The counterattack of the villains

Chapter 96 On the Right Track
After returning to Liangshan, Li Mu held a plenary meeting to formally set up the leadership team of the Changkong Sword Sect and clarify everyone's functions.

Li Mu is naturally the head of the sect, the highest leader of the Changkong Sword Sect, directly in charge of the elite disciples of the sect.

Ruan Xiong is the deputy head and law enforcement elder, assisting Li Mu in managing the school, and at the same time in charge of the school's rewards and punishments.

Mrs. Ruan is the elder of the department, equivalent to the chief financial officer, in charge of the internal affairs of the sect, and the cashier of the goods.

Ruan Xingzhu is the head of the inner sect, in charge of the selection and promotion of all inner sect disciples.

Old boxer Xu is the head of the outer sect, in charge of the selection and promotion of the outer sect disciples.

Xu Shiying was the disciple leader, Xu Shihao was the deputy commander, Ruan Xiong's five apprentices, and the brothers' seven apprentices were the disciple instructors and leaders.

The future Song Taigong, the current Song doctor Song Lu, is the elder of the medicine department, in charge of the school pharmacy and the treatment of injuries and diseases, and leads a group of doctors under his command.

Under the heads of the ministers and elders, there are deacons and elders as their assistants.

Ye Erniang is Ruan Xingzhu's elder deacon, when Ruan Xingzhu is not in the sect, she manages the affairs of the inner sect.

Li Mu's second apprentice, Wang Xiaoer, is sixteen years old. He has been practicing Jiuyin Magic Art for nearly three years, and he has achieved a third of his success in Yiying Martial Arts.

In the future, it will be to accumulate internal strength, improve skill cultivation, and deepen the study of martial arts moves.

Therefore, Li Mu put him under Ruan Xingzhu's subordinates, and as the senior brother of the inner sect, he was responsible for teaching martial arts to the inner sect disciples.

Today's inner disciples are only the apprentices of Ruan Xiong and the Xu family brothers, a total of 12 people.

At present, the Changkong Sword Sect has a total of 16 direct disciples of the master, 12 disciples of the inner sect, and 120 disciples.

Ruan Baiming and five cousins, because they are of the same generation as Li Mu Ruan Xingzhu, cannot be regarded as direct disciples, so Li Mu positions them as elite disciples.

Elite disciples are directly under the leadership of the head and deputy head, and others have no right to transfer.

Among the sixteen personal disciples, Wang Xiaoer and other eight former Ruan Xiong apprentices have already started in martial arts practice, and they can practice on their own. Li Mu only needs to point out one or two occasionally, and answer questions.

What he needs to personally teach at present is only Xu Zhu and three of the five Song family brothers.

Song Qing was too young to even walk steadily, so naturally he couldn't learn martial arts.

Song Jiang has reached the age of three, he can practice the moving skills of Jiuyin Magic, learn some boxing skills, strengthen the toughness of the meridians, expand the breadth of the meridians, and lay a solid foundation from an early age.

Don't think that three-year-olds can't practice martial arts. Shi Xiaolong started learning martial arts at the age of two, and made his debut in movies at the age of five. Many adults may not be able to perform those martial arts moves.

In terms of internal strength, at least seven or eight years old are suitable for cultivation. The meridians of young children are too fragile and immature to carry the movement of true energy.

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After this meeting, the Sky Sword Sect was officially on the right track of development, and the recruitment of disciples from the inner and outer sects was also put on the agenda.

Li Mu's idea from the very beginning was to try his best to accept orphans as his disciples.

Because orphans have no father, no mother, and no home, once they enter the sect, they will naturally regard the sect as their home and their master as their relatives.

The disciples cultivated in this way are more guaranteed to be loyal to the sect.

In this era, it is impossible to buy servants and maidservants as disciples, but there is another way - the Salesian Bureau.

The so-called Salesian Bureau is the orphanage of later generations (the Salesian Bureau was named after the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was a similar institution in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was not called this name. For the convenience of writing, the Salesian Bureau was directly used).

In ancient times, due to factors such as poverty, wars, natural disasters, patriarchy, and feudal superstition, there were many active or passive "abandonment" behaviors, and the number of orphans was quite large.

But at the same time, the survival of infant orphans is a major event related to the increase and decrease of population and the rise and fall of the dynasty, and the court has to pay attention to it.

Therefore, starting from the pre-Qin period, all dynasties have government orders to provide basic living guarantees for orphans who have lost their parents and relatives, which is called "compassion for orphans".

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Qi set up a "Guard in Hand" officer, who was responsible for finding adopters for orphans, and inspecting and supervising the living standards of these orphans after they were adopted.

As a reward, families who adopt orphans can be exempted from corvee and tax according to the number of adopters.

During the Song Dynasty, the population grew rapidly, and the total population exceeded [-] million for the first time.

After the population increases, raising children becomes a difficult problem, and many families who cannot afford to raise children simply "abandon" them.

In order to solve this social problem and "make the roads free from hungry children", the Song court established the "Sales Bureau", which specially adopted abandoned infants and young children.

The Salesian Bureau is a chain of government-run orphanages in the Song Dynasty. It is operated with funds from the government. In order to facilitate the treatment of sick infants and young children, it is generally located next to the public welfare medical organization "Pharmacy Bureau".

There are wet nurses hired by the government in the Salesian Bureau. In addition, money, rice and silk cloth are distributed on a monthly basis to ensure that orphans have food and clothing.

Families without children can adopt orphans at the Salesian Bureau.

Children who are not adopted will stay in the Salesian Bureau until they reach adulthood, and then they can decide for themselves whether to stay or not, and the government will never interfere.

Orphanage institutions, which flourished in the Song Dynasty, once declined after the Yuan Dynasty, and did not regain their vitality until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty.

This is also the reason why Li Mu does not have this condition in the Xiaoao world.

The benefits of Li Mu's good relationship with the prefect of Jeju before are reflected in this.

Knowing that Li Mu wanted to adopt a large number of infants and young children, as a disciple who inherited his sect's legacy, the magistrate naturally strongly supported him.

When infants and young children are adopted, the government's finances can save a lot of expenses, which is beneficial and harmless.

With the full support of the magistrate, the Changkong Sword Sect was rapidly enriched.

What bothered Li Mu a little was that most of the abandoned infants in the Salesian Bureau were girls.

Obviously, this is the pot of patriarchal thinking.

Most of the disciples in the school are women, which has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that female disciples are relatively less complicated than male disciples, and there are few white-eyed wolves who are ambitious and will repay their kindness.

The disadvantage is that it is easy to be trapped by love, hooked up by stinky men outside, and reveal the secrets of martial arts.

Therefore, the best situation is to balance the ratio of men and women in the door and try to digest it internally.

In the first batch of disciples, Li Mu gritted his teeth and took over dozens of orphans, including more than forty girls and only a dozen boys.

At the same time, he entrusted the magistrate to send him more boys from Salesian Bureaus in other cities.

He privately promised that the magistrate would give him two taels of silver for every male disciple he found.

The magistrate naturally agreed, but it was relatively simple for him to operate.

The cities under his own rule can be transferred directly, while those from other governments can mobilize a group of people to go to the Salesian Bureau to adopt them, and then send them to the Sky Sword Sect.

Although this seems to be a disguised form of human trafficking, it is reasonable and legal after all. Li Mu wants to help the country raise orphans, and the government has no reason not to support it.

Although the magistrate took advantage of his position to collect benefits, it did not harm the interests of anyone else, and naturally no one would meddle in their own business.

(End of this chapter)