The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 62 The Spring Festival in the Cultivation World
As the weather gradually warms up, the Haiya City Ascension Fair, dubbed by Yang Lu as the "Spring Festival Transport in the Realm of Cultivation", will be held soon.

The existence of civilian fairy formations and cultivators has made the productivity level of the cultivation world in Kyushu far more developed than that of the ancient earth, but its social organization form still does not exceed the scope of traditional agricultural society.

Although Sea Cliff City is famous for its commercial prosperity, the number of citizens living in Sea Cliff City all year round is still only a small number. Most of the residents in the Sea Cliff area still live in the form of agricultural towns in the hundreds of miles around Sea Cliff City. Country land.

Unlike Haiya City, which has a mortal administrative organization like the City Lord's Mansion, the Haiya faction governs most of the mortal agricultural settlements in the Haiya area by dispatching resident immortal masters.These Immortal Masters stationed in the town are the supreme rulers of their respective jurisdictions, possessing complete financial, personnel, and judicial powers.

Many powers are gathered in one body, and the immortal teacher stationed in the town is the local emperor at the grassroots level of Kyushu.

The Haiya Party's management of the resident immortal masters is very extensive. It has no specific requirements, nor does it care about how the resident immortal masters govern their respective jurisdictions. Indicators include the total population of the jurisdiction, the total tax revenue of the jurisdiction, the growth rate of the population of the jurisdiction, etc...

Whenever the Immortal Ascension Conference is held, it is also an important KPI evaluation indicator for the resident immortal masters to lead the age-appropriate immortal seekers in the jurisdiction to Haiya City to seek immortality. will also increase significantly.

The main reason why the Haiya faction attaches so much importance to the assessment of the number of immortal seekers is that this number can truly reflect the economic situation of various places.

Even on the modern Earth, the accuracy of various statistical data is difficult to guarantee. There are often conflicts between census data and vaccination data, and census data and primary school enrollment data.

Compared with the economic census, which wastes people and wastes money and seriously conceals false reports, objective data such as the number of immortal seekers is obviously more convincing.Because of this kind of thing with one radish and one pit, you can't fake it no matter what.

Kyushu cultivators have always believed in the idea of ​​obtaining the greatest results at the minimum cost of time, and using the number of immortal seekers to evaluate the performance of the immortal masters stationed in the town has become the optimal solution for sect management.

Although no one can tell how many people there are in the entire Sea Cliff region, but according to folk estimates from major chambers of commerce, this number should be no less than 800 million people, and at least 700 million of them live outside of Sea Cliff City.

It is estimated that the proportion of the population aged 15-20 is about 10%. During the entire Ascension of Immortals Conference, Haiya City needs to receive about 70 to 80 foreign seekers at the same time. Although there are still 10 days before the official start of the Ascension of Immortals Conference, However, the total number of registered immortal seekers has steadily exceeded 40, and this number is still rising.

The relevant departments of Haiya City Lord's Mansion have stated that the total number of immortal seekers in this Ascension to Immortal Conference is expected to exceed the 80 mark for the first time.

For the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Haiya Sect, the substantial increase in the number of immortal seekers meant that the residents of the Haiya area lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the local cultivators received more merit from the Dao of Heaven, which was undoubtedly a great thing.

However, the serious social problems brought about by the large population influx should not be underestimated.

The huge influx of foreign population has caused all the inns and homestays in Haiya City to be full. Even the seven-star inn Haiya Pavilion has been taken over by the children of local tyrants and gentry from all over the country, making it difficult to find a room. .

The aborigines in Haiya City also know that the Ascension to Immortals Conference is a rare opportunity to make a fortune. Not only are all the vacant houses rented out at high prices, but many warehouses that were originally used to store foreign trade goods, as well as giant ocean-going merchant ships used for overseas trade , have been converted into temporary dormitories, ready to take advantage of the suspension of ocean trade to slaughter a wave of fat sheep from other places.

Even the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, which is like a pigsty shelter for homeless people, forcibly squeezed in two teams of immortal seekers who had come all the way from the agricultural town near Haiya City to participate in the Immortal Ascension Conference.

Of course, the two immortal masters stationed in Haiya who were in charge of the team were immediately arranged by Li Qingning to stay in a formal inn. There were only more than 160 mortal immortal seekers, packed like sardines in the shelter.

Although the entire Sea Cliff City has been fully equipped to receive immortal seekers, it is still unable to fully accommodate such a large number of outsiders. In order to alleviate the huge housing pressure, the Wuliang Sword Sect specially dispatched the inspector Elder Liu Hanxing, with the help of the immortal-level storage ring With the power of the sea, many simple wooden houses were sent around the sea cliff city, which were used as temporary dormitories for immortal seekers.

Since it was a temporary dormitory, the conditions of this kind of room would definitely not be very good, but it was definitely better than living in warehouses and shelters.

After the Ascension Conference in Haiya City, these temporary dormitories will be recycled and transported to the next city where the Ascension Conference will be held, in order to maximize the turnover efficiency of the sect's fixed assets.

In addition, the huge foreign population has also brought huge logistical pressure to the administration of Haiya City.

Unlike modern Earth with a well-developed public utility system, the urban service capabilities of the Kyushu cultivation world are still relatively backward. Fortunately, the practitioners can solve most of these problems with their omnipotent magic.

But even if a cultivator has the ability to move mountains and fill seas, he can transport food for tens of thousands of people, use magic to move temporary dormitories for tens of thousands of people, use water magic to create tons of clean drinking water out of thin air, and even use magic to strike Sea Cliff City's illegal and criminal acts, but they are still beyond their power.

The most typical example is the transportation of excrement. Just transporting the excrement of hundreds of thousands of mortals out of the city is a huge project. !
Fortunately, organizing municipal services in the Cultivation World is a meritorious act. Although the Cultivators will certainly not do this kind of dirty work themselves, they can order mortals to handle it.

The mortal clerks of the Haiya City Lord's Mansion, in addition to registering the information of the immortal seekers and grouping them, the main work of the recent period is to organize manpower to clean up the overload of mortal excrement in Haiya City.Even Han Fulai and his Ocean Trade Department went to act as temporary dung diggers.

In addition, in order to ensure that there will be no disturbances in the Ascension Fair of Haiya City, Liu Hanxing, the elder inspector of the Wuliang Sword Sect, also issued an administrative order, requiring the three major cultivation forces in the vicinity of Haiya City--Linglong Pavilion, Guyunzong, and Shanshan The Hawk faction dispatched 1000, 500, and 1500 practitioners to assist the Haiya faction in maintaining law and order.

The Haiya Sect itself has more than 7000 cultivators, and together with the practitioners from neighboring sects who came to help, the entire Haiya City has gathered nearly ten thousand practitioners who are rarely seen on weekdays. When Yang Lu was sitting in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, admiring the unique night view of the Kyushu cultivation world, he would always see the monk's light flashing across the sky like a meteor shower.

About 400 years ago, under the leadership of Luoshen, the master of sect management, the Wuliang Sword Sect formulated the "Code of Air Traffic in Zhongzhou City", which unified the air traffic rules of the entire Zhongzhou mainland.

Under the constraints of the "Central State Urban Air Traffic Regulations", cultivators of different cultivation levels divide different airspaces according to the speed of escape, and are not allowed to land at will in public areas and private areas that are not clearly marked. When in the sky above the city, it is necessary to maintain the noise reduction spell at all times to avoid disturbing the residents by the loud noise that breaks through the sound barrier.

Because of this, although the night sky of Haiya City is interlaced with light and shadow, it is in an orderly state, just like the future urban air traffic network often shown in science fiction movies.

Generally speaking, the population flow of the Immortal Ascension Conference was comparable to the Spring Festival travel season, but the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Haiya Sect, relying on their rich experience in the management of the Ascension to Immortals Conference, still firmly controlled the situation in Haiya City, and there was no large-scale chaos.

(End of this chapter)