The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Before the emergence of Miriya City, Winterrin City has always been the largest city in the Velen Continent, and even the entire Villen World. It is not like Miriya City because it has been expanded several times before it became the largest city. The moment, is the biggest city.

Back then, the King of Knights reunified the continent of Velen, established the third dynasty of France, and moved the capital of France from the west coast to the edge of the Vinoy Mountains on the east coast. He hoped to re-establish the spirit of France and at the same time re-establish his own It is a wonder of the world, so he decided to build the largest city in the world.

According to the requirements of the King of Knights at that time, the new emperor should be large enough to accommodate all the people of the entire French Empire at that time without being crowded, so the fortification craftsmen at that time designed a city with a large area, not only will the entire Donglin The hills encompassed the imperial capital, and even occupied half of the yew forest farm and a high mountain called the hilt.

Unlike other huge cities that have not built defensive walls, Winterring City has built a huge wall that can surround the entire Winterring City from the beginning of its construction. This city wall is not only high, but also thick. Six carriages Can run and turn side by side on the city wall.

And this city wall has never been used in the normal way since it was built, because no army has ever attacked the city of Winterrin, so some countries that are hostile to the Faran Empire laughed and said that this is the most useless building facility .

In addition to the magnificent city walls, the King of Knights also built a large number of buildings in the city that boasted of its achievements in the glorious history of the French Empire, such as the Arc de Triomphe, Baiqi Square, Pantheon, etc. Formed a unique architectural style, which is called the French style architecture in architecture.

The main characteristics of this type of building are the magnificent and square shape, the walls have a large number of exquisite reliefs recording historical stories, the eaves and columns have stone carvings representing some great men, the interior decoration is solemn and solemn, with a large number of gold-rimmed branch patterns, and there are also It is to paint various church classic dome murals.

The whole city is composed of seven blocks with different functions. Each block has ten such flange-style buildings, which are very dense. The hill that doesn't even have a name is the place where this kind of flange-style buildings are concentrated.

The King of Knights built his palace on the sword-hilt-shaped mountain, and the surrounding yew forest farm became a royal courtyard. There are thousands of buildings in the entire palace, all of which are flange-style buildings, and each Buildings have a unique name, so even people who live in the palace all the year round may not be able to remember the name of each palace.

It is precisely because the Knight King's plan for the entire Winterrin City is too grand and perfect that he did not see the completion of the Winterrin City until his death. All the buildings planned and designed in that year were completed in accordance with the design specifications.

Historians of later generations have a kind of view that it is precisely because of the huge expenditure on the construction of the imperial capital that consumed a lot of funds from the French treasury that the French Empire failed to catch up with the era of great navigation and discovery initiated by the Kingdom of Sigmar at the beginning. The continental empire has not been able to capture a single territory at sea.

However, the French Empire did not think that such consumption was not worth it. At that time, they were still immersed in the dream of being the most powerful country on land and the greatest city. Land is far more valuable than an uncontrollable sea.

What's more, at that time, the Continental Congress was being established, and the French Empire managed to establish the headquarters of the Continental Congress within the territory of the empire, and most people in the empire believed that as long as the Continental Congress was under control, they could indirectly control the entire Velen world. As for whether there is maritime hegemony, it is not necessary.

It's a pity that although their ideas are very good, things didn't develop as they wished. Not only was the Continental Parliament in Miria City not controlled by the Faran Empire, but it also allowed the influence of various countries to penetrate into the Faran Empire. Internally, the current division of the French Empire largely stems from this.

At the beginning, the Faran Empire chose to completely destroy the city of Miriya, probably largely because the empire hated Miriya city to the extreme.

Although the later population growth and other issues were considered during the construction of the imperial capital, and the area was expanded to the limit, the original designers still did not expect that the population growth caused by the long-term peace of the French Empire would definitely be explosive. When it was fully built, the population of the imperial capital had reached the capacity limit, so the emperor of Faran had to build towns outside the city, and cleared out a group of residents in the imperial capital, and appointed a very strict eligibility review system. This is the original version of the current imperial censorship system.

Now, Leo and Sylvia are being questioned by the reviewer of this system. In the past, as long as they did not live in the imperial capital for a long time, they would not need to undergo qualification review, but as the system continues to improve, the rules will become more and more It is becoming more and more stringent, and because it is very difficult to obtain the qualifications for residence in the imperial capital, living in the imperial capital has become an alternative status symbol.

"How long do you plan to live in the imperial capital?" The examiner routinely asked a question that had to be asked.

"I don't have the right to make this decision anymore, so I can't give an answer." Leo also answered as a matter of routine.

The examiner didn't care, and continued to ask, "Where are you going to live?"

"The right to decide this is no longer mine, and I can't give an answer." Leo replied the same sentence again.

In this way, the examiner asked a question, and Leo answered a question. Except for the name at the beginning, the answers to all the questions after that were almost the same sentence.

Soon the reviewer's interrogation was over. He handed the completed interrogation form to Leo for Leo to sign, then put the form in his briefcase, turned around and left the temporary apartment where Leo lived.

"Is there any point in asking these things?" Leo turned to an attendant assigned to him by the Special Operations Department and asked.

The attendant shrugged and said: "Bureaucracy pays attention to this kind of situation. Although the content is meaningless, it will not work without this step in the procedure." Then he asked Leo: "What's your business?" Is there anything I need to do?"

Leo thought for a while and said, "Help me buy a copy of the most common newspapers in the imperial capital recently..."

The attendant interrupted Leo's words and reminded: "You don't need to buy this, the archives have it, and there are more types and more details. You can check it yourself."

"Can I go to the archives now?" Leo asked confirmingly, "I don't need to go through any formalities?"

"No need." The attendant pointed to the medal hanging on Leo's chest, and said, "With this medal, you can access all unsealed materials in the archives."

Hearing what the attendant said, Leo thought about it, and asked the attendant to take him to the archives.

At this time, Sylvia's interrogation was also over. Both the content of the question and the content of the answer were almost the same as Leo's. This kind of system-oriented and procedure-oriented bureaucracy has long been used to it, and there is no doubt or bewilderment.

When she saw Leo and the attendant leave the apartment, she followed and asked. When she learned that Leo was going to the archives, she seemed to have thought of something, and decided to go together, and asked her attendant to bring some The form used to apply for access to banned documents, it seems that she should be interested in some banned documents.

A group of people soon arrived at the archives. Leo and Sylvia found a relatively secluded place to sit down, and then asked the attendants to find the materials they were interested in, and quickly looked through them.

What Leo wanted was mainly the newspapers in recent months. He wanted to learn about various things that happened in Velen Continent in recent months from the newspapers, especially after the world had mutated.

As the aide said, the Special Operations Division collected a complete range of newspapers in both variety and quantity, not only the large newspapers published in the entire empire, but also several important newspapers published in each town.

Leo's reading speed was very fast. After several months of accumulation, he had read all the nearly tens of thousands of newspapers in less than an hour, which made the attendant who walked back and forth to help Leo carry the materials tired. It was enough, and once suspected that Leo was deliberately playing tricks on him. After all, before this, he had never seen a person who could read all the newspapers so quickly.

However, while being surprised, the attendant was quick to let go. After all, in a place like the Special Operations Department, you can always see some people with strange abilities, and it is likely that among these people, there is not one person who can read quickly.

The attendant didn't know that these newspapers were only read once, which was not enough for Leo. This was his first step in collecting and arranging information. Later, he needed to analyze the authenticity of the contents of these newspapers. Those contents are covered up, and those contents are completely false.

This is mainly because the newspaper industry throughout the empire is controlled by the imperial government, so all kinds of information published in the newspapers need to be re-analyzed to determine their accuracy, especially all reports involving the United Kingdom.

In all the newspapers he read, all the reports about the United Kingdom were negative, without a single good word, it was almost like saying that the United Kingdom was a hell on earth.

Although these news about the United Kingdom are full of hostility and prejudice, there are also many useful intelligence materials mixed in these completely deviated texts.

For example, the United Kingdom government took over Cage City and built several other towns and relocated the residents of Cage City to those places.

The content of this news is not very much, most of which are responsible for the United Kingdom government ignoring the stable life of the residents of Cage City and forcibly driving out the residents, but the careful Leo can see from these brief contents that something useful.

For example, the United Kingdom government took over the Cage City and relocated the residents of the Cage City, but did not dismantle the Cage City. This is obviously not in line with the principle of maximizing the interests of Rupert Fitz, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who was born as a businessman.

Moreover, there was an inconspicuous report that mentioned that the United Kingdom had sent troops to the Cage City. The report speculated that some people in the Cage City were unwilling to move out. kill.

But if you look carefully, you will find that several months have passed since the report of the residents of Cage City relocated. Judging by this time, with Rupert Fitz's method, the residents of Cage City have already relocated. Leaving away, even if there is a stubborn resistance, there is no need to send troops at all, just let the people in the cage city solve it by themselves, and he will come out to clean up the mess.

Therefore, the troops stationed in the Cage City were obviously not directed at the residents of the Cage City, but probably at the ruins below the Cage City.

Back then, although Leo also explored the underground ruins in Cage City, the part he explored was only a part of the area. In addition, a large number of areas were buried or half buried underground. There are so many mysterious things in the places he explored. , there should be quite a few in other places, obviously the United Kingdom wants to carefully study the contents of the underground ruins of the Cage City.

In addition to Cage City, the news that the United Kingdom began to accommodate mutants in Miria City also attracted Leo's attention.

Although the United Kingdom's arrest and arrest of those out-of-control mutants has not been cancelled, they seem to have shown a little kindness to those mutants who are still sane.

However, Leo does not think that the United Kingdom government is really kind and unconditionally willing to contain these mutants who may get out of control at any time, because it is mentioned in the report that Lawrence, the blood wizard who has become the earl, is the main person in charge of this containment plan. Reminiscent of what Lawrence did during the Great Plague in Miria, you can feel that the United Kingdom should have other plans.

In addition, Leo also received a lot of news about the empire, among which the most worthy of his attention was that the emperor of France allocated a large sum of money from the royal private treasury to support the research of certain scholars at the Imperial Academy, but only in a dozen or so large Newspapers, among the dozens of reports related to it, did not mention how much money the Emperor Fran paid, funded those scholars, and researched something, as if these contents had been deliberately deleted.

The only thing that is clear is that Louis X attached great importance to the research he sponsored, and gave those scholars great authority, allowing them to use all resources of the imperial government when needed, and there is no upper limit on this resource .

Undoubtedly, this also made Leo interested in this, and decided to go to the Royal Academy if he had the opportunity. Anyway, the Royal Academy is in Winterrin City, so it will not delay his affairs.