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Felix was very efficient. Since she decided to control the key industries of Pyroxene Town, she naturally started to act immediately.

She originally planned to use the acquisition method again, but not all the key industries in Pyroxene Town could be bought with money.

For example, the two merchants who controlled three gem veins were subordinates of a certain earl in the Gold Coin Federation, and the other was a student of a certain magician. Although they were personally willing to sell these three low-quality gem veins, they were just high-level workers and had no right to decide such matters.

For example, the captain of the town's guard is a holy warrior of the goddess of wealth. He is neither short of money nor greedy for money, and will never be bribed by money. But this is easy to deal with. Sui Xiong talked to the goddess of wealth, and the goddess of wealth was also very interested in his "social progress" experiment. With an oracle, the holy warrior, 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 ran south with his backpack, saying that he was rushing back to his hometown to see the peach blossoms...

There is also a grocery store owner who is almost equivalent to the leader of the Merchant Alliance. This guy is a power maniac. Asking him to hand over power is like asking for his life. Felix found him and told him his purpose. As a result, he said that he could donate his property to help build the new town, but he hoped to get a deputy mayor...

Various problems came one after another, some were easy to solve, and some were difficult.

Fortunately, Felix was rich and powerful, and she also knew a lot of political tactics. With a combination of soft and hard tactics, she finally cleaned up all the monsters in the town and took over the industries she wanted to control.

Of course, some force was used, and some bloody conflicts occurred. For example, a certain earl of the Gold Coin Federation sent an envoy to a duel to determine the ownership of two gem veins; for example, an evil magician who was good at using explosive spells was bombarded by "Mr. Fei who did not want to reveal his name" at a distance of 8,000 meters, and he and the magic tower were bombarded into the dust of history... and so on.

If these things were recorded in detail, it is estimated that at least 200,000 words of novels could be written, but it is really not worth mentioning.

The Church of the Goddess of Fortune has a great influence in the Gold Coin Federation, and Sui Xiong and the Goddess of Fortune are allies. Therefore, under the mediation of the Church of the Goddess of Fortune, the duel was a formality... In fact, it doesn't matter if it's not a formality. As a mutant wizard "Magic Cannon Master" who pays extreme attention to actual combat, Felix is ​​least afraid of duels. A count who doesn't even have a legendary master under his command can't send out a master who can match her.

The evil wizard who focuses on explosion spells and uses gems and human souls as catalysts is a serious scumbag. The detection range of his magic tower is only a pitiful five kilometers, which is not even as good as Wendy's alchemy magic tower. It just so happens that Felix has some inspiration recently and wants to test the power of his full magic bombardment, so he borrowed his magic tower to experiment. Unfortunately, the defense effect of his magic tower is not good enough, or it caused a secondary explosion or something. In short, accompanied by a small mushroom cloud, the magic tower hidden in the mountains and circulated in horror stories in the nearby villages disappeared.

There is a saying: force cannot solve problems, but it can solve the people who cause problems. The method of killing a chicken to scare the monkey is timeless. When the evil magician disappeared with his magic tower, many guys who had ambiguous attitudes or even opposed Phylex made a big turn in the style of a racing movie, and quickly agreed to Phylex's suggestion. They hurriedly sold their assets and ran away with the money.

They ran so fast, as if there were dinosaurs chasing them from behind. Sui Xiong felt that if they could keep up this marching speed, they might be able to reach the south earlier than the holy warrior who had reached a high level of strength, and everyone would watch the spring flowers bloom together.

In short, Phylex finally achieved her goal and completely controlled the core industries related to the people's livelihood in Pyroxene Town, becoming a lord who had not yet been canonized, but actually 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, Phylex first began to rectify various industries.

She first started with the town's pillar industry, personally surveyed the mines, and used magic to reinforce some areas that were prone to collapse and water seepage; then she adjusted the miners' remuneration, increasing the basic base salary while maintaining the pay-for-work system, at least to ensure that they could support their families with this work.

In this way, the income from the mines would naturally decrease. But anyway, she didn't have to hand over most of the money she earned, nor did she have to hand over the high-quality gems that were occasionally produced, so in general, the profit increased greatly, and the miners were also very happy.

Felix also merged several major stores, and one store was enough for food, groceries, daily necessities, etc. Harman was busy running the store during the day, and had to go to the magic school to make up for cultural classes at night, which was very hard. But he had no complaints, but laughed every day with dark circles under his eyes, as happy as a donkey that ran into a carrot field.

There were naturally people in Pyroxene who were not suitable to be miners, so Felix organized some other jobs, such as cleaning the streets and repairing houses. The pay for these jobs was lower than that for miners, but because of the price stabilization, the poor could survive with the income from these jobs. In fact, the most dangerous thing in winter is nothing more than cold and hunger. If the houses are repaired, they can resist the cold. With a certain income, they can have enough food and warm clothes, so winter is not too difficult to endure.

...Or from another perspective, those who are not strong enough have died in the previous harsh days. Those who can hold on until now naturally have no reason to fall down again after their living conditions have improved.

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 gods.

If you rely on the mountains, the mountains will fall, and if you rely on the sea, the sea will dry up. Even gods will fall. The prosperity obtained by relying on the power of gods is actually false. To make this society truly progress, people must rely on their own strength.

He can use his knowledge and wisdom to help people, and he can also lend a hand in some key difficulties. But he absolutely does not want to build a society where people rely on gods and put all their hopes in life on gods!

Fortunately, winter is gradually passing, and the climate is gradually warming up.

There are still some good news this winter, such as the discovery of a high-grade gem in the mine. Although it is far from enough to make up for the gap in grain purchase money, it has at least greatly reduced the fiscal deficit.

The arrival of spring means that the work of the new year will begin.

"The biggest problem that troubles Pyroxene Town is still agriculture." Felix flipped through the investigation report and said distressedly, "The land here is too polluted by negative energy, and many temples that can purify the land have been moved away. Now the power of the Golden Crown (Goddess of Wealth) Temple alone is not enough to maintain the farmland outside the town."

For this matter, mortals really have no choice but to ask the gods to take action.

When it is time for him to take action, Sui Xiong will naturally not be hypocritical. He came to the place that used to be farmland outside the town, exerted his divine power, and laid a large-scale purification barrier.

This barrier was summarized by the exchanges of various churches in the development of the northern region, and it has the highest cost-effectiveness in terms of continuous purification. Just a small shrine can keep the land within a considerable range from being eroded by negative energy. However, such soil is not of high quality, and the only crop that can be planted is the "golden vine".

Golden vine is a special crop, first discovered by the goddess of the earth in a broken small world where the sun god and the god of death fought. That world is very strange, with positive and negative energy intertwined, but not interfering with each other. The plant of golden vine can absorb various energies and convert them into positive energy to expel negative energy to maintain its 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 Ash Forest. But relying solely on the power of sunlight is not enough to sustain their survival. After many attempts, it was finally determined that the input of magical energy must be obtained in order to allow the golden vine to grow better and provide relatively safe food for the residents of the Ash Forest.

The most common magical energy is naturally the power of faith. This is why the pioneering villages in the Ash Forest rely on churches and temples.

There is a temple of the goddess of wealth in Pyroxene Town, but the temple of the goddess of wealth alone is not enough to provide enough magical energy. This is another reason why Felix wants to establish a magic school-through the magic circle to connect to the elemental plane, you can get a steady stream of magical energy to supply the growth of the golden vine.

With the support of the magic school, the planting of golden vines has been restored.

Watching the residents of Pyroxene Town working in the farmland that has just been purified, Sui Xiong fell into deep thought.

The negative energy pollution of the Ash Forest has always been a big problem that troubles the residents here. More than one god wants to solve it, but there is no good way.

The source of negative energy comes from an ancient god who fell here after the war of the gods. The power of that ancient god is conservatively estimated to have entered the powerful divine power, and may even be close to the level of great divine power. Because of the existence of the thunder of divine punishment, the high-end military force of the main plane is quite scarce, so everyone is powerless.

If the divine punishment thunder can be temporarily blocked, even if only Sui Xiong, Morani, and the Goddess of Wealth rely on their power, it may be enough to solve the pollution of the Ash Forest...

"Maybe... I should consider digging out the entire Ash Forest and planting mushrooms that can absorb negative energy?"