Before the appearance of Miria City, Winter Rin City has always been the largest city in the Vilen Continent, and even in the entire Velon world, it is not like Miria City became the largest city after several expansions, it has been the largest city from the moment it was built.

When the Knight King reunited the continent of Veron, established the Third Dynasty of France, and moved the capital of the French Emperor from the west coast to the edge of the Vinovian Mountains on the east coast, he hoped to re-establish the spirit of the Pharan, and at the same time re-establish his own world wonder, so he decided to build the largest city in the world.

According to the requirements of the knight king at that time, the new emperor should be large enough to accommodate all the people of the entire French Empire at that time and not be crowded, so the city builders at that time designed a city with a large area, not only encompassing the entire winter hills to this imperial capital, but even occupying half of the yew forest farm and a high mountain called the sword hilt.

Unlike other huge cities that did not have defensive walls, Winter Rin City was built from the beginning of its construction with a huge wall that could enclose the entire Winter Castle, which was not only high, but also thick, so that six carriages could run and turn side by side on the wall.

And this wall has not been used in the normal way since the moment it was built, because no army has ever reached the city of Winter Rin, so some countries hostile to the French Empire laughed at it as the most useless building facility.

In addition to the magnificent city walls, the Knight King also built a large number of buildings in the city boasting of his achievements and the glorious history of the French Empire, such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Hundred Horsemen, the Panthéon, etc., and these magnificent buildings gradually formed a unique architectural style in the process of design and construction, which is called Flange style architecture in architecture.

The main characteristics of this type of building are the grand and square shape, the walls have a large number of exquisite reliefs that record historical stories, the eaves and columns have stone carvings representing some great people, the interior decoration is solemn, with a large number of gold-rimmed twig patterns, and there are also dome frescoes painted with various ecclesiastical classics.

The city is made up of seven blocks with different functions, each of which has ten of these flanged buildings, which is very dense, but the entire urban area of Winter Rin City is not the most densely populated area of flange buildings, and the hill where the palace is located is not even named.

The Knight King built the palace on that high sword-shaped mountain, and the surrounding yew forest became a royal courtyard, and the entire palace was built in thousands of large and small, all of them were flanged buildings, and each building had a unique name, so even those who lived in the palace all year round could not necessarily remember the name of each palace.

It is precisely because the Knight King's plan for the entire Winter Rin City is too grand and perfect that he was not able to see the completion of Winter Rin City until his death, and the later Emperor Fran continued to build it for more than two hundred years before all the buildings planned and designed were completed according to the design specifications.

Later historians have a view that it was precisely because of the huge expenditure on the construction of the imperial capital that consumed a large amount of funds from the French treasury that the French Empire was unable to catch up with the Age of Discovery initiated by the Sigmar Kingdom at the beginning, and an empire that occupied the entire continent was not able to seize any territory at sea.

However, the French Empire did not think that such a cost was not worth it, they were still immersed in the dream of the greatest power on land, the greatest city, and the vast majority of the nobles and generals who dominated the entire empire believed that the land in their hands was far more valuable than the uncontrollable sea.

What's more, at that time, the Continental Council was being established, and the French Empire fought to set up the headquarters of the Continental Council in the empire, and most of the people in the empire believed that as long as they controlled the continental parliament, they could indirectly control the entire Velonite world, and it was not necessary to have maritime hegemony.

It's a pity that although their ideas are very good, but the development of things is not as they wish, the continental council of Miria City is not only not controlled by the French Empire, but also allows the influence of various countries to infiltrate the French Empire, and the current division of the French Empire is largely due to this.

At the beginning, the French Empire chose to completely destroy Miria City, I am afraid that it was largely because the Imperial side hated Miria City to the extreme.

Although the imperial capital was built in consideration of the later population growth and other issues, the area was expanded in a limited way, but the original designers still did not expect that the population growth caused by the long-term peace of the French Empire was absolutely explosive, and when the imperial capital was completely built, the population of the imperial capital had reached the limit of accommodation, so that the French emperor had to build a town outside the city, and clean up a group of residents in the imperial capital, and specified a very strict entry qualification review system, which is the initial version of the current imperial capital review system。

Now, Leo and Sylvia are being questioned by the examiners of this system, if it was before, as long as they did not live in the imperial capital for a long time, they did not need to undergo a qualification review, but with the continuous improvement of the system, the rules have become more and more stringent, and because the qualification for the right of residence in the imperial capital is very difficult to obtain, living in the imperial capital has become an alternative status symbol.

"How long do you plan to stay in the Imperial Capital?" the examiner routinely asked a question that had to be asked.

"It's no longer up to me to decide this, and I can't give an answer. Leo replied as usual.

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

"It's no longer up to me to decide this, and I can't give an answer. Leo replied with the same sentence.

In this way, the examiner asked, Leo replied, and the answer to all the questions after that, except for the first name, was almost the same sentence.

Soon the examiner's interrogation was over, and he handed Leo the inquiry form he had just filled out, asked Leo to sign it, and then received the form in his briefcase, and turned around and left the temporary apartment where Leo lived.

"Is there any point in asking about these things?" asked Leo, turning to one of the attendants assigned to him by the Special Operations Division.

The attendant shrugged his shoulders and said, "Bureaucracy is to focus on this situation, although the content is meaningless, but the procedure will not work without this step." With that, he turned to Leo and asked, "Is there anything you need me to do?"

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

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

"Can I go to the archives now?" Leo asked confirmingly, "What formalities are not required?"

"No, you don't. The attendant pointed to the medal hanging from Leo's chest and said, "With this medal, you can access all the unsealed materials in the archives." ”

Hearing the squire's words, Leo thought about it and asked the squire to take him to the archives.

At this time, Sylvia's interrogation was also over, both the content of the questions and the content of the answers were almost the same as Leo, and Sylvia, who had been in the power center of the French Empire for a short time, had long been accustomed to the bureaucracy of the French Empire, which was supreme in system and procedure, and did not show doubts and incomprehension.

When she saw Leo and the attendant leave the apartment, she followed, inquired about it, and learned that Leo had gone to the archives, and she decided to go with her, and asked her attendant to bring some forms to apply for access to blocked documents, as if she was interested in some of the blocked documents.

The group soon arrived at the archives, where Leo and Sylvia found a relatively secluded place to sit down, and then asked the attendant to find the materials they were interested in and quickly flipped through them.

Leo mainly wanted newspapers from the last few months, and he wanted to learn from the newspapers about the various things that had happened in the continent of Veron in the last few months, especially after the world had mutated.

As the chamberlain had said, the Special Operations Division had collected a wide range of newspapers, not only the large newspapers of the entire empire, but also the important newspapers of each town.

Leo flipped through them quickly, and after months of accumulation, he had read them all in less than an hour, which made the attendants who walked back and forth to help Leo carry the materials tired, and once suspected that Leo was deliberately playing tricks on him, after all, before this, he had never seen a person who could flip through all the newspapers so quickly.

However, in addition to being surprised, the attendant officer was quickly relieved, after all, in a place like the Special Operations Division, it is always possible to see some people with strange abilities, and among these people, there is not a single person who can read quickly.

The squire officer didn't know that these newspapers were only read once, and it was not over for Leo, this was the first step for him to collect and sort out the information, and then he also needed to analyze the authenticity of the contents of these newspapers, the concealment of those contents, and the complete fakeness of those contents.

This was largely due to the fact that the entire Reich press industry was under the control of the Reich Government, so the information published in the newspapers had to be re-analysed to be able to determine its accuracy, especially for all reports relating to the United Kingdom.

In all the newspapers he saw, all the reports about the United Kingdom were negative, and there was not a single good word that almost said that the United Kingdom was hell on earth.

While the news about the United Kingdom is fraught with hostility and prejudice, there is also a lot of useful intelligence information mixed in with these texts, which have been completely deviated.

For example, the Government of the United Kingdom took over Cage City and built several additional towns to relocate its inhabitants.

The content of this news is not very large, and most of it is the text of the United Kingdom government's forcible eviction of the residents of Caged City in disregard of the stable life of the residents of Caged City, but the careful Leo can see something useful from these short contents.

For example, the United Kingdom government took over the cage city and moved the residents of the cage city away, but did not demolish the cage city, which is obviously not in line with the principle of maximizing the interests of Rupert Fitz, a businessman-turned-United Kingdom prime minister.

And there was a follow-up inconspicuous report, mentioning that the United Kingdom sent troops to the cage city, and the report speculated that some people in the cage city were unwilling to move out, and the British government wanted to forcibly use the army to arrest and even kill the residents of the cage city.

But if you look closely, you will find that this report has been a few months since the report of the relocation of the residents of Cage City, judging by this time, with Rupert Fitz's methods, the residents of Cage City have already moved away, even if there is a stubborn resistance, there is no need to send an army at all, just let the people of Cage City solve it themselves, and he can come out to clean up the mess.

Therefore, those troops stationed in Cage City were obviously not going for the residents of Cage City, but probably for the ruins below Cage City.

Back then, although Leo also explored the underground ruins in Cage City, the part he explored was only part of the area, and there were also a large number of areas that were buried, or semi-buried underground, and there were so many mysterious things in the places he explored, and there should be a lot of other places, obviously the United Kingdom wanted to carefully study the contents of the underground ruins of Cage City.

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

While the United Kingdom's wanted and arrests for those who have gone out of control have not been lifted, they seem to have shown a modicum of goodwill towards those who are still sane.

It's just that Leo doesn't think that the United Kingdom government is really kind and willing to unconditionally contain these mutants who may get out of control at any time, because the report mentions that Lawrence, the blood wizard who has become an earl, is the main person in charge of this containment plan, and when you think of some of the things Lawrence did during the plague in Miria City, you can feel that the United Kingdom should have other plans.

In addition, Leo also received a lot of information about the Empire, the most worthy of his attention was that the Emperor Fran transferred a large amount of money from the royal treasury to fund the research of some scholars of the Imperial Academy, but in more than a dozen large and small newspapers, dozens of reports related to it, there was no mention of how much money the Emperor Fran had taken out, funded those scholars, and researched something, as if these contents had been deliberately deleted.

The only thing that is clear is that Louis X took these studies very seriously, and gave the scholars great privileges to call upon all the resources of the imperial government when they needed them, and there was no limit to 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 was in Winter Rin City, and it would not delay his affairs.