Chapter IV
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Ferex was quite quick in his work, and since he decided to control the various key industries in Pyroxene Town, he naturally started to do it immediately.
She was going to use the acquisition again, but not all of the key industries in the town could be bought with money.
For example, two merchants who are in control of three gem veins, one is a subordinate of an earl of the Gold Federation, and the other is a student of a magician. Although personally, they are really willing to sell these three low-quality gem veins, they are only high-level wage earners, and they are not qualified to decide such a thing at all.
For example, the captain of the town's guard, that guy is the holy warrior of the goddess of wealth, people are neither short of money nor greedy for money, and they will not be bought by money at all - but this is easy to do, Sui Xiong talked to the goddess of wealth, and the goddess of wealth is also very interested in his "social progress" experiment, an oracle, the holy warrior who has long been tired of the bitter cold of the northwest immediately happily handed over the power, and was not afraid of the cold, and ran to the south with his backpack, saying that he was in a hurry to return to his hometown to see the peach blossoms......
And the grocery store owner, who is almost the equivalent of the leader of the Merchant Alliance, this guy is a power maniac, and asking him to hand over power is almost like asking for his life. Ferex approached him and told him what he was trying to do, but instead he said that he could donate his family fortune to help build the new town, but hoped to get a deputy mayor......
All sorts of problems come one after another, some easy to solve, some difficult.
Fortunately, Ferex has both money and strength. I also know a lot of tricks, and I use both soft and hard to give grace and power. finally picked up all the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods in this town one by one, and took down all the industries she wanted to control.
Naturally, a little bit of force is inevitably used. There was also a little bit of bloodshed. For example, an earl of the Federation of Gold Coins sent an envoy to conduct a contest to determine the ownership of two veins of gems, or an evil magician who is good at using explosive spells was completely bombarded by "Mr. Fei, who did not want to be named", 8,000 meters away, and the magic tower was blown into the dust of history...... And so on and so forth.
If these things were recorded in detail, it is estimated that at least 200,000 words of fiction could be written, but it is really not worth mentioning.
The Church of the Goddess of Fortune has a great influence in the Gold Federation, and Sui Xiong is an ally of the Goddess of Wealth. Therefore, under the mediation of the Goddess of Fortune Church, the nature of that jousting competition was very large...... In fact, it doesn't matter if it's not a formality, Ferex is a mutant mage "magic gunner" who pays great attention to actual combat, and the last thing he is afraid of is a duel. A mere count who doesn't have a legendary powerhouse under his command. There is no way to send a master who can match her.
The evil mage who focused on explosive spells and used gems and human souls as catalysts was a serious scumbag, and his magic tower had a measly only five kilometers of detection range, which was not even as good as Wendy's alchemy magic tower. It just so happened that Ferex had some inspiration recently and wanted to test the power of his full-magic cannonball, so he borrowed his magic tower to experiment. It's a pity that his magic tower is not well defended, or it caused a martyrdom or something, but in short, it is accompanied by a small mushroom cloud, which is hidden deep in the mountains. The magic tower, which had been filled with horror stories in the nearby village, disappeared.
There is a saying that force cannot solve the problem, but it can solve the person who caused the problem. When the evil magician disappeared along with his magic tower, many guys who had previously been ambiguous and even opposed to Ferex took a drag racing movie-style turn. quickly agreed to Ferex's suggestion, and hurriedly sold his assets one by one and ran away with the money.
They ran so fast. It's like a dinosaur is chasing you behind you. Sui Xiong felt that if they could maintain this marching speed all the time. Maybe we can arrive in the south earlier than the holy warrior who has reached a high level of strength, and everyone will watch the spring blossom together.
All in all. Eventually, Ferex achieved her goal, taking full control of the core industries of Ore Town, and becoming a lord who had not yet been canonized, but was in fact in full power.
Although, for the time being, her "territory" is only a small town with a population of less than 500, and with the arrival of spring, it is estimated that many people will leave.
After taking full control of Ore Town, Ferex first began to put various industries in order.
She first surveyed the town's pillar industries, surveying the veins herself, magically fortifying areas prone to collapse and seepage, and then adjusting the miners' pay to increase the basic salary while maintaining a pay-for-work system, or at least to ensure that they could support their families through the work.
As a result, the income of the vein will naturally decrease. But anyway, she didn't have to hand over most of the money she earned, and she didn't have to hand over the high-grade gems that happened to be produced, so in general, the profits increased greatly, and the miners were happy.
Ferex merged several major stores again, and one store was enough for groceries and daily necessities. Harman was busy running a shop during the day and going to a magic school at night to make up for his cultural lessons. But he didn't complain, but smiled every day with dark circles under his eyes, and lived happily like a donkey running into a carrot field.
Naturally, there were people in the town of Pyroxene who were not suitable to be miners, so Ferex organized some other jobs, such as sweeping the streets and repairing houses. These jobs pay less than miners, but because of the price stabilization, the poor can live on the income from these jobs. In fact, the most dangerous thing in winter is cold and hunger, and the house can withstand the cold if it is repaired, and with a certain income, you can have food and warm clothing, so the winter is not too difficult.
...... Or, on the other hand, people who are not physically strong enough have died in those harsh days before. Those who have been able to survive until now naturally have no reason to fall down again after their living conditions have improved.
In fact, even so, quite a few people died this winter.
Sui Xiong was melancholy 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.
Relying on the mountains and mountains, relying on the sea and the sea, even the gods will fall. Prosperity through the power of the gods is false, and for this society to truly progress, it is necessary to rely on the power of man himself.
He can use his knowledge and wisdom to help people, and he can also help people on some key difficult points. But he never wanted to build a society in which people depended on God and placed their hopes in God!
Fortunately, the winter is gradually passing, and the climate is gradually warming.
There was some good news this winter, such as the discovery of a very high-grade gem in the vein, which was far from enough to cover the shortfall in food purchases, but at least greatly reduced the fiscal deficit.
And the arrival of spring means that the work of the new year will begin.
"The biggest problem that plagues the town of Pyroxene is agriculture. Ferex flipped through the investigation report casually and said distressedly, "The land here is too polluted by negative energy, and the temples that can purify the land have moved a lot. Now, the power of the Temple of the Golden Crown (Goddess of Wealth) alone is no longer enough to sustain the farmland outside the town. ”
In this matter, mortals really have no choice but to ask the gods to help.
When it's time to make a move, Sui Xiong will naturally not be hypocritical. He traveled to what used to be farmland outside the town, and used his divine power to lay down a large-scale purification barrier.
This barrier was summed up by the exchanges between the various churches in the development of the northern region, and it is the most cost-effective in terms of continuous purification. As long as a small shrine is able to maintain a considerable area of land from being eroded by negative energy. It's just that this kind of soil is not of high quality, and what can be grown is nothing more than the kind of crop called "golden vine".
Golden vine is a special crop that was first discovered by the goddess of the earth in a small and broken world where the sun god and the god of death fought. That world is very strange, positive energy and negative energy are intertwined, but do not interfere with each other, the golden vine is a plant that can absorb all kinds of energy, convert it into positive energy, and use it to expel negative energy to maintain its own survival and reproduction.
Later, the plant was brought to the main plane and tried to be planted in less polluted areas on the edge of the ash forest. However, the power of sunlight alone was not enough to sustain their survival, and after many attempts, it was finally determined that the input of magical energy was necessary to allow the golden vines to grow better and provide relatively safe food for the inhabitants of the ash forest.
The most common form of magical energy is, of course, the power of faith. This is why the pioneer villages in the Ash Forest rely on churches and temples.
There is a Temple of Fortune in Pyroxene Town, but the Temple of Fortune alone is not enough to provide enough magical energy. This is also another reason why Ferex wants to establish a magic school - through the magic array to connect to the elemental plane, you can get a steady stream of magical energy to feed the growth of the golden vine.
With the support of the School of Magic, the cultivation of golden vines can be considered to be restored.
Watching the residents of Huishi Town plowing the newly purified farmland, Sui Xiong fell into deep thought.
Negative energy pollution from ash forests has always been a major problem for the residents here. More than one god wanted to solve it, but there was never a good solution.
The root of the negative energy comes from an ancient god who fell here after the Great War of the Gods. The power of that ancient god is conservatively estimated to have already stepped into a powerful divine power, and may even be close to the level of great divine power. Because of the existence of the Divine Punishment Thunder, the high-end force of the main plane is quite lacking, so everyone is powerless.
If the thunder of divine punishment can be temporarily shielded, even if only the power of Sui Xiong, Morani, and the goddess of wealth can be enough to solve the pollution of the ash forest......
"Perhaps...... Should I consider hollowing out the entire ash forest and planting mushrooms that absorb negative energy?"
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