Outside the town of pyroxene, near the man-made ore vein construction site, a few clusters of flowers appeared, not very dense, but quite neat. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info If you are good at a certain courtyard decoration style on the earth, it can barely be regarded as a landscape.

Of course, these bushes of flowers did not fall from the sky, but were specially transplanted by Sui Xiong from elsewhere.

On the one hand, he wanted to see how well the soil was purified and whether the more fragile plants could survive, but on the other hand, he felt that a village without flowers was incomplete, and that life without flowers lacked the necessary taste.

This is undoubtedly the embodiment of the thoughts of a literary and artistic youth, if he is a science student who likes to shout "science and technology create the world, science and technology change life", or an engineering student who admires flame and steel, he will never have such an idea.

But the people of Pyroxene Town liked these flowers very much, and many people went to the vicinity of the construction site to look around the flowers. If Ferex hadn't been notified in advance and had put a fence around the flowers, there might have been a lot of people trying to pick one and take it home.

Of course, for the whole town of Pyroxene, the flowers are just a small episode, and there are two other things that really matter.

First things first: Relying on the purified land, Ferex found a resident who had worked as a vegetable farmer before coming to the northwest to make a living, and found a few people with good farming skills to help cultivate a small vegetable field.

The vegetables they grow are the famous "little greens". It is a fast-growing vegetable that has relatively loose requirements for soil and environment, as long as the land is not barren and there is enough water and sunlight. It takes half a month to grow into a green patch, and it can be picked after about a month.

This vegetable has a strong vitality. As long as you leave a few leaves for it when you pick it, it won't take long for it to grow many new leaves. It is one of the favorite vegetables of the middle and lower class people.

Of course, it also has disadvantages, the biggest disadvantage is that it is not good at competing with weeds for water and fertilizer, if there is no farmer to take care of it, the vegetable field will become weeds in a few days.

Fortunately, there were no weeds on this side of the ash forest, and there were not even a single kind of small plants that could thrive in this environment, not even the golden vine - without the support of magical energy, even the golden vine would not be able to grow in this hellish place.

So the farmer who was in charge of planting vegetables soon found out that there was all the work in the field. You can do it by yourself, and you don't need more people to help you at all.

As a result, several of his assistants were transferred to build the outer fence.

The outer fence is a simple fence built with wood at a distance of about two or three hundred meters outside the town, and it forms a circle.

This is certainly not to deal with the tide of skeletons, but to guard against bandits or monsters. Of course, no one expects a single wooden fence to keep out bandits or monsters, but they can effectively provide a buffer time, greatly reducing damage to villagers and caravans.

For a long time. The four towns in the northwest have always wanted to build such a fence. But to this day, in addition to the completion of Longroar Town, even the most prosperous Rye Town has not been able to complete this project.

In the final analysis, it's because of money.

This is not a small investment. It was up to the town's wealthy to pay for it, but the beneficiaries were mainly commoners and small merchants, for the town's rulers. It's a matter that outweighs the losses. So even if they knew it would be good for the whole town, no one would want to pay for it.

Even the fence of Dragonroar Town. It wasn't built by the mayor of the town to raise money, but the monster hunters were bored in the winter. You build a stake and I build a wooden strip slowly.

However, now that Ferex is the mayor of the town, although she is also a businessman, she has lived in the Void Mask Playground for all these years, her horizons have broadened a lot, and with Sui Xiong behind her, she quickly thought of this project and put it into practice.

Although the construction of this project would waste the labor that would have been used for production, which would greatly affect the town's income, Ferex did not care about any income. Even without the investment from the Void Mask Playground, how difficult is it to build a large fence with the net worth of a high-level mage?

If it weren't for Sui Xiong's persuasion to "don't do everything yourself, let the residents have a sense of existence", I'm afraid that she would have waved her wand and directly cast a spell to conjure up a fence.

The biggest problem in Pyroxene Town is the lack of population, and the total labor force in the whole town is so small. Farmland and vegetable fields occupy some, warehouses and shops occupy some more, and although the man-made ore vein is temporarily suspended, it always needs manpower for daily maintenance...... In the end, only about 20 people were able to be sent to build the fence, and with this hand, they felled the wood, trimmed the timber, dug pits, drove piles, and tied the sticks to the stakes...... By the time the whole project was completed and the town was finally surrounded by a fence, the caravans had already come several times.

Since the establishment of the Void Mask Playground, the security situation in the four towns in the northwest has improved a lot. Liv, the former political officer, often sent adventurers to track down the bandits, and then sent elite soldiers to chase them down. Her younger sister, Miss Ness, who is good at flying and combating, is particularly prominent, and few bandits can escape detection from the sky, and once they are traced, they are almost equivalent to a death sentence.

Because there are fewer bandits, there are naturally more merchants. However, now the merchants like the long-distance business from Rye Town to the Void Mask Playground, compared to the business in the Four Towns, the profit is a bit small, except for some bulk commodities, and the other business is gradually only done by small merchants.

There are no caravans in winter, and after the beginning of spring, it is necessary to wait for the climate to warm up before merchants dare to march in the forests of the northwest. However, when the climate is completely warm, there will be more caravans, such as the caravan that Mr. Parin, the librarian of the Void Masquerade Church, was an accountant when he was young, and when it comes to summer, there will be a trip every two or three days.

Even if it's not very warm yet, there are quite a few caravans passing by. They brought with them a lot of necessary goods, such as food, spices, textiles, household utensils, all kinds of sundries, and so on. And what they purchased from Pyroxene Town was naturally those low-grade gems produced in the gem veins, and they couldn't afford the high-end ones, and they were not willing to take the risk to do this kind of large trade.

The shops in Pyroxene Town have been consolidated and run by Harman, and groceries, food, necessities, and other items are clearly divided. The renovated rooms are large enough to display a wide variety of goods on the counters, while some of the rooms that are not needed have been converted into warehouses or left empty.

This also speeds up the transaction, and the merchants no longer have to negotiate with each store, as long as the goods are genuine, and Harman, who has sufficient funds, does not mind having more reserves, which everyone can use anyway.

As a result, the rumor that "Pyroxene Town seems to be rich" gradually spread, and it didn't take long for robbers to come.

"Uh, what should these guys do?" Qiao Xiu spewed sparks from his nose, and carried a few pale and trembling robbers back to the town like chickens, and threw them at the door of the mayor's office, he was not afraid that those people would run away, and swaggered in to discuss with Ferex.

"Even those frightened people dare to be robbers?" Ferex glanced at the door, frowned, and said with some confusion, "Is it that I can't keep up with the times?" or is the Ash Forest too safe now?"

As she said, the Ash Forest is not a safe place, skeletons, monsters, all kinds of monsters...... Those who can be robbers in this kind of place generally have some strength or at least more courage, but look at those few guys who are trembling and lying on the ground motionless, they don't look like they have the ability to be **** here.

"I killed the two leading ones. Qiao Xiu smiled and said, "I haven't been able to control my strength well until now, and I beat the two of them more ...... at once Piecemeal, they freaked out. ”

Ferex suddenly realized, and couldn't help but laugh: "No wonder! Then I'll put a magic collar on them and let them do labor." ”

She took out a few magic collars that she had already made and asked them to put them on the robbers who had already been frightened.

Put on the magic collar and don't think about running away or resisting anymore. They can not only mark the location of the sinner, but also release electricity to inflict punishment, and are a widely used torture instrument.

After the robbers were put on the magic collars, although their expressions were gloomy, they were all relieved.

Anyway, at least you don't have to be hanged right away.

For the town of Huishi, this means that there are more than a few strong laborers, and they only need to take care of the food, and they don't have to give a penny of salary.

This makes Ferex, who has been suffering from a shortage of manpower, feel a little discordant, so she contacts the Void Mask Playground and finds Niss with whom she has a good relationship.

"You want me to help find the robbers, and then capture them and send them to Pyroxene for labor?" Ness asked, confused, "Is there such a lack of manpower on your side?"

"Of course, it's lacking. ”

"But there may be fewer robbers these days...... "The number one flying policewoman in the Ash Forest muttered, "and it's cold now, and many robbers are operating in the south. It will be a little longer before we reach the Ash Forest. ”

"It's okay, it's good to catch a few of them. Ferex smiled and said, "Anyway, I've always been short of manpower on my side, and no amount of more will be enough." ”

Ness thought for a moment and asked, "Is there a requirement for race or something?"

"Where can I pick and choose now! As long as I can understand people's speech and have some strength to do things. ”

So, in the past few years, she has been under the care of Ferrex and has learned a lot of air combat skills.

Half a month later, the first batch of robbers was sent to Pyroxene Town.

Seeing these grizzled and panicked guys, Ferex couldn't help but laugh.

"Next, just recruit some more trailblazers!"

(I have something to go to bed early tomorrow morning, I'm sorry, I'm just going to update one chapter today...... (To be continued.) )