Alien Knights

Before leaving after the trial, 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, and there is no principle of "serving the Father" from the beginning to the end. It can be roughly summarized as follows: Muxi Harbor is rich in resources and beautiful in scenery. We are now recruiting talents from all walks of life, regardless of occupation or age. Farmers who come to plow can be distributed a piece of land; vendors who come to set up stalls can be exempted from part of the commercial tax; soldiers who come to join the army can get weapons and military pay. Within the preaching area of ​​Muxi Harbor Church, everyone can be exempted from the "tithe tax" for three years.

It took only half a month after this notice was issued, and some people came to "apply".

At first it was only farmers from some nearby villages who asked not for land, but for shelter. The fathers of these people used to live and fish near the coastline, but the pirates forced them to put down their fishing nets and pick up farm hoes. Today, they are back on the coast with woven nets, and some have even carried fishing boats that have not been used in years in horse-drawn carts. I hope Father Todd can guarantee their safety. In return, they are willing to donate half of the seafood they get to the church.

Then came a group of craftsmen and apprentices with their families. Among them were the grateful people saved by Todd with the "exorcism ceremony", and old acquaintances like Aiden Kom.

The last person to join surprised Todd. They were the "acquaintances" of Huggins. There were less than twenty of them. Most of them were bachelors. Only a few of them came here with their families. Some of them he had met on Waiheke Island, some at the gate of the cathedral, and some of them were unfamiliar with their attitudes.

In addition, Todd, Karin, Huggins, Edgar and Jerry also moved out of the monastery and lived in Muxi Harbor, where all the items in the alchemy laboratory were also transported.

Over the next month or so, with the concerted efforts of less than a hundred people, Muxi Harbor changed drastically.

Churches, houses, docks, and workshops were built one after another in the residential area, and a small seaside village dominated by fishing and smelting industries gradually took shape.

And as Todd's "miracle" in the heresy trial spread, more and more people read the "notice". The second group of immigrants gradually came to this paradise on the West Coast. The farmers who lost their land, the monks who admired the holy relics, the vendors who discovered business opportunities, the craftsmen who took a fancy to the seaside products, and all kinds of people from all walks of life gathered together with the "Holy Son" as the core. The population has gradually increased from less than a hundred people at the beginning to nearly three hundred people.

Todd did not forget to promise the Church. As the development of Muxi Harbor gradually got on track, the second and third batches of crystal relics "shipped from the Northern Islands" were also packed into wooden boxes and shipped to the Holy Branch Cathedral in Silver Ring City as promised. Not only that, but on the way of transporting the holy object, he did something that almost made the whole kingdom pay attention to it. He fulfilled his original agreement and gave a batch of high-quality crystal holy relics to the people who had promised to donate them—the priests, knights, and families of the war dead in the visiting group.

This behavior won him unanimous praise from the royal family, nobles, churches, and commoners of Yinhuan City. Everyone praised him as a saint with faith, and this indirectly caused the third wave of immigrants in Muxi Harbor. The population of Muxi Harbor quickly exceeded 600 people, and it was officially upgraded from a village to a small town.

The people's livelihood industry in Muxi Harbor presents a "pyramid-style" diversification trend, such as agricultural property, animal husbandry, fishery, breeding industry, handicraft industry, metallurgy industry, processing industry, service industry and so on.

However, there is a phenomenon of "flattening" at the management level here. The highest leader of Muxi Town is naturally Todd, who holds the divine power and administrative power in one person, and further down, it is different from other villages and cities, there is no deputy, no tax officer, no court, no magistrate.

Some people will wonder, will such a management model make the whole village into chaos?

It is not.

Industry affairs are sorted out and arranged by the leaders of each industry, and only when there are overlapping functions or conflicts of interest, will they go to the church to apply for referees.

Taxes and finances all rely on the voluntary payment of town residents, and the "tithe tax" is exempted for three years. In addition, Todd used crystal relics to win from the Silver Ring Kingdom. The preferential policy of temporarily exempting head tax, partially exempting industry tax and commercial tax has made Muxi Town's taxation extremely light, and the pressure of taxation is not worth mentioning for residents. In order to appreciate Father Todd's grace, people pay more taxes as a personal "tribute" to him.

And the law and order in the small town is even more strange. The immigrants here come from different villages, different places, and even their languages ​​are different. It stands to reason that friction and disputes should occur from time to time. But the real situation is that there are very few conflicts and disputes in the life and work of neighbors, and criminal cases are even rarer. If there are any unsolvable problems, the respected people in the residential area will spontaneously form mediation committees and arbitration committees to solve them by themselves. For those "problems" in the true sense, the residents of Muxi Town often say: "Do you want to taste the eye of God?" 』

Finally, let’s talk about the military strength of Muxi Town. Todd knew his own shortcomings. When he traveled to another world, he didn't bring an encyclopedia or an invincibility system, let alone a decathlon. He is just a researcher who knows a little more in the field of biochemistry than ordinary people. It is okay to ask him to do biological and chemical experiments, but if he is asked to be in charge of military preparation and training, it will be like a blind man feeling an elephant.

Besides, in the Middle Ages, it was not as simple as people imagined to form an army capable of fighting with strength. It involved a series of complex and professional knowledge such as formation arrangement, arm allocation, coordinated training, equipment selection, tactical preparation, battle banners, physical strength enhancement, and so on.

For example, Taktike Theoria, written by a Greek military strategist in the previous life, was written based on the actual combat experience of Alexander the Great’s heirs. It involved knowledge of wartime equipment, organization, deployment, and mobilization of troops. It was revised 17 times and took more than 50 years to complete. After that, for more than 1400 years, this book has been constantly revised and improved. It was not until the sixteenth century that a complete set of tactical theories was finally formed, which was regarded as a must-read book for tactics by military academies around the world.

Therefore, things like military and war are really not something you can get started with, it involves too much knowledge and skills. Perhaps in future battles, through repeated training, Todd can become a qualified general. But now, the priest knew that he didn't have that ability at all. Instead of messing around, he might as well entrust this matter to Huggins and give him the right to freely take the equipment and supplies from the warehouse. As for the source of the soldiers, Huggins' "acquaintances" and some of the militias who took refuge here are enough to support the guards in Muxi Town.

In this way, Muxi Town has spent three months safely since its establishment in this harmonious and peaceful but strange atmosphere.

Today, Todd is on the pier, loading a new batch of crystal relics, ready to be shipped to the east.

Bishop Fabian of St. Ke Cathedral, having experienced the earlier robbery incident, based on the idea that more things are worse than less things, he asked the crystal in Muxi Town to take a shortcut without going through Silver Ring City, and go directly to the border of the kingdom from the pass of Watch Fort. There, the resident knights of the West Parish will carry out relevant handover work with Todd.

In the distance, the church personnel who escorted the sacred objects walked slowly 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 Cavo.