The monks moved quickly, and as soon as the funds of the "Twilight West Mutual Aid Society" were in place, the preparations for agricultural upgrading were already in full swing.

Procurement of agricultural seeds, livestock, and iron materials, confirmation of tool drawings, division of stocking sites, and measurement of sowing land.

As the work progressed, the leader of the Friars, Joe Humphrey, approached Todd and brought up the two troubles they were encountering.

One is the lack of manpower. The monks' agricultural planning requires a large number of laborers, and even though Todd has drawn many farmers from the "Gospel Flower Workshop", such a small number of people is still a drop in the bucket for the monks. On the other hand, the recruitment of churches is not very effective. The unemployment rate in Twilight is extremely low, everyone has endless jobs, and many of the town's industries are in their infancy, and there are countless jobs to hire. Some of the owners who were short of hired workers even made their way to the xenomorph gathering area, and they secretly contacted those xenos without knowing it, and proposed superior recruitment conditions, but fortunately they were finally stopped by Rachel in time.

The other is town planning. Livestock areas, cultivated areas and wood forest areas require a suitable location plan. At present, there is no specific plan for the layout of the city, and the residential area, industrial area, commercial area, and public construction area are mixed together and disorganized. Residents are still building houses and using land in a haphazard manner. This is partly due to Todd's lack of experience in urban block design and land-use planning, and secondly because the town does not have an effective administrative system to manage on its behalf. After understanding the situation, the monks consulted and suggested that Todd borrow some town plans and plans from the Convent of San Sidlo, intending to give priority to the adjustment of the town's plans before the planning of the agricultural blocks.

On these two issues, Todd consulted the opinions of the monks with Richer and others, and not only borrowed books from the monastery on agriculture, town maps, and the city of Gutaero, but also adopted an outward-looking approach to town expansion on this basis.

On the issue of population, Todd used low tax rates and self-cultivation as a means of attraction, and through the channels of promotion within the church and merchants, he once again absorbed a large number of people into the villages and towns around Twilight. In just one month, this move attracted a large number of serfs and proletarians, who took various methods, overtly or covertly, to enter the town of Twilight. But at the same time, Todd's relationship with the nobles of the surrounding territories became even worse.

On the issue of urban planning, it happened that a fire broke out in the town before the monks formally presented the town of Twilight with a classification of functional blocks and land uses. The cause was a spark from the workshop that fell into a haystack in a neighbor's house, causing a fire. Because most of the houses in Twilight Town were made of wood and the roofs were connected, the fire grew bigger and bigger, burning most of the streets, eventually killing three people, injuring many others, and leaving dozens of residents homeless. Todd took out a sum of money from the church's vault to help the suffering crowd, which also strengthened his determination to make changes to the town plan.

At an evangelistic meeting a week after the fire, Todd presided over Mass and announced the monks' town plans.

The new town plan expands nearly two kilometers on the basis of the original Duxi town.

Referring to the urban planning of the heyday of the capital of Taylor, the monks readjusted the originally scattered urban layout according to the geometric shapes, and brought a strong religious color to the sect of the Heavenly Father. The main street is designed in an exact east-west, north-south direction and cross-crossing, with Twilight Town Church at the heart of the city. The monks' homemade primitive 'horizontal rangefinder' (also known as groma in the ancient Roman period) allowed the monks to accurately determine the north-south direction of the midpoint of the cross, and based on this to determine the grid-like outline of the streets and cities.

At the urging of Huggins and Alfonso, the main buildings on the Cross Axis of Twilight were set for military purposes, with the plaza, the Knights' Headquarters, and the Guards barracks located at the midpoint of the Cross. At the same time, at the request of the Friars, Todd issued the town's first statute, the Planning Law. This regulation, issued in the name of the Church and the Holy Son, clearly stipulates the uniform building height, street width, paving, cleaning, maintenance, boundary adjustment, and so on. Even to prevent traffic jams, it is stipulated that trucks can only be on the road at night, and the same bustling shops must be located on narrow streets.

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Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

On the tenth day after the fire, the town of Twilight experienced one of the worst incidents of conflict since the town's founding.

The reason for this is simple: an apprentice craftsman smelted iron ore and accidentally discovered that the surface of iron ore purchased as raw materials was dry, but the raw materials inside were much wetter than before. Skeptical, he drained the iron ore and found that it contained one-fifth of its weight. This means that the dealers of iron ore raw materials charge 20% more coins.

The apprentice reported the incident to the master craftsman, who at first could not be sure if it was a coincidence, so he told his friend about it, and when he returned to his workshop, he checked the iron sand he had just purchased, only to find that his iron ore had also been mixed with water.

As more and more people discover the deception, angry craftsmen and apprentices, led by trade veteran Aiden Kom, engage in a three-hour negotiation with the town's mineral traders.

Eventually, the merchants' ugly faces and outrageous rhetoric completely angered the craftsmen and apprentices. The two sides escalated from a verbal quarrel to a shoving, and finally evolved into a fight.

The fight continued until Huggins arrived with the convoy, when it was forcibly terminated. According to incomplete statistics, about 120 people were involved in the clashes, four were killed (one craftsman, one apprentice, two merchant guards), seven were seriously injured and disabled, and countless others were slightly injured.

Afterwards, Todd personally presided over the public trial in the square in front of the church, and by comparing the merchants' ledgers with the workshop's bills, he found several witnesses who felt the "Bible" and confided their truths in front of the cross. So that this incident, which is known as the "blood mine conflict", has been properly handled.

The shoddy merchants were ordered to compensate the workshop for all losses, pay the deceased's pension and burial expenses, and dislicense them to operate in the town of Twilight.

After the incident was handled, Todd brought in Friars Joe, Richel, Huggins, Alfonso and others to analyze the causes. The final conclusion worries him.

The town's population is growing, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and the conflicts between the residents are irreconcilable by the elders of the community and the guild leaders.

The impact of the Bloodmine Clash on Twilight is huge, and in the short term, it has led to the birth of two new things.

The first is industry associations. Unlike industry alliances, where members relied on the influence of industry leaders in the past, and the composition and liaison of members were relatively loose, the new industry association is a close-knit organization with a complete organizational structure, articles of association, membership rules, and goals.

It has four main functions.

1. Economic functions. Share market information and updates within industry members, and subcontract to members based on size and credibility when receiving large orders.

2. Religious functions. Serve as a communication and management tool for the church in Twilighttown, and to promote and strengthen the faith of its members.

3. Relief functions. Each member regularly contributes a small amount of money to set up an industry reserve fund, which can help a member to continue to operate when it suffers losses due to force majeure. (somewhat similar to industry insurance)

4. Judicial functions. Coordinate relations among members and with other guilds, and set up a department similar to an industry court to deal with related matters.

The second novelty is the "Holy Order Tribunal". This is a rather special institution, and it was set up only for the special circumstances of Twilight. At the suggestion of Friars Joe and Rachel, Todd decided to re-possess the jurisdiction of the Order in order to ensure the security of the town and the enforcement of the law, and specially set up a new institution, the "Tribunal of the Holy Order", the president of which was nominally his own, but in fact two vice-presidents were in charge of specific affairs, namely Joe Humphrey and Richel, the former was mainly responsible for the management and reconciliation of the administrative affairs of the people in the town, and the latter was mainly responsible for the handling and control of different kinds of affairs.

The Order Tribunal consists of the Order Enforcement Corps, which is managed by Huggins, whose members are mainly catechumens and peasants, equipped with standard weapons, and have the right to mobilize town guards when necessary.

After dealing with agricultural upgrades, town planning, the "Bloodmine Conflict", and the Holy Order Arbitration Tribunal, Todd finally had a period of time of his own, and there was only one month left before the Papal States issued the official document of the Holy Ministry of the "Knights of the Twilight West". He has an urgent matter to deal with, and that is to expand the main legion of the Knights of the Dusk West as soon as possible to increase their military strength.

He made a statistic. All the military forces that can be mobilized in Twilight Town are really pitiful.

Alfonso rejected the Dragonbone parasite, leaving him aside, his minions were extremely limited in their combat power, Rachel and those xenomorphs, although they had combat effectiveness that should not be underestimated, but due to the sensitivity of xenomorph abilities, they could not go to the battlefield at all, and could only be used as the last trump card in Dusk Town, and the only ones left who could truly form the combat power of the knights were Huggins and his 12 sergeants.

After some calculations, the Knights' real strength was only 13 people......

13 people let alone go to war, I'm afraid I can't even form a basic formation, it's time to recruit and expand the army of the Knights in Dusk Town.

Todd frowned, and first wrote a line on the paper - "Expand the army".

Then, he wrote the second line - "elite soldiers".

Now that the library has been built, why not try to convert all of Huggins' subordinates into "successors"?