Chapter 293 (2/2)

The common sense of a businessman was challenged, so Felix was curious. The next day, she asked the students to continue building dormitories with their wands, preparing accommodations for the late coming personnel. Then she visited the market with Haman.

Honestly speaking, compared to that of Void Mask Land, the market of Pyroxene Town was really poor and small. It took Felix less than ten minutes to walk around it—there were three stores in all, and the goods in the stores were so plain that there was actually nothing worth seeing.

Her main concern was the price, and she found that the price here was a little strange. Metals and sundries were really cheap, but daily consumables such as grain were quite expensive; especially the grain, it was incredibly expensive.

She also talked to the owner of the food store for a while. Probably because of the big deal that Haman had brought yesterday, the owner was in a good mood and answered almost all her questions. When she asked about the price of food, the owner said that the grain in Ashes Woods had been expensive all along. Especially in recent years, there were fewer villages under exploration. Thus, food was mainly transported from Rye Town and even from the Void Mask Land, so it was more naturally expensive.

“We have to stabilize the food price.” After getting back, she said to Sui Xiong, “The people’s income here is not high. If the food is so expensive, it will be difficult to get enough people to stay here, and it will be impossible to complete the construction of the village.”

Sui Xiong naturally had no objection to this. He just grasped the main direction of the construction, and the details of it were completely handed over to Felix. Since Felix felt it was necessary to stabilize the food price, she could just do it.

Felix was very efficient in action. Since she had made the decision, she immediately began to build the transmission formation. In the original plan, it was not necessary to build it in such a hurry, but now the plan could not keep up with the change.

It took only two days to build a simple transmission array. As soon as it was completed, Felix examined it carefully and rushed back to the Void Mask Land. She bought a lot of food there at one time and then came back to Pyroxene Town.

Then she went to the food store to discuss with the owner about the purchase of the store.

The owner of the food store had no deep feelings about this dilapidated town, but he stressed that if the store was sold in the winter, his family would have nowhere to go.

Thus, Felix had to buy the store and all the goods at a price about 20% higher than the market price. Then she rented a good house for the boss’s family so that they could spend the winter safely. They could think about doing something else when the spring came.

After that, she asked Haman to recruit some staff and clean up the store. She was ready to adjust the food price.

“Mage, won’t you lose money by selling grain at such a low price?” Of course, Haman was willing to change his job to a grain store owner. However, when he learned of Felix’s price of food, he was shocked and worried.

Felix frowned. “It doesn’t matter. Just do what I say. I can afford this loss. Even if I keep doing this for a hundred years, I don’t care.”

Since his employer said so, Haman certainly had no objections. He recruited several honest people, cleaned up the grain store, and opened it again. But at this time, the name of the grain store had been changed to Grain Store of Pyroxene Town.

Yes, at Sui Xiong’s suggestion, Felix transformed the grain store into the town’s public property. The public ownership of another world had been brought here.

“Food is such a business that the country should not make money on,” Sui Xiong said to her. “Food is the key to people’s livelihood. Food and agriculture are the foundation of a country’s stability. Even if we are losing money, as long as we can afford it and can make up for it in other ways, it won’t be a problem.”

Felix had never heard such a view, so it took her quite a while to understand Sui Xiong’s meaning. Then she greatly appreciated that His Majesty’s vision was high and full of wisdom, and she immediately grasped the key of the construction here!

If a territory could maintain the stability of food, then the whole territory could also be relatively stable. In that case, food certainly should be monopolized by the territory, not by private businesses!!

Not only that, but she had also developed Sui Xiong’s point of view, and she believed that all industries closely related to the livelihood of the people should be monopolized by the territory. Only those that had little impact on people’s lives could be opened to private businesses.

“Are you really a businesswoman?” Sui Xiong asked in surprise.

“Of course!”

“But how can you do things against the benefit of a businesswoman?”

“I am the Hill Lord now!” Felix laughed and said. “The principle of a business person is to give priority to their own interests. Since my interest is to revive Pyroxene Town, why should I take care of the benefits of other businessmen?”