In the Heavens

Not only Ning Xiaoluoli, who has a deep background, can't move, even Li Mu, the younger sisters in the door, turned a blind eye.

There is no doubt that the female disciples who can get started are definitely related households. Influenced by traditional Confucian culture, aristocratic families only send males into the sect.

Those who can tolerate their daughters entering the rivers and lakes are either ordinary people who can't afford to eat, or their parents are from the rivers and lakes.

The current Huashan School is not the Huashan School in the hands of Yue Buqun. There are two or three kittens and puppies, and any kind of people dare to accept them into the school.

Not only high aptitude is required, but also a clean background is required. The entry age is strictly limited to less than ten years old, and most of the disciples enter the entry at seven or eight years old.

If you are not satisfied with any one, you can only enter the outer door at most, and it is useless to ask anyone to intercede. The two sword qi sects are staring at each other now, both want to grab each other's pigtails, and neither dares to openly violate the sect rules.

Leaving aside the restrictive conditions, practicing martial arts needs to build a foundation from an early age, such as recuperating the body, practicing basic skills, reading and literacy, etc. Common people can't even guarantee three meals a day, obviously there is no such condition.

Most of the common people's children entered the outer door first. When the basic quality of all aspects has been improved, there will be a chance to become a disciple of a certain elder and enter the inner sect, or to be promoted automatically if the cultivation base breaks through the second-rate.

It is very realistic and true, the sect is not a charity hall, so it is natural to choose the one with the best overall quality when selecting disciples.

Having a complete promotion mechanism can ensure that it is enough to single out geniuses, and ordinary people with average overall qualities are worthless.

For most disciples from ordinary families, staying in the outer sect is also a good way out.

Although it is dangerous to work hard in the rivers and lakes, wealth and wealth are found in danger. Even if it is just an outer disciple, the income is not low.

According to Li Mu's knowledge, the Huashan School's monthly salary for outer disciples is as low as three taels of silver, and the highest can even get hundreds of taels, depending on various factors such as cultivation base, position, and contribution.

Of course, the treatment of inner disciples is even better, but overall the gap is not too great.

If they have the same level of cultivation, perform the same task, and hold the same position, the difference in salary and benefits between everyone will not exceed 20%.

In addition, inner disciples have no money for the first ten years, because this is the learning period and no tasks are required, and pure consumption does not make any contribution to the sect.

After entering the rivers and lakes as adults, the salary of inner disciples starts from 12 taels a month, and the high ones can get hundreds of taels a month, depending on their cultivation, contribution, position, and seniority.

There is no need to envy those with high incomes. The money is their hard-earned money. The higher the income, the more dangerous the tasks they undertake.

If you are really not afraid of death, you can choose to go undercover to the Devil's Cult. As long as you make some achievements, you can start with a three-digit custody salary.

It's a pity that such tasks are usually never returned. Even if he was lucky enough to escape unscathed, he would face targeted revenge from the Demon Cult in the future.

It is impossible not to give high treatment. On average, the Huashan School has double-digit disciples every year, and dies away from home due to various reasons. In the end, less than one-fifth of the Huashan disciples were able to retreat from the rivers and lakes.

The treatment of the disciples is so high, and the treatment of the elders of the sect cannot be lowered. It's no wonder that the Huashan faction wants to expand abroad. If it continues to develop, it will not be able to support disciples.

One can figure out that Huashan Sect has thousands of outer sect disciples, hundreds of inner sect disciples, and dozens of elders, and the salary alone costs at least 50,000 to 60,000 taels of silver every month.

In fact, salary expenses are only part of martial arts expenses. The basic necessities of the disciples, food, housing, transportation, cultivation resources, and compensation for casualties all cost money.

All martial arts practitioners have big bellies, especially beginners who can only absorb energy from food, and all of them are dried meat people.

If one is practicing external skills, the demand for meat is greater. Generally, these guys don't use bowls for cooking, but use pots directly.

The livestock these days are not as fat as later generations. Not only have they been bred for a long time, but they don't have much meat.

A native cow of three or four hundred catties (sixteen taels) can produce more than one hundred catties of meat; let alone a sheep, which can produce thirty catties of meat, it is considered a big fat sheep.

The native pigs have not even had a head, and there are no improved breeds yet, and it will be difficult to weigh a hundred catties after two or three years of breeding.

On average, the Huashan faction has to kill three cows, ten sheep, thirty "Wanliheng" (pigs), and some chicken, duck and fish every day.

Productivity is low, and meat is naturally not cheap.

A cow in the Guanzhong area is worth more than a dozen taels of silver, a sheep is two and a half taels, a "Wanliheng" is two taels, five catties of heavy carp is 1 yuan, and a live chicken is 4 cents...

In addition to meat, there are also vegetables, fruits, daily necessities, spices, drinks, supplements, etc. Many of these things are not cheap.

According to a preliminary estimate, the Huashan faction would spend three to four hundred taels a day for food alone, or ten thousand taels a month.

This is still undercounting. The Huashan sect not only raised disciples, but also servants and servants who had to eat. Even if standards can be lowered, it will cost money.

People in Jianghu are also sophisticated, so it is inevitable to treat guests to dinner. For example, in the last martial arts conference, there were tens of thousands of mouths, which is not a small expense.

Not to mention cultivation resources. This thing can no longer be measured by money. Most of the precious resources are in the hands of the major forces, and they are not sold at all.

Including the Huashan School, most of the auxiliary medicinal materials needed for the cultivation of the various sects are cultivated by themselves, and only a small amount of local non-produced medicinal materials are purchased from outside.

Li Mu couldn't figure out how much the expenses would be. However, according to Master Zhou Qingyun, the cultivation resources he obtained from Dabi could be sold for tens of thousands of taels on the black market.

Of course, such prices are also the result of the monopoly of big forces. Unless it is a last resort, under normal circumstances no one will take it out and sell it.

Everyone is a martial arts practitioner, and the most important thing is their own cultivation. If you are really poor and crazy, you can go out and grab it. There is absolutely no reason to sell cultivation resources.

It is difficult for the outside world to figure out how high the cost of planting and dispensing is, but judging from the number of employees in the industry, Li Mu estimates that it cannot be supported without an investment of more than one hundred thousand taels of silver every year.

Clothing is also a big expense. As a martial arts practitioner, bumps and bumps are inevitable, and the frequency of clothes being damaged can be imagined.

There are four sets of clothes per season throughout the year, which is tens of thousands of sets of clothes. The inner disciples and the elders of the sect also need to use good materials. Obviously, they can't do it without five or sixty thousand taels of silver.

I won’t talk about staying here, the main reason is that when you are on a mission, you usually don’t need to spend money on the mountain.

In addition, weapons are also a huge expense. Affected by the imperial government's salt and iron monopoly policy, the price of ironware has remained high.