Chapter 115: Rent collection

"It means that these two Jidans were finally used by Ming Ling and Ting Chou?"
"Yes... Mingpu still has sixteen years, and there will be opportunities later." Lu Chaoxi sighed, replying to his father like this.
"That's fine." Lu Qing said, "It's a good thing for the two of them to succeed. Now there are five foundation-building monks in the family. If you count your Qiming, you are not much worse than the Zhao family. You also need to cultivate yourself. Work hard, when can you go to the second floor?"
"I guess it will take a few years."
"Ok."
At this moment, Lu Qing was chatting with Lu Chaoxi. The time for him to leave the customs was set before, and Lu Chaoxi also came on time.
"That's right, my father." He mentioned another thing. "Wenen is here too, saying he wants to come and knock you off. He should have left home for Qingfengmen half a month ago, but for Waiting for you to wake up in retreat, listen to the teachings, and drag it for half a month."
"This brat..."
"Huh?" Lu Chaoxi didn't know why his father said that. It stands to reason that his father should be unfamiliar with Wen En?
Oh, yes, when he was fighting in northern Xinjiang the year before last, his father's divine sense once came to Wen En to guide him out of the predicament.
Then why did the old man scold him for the stinky boy?
"Let him come." Lu Qing's voice sounded again.
"Okay." Taking back his thoughts, Lu Chaoxi walked out.
Outside the deep passage of the retreat room, Wen En was waiting outside, and Gongsun Que was accompanied by him. This Miss Gongsun has also been a guest at Lu's for a year. The Lu family treats her as a very important guest. Some resources for food, clothing, housing, and transportation are all equipped as much as possible-when the family's daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law look at her, or the grandson of a thousand-year-old family, can it be treated well?
When the two first got along, although they couldn’t let go, they were shy about each other or something, they might not really want to marry or get married. At most, they had a little affection for each other. Most of these affections might even be for Gongsun Xia. That guy slapped it out.
But in this state, staying together day and night for a year, except for the time spent practicing, the two of them are basically together. Whether it’s going out for a walk, visiting towns, or historic sites, in short, the speed at which the relationship heats up is quite fast. Fast.
The Lu family is ready to go to the Gongsun clan to propose marriage...
"Go in, the ancestor is already awake."
"Yes." After arching his hand to the patriarch and speaking to Gongsun Que, he walked alone into the deep passage of the back mountain. At the gate of the closed room, he knelt on his knees with the hem of his robe. Five-body cast.
"Unscrupulous offspring, bow down to ancestors."
"Get up." Lu Qing's voice came.
When Wen En heard it, it was exactly the same as the voice he heard on the battlefield the year before.
"Wen En didn't dare. Master Gao Zu helped me escape from the battlefield, but I was suspicious and even slandered. Such acts of unfilial piety make me feel guilty and impatient now."
Ha ha.
Lu Qingle is now, he shouldn't care about this with him: "Get up, you who don't know are not guilty, and I haven't blamed you."
Hearing this, Lu Wenen dared to get up.
After asking a few more about the current situation and encouraging him, Lu Qing let him go.
Then, Lu Chaoxi came in again.
"My father... let Wen En know that you are awake, okay?"
"It's okay." Lu Qing said, "It's not seventeen years ago."
Lu Chaoxi suddenly realized.
Seventeen years ago, when Lu Qing first woke up, it was indeed inappropriate to publicize too much about the fact that he did not die-even though he was actually dead.
At that time, the family was at its weakest time. Lu Qing just got the system, but still can't show the effect; the family has only three foundations, and the strength is not good. If the enemy is attracted—the Zhao family—people Zhao Zidan doesn't need to go out. The Lu family can't stand a Qiming or a few more foundations.
What do you say?
I beat you because I suspected that your Golden Core monk might not die; I didn't dare to beat you because your Golden Core monk was really not dead.
It's really different now, so what if Zhao Zidan is close?
I, Lu Qing, prepared a big baby for you!
...
Later, Lu Qing told his son a very important thing.
Regarding the establishment of the family contribution system.
"In the future, we will not give out spirit stones to the people. The annual salary and training subsidies are replaced by contributions."
"My father, please elaborate."
"It's the same as the feat of going north to fight this time. The value of a little family contribution is equivalent to a piece of spiritual stone, and it can also be exchanged for a spiritual stone."
"This...isn't it the same as before? I used to send spirit stones to the people. Most of the things they want to buy are also bought from the family treasury. Only a small number of the treasury don't have them before they go outside to buy it. …No! I understand. According to my father, should I buy something from the family only for contribution points? Contribution points can be exchanged for spirit stones, but spirit stones cannot be exchanged for contribution points?"
"Yes."
"In this way, everyone will not save too many spiritual stones, and there will be a lot of money left in the family. It will have no impact on the tribe, but the family will become richer and it will be easier to mobilize funds to do big things. !"
"That's it." Lu Qing's tone had a taste of being teachable.
This is something that was derived from thinking about the currency system in the previous life and from the meritorious system implemented by the coalition forces during this trip to northern Xinjiang.
Once implemented, it means a bit of credit currency. Lingshi as currency is a bit like gold in Lu Qing’s previous life. It has real value, even more than gold. Lingshi can even be regarded as the lifeblood of monks, not just a manifestation of wealth. .
The family contribution is said to be directly exchangeable with Lingshi, but its value is essentially a system built on the basis of Lu Family's credit.
To put it bluntly, if Lu Chaoxi can't figure it out someday, and the bill runs off, the rest of the tribe will all lose their money.
But this will not happen. One is that Lu Chaoxi will definitely not do it himself. He is not that kind of person. He can die for the family. In addition, in terms of interests, being the head of the Lu family is better than taking some money. Comfortable as a casual repair?
Of course, on the other hand, there must be a way to prevent this from the system. For example, as the patriarch, Lu Chaoxi doesn't care about finances and does not control the treasury.
If you say robbing hard... then there is no way to talk, and outsiders can also grab it.
In short, it's not that easy to roll your own money and run away.
After listening to his father's words, Lu Chaoxi will leave and prepare for the matter.
And Lu Qing, the body of consciousness floated out. He plans to take a stroll around Yuyan Mountain and the surrounding area. If nothing is wrong, he is going to go back to retreat and practice again, striving to break through to the sixth floor of the Golden Core as soon as possible.
Although temporarily useless, he is now very confident about his resurrection.
Maybe, in the future, he will enter the primordial infant stage when he lives!
"That's not good... It really takes the Yuan Ying to be resurrected, how young? And if it is the real kind of resurrection, I don't know if there is any free and sufficient spiritual energy provided by the system, oh... A tangled thing."
Lu Qing began to dream.
After thinking for a while, his consciousness floated back near the back mountain.
Withdrawing his thoughts, he didn't find anything special, he planned to return to his body to practice again.
But as soon as he returned to his body and was about to open the retreat, a message came.
[One-Star Achievement: Heroic Behavior]
[Family members Lu Mingsi, Lu Minghai, and Lu Meiting, in order to fight for family interests, have made heroic behaviors and have a certain impact. 】
[Reward: 10 karma]
...
what is this?
Why did you have heroic behavior again?
Or Lu Mingsi?
Lu Qing recalled that this Lu Mingsi seemed to be Lu Weiwen's father. He should now be a family monk stationed in Pingyao County for a long time, responsible for the family's interests in Pingyao.
Back then, he was the one who went to sell horses in Pingyao County, and he was also the one who was beaten...
Why did something happen again?
Now, there must be no news from Yuyan Mountain. Lu Qing didn't plan to wait for anyone to come and report to him. He just got up and flew straight to Pingyao County, and he was there in a short time.
Currently, the monk whose family resides in Pingyao is Lu Tinghua. He is the eldest of Ting's generation. He is 87 years old this year. He is the ninth-level Qi practicing. He is Lu Mingsi's father, Wei Wen's grandfather, and Chao Heng's eldest son.
In the past, Tinghua was in charge of the pyroxene vein. A year ago, Lu Chaojun was transferred back to Yuyan Mountain from Pingyao County to take on the work of family affairs, but Pingyao must also have a trustworthy senior person in charge, so he sent Lu Tinghua to do it.
While on the road, Lu Qing also specifically checked the current state of the two men who triggered the heroic behavior.
There is nothing wrong with Mingsi, Lu Minghai, who is practicing Qi Qi, was seriously injured.
When he arrived in Pingyao County, Lu Qing went to the Lu Family Mansion to take a look. Only one monk was there.
The Lu family should have six monks in Pingyao now.
In no hurry, Lu Qing learned from the conversation between the people in the mansion that the location of the accident was Luantou Mountain outside the city.
The Luantou Mountain is a first-order spiritual vein in Pingyao County. More than 20 casual cultivators have formed a small gang and practiced on it. Because of its barrenness, they also have deep ties with Pingyao County, and they need to exchange materials needed for cultivation more frequently.
Whether it's leasing Luantou Mountain or exchanging materials needed for cultivation (taxed), these are all providing income to Pingyao County.
The problem lies in the payment of renting Luantoushan.
Last year, in a very unfriendly atmosphere, the Lu and Zhao family negotiated a result-later, if they returned to the Lu family to collect the rent, the Lu family would go by themselves.
In the past, the Zhao family had always collected the rent of the artificial Lingmai Dongfu in Pingyao and the rent of the surrounding low-level Lingmai first, and then distributed the money to the Lu family in proportion. The income of the two companies in Fangshi in Pingyao County goes to their own.
There will be a lot of tricks here, what is the rental amount? How much did you receive? Are there yin and yang accounts? Are there any other deals?
In the past, the Lu family couldn't help but check the accounts, but they couldn't find out any important things. Once they were found out, they would not be indifferent to deal with it.
But this situation cannot be left as it is.
After Lu Tinghua came up, he began to talk about this matter.
Now the person in charge of the Zhao family in Pingyao is still Zhao Pinggu in name, but in fact a foundation building monk has been sent over.
But the Lu family is also not afraid, especially since the head of the family has already enlightened, and it is not far away on Yuyan Mountain, what else is there to persuade?
What's more, news of Lu Mingling and Lu Tingchou building the foundation came one after another.
The Zhao family had to give in.
And that is, from a month ago, the monks of the Lu family began to get busy, and began to collect the accounts, taking back the benefits belonging to the family bit by bit.
The process was not smooth. There was a lot of friction in the middle, and some hands were moved, but it was relatively easy to maintain restraint. Although it was difficult, it always went on step by step.
But there was a problem when collecting rent from Luantoushan.
The group of casual cultivators in Luantou Mountain said that they had already handed in, and it was the Zhao family who came to collect it.
This is up.
According to the agreement, Luantou Mountain is the interest of the Lu family.
All of them are casual cultivators, and they are not very wealthy. They rent Luantou Mountain for a year and they only collect a little bit by one person for more than 20 people, so that they can collect one hundred and fifty spiritual stones.
Last year, the Zhao family said that they can give a discount if they receive five years at a time. As long as five hundred Lingshi, twenty of them tightened their belts and gathered them together. They thought they would not have to worry again within five years. Home is here again.
They couldn't get so many spirit stones, and at the same time they were very angry. They asked how the Lu and Zhao family managed Pingyao County?
They have also rented here for several decades, and there is a name of "Luantou Gang", which is considered to have taken root in Pingyao.
There is no need to offend them, and it makes no sense. The Lu family could only go to the Zhao family again, and the response they got was:
"After I said that, the Lu family will accept it. If you can't accept it, why are you looking for us? Who said that last year, you could not accept it five years in advance?"
In the county government, it was so noisy and not to mention it, the monks of the Lu family obviously couldn't swallow this breath. After communicating to no avail, they also thought of an unclean idea-isn't the Zhao family collecting rent now? Then go to robbery.
Lu Meiting, who was practicing Qi in the ninth level, took Minsi and Ming Hai to work.
This matter was Lu Meiting's own idea, and she did not discuss it with her elder brother Lu Tinghua.
The three Lu family monks who went out of the city ~EbookFREE.me~ did not kill, but intercepted two groups of Zhao's monks, and obtained more than three hundred and forty spiritual stones. I didn't get back all of Luantoushan's five-year gains. It was still a lot worse, but it was a bit of a sigh and made up for some losses.
However, when they returned to the city, even though they had been more careful, they were still stopped.
After fighting hard, the three of them triggered the heroic act, and finally two escaped and one was caught.
The Zhao family did not kill either.
It is also fortunate that the two sides are more restrained, otherwise, this matter is likely to directly become the fuse for the two to start another war.
But even so, the situation is already very tense.

The two-in-one chapter is more than 8,000 words today.
Counting the last two chapters, 25 chapters are still missing.