Chapter 519: The National Capital and the Director
The capital of the Kingdom of England is different from other countries, whether it is an imperial state or a parliamentary state, there is only one capital, but the Kingdom of England has two capitals, according to custom, one is called the royal capital Saran, which is in the royal fiefdom of Sarkshire, and the other is the national capital Dulin, which is in Walesshire.
The reason for this situation was entirely the result of the loss of royal power, and after the royal power was greatly weakened by the Diet, the matter of moving the capital began to be discussed within the Diet, and the reason given was that the royal capital Saland was inaccessible and unsuitable as a capital.
Although everyone knows very well that this reason is only superficial, and in fact it is 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 royal family of England set the royal capital in Saran, it was more concerned about security, Saran is located in the center of Salkshire, and is surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are nearly 100 fortresses of all sizes on the mountain road leading to Saran, which can be said to protect the royal capital of Saran as an iron pass.
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, and the royal capital of Saran was therefore called an impregnable city, and even the French Empire had to admit that Saran was indeed qualified for such a title.
However, such an impenetrable city fell due to an internal change of rights, and the whole process did not cost a single soldier.
It is precisely because the influence of the royal family in the Saran region and Sakhshire is too great, although the influence has been weakened to the extreme because of the collective force of the whole parliament, there are still a large number of people who are loyal to the royal family in Saran, and these people will definitely because the royal family has to retreat into the background, give up power, and do some crazy things.
Therefore, at the request of the vast majority of officials, the National Assembly began to discuss the matter of moving the capital, just to appease the royal family, the National Assembly did not cancel the administrative establishment of the royal capital Saran, and still let the royal family retain absolute administrative power over Saran.
In the face of the menacing Congress, the royal family also had to bow their heads and agree to the Congress's request to move the capital, but the two sides had some differences on the position of the capital.
According to the royal family's ideas, even if the capital is moved, the new capital should still be chosen in the royal territory, and there is no shortage of some extremely good cities in the royal territory, and all kinds of infrastructure are very complete, just move it directly, and there is no need to consider the cost and time of reconstruction.
But of course, the parliament did not agree to such a proposal, after all, it was not easy to move the national capital from Saran, where the royal family had great influence, and now choose a city where the royal domain is located, isn't that the same as not moving the capital?
So the parliament and the royal family have been at loggerheads over this issue for months, and this dispute has spread from the House of Parliament to the people, and even the entire kingdom of England, and a storm that could almost split the kingdom of England into two parts is about to form.
In this regard, the parliament and the royal family are aware of it, and they are unwilling to see the division of the Kingdom of England, especially at that time, when the Navy of the Kingdom of England dominates the sea, once it is divided, the Kingdom of England will inevitably lose its status as the supremacy of the sea, which will not benefit either side.
So, after some consultations, the royal family and parliament chose a compromise plan, choosing an area that has a deep relationship with the royal family and is not a royal domain to establish a new national capital, and Walshire became the first choice of the plan.
Turin is located on the banks of the Wales River, one of the three major rivers of the Kingdom of England, with excellent water transportation, and is not far from the nearest seaport, no matter what materials can be quickly transported from the waterway to the national capital, so it was also favored by the Congress, and after repeated discussions, it was designated as the national capital.
Speaking of which, Leo is no stranger to the urban layout and neighborhood division of the city of Turin, because it is a completely miniature version of the city of Miria.
When Turin was originally positioned as the national capital, it was still a humble town and everything needed to be rebuilt, so how to build the national capital became a point of contention within the National Assembly.
Many architects of the Kingdom of England, and even architects from abroad, have gathered here and come up with a sophisticated plan to the Congress, hoping to become the chief designer of the capital of the Kingdom of England, after all, the title of chief designer of the capital of a country is a dazzling crown for any architect.
At that time, Congress discussed this for a long time, not that there was anything wrong with these design proposals, but that each of them was very good and could be approved by a part of the National Assembly, and in the end, the Congress could not make a final decision at all.
However, it was not a good idea for things to drag on like this, and in the end, it was proposed to simply use the city of Miria as a model to rebuild the capital of the Kingdom of England.
Although this proposal sounds absurd now, it was very popular at the time, after all, at that time, the city of Miria was called the center of the world, and the Kingdom of England used this city as a prototype to build a new national capital, which also showed their ambition, and they hoped that the national capital Durin would replace Miria City as the new world center and the capital of the world in the future.
However, after the construction, the old men of the Congress discovered a problem, the reason why Miria City is called the capital of the world is because it is not only inhabited by people from all over the world, but also countless buildings with different styles. But when they decided to use Miria City as the prototype of the national capital, they didn't think about this until the national capital building was partially built, and they realized that something was wrong.
It's just that it's too late to tear down and rebuild, and in order to save the situation, the Congress issued an extremely ridiculous-sounding order, that is, all buildings built in the national capital after that must have unique characteristics, whether it is shops, apartments, official residences, or office buildings, there must be no duplicate styles.
I have to say that this order, which sounds very absurd even now, saved the national capital of Turin, which almost became the laughing stock of the world, and made Turin 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, in a dozen floors of guest rooms, standing by the huge windows, watching the people who come and go downstairs to make a living and the strange style of buildings that stretch into the distance.
It's just that his mind at the moment is not on these buildings that fascinate architects from all over the world, but on other things.
When he was in Kevintown, Leo had already talked to Wizard Otto as the representative of the royal family and Frank Fussen as the representative of the Special Bureau about trading wizarding healing potions, in fact, when he said that he could trade with both parties at the same time, their faces looked a little strange, mixed with surprise, suspicion and other emotions.
The reason why the old wizard and Frank Fuson have such expressions is because according to their understanding, it is very difficult for wizards to refine a bottle of wizard potion, not only does it require a high degree of alchemy, but it also takes a certain amount of time to refine the medicine, so Leo can refine two bottles in a month It is already very good.
They all knew a lot about the black market, and knew that Leo had sold more than twenty bottles of wizard healing potions to the black market before, and they all believed that those were accumulated by Leo before, not newly refined.
So they had to suspect that the wizarding potion that Leo was going to trade with them was defective, or had been blended.
It is inevitable that they will have such thoughts, after all, their concept of drug extraction is still stuck in the two methods of distillation and precipitation, which are now very authoritative, both of which take a long time to refine, while Leo adopts the more advanced and rapid centrifugal method of the Old Earth era to refine drugs.
After acquiring a machine-building factory, Leo set about making a number of mechanical tools, including a centrifuge to help him make medicines, but this centrifuge was powered by steam instead of electricity.
With this centrifuge, the refining work, which would have taken more than ten days to complete, was shortened to less than ten minutes, so the time it took him to refine a bottle of wizard healing potion was also shortened to less than half an hour.
In the face of the doubts of the two, Leo took out two bottles of healing potions as samples and handed them to the two, and said that the treatment potions delivered in the future will be based on this standard, and the two of them are relieved.
His deal with the old wizard was simple, he took out a considerable amount of money or other equivalent materials, and exchanged twenty bottles of healing potions from Leo's hand.
And Frank Forson's transaction was a bit troublesome, he could only take out a part of the money now, and the other part of the most important eternal wisdom of the divine revelation needed to be reported to the Congress and arranged time, which made Leo forget about the Prince of Wales and follow Frank Fussen to the national capital, and was arranged to stay in the largest hotel in the national capital.
During these two days, Frank Foson was working to convince Congress and the royal family to transfer his access to the Eternal Wisdom Artifact to the Leo Ceremony, but judging by the look on his face when he came to see Leo, it didn't seem to be as simple as he expected.
Leo didn't care, because even if the deal didn't go through, he had nothing to lose.
During his stay at the hotel, Leo secretly left the hotel twice, both times to the city's black market.
Compared to the black market in Port Set, the black market in the national capital is a little too much like the black market, but like a private club, only those with credentials can enter, it is obvious that the black market in the national capital should be officially recognized, and may even have some special cooperation with the Special Bureau.
After arriving at the Black Market, Leo buys a copy of Frank Forson's information directly from here, and the Black Market answers that it will take 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 what he wanted, he just wanted the result.
So when he came to the black market for the second time to get information, he had already found that he was followed by several tails when he left the black market.
Instead of getting rid of the tails, he let them follow him back to the hotel, knowing full well that the news of his purchase would soon reach Frank Fawson.
Although there is a cooperative relationship between the black market and the Special Bureau, the information sold on the black market has not been cut because of this relationship, and even the information of the director of the Special Bureau is still very detailed as long as he can afford to pay for it.
Although these materials are recorded in a very boring way, like some formulaic documents, Leo is very fascinated, and he also has a little admiration for Frank Forson in his heart, I have to say that the Special Bureau of the Kingdom of England can have the current strength, and suppress all kinds of extraordinary people in the Kingdom of England are honest, and his efforts over the years are inseparable.
Just like Leo's first impression when he first saw Frank Fussen, Frank Fussen's age is really not as old as his appearance seems, in fact, Frank Fussen is only in his thirties, and the reason why he looks so old is mainly because when he uses his family power, he is also overdrawing his life force.
It is well known that Frank Forson is a family member, but no one knows which god Frank Fuson is a family member of.
This person who was able to elevate the Special Bureau to the pinnacle of power in the Kingdom of England despite the suppression of both the parliament and the royal family had a very ordinary background.
He was only a fisherman's son, and his experience before the age of fifteen was very ordinary, like most fishermen's sons, he attended the kingdom's public school, and after completing six years of schooling, he was not able to enter a higher education, so he had to go home to inherit the family business and become a fisherman.
At the age of fifteen, Frank Forson 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 overboard.
The shipwrecked men were eventually rescued by a passing fishing boat, and the number of people returning had been halved, and Frank Forson was one of them.
Everyone thought that the victims were dead, and a public funeral was held for them according to the rules, but unexpectedly, on the third day after the funeral, Frank Fussen returned to the fishing village alive.
What's even more bizarre is that Frank Forson doesn't know how he came back alive, he only remembers that he was hit by the waves, sank to the bottom of the sea little by little, and then lost consciousness, but when he woke up, he was already lying on the beach not far from his village, and the memories of these days in the middle were completely lost.
As a result, some people thought that Frank Fussen was favored by the sea god so that he was able to survive, and this was recognized by many people, and it spread, and finally alarmed the special bureau and the royal family.
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