Chapter 789 Future Development, Inheritance of Generation Names (asking for monthly votes)
Since the Song family was founded in "Funiu Mountain", every spring, the family will summon the elders to return to the family for discussion. Everyone sits together to summarize the changes in the family in the past year, and then discuss and look forward to the future development of the family.
When Song Qingming first participated in family affairs, the Song family was just a small Qi-refining family, with only twenty or thirty monks in the entire family.
At that time, Song Qingming's cultivation had just reached the late stage of Qi refining, and he had just begun to show some prominence in front of his tribe. It has been almost two hundred years now.
Two hundred years have passed quickly, and the Song family has grown from an inconspicuous small Qi-refining family in "Qinghe County" to a golden elixir clan that dominates the entire northeast of the Wei Kingdom.
Seeing that the family's "meeting hall" is now filled with many younger members of the family, and those with the lowest cultivation level are also in the foundation-building realm. Compared with when he and his sixth uncle and several other monks in the Qi Refining Period were here discussing the future of the family, Song Qingming felt the same in his heart at this moment. Full of emotions.
"The prosperity of our family today is due to the blessings of our ancestors and the contribution of all of you. No need to be more polite!"
After taking Huang Siyuan to sit at the top of the table, Song Qingming hurriedly waved his hands to the people below, indicating that everyone should sit down first.
After receiving Song Qingming's nod, Song Yuanfang, the eldest elder who had been in charge of the family for many years, stood up first and said:
"Today's family discussion, according to past rules, we must first calculate the family's expenditure and annual income last year. I have compiled these accounts, so I will first report last year's income and expenditure to everyone.
The family's income from the Yinfengling mine last year totaled 1,730 spirit stones. After excluding the cost of hiring monks and maintaining the magic circle, there was a total balance of 1,300 spirit stones.
Chiyanfang received a total of 1,580 spiritual stones last year, but Chiyanfang hired monks to expand to Yunwu Mountain a few months ago, which cost a lot of spiritual stones.
Therefore, the balance of Chiyanfang last year was slightly lower than in previous years, and only 870 spiritual stones were handed over to the Cangjin Pavilion.
Since the Bailin Guards were established in Baishi Ridge, the number of monks traveling to and from Fangshi last year has increased significantly compared with previous years, and the income from Fangshi has also been approximately doubled compared to previous years.
Excluding the share with the sect, our Song family received a total of 4,650 spiritual stones, and the Hidden Gold Pavilion received 3,100 spiritual stones.
And here at Tuoyun Mountain... "
Song Yuanfang loudly talked about the income of various spiritual stones in the family last year. The many elders of the Song family present not only focused their eyes, but also kept changing their expressions on their faces.
When they heard about the family business they were managing, some people had calm expressions on their faces, while others performed particularly well, with smiles on their faces and generous enjoyment of the envious glances from people around them.
Especially Song Changze and Liu Yuxin, the couple in charge of "White Lion Ridge", were very happy when they saw the family ancestors nodding to them in recognition of their contributions to the family.
"The last one is the family's largest income. The spiritual objects collected from the affiliated families last year were all converted into spiritual stones, which totaled 5,300 spiritual stones.
I have just basically gone through all of the family’s main income and expenses last year, and there are some bits and pieces that I won’t introduce here one by one.
If you think there is any problem, you can tell it in time. If you want to know in the future, you can always go to the Hidden Gold Pavilion to check.
Let me make some statistics here. Last year, the family's total income was 17,640 spiritual stones, and the expenses in the accounts were 10,400 yuan.
Yuan Qian and I compiled these statistics together, and asked several ancestors to review them. "
After talking eloquently for half a stick of incense, Song Yuanfang finally briefly recounted the income and expenditure of the entire Song family last year.
Then he carefully handed over the accounts he had prepared long ago to Song Qingming and the others.
Since the family's northern expedition to capture "White Lion Ridge", the Song family has expanded thousands of miles north, and the family's property has become much larger than before.
In addition, the family territory has been peaceful and peaceful in recent years, and many monks from outside have come to vassalize the family. The entire family's income in all aspects has nearly doubled compared to before the monster turmoil.
While the income has increased, the Song family's expenses have also increased with the development of the family.
Nowadays, the entire Song family, excluding Song Yuanli who stayed in the "Tianhai Cultivation World", has three Jindan ancestors, nineteen foundation-building elders, and two guest elders, Xu Qingyin and Li Xiuning, for a total of twenty-one foundation-building monks.
Below there are 660 Qi-refining period clansmen and family guests with different cultivation levels, a total of nearly 700 monks.
The salary, spiritual stones, spiritual rice, and cultivation elixirs that so many monks need to receive every year are also a huge expense.
Fortunately, the Song family is now prosperous. While various incomes are covering expenses, they can still have thousands of spiritual stones left over every year that can be deposited in the family's golden pavilion.
There is also the Lingshi mineral vein located in "Shuangfeng Mountain". Under Song Qingming's arrangement, the family has been operating this income secretly and has not put it openly.
Therefore, this income will not be included in the annual family discussions, and it can provide an additional two thousand spiritual stones.
After the monster turmoil, the family has accumulated a lot of spiritual stones over the years.
Most of these spiritual stones were used to purchase spiritual elixirs from abroad, and were exchanged for various high-level spiritual objects to be used by family monks to practice and enhance the strength of the entire family.
Because of Huang Siyuan, the outer elder of the "Heavenly Pill Alliance", the Song family now has high-level elixirs like the Foundation Establishment Pill appearing in the family's Golden Pavilion almost every few years.
With the stable supply of "Foundation-Building Pills", the number of foundation-building monks in the family is now steadily increasing. Now the number of foundation-building monks has surpassed that of the Ma family, becoming a veritable large-scale immortal cultivating family.
In the past, the Song family, which was just a small Qi-refining clan, could be as glorious as it is today. In addition to Song Qingming, the patriarch who sits at the top, it is of course also inseparable from the efforts and hard work of generations of monks in the family.
"We have been focusing on practicing these years, and we have left all family affairs to you. Thank you for your hard work!"
After glancing at the accounts handed over by Song Yuanfang for a few times, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction and praised Song Yuanfang and the many family elders present.
"Without the patriarch and several ancestors sitting in charge, how could our Song family be where we are today? These are all things we should do, and I really don't dare to say it's hard work."
After receiving the affirmation from Song Qingming, the clan leader, Song Yuanfang and others present showed a bit of joy on their faces and hurriedly stood up to express their gratitude.
After praising everyone, Song Qingming continued to speak: "Now that the family is developing smoothly, you must start preparing for several major events in the future.
The first thing to do is to improve the family's spiritual lineage.
Now that there are more and more monks in the family, Funiu Mountain's spiritual energy supply will be insufficient sooner or later. Although improving the spiritual veins is not imminent yet, you all should start preparing for it.
After a while, I will try to refine a third-level high-grade spirit gathering array. After gathering the spirit stones, I can start to promote the family's spiritual lineage.
From now on, all tribesmen who are outside can take turns to return to Funiu Mountain to practice, which will also speed up everyone's practice. "
Since the demonic beast turmoil, the Song family's "Funiu Mountain" spiritual vein has been promoted to the third-level mid-level, and it has only been just over thirty years since then.
In addition, there are two third-level low-grade spiritual veins in the north, "White Lion Ridge" and "Cangyuan Mountain". Considering the current number of monks in the Song family, the supply of spiritual energy is completely sufficient.
But now that the family is developing so fast, the number of monks will also grow rapidly. Among the many foundation-building elders here, there will definitely be some who will break through their cultivation and enter the Golden Core realm in the future.
As long as the family has the ability, they should take precautions to improve their spiritual veins. This is something that the Song family will have to do sooner or later, so Song Qingming will increase the schedule in advance.
Moreover, the income from the family business is relatively stable now, and it is much richer than before. A lot of spiritual stones have been accumulated in the treasury.
Just promoting the "Funiu Mountain" spiritual vein to the third level of high-grade is no longer the same as before. It requires all the tribesmen to live frugally to achieve it.
Improving the family's spiritual veins is something that is beneficial to all the monks in the entire family. Naturally, no one among the many foundation-building elders present will object. As soon as Song Qingming finished speaking, there was a burst of agreement.
"Clan leader, don't worry. Improving the spiritual veins of Funiu Mountain is the foundation of the family. We should do our best!"
"That's right! The improvement of the family's spiritual veins is not only something that we can benefit from, but it is also a major event for the benefit of future generations. Now that the family has this ability, the sooner this matter is done, the better."
"I also agree with this."
Seeing everyone at the scene speaking in agreement, Song Qingming waved his hands with a smile and continued: "This second thing is about Cangyuan Mountain.
Now that Baishi Ridge has gradually stabilized, the family can consider focusing on other places for development.
The current market in Cangyuan Mountain has basically been built. You can consider moving some monks and mortals there to take root there and develop slowly.
Also, Xuande can take people to take a walk around Cangyuan Mountain to see if they can find useful mineral veins, mark them first, and then slowly develop them when the family has enough manpower. "
It has been several years since the "Xiaoyao Sect" defeated the demon clan in the northern expedition and the Song family captured "Cangyuan Mountain".
However, because most of the family's energy has been focused on "Baishiling" in recent years, the management of "Cangyuan Mountain" has been relatively slow. In recent years, it has barely managed to hold on to Lingshan and build Fangshi.
Now that the teleportation array connected to "Chiyanfang" in "White Lion Ridge" has been built, it has gradually stabilized. The family does not need to deploy too many manpower here, and can free up some monks to run other industries.
The reason why he chose to operate the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein was not only because of the higher grade of this spiritual vein, but also the main reason was naturally the "Tandi Cave" that Song Qingming used to form elixirs.
Nowadays, several foundation-building monks in the family have reached the late stage of foundation-building. Song Changze, who has the highest level of cultivation, can break into the golden elixir realm at any time, and he will definitely need to use this "Tandi Cave" when the time comes.
At this time, the family should also send more manpower to strengthen control around "Cangyuan Mountain" to prevent other monks or monsters from approaching there and causing unnecessary trouble to the Song family.
"Clan Leader, there are still many monsters and monsters around Cangyuan Mountain. Our family alone is still a little short of manpower. Do you think you should let other families below participate, so that we can develop faster."
Just as Song Qingming finished speaking, Song Xuanting, who was standing at the bottom, stood up and put forward his own suggestions and ideas.
Song Xuanting has been in charge of "Cangyuan Mountain" in the past few years. When he and Song Yuanhao and others were building the city in these years, they were often attacked by monsters. Naturally, they were very aware of the situation around "Cangyuan Mountain".
Seeing that Song Qingming proposed that the family would vigorously operate the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein next, he quickly expressed his inner thoughts. He wanted all the immortal cultivating families affiliated to the Song family to join in, which would speed up the development of the "Cangyuan Mountain" market and the surrounding spiritual veins. The construction and operation of pulse.
However, facing his proposal, Song Qingming shook his head directly and said: "The spiritual veins around Cangyuan Mountain have not been developed yet, so we should not let the immortal cultivating families below get too involved for the time being.
I plan to run this spiritual vein well, and it’s best not to let others interfere. Now that the family is not short of time, it doesn’t matter if Cangyuan Mountain develops a little slower. "
"What Seventh Brother said is true. Now that Baishi Ridge has stabilized, we don't have to drag others with us everywhere in our own territory.
As long as we spend more time, we are capable enough to manage it on our own in Cangyuan Mountain, so there is no need to be too anxious about this matter. "
After taking "Cangyuan Mountain", Song Qingming had already informed Song Qingyu and others about the "Tandi Cave".
Hearing that Song Qingming wanted to start vigorously operating the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein, Song Qingyu naturally quickly understood his thoughts and immediately echoed his opinion.
Seeing that the two family ancestors, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, insisted that they did not want other vassal families to interfere in this matter, many foundation-building elders present also saw the thoughts of several ancestors on this matter, and did not raise any objections.
After arranging the two things he had thought about, Song Qingming returned the right to speak to Song Yuanfang and began to discuss other family affairs.
As time went by, this family meeting slowly came to an end. It was not until the end that Song Yuanfang raised his hands to Song Qingming and asked:
"Patriarch! There are two children who have ascended to immortality this year and have not yet been named. In the family genealogy, the monks of the Lin generation have been using them for fifty years. It is time to establish a new generation.
This matter is also a major event related to the future development of the family. I also ask the patriarch to continue the family's generations and continue the inheritance! "
"Wan, Gu, Chang, Qing, Xin, Yuan, Chang, Xuan! Lin,..."
Since the Song family moved to "Funiu Mountain" in Qinghe County, the monks in the family will continue the generation of characters every few decades. Now, after several generations of inheritance, it has been passed down to the generation of "Lin".
These nine characters have been passed down from generation to generation in the Song family. Among them, the first eight characters "Eternal Green, New Yuan Changxuan." were already decided when the ancestors just moved to "Qinghe County".
Nowadays, the three earliest monks of the "Qing" generation in the family have all passed away. Only Song Qingming and Song Qingyu are left in the "Qing" generation, and the rest are all monks from the "Yuan" generation.
The "Lin" generation of monks was temporarily decided by Song Qingyu, who temporarily took over the family when Song Qingming went to the "East Phoenix Kingdom" to travel to the world of immortality.
Because matters such as succession are generally decided by the clan leader in major cultivating families.
At that time, the family had reached the point where the monks had reached the point where they needed to continue the character generation. Song Qingming, the patriarch, did not know when he would return, so Song Qingyu decided on the character "Lin" for him.
It also means that she does not want to overstep her authority, it is just a temporary and helpless move.
Nowadays, the monks of the "Lin" generation are almost fifty years apart, and it's time to continue the family generation.
Taking advantage of this rare opportunity for family discussions, Song Yuan conveniently raised the matter directly, hoping that Song Qingming could continue the family "generation" on the genealogy.
Over the years, Song Qingming has spent most of his time and energy busy with his own cultivation, and has not paid much attention to the family's trivial matters, so he has not noticed this matter.
When Song Yuanfang mentioned this matter, Song Qingming suddenly remembered it and nodded quickly.
Song Qingming has been fond of reading since he was young, and his literary literacy is quite good. It is not a rare thing for him to continue a genealogical generation.
However, facing the most important generational inheritance in a cultivating family, Song Qingming still seemed a little more cautious.
After thinking for a moment, Song Qingming decided to settle on the word "thinking" first, took out a pen and paper and wrote down the "word" he wanted.
The next generation, Song Qingming, wanted to think about it a little more, and when he was sure, he would tell Song Yuanfang to record it in the family tree.
(PS: Regarding the issue of continuing the next generation of characters, Xiao Meng has thought about it for a long time, but still has not started writing rashly. I would like to hear the opinions of all book friends first. If you have any good ideas, please comment and let me know.)
"Eternally green, new Yuan Changxuan, Linsi."
The ancestors of the Song family migrated to "Funiu Mountain" in Qinghe County. After four hundred years of vicissitudes, it has finally been passed down to the tenth generation of monks.
Seeing Song Yuanfang, he carefully took the word "thinking" he had just written from Song Qingming's hand. Everyone in the Song family present also had a burst of excitement on their faces.
In the world of cultivating immortals, family monks attach the most importance to bloodline inheritance, and they are more cohesive than casual cultivators and monks from sects.
The development of the Song family to this day and its current glorious era are the result of the hard work of generations of forefathers and monks.
Now that they see that the descendants of the family can continue, everyone is naturally extremely excited and excited.
"In the past, when I was on the path to immortality, my third uncle always taught me that no matter where I am, I should always think of repaying the kindness of others.
The prosperity of our family today is also due to the blood and hard work of many of my Song ancestors.
I am taking the character "Si" to continue the family tree, hoping that all of you and the younger generation of cultivators will not forget the merits of these family ancestors in the family tree and always think of repaying their kindness."
"The clan leader's teachings are remembered, and we will never forget the kindness of our ancestors!"
After hearing Song Qingming's explanation, the Song family members present also understood his intention, and they all stood up and responded, and their voices echoed in the family meeting hall for a long time.
After deciding the generation name, the annual family meeting ended quickly. After everyone left, Song Qingming kept Song Changze alone.
After carefully observing Song Changze's cultivation, Song Qingming slowly asked him: "Changze, how is your cultivation of Guiyuanshu going now?"
Hearing Song Qingming asking about his cultivation method, Song Changze also understood that the ancestor of the family deliberately kept him here because he was concerned about his next Dan formation.
Seeing this, Song Changze immediately answered: "Changze is ashamed that his cultivation method has not yet been fully developed. It is estimated that it will take another two years to complete the cultivation. I am sorry to trouble you, Seventh Uncle."
"You have only been practicing Guiyuanshu for six or seven years. It is not slow to reach this level. It is not worse than us back then. There is no need to be too modest."
Hearing Song Changze's answer, Song Qingyu, who was sitting next to him, comforted him repeatedly.
In the past few years when Song Qingming was away, Song Qingyu also often instructed several younger generations in the family to practice. She has always been quite interested in Song Changze's cultivation talent.
After hearing what Song Qingyu said, Song Qingming also spoke up and said, "Qingyu is right. Although you are not the most talented among these juniors, you are the most diligent in cultivation.
Among the thousands of cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation, there are also many who can make up for their shortcomings with hard work. If I only looked at spiritual roots and talents, I would not be here today.
As long as we can be patient and find our own opportunities, we will always have a chance to catch up with those so-called geniuses."
"Thank you for your teachings, Seventh Uncle, Changze knows!"
Song Qingming nodded slightly and continued, "You are now almost at the stage of forming a pill, and the matter of Baishifang Don't worry about it anymore.
I have already made an agreement with Yuan Fang to let Xuan Qing take over from you. When you go back, prepare to hand over the things you are doing to him. You can stay in the mountains and practice for the next two years. If you don't understand anything, you can ask us.
Don't worry, I have already arranged the spiritual objects for you to form the elixir. "
"Thank you, Changze, for your support, patriarch!"
Although he had heard that the patriarch had prepared the spiritual objects for forming the elixir for him, Song Changze was still very moved when he heard Song Qingming say it himself. He immediately knelt down and thanked the elders for their support.
Seeing this, Song Qingyu hurried forward to help him up.
"Okay, we are all family, why do we have to do this? When you go back, remember to explain it to Yuxin. That girl is impatient, don't make any misunderstandings again!"
Seeing Song Changze walk out of the family's "meeting room" with a moved face, Song Qingming and others also smiled with relief and strode out.
They had just left the "Conference Hall" and were about to return to the top of the mountain, but suddenly saw Song Yuanhao, Li Xiuning and Xu Qingyin coming back not far away.
"Does Yuanhao have anything else to say?"
Seeing Song Yuanhao and the other two return, Song Qingming quickly asked. (End of this chapter)