual rule is to draw two out of every hundred, that is, only two out of a hundred qualified young adults are required, and those who are only children in the family are not included in this list, and those who have had bad behavior are not included.
Without special circumstances, the rule of drawing two out of every hundred has always been implemented in the mortal kingdom here.
This move will not damage the foundation of the mortal country, but also satisfies the needs of the various cities in the world for mortal slaves. This is also a rule set by each sect after careful consideration.
Take Jin Chengguo as an example, with a population of nearly 200 million and about eight million young adults between the ages of 18 and 35. Therefore, the number of mortal slaves that need to be recruited every year is 150,000 to 60,000.
This is a country. Zhou Tianzong has two vassal states, and there are more than 300,000 young and middle-aged slaves a year.
So does Zhou Tianzong need to recruit such people every year? Not entirely, it depends on the demand for slaves. If there is not such a large demand this year, so many people will not be recruited. It may be one hundred thousand or fifty thousand, and the remaining places will be reserved. Don’t use it until next year.
If the number of slaves needed in some years is very large, then these quotas will be pooled together, but they cannot exceed the total number of quotas accumulated over the years.
These rules are also to ensure the healthy development of the mortal country and not to catch all the benefits.
To be honest, this kind of rule is relatively humane and will not lead to population imbalance in mortal countries.
Zhou Yang sneered at this so-called humanization.
They do this entirely to protect their own interests. It seems to be a benevolent government for the mortal country, but in fact it is just a pawn and a memorial.
But the reality is like this. The strong ones are always the ones who have the right to speak. They are the masters of these mortal countries and can take and take away at will. This is a matter of course.
Even Zhou Yang was no exception. He relied on mortal slaves to take care of his spiritual field, and when he went crazy that day, he accidentally killed many mortals. Afterwards, he only felt a little guilty and paid some spiritual stones to settle the matter.
These are the rules of the cultivation world. The weak are born to be enslaved by the strong. Each sect has formulated these slightly humane rules, which is already extremely merciful.
Not to mention mortals, even cultivators who are regarded as immortals in the eyes of mortals also have many ethical slaves. This is the naked law of the jungle. Only by adapting can you survive. Only by becoming stronger can you protect yourself or even enslave others.
In these mortal countries, the person responsible for the recruitment of slaves is naturally the imperial court. The imperial court then assigns tasks to officials in various prefectures and counties step by step, and these officials are responsible for completing the recruitment.
The recruitment of slaves is known as labor service. The term may be long or short, and there is no reward. It is an obligation. But to this day, there are only a handful of mortal slaves who can come back after being drafted.
Of course, there are also those who are lucky enough to be favored by their master, or have good qualifications, and it is also possible to be trained as a backup cultivator.
The recruitment process is nominally a matter of drawing two out of every hundred, but in actual implementation it is a flexible matter. There is no absolute fairness in the world, and there is even less fairness for civilians and poor people who have no rights.
Take Jiutian County as an example. Among the millions of people, there are thousands of young and middle-aged people who meet all the requirements every year. These thousands of people are not shared equally among all families. The rich and powerful will naturally not leave anyone, so this part of the quota will be It has to be passed on to the common people and the poor.
If civilians are unwilling to provide help, they can spend money to settle the matter, and these quotas will naturally fall on the poor people who have no money.
So for the poor, it's not like drawing two out of 100, but for them, it's three out of 100 and drawing four, or even higher.
Young adults are the main labor force in the family. If their labor is taken away, their income will inevitably drop sharply, and the poor will become even poorer. If things continue like this, they will never be able to turn over.
However, the handle of the knife is in the hands of officials at all levels, and civilians and poor people can only passively accept it and are unable to resist.
In addition to recruiting slaves, various sects must also recruit all resources and materials that are beneficial to cultivation. Naturally, these must be passed on to the common people and poor people, and the powerful and wealthy families will not provide them.
Therefore, poor people in the mortal world have a harder time surviving than low-level practitioners in the world of cultivation.
There is another thing that all the major sects have to do every year, which is to look for people with the qualifications to practice Taoism in the mortal country as a supplement to the sect practitioners.
Mortals belong to martial arts sects in the country, and the disciples of some sects who have extraordinary qualifications will be regarded as key training targets and will be uniformly given entry-level cultivation techniques for practice.
Although the introductory techniques of various sects in the world of cultivation are different, they are all divided into three levels.
If a martial artist can reach the first level after practicing for one year, that is, opening up the twelve main meridians of the human body, he is considered to have the talent for cultivation and can be sent to various monastic sects for further training. These warriors are called quasi-practitioners.
Two years after joining the sect, if you can complete the last two levels of introductory exercises, open up the eight extraordinary meridians, and develop the Dantian, you will enter the Kaiyuan realm, transform your true energy, and cultivate Yuanli, and you will naturally become a member of this sect. Outer disciple.
Therefore, once someone is selected to join a monastic sect, they will be envied by others and regarded as leaping over the dragon gate and becoming a high-ranking quasi-immortal.
Of course, being able to master the first level of introductory exercises does not mean that you can master the second two levels. If a quasi-cultivator has not developed Yuanli within three years, he will naturally still be a warrior, but he can stay in the monastic sect and be responsible for some miscellaneous things, or he can choose to return to the mortal kingdom.
However, even if they are responsible for miscellaneous items within the sect, these people are unwilling to return to their own country.
Although it is rare for a mortal warrior to become a cultivator, the base of mortals is too large, so there are no fewer quasi-cultivators than the descendants of cultivators. Every year, many quasi-cultivators are sent to various sects.
This task will naturally be completed by the royal family of each subject country.
These quasi-martial artists come from major martial arts sects in the country, so each martial arts sect has a good relationship with the royal family and the government.
If a martial arts sect sends out the most quasi-cultivators, especially if it produces the most cultivators, the tide will naturally rise, and many properties and elixirs will be given to it. As its reputation grows, more disciples will become disciples of the sect, so the number of cultivators who come out will increase. The more people there are, the more a virtuous cycle will be formed.
The status of such a martial arts sect is somewhat special in the country, and officials in various counties do not dare to offend easily.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang already knew the reason why Zhou Tianzong set up a cultivator station, and also understood why such a huge teleportation array was built. This is naturally to transport a large number of mortal slaves, supplies or quasi-cultivators to Dingbei City.
The content at the back of the classics changed the subject and talked about how mortals and cultivators were born, that is, the origin of humankind.
However, the author of this classic stated that the source of the discussion on this matter is ominous, and its authenticity is for future generations to judge. The benevolent has different opinions and the wise have wisdom.
Zhou Yang was stunned after reading it, which means that the source of this content cannot be verified, it is just hearsay. This writer is really interesting.
According to this classic, when chaos first opened, the world was born, but it was dead silence.
After countless thousands of years, all things were gradually born. However, all things have no wisdom. They only know how to move according to the rotation of heaven and earth, over and over again, endlessly.
Endless years passed, and a powerful person appeared between heaven and earth. The powerful person brought life to all things, and even opened up wisdom to some creatures.
Of course, the first to unlock wisdom are humans who look like powerful beings, and then all kinds of beasts. But at this time, both humans and beasts were extremely ordinary, and the life span of humans was extremely short, but that of beasts was much longer.
Even other species without intelligence have longer lifespans than humans, and beasts are born with stronger bodies than mortals. This is the way of heaven, and all things are formed when they are born.
These extremely ordinary human beings are the earliest mortals. It is difficult for mortals to survive, and they are always threatened by wild beasts and troubled by diseases.
Later, many mortals became increasingly wise and no longer satisfied with the life span and survival status of only a few years, so they launched various research and unremitting pursuits to improve human life span and living conditions.
But the beasts do not. They still follow the way of nature and rely on their natural strength to survive.
Of course, strength is relative to humans. There are also strong and weak among beasts. The weak naturally become the food of the strong.
As humans, they are naturally weaker than beasts, and they cannot escape the fate of being hunted down by powerful beasts. This is the law of the jungle. Only by adapting to the environment and making yourself stronger can you survive in this situation.
Humanity's long-term research and exploration of itself and the way of heaven has naturally resulted in longer and longer lifespans and stronger and stronger human beings, so much so that the lifespan of ordinary people has reached several decades, and those with stronger physiques have reached a hundred years. , even more than some beasts.
The battle against the beasts is no longer one-sided, it has become a win-or-lose situation.
Later, some human beings not only had an extraordinary sense of the way of heaven, but also understood some of the laws and laws of the way of heaven, and then adapted themselves to these laws and laws.
Even a very small number of human beings can create some laws and regulations, and these people naturally become extremely powerful. Not only do their life spans be several times higher than that of ordinary people, but their abilities are also far beyond what ordinary people can compare with. This is the earliest The cultivator.
