Chapter 494: Xu Family's Subsidiary Family

When parents sit together, the ones they talk to most are naturally their children.

When Xu Tinglan learned that her seventh child, Xu Liru, had spiritual roots, her first reaction was not joy, but relief.

In her opinion, as long as the child has spiritual roots and can cultivate, it is better than anything else. She is most afraid that her child will be a mortal.

Luo Xinran was more depressed. Her daughter Xu Li'e had not tested her spiritual root and would have to live in a mortal town in the future. On the way to the family meeting hall just now, Xu Feng did not tell her the bad news, but waited here. Just said.

Liang Wan'er showed neither joy nor sadness. None of the children tested for their spiritual roots this time were hers, and she was very calm.

After talking about the children, Xu Feng began to understand the family affairs. What he learned from Long Yuran was only a general idea. Now he wanted to understand it in detail.

"Xinran, Tinglan, Wan'er, has anything difficult to decide happened to the family in the past few years? If so, bring it up now and let us all discuss it together."

A family will definitely encounter difficulties in the process of development, and he wants to solve these problems while he is out of isolation.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Tinglan cast her eyes on him, lips parted and said:

"Husband, you're asking a great question. I just happened to encounter something difficult to decide. I don't know how to deal with it. I want you to help me come up with an idea."

"Okay, Ting Lan, just tell me, I'm listening!"

When Xu Feng heard this, he immediately became energetic and raised his hand to signal the Taoist monk to continue.

"The thing is like this, just a few days ago, after Sister Shang and Sister Long took their children to Fangshi, suddenly three or four casual cultivators from the ninth level of Qi Refining came to visit me.

After the greetings, several people formally expressed their intention to come, that is, they are willing to become a subsidiary family of our Xu family, and requested to rent the first-order spiritual veins within the family as a place to live.

I discussed this matter with Xinran and Wan'er, but in the end I couldn't make up my mind whether I should accept them or not. "

The existence of affiliated forces is indeed a big deal for the family, and decisions cannot be made hastily. Xu Feng agreed with the caution of the three Taoists.

After thinking for a while, he did not make a decision rashly, but planned to ask the casual cultivators about their situation first.

"Ting Lan, where did the casual cultivators you received come from? Where did they learn about the first-order spiritual veins in our Xu family?"

Regarding this question, Xu Tinglan actually asked the casual cultivators who came to visit her and knew the inside story. Therefore, after hearing the question, she sorted out her thoughts and answered:

"The dozen or so first-order spiritual veins within our family were all found by Sister Shang herself with her family guests after she arrived.

Later, some of the guests who followed her in search of spiritual veins left the Xu family and returned to live in Fang City, and the news spread.

For those casual cultivators who came to see me, I not only asked them about their origins, but also asked fellow Taoists who were familiar with them from the Jiugong Sect to find out their details.

Knowing that they were all ordinary casual cultivators who had lived in the four cities under the jurisdiction of the Jiugong Sect since they were young, because they found Taoist companions to reproduce and have children, the number of descendants increased, so they thought of finding a spiritual line to form a family. "

"There are many foundation-building forces like the Xu family in Kuizhou. Why are they targeting the Xu family?"

Xu Feng asked in confusion. As far as he knew, there were no less than seven or eight families in the four cities under the jurisdiction of the Jiugong Sect, and the Xu family did not have any outstanding advantages.

"I also asked about this, and they said that because other foundation-building forces were established a long time ago, their subordinates are already overcrowded, and they will not accept them at all.

But our Xu family is different. It has just been established for a few decades, and there is no affiliated force under its command. Moreover, it has many unowned first-order spiritual veins, so it chose us.

According to what he said, they were just sent to test the attitude of our Xu family. If we really want to use our first-order spiritual veins to accept affiliated forces, other interested parties in Fang City will follow. "

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, it was time to make a decision, and Xu Feng couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

It is a very common phenomenon in the world of immortality for a high-level force to accept a low-level force as its vassal.

Take the Jiugong Sect as an example. There are dozens of foundation-building families under their command, and countless Qi-refining forces. Generally speaking, a foundation-building family like the Xu family will have several Qi-refining families as vassals.

There are actually many benefits to having your own vassals.

Take the Xu family as an example. The dozen or so first-order spiritual veins within the territory have been idle since they were discovered, and cannot generate any profit.

In a family with a prosperous population, these wouldn't be a big deal. It would be enough to send two or three clansmen from one spiritual line to guard the development. But the Xu family couldn't do that. The number of clan members was too small, and it was difficult to expand in a short period of time. So I can only think of other ways.

At this time, if all these vacant spiritual veins are leased to the affiliated forces under his command, not only will someone take care of the spiritual veins for them, but they can also receive a fixed amount of spiritual stones for rent every year, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?

In addition to this, there is another big benefit to having affiliated forces.

That is, when the superior forces issue a recruitment order to summon family monks to fight on the front line, the family can transfer part of the quota to the subordinate forces, allowing them to send people and materials to fight for the family, thereby reducing losses.

After thinking it over for a long time, Xu Feng made a decision to use the dozen spiritual veins owned by the family to recruit independent cultivators and their families to live here and establish a family.

"Well, I agree to this. It is necessary to have your own affiliated forces. Tinglan, you will be responsible for this matter!

Remember to be strict in the screening. The independent cultivators must be screened layer by layer. Those with bad records and criminal records will not be accepted. This should be paid special attention to."

"I know, husband, I will do my best.

By the way, there is one more thing. Most of the independent cultivators who came here want to establish a family, but there is also an independent cultivator who actually proposed to establish a sect and then recruit orphans with spiritual roots from the market as disciples. Do you want to agree to this?"

"The cohesion of the sect is much worse than that of the family, and it is much more difficult to manage. This matter will be postponed for the time being. Reject it first and talk about it after the family's strength is further improved in the future."

Xu Feng decisively rejected this request. In his opinion, a sect established by a group of Qi-refining cultivators is no different from a mob, and it may affect the unity and stability of the forces under the Xu family.

After discussing this matter, Luo Xinran talked about another matter with a serious face, a major event concerning the entire Wei Kingdom's cultivation world.