Letting Felix take charge of the construction of the "development zone" was Sui Xiong's decision after careful consideration.
The Church of Masked Void is currently said to be full of talents, but the direction of the talents is very extreme. There are many talents in the martial arts and petty official fields, but there are not many people who can truly stand alone.
Ordinarily, the person best suited to take charge of the job on her own is actually Miss "Pan Zhuo Geng" who is working as a teacher in the clergy school. However, he is a believer in the Centaur God, and he is die-hard. Expecting her to help Sui Xiong build the development zone is tantamount to seeking fish from a tree.
Next is probably Qiao Xiu, after all, he was the tribe leader. But for some reason, he was really not suitable to be the chief officer and could only serve as an auxiliary officer.
So he took the next step, and after a search, Sui Xiong finally found Felix, who was teaching students, hoping to pass on the strange battle mage profession of "Magic Cannonist".
Felix did well in the World's Best Martial Arts Tournament, and since then he has become famous and received many invitations. But she did not accept the invitations from those yarn teams or various organizations. Instead, she stayed at the Masked Void Playground and joined the mage group of the Masked Void Church.
In exchange, she used the power of the church to find several children with both mage and ranger talents, and taught them the skills of the "magic gunner" profession, in order to fulfill the agreement made in her youth and pass on this profession.
Time flies so fast, a few years pass in the blink of an eye. The children grew into teenagers, and Felix himself grew a lot. Similar to people like Qiao Xiu, they all started to touch the legendary realm.
However, there is actually still a long distance between "touching the legendary realm" and "stepping into the legendary realm". As the heir to the bloodline of the legendary creature "Phoenix", Felix, who has awakened the power of the bloodline, can live for a long, long time, so she is not in a hurry. Determined to work hard and rely on the accumulation of time to slowly enter that realm.
In this case, she is relatively free now. In addition, she was a businessman, with a broad vision and a flexible mind. During this period, she also performed very well in the mage group. Finally, Sui Xiong made up his mind to let her be the mayor of Huishi Town and preside over the construction of the "development zone".
Felix is not repelled by this job. On the contrary, she is also very curious and wants to know how His Majesty the Mask of the Void intends to revive a dilapidated town that is heading towards desolation and build it into a model of what he calls "social progress" . It would certainly be more interesting if you could add your own contribution to this career.
So after getting the invitation, she inquired in detail and happily accepted the job. After making a little preparation, he took the students out of the playground and braved the harsh cold of the northwest winter to arrive at Huishi Town.
Of course, Sui Xiong would not let her fight alone. It won't be long before people will arrive one after another to help. The reason why she was allowed to come first was because of her own request.
"Since I want to be the mayor and preside over the construction work of this town, then I should be the first to start work." Felix said at the time, "It's like fighting a war. A commander who rushes to the front is undoubtedly better than a small commander. The ones at the back are more convincing to the subordinates. It’s the same principle.”
That's why she rushed here in a hurry, and rushed to seize power as soon as she arrived. She used "physical persuasion" that ordinary magicians would never use to seize the position of mayor of Huishi Town, and hurriedly built a magic school. , prepare for subsequent work.
A few hours later, at dusk, the students of Isuca Magic School came back under the leadership of their guide Haman. It can be seen that they are all a little sad and not in high spirits. The eyes of the emotional little girls are still a little red, obviously they have cried.
As soon as they saw the teacher, they all talked about their experiences during the trip. It can be roughly summed up in one sentence - the people here are poor and pitiful, and they need help.
When Ferrex checked their expenses, he saw, not surprisingly, a large expense related to food. After careful calculation, these little guys at least bought enough food to feed hundreds of people for a month. The price was quite high, and they were highly suspected of being taken advantage of.
Seeing the accounts, Felix frowned and looked at Haman.
As a strong person on the verge of becoming a legend, she would certainly not take this small amount of money lightly. But the students were taken for granted, which made her very unhappy. It's just that those teenagers lack social experience. Haman is obviously a local and doesn't look like a fool. Why can't he do this well
When Haman saw her expression turned ugly after reading the bill, his heart suddenly thumped, and he whispered: "Master Magician, this food expenditure is a one-time expense. Those poor families will save food, plus they themselves The job... I guess I can survive this winter."
Felix frowned and said, "Such a small amount of money is nothing, but why are these grains so expensive?"
Haman was stunned: "Expensive? This is a discounted price for bulk purchases..."
This time it was Felix's turn to be confused. She looked at the bill carefully and recalled it carefully, confirming that even the food prices at Mask of the Void Amusement Park were not so expensive. Moreover, the food at Mask of the Void Amusement Park is much higher-end than that here, such as "coarsely ground Golden Vine Flour", which may be used in small amounts in some special meals, but is really not eaten by dogs in the amusement park.
Are food prices so high here? ! With everything in such a dilapidated state, why are prices so high? This is unreasonable!
The businessman's common sense was challenged, and Felix suddenly became curious. So the next day, she arranged for the students to continue using the staff to build dormitories and prepare residences for the follow-up personnel, while she took Haman to visit the market.
To be honest, compared to the Mask of the Void Amusement Park, the "market" in Pyrene Stone Town is really shabby. It only took Felix less than ten minutes to look around - there were only three stores in total, and the goods in the stores were plain to the point of being shabby. There was really nothing worth seeing.
She was mainly concerned about prices, and found that the prices here were indeed a bit strange. It is true that metals and sundries are cheap, but daily consumables such as food are quite expensive. Especially food, the price is unexpectedly high.
She also talked for a while with the store owner who sold grain. Probably because of the big deal that Haman brought yesterday, the boss was in a good mood and answered almost all questions. When she asked about the price of food, the boss said that food in Ash Forest was already expensive, especially since there were fewer open villages in the past two years. The food was basically shipped from Rye Town and even the Void Mask Playground area, so Naturally more expensive.
"Food prices must be stabilized." After returning, she said to Sui Xiong, "The income of the people here is not high to begin with. If the food prices are so high, it will be difficult to retain people, and the construction of the village will be impossible."
Sui Xiong naturally had no objection to this. He originally only focused on the main direction and left all the details of the town construction to Felix. Since Felix feels that food prices need to be stabilized, then food prices should be stabilized.
Felix was very capable of action. Once she made the decision, she immediately started building the teleportation circle—according to the plan, there was no need to build it in such a hurry, but the plan could not keep up with the changes.
It only took two days to build the simple teleportation circle. As soon as the magic circle was completed, Felix carefully inspected the magic circle, then hurriedly teleported back to the Mask of the Void amusement park, bought a large amount of food in one go, and then came to Pyroxen Town.
She worked vigorously and resolutely, and immediately rushed to the food store to discuss the acquisition of the store with the boss.
The owner of the food store has no feelings for this run-down town, but he emphasizes that if he sells the store in winter, the family will have nowhere to go.
So Felix had to first buy the entire store and all the goods at a price that was almost 20% higher than the market price, and then helped the boss and his family rent a nice house so that they could spend the winter peacefully. When spring comes, consider doing something else.
After doing this, she asked Haman to recruit people, reorganize the store, and adjust the price of grain.
"Master Magician, you sell grain so cheaply, won't you lose money?" Of course Haman was willing to change his career to be a grain store owner, but when he learned about Felix's "food guide price", he couldn't help but be frightened. Jump asked worriedly.
Felix frowned: "Don't worry about this little thing. Just do as I say. I can afford to lose this little money. Even if I lose like this for a hundred years, I don't care."
The employer had said so, so of course Harman had no objection. He recruited a few honest and responsible people, reorganized the grain store, and opened it again.
It's just that at this time, the sign of the grain store has changed to "Huishi Town Grain Store".
That's right, at Sui Xiong's suggestion, Felix changed the grain store into a public property of the town. The "public ownership" of another world has been transformed and moved here.
"Normally, the country should not rely on food to make money in this business." Sui Xiong said to her, "Food is the most important thing for the people, and food and agriculture are the foundation of a country's stability. Even if you have to lose money, as long as you don't pay, If it’s too harsh, it won’t be a problem if it can be supplemented from other aspects.”
Felix had never been exposed to this point of view, and it took him a while to understand Sui Xiong's thinking. Then she praised him greatly, thinking that His Majesty the Mask of the Void really had a far-sighted vision and deep wisdom, and he immediately grasped the key to territory construction!
If a territory can maintain food stability, then the entire territory will naturally be relatively stable. If this is the case, then of course food should be exclusively handled by the territory and should not be operated by private merchants at all!
Not only that, she also expanded on Sui Xiong's point of view, believing that any industry closely related to people's livelihood should be exclusively operated by the territory. Only those businesses that do not have a close impact on people's lives can be opened to private businesses.
"Are you really a businessman?" Sui Xiong asked in surprise.
"certainly!"
"But why are you going against the businessman?"
"I'm a lord now!" Felix said with a smile, "The principle of a businessman is to give priority to his own interests. Since my interest is to revitalize the town of Pyrexite, why should I pay attention to other businessmen?"