Randall Port is not a port based on culture. There are only two schools in such a big city, one is the church school of Poseidon Church, and the other is the seaman's school established by the local government.

The residents of the port will send their children to church schools to learn writing. Once they know how to read, they will be sent to seamen's schools to learn how to be a qualified sailor. This also makes nearly three-quarters of the population of Randall Port

sailor, sailor.

For sailors, the best place to return home after a trip to sea is definitely not a cultural place. Taverns are their biggest concern for the port. Therefore, there are thousands of large and small pubs in the entire port, and private wine is sold on the streets.

There are countless wine vendors.

Compared with the prosperous wine industry in the port, there are very few places related to books in the entire port city. In addition to each church having a library of classics for believers to borrow for free, there are only bookstores that sell all kinds of books in the true sense.

There is only one public library, and it was only established decades ago due to the policy requirements of the empire. The house used is an old apartment donated by a wealthy port businessman. It has not been renovated for decades, so that Leo

When I first saw this library, I had some doubts about whether it could survive this year.

"I'm going to the city government's archives?" Leo frowned when he saw the name "Library" on the door plate, then turned to the coachman and asked.

"Sir, this is the archives of the city government." The attendant sent by Sylvia quickly replied: "The original archives was split up a few years ago, and the files related to maritime affairs were sent to the Seamen's College.

, the files related to the church were sent to the church, the files related to administration were sent to the city government, and the remaining files were sent to the library for storage. If you have a note signed by the owner, you can check the library, Sailors College and the city

Government files, but if you want to view the files sent to the church, you may need permission from the church."

After hearing this, Leo didn't say anything, and walked straight into the library. He showed the librarian who came up to him the note signed by Sylvia, and was then led to a room full of sundries with a cover on the surface.

The room was covered with a thick layer of dust and exuded a musty smell.

"All the files are put here. They were not sorted out when they were sent here a few years ago. Mainly due to lack of manpower. After that, new files were sent every month, and I piled them on top." The administrator was worried.

He looked at Leo and explained: "If you need manual sorting, I can call some people, but you may need to pay extra labor."

"Go down! I'll stay here for a while." Leo had no intention of sorting out these files, so he ordered the administrator. After the other party closed the door, he used the mental network to start scanning the files and books inside.

After mastering the correct psychic skills, the mental network not only expands many times in coverage, but also in terms of precision. The ink writing on the paper can be easily scanned, even if the paper is moldy,

It can also be easily cleaned out from mold spots by comparing the differences in ingredients. It only took less than three minutes for the pile of moldy archives in the entire room to be completely scanned into original data by the Spiritual Network.

, included in Leo's database.

What Leo did in the room after that was to sort out these messy files, and the sorting work actually took Leo more than an hour.

As the attendant explained, there are no documents related to administrative decrees, no documents related to navigation, and no religious documents at all in these files. The largest content in these files is records of births and deaths.

document.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these extremely boring data files may be considered useless and they would not go out of their way to remember them. However, Leo felt that these data files should be used in the future, so he carefully included them in the database.

After scanning and organizing these files, Leo turned around, opened the door and walked out, took out a small tip and handed it to the administrator waiting at the door, and then left the library.

The librarian looked at the tip in his hand, with a satisfied smile on his face. After stuffing it into his pocket, he stepped forward and closed the door to the archives. When he closed the door, he looked around the room with some confusion.

There were no traces of the debris being moved, and one couldn't help but wonder what Leo was doing during that time.

After leaving the library, Leo sent the carriage to the archives of the city hall and the archives of the Mariner College respectively. Compared with the library, these two places obviously need to be inspected more strictly, but with Sylvia's

Tiaozi opened the way, and he didn't encounter any deliberately difficult things.

However, it is obvious that the people here seem to be very hostile to the Yingers. After knowing Leo's identity, although they did not embarrass Leo, they also had no intention of actively helping Leo.

This situation has long been expected by Leo. As the Kingdom of England establishes maritime hegemony, fishing port cities like Randall that operate marine fisheries will naturally be greatly affected. Randall's fishing boats and the Kingdom of England

Conflicts between ships were also increasing day by day, and hostility towards the Kingdom of England was permeated throughout Randall Harbor.

It is precisely because of this that Sylvia said those words when she handed the signed note to Leo, because in her opinion, it was certain that Leo would encounter trouble in the city.

The only difference is the degree of difficulty.

However, Sylvia obviously underestimated her influence. Without Sylvia, Leo, who came to Randall alone, might have encountered the kind of difficulties she expected, and might even take action, but because of Sylvia

With regard to Via's relationship, even though the people here didn't have the slightest favorable impression of Leo, an Englishman, they were still able to remain rational, handle business matters, and did not let their emotions influence their behavior.

Although the process was somewhat tortuous, the result was still good. Neither archives deliberately hid any files, and Leo quickly included these files in his database.

Currently, the only complete file about Randall Port is that of the Poseidon Church. Even if the file of the Poseidon Church is missing, Leo can still analyze some things from the existing file data.

As he initially thought, the population data files in the library were indeed very useful. By making these data into charts, and then pasting the events that affected the entire port recorded in other files on the chart by year, this way

As soon as he came, many things hidden in the complicated data files were displayed in front of him in an extremely eye-catching manner.

The data here are incomplete. This incompleteness is not due to artificial incompleteness, but because the Port of Landauer has not established the habit of recording data in the past.

Among all the data files, the earliest data file is from hundreds of years ago. Randall had transformed from a small fishing village into a small seaport. At that time, the Poseidon Church had also established a foothold in Randall Port.

Later population data showed that there were three explosive population growths in Randall Port. The first explosive population growth was due to a religious ceremony held by the Poseidon Church at Wanghai Cliff. The name of this religious ceremony was

The effect has not been recorded, but after this ceremony, the population of Randall doubled every year for ten years, and during this period, a large number of foreign people moved in.

When the population curve stabilized, the total population of Landauer Port had reached 300,000, which was already considered a large city in the French Empire at that time.

After that, there was the establishment of the lighthouse on the sea cliff. After the lighthouse was built, it was also a religious ceremony of the Poseidon Church. After that, the population of Randall Harbor surged to 800,000 in the first year, and continued to grow in the next two years.

, did not level off until the population reached about 1.5 million.

You must know that this population of more than one million was hundreds of years ago. Even the largest city in France at that time had a population of just over one million, but the population of such a small seaport city reached one hundred.

Around half a million, this will definitely shock the world.

However, I don’t know whether Port Randall was not important in a knightly empire like the French Empire, or whether the Poseidon Church was very successful in concealing it. In short, according to Leo’s understanding, various major events in the French Empire at that time

There is absolutely no such big news in the records as Port Randall's population reaching 1.5 million.

The third population explosion occurred when Castle Black was built, which was also a religious ceremony. In the following four years, the population of Port Randall had grown to nearly three million.

If the population data Leo saw were not false, then Randall Port at that time should be regarded as the most populous city in the entire world of Velen.

Later, the population data showed the first cliff curve on the entire graph. From a time point of view, it should be the period when the Rose family crossed the sea to establish the Kingdom of England. The royal family of England at that time must have taken over many people in Port Randall.

resident.

Judging from this data, Leo felt that the Ying royal family's claim to be the son of Poseidon might not be an unfounded boast, because based on the population estimate, Randall Port was held hostage at that time, and the population of the Ying Islands across the sea was far away.

There were more troops led by the Yingge royal family at that time, and there was also a True God Church like the Poseidon Church in Randall Port. If they wanted to stop it, the Yinge royal family would never be able to take away so many people.

Then the only explanation that can be made is that the Yinge royal family is indeed the son of Poseidon as they said, and the Poseidon Church had to acquiesce in their behavior of coercing the population, and those who were taken away were also devout Poseidon believers.

However, the impact of the British royal family's removal of a large number of people on Randall Port seems to be more than just a decrease in population. Judging from subsequent data records, the population of Randall Port has been declining year by year.

It soon fell below the one million mark. By the time of the Great Plague, the population was only over 300,000. The current population has returned to 500,000, which is the result of years of recuperation and rest.

From these population data, Leo also found that Randall's hatred and disgust for the Kingdom of England was not only the behavior of the Kingdom of England after it became the overlord of the sea. I am afraid that the Kingdom of England took away so many Randall people.

one.

Because after taking away nearly one million Randall people, the population of Randall has never returned to its peak, and has even gotten worse. Therefore, as long as you have a little understanding of the history and population data of that year,

People will definitely hate the British royal family deeply.

In addition to the changes in the population that made Leo feel the role of the Poseidon Church in this matter, Leo also discovered a suspicious point from the death data, which was the final sum of his statistics of death population, birth population and basic population.

The numerical value does not match the numerical value in the data, and there is a difference of 347 people.

It would be fine if the values ​​just didn’t match up a few times. After all, everyone makes miscalculations sometimes. But the problem is that except for records, the population statistics calculated every year are different from the values ​​calculated by Leo.

, and the strange thing is that all the differences are similar, between three hundred and forty-five and three hundred and fifty.

In other words, more than 340 people die in mysterious circumstances in Randall Harbor every year.

After making this discovery, Leo felt that the part of the information taken by the Poseidon Church might hide the answers to these questions. However, he did not rush to the Poseidon Church to ask for the files, but instead ordered the coachman to return to Castle Black.

Although he didn't understand what the Poseidon Church was trying to hide, he knew that since the Poseidon Church wanted to conceal these things, it definitely didn't want anyone to investigate. If he directly asked for information like this, the Poseidon Church would definitely not agree, and

He has no intention of falling out with the Poseidon Church, so it is most appropriate to leave it to Sylvia, Lord Randall, to handle it at this time.

After Leo returned to the castle, Sylvia hadn't finished processing today's official documents. When she saw Leo walking in, she looked at Leo with some surprise and asked, "Come back so soon? Everything is wrong."

Is it going well?"

"It went smoothly. Although I didn't provide any help when reviewing the files, I didn't cause any trouble." Leo handed the coat to the servant, then motioned the servant in the room to go out, and then investigated him.

The result was told to Sylvia.

After hearing this, Sylvia had a look of confusion on her face and murmured to herself: "Three hundred and forty-six? I seem to have seen this number somewhere?"

As Sylvia spoke, she stood up, walked to the decorative bookcase next to her desk, and then looked at the extremely beautifully crafted decorative books that she had never read.

Then, I saw her picking out a book from the books, flipping through it quickly, and soon found what she was looking for, and said: "I knew where I saw this number, it turned out to be it.

"
Chapter completed!