After getting the secret method of cultivating avatars in "For Jie", Chen Daoxuan said goodbye to Zhang Yu without further delay.

Watching Chen Daoxuan leave.

There was a thoughtful look in Zhang Yu's eyes.

......

Southwest waters of Wanxinghai.

Shuanghu Island in Guang'an Prefecture.

An escaping light crossed the sky and landed outside the mountain protection formation on Shuanghu Island.

When the protective formation was turned on, Chen Daoxuan's figure was like a bubble melted into the water curtain, into the fourth-order protective formation.

Back at Shuanghu Island, Chen Daoxuan immediately expanded his consciousness.

In a flash, he locked on the target.

Shuanghu Island Chen Family Council Hall.

Chen Daolian only felt a headache these days.

Since she was appointed by the young patriarch as the finance minister of the Chen family and took charge of the financial power of the family, the monks of the Taoist generation and the monks of the blessing generation in the clan came to her door one after another and asked her for funds from various departments.

Such as the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of Education, and the Institute of Magical Instruments, Chen Daolian naturally did not dare to delay, and the funds that should be given would not be less.

However, some departments whose framework had just been set up also asked her for funds, which made Chen Daolian very headache.

In particular, the family's newly established Lingmai management department.

The Spiritual Vessel Management Department, referred to as the Spiritual Management Department, is responsible for managing all the Spiritual Vessels within the Chen family's sphere of influence, including the use, maintenance, and promotion of the Spiritual Vessels, as well as the collection of the Spiritual Vessel Tax.

It can be said that this is a department with considerable power in the Chen family.

Not to mention the use, maintenance and promotion of the spiritual veins, just collecting the spiritual vein tax gives the spiritual management department great power.

Actually.

The Lingmai tax of the spiritual management department of the Chen family was a name learned from Qianyuan Jianzong.

As the ruler of Wanxinghai, Qianyuan Jianzong, in addition to its own direct jurisdiction, has adopted the method of spiritual vein tax for the fiefs of various states to tax the various immortal clans in Wanxinghai.

The so-called spiritual pulse tax is to levy the tax burden according to the level of each spiritual pulse.

Qianyuan Jianzong's spiritual vein tax is collected every ten years, and the tax starts from the third-order spiritual vein.

Based on the fact that the Chen family currently has two third-order spiritual veins.

Each third-order spiritual vein needs to pay a spiritual vein tax of 100,000 spiritual stones to Qianyuan Jianzong every year.

Ten years is the spiritual tax of two million spiritual stones.

This tax burden is not too heavy.

This is also the reason why the Yang family of Guang'an Prefecture clearly has the ability to cultivate fourth-order spiritual veins, but has not cultivated them.

Because the spiritual vein tax of the fourth-order spiritual veins is as high as one million spirit stones every year, ten years is ten million spirit stones.

Ten million spirit stones are enough to buy a Zifu Dan and add a Zifu cultivator to the family.

The Yang family naturally did not want to waste it in vain.

Only a big family with a profound background like the Zhou family can bear the tax burden of the fourth-order spiritual veins.

The Lingmai tax levied by the Chen family's Lingguan Department is mainly due to the difference in the objects levied compared with the Lingmai tax of Qianyuan Jianzong.

Qianyuan Jianzong levied taxes on the immortal cultivators with spiritual veins, while the Chen family levied taxes on merchants and loose cultivators within their sphere of influence.

In fact, every fairy city has such a tax department.

Such as the immortal city of Guang'an Prefecture.

The Chen family's business of magic tools in Sanxiufang City has to pay taxes to the Zhou family.

When the Yang family formed the Guang'an Immortal League, it was precisely because of this interest.

In the entire Guang'an Prefecture, only the Xiancheng family of Guang'an Prefecture was the only one, and the taxes paid by the scattered cultivators of Guang'an Prefecture and various families, except for the fixed spiritual pulse tax for the Qianyuan Sword Sect, all belonged to the Zhou family.

This naturally made the other big clans headed by the Yang family dissatisfied.

And now, the Chen family has also established Guanhai Xiancheng, so naturally they have to hold this part of the interests in their hands.

......

Escape light descends.

Chen Daoxuan's figure appeared in the side hall of the council hall.

Lift your legs into the side hall.

After several turns, Chen Daoxuan found Chen Daolian who was working at the desk.

Beside Chen Daolian, there are several young maids who are helping her sort out various accounts.

"Young patriarch!"

When a maid saw Chen Daoxuan, she was stunned for a moment, and then she saluted in surprise.

Hearing the voice of the maid, Chen Daolian, who was so busy, raised her head.

When she saw Chen Daoxuan, she quickly stood up and said in surprise, "Young Patriarch, are you back?"

Chen Daoxuan nodded with a smile, and then waved to the maid in the house.

see.

The maidservants bowed and slowly retreated.

Chen Daoxuan walked to the chair opposite Chen Daolian and sat down, waved his hand and said, "What are you looking at me for? Sit down."

Hearing this, Chen Daolian smiled slyly and sat down gracefully.

"Looking at your frowning face just now, why, the family's financial power is not easy to grasp?"

really.

When Chen Daolian heard this, her face wrinkled again, and she said coquettishly, "Young patriarch, why don't you transfer me back to the pharmaceutical factory, which is much more worry-free than here."

"You,"

Chen Daoxuan pointed at the tip of Chen Daolian's nose, shook his head and said, "It's not enough to want to save my heart, there are not many people in the family who have the qualifications, ability, and can make me feel at ease.

And you are one of them, so you must manage the family finances for me. "

Hearing Chen Daoxuan's praise, Chen Daolian's originally swaying mind slowly became firm again.

"Um."

She nodded vigorously at Chen Daoxuan.

Chen Daoxuan smiled and said, "Tell me, what difficulties did you encounter?"

"It's the Spirit Management Department..."

Chen Daolian quickly explained the problems encountered by the Spiritual Management Department.

"What do you mean, the Spiritual Management Department is blocked from collecting the Spiritual Vein tax from the loose cultivators?"

"right!"

Chen Daolian nodded, "The Ministry of Spiritual Management has been asking my Ministry of Finance for money these days, saying that there is no money to be promoted to the Spiritual Vessel!"

Speaking of this, Chen Daolian was a little angry.

The spiritual management department is responsible for collecting the tax on the use of spiritual veins from merchants and loose cultivators. It is strange that they have no money.

In fact, Chen Daolian did not know.

Every year, the maintenance of each spiritual meridian in the Chen family requires a considerable loss of spiritual stones.

And cultivating and promoting spiritual veins is even more terrifying.

a decade ago.

Shuanghu Island has a radius of thousands of miles, and it is a barren place. Not to mention the spiritual veins, there are not even a few duckweed-like spiritual eyes.

Just ten years.

Not only Shuanghu Island has a third-order spiritual vein, but the neighboring Sequoia Island has also cultivated a third-order spiritual vein.

In addition, there are first-order and second-order spiritual veins in the surrounding thousands of miles of sea.

The number of spiritual veins in the Chen family's hands has reached three digits.

Wanting to cultivate so many spiritual veins in such a short period of time, it is a massive amount of spiritual stones to smash them down.

It can be said.

The Spirit Management Department was the most expensive department among all the departments of the Chen family.

The newly appointed Chen Daolian did not know the consumption of the spiritual management department. As the person who controls the overall situation of the Chen family, Chen Daoxuan naturally knew how terrifying the expenditure of the Chen family to cultivate the spiritual veins.

He thought for a while and said, "The Spirit Management Department directly collects taxes from loose cultivators, and loose cultivators who are accustomed to their freedom are naturally unwilling.

In fact, we can use another way to collect taxes from the loose cultivators. "

"Another way?"

Chen Daolian was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Chen Daoxuan meant.

"How does the Spiritual Management Department collect the Spiritual Vein Tax from Loose Cultivators now?"

"Like the merchants, according to the length of time the loose cultivator stays in each spiritual vein, it will be collected once a year."

Hear this.

Chen Daoxuan shook his head.

Loose cultivators are deducted to death one by one, how can they obediently pay this tax.

When you really want to collect taxes, others will run away in advance.

Anyway, all the immortal cities in Guang'an Prefecture are now absorbing loose cultivators to increase the popularity of the immortal cities.

The Chen family still has the energy to catch these loose cultivators who run away without paying taxes in advance?

If the scattered cultivators are in a hurry, they will run away collectively. Maybe Guanhai Xiancheng will follow in the footsteps of Cangzhou Xiancheng and become a ghost town.

Therefore, forcible taxation is not advisable.

Thinking of this, Chen Daoxuan had an idea and said, "Obviously, since this kind of taxation is not advisable, we can use another method, such as selling Lingfu to the loose cultivators!"

"Sell Lingfu?"

Chen Daolian was stunned, not knowing what medicine was sold in Chen Daoxuan's gourd.

"But the young patriarch, according to the rules of the major immortal cities, the Lingfu has always been rented but not sold. Does selling the Lingfu mean selling the spiritual vein? At that time, does this spiritual vein belong to my Chen family, or belongs to the loose cultivator? ?"

Chen Daolian said anxiously, "Besides, the price of Lingfu is high, how can ordinary loose cultivators come up with so many spiritual stones at once?"

Only Chen Daoxuan could think of such a prodigal behavior.

Seeing Chen Daolian's eager look, Chen Daoxuan smiled and said, "Don't worry."

He cleared his throat and said slowly: "The price of Lingfu is high, we can let the loose cultivators pay in installments."

"installment?"

Chen Daolian was attracted by Chen Daoxuan's new term.

Although she didn't know the meaning of installment payment, she could guess.

"What the young patriarch means is that a loose cultivator only needs to pay a small amount of spiritual stone every year to have a spiritual residence in the sea-viewing fairy city?"

"right!"

Chen Daoxuan nodded.

"But, what if the loose cultivators don't pay in the future?"

"According to the contract, my Chen family naturally has the right to take back the Lingfu."

"This......"

Chen Daolian frowned. She felt that this approach was unreliable, but she didn't know how to refute it.

Because for wandering loose cultivators, having a spiritual land of cultivation that belongs to them completely can be said to be the common wish of all loose cultivators.

In fact, scattered cultivation is the lowest level in the world of immortal cultivation.

Their lives were much harder than before the Chen family made a fortune.

Not to mention cultivating the spiritual veins by themselves, even going to the major immortal cities to rub the spiritual veins for a few days, for them, it is like cutting flesh.

Especially before the Guang'an Xianmeng was established.

The days of the loose cultivators are even more miserable. There are often scattered cultivators who will go to the immortal city of Guang'an Mansion to rub their spiritual veins during the day, and at night, they will be driven out of the immortal city of Guang'an Mansion by the cultivators of the Zhou family.

After all, not every loose cultivator has the courage to go to the battlefield of the Iyun Kingdom to strive for a better future.

"If I remember correctly, most of the Lingfu in Guanhai Xiancheng are vacant, right?"

"seems like it."

Chen Daolian nodded. Although she was not specifically responsible for the management of Guanhai Xiancheng, she still heard about the vacancy of Guanhai Xiancheng's Lingfu.

That's why.

It is because the loose cultivator dislikes paying a large amount of spirit stones every year, but can only rent the spirit mansion, which is very uneconomical.

Generally, only the children of the family who have been running business in Guanhai Xiancheng for a long time will rent the Lingfu in Guanhai Xiancheng.

"Look, the scattered cultivators have such a great demand for the spiritual mansion, and our spiritual mansion is so vacant. Tell me, is this a waste?"

"Young patriarch, no matter how much it is wasted, those spiritual palaces belong to my Chen family!"

"You, take a long-term view. Lingfu is indeed a resource for us, but it is not the most scarce resource for my Chen family."

Hearing this, Chen Daolian lowered her head and thought.

Chen Daolian can be valued by Chen Daoxuan, and she is naturally a smart person. She quickly understands the deep meaning of Chen Daoxuan.

Chen Daoxuan looked at her: "What do you think is the most scarce resource in my Chen family?"

"A monk?"

"That's right!"

Chen Daoxuan immediately showed a teachable expression, and then he said solemnly: "Now that the Cangzhou Business Alliance is newly established, the major families in Cangzhou seem to be in harmony on the surface, but in fact, everyone wants to fight for the leadership of the Cangzhou Business Alliance. .

The Zhou family is like this, the Zhang family in Jin’an House is like this, and my Chen family is naturally not far behind.

The most important thing to grasp the dominance of the Cangzhou Business Alliance is not the so-called voting rights of the Cangzhou Business Alliance. It is just a false name and has no practical effect.

For my Chen family, the most important thing is to build Guanhai Xiancheng as prosperous as the original Cangzhou Xiancheng, and even form a master-servant relationship with the major fairy cities in Cangzhou.

And to do this, the scale of my Guanhai Xiancheng must be expanded by at least ten times!

Do the math, how much loose cultivation does it take to do this? "

"hiss!"

After a little calculation, Chen Daolian only felt her scalp tingling.

Now Guanhai Xiancheng has nearly 500,000 cultivators, although it is not comparable to the scale of nearly a million monks in Guang'an Palace Xiancheng, and even compared with Linghui Xiancheng, the two are only on par.

But you must know that Guanhai Immortal City is the newest immortal city in Guang'an Prefecture.

Moreover, the background of the Chen family is also the shallowest among the major families in Guang'an Prefecture.

It is a miracle that Guanhai Xiancheng can develop to this point in such a short period of time.

"However, what do we need so many cultivators for? After all, the loose cultivators are still too poor. Although there are many of them, their spending power is far less than that of the family cultivators."

"On the surface, it does."

Chen Daoxuan nodded, "But think about it, what if you let them enter the magic weapon factory in the future?"

"The magic weapon factory?"

heard.

Chen Daolian was completely stunned.

Even after the establishment of the pharmaceutical factory, the profit of the magic tool factory has lagged far behind that of the pharmaceutical factory, but the Chen family's magic tool factory is, after all, a weapon for the rise of the Chen family's fortune.

Just let loose cultivators enter the factory...

"But the young patriarch, wouldn't this reveal the family's secrets?"

"It is true that a part of it will be exposed, but as long as our strength is strong enough, this risk is completely bearable."

Chen Daoxuan paused, "The biggest secret of the magic weapon factory lies in the Rongling furnace. As long as the refining method of the Rongling furnace is guarded, there is no fear of exposure. In Wanxinghai, which powerful family has no secrets?

Only the weak will do everything possible to keep secrets, the strong do not need it.

Besides, it is not to let loose cultivators enter the factory now, what are you anxious about? "

Chen Daoxuan shook his head and smiled, "Daolian, you have to remember that, as the helm of the family, in addition to the immediate interests, everything we do has to plan for the future.

The issuance of banknotes is like this, and the same is true for Guanhai Xiancheng to absorb loose cultivators. "

talking.

Chen Daoxuan waved his hand.

An image of a map of Cangzhou appeared in front of the two of them.

Chen Daoxuan stretched out his hand and said, "Look, this is all the immortal cities in Cangzhou."

On the map, around Guanhai Xiancheng, red dots are densely distributed throughout Cangzhou.

Among them, the red dot of Guanhai Xiancheng is the largest and brightest.

These red dots are connected by dotted lines. These dotted lines are the routes of the large transport ships of the Cangzhou Business Alliance.

"When the time is right, these immortal cities and their families will become the raw material supply and commodity export places for my Chen family.

At that time, you will know that the real terrifying plunder in this world is often bloodless. "