Disband the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?
No.
Rather, transform the sect entirely into something akin to a merchant association. Its disciples would no longer be required to remain loyal, and the sect would continue through employment arrangements instead.
In the past, Ning Fengzhi believed that once Zhou Qing and the others succeeded, commerce would surely flourish, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would inevitably grow even stronger.
And now?
That was indeed the case.
The annual profits from trading grain with Chihua Kingdom alone surpassed what they had earned in the past decade. It was simply exorbitant profit!
But Chihua also targeted all sects and clans, no longer allowing them to bully the common people at will through strength and influence. Even Red Assembly members from sects and clans would receive no leniency. Should members of their clans or sects commit wrongdoing, those Red Assembly members who came from them would have to write self-criticisms as well.
Certainly, the Red Assembly and Chihua would not directly confiscate the assets of and exterminate every existing sect and clan on the continent, but they were also formulating various policies aimed at them.
For example, apart from land cultivated by their ancestors, any land owned by sects and clans that had been seized from other farmers had to be confiscated and redistributed to local households. They would not be permitted to buy it back, either. The Red Assembly had set limits on how much land clans and sects within its territory could possess, and those limits could not be exceeded.
More policies would certainly be introduced in the future—policies beneficial to ordinary people and to Chihua Kingdom as a whole, but detrimental to the expansion of great clans and sects.
There was also a solution: adapt to the times and transform.