Chapter 170 The family's huge shortcomings

On the way back, Zhuang Xingyu and his companions did not return directly to Jidao Yinyang Leopard City, but instead visited many places along the way, such as: Jidao Yinyang Leopard Tribe Mission Pavilion, Jidao Chamber of Commerce, the actual situation of surrounding villages, scenic spots and historical sites, etc. After a week of wandering around, they finally passed Tiandou City.

Zhuang Xingyu has been in Douluo Continent for such a long time since he solved the mystery of the womb. He has been busy with seclusion and cultivation all day long. Except for the time when he went out for training at the age of 10, he has never gone deep into the grassroots of Douluo Continent to conduct a serious investigation and has been separated from the people.

Although Zhuang Xingyu had often learned about the details on paper and audio through family bulletins and intelligence personnel before, it was ultimately not as touching, thought-provoking, understanding, and realization as the on-site investigation.

Through the in-depth contact with the front line in the past few days, Zhuang Xingyu has gained a lot and learned a lot, and he also realized that there are still many shortcomings in the current development of the family.

Zhuang Xingyu urgently called the core elders who accompanied him on the trip and said, "Everyone, my Jidao Yin Yang Leopard Clan is now far ahead of the entire Douluo Continent in many aspects, including military, economy, system, and culture. The only thing we are not doing well in is journalism, which makes us unworthy of the status of the world's number one clan!

Think about what we have seen before. There are still so many people on Douluo Continent who don’t understand our Jidao Yin-Yang Leopard Clan. There are even so many people who deliberately discredit our Jidao Yin-Yang Leopard Clan, mislead the people, and ruin the reputation of our clan.

And this is happening in the Tiandou Empire adjacent to our clan. It is conceivable that this kind of phenomenon will be even more serious in the areas controlled by the Xingluo Empire and the Spirit Hall, which will pose a huge obstacle to our clan's cause of benefiting the entire Douluo Continent!

From now on, our tribe must strengthen its propaganda work and cannot allow the enemy to wantonly slander our image. We must let the people of the entire continent know the true Yin-Yang Leopard Tribe and the real lives of the people of Beiyuan!
Five core elders, you will be in charge of this work! With the various sub-cabinets of the Mission Pavilion as the center, introduce the real life of the people of Beiyuan to the people in the surrounding villages and cities, and promote the correct three views that conform to our tribe; start from the areas around Beiyuan, and gradually advance to the south. Within a year, I want to see results.

When necessary, we can mobilize military force to eliminate those who have been brainwashed by the Xifei God Cult and other forces and are professionally discrediting our people! "

"Yes, Young Clan Leader!" The five core elders accepted the order. However, their frowns showed that they had different opinions, and the other core elders were also hesitant to speak.

Seeing this, Zhuang Xingyu asked warmly, "Five core elders, from your expression, do you have anything to say? If you have any opinions or new ideas, feel free to raise them! The same goes for everyone, if you have any different opinions, you should boldly raise them!

If I make any mistakes, you must point them out in time. Don’t be afraid! Everyone makes mistakes, and I am no exception. If you don’t dare to question me, then this is my biggest failure.”

The five core elders quickly stood up and stated their views, "Young Clan Leader is wise. Our Extreme Yin Yang Leopard Clan should indeed strengthen its publicity work. The clan has neglected these things before. Your decision is very correct, and I agree with it very much!"
However, I think we can slow down the work of controlling public opinion and strengthening publicity. We have limited energy, and the family should focus on expanding the mission pavilion, selling soul guides, and operating the chamber of commerce. These things can earn profits and quickly improve the family's strength. Don't you often say: Soul power is the cornerstone of everything, dignity is only above the soul ring, and truth is only within the soul skill attack! As long as we have the strength to crush all other forces, why bother about their opinions, just push forward. When the time comes to unify the Douluo Continent, it won't be too late to centralize governance!"

The three core elders had similar views and began to speak out their opinions at length, "Young Clan Leader, I also think that it is not suitable to carry out large-scale propaganda work at this stage. Nowadays, we cannot directly control many places. If it is just pure propaganda, it is easy. We can just send people to talk to the people, and other forces will not dare to stop us. Even if we carry out this work across the continent, it will only cost about 10 million gold soul coins, and we can make it back by selling more soul guides.

But the question is: after we promote it, how can we make the people agree? After all, most people can't even recognize words, can't write their own names, and many people have never left their town in their lives. If you tell them, they won't understand! They have limited knowledge and don't understand the structure of Douluo Continent at all.

The most difficult thing is that many people have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing. What they care about most is food, and they don’t care about anything else. It is difficult to achieve results through propaganda.

Unless we now send a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to teach the people to read and write, and to help them solve the problem of food! But this will require at least 10 years of continuous and uninterrupted investment to see the effect, and the cost is too high.

Teaching them to read is easy, all we have to do is build more schools; but solving their food problem is difficult, as our family does not have enough grain to support the people of the entire continent.

What’s more crucial is that these people should have been able to eat enough. The grain they grew was enough to feed their entire family, but their grain was taken away by the local nobles.

For the people of Beiyuan, the agricultural tax system is 30% tax to 1, the commercial tax system is 20% tax to 1, and nothing else needs to be paid. In other forces, the tax in many areas has been raised to 35% tax to 20, in addition to various head taxes, silver taxes, corvée labor...

If we want to ensure that the people have enough food to eat, we have to help them get back the food that belongs to them from the local nobles. However, this will undoubtedly offend the aristocratic class of the entire Douluo Continent. The resistance is too great. If we really take action, we will be enemies all over the world!
After all, the other forces are not like us, who can make money by selling soul guides. Their main source of wealth is from exploiting the local people. Cutting off their source of wealth is like killing them!"

Seeing that the young patriarch allowed everyone to speak freely, the four core elders no longer suppressed their own opinions. "Young patriarch, I feel that the people in the entire Douluo Continent, except for our Beiyuan, are too ignorant. They have no brains and believe everything they hear. They don't have the ability to think independently. No matter who it is, as long as it is an individual, they will believe whatever he says. There is no possibility of education at all!

Just like those people who believed a few rumors and ran from their hometown to the Kingdom of Barak, they are all idiots who can't tell who is a friend and who is an enemy. They have been severely brainwashed by the false cult and can't even tell who is good to them, so why should they care about them.

(End of this chapter)