Felix was quite efficient. Since she had decided to control the various key industries of Pyroxene Town, she naturally began to act immediately.
She had planned to use the means of acquisition again, but several key industries in Pyroxene Town could not be bought with money.
For example, of the two businessmen who controlled the three gem veins, one was a subordinate of an earl in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, and the other was a student of a magician. Although personally, they were really willing to sell these three low-quality gem veins, they were just senior workers and were not qualified to decide such things.
Another example was the captain of the town's guards, who was a Paladin of the Goddess of Wealth. He was neither short of money nor greedy for money, and would not be bought by money at all. But this was easy to deal with. Sui Xiong talked to the Goddess of Wealth, and the Goddess of Wealth was also very interested in his experiment of "social progress." With an oracle, the Paladin, who had long been tired of the bitter cold in the northwest, immediately handed over his power happily. He was not afraid of the cold, and carried his backpack to the south, saying that he was rushing back to his hometown to see the peach blossoms …
There was also the grocery store owner, who was almost equivalent to the leader of the Merchant Alliance. This guy was a power maniac, and asking him to hand over his power was like asking him to kill him. Felix found him and told him what she was here for. As a result, he said that he could donate his family property to help build the new town, but he hoped that he could be the deputy mayor …
All kinds of problems came one after another, some easy to solve, some very difficult.
Fortunately, Felix had both money and power, and she knew quite a few tricks up her sleeves. Using both carrot and stick, as well as carrot and carrot, she finally managed to take care of all the villains in the town, taking over the industries she wanted to control.
Naturally, a little force was inevitably used, and there were a little bloody conflicts. For example, a certain earl of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins sent an envoy to carry out a contest to determine the ownership of two gem veins; another example was an evil sorcerer who was good at using explosive spells, but "Mr. Fay, who did not want to be named," launched a full-scale bombardment from 8,000 meters away, and the sorcerer and his magic tower were blown into the dust of history … and so on.
If these things were recorded in detail, it was estimated that a novel of at least 200,000 words could be written, but it was really not worth mentioning.
The Church of the Goddess of Wealth was very influential in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, and Sui Xiong and the Goddess of Wealth were allies. That was why, under the mediation of the Church of Wealth, that duel was mostly just a formality … Actually, it wouldn't have mattered even if it wasn't just a formality. Felix was a mutated mage who focused extremely heavily on actual combat, so he wasn't afraid of duels at all. A mere earl who did not even have a single Legendary powerhouse under his command could not send an expert who could match her at all.
The evil sorcerer who focused on explosion spells and used gems and human souls as catalysts was a terrible scoundrel. The detection range of his magic tower was only five kilometers, which was even worse than Wendy's alchemy magic tower. It just so happened that Felix had some inspiration recently, and wanted to test out the power of his Mana Cannon. Thus, he borrowed Felix's Magic Tower to test it out. Unfortunately, his Magic Tower's defense was not good enough, or perhaps it had triggered a chain reaction. In short, with a small mushroom cloud, the Magic Tower hidden deep in the mountains, which was a place of horror stories in the nearby villages, disappeared just like that.
There was a saying that force could not solve the problem, but it could solve the person who brought the problem. The method of killing the chicken to warn the monkey would never go out of style. When the evil sorcerer disappeared together with his Magic Tower, many guys who had been ambiguous or even opposed to Felix made a dramatic change in the style of a racing movie. They quickly agreed to Felix's suggestion, sold their assets in a hurry, and ran away with the money.
They ran so fast that it was as if there were dinosaurs chasing after them. Sui Xiong felt that if they could keep marching at this speed, they might be able to reach the south earlier than the Saint Samurai, whose strength had reached a high level. Everyone watched the warm spring flowers bloom together.
All in all, Felix finally achieved her goal of completely controlling the core industries of Pyroxene Town that were related to the people's livelihood. She had become a lord who had not yet been conferred a title, but in fact, had full power.
Although her "territory" was only a small town with a population of less than 500 for the time being, and with the arrival of spring, it was estimated that many people would leave.
After completely controlling Pyroxene Town, Felix first began to reorganize various industries.
She first started with the pillar industries of the town, personally surveyed the mineral veins, and strengthened some areas that were prone to collapse and water seepage with magic. Then she adjusted the miners' remuneration, increasing the basic salary on the premise of maintaining the system of remuneration according to work, at least to ensure that they could rely on this work to support their families.
In this way, the income of the mineral veins would naturally decrease. But anyway, she did not have to hand over most of the money she earned, nor did she have to hand over the high-level gems that were accidentally produced. So in general, the profits were greatly increased, and the miners were very happy.
Felix consolidated a few of the main stores. One store was enough to sell groceries and other daily necessities. Harman was busy running the store during the day and had to go to the magic school to make up for his cultural lessons at night. But he had no complaints. Instead, he laughed every day with dark circles under his eyes, as happy as a donkey running into a carrot field.
Naturally, there were people in Pyroxene Town who were not suitable to be miners, so Felix organized some other work, such as street cleaning and house repair. The pay of these jobs was lower than that of miners, but because of the low prices, the poor could also live on the income of these jobs. In fact, the most dangerous thing in winter was nothing more than cold and hunger. If the house was repaired, it could resist the cold, and if one had a certain income, one could have food to fill one's stomach and clothes to keep out the cold, so the winter would not be too difficult.
… Or from another point of view, people who were not strong enough had died in those harsh days before. Those who could survive until now, after their living conditions improved, naturally had no reason to fall again.
In fact, even so, many people died this winter.
Sui Xiong was very depressed about this, but he forced himself not to intervene, because the social progress he pursued was definitely not a utopia achieved by the charity of the gods.
Even the gods would fall if they relied on the mountains, and the sea would dry up if they relied on it. The prosperity obtained by relying on the power of the gods was actually false. To make this society truly progress, it must rely on the strength of people.
He could use his knowledge and wisdom to help people, and he could also give a hand in some key difficulties. But he absolutely did not want to build a society where people relied on the gods and pinned their life hopes on the gods!
Fortunately, the winter was gradually over, and the climate was gradually warming up.
There was still some good news this winter, such as the discovery of a high-grade gem in the mineral vein. Although it was far from enough to supplement the gap in the purchase of food, at least the financial deficit was greatly reduced.
And the arrival of spring meant that the work of the new year was about to begin.
"The biggest problem plaguing Pyroxene Town is agriculture," Felix said, looking through the investigation report. Felix casually flipped through the investigation report and said in distress, "The land here is too heavily polluted by the negative energy. Many of the temples that could purify the land have been moved away. Now the power of the temple of the Golden Crown (Goddess of Wealth) is not enough to maintain the farmland outside the town. "
Mortals really had no way of dealing with this matter, and could only ask the gods to help.
When it was time for him to help, Sui Xiong would naturally not be unreasonable. He came to the place where there used to be farmland outside the town, exerted his divine power, and set up a large-scale purification boundary.
This boundary was summed up by various churches in the development of the northern region, and it was the most cost-effective in terms of continuous purification. Only a small shrine could maintain the land within a certain range from being eroded by negative energy. However, this kind of soil couldn't be said to be of high quality. What could be grown was nothing more than a crop called "Golden Vine".
Golden Vine was a special crop, first discovered by the Goddess of Earth in a broken small world where the Sun God and the God of Death had fought. That world was very strange, where positive energy and negative energy intertwined, but did not interfere with each other. Plants like Golden Vine could absorb all kinds of energy, transform it into positive energy, and use it to expel negative energy to maintain their own survival and reproduction.
Later, this plant was brought to the Main Plane and tried to be planted in the less polluted areas on the edge of the Ashes Woods. But the power of sunlight alone was not enough to maintain their survival. After many attempts, it was finally determined that the input of magic energy was necessary to make the Golden Vine grow better and provide relatively safe food for the residents of the Ashes Woods.
The most common magic energy was, of course, the power of faith. This was why the development villages in the Ashes Woods had to rely on churches and temples.
Pyroxene Town had the temple of the Goddess of Wealth, but the temple of the Goddess of Wealth alone was not enough to provide enough magic energy. This was another reason why Felix wanted to build a magic school — by connecting the magic formation to the Elemental Plane, he could get a steady stream of magic energy to supply the growth of the Golden Vine.
With the support of the magic school, the planting of Golden Vine was restored.
Looking at the residents of Pyroxene Town farming in the newly purified farmland, Sui Xiong was lost in thought.
The negative energy pollution of the Ashes Woods had always been a big problem for the residents here. More than one god wanted to solve it, but there was no good way.
The source of the negative energy came from an ancient god who fell here after the war of the gods. The power of the ancient god was conservatively estimated to have stepped into the level of great divine power, or even close to the level of great divine power. Because of the existence of the Thunder of God's Punishment, high-end forces on the Main Plane were quite scarce, so everyone was powerless.
If the Thunder of God's Punishment could be temporarily shielded, even with the power of Sui Xiong, Morani, and the Goddess of Wealth, it might be enough to solve the pollution of the Ashes Woods …
"Maybe … I should consider hollowing out the whole Ashes Woods and planting mushrooms that can absorb negative energy?"
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