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Upon hearing Wang Lixing's roll call, Wang Xiurong, who was sitting under Wang Xiuzhu, immediately stood up and responded with his hands raised:
"I will obey the clan leader's instructions."
Wang Lixing frowned slightly, turned to look at Wang Xiulin and continued:
"In addition, regarding the number of monks in the family, Xiu Lin, as the elder in charge of the General Affairs Hall, please tell us about the current situation of the monks and ordinary people in the family."
Wang Lixing asked this question because the number of new generation monks in the Wang family has grown very slowly in the past ten years.
Many of the older generation of monks have passed away due to various reasons, and this situation is already imminent.
If we don't pay attention to it, maybe in a few years, the Wang family will be out of control, or even the monks will be disconnected.
Therefore, Wang Lixing wanted to use his prestige to solve some problems before abdicating the throne. In this way, Wang Lequan would not have so many constraints after taking over as the clan leader.
"Yes, Patriarch," Wang Xiulin bowed his hands and then introduced to everyone in a deep voice:
"There are currently one hundred and eighty-nine monks registered in the family."
"Among them are six foundation-building cultivators, eighteen Qi-cultivating Perfection clan members, thirty-seven late-Qi-cultivating cultivators, eighty-nine Qi-cultivating clan members in the middle-stage, and the rest are all early-stage Qi-cultivating clan members."
As soon as Wang Xiulin finished speaking, Wang Lequan, who was sitting at the top on the left side, couldn't help but frown.
"Xiu Lin, are you sure that there are only more than a hundred monks in the clan now?"
When Wang Xiulin heard Wang Lequan's inquiry, he couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"Second uncle, how could my nephew remember the number of clansmen in the family incorrectly? There are really only so many clansmen."
"I remember a few years ago, when I presided over the test of spiritual roots, there were 183 people in the family. Seven or eight years later, how come the family only grew by six members?"
Wang Lequan knew that Wang Xiulin couldn't remember it wrong, but after so many years, the family had only grown to six clan members, which was really hard for him to accept.
People present who did not understand the situation all cast questioning glances at Wang Xiulin. For a moment, Wang Xiulin's pressure suddenly increased dramatically. After all, he was the only monk in the Qi training stage present.
Seeing this, Wang Lixing lightly tapped the armrest of the Grand Master's chair with his finger and said lightly:
"Xiulin told me about this situation a few years ago, but at that time it was because the family wanted to open a store in Xinglingdaofang City."
"I don't have the energy to discuss this issue. It just so happens that everyone is here this time, so I brought it up specifically so that you can have some peace of mind."
"Now that the facts are like this, the reason is not important, what is important is how to solve it."
Wang Lixing decided the tone, and everyone nodded silently.
"Okay, Xiulin, keep talking."
"Yes," Wang Xiulin breathed out softly, and then continued to introduce:
"There are more than 3.1 million ordinary people."
"Among them, there are more than 1.16 million ordinary members of the Wang clan, more than 1.5 million people from other Wang clans, and hundreds of thousands of members of the opposite sex."
Let me tell you why there are members of this family, because Qingyun Zhenren originally founded the Wang family on Crab Island.
There are only more than 20,000 ordinary members of the Wang family, and these numbers cannot support the subsequent development of a family.
In view of this, Master Qingyun decided to 'purchase' ordinary people from surrounding islands or forces and gave them the surname Wang.
In the end, with the strength of the Golden Core Realm, various means such as coercion and inducement, hundreds of thousands of mortals were moved from the surrounding sea areas and settled on the islands around Crab Island.
This is how the current surname of the family is divided into Wang. However, after hundreds of years of reproduction, the bloodline has actually been mixed for a long time. Basically, except for those with different surnames, they can be considered members of the Wang clan.
If we really want to distinguish, then the real ordinary people of the Wang family, apart from having different surnames, can only be counted as the thousands of ordinary people on Crab Island.
After Wang Xiulin finished the introduction, his expression hesitated.
Seeing this, Wang Lixing chuckled and said:
"It's okay, just tell me what you think."
Wang Xiulin nodded and then said:
"As for the growth of the monks, I think the key lies in two points. One is to encourage or even force the monks of the right age to get married and have children. After all, the offspring born by monks have a higher chance of having spiritual roots."
"Speaking of this, I have to mention that among the members of the Ming generation, except for the first few, basically no one is looking for a Taoist companion. This is also the main reason for the slow growth of family monks in the past ten years."
"The other thing is the issue of the ordinary people. I think we can gather the ordinary people scattered on various islands to our ancestral island."
"First of all, it is convenient for protection. There is no need to send tribesmen to various places for protection. The tribesmen will not complain about the poor spiritual energy of the outer islands, making it difficult to practice. It can also save family expenses."
"Secondly, bringing the ordinary people together can also better promote their lives. After all, on the Ancestral Island, the living materials of the ordinary people will definitely be much better."
After saying this in one breath, Wang Xiulin suddenly felt much relieved. He was nearly a hundred years old and basically gave up the idea of breaking through the foundation building period.
Now he just wants to do something for his family in his remaining life. It is best to leave a mark in the history of the family and not live in vain.
After everyone present listened, they all nodded in approval, and their eyes on Wang Xiulin became a little different, as if they recognized him even more as the elder in charge of the General Affairs Hall.
"Yes, Xiu Lin made this point very well," Wang Lixing smiled and nodded.
"As for this, the family can increase subsidies for clan members who give birth to offspring. The specific amount of subsidies is for you to handle the Xiulin matter and report it to me in the end."
"Secondly, I think it is indeed feasible for the ordinary people to gather on the Ancestral Island. Furthermore, the division of the family will be abolished from today on. All ordinary people belong to the Wang clan!"
After a pause, Wang Lixing thought for a moment.
"In this case, isn't it still more than half a month before it's time for children to test their spiritual roots? Taking advantage of this opportunity, we will dispatch all the clan members except those who have broken through the realm in retreat to bring the ordinary clan members to the ancestral island."
After hearing the clan leader's resolute words, Wang Lequan said hesitantly:
"Clan leader, are you too anxious? I'm afraid I won't have enough time to settle so many clan members at once."
"It's okay. We foundation-building monks are also involved. We will prepare shelter and food in the early stage, and then we can slowly improve it later."
"Besides, they won't all be gathered together. At this stage, they are mainly concentrated in the common people in remote areas of Lizu Island. I estimate that there are only hundreds of thousands of people at most."
Hearing Wang Lixing's decisive words, Wang Lequan nodded without saying anything.
With an area of more than 300 miles, Crab Island currently lives in less than 10,000 people, and it is easy to accommodate one million people.
After all, the problems that restrict the survival of ordinary people mainly lie in shelter and food sources, but with the help of monks, these are actually not worth mentioning.
Having never done this before, few monks are willing to waste this energy. After all, in the eyes of monks, mortals are like ants and are not worthy of letting them take action.
It’s good for monks not to disturb the lives of ordinary people, but you still want them to help?
dream!
This is the mainstream thought in the world of cultivation!
