Steel Dynasty - Chapter 440

[Chapter 440 Claire’s Decision]

The afterglow of the setting sun reflected on the governor’s office in the city of Relandia.

After watching Rhodes leave, Claire walked to the window. It was already evening, and the dusk covered the red brick city buildings and reflected the sunset, which was very beautiful.

After he came to Ryukyu, he was attracted by the beautiful scenery here. He even thought about bringing his wife to this beautiful place, but now everything is getting worse and worse.

Frowning, Claire found it difficult to understand why the King of Qi was so obsessed with Ryukyu, because from his understanding, the officials of Dayu didn’t seem to have much affection for Ryukyu.

Even when they first dealt with King Chu, King Chu acquiesced to the fact that they occupied Ryukyu, but now King Qi made everything change.

“Fifteen Galenic warships?”

Claire recalled the fleet belonging to the King of Qi. The thing that confused him most now was why the King of Qi owned both fusiliers and Galenic ships, standard European warships.

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

The matchlock gun could be explained, but he could not figure out the flintlock gun and the battleship, because with the industrial capabilities of the Great Chongqing State, even if he mastered the flintlock technology, he would not be able to manufacture the flintlock gun and the battleship so easily.

Especially the cast iron cannons on the city walls. This kind of cast iron cannon has only become the mainstream naval gun in Europe for more than thirty years. However, even so, the explosion rate of this kind of naval gun is higher than that of bronze cannon.

The quality of the cast iron cannons purchased by King Chu from Qingzhou was very good. According to King Chu, these cannons had accidents of chamber explosion, but each explosion did not cause much damage, and the accident rate was very low, which was enough. This illustrates the excellent quality of this cast iron cannon.

Thinking of this, Claire became more and more uneasy. If the King of Qi had such strong industrial capabilities, then he had to consider this matter carefully.

After all, fighting such a powerful vassal king in the waters near Dayu would be a disaster and even cause them to permanently withdraw from East Asian trade.

Therefore, he did not consider Rhodes’ suggestion from the beginning. Allowing the British to participate would only anger the King of Qi, and the British had coveted the East Asian route for a long time. At this time, it would be tantamount to inviting a wolf into the house.

After hesitating for a long time, Claire was ready to take a more prudent approach. He was planning to send Rhodes on an envoy again, but this time he wanted Rhodes to go to Qingzhou, the capital of King Qi’s fiefdom.

If it is confirmed that the Qi King is really as powerful as he imagined, he will have to carefully consider the Qi King’s suggestions, so that at least they can retain their trade in East Asia, which is much better than losing everything.

In his opinion, Rhodes had stayed in Ryukyu for too long, and he did not understand the current situation in Europe at all. Today, the Netherlands has become weaker and weaker, and is no longer able to compete with European powers for trade routes.

So trade in East Asia was crucial to the Dutch.

Sighing, Claire looked towards the bay. At this time, his fleet was parked in the crescent-shaped dock. Many Dutch merchant ships docked here. It was through here that they brought East Asian goods back to the country.

As the sunset gradually faded, Claire finally made up her mind. The Great Yu Kingdom was completely different from the Americas and Africa they conquered. This was a civilization similar to theirs, rather than staying in a primitive tribal state.

The operation of such a national war machine will be very terrifying.

…

Qingzhou.

Xiao Ming’s life suddenly became leisurely. In the past two days, he was either at the palace discussing the design of Fei Yue’er’s underwear or going to Bowen College to supervise the students’ learning.

Now that the overall situation is temporarily stable, he must take advantage of this period of stability to cultivate more talents. Lin Wentao and Lu Tong alone cannot do it.

His purpose is to make Bowen College’s technology flourish everywhere.

“Your Highness, now the style of this underwear has basically been determined. The female workers in the textile workshop are producing underwear, but how to promote this underwear now?”

In the dormitory, Fei Yueer supported her arms on the table. Here is her life Those who are not familiar with it simply don’t know where to start.

Xiao Ming actually had an idea in his mind a long time ago. There were not many powerful people and ladies in Qingzhou, so he could only find an authoritative figure from other places.

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

Fei Yue’er immediately asked eagerly: “Who is it?”

“Princess Pingyang.” Xiao Ming said lightly. Princess Pingyang has always been bold in style. Well-known, this bra and the like would probably be of great interest to the princess.

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

Fei Yue’er understood immediately, but the excitement just rose on her brows and then disappeared. She said decadently: “It’s just that Her Royal Highness the Princess has a respected position and is now in Chang’an. Will she be willing to come?”

“That’s not necessarily the case. Last time she was You came to my fief for the sake of glass. Now you send a letter in the name of Princess Qi, maybe she will come over.” Xiao Ming rolled his eyes, “Then you describe the changes in Qingzhou now, in my opinion. This aunt’s temperament makes it impossible for her to come.”

Fei Yue’er bit her lips. She was timid, but thinking that she could help Xiao Ming, she nodded and said, “I will send a letter to the princess right now. .”

After that, Fei Yue’er asked Xiao Huan to get a pen and paper and start writing.

Xiao Ming sat on one side to supervise. When Fei Yue’er started writing, a line of graceful small characters appeared on the paper, very neat and beautiful. Looking at these calligraphy-like handwriting, Xiao Ming felt ashamed.

Compared to Fei Yue’er’s calligraphy, my own handwriting is as shabby as an earthworm looking for a mother.

After writing the letter, Fei Yue’er handed the letter to Xiaohuan and asked her to give it to the inn and send it to Chang’an. Then she seemed to remember something and said: “Your Highness, this underwear was manufactured, but the dyeing workshop in Qingzhou There are only a few of them, and they can only be dyed in a single color. I thought that the book given by His Highness had some dyeing techniques that the dyeing shop could learn from. “

Weaving and dyeing are not divided into different families. Although Xiao Ming is free now, But I have been thinking about improving the quality of Qingzhou clothes so that I can quickly dominate the market.

As a result, in addition to textile technology, what is unexpectedly needed is a dyeing workshop. Only fabrics that can be dyed with conflicting colors can be used to sew exquisite clothes.

This dyeing workshop is also the industry that Xiao Ming plans to improve, so he said: “The princess and the king really have a good understanding. The textile workshop in Qingzhou was left by the Sun family. Now it is time to improve the dyeing process. “

Seeing Xiao Ming’s playful words, Fei Yue’er laughed softly.

(End of chapter)