Chapter 7 On the protracted war! (Please read on and give me a recommendation vote!)
To put it simply, it is to win over the huge class group of mortals, provide them with convenience and benefits, and make this group lean towards their Black Evil Sect.

This reform was extremely difficult. Even with Li Mufeng's rising reputation in the Black Evil Sect, these cultivators simply could not accept such a view.

In Tiannan, monks and mortals are like heaven and earth.

If we say that they, the independent cultivators, and the disciples of the sects and families are all cultivators and have one thing in common, then the gap between mortals and cultivators is the insurmountable chasm!
Mortals are humble and lowly! They cannot be compared with monks! This is the consensus of every monk!

Any monk who comes into contact with mortals will be despised and ridiculed by other monks.

Now Li Mufeng not only wants them to contact mortals, but also some of their tasks require them to serve mortals. This is really unacceptable for these monks who are usually high and mighty and used to being looked up to by mortals.

Everyone's attitude of resistance was within Li Mufeng's expectations.

After all, these people are different from him, so it is normal for them to have resistance.

Soon, he convinced everyone with his point of view on "protracted war".

There is no doubt that ordinary mortals are powerless against monks. After all, there are only a few people like Mo Juren who dare to stroke the monk's beard.

Mortals are ants!
But being an ant doesn’t mean being useless!

Mortals can help monks cultivate some herbs and spiritual medicines to help monks refine pills. In the original novel, mortals like Mo Juren can find the herbs for Huanglongdan and Jinsuiwan and refine pills. Yu Zitong discovered precious spiritual medicines such as Xuelingcao in a mortal's herbal medicine store. This is enough to illustrate the value of mortals in growing herbs and spiritual medicines!
In addition, everyone must admit that there are undiscovered cultivation geniuses among mortals!

The number of mortals in Tiannan is so huge that it is difficult to count. There is no doubt that there are geniuses and even monks with natural spiritual roots among such a huge group of mortals.

The sect does not have enough manpower to test the spiritual roots of every single person, and the widely dispersed cultivator families are also unwilling to test the spiritual roots of these mortals.

After all, if one appears, it means that another monk family will appear in their area!
The resources that they originally had exclusive access to now have to be shared with others!
What if that person is a genius? That would be even worse. They might even be ruled by this new family!

The existence that was once oppressed and exploited by them suddenly climbed over their heads! The monk family could not tolerate this!
But for Li Mufeng and the Black Evil Sect, it is a path they have to take!

Those cultivator families and sects not only monopolize the cultivation resources, but also monopolize the cultivation geniuses!
Without a genius in cultivation, how could the Black Evil Sect grow and become stronger?

Although there are geniuses among the mortal group, the probability is very low, one in a billion or even one in a billion. After all, their ancestors are all mortals, and the probability of the emergence of spiritual roots is itself a very small thing. Those who can possess spiritual roots are probably pseudo-spiritual roots like Han Li, which are completely useless. Not to mention geniuses and natural spiritual roots. This behavior is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

It is totally not worth the effort and time spent by the sects and the monk families.

But for the Black Demon Sect, this is a must! Because it is impossible for a genius monk to join their Black Demon Sect!
If there is no genius among 100 million people, then there will be 500 million, 1 billion, or even 10 billion. As long as there is a genius among them, the Black Evil Sect will make a fortune.

To the cultivators, winning over these mortals is just a piece of cake, but once an unparalleled genius is discovered and joins the Black Evil Sect, then the Black Evil Sect will have their own Jindan cultivator, or even a Yuanying cultivator or a Shenhua cultivator!
The battle between the Black Evil Sect and the monks from these sects will undoubtedly be a protracted war.

The results will not be seen in a hundred years. It will take a very long time, perhaps a thousand years, ten thousand years, or even a hundred thousand years!

During such a long period of time, this incalculable number of mortals will provide the Black Evil Cult with countless geniuses.

Otherwise, what would the Black Evil Cult use to fight against those sects and families that have been passed down for thousands of years?

You don't really think that with a group of three spiritual root cultivators you can overthrow other cultivator families and sects that have been passed down for thousands or tens of thousands of years, right?
If they don't win over mortals, in today's world where talented cultivators are completely monopolized by sects and families, they will have no way to fight against those sects and will never be able to grow.

Although the Black Evil Sect monks were still unable to accept it for a while, everyone was silent and they were considered to have been convinced by Li Mufeng. It was only a matter of time before they accepted it.

More importantly, the real tasks are right there, and the points are clearly listed. If you don't take them, there are others who will. If you don't exchange the elixirs and magic weapons, there are others who will!

Bring back a spiritual root and I will help you build your foundation!
The first to react were the royal Li family. The official background of the Li family made it much easier for them to do these things, but the results were minimal.

After all, the royal Li family is now confined to this capital, and is under constant surveillance by the seven factions, so they dare not make any big moves.

Some members of the Black Evil Cult seemed to understand. They ran to the street, grabbed a child and began to test the child's spiritual roots.

Looking at the poor performance of these teammates, Li Mufeng was speechless.

There are hundreds of thousands of households in the entire Yuejing area. If the age of those who need to have their spiritual roots tested is stipulated to be between ten and fifty years old, then the average number of people in each household is approximately five to seven people, which is six people in the middle. That means almost one million people need to have their spiritual roots tested.

Moreover, these people are distributed in the vast Yuejing Capital Region, an area of ​​nearly 200,000 square kilometers. These hundreds of people go door to door to check the spiritual roots one by one. By the time the inspection is completed, the demons have already invaded and it is too late to try.

Moreover, this commotion is so big. The people who are arranged in secular families by other sects are not blind. When you find a genius, others will snatch him away directly. What's the matter with the Black Evil Sect? They have worked for a long time, not only working for others for free, but also increasing the strength of the enemy!
Two words to describe it - silly cup!
After seeing the operations of these monks, Li Mufeng also understood that it was impossible to come up with any good ideas relying on these stupid teammates.

He still has to rely on himself. After a while of thought, Li Mufeng figured out the key point.

This task must be done by mortals. After all, the population base that needs to be dealt with is too large, and the area distributed is too wide. It is impossible to do it by relying solely on monks.

This is probably the reason why those sects are unwilling to do it.

So this matter must be done by mortals themselves!

Moreover, if a mortal were to do this, it would not attract the attention of the cultivators and sects. The Black Evil Sect only needed to hide behind the scenes. After figuring out the key points.

Li Mufeng immediately formulated a corresponding experimental strategy and carried out experiments in the Yuejing area. The results were very good. After testing tens of thousands of people in a short period of time, he found three people with three spiritual roots and seven people with pseudo spiritual roots in the capital, including adults and children.

In fact, Li Mufeng didn’t do anything complicated, he only did two things.

"Open a college and build a clinic."

The focus is on the college!
They need to mobilize the initiative of the mortals themselves, instead of these cultivators working hard to find mortals, and let all these mortals gather together voluntarily. This way it will be much more convenient for them to hide in the dark and detect spiritual roots!

With his experience from his previous life, Li Mufeng naturally thought of schools and hospitals easily!
However, if this kind of thing is to be promoted to the entire Yue Kingdom, then it is necessary to rely on the power of the imperial court. However, the current imperial court is just a puppet court controlled by the mortal families subordinate to the immortal families.

To build an incalculable number of colleges and clinics, the expense would be an astronomical figure that is too huge to be calculated!
And it’s not just about prescribing it. The court will have to pay the salaries of teachers, doctors, and miracle doctors later.

The current imperial court simply cannot come up with so much money!
Faced with such a dilemma, Li Mufeng went to discuss with his father, the Emperor of Yue.

After discussing with each other, the father and son formulated a strategy:

Establish new laws, settle refugees, expand farmland, repair medical clinics, build schools, reform the imperial examinations, select new officials, recruit new troops, suppress bandits, maintain public order, encourage commerce, and collect commercial taxes.

There is only one purpose for doing these things, and that is centralization.

Ensure that there are officials in the court who can do what they want.

With people doing things, the problem of money will be easy to solve. Business can be encouraged to collect commercial taxes, and taxes can be collected from mortal families!
With the Black Evil Sect's monks watching in secret, they are not afraid of them rebelling at all!

Rebellion is in line with the wishes of Li Mufeng and the King of Yue. Since you are rebelling, your property and land will naturally belong to the court!

No one would think that these mortal families would be a match for the imperial court and the Black Evil Sect monks if they rebelled, right?

Of course, these things seem very beautiful, but there is a very crucial point, which is that they must be done by mortals.

At least the monks cannot intervene openly, because only in this way can they have a chance of defeating those aristocratic families that monopolize resources.

As long as the monks do not intervene, it means that it will always be the business of mortals, and those mortal families with monks' families behind them cannot interfere.

In terms of the power of cultivators, the Black Evil Sect and the royal Li family are far inferior to the sects and families that have developed for thousands of years, but there is no difference for ordinary people, and even with royal status, they still have the upper hand!
So Li Mufeng came to Jingzhou.

They planned to support some martial arts sects to eliminate the bandits, local bandits, and robbers, so as to stabilize the surrounding public security. After the public security was stabilized, they would support the power of ordinary people, have them participate in the imperial examinations, and train new officials.

Eventually, these officials would stabilize the local areas, become officials in the capital based on their outstanding political achievements, give back to the imperial court, and ultimately trigger a series of reforms in the court.

Ultimately the goal of centralization would be achieved, and as long as centralization was successful, the increase in fiscal revenue could be guaranteed. With the increase in fiscal revenue, medical clinics and schools could be opened throughout the State of Yue.

Then, the independent cultivators will be arranged one by one to enter medical clinics and academies, and finally the activity of secretly testing the spiritual roots of mortals will be completely completed.

The Qixuan Sect was very lucky to be chosen by Li Mufeng. In addition to the fact that Han Li was here, the main reason was that the Qixuan Sect had once unified Jingzhou and even influenced the surrounding Lanzhou.

It just became desolate with the passage of time. Since it has declined, it is not impossible for it to rise again.

This way, when the Seven Mysterious Sects once again unify the martial arts sects in Jingzhou in the future, no one will find anything strange and go to investigate.

Seven Wonders Valley.

Li Mufeng put a furnace of newly refined pills into the jade bottle. Recently, as there were many spiritual medicines that had been ripened, he had refined quite a lot of pills, and his pill refining skills had greatly improved.

A lot of Huanglong Pills, Jinsui Pills, Ganqi Pills, and Kailing Pills were refined.

Speaking of which, the Yellow Dragon Pill and the Golden Marrow Pill can not only help cultivators improve their cultivation, but also have great benefits for mortals like Wang Juechu.

Eating one pill can increase your martial arts skills by ten years.

Li Mufeng thought about it and found it normal. The Yellow Dragon Pill and the Golden Marrow Pill were originally holy medicines in the martial arts world, and were made by mortal warriors themselves.

Originally it should have been useful only for low-level Qi-refining cultivators, but Han Li increased the medicinal properties by extending the age of the herbs, thus forcing the elixir to be suitable for mid-level Qi-refining cultivators.

Relying on Li Mufeng's elixir, the strength of the entire Qixuan Sect developed rapidly like a rocket.

Among them, there are as many as ten people who have reached the invincible land immortal realm. The land immortal realm is the top warrior among mortals, and can deal with ordinary low-level Qi-refining cultivators.

For example, in the original novel, Wang Juechu's three uncles. To put it bluntly, if a piece of trash like Master Jin Guang didn't carry talismans, treasures that even foundation-building cultivators would be afraid of, he might not be a match for the three mortal warriors.

(End of this chapter)