Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis

Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis Chapter 62

2022-04-02

Chapter 62: The Spring Festival of the cultivation world

As the weather gets warmer, Yang Lu dubbed it "the Spring Festival of the cultivation world" "The Seacliff City Great Immortal Ascension Assembly is coming up.

The existence of civilian fairy formations and cultivators makes the productivity level of Nine Provinces cultivation world far more developed than that of ancient Earth, but its social organization form still does not exceed the scope of traditional agricultural society.

Although Seacliff City is famous for its commercial prosperity, the number of citizens living in Seacliff City all year round is still only a small number. Most of the residents of the Seacliff area still settle in the surrounding Seacliff City in the form of agricultural towns A country land of several hundred li.

Unlike Seacliff City, which has a mortal administrative agency such as the City Lord's Mansion, Seacliff Sect's mortal agricultural settlements in the Seacliff area are mostly ruled by dispatching Immortal Masters stationed in the town. These Immortal Masters stationed in the town are the supreme rulers of their respective jurisdictions, with complete financial, personnel, and judicial powers.

Many powers are gathered in one body, and the Immortal Master in the town is the local tyrant at the grassroots level of Nine Provinces.

Seacliff Sect manages the Immortal Masters in the town very extensively. It has neither specific requirements, nor does it care about how the Immortal Masters in the towns govern their respective jurisdictions. It only regularly evaluates several major items in their jurisdictions. Total indicators, the most typical indicators include the total population of the jurisdiction, the total tax revenue of the jurisdiction, the population growth rate of the jurisdiction, etc...

Whenever the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly is held, lead the age-appropriate immortal seekers in the jurisdiction to Seacliff City seeking immortality is also an important KPI assessment indicator for Immortal Masters in towns. If the number of immortal seekers of the right age increases significantly, the performance evaluation of Immortal Masters in towns will also be greatly improved.

Seacliff Sect attaches so much importance to the assessment of the number of immortals, mainly because this number can truly reflect the economic situation of various places.

Even in modern Earth, the accuracy of various statistics is difficult to guarantee, and census data and vaccination data, census data and elementary school enrollment data are often contradictory.

Compared with the economic census, which is labor-intensive and misreported, the objective data of the number of immortals is obviously more convincing. Because of this kind of thing with one radish and one pit, you can't fake it anyway.

Nine Provinces cultivator has always believed in the idea of obtaining the greatest accomplishment at the least time cost. Using the number of immortal seekers to evaluate the performance of Immortal Masters in the town has become the optimal solution for Sect management.

Although no one can say the total population of the entire Sea Cliff area, according to private estimates by the Great Chamber of Commerce, the number should be no less than 8 million, of which at least 7 million Lives outside of Seacliff City.

It is estimated that the proportion of the 15-20-year-old population is about 10%. During the entire Great Immortal Ascension Assembly, Seacliff City needs to receive about 700,000-800,000 foreign seekers at the same time, although the distance from the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly There are still 10 days before the official start, but the total number of immortal seekers who have been registered has steadily broken through 400,000, and this number is still rising.

The relevant department of the main residence of Seacliff City has stated that the total number of immortal seekers in this Great Immortal Ascension Assembly is expected to break through the 800,000 mark for the first time.

For the Immeasurable Sword Sect and Seacliff Sect, the number of immortal seekers has increased significantly, which means that the residents of the Haiya area can live and work in peace and contentment, and the local cultivators will receive more Heavenly Dao merits, which is undoubtedly a great good thing.

However, the serious social problems brought about by the influx of people cannot be underestimated.

The huge influx of foreigners has caused all the Inns and B&Bs in Seacliff City to be full. Even the seven-star Inn Seacliff Pavilion has been packaged by local tyrants and squires and children from all over the place, showing A room in a state of being difficult to find.

The aboriginal residents of Seacliff City also know that the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly is a rare opportunity to make a fortune. Not only are all the spare houses used for high-priced rentals, but many warehouses originally used to store foreign trade commodities are also used for The giant ocean-going merchant ships that carry out overseas trade have all been converted into temporary dormitories, ready to take advantage of the suspension of ocean-going trade to slaughter a wave of these foreign fat sheep.

Even the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, like a homeless shelter in a pigsty, forcibly squeezed into two teams of immortal seekers who came from an agricultural town near Seacliff City to participate in the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly .

Of course, the two Seacliff Sect leaders in charge of the team were Immortal Masters in the town, and Li Qingning immediately arranged them to live in a regular Inn. There were only more than 160 mortals seeking immortality, densely packed like canned sardines. huddled in a shelter.

Although the entire Seacliff City has been at full capacity to receive immortal seekers, it is still unable to fully accommodate so many foreigners. In order to relieve the huge housing pressure, Immeasurable Sword Sect specially dispatched inspection Elder Liu Hanxing, with the help of the elder Liu Hanxing. The power of the Immortal Artifact-level storage ring has delivered many simple wooden houses around Seacliff City as temporary dormitories for immortal seekers.

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

After the Seacliff City Great Immortal Ascension Assembly, these temporary dormitories will also be recycled and transported to the next city hosting the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly to maximize the turnover of Sect's fixed assets.

In addition, the huge foreign population has also brought enormous logistical pressure to the Seacliff City municipality.

Unlike modern Earth, which has a developed public utility system, the urban service capacity of Nine Provinces cultivation world is still relatively backward. Fortunately, the cultivator can solve the problem of overwhelming majority with its omnipotent Immortal Technique.

But even if the cultivator has the ability to move mountains and suppressing seas, it can transport food for hundreds of thousands of people, use spell to transport tens of thousands of temporary living quarters, and use Water Element spell to rub out tons of clean water. drinking water, and even using a spell to fight crime in Seacliff City, where they are still out of reach.

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. You can't poop for mortals!

Fortunately, cultivation world organizes municipal services for merit, and although cultivators certainly won't do this dirty work themselves, they can command mortals to do it.

The mortal clerk in the main mansion of Seacliff City, the main work of the recent period, in addition to registering the information of immortal seekers and grouping them, is to organize manpower to clean up the overloaded mortal waste in Seacliff City. Even Han Fulai and his ocean-going trading department went to make a cameo appearance as a temporary manure digger.

apart from this , in order to ensure that the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly of Seacliff City does not have any trouble, Immeasurable Sword Sect inspecting Elder Liu Hanxing also issued an executive order to request the three great cultivators in the vicinity of Seacliff City - Linglong Pavilion , Lone Cloud Sect and Mountain Eagles, 1,000, 500, and 1,500 cultivators were dispatched to assist Seacliff Sect in maintaining law and order.

The Seacliff Sect itself has more than 7,000 cultivators, plus these cultivators from the neighboring Sects to help, the entire Seacliff City has almost gathered nearly 10,000 cultivators that are normally rarely seen. In the past few days, at night, Whenever Yang Lu sits in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce and admires the unique night view of Nine Provinces cultivation world, he will see the cultivator's elusive light streaking across the sky like a meteor shower.

About 400 years ago, under the leadership of Sect Management Master Luo Shen, Immeasurable Sword Sect established the "Central Plains Urban Air Traffic Code", which unified the air traffic rules of the entire Central Plains continent.

Under the constraints of the "Central Plains Urban Air Traffic Code", the cultivators of different cultivation realm are divided into different airspaces according to the speed of escape, and they are not allowed to land at random in public and private areas that are not clearly marked, except In addition, when the cultivator is flying over the city, it must maintain the muffler spell at all times to avoid the huge noise that breaks through the sound barrier.

Because of this, although the light and shadow of the night sky of Seacliff City are intertwined, it presents an orderly state, just like the future urban air transportation network often shown in science fiction movies.

In general, the population movement of the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly is comparable to the Spring Festival, but Immeasurable Sword Sect and Seacliff Sect, with their rich management experience in the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly, are still firmly in control of the situation in Seacliff City. There was no mass chaos.

(end of this chapter)