This is the case for the new city. It will definitely take some time to sort out and digest it. It is useless to be anxious.
So Alvin put down this topic and started listening to reports on internal developments.
First of all, the situation of the Twilight Church itself.
As a religious organization, the church has been expanding at an astonishing rate since its inception.
From the beginning, there were only a few hundred believers to now, the number of official priests in the church has reached 519, with a total of 1,806 direct personnel, and the total number of officially registered believers has exceeded 40,000.
These people are the most core basic structure of the Twilight Church and the foundation for the church to stand in troubled times.
Secondly, the church has made great progress in military aspects.
As the main military force, the Twilight Army is planning to continue to expand to eight thousand men, namely eight standard corps, and then station in three cities respectively.
In addition to the regular army, the established armed forces also have the Twilight Judges troops and intelligence personnel directly belonging to the [Twilight Presiding Judge] Montage. Although the two together only have a thousand people, their combat power is generally stronger than that of conventional soldiers.
Next is the economic aspect.
The most important content is actually the expansion process of the Twilight Chamber of Commerce in Kosol City and its surrounding areas.
After this period of development, this special economic organization that initially relied on the support of Evan’s small treasury, with its own monopoly position and unique supply and transportation channels, has grown into a "big beast" that cannot be underestimated.
The Chamber of Commerce built more than a dozen factories around the city of Kosol.
In addition to the previously planned cigarette packaging yard, steel factory, metal parts processing factory, and gunpowder factory, there are also textile factories, city clothing processing factory, Yili production factory, light bulb factory, kitchen utensil production yard, thermal power station, etc.
The emergence of these factories greatly promoted the originally extremely desolate industrial development of Kosol City and also added a large number of jobs.
Subsequently, the construction of infrastructure projects and public service units led by the Chamber of Commerce (such as schools and hospitals) further promoted the prosperity and development of the city.
At the same time, the Twilight Radio and Television Station, which has begun to be put into use, has also allowed more people from the outside world to know and understand the existence of the Twilight Army (the Twilight Church's name has always been the Twilight Army) and understand the changes in the city of Kosol.
The reward for getting is that more and more poor people around are beginning to choose to come to Kosol City to seek a new way of life.
The emergence of these migrant populations further promoted the economic development of cities, promoted the consumer market, and provided more cheap labor, forming an excellent virtuous cycle.
As of now, the total monthly revenue of Kosol City can offset 74.8% of the city's fiscal expenditure (excluding military funds).
Among them, cigarettes alone contributed 39.2% of the income.
By the time Noxade City and Jill City are completely digested, new population, resources, markets, and especially port support and transportation channels are opened, the Twilight Chamber of Commerce will surely usher in another period of expansion.
By then, the Twilight Church will probably end the long-term situation of relying on external blood transfusions and basically achieve balance of income and expenditure.
Of course, the raw material support and the mining of the crypt demons in the psychic church cannot be stopped, otherwise the industry will be in a flash...
As for the last issue that Alvin is concerned about, it is naturally scientific research.
Before breaking through certain special levels, he deeply agreed with the statement that technology (or magic) is the primary productive force.
In addition to the three wizards' love for various research, the Mufeng Church, as a religious organization, actually has its own scientific research department.
Due to the lack of talent, this institution called "Twilight Source" currently has only two research rooms, namely the Science and Technology Research Office and the Mysterious Research Office.
Among them, the Science and Technology Research Office is mainly responsible for digesting various technologies provided by the tissues in machinery, military industry, materials, metallurgy, and breeding from developed countries.
Because we can "cross the river by touching Inuit", and Alvin has many ready-made resources to use, and there is no technological blockade, the Science and Technology Research Institute is working hard to copy "homework" and trying to establish its own industrial system.
Of course, it is impossible to play with industrialization without a certain size.
Therefore, the [Twilight Prophet] Jeriff, who is in charge of this area, sets a very low goal for these researchers who are at most n-card.
The main thing is to study how to use ready-made technologies, equipment and raw material supply chains, establish new factories, and try to improve their own industrial system.
The mysterious research room is currently very small, only Jeliff and its few are absolutely loyal, but this is also a truly important research base for the church.
Here, the skeleton mages are crazily absorbing the power of "technology" to arm themselves, and then borrowing those modern instruments to combine them with mysterious magic to try to create special magic technology.
For example, recently, the human body strengthening technology - Watcher Strengthening.
This technology is undoubtedly a revolutionary innovation. It can achieve mass production of monkey version of martial arts, but it has a bit of a flaw.
Apart from the mortality rate, even though the watchmen are fierce, these people have only ten years of life left at most.
Perhaps these crazy believers themselves don’t care about this, but as a technology that wants to be widely used in the future, the product’s service life is also a sign-up.
In addition to Watcher Strengthening Technology, there are actually many projects under development, but there is no such concern as human reinforcement.
For example, the biological magic directional mutation technology that Held is currently studying.
It tries to cultivate animals with magical tendencies by eroding the embryo with magic power.
To put it bluntly, it is trying to add a new entry for magic to the creatures in this world.
To this end, Held simply built an automated chicken farm, regularly pumping a batch of fertilized eggs to soak them with magic to see if new changes can be made.
Up to now, Held has successfully harvested a batch of dead eggs that can be used as spell casting materials, as well as three chicks with varying degrees of mutation.
It is not clear what it can produce in the end, but this kind of experiment is to bet on probability, just like drawing a card randomly.
If a Tyrannosaurus Rex hatches, wouldn’t it be profitable?
After learning about the recent work of Twilight Church in all aspects, Alvin then used [Breathing Step] to hide his body, and walked around everywhere under the guidance of the shadows, and even went to two newly occupied cities to take a look.
As the Skeleton Mages reported, Norxad had basically returned to peace.
After the initial panic, the residents found that there was no sign of rape and looting after the Twilight Army attacked. After being appeased by the newly appointed officials, most of them have now accepted the fate of a new ruler.
This is the particularity of civil war.
Even if the kingdom is chaotic, a hundred years are enough to cultivate a hazy national and national concept, so the lower-class people basically have no resistance to the Twilight Army.
As for the higher level... the dead and the prisoners had no chance to speak.
However, in contrast to the calmness of Norxad City, Gill City can still hear gunfires from time to time.
Although the local snakes that caused the riots could not stop the settlement of regular troops, they could still do it if they were disgusting.
But they shouldn't have been long before the new policy has begun to be implemented.
In fact, this situation cannot be blamed on external forces for disrupting the situation. It is also related to the cruel means of the Twilight Army destroying the two urban ruling classes.
The top leaders of these organizations are worried that they will usher in a similar fate, and are reluctant to leave the power, status and wealth they have gained by relying on the port, so they try to force the Twilight Army, who has newly entered Jill City, to acquiesce their continued existence in this way.
To this end, these local snakes also launched a monetary offensive that had been tried and tested in the past, and also created a beauty plan for some military officers and government officials.
But unfortunately, as an armed religious group with extremely strict doctrines, the Twilight Army and the church's subordinate governments sneered at these so-called temptations.
After all, those who can get a job under the Twilight Church are at least a firm devout believer.
With the ideal of saving the world, and having witnessed the extraordinary means of organizing, these people almost made the same choice in the face of temptation
——Report directly on the spot.
In order to reward their loyalty, the church often sends the money to them again in the name of reward.
And the same amount of money, after getting it done, it will immediately become reasonable and legal. You can spend it at will, and you can also make some contributions...
So, what are you waiting for? Report it now!
Faced with this situation, the local snakes could only curse the Twilight Army and the group of people who were not moral and fought hard.
However, as the new "continental system" policy and the effect of the beheading action began to emerge, their decline became increasingly obvious, and it was sooner or later that they were completely eliminated.
As for the local forces closest to the Twilight Church, the Red Valley Free Army temporarily restrained after several small-scale conflicts with the Twilight Army.
However, although the Red Valley Free Army has been quiet for the time being, Alvin will not really let it go, and has even begun to send shadows to bury landmines and various explosives under the other party's military camp.
Just wait for the full war to begin one day, and I will send the other party directly to the evil abyss and chat with the dark messengers...