The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hearing this news, Sylvia was taken aback for a moment, then stood up from the chair and asked, "Really?"

Leo nodded, and then briefly talked about the information from other continents that he saw in the black market file room.

After hearing this, Sylvia showed a pensive look on her face. There is no doubt that this is definitely important news. The United Kingdom has always suspected that the black market has a secret channel to practice with other continents, but there has been no evidence to prove it. It proved that the black market also cooperated extremely with the request of the United Kingdom, so that the United Kingdom could not find any reason to investigate this matter.

Now the intelligence information from other continents that Leo said is undoubtedly the best evidence, proving the previous suspicions, this is definitely a major event for the United Kingdom that can affect the policy of the entire Kingdom.

If the United Kingdom can control this passage, then the United Kingdom can be said to control the foreign trade of the entire Vinylon world, and the profits contained in it even exceed the sum of the trade of the sea routes controlled by the Kingdom of Sigma and the Kingdom of England. , the kingdom will definitely become stronger in a short period of time, and it is not impossible to even counterattack the empire in the future and reunify the Villen continent.

Thinking of this, Sylvia felt that she should do something, and plans emerged in her mind. Obviously, he planned to get the most benefit from this news.

However, when Sylvia was deep in thought and had a look of joy on her face, Leo poured cold water on her and said: "Although this news has something worth doing, it shouldn't be as important as you imagined." value."

"Why do you say that?" Sylvia frowned and asked, "How much do you think I think it is worth?"

"Although this news has some value, it will not change the overall strength of the United Kingdom." Leo simply saw through Sylvia's mind and said, "From all the circumstances, even if the black market has a safe Through the channel of gray mist, but there may be some restrictions on that channel, such as the items passing through the channel are within a certain weight range, and how long it takes to use the channel each time before it can be used again, etc. So the black market channel The various materials transported may be of some value to individuals, but for a country as big as a giant, the materials transported each time are not enough for it to fit between its teeth."

Sylvia was silent for a while, but then said a little unconvinced: "How did you know that the passage is restricted?"

Leo looked at Sylvia and smiled, and asked calmly: "If I remember correctly, it was Rupert Fitz who negotiated with the black market, and brought some of the black market forces into the union. It is within the kingdom system, and after that, it was reported that there might be a channel connecting the black market to other continents, and it quickly spread throughout the entire United Kingdom, who do you think would spread this news?"

Sylvia frowned and said, "Since Rupert Fitz already knew about the existence of this passage, why did he..."

"I think it's because he doesn't like it," Leo quickly answered, "He doesn't like the benefits brought by this channel."

Sylvia raised her eyebrows in dissatisfaction. It was obvious that Leo's statement made her feel very uncomfortable. After all, Rupert Fitz didn't care about his interests, but she just acted as someone who tried to influence the political situation of the entire Velen Continent. Like a great discovery, it made her look like a redneck who had never seen the market.

"Actually, you can also get a share of this matter," Leo continued, "Since Rupert Fitz has already taken the profit he wanted, why should you be polite? It’s wrong to be able to get a share of the benefits from the black market, but it should be of some use to you.”

Sylvia's face softened a little when she heard the words, and she quickly calculated in her mind. As Leo said, although she could not get the benefits she wanted, she could still make a fuss from the news. Getting some benefits from the black market may not be a big deal for the whole country, but for her, it allows her to do a lot of things.

It's just that this process made her feel inexplicably disgusted, because it made her feel like picking up other people's leftovers.

In the next few days, Sylvia dealt with the property harvested in Kabu City this time, and left Kabu City by train with Leo, heading for her fief Landor in the United Kingdom.

"Don't you need to go to Lanxi?" On the train, Leo watched the servants fix the two little ones in the special cradle inside the carriage, and then asked Sylvia a little puzzled.

"What are you going to Lanxi for?" Sylvia looked at Leo in confusion.

Leo said: "Work? Aren't you an official of the United Kingdom government?"

"It's good that I'm an official, but I'm a special kind of official. I don't have to stay in the office every day." Sylvia smiled and said, "Wherever I am, my office is where I am. If the subordinates can't even find me and give me the documents that need to be processed by me, then they don't have to work under my subordinates anymore."

I don't know if it was the effect of her words, or it was just like this. Before the train started, dozens of documents were hurriedly delivered to the carriage and handed over to Sylvia for processing.

Leo didn't bother Sylvia to deal with the official documents, but sat on the window of the car, picked up a travel guide dedicated to Randall and read it.

When the United Kingdom was established, many imperial nobles turned to join the United Kingdom. Although some of these nobles had higher titles than Sylvia at the time, they were all just titled nobles or court nobles. Fief, Sylvia is the only nobleman who has a fief in the empire but joins the United Kingdom, so King Philip gave Sylvia an entire city as his new fief, and the area of ​​this fief is the size of the Belmont family. The fief is five times larger, and Sylvia has become one of the few nobles in the United Kingdom who owns a fief.

However, granting Randall as a fief to Sylvia still surprised many people, because Randall is not only the fourth largest fishing port in the United Kingdom, but also has a very long history and special status.

The royal family of the King of England settled in Randall for a period of time before crossing the sea to the British Islands, and the royal family of England also began to believe in the sea god here, and drafted the first draft of the founding declaration of the Kingdom of England, so there are also People call Randall the beginning of the Kingdom of England.

Afterwards, Randall has been in the hands of the French royal family. Usually the second, third, and fourth heirs of the royal family may be canonized as Prince Randall. After Sylvia, one of the most incredible reasons is that in the eyes of others, Randall will definitely become the exclusive fiefdom of the heir to the king of the United Kingdom according to normal circumstances.

Although Randall was originally built as a seaport city, its geographical location is not suitable for use as a seaport. Even if a lot of manpower and material resources have been invested, the port dock here is still not very large, and usually cargo ships will not choose Randall. As a key port, I would rather walk a certain distance along the coastline to reach the next port before docking, so I gradually gave up the possibility of being a cargo port, and instead specialized in fishing, and converted all the docks into fishing boats The wharf makes Landauer occupy a place in many seaside cities.

The reason why the French Empire at that time forcibly built such a place with an unfavorable geographical environment into a seaport city was mainly due to the influence of religion. This is one of the five sacred places of the Church of the Sea God recorded in the classics. The Sea God once manifested his holiness here, and enlightened Dagon, the first saint of the Sea God Church, and then Dagon walked along the coast of the Velen Continent, creating a feat of walking around the coastline of the Velen Continent, and then with this feat, he will be at that time. The fragmented Sea God Church was integrated and a unified Sea God Church was established in Landauer, and he was buried in Landauer after his death.

Because of this, the Church of the Sea God spared no effort to persuade the French Empire at that time to transform Randall, a remote fishing village with an unfavorable geographical environment, into a seaport city. The first cathedral of the Church of the Sea God was located in Randall. Not long after it became a seaport city, its construction was completed, so whether in the past or now, Randall is a devout follower of the Sea God Church from top to bottom.

Although Randall is the holy land of the Church of the Sea God, and the residents here are all devout believers of the Church of the Sea God, their relationship with the Kingdom of England is not good.

This is mainly because the British royal family regards themselves as the sons and descendants of the Poseidon. In the eyes of the fundamentalists of the Sea God Church in Randall, this move is completely sacrilegious. When the Kingdom of England was first established, there were People from the Sea God Church proposed to form a fleet to fight there and kill those blasphemers.

However, within the Randall Church of the Sea God, there was a split because of the royal family of England. More than the average congregation and senior clergy of the Church of the Sea God agreed with the Kingdom of England as the son of the Sea God, and believed that the Kingdom of England was the Church of the Sea God. The Sea God Church does not have to stay on the Velen Continent and compete with other churches for believers. They can all move to the Kingdom of England and use their relationship with the royal family to make the Church of the Sea God the only state religion in the Kingdom of England.

However, those fundamentalists believe that blasphemy is blasphemy. Even if there are huge interests behind it, believers should not allow others to blaspheme the gods for these interests.

Because of this, the Church of Poseidon finally split into two, and most of the Church of Poseidon left Randall and went to the Kingdom of England, and eventually became the current Anglican Church, and carried out a series of religious reforms, starting from the church The classics recognized the status of the son of the sea god of the British royal family.

The Sea God Cultists who stayed in Randall still practiced the fundamental teaching of the Sea God Church in the past. They regarded the Kingdom of England as an enemy and heresy, and they were willing to do anything that could have a negative impact on the Kingdom of England. He thinks that only in this way can he regain the Seagod's attention.

Therefore, every time there is a war conflict between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, the people who sign up to join the army are always the Randalls. During the war, the people who fight at the forefront will always be the Randalls. During the war between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, there was suddenly no manpower, so Landauer was willing to send enough people to participate in the war.

After seeing this, Leo returned the book to the title page of the cover, and saw that there was a line below the title page, an important reminder that Englishmen please move to Randall carefully.

"I'm from England." Leo said to Sylvia who was still working hard.

Sylvia froze for a moment, raised her head, looked at Leo for a while, and then said, "I know you are from England."

Leo picked up the Randall travel guide book in his hand and shook it.

Sylvia immediately understood what Leo meant, and said with a smile: "It's okay, the train station is in the suburbs, and it takes a long carriage to go to the urban area of ​​Randall, and we don't live in the city, but In the castle at Wanghai Cliff, it was built by the royal family of England back then, and its style is somewhat similar to the castles of the Kingdom of England now, so you should get used to it when you live there."

Leo didn't say anything, and continued to look at the Randall travel guide in his hand.

Although Randall is a church, and a holy place of a powerful church, they have not benefited from it, because they have not used their advantages to carry out any activities in sea exploration, exploration and commerce, and they have stuck to tradition from beginning to end. fisheries, which made them miss opportunities to get their hands on the hegemony of the oceans.

So to this day, Randall, a seaport city, is generally the same as it was when it was first built. At most, the pier has been renovated to accommodate the current fishing boats, and there are a few more casinos, theaters, and nightclubs. architecture.

In the travel guide, there are a total of three Randall classics worth visiting, one is Castle Black at Wanghai Cliff, the other is the original church of the Sea God Church and the tomb of the saint, and the last one is not in the harbor city , but in the sea off Randall Sea, a special stone island.

According to the travel guide, the Poseidon Church will go out to sea every year to offer sacrifices during the Tidal Festival. They will sacrifice the best catch of the year to the Poseidon. Their sacrifice ceremony is no different from the traditional Poseidon sacrifice ceremony. , is not worthy of too much attention, but what is really worth seeing is the location of the sacrifice. At that time, there was a stone island composed of hexagonal stone pillars. There was a megalithic palace on the island, and the gate of the megalithic palace was a huge stone gate , no one can open this stone gate, and the sacrifice of the Sea God Church is on the altar in front of the stone gate.

In normal times, this stone island sinks into the bottom of the sea where ordinary people cannot approach, and it will only come up on the day of the sacrifice to accept the sacrifice.

There are rumors that the sea god lives in the stone palace. When someone opens the stone gate, the sea god will wake up from the palace, and the ocean will drown everything in the world.