Chapter 999 File Data

The port of Randall is not a port based on culture. There are only two schools in such a big city, one is the church school of the Sea God Church, and the other is the seafarer school established by the local government.

Residents of the port will send their children to church schools to learn characters, and once they know how to read, they will be sent to seaman schools to learn how to be a qualified sailor. This also makes nearly three-quarters of the population of Randall Port Sailors, sailors.

For sailors and sailors, the best place to go home after going out to sea is definitely not a cultural place. Taverns are their biggest concern for the port, so there are thousands of taverns in the entire port, and bootleg alcohol is sold on the streets. There are countless wine dealers.

Compared with the thriving wine industry in the port, there are very few places related to books in the entire port city. Except that every church has a library of classics for believers to borrow for free, there are only bookstores that sell all kinds of books in the true sense. One, and there is only one in the public library industry, and it was established decades ago because of the policy requirements of the empire. The house used was an old apartment donated by a wealthy port businessman. When I saw this library for the first time, I was a little skeptical that it would survive this year.

"I'm going to the archives of the city government?" Leo frowned when he saw the words "Library" listed on the house number, and turned to ask the driver.

"My lord, this is the archives of the city government." The attendant sent by Sylvia replied hastily: "The original archives have been dismantled a few years ago, and the files related to maritime affairs were sent to the Sailor Academy , the files related to the church were sent to the church, the files related to administration were sent to the city government, and the rest of the files were sent to the library for preservation. You have a note issued by the master, you can check the library, seaman's college and city government government files, but if you want to view files sent to the church, you may need permission from the church.”

After hearing this, Leo walked straight into the library without saying anything, and showed the note approved by Sylvia to the librarian who came up to him, and then he was led by the librarian to a pile of sundries, covered on the surface. A room with a thick layer of dust and a musty smell.

"All the files are placed here. They were not sorted out when they were sent a few years ago, mainly due to lack of manpower. After that, new files are sent in every month, and I pile them up." The administrator worried. Looking at Leo, he explained: "If you need manual cleaning, I can call some people to come, but you may need to pay extra wages."

"Go down! I'll stay here for a while." Leo didn't intend to sort out the files, so he gave instructions to the administrator, and after the other party closed the door, he used the spirit net to start scanning the files and books inside.

After mastering the correct psychic skills, the mental network not only expands its coverage many times, but also its fineness. The ink writing on paper can be easily scanned, even if the paper is moldy. It can also be easily cleaned out from the mildew by comparing the differences in the ingredients. The pile of moldy archives in the entire room took less than three minutes to be thoroughly scanned into original data by SpiritNet. , entered into Leo's database.

After that, what Leo did in the room was to sort out these messy archives, but the sorting work took Leo more than an hour.

As the attendant introduced, there are no administrative documents in these archives, nor documents related to navigation, and there are no religious documents at all. The most content in these archives is the records of population births and deaths. document.

These extremely boring data files, in the eyes of ordinary people, may be considered useless and will not be memorized, but Leo thinks that these data files should be used in the future, so he earnestly included them in the database.

After scanning and sorting out these files, Leo turned around and opened the door and walked out, took out a little 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 to close the door of the archives, but when he closed the door, he looked at the room with some doubts. Those sundries without any traces of moving, can'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 Sailor Academy. Compared with the library, these two places are obviously checked more strictly, but Sylvia's Tiaozi opened the way, and he didn't encounter any intentional troubles.

However, it is obvious that the people here seem to be very hostile to the English people. After knowing Leo's identity, although they didn't make things difficult for Leo, they didn't intend to help Leo either.

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 The conflicts between the ships in the country are also increasing day by day, and the entire port of Randall is filled with hostility to the Kingdom of England.

It is also because of this that Sylvia said that when she handed over the issued note to Leo, because in her opinion, it was certain that Leo would encounter difficulties in the urban area. The difference is just the degree of difficulty.

However, Sylvia obviously underestimated her influence. Without Sylvia, Leo, who came to Randall alone, might encounter the kind of trouble she expected, and might even do something, but because Sylvia Even though the people here also don't have the slightest liking for Leo, an Englishman, they are able to maintain reason and conduct business in a business-like manner without letting their emotions influence their behavior.

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

Now the complete file about Randall Port is only missing the Sea God Church's file, and even if the Sea God Church's file is missing, Leo can still analyze some things from the existing file data.

As he thought at the beginning, the population data archives in the library are indeed very useful. By making these data into charts, and then pasting the events recorded in other archives and affecting the entire port on the table by year, so that As soon as he came, many things hidden in the complicated data files were displayed in front of him very eye-catchingly.

The data here is incomplete. This incompleteness is not artificial incompleteness, but because the port of Randall has not established the habit of recording data in the past.

Among all the data files, the earliest data file was hundreds of years ago. Randall had changed from a small fishing village to a small seaport. At that time, the Sea God Church had also established a foothold in Randall Port.

Subsequent population data show that there have been three population explosions in Randall Port. The first population explosion was due to a religious ceremony held by the Sea God Church on Wanghai Cliff. The name of this religious ceremony and The effects are not recorded, but after this ceremony, Randall's population growth doubled every year, which lasted for ten years, and a large number of foreign populations moved in during this period.

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

After that, the lighthouse on Wanghai Cliff was built. After the lighthouse was built, it was also a religious ceremony of the Sea God Church. After that, the population of Port Randall soared to 800,000 in the first year, and continued to grow in the next two years. , until the population reached about 1.5 million before it calmed down.

You must know that this population of more than one million was hundreds of years ago. At that time, the population of the largest city, France, was only 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 if the port of Randall is not important in a knightly empire like the Faran Empire, or whether the Church of Sea God has successfully concealed it. In short, according to Leo’s understanding, various major events in the French Empire There is absolutely no such big news in the record that Port Randall has a population of 1.5 million.

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

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

Later, the population data showed the first cliff curve on the entire graph, and judging from the time, it should be the period when the Rose family crossed the sea to establish the Kingdom of England. resident.

Judging from this data, Leo feels that the English royal family's claim to be the son of the sea god may not be a groundless boast, because it is estimated based on the population. There was no need for the troops led by the British royal family at that time, and there was also a church of true God like the Sea God Church in Randall Port. If they wanted to stop it, it was absolutely impossible for the British royal family to take away so many people.

Then the only thing that can be explained is that the royal family of England is indeed the son of Sea God as they said, and the Church of Sea God had to acquiesce in their behavior of coercing people, and those who were taken away were also devout Sea God believers.

However, the English royal family's behavior of taking away a large number of people seems to have more than just a simple population reduction. From the subsequent data records, the population of Randall Port is declining year by year. It soon fell below the threshold of one million people. During the period of the great plague, the population was only about 300,000. It is the result of years of recuperation that the population has returned to 500,000.

From these population data, Leo also found that Landauer would hate and dislike the Kingdom of England so much. It is not just 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 Landaurs back then. one.

Because the population of Landauer has never returned to the peak of that year, and even went from bad to worse after taking away almost one million Landauer people, so as long as you have a little understanding of the history and population data of that year People will absolutely hate the royal family of England.

In addition to the population change that made Leo feel the role of the Sea God Church in this matter, Leo also found a doubtful point from the death data, which is the final result of his statistics of the death population, birth population and basic population. The values ​​did not match the values ​​on the data, and there was a difference of 347 people.

It’s fine if the numbers don’t match just a few times. After all, everyone makes mistakes in their calculations. But the problem is that, apart from the records, the population values ​​calculated by the statistics of each year are different from the values ​​calculated by Leo. , and the strange thing is that all the differences are about the same, between three hundred and forty-five and three hundred and fifty.

In other words, more than three hundred and forty people die in Port Randall every year for unknown reasons.

After making this discovery, Leo felt that the part of the materials taken by the Sea God Church might hide the answers to these questions, but he didn't rush to the Sea God Church to ask for the files to check, but told the coachman to go back to Castle Black.

Although he didn't understand what the Sea God Church was going to hide, he knew that since the Sea God Church wanted to hide these things, he definitely didn't want anyone to investigate. If he just asked for the information directly, the Sea God Church would definitely not agree. He has no intention of turning against the Sea God Church, so it is most appropriate to hand it over to Sylvia, Lord Randall, 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 in surprise and asked, "You're back so soon? Everything is fine." Is it going well?"

"It went well. Although I didn't provide any help when I checked the files, it didn't cause any trouble." Leo handed the coat on his body to the servant, then signaled the servant in the room to go out, and then investigated him. The result was told to Sylvia.

After hearing this, Sylvia showed doubts on her face, and muttered 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 the desk, and looked at the exquisitely crafted decorative books that had never been flipped through.

Afterwards, she picked out one of the books, flipped through it quickly, and quickly found what she was looking for, and said, "I knew where I saw this number before, so it was it. "

After speaking, she handed the open book to Leo, and pointed to the number three hundred and forty-six she found.