Chapter 57: Twilight Town
After the trial, before leaving, Todd sent a request to the priests and knights he knew, asking them to help spread a "job posting".
The content is easy to understand, and there is no general principle of "serving the Heavenly Father" from beginning to end, which can be roughly summarized as follows: The port of Duxi is rich in resources and beautiful scenery. Now recruit talents from all walks of life, with no occupation or age. Farmers who came to work were given a piece of land, vendors who came to set up stalls were exempted from part of the commercial tax, and soldiers who came to join the army were given weapons and salaries. Within the sermon confines of the Twilight Harbour Church, everyone is exempt from "tithes" for three years.
It was only half a month after this notice was issued, and some people came to "apply".
At first it was only a few peasants from nearby villages who did not ask for land, only for asylum. The bandits, whose fathers had settled near the coastline to fish, forced them to lay down their nets and pick up their hoes. Today, they are back at the beach, carrying woven nets, and some even carrying horse-drawn rafts on fishing boats that have not been used in years. Hopefully, Father Todd will be able to keep them safe, and in return they will be willing to donate half of the seafood they receive to the Church.
Then came a group of craftsmen and apprentices who dragged their families, including the grateful who Todd had saved with an "exorcism ritual", old acquaintances like Aiden Kom, and some families who had moved here simply because they had heard of Father Todd's generosity and generosity.
The last person to join in surprised Todd. They were Huggins' 'acquaintances', less than twenty of them, mostly bachelors, and only a few had come with their families, some of whom he had seen on Waiheke Island, some of whom had seen at the cathedral gates, and some of whom had been born in the slightest but had no bearing in their attitude.
In addition, Todd, Karin, Huggins, Edgar, and Jerry Jerry also moved out of the convent and into the Twilight Seaport, where everything from the alchemy lab was shipped.
In the following month, with the concerted efforts of less than 100 people, the port of Twilight West changed dramatically.
Churches, houses, docks, and workshops were built one after another in the residential area, and a small seaside village with fishing and smelting as the main industry gradually took shape.
And as Todd's "miracles" in the heresy trial spread, more and more people read the "notices". The second group of immigrants gradually came to the paradise of the western coast, where farmers who had lost their land, monks who admired holy miracles, street vendors who saw business opportunities, craftsmen who fancied the products of the sea, and people from all walks of life gathered together with the "Holy Son" as the core. The population has gradually increased from less than 100 to nearly 300.
Todd didn't forget to promise the church, and as the development of the Twilight Seaport gradually got on track, the second and third batches of crystal relics "from the Northern Isles" were also packed into wooden boxes and transported to the St. Cathedral's in Silver Ring City. Not only that, but on the way to deliver the holy relics, he did something that almost the entire kingdom was looking at. He fulfilled his promise and gave a batch of high-quality crystal relics to the people he had promised to give them to - the priests, knights and families of the war dead in the visiting group.
This behavior earned him unanimous praise from the royal family, nobles, churches, and commoners in Silver Ring, all of whom praised him as a saint of his word, which indirectly led to the third wave of immigrants from the Twilight Seaport. The population of the port quickly surpassed 600 people, and it was officially upgraded from a village to a small town.
The livelihood industries of the port show a "pyramid-like" diversification trend, such as crop industry, animal husbandry, fishery, aquaculture, handicraft industry, metallurgical industry, processing industry, service industry, etc.
However, there is a phenomenon of "flattening" at the management level here. The supreme leader of Twilight is Todd, who wields both divine and administrative power, and further down, unlike other villages and cities, there are no deputies, no tax collectors, no courts, and no sheriffs.
Some people wonder if such a management model will make the whole village and town chaotic?
This is not the case.
Industry affairs are sorted out and arranged by the leaders of each industry, and only when there is an overlap of functions, or a conflict of interest, will they go to the church to apply for a referee.
The tax finance all relied on the conscious payment of the town's residents, and the three-year exemption from "tithes", coupled with the preferential policy that Todd used the crystal relics to win from the Silver Ring Kingdom, temporarily exempted from the poll tax, and partially exempted from industry tax and commercial tax, made the tax in Duxi Town extremely light, and the pressure of taxation was not worth mentioning for the residents. In gratitude for Father Todd's grace, people paid more of a tax as a "tribute" to him personally.
And the security of the town is even stranger. Immigrants here come from different villages, different places, and even different languages. It stands to reason that friction and arguments should occur from time to time. But the real situation is that there are few conflicts and disputes between neighbors, and criminal cases are even rarer. If there is really any problem that cannot be solved, the people in the residential area who are highly respected will spontaneously form a mediation committee and an arbitration committee to solve it on their own. For those who are truly 'troublemakers', the most common phrase on the lips of the residents of Twilight Town is, "Do you want to taste the Eye of God?"
Finally, let's talk about the military power of Twilight. Todd knew his shortcomings, and when he traveled to another world, he didn't have an encyclopedia, he didn't have an invincible system, and he wasn't a decathlon. He's just a researcher who knows a little more than ordinary people in the field of biochemistry. It's okay to let him do biological and chemical experiments, but if he is put in charge of military preparation and training, it will be a blind man touching an elephant.
Besides, in the Middle Ages, it was not as simple as people imagined that it was not at all as simple as people imagined that it involved a series of complex and professional knowledge such as formation arrangement, troop matching, coordinated training, equipment selection, tactical preparation, battle flag language, physical enhancement, etc.
For example, the Taktike Theoria, written by a Greek military strategist in the previous life, was written on the basis of the actual combat experience of Alexander the Great's successors, involving many knowledge such as wartime equipment, organization, deployment and mobilization of troops, etc., and was revised 17 times, which took more than 50 years to complete, and finally was written in 106 AD. For more than 1,400 years, the book was constantly revised and improved, and it was not until the 16th century that a complete set of tactical theories was finally formed, which was regarded as a must-read work by military academies around the world.
Therefore, military affairs and warfare are really not something that can be started, which involves too much knowledge and skills. Perhaps in the future battles, through repeated tempering, Todd will be able to become a qualified general. But now, the priest knew that he didn't have that ability at all, and instead of messing around, he simply entrusted the matter to Huggins, and gave him free access to the equipment and supplies in the warehouse. As for the source of soldiers, Huggins' "acquaintances" and some of the militia regiments that have taken refuge are more than enough to support the guards of Twilight.
In this way, in this harmonious and serene but strange and abnormal atmosphere, the town of Twilight has spent three months safely since its establishment.
And today, Todd is on the docks, loaded with a new batch of crystal relics, ready to be shipped to the east.
Bishop Fabian of St. Cove's Cathedral, after an earlier robbery, and in the spirit of thinking that more is better than less, asked the Crystal of Twilight Town to take a shortcut and go directly from the pass of the Overwatch to the border of the kingdom without passing through the Silver Ring. There, the Knights, resident of the Western Diocese, will carry out the relevant handover work with Todd.
In the distance, the church personnel escorted by the relics slowly walked towards the pier.
Todd squinted his eyes and looked closely, the leading knight was no stranger to him at all.
Inquisitor of the Third Inquisition - Alfonso de Cavo.