The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 110 Tianshu City (Silver lord plus updates)

The Sea Cliff area is the collective name for the coastal plains near Sea Cliff City.

The shape of this coastal plain is long and narrow, and the overall scale is small, but it has a flat terrain and well-developed transportation. Although the agricultural output is not as good as the Luoxia City, which is fertile and thousands of miles away, it is far stronger than the adjacent Luanshi Hills and Tianshu Mountains.

According to Bo Nanke's theory of self-cultivation economics, infrastructure construction is the best way to stimulate the economy. For thousands of years, the Haiya faction has used earth magic to build several smooth official roads, connecting Haiya City with the neighboring city. Several large cities in the sea are connected together, and these main traffic roads also greatly facilitate the daily life of mortals in the sea cliff area.

Even monks like Yang Lu, who are not yet able to fly against the wind, can enjoy the convenience brought by the developed transportation.

In addition, as a regional commercial center, the official road of Haiya City has a considerable flow of people on the road, so there is no need to worry about someone blocking the road and robbery.

The cultivation world of other people’s homes is full of murders and plucking geese. Every time the protagonist sees 100 people, 80 will die in the end. I have been in the Kyushu cultivation world for a few months, and I haven’t done it myself. At any rate, come here to block the road and rob, let yourself have a hand addiction!
The two of them traveled day and night, along the official road in the sea cliff area, occasionally resting at roadside inns to recover their mana.Finally, two days later, they left the coastal plain area controlled by the Haiya faction and entered the Tianshu mountain range area controlled by the Shanying faction.

The Tianshu Mountains are located more than two hundred miles west of Haiya City.

The terrain here is steep and shrouded in thick fog all the year round. The fog in the mountains gathers and disperses from time to time, unpredictable, and when the fog dissipates.The line of sight suddenly opened up, and suddenly a puff of mist rushed over, and I couldn't see my fingers.

The main peak of the Tianshu Mountains stands proudly on top of layers of clouds and mists, as if it is a hub connecting heaven and earth.

The word "Tianshu" is named after this.

The terrain of the Tianshu Mountains is dangerous and the cultivated land is scarce, so it is not suitable for ordinary people to live in. Although the total area of ​​the huge continuous mountain system is more than ten times that of the sea cliff plain, the total population of this area is even less than the sea cliff area. half of.

However, Tianshu City also has its own advantageous industries.

The vast forest in Tianshu Mountains provides a natural forestry and papermaking industry base.

In addition, because the huge canyon system of the Tianshu Mountains is covered with various complex topography and landforms such as stone forests, lakes, rivers, towering ancient trees, and abysses, a large area of ​​​​the Tianshu Mountains has been designated by the Wuliang Sword School. It is a nature reserve for monsters, where all kinds of low-level monsters often appear, and you can even occasionally see traces of Jindan stage monsters.

Every year after the hunting ban ends, a large number of cultivators will take the hunting license jointly issued by the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect to go to the Tianshu Mountains Nature Reserve to kill monsters to gain merit, and by the way, obtain the monsters produced by the monsters. Practice materials.

Forestry and papermaking, monster industry, Xiuzhenfang City, the three together constitute the economic pillar of Tianshu City.

Compared with Haiya City, a sea trade and business center that is more secular and full of the smell of copper, Tianshu City, which is located at the foot of the main peak of Tianshu Mountains and shrouded in mist all year round, is more in line with Yang Lu's impression of the traditional world of self-cultivation.

However, fluttering immortal energy cannot be eaten as food, and the cultivation sects still have to compete for hard power in the final analysis.

Due to the very harsh geographical environment of the Tianshu Mountains, the Shanying faction is far inferior to the Haiya faction in terms of population size and economic development level. In the competition with the Haiya faction, it has been at an absolute disadvantage for a long time.

However, with Chen Ming, the current head of the Mountain Eagle Sect, taking power, the strength gap between the two sects is rapidly narrowing.

Chen Ming is a cultivator with top-grade wind spirit roots. A genius with this kind of spiritual root aptitude, in order to achieve better achievements, there is a high probability that he will join the famous Zhongzhou sects such as Wuliangjian Sect or Golden Knife Sect.Joining local sects like Haiya Sect or Shanying Sect is equivalent to voluntarily giving up the hope of becoming a great monk in the Nascent Soul Stage.

Because there may be less than five prefecture-level exercises of the Haiya School and the Mountain Eagle School in total, it is very difficult for practitioners with top-level spiritual root aptitude to find exercises that match their spiritual root attributes.

The reason why the Wuliang Sword School is so powerful is that although the power of the Wuliang Sword School is ordinary, it doesn't really pick up the spiritual root aptitude. For example, the "Boundless Heart Sutra-From Beginning to Mastery" practiced by Yang Lu, almost all spirits Anyone with basic aptitude can practice it.

Even so, when Chen Ming participated in the Immortal Ascension Conference, he made an astonishing decision——

Join the Mountain Hawk faction!
The reason is very simple. Chen Ming's background is very similar to Murong's. He is also an abandoned baby without father and mother. He was taken in by the Shanying School's Shantang since he was a child, and he has a strong affection for the Mountain Eagle School.

He resolutely rejected the invitation of the Wuliang Sword Sect and became the direct disciple of Wu Ming, the former head of the Shanying Sect.

The Shanying faction naturally attaches great importance to this high-grade spiritual root genius who took the initiative to join. From the very beginning, Chen Ming was trained as the next head of the Shanying faction.

And Chen Ming lived up to everyone's expectations. He spent nearly 400 years and finally became a great monk at the sixth level of Jindan. Opportunity to challenge Jindan's late stage realm.

Because of this, Chen Ming is known as the number one master in the southeast coastal area of ​​Zhongzhou, even Liu Hanxing is not his opponent!
As the saying goes, heaven and earth are united in strength, Shanying faction not only ushered in a powerful leader, but as Wuliangjian faction vigorously promoted the management concept of "rule of law in Zhongzhou", Shanying faction's paper industry also ushered in a golden age.

According to the theory of Luo Shen, the management master of Wuliangjian School, the core of the legal system is procedural justice, and the core of procedural justice is to catch and leave traces.The management model of the traditional cultivation sect, where high-level monks make decisions based on their brains, will lead to excessive expansion of the power of the high-level subordinate sects, which can no longer meet the development needs of the cultivation society in Zhongzhou.

In order to strengthen the control of the vassal sects of the Wuliang Sword Sect, the Wuliang Sword Sect requires all the vassal sects to form rules and regulations for all important daily affairs, and all major decisions must be made in accordance with the legal procedures, and the minutes of the meeting must be kept on file. If future local governance In the event of a problem, the files sealed by each vassal sect must be able to ensure that the Wuliang Sword Sect can check back for 200 years.

This is also why each department of the Haiya City Lord's Mansion has such a thick departmental charter.

In addition to these heavy departmental regulations, the Haiya City Lord's Mansion also specially built a huge archive storage room with a constant temperature and humidity fairy array, from which the Wuliang Sword Sect can even consult the high-level meeting minutes and work ledger.

Although cultivators can also use magic treasures such as jade slips to record information conveniently and quickly, but cultivators are usually busy with cultivation, and they will certainly not personally preside over the tedious daily management work. Given some directional guidance, this management model of "everything has rules and decisions must leave traces" has inevitably led to a substantial increase in the amount of paper used in the entire Zhongzhou, and the price of office paper has also skyrocketed.

As the largest paper-making industry base in southeastern Zhongzhou, Shanyingpai's profits have seen explosive growth in recent years.

Chen Ming is also a talented leader of the sect. He was not dazzled by the huge profits of the paper industry, but clearly realized that the prosperity of the paper industry in Tianshu City relies heavily on the policy support of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

Therefore, he spared no expense in bribing Cheng Shuying, the grand elder of the Wuliangjian Sect's Merit Hall, so that the Shanying Sect became Cheng Shuying's most staunch supporter from the fringe vassal sect with "no one at the top". Send a division to resist.

Facts have proved that Chen Ming's judgment is not wrong.

While the "rule of law in Zhongzhou" brought prosperity to Tianshu City's paper industry, it also brought heavy burdens to other sects. Many vassal sects have suggested to Wuliangjian sect that they should simplify the work procedures of vassal sects and reduce office paper Don't make a big deal of Wenshanhuihai, which will increase the financial burden of local sects in vain.

However, Cheng Shuying, the big backer of the Shanying faction, refuted all such doubts with high-sounding reasons such as "the law of the ancestors cannot be abolished" and "the work of leaving traces is an important starting point for performance evaluation".

If it hadn't been for Cheng Shuying to block a lot of open and hidden arrows for the Shanying faction, it would be impossible for the Shanying faction to enjoy the huge profits of the paper industry for so many years.Not only that, Cheng Shuying also urged the Wuliang Sword Sect to issue an import ban on the grounds of endangering the safety of Zhongzhou, prohibiting the import of Huoyunzhou office paper into Zhongzhou, which further boosted the monopoly profits of Zhongzhou's paper industry.

In return, the Shanying faction also became the fiercest pawn of the Wuliangjian faction's merit hall.

Cheng Shuying was clearly at a disadvantage in this competition for the leadership in the reform of the social security system for self-cultivation in Zhongzhou. In order to help his backer turn the situation around, Chen Ming took the initiative to call out the slogan of piloting a new-generation social security system for self-cultivation for Gongdetang.

You must know that the new generation of comprehension social security system is the eye of the storm in the power struggle of the Wuliang Sword Sect, and the comprehension forces in various places are afraid to avoid it. The entire Shanying faction was welded to death on the chariot of the Gongde Hall.

This approach can make the Shanying faction the absolute direct descendant of Cheng Shuying, but it also makes the Shanying faction offend almost all neutral and hostile factions in Zhongzhou. It is hard to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

Anyway, it must have been a bold choice!

However, Yang Lu can also deeply understand Chenming's difficulties. Tianshu City does not have the unique conditions of Haiya City. The prosperity of the paper industry and Xiuzhenfang City are highly dependent on the policies of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

Today the Wuliang Sword Sect feels that the Haiya Sect is too powerful and needs the Shanying Sect to check and balance it, so they set up Xiuzhen Square City in Tianshu City. other cities.

In fact, Ren Tianyuan, the Supreme Elder of the Wuliang Sword Sect who was born in Luanshi City, had been pushing for the relocation of Xiuzhenfang City to Luanshi City, but he gave up because of Cheng Shuying's strong opposition.In contrast, the Sea Cliff Sect did not have such problems, and the Wuliang Sword Sect would definitely not be able to move the coastal plains and ports in the Sea Cliff area.

In the case of insufficient innate endowment, if the head of Chen Ming wants to turn against the wind, he can only take risks!

Compared with Jiang Hua'an, the low-key head of the Haiya faction, the head of Chen Ming obviously has a very radical personality. Perhaps only people with this personality will reject the olive branch thrown by the Wuliangjian faction and resolutely become the leader of the Mountain Eagle faction. Let's be in charge.

Yang Lu and Chen Ping just came to the Tianshu Mountains where the fairy spirit is floating, and they felt the inconvenience brought by the geographical environment to the lives of ordinary mortals. It is said that ordinary mortals have difficulty in transportation, and even Yang Lu, a cultivator with divine movement, has a sharp increase in spiritual energy consumption.

From the outsiders' point of view, Yang Lu should be cultivating low-grade Xuan-level or even Huang-level kung fu of the Golden Knife Sect.

Although it is also the first level of Qi refining, whether it is the speed of mana recovery or the total reserve of spiritual energy, ordinary low-level exercises cannot compare with the supreme cheat book "Infinite Heart Sutra-From Beginner to Master".

Therefore, every once in a while, Chen Ping would take the initiative to stop and let him recover a little mana.

Yang Lu didn't intend to reveal the fact that he was practicing heavenly skills, so he only used three points of his strength to perform the divine movement technique, and followed Chen Ping at a leisurely pace, without rushing forward.

When resting, he will also pretend to absorb some spiritual energy, although according to the power of the heaven-level exercises, he can directly rush to Tianshu City without panting,

After the two stopped and stopped, and came to a mortal town in the middle of the valley, Chen Ping took the opportunity to rest and introduced the situation to Yang Lu: "This is the Tianshu Mountain Monster Nature Reserve. It's the entrance, and it's only 30 miles away from Tianshu City, after your aura recovers, let's go to Tianshu City in one go!"

In the realm of comprehension in Kyushu, mortals can become cultivators through cultivation, and beasts can also become monsters through cultivation.

In fact, regarding the origin of monsters, there is a lot of controversy among historians of comprehension at present. The mainstream theory in the current academic circle is the theory of external origin proposed by senior Bo Nanke more than 2000 years ago.

As we all know, Xiuzhen has a strong Matthew effect.

A school occupies a large territory and a lot of resources, so the number of high-quality spiritual roots produced will be large, and the progress of the practice of the members of the sect will naturally be faster; the spiritual roots of the members of the sect are good and the progress of practice is fast, and naturally they can seize more resources in turn and more territory.The two strengthen each other, and it will naturally produce the effect that the strong will always be strong.

Therefore, monsters and cultivators are opposing comprehension forces in the same ecological niche, and it is difficult to achieve a long-term equilibrium at the game level.

As long as one party has a certain advantage, this advantage will snowball until the other party is completely wiped out.This is like the native Indians in the stone age of the earth. Compared with the American beasts, they did not have obvious advantages in force, but such a small advantage continued to accumulate, and eventually all large creatures in the Americas were wiped out by humans.

Based on this, Bo Nanke believes that monsters that are in the same ecological niche as cultivators but cannot compete with cultivators are impossible to appear from the beginning. Therefore, the relationship between monsters and cultivators should be similar to that of native Indians and American giants. In the relationship between beasts, one of the two must be born under the influence of external forces.

This theory is not without purpose.

Kyushu cultivators have long realized that the Kyushu world is not the only civilized world. There are many other worlds outside of Kyushu, such as the legendary extraterritorial battlefield and the demon world.Even within the realm of cultivation in Kyushu, there are two humanoid races from the outer world, which are called "demon race" and "spirit race" by cultivators respectively.

Because monsters can provide valuable training materials, in order to prevent the disorderly expansion of human cultivators, leading to the complete extinction of monsters, the cultivators finally chose to establish a nature reserve for monsters to provide sustainable cultivation resources for the cultivation world.

At present, the weather has just turned warm, and it has not yet reached the hunting season stipulated by the Wuliang Sword Sect. There are not many cultivators staying in this mortal town, but according to Chen Ping, when the hunting season begins, a large number of cultivators will gather in the village. this.

The two of them didn't stay too long in this deserted town, and set off again after a short rest, and arrived at the final destination of the trip, Tianshu City, before dark.

Tianshu City was built on the mountain, at the foot of the main peak of Tianshu Mountain Range.According to the ups and downs of the mountain, Tianshu City presents a layer-by-layer structure. There are two towering city walls at the foot of the mountain and halfway up the mountain, dividing the city into two parts, the inner city and the outer city.The outer city of Tianshu City is the residential area for ordinary mortals, while the inner city is the commercial area, wealthy area, and Xiuzhenfang urban area in order from low to high, and the planning is quite neat.

The headquarters of Tianshu City Overlord Mountain Eagle Faction is located at Yingxiang Peak, the highest peak of Tianshu Mountain Range, overlooking the vast mountains like a king.

This magnificent mountain city has far exceeded the limit of the productivity of traditional agricultural society. From this cloud-shrouded city itself, we can see the supreme power of the practitioners to move mountains and fill the sea!

(End of this chapter)