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After seeing Rhodes leave, Claire walked to the window, it was already evening, and the dusk covered the red brick city building and fell into it, which was very beautiful.

After he came to the Ryukyus, he was fascinated by the beautiful scenery, and he even thought about taking his wife to this beautiful place, but now everything is getting worse and worse.

Frowning, Claire had a hard time understanding why this King of Qi was so attached to Ryukyu, because from what he knew, the officials of the Great Yu Kingdom didn't seem to have much affection for Ryukyu.

Even when dealing with the king of Chu at the beginning, the king of Chu acquiesced in the fact that they occupied the Ryukyus, but now this king of Qi has changed everything.

"Fifteen Galen warships?"

Claire recalls the fleet that belonged to the King of Qi, and now he is most puzzled by why the King of Qi has both flintlock pistols and galen ships, which are the standard warships of Europe.

He had been thinking about this question since he came back from Dengzhou, but no one could give him an answer.

The arquebus could be explained, but he could not figure out the flintlock pistol and the battleship, because with the industrial capacity of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, even if he mastered the technology of the flintlock pistol, it was impossible to make the flintlock pistol and the battleship so easily.

In particular, the cast iron cannon on the city wall, this kind of cast iron cannon has only been the mainstream of naval artillery in Europe for more than 30 years, but even so, the explosion rate of this naval cannon is higher than that of bronze cannons.

According to the King of Chu, this batch of artillery has an accident of exploding, but each explosion will not cause much damage, and the accident rate is very low, which is enough to show the excellent quality of this cast iron cannon.

Thinking of this, Claire became more and more uneasy, if this Qi King had such a powerful industrial capacity, then he had to think about this matter carefully.

After all, fighting such a powerful vassal king in the waters near the Great Yu Kingdom would be a disaster, and would even lead to their permanent withdrawal from East Asian trade.

So he didn't consider Rhodes' suggestion at the beginning, if the British were involved, it would only anger the King of Qi, and the British had been coveting the East Asian route for a long time, which was tantamount to luring the wolf into the house at this time.

After hesitating for a long time, Claire was ready to take a more secure approach, and he was ready to let Rhodes send another envoy, but this time he was going to let Rhodes go to Qingzhou, the capital of King Qi's fiefdom.

If it was confirmed that the Qi king was indeed as powerful as he had imagined, he would have to carefully consider the Qi king's suggestion, so that at least they could keep their trade in East Asia than lose everything.

In his opinion, Rhodes had been in the Ryukyus for too long, and he had no idea what was going on in Europe, and that the Netherlands was now weaker and weaker, and could no longer compete with European powers for trade routes.

So trade in East Asia was very important to the Dutch.

Sighing, Claire looked out into the bay, where his fleet was anchored in the crescent-like docks, where many Dutch merchant ships docked, and it was through this that they brought goods from East Asia back home.

As the sun sets, Claire finally decides that the Great Chongqing Kingdom is completely different from the Americas and Africa they have conquered, that this is a civilization similar to them, rather than a primitive tribal state.

The war machine of such a country would be terrifying.

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Qingzhou.

Xiao Ming's days suddenly became idle, and in the past two days, he was either in the palace and Fei Yue'er's underwear design problems, or went to Bowen Academy to supervise the students' learning.

Now that the overall situation is temporarily stable, he wants to take advantage of this period of stability to cultivate more talents, and it is not enough to rely on Lin Wentao and Lu Tong alone.

His goal is to make science and technology flourish everywhere at the University of Liberal Arts.

"Your Highness, now that the style of this underwear has basically been determined, the female workers of the textile workshop are producing underwear, but now how to promote this underwear?"

In the dormitory, Fei Yue'er propped her arms on the table, where she was unfamiliar with life and didn't know where to start.

Xiao Ming actually had an idea in his heart for a long time, there were not too many powerful people and ladies in Qingzhou, so he could only find an authoritative figure from other places to come over.

So he said to Fei Yue'er: "Actually, if you want to promote underwear, there is a person who is very suitable?" ”

Fei Yue'er suddenly said earnestly: "Who is it?" ”

"Princess Pingyang." Xiao Ming said lightly, Princess Pingyang has always been known for her bold style, and this bra and something like that will probably interest this princess.

After all, Princess Pingyang is the fashion vane of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and this underwear is not only used to cover shame, but also has a very important role to make women more attractive.

Fei Yue'er suddenly understood, but the excitement just disappeared with her brows, and she said decadently: "It's just that Her Royal Highness the princess has a respected status, and now she is in Chang'an, is she willing to come?" ”

"This is not necessarily, last time she went to the king's fiefdom for the sake of glass, and now you go to write a letter in the name of Princess Qi, maybe she will come." Xiao Ming's eyes rolled, "Then you describe the changes in Qingzhou now, with my aunt's temperament, I can't say that I will come." ”

Fei Yue'er bit her lip, she was timid, but thinking that she could help Xiao Ming, she nodded and said, "The concubine will send a letter to Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

After that, Fei Yue'er asked Xiaohuan to take a pen and paper and write.

Xiao Ming sat on one side to supervise, and when Fei Yue'er put down the pen, a line of beautiful small characters jumped on the paper, very neat and beautiful, looking at these calligraphy-like handwriting Xiao Ming was embarrassed.

Compared with Fei Yue'er's calligraphy, her handwriting is as cold as that of an earthworm looking for a mother.

wrote the letter, Fei Yue'er handed the letter to Xiaohuan, and asked her to hand over the letter to the post station to send to Chang'an, and then she seemed to remember something and said: "Your Highness, this underwear is manufactured, but there are very few dyeing workshops in Qingzhou, and they can only dye a single color. ”

Textile dyeing cloth is not separated, although Xiao Ming is idle now, he has been thinking about improving the quality of Qingzhou clothes, so as to quickly dominate the market.

In this way, in addition to the textile process, what is needed is the dyeing workshop, and only the fabric that can be dyed with different colors can be sewn into beautiful clothes.

This dyeing workshop is also the industry that Xiao Ming is preparing to improve, so he said: "The princess and this king really have a good understanding, the textile workshop in Qingzhou is still left by the former Sun family, and now it is time to improve the dyeing process." ”

Seeing Xiao Ming's playful words, Fei Yue'er laughed lightly.

(To be continued.) )