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Clauswell stayed in Nanjing for almost two months, and seriously, he really didn't want to leave.

He has traveled all over the world, and no other city has given him so much shock as Nanjing.

The metaphor of a garden for this huge city is simply an insult to it.

It's so huge, so clean and tidy, every street that Clauswell walks, some are paved with bluestone slabs, and even more memorable is the asphalt pavement, which is said to be paved with asphalt, so flat, and there will be no mud on rainy days, and if there is no one, the carriage will not feel a little bumpy even if it is fast.

The city is so clean and tidy everywhere that even if you look hard, it is difficult to find a single bit of garbage.

I heard that there was a great plague in the capital of the Ming Dynasty in the past, so the current emperor of Qin ordered the implementation of three bags of sanitation in front of the door, and anyone who littered would have to accept a fine.

There are culverts on both sides of the street as sewers, and sewage flows from the slate-covered culverts, unlike London, where the sewage flows sideways, and the ground is full of human feces and horse manure, and the stench is so bad that you have to cover your nose with a handkerchief when you walk.

There are also their shops along the street, each with flower stands and tassels on the door, which are not only beautiful, but also full of seasonal flowers, which makes people feel intoxicated.

Although the people here have long hair and tie it in a bun, they are very hygienic and wash their hair with the residue left over from the oil extracted from a kind of tea, and it looks like their hair is black and shiny.

They even invented something called soap, which was used to bathe and leave an intoxicating fragrance on the body, and Clauswell bought a hundred dollars;

Although it was a little more expensive, and it cost a dragon coin to buy a piece of soap, Clauswell believed that if these soaps were taken to Europe, they would definitely cause the upper class nobles to scream. He can definitely earn tens, or even hundreds of times the profit.

What makes Clauswell most memorable is that he once visited the nobleman's house as a guest, and the dishes at the banquet were the best he had ever eaten in his life, but this was not what made him unforgettable.

In the middle of the feast, he was in need of convenience, and the nobleman's family led him to a splendid little room, which was filled with a faint fragrance, more fragrant than their king's bedroom.

Klauswell thought that the master would be mistaken, he wanted convenience, and he didn't know why he would bring him to such a clean little room.

The subordinates who led the way did not understand his words. He had to endure his urge to run back to the banquet and repeat his request to the nobleman, hoping that the nobleman would get his servant to take him to the latrine quickly.

The nobleman laughed when he heard this, and personally took him back to the small room filled with fragrance, pointed to a large white porcelain and told him: "This is the latest flush toilet in Daqin. ”

As he spoke, the nobleman opened the lid of the porcelain and taught him how to use it.

Listening to the master's explanation, Clauswell was stunned, and couldn't believe that he was in the world.

With the main patient solution, he finally figured it out, but waited for the master to withdraw. He stood in front of the clean, white toilet bowl and couldn't pee.

Because it was so clean, he felt like he was defiling heaven by urinating and defecating in this small room filled with fragrance.

This thing. He will never forget jì for the rest of his life.

What's more, the nobleman of the squire finally sent a flush toilet.

After all kinds of embarrassment and shock, Clauswell was envious of the people who lived in this paradise city.

And the biggest shock is still to come, the day I left Nanjing. He took a boat from the Qinhuai River into the Yangtze River, and when he passed outside the Dinghuai Gate, he glanced in the direction of the Longjiang Shipyard. No one thought that just this glance would change the fate of his life, the relationship between England and Qin, and the fate of England.

Clauswell swore that he shuddered at that glance, and an admiring horror sent chills down his body in the April sun.

Designed by Pate in 1636 and built by the Woolwich shipyard in England, the Sea King was launched in 1637 at a total cost of more than 40,000 pounds.

The keel of the Sea King is 39 meters long, 51 meters long, 14.7 meters wide, 23.17 meters deep, 6.8 meters draft, weighs 1,683 tons, and has 4 decks. It is erected with 3 masts, and crown sails are hung on the mainmast and foremast. Armed with 102-104 guns.

As soon as this battleship came out, the whole of Europe was shaken, and it was called the giant of the sea.

But compared to Clauswell's sight of a giant ship, the Sea King is simply like a comparison between a child and a giant.

He saw the giant ship, at least 130 meters long, 50 meters wide, with four layers of nine masts and twelve sails. It is almost three times the size of the Sea King.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Clauswell wouldn't have believed that there was such a huge ship in the world.

At that moment, he thought of what would happen if the Sea King met such a huge ship.

Extremely shocked, he suddenly figured out why Huang Zhenlin, the left attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Qin Empire, dared to open his mouth at the beginning and wanted all the interests east of the Cape of Good Hope, but finally made heavy concessions.

Perhaps, whether it is the lion's opening at the beginning or the heavy concession later, it is related to the battleship under construction.

The state of Qin had just been founded, and they were ambitious and were working hard to build an amazing navy.

They have the ambition to swallow the east of the Cape of Good Hope, and even the whole world, but they still need time, so there will be different expressions before and after Huang Zhenlin.

After leaving Nanjing, Clauswell made a special inquiry about the shipbuilding industry of Qin, and heard that in Ningbo, Quanzhou, and Liaodong in the north, they were all large shipyards, and they were working overtime to build ships day and night.

Clauswell also learned that the previous Ming Dynasty government banned private shipbuilding, and there were strict restrictions on the size of private ships.

But now the emperor of Qin State encourages merchants to go to sea to trade, and also opens up private shipyards, and no longer limits the size of private ships, so now the demand for ships in Qin is extremely strong.

Now all the shipyards in the Qin State are operating at full capacity, and at this rate, even if the whole of Europe is combined, I am afraid that it will not be able to defeat the Qin State.

With this understanding, Clauswell deeply felt that cooperation with the Qin State was a dance with wolves and a self-digging grave.

After that, he hurriedly left Daqin, rushed back to Malacca, and decided to go to Batavia to find the Dutch.

Although Britain clashed with the Netherlands and Portugal in the process of advancing into the Indian Ocean, the relationship between Britain and the Netherlands was generally good, and the royal families of the two countries often married.

The Dutch also acquiesced in British interests in India, and with the favor of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, the British East India Company soon overtook the Portuguese, who had bases in Goa and Mumbai, and established its base bases in Surat, Chennai, and Calcutta.

As of last year, they had set up 23 factories (i.e. bases) in India, and the main trading goods were cotton, silk, indigo, sodium nitrate and tea.

The British mainly coveted the Dutch's monopoly on the spice trade through the Strait of Malacca. But now it seems that by uniting the Qin people to attack the Dutch, it is impossible for Britain to monopolize the trade of the Far East.

It's just that he was used as a gunman by the Qin people to help the Qin people quickly advance into the Indian Ocean, and even into Europe.

The Great Qin monarch could not have predicted that Clauswell's mind would suddenly change so drastically, and he was still actively preparing to destroy the Dutch power in the Far East first.

On this day, Qin Mu personally went to the Ordnance Supervision to check the progress of the development of the flintlock pistol. And after suddenly thinking of the glider, he drew a drawing for the skilled craftsmen of the ordnance superintendent and asked them to develop the glider.

The Chinese have a very strong desire to fly, and I heard that during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Lu Ban made a wooden bird to fly into the sky.

In the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty, there was even a person from 10,000 households who tied 47 self-made rockets to a chair, sat on the chair himself, held two big kites in both hands, and then asked someone to light and launch. It was envisaged to fly using the thrust of the rocket, coupled with the power of the kite.

He did manage to fly into the air, completing the feat of the first human flight, and he paid with his life.

Who said that the Chinese lack the spirit of adventure?

As soon as Qin Mu's drawings were handed over to the craftsmen, there was a heated discussion in the ordnance prison.

Qin Mu was in a reverie, whether it was possible for a "carrier-based aircraft" to take off on a huge treasure ship platform become a reality

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(To be continued......)