After the trial, before leaving, Todd sent a request to the priests and knights he knew well, asking them to help spread a "recruitment notice."
The content of the notice is easy to understand. There is no big reason for "serving Heavenly Father" from beginning to end. It can be summarized as follows: Muxi Harbor is rich in resources and has beautiful scenery. We are now recruiting talents from all walks of life. There is no limit on occupation and age.
.come to farm
Farmers who come to join the army can be given a field; vendors who come to set up stalls can be exempted from part of the business tax; soldiers who come to join the army can get weapons and military pay. Everyone within the preaching range of Muxi Harbor Church can be exempted from the tax for three years.
"Tithe".
Only half a month after this notice was sent out, people came to "apply" for the position.
At first, only some farmers from nearby villages came. They did not ask for land, but only for shelter. The fathers of these people once settled near the coastline for fishing. The intrusion of pirates forced them to put down their fishing nets and pick up farm hoe. Now, they
Returning to the seaside, they brought woven fishing nets with them. Some people even used horse-drawn carriages to load fishing boats that had not been used for many years. They hoped that Father Todd could guarantee their safety. In return, they were willing to donate half of the seafood they obtained to the church.
Then came a group of craftsmen and apprentices with their families. Among them were the grateful ones saved by Todd using the "Exorcism Ritual", as well as old acquaintances like Aiden Colm, and some simply because
I heard about Father Todd's generosity and generosity, so my family moved here.
The last people to join surprised Todd. They were Huggins' "acquaintances". There were less than twenty people, most of them were singles, and only a few came with their families. Some of them were...
I've seen them on Waiheke Island, some at the entrance of the cathedral, and some of them looked familiar, but their attitude didn't show off at all.
In addition, Todd, Karin, Huggins, Edgar and Little Jerry also moved out of the monastery and moved into Muxi Seaport, and everything in the alchemy laboratory was also transported there.
Over the next month or so, with the concerted efforts of less than a hundred people, Muxi Harbor changed dramatically.
Churches, houses, shipyards, and workshops were built one after another in the residential area, and a small seaside village focusing on fishing and smelting gradually took shape.
As Todd's "miracle" in the heresy trial spread, more and more people read the "notice". The second group of immigrants gradually came to the paradise of the West Coast. Farmers who lost their land admired the Saint.
The monks who discovered the traces, the vendors who discovered the business opportunities, the craftsmen who took a fancy to the seaside products, and various people from all walks of life gathered together with the "Holy Son" as the core. The population also gradually increased from less than a hundred people at the beginning to nearly three hundred
people.
Todd did not forget his promise to the church. As the development of Muxi Harbor gradually got on track, the second and third batches of crystal holy objects "shipped from the Northern Islands" were also packed into wooden boxes.
, it was transported to Shengke Cathedral in Silver Ring City as promised. Not only that, during the transportation
On the way to deliver the holy objects, he did something that almost made the entire kingdom look at him. He fulfilled his original agreement and gave a batch of high-quality crystal holy objects to the people he had promised to give them to—
—Priests, knights and family members of the deceased in the visiting group.
This behavior earned him unanimous praise from the royal family, nobles, churches and civilians in Silver Ring City. Everyone praised him as a saint who was true to his words, and this also indirectly caused the third batch of immigrants in Muxi Harbor.
The population of Chao Muxi Harbor quickly exceeded 600 people, and it was officially upgraded from a village to a small town.
The livelihood industries of Muxi Seaport present a "pyramid-like" diversification trend, including crop industry, animal husbandry, fishery, breeding industry, handicraft industry, metallurgy industry, processing industry, service industry, etc.
However, the management level here has become "flattened". The top leader of Muxi Town is naturally Todd, who holds both divine and administrative power, and further down, with other villages, towns and cities
It's different, there are no deputies, no tax collectors, no courts, no sheriffs.
Some people may wonder whether this kind of management model will make the entire village and town chaotic?
This is not the case.
Industry affairs are sorted out and arranged by the leaders of each industry. Only when there is overlap of functions or conflicts of interest, will they go to the church to apply for referee.
Taxation and finance all rely on the voluntary payment of town residents, and they are exempted from paying "tithe tax" for three years. In addition, Todd used the crystal holy object to obtain from the Silver Ring Kingdom, which temporarily exempted the head tax and partially exempted the industry tax.
The preferential policy of commercial tax makes Muxi Town's tax very light, and the tax pressure is not worth mentioning to the residents. In order to express gratitude for Father Todd's grace, people pay more taxes as a way to express their gratitude to Father Todd.
His personal "tribute".
The security situation in the town is even more strange. The immigrants here come from different villages, different places, and even speak different languages. It stands to reason that friction and disputes should occur from time to time. But the real situation is that the life and work between neighbors,
Conflicts and disputes rarely arise, and criminal cases are even rarer. If true,
If there are any problems that cannot be solved, the highly respected people in the residential area will spontaneously form a mediation committee and arbitration committee to solve the problems themselves. For those who are the "troublemakers" in the true sense, the residents of Muxi Town most often talk about it.
In one sentence: "Do you want to taste the eye of God?"
Finally, let’s talk about the military strength of Muxi Town. Todd knows his shortcomings. When he traveled to another world, he did not bring an encyclopedia or an invincible system, nor was he a decathlete. He
He is just a researcher who knows a little more than ordinary people in the field of biochemistry. It is okay to ask him to do biological and chemical experiments, but if he is asked to be responsible for military preparation and training, it is completely blind and touching the elephant.
Besides, in the Middle Ages, it was not as simple as people imagined to form an army capable of fighting. It involved formation arrangements, combination of arms, coordinated training, equipment selection, tactical preparations, battle flags, and physical fitness.
Enhance a series of complex and professional knowledge.
For example, "Taktike" written by Greek military strategists in previous generations
Theoria), written based on the actual combat experience of the successor of Alexander the Great, involves many knowledges such as wartime equipment, organization, deployment and mobilization of troops. It was revised seventeen times and took more than fifty years before it was finally completed in 106 AD.
In the following more than 1,400 years, this book has been constantly revised and improved. It was not until the 16th century that a complete set of tactical theories was finally formed, which was regarded as a must-read text on tactics by military academies around the world.
Therefore, things like military affairs and fighting are really not something that can be mastered by just getting started. This involves too much knowledge and skills. Perhaps in future battles, through repeated training, Todd can become a qualified general.
But now, the priest knows that he doesn’t have that ability at all.
Instead of messing around, it is better to simply entrust this matter to Huggins and give him the freedom to take the equipment and supplies from the warehouse. As for the source of the soldiers, there are still some "acquaintances" of Huggins who have taken refuge.
The militia group that came over was enough to support the escort team in Muxi Town.
In this way, Muxi Town has spent three months peacefully from its establishment in this harmonious, peaceful but weird atmosphere.
Today, Todd was at the dock, loading a new batch of crystal relics and preparing to transport them to the east.
Bishop Fabian of St. Ke's Cathedral, after experiencing the earlier robbery incident, based on the idea that doing more is worse than doing less, asked the crystals in Muxi Town to take a shortcut to the Kingdom directly from the pass of Watching Fortress without going through Silver Ring City. The border. There, the resident knights of the Western Parish will carry out relevant handover work with Todd.
In the distance, the church personnel escorting the holy objects this time slowly walked towards the pier.
Todd squinted his eyes and looked carefully. The leading knight was no stranger to him at all.
Inquisitor of the Third Inquisition—Alfonso de Cabo.