Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 130: Vigorous and Resolute, Presbyterian Church (Subscription Request)

"Trafficking immortal seedlings, smuggling realm-breaking spiritual objects, intercepting taxes, releasing fugitives, raping female cultivators, exploiting fellow cultivators, and colluding with bandit cultivators. Fine, fine, you've committed every one of these capital crimes."

It seems that the evidence collected by Lin Qianfan himself is quite one-sided, and what he found out through personal interrogation is enough to shock people.

"Tsk tsk tsk~ You're not just sucking the family's blood, you're completely digging up its roots."

Lin Likui, who revealed the truth about the crime and his accomplices, was heartbroken.

He did all these things without telling his elders. Once the chain of evidence is closed, he will definitely be dead and there will be no way to rescue him. And with Lin Qianfan's ruthless way of handling cases, it is inevitable that he will get the evidence.

Logically speaking, the Penalty Hall or other law enforcement agencies were just going through the motions, and everyone would not impose severe punishment on him because of his identity and background. Unexpectedly, Lin Qianfan actually did it.

"Please...give me a...quick death..."

"You want to be respectable now? It's too late!"

A powerful member of the Lin family like him does everything in the name of the Lin family, and any bad things he does will be blamed on the Lin family. Although those little people cannot resist for the time being, they will inevitably damage the Lin family's fortune in some way.

Otherwise, why do those powerful forces often collapse after thousands or tens of thousands of years?

Even if it is a Nascent Soul or even a Divine Transformation force, if the bones and blood in its roots are completely rotten, the illusory but real luck will eventually backfire on its leader.

He recorded all of Lin Liqiu's crimes, and then sent the young monks in the Punishment Hall who still had hope in life to collect relevant supplementary evidence based on the testimonies of the parties involved.

"Interrogate the next one!"

There are too many management positions in the Lin family of Xiancheng. Most of these positions do not require high personal strength, and one can gain power without putting in too much actual work.

Therefore, most people who hold these positions do not have strong willpower and lofty aspirations, and often cannot resist various temptations. Upon investigation, it is found that these people basically have problems.

Lin Qianfan handled the case according to the law based on clues, and sentenced these people individually according to the actual circumstances without any favoritism.

People like Lin Liqiu who have seriously tarnished the family's reputation and actually caused huge losses to the family, regardless of their status, will first be crippled to ensure that they will never be able to turn things around, and then sentenced to death.

However, sentencing one's own clansman to death cannot be passed immediately. This verdict needs to be submitted to the Lin Family Elders Council in Xiancheng, and the most powerful elders of the Lin Family will vote on whether to carry out the death penalty. After all, this sentence is too heavy and too rare.

In other words, unless the other elder is able to deal with most of the elders in the Council of Elders at the same time in order to protect a disabled person with irrefutable evidence, he will surely die!
To be on the safe side, Lin Qianfan even called Lin Qianxue to join him in emphasizing in the verdict:

[This person's actions have angered heaven and man, and have severely damaged the Lin family's fortune. If this person is not eliminated, the Lin family will continue to decline, and it will be difficult to achieve a golden elixir in the future!]

If you offend someone, you offend them. At worst, you can just pack up and go back to Yanglong Bay and quit.

Otherwise, why invite me here?
Is it just a show?
If you are going to do something, you must really do it!

The garbage must be completely cleared out. After all, the Lin family is the soil in which Lin Qianfan grew up, and it needs to be kept as clean as possible.

The concept of luck is not groundless. Individual cultivators have their own luck, sects have their own luck, and families have their own luck.

Regardless of whether you have a personal relationship with this person, you all belong to the same force and are both under the same label. The cause and effect of his bad deeds will inevitably be shared by you.

This is just a conservative estimate. If the luck of the entire force is bad and it is about to collapse, then no matter how talented you are, you will be dragged down invisibly. Therefore, Lin Qianfan will never tolerate those who seriously discredit the family.

Of course, Lin Liqiu is only a representative of a very small number of people, and most other corrupt elements do not deserve the death penalty.

We can tentatively divide sinners into three categories based on actual circumstances.

The first category is people like Lin Liqiu who have damaged the family's fortune and caused huge financial losses to the family.

Lin Qianfan sentenced them all to death. No one's intercession was of any use. He even said that lovers had to stay and eat a conscience-searching talisman.

The second category is those who have not caused any adverse effects but have damaged the interests of the family. This is a typical example of someone who, after coming to power, treats family public property as his own private property and cannot distinguish between public and private.

Lin Qianfan punished such people by completely confiscating their illegal gains, and sent them to the mines where the conditions were harsh for their families.

Since they have enjoyed the comfort that they should not have enjoyed, they naturally need to endure the pain that they should not have endured. Lin Qianfan sentenced each of them to between three and thirty years based on the circumstances of their crimes.

Those who reform well can start over after they come out, and it may not be a bad thing. Those who don’t reform well will stay in the mine forever.

Don’t think that Lin Qianfan punished his own people too harshly. They are not the only ones who can manage the fairy city well. In fact, recruiting children from small families outside may lead to better management.

It is precisely because they are members of the Lin family that they can get such a lucrative job despite their low abilities, but they forgot the four words "family first", so they deserve it!
To put it more cruelly and bluntly, in the eyes of the Jindan cultivators, the lower-level Qi-refining cultivators of the family with no hope of advancement are not much different from the other independent cultivators of the Yulong Islands, and are all worthless consumables.

The third category is those who are only honest but not worthy of their position.

Why should honest people be treated as criminals?

Integrity is indeed a rare quality, but don’t forget that integrity is a quality they should have and is not worth praising.

As members of the Lin family, their basic monthly salary is already higher than the average level of residents of the Yulong Islands. As managers, they also receive additional salary rewards. These are enough for a high-quality life in the Immortal City, so being honest is what they should do.

The key point is that one’s virtue is not worthy of the position!

Some members of the Lin family did not study the arts of cultivation and general management well since childhood. When they grew up, they had no skills. Then they relied on their status as members of the Lin family to get an ordinary management position, and then did a mess of their work without even realizing it.

Over time, this incompetence has become the norm, with many unremarkable positions in the Immortal City occupied by such useless individuals. This has led to extremely low operational efficiency and high management costs, becoming a burden. There's nothing to say about these people; they should be fired immediately!
The above three categories are mainstream problems, which are either serious or involve a large number of people. In addition, there are of course some minor individual problems.

Xiancheng Presbyterian Church,

"This guy issued twenty-three death sentences in a row. What do you think?"

"Nonsense! Isn't this child's play?"

"Oh? Tell me your specific opinion."

"There has been an ancestral system since ancient times..."

"Don't talk about ancestral rules. Let's be realistic. Our ancestors also make mistakes, and ancestral rules can be changed. Even if they are changed now, they will still be the ancestral rules a thousand years later."

"The laws of our ancestors cannot be changed..."

"If you keep talking nonsense, get out of here! Look at these twenty-three people, their crimes are beyond description. Don't they deserve to be killed?"

"...He certainly deserves to be killed, but this kind of thing is hard to stop. It's human nature. As long as you're human, you're bound to be corrupt."

“But they don’t have the credentials to be corrupt, do they?”

dong dong dong~
Someone tapped the table, bringing the discussion back to normal.

"Let's get down to business and vote on each one."

"The first one: Lin Bicheng, the owner of the Feiya Market Auction House, secretly colluded with local robbers to commit multiple crimes..."

"Agree to the death penalty!" x6
"The second one: Lin Likui, as the general manager of the Immortal City..."

"Agree to the death penalty!" x6
"..."

Every one of those people who could be sentenced to death by Lin Qianfan were evil criminals who had committed heinous crimes. They might never have personally harmed anyone, but many people had been harmed by them.

The victims were all residents of the Yulong Islands. Their existence was to support the Lin family, so the Lin family's laws should also protect them.

"Here are some other case files. Take a look. This is the noble son trained by our Xiancheng Lin family. With such ability, why should we worry about the family's downfall?"

The monks are extremely efficient in solving cases, especially since the entire Punishment Hall is under the control of Lin Qianfan. As long as they catch someone, they can use the Heart-Searching Talisman to solve the case with extremely high efficiency.

It is not ruled out that some people who have cultivated spiritual means can imprison specific memory areas, but the more people are immersed in worldly affairs, the more they neglect their cultivation, while the more sophisticated people are in cultivation, the more independent they become.

"It's all clear in my mind. My Xiancheng Lin family only has a total of over a thousand people, and they've exposed over two hundred of them in one breath. Doesn't this slap in your face hurt?"

"Forehead…"

The problems of the Lin family in Xiancheng have been going on for a long time, and everyone is aware of it. They have been investigated before, but they were all just a lot of noise and little action, with only a few insignificant medium-sized criminals being dealt with. I didn't expect Lin Qianfan to be so exaggerated this time, even arresting those who were unworthy of their positions.

"Didn't Lin Qiansuo also go to Yanglong Bay? What's going on over there?"

"It's much better than ours. Not only are there fewer people, but there are also very few serious criminals. This shows that there are indeed serious problems with our internal mechanisms. We can't get away from it. We need to reflect and find the problem."

"Let's not discuss the mechanism issue for now. Lin Qianfan fired so many people at once. What will happen to the vacant positions? The operation of the Immortal City is related to the vitality of the Lin family. We can't be careless."

"Let's get back to the mechanism. Lin Qianfan means that the vacant positions will be open to competition. They will be open to outstanding descendants from affiliated families of the Lin family, and even to clean independent cultivators who have lived in Yulong Xiancheng for more than five generations."

"Ah? How can this be possible? All the positions in Yulong Fairy City are exclusive to the Lin family. It has been like this for two thousand years. Other families are also like this. Are we going to let all the Lin family members in Fairy City farm and raise fish?"

"What's wrong with farming and raising fish? I believe the purity of our people is also very important, and those who are impure should be eliminated."

"I disagree with this! They deserved to be fired for so many things, but the remaining positions should still be filled by the Lin family. Aren't there still many people who haven't been fired? This shows that the Lin family can handle these things well. They just need to strengthen management. At most, we can have a few more cross-investigations like this."

The foundation-building elders all have their own opinions. The foundation-building elders who can sit here are all elders with a certain say in the Lin family of Xiancheng, rather than marginal elders with only an empty realm.

"Elder Tao, why haven't you said anything? I want to hear your opinion."

"We are old guys from the previous era. The family situation back then was completely different from what it is now. As for the Lin family, which is the next generation, I think we should listen more to the opinions of the young people. They are the ones who will be at the helm of the Lin family in the future."

"Oh? You think so highly of that guy? He's from Yanglong Bay and disagrees with us on many things."

"No, no, no, I'm not referring to that kid alone. I'm stating a fact. Who will be the future of Xiancheng? It's Lin Qianxue, right? You can call her over and ask if her opinion agrees with Lin Qianfan's. Managing a family isn't static; it requires exploration and experimentation. I think we could try hiring external staff for some management positions. This way, competition inside and outside the family might be better."

"Let's vote, this matter needs to be decided immediately!"

The six-member meeting then voted.

Three of them agreed to external recruitment.

Anyway, everyone who comes to work will be paid a monthly salary, and outsiders dare not mess around with the same monthly salary. They will probably be thankful to God for receiving such a high salary, and the fairy city will only get better.

The other three disagreed. Giving this simple, easy, and well-paid job to an outsider? And then asking the idle tribesmen to farm and fish? It was completely against the will of Heaven!

(End of this chapter)