The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The capital of the Kingdom of England is different from other countries. Whether it is an imperial country or a parliamentary country, other countries have only one capital city, but the Kingdom of England has two capitals. According to custom, one is called the capital of Saran. The royal fiefdom is Sarkshire, and the other is the capital of the country, which is in Wales.

The reason for this situation is entirely due to the fall of the royal family’s rights. After the royal family’s rights were greatly weakened by the Congress, the Congress began to discuss the matter of moving the capital. as the capital.

Although everyone knows that this reason is only a superficial reason, and it is actually to further weaken the influence of the royal family, they have to admit that this reason is very tenable and cannot be refuted.

When the British royal family decided to set the king's capital in Saran, they considered more security issues. Saran is located in the center of Sarkshire, and surrounded by mountains, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are nearly a hundred fortresses, large and small, on the mountain road, which can be said to protect the capital of Saran like a railway.

It is precisely because of such strict protection that any subsequent turmoil in the Kingdom of England did not allow foreign enemies to step into Saran. Therefore, Saran, the capital of the kingdom, was called an impenetrable city, and even the Faran Empire had to Acknowledge that Saran is indeed entitled to such a title.

However, it was such an impenetrable city that fell due to internal power changes, and the whole process did not cost a single soldier.

It is precisely because the influence of the royal family in the Saran area and Sark County is too great. Although the collective efforts of the Congress have weakened the influence to the extreme, there are still a large number of people who are loyal to the royal family in Saran. Because of the royal family, people will definitely have to step back behind the scenes, give up power, and do some crazy things. Officials from the big and small congresses who work in the royal capital do not want to be inexplicably surprised by someone who suddenly rushes out on the road. stabbed to death.

Therefore, at the request of the vast majority of officials, the Congress began to discuss the matter of moving the capital, just to appease the royal family. The Congress did not cancel the administrative establishment of the royal capital Saran, and still allowed the royal family to retain absolute administrative power over Saran.

In the face of the menacing Congress, the royal family had to bow their heads and agreed to the request of the Congress to move the capital, but the two sides had some differences on the location of the capital.

According to the royal family's thinking, even if the capital is moved, the new capital should still be located in the royal territory, and there are many excellent cities in the royal territory, all kinds of infrastructure are very complete, just move there, there is no need to think about it Cost and time of reconstruction.

But of course the Congress did not agree to such a proposal. After all, it was hard to move the capital of the country from Saran, where the royal family had great influence, and now choose a city where the royal family's territory is located. Wouldn't that be the same as not moving the capital?

Therefore, the Congress and the royal family have been arguing over this issue for several months, and this dispute has also expanded from the House of Representatives to the people, and even the entire Kingdom of England. A storm that may almost split the Kingdom of England into two parts is about to form.

Both the Congress and the royal family were aware of this, and they were unwilling to see the Kingdom of England split up, especially at the time when the Kingdom of England’s navy ruled the seas. Once split, the Kingdom of England would lose its status as the sea supremacy , which is of no benefit to either party.

Therefore, after some consultations, the royal family and Congress chose a compromise plan, choosing an area that has a deep relationship with the royal family and is not the royal family's territory to establish a new capital, and Wales became the plan. Finally, after repeated discussions, Durin, a river port city in Welshshire, became the final candidate for the national capital.

Durin is located on the banks of the Welsh River, one of the three major rivers in the Kingdom of England. It has excellent water conservancy transportation, and it is not far from the nearest seaport. No matter what materials can be transported to the capital by water quickly, so here is also It was favored by the Congress, and after repeated discussions, it was designated as the capital of the country.

Speaking of which, Leo is no stranger to the urban layout and block division of the city of Durin, because this is a completely reduced version of Miria City.

At the beginning, when Dulin was designated as the capital of the country, it was just an inconspicuous small town, and everything needed to be rebuilt, so how to build the capital of the country became a point of debate within the Congress.

Many architects from the Kingdom of England, even foreign architects, have gathered here and presented excellent plans to the Congress, hoping to become the chief architect of the capital of the Kingdom of England. After all, the chief designer of a country's capital The title of division is a dazzling crown for any architect.

At that time, Congress discussed this for a long time. It was not that there was any problem with these design plans, but that each plan was excellent and could be approved by a part of the House of Representatives, which ultimately made it impossible for Congress to make a final decision.

But it was not an option to procrastinate things like this. In the end, someone proposed to use Miria City as a prototype to rebuild the capital of the Kingdom of England.

Although this proposal sounds absurd now, it was very popular at the time. After all, Miria City was called the center of the world at that time, and the Kingdom of England used this city as a prototype to build a new capital, which also showed their ambitions , They hope that the capital Lin will replace Miria City as the new world center and world capital in the future.

However, after the construction, those gentlemen in the Congress discovered a problem. The reason why Miria City is called the capital of the world is because there are not only people from all over the world living there, but also countless people with Buildings of various styles. But when they decided to use Miria City as the prototype of the capital, they didn't consider these things until a part of the capital was built, and they realized something was wrong.

It’s just that it’s too late to tear down and rebuild now. In order to save the situation, Congress issued an order that sounds ridiculous, that is, all buildings built in the capital must have unique characteristics, whether it’s shops, apartments, or official residences. Whether it is an office building, there cannot be repeated styles.

It has to be said that this order, which sounds absurd even now, has saved the capital of Dulin, which had almost become the laughing stock of the world, and made Dulin a city with the most distinctive buildings, a holy place in the minds of all architects.

Now Leo is in the most luxurious hotel in this strange capital. All kinds of strange buildings in the distance.

It's just that, at this moment, his mind is not on these buildings that fascinate architects from all over the world, but is thinking about other things.

When he was in Kevin Town, Leo had already negotiated with Wizard Otto as the representative of the royal family and Frank Fussen as the representative of the Special Bureau about the transaction of wizard healing potions. During the transaction, the expressions on their faces were a bit strange, with emotions such as surprise and doubt mixed in.

The reason why the old wizard and Frank Fussen have such expressions is because according to their understanding, it is very difficult for a wizard to refine a bottle of wizard potion. Not only does it require high alchemy, but it also takes a certain amount of time to refine the medicine. So Leo can refine two bottles a month, which is already pretty good.

They all know the black market very well. They know that Leo has sold more than 20 bottles of wizard healing potions to the black market before. They all think that those are accumulated by Leo before, not newly refined.

So they had to suspect that the wizard potion that Leo wanted to trade with them was defective or blended.

It is inevitable for them to have such thoughts. After all, their concept of medicine extraction still stays in the two very authoritative methods of distillation and precipitation. These two methods take a long time to be extracted, and Lei Ou adopted the more advanced and fast centrifugation method in the old earth era to refine medicine.

After Leo bought a machinery manufacturing factory, he started to manufacture some mechanical tools, including a centrifuge to help him make medicine, but this centrifuge was driven by steam instead of electricity.

With this centrifuge, the refining work that originally took more than ten days to complete was shortened to less than ten minutes, so the time for him to refine a bottle of wizard healing potion was also shortened to less than half an hour.

Faced with the doubts of the two, Leo took out two bottles of healing potions as samples and gave them to them, and said that the healing potions delivered in the future would be based on this standard, and the two were relieved.

The deal he made with the old wizard was very simple. He took out a considerable amount of money or other equivalent materials in exchange for twenty bottles of healing potions from Leo.

And Frank Fussen's transaction is a bit troublesome. He can only take out part of the money now, and the other part, the most important part of the divine revelation of eternal wisdom, needs to be notified to Congress and arrange a time. After forgetting about it, he came to the capital with Frank Fussen, and was arranged to stay in the largest hotel in the capital.

In the past two days, Frank Fussen was busy convincing the Congress and the royal family to transfer the qualification to contact the Eternal Wisdom Artifact to Leo Ceremony, but judging from his expression when he came to see Leo, the situation did not seem to be what he expected as simple as that.

Leo didn't care about this, because even if the deal couldn't be reached, he had nothing to lose.

During the two days he stayed in the hotel, Leo secretly left the hotel twice, both times to the black market in the city.

Compared with the black market in Port of Sorset, the black market in the capital is not like a black market. It is more like a private club, and only those with credentials can enter. Obviously, the black market in the capital should be officially recognized, even There may be some special cooperation with the Special Bureau.

After coming to the black market, Leo directly bought a piece of information about Frank Fussen from here, and the answer from the black market was that it took time to prepare.

Leo knew very well that the so-called need for time to prepare was nothing more than to notify the special bureau, which was exactly in line with his wishes, and he just wanted the result.

So when he came to the black market for the second time to get materials, he already found several tails following him after leaving the black market.

He didn't get rid of these tails, but let them follow back to the hotel. He knew very well that the matter of his purchase of materials would soon reach Frank Fussen.

Although the black market has a cooperative relationship with the special bureau, the information sold on the black market has not been deleted because of this relationship. Even the information of the director of the special bureau is still very detailed as long as you can afford it.

Although these materials are recorded in a very boring way, like some formulaic documents, Leo read them very engrossed, and he also felt a little admiration for Frank Fussen in his heart. His strength, and the suppression of all kinds of supernatural beings in the Kingdom of England, are inseparable from his efforts over the years.

Just like Leo's first feeling when he first saw Frank Fussen, Frank Fussen was not as old as his appearance seemed, in fact Frank Fussen was only in his thirties, and the reason why he The main reason why he looks so old is because when he uses the power of his family, he is also overdrawing his vitality.

It is well known by everyone in the Special Bureau that Frank Fussen is a family member, but no one knows which god's family Frank Fussen is.

The person who was able to lift the Special Bureau to the pinnacle of the Kingdom of England's power despite the suppression of both the Congress and the royal family came from an ordinary background.

He is just the son of a fisherman, and his experience before the age of fifteen was very ordinary. Like most fisherman's sons, he attended the Kingdom Public School. Can go home to inherit the family business and become a fisherman.

At the age of fifteen, Frank Fussen went fishing with his father's fleet, and encountered a very big storm at sea. The fishing boat quickly capsized in the wind and waves, and everyone fell into the water. He quickly found a floating object to hold on to so that he would not be submerged by the wind and waves. However, due to his lack of experience in going to sea for the first time, Frank Fussen failed to catch the floating object, was swept away by the wind and waves, and disappeared without a trace.

These people who were shipwrecked were finally rescued by a passing fishing boat, and the number of people who went back has been reduced by half, and Frank Fussen is one of them.

Everyone thought that the victims were dead, and a public funeral was held for them according to the rules, but what they didn't expect was that on the third day after the funeral, Frank Fussen returned to the fishing village alive.

What's even weirder is that Frank Fussen didn't know how he came back alive. He only remembered that he was photographed by the waves and sank into the bottom of the sea little by little, and then lost consciousness. But when he woke up, But he was already lying on the beach not far from his village, and the memory of these days was completely lost.

Therefore, some people believed that Frank Fussen was favored by the sea god, so he was able to survive, and this was recognized by many people, and it was spread, which finally alarmed the special bureau and the royal family.