Chapter 440 Claire's Decision

The afterglow of a setting sun reflected in the chief's office of Relanzha City.

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

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

Frowning, it was difficult for Claire to understand why the King Qi was so obsessed with Ryukyu, because from what he knew, the officials of the Great Yu Kingdom did not seem to have much affection for Ryukyu.

Even when dealing with the King of Chu at first, the King of Chu tacitly accepted the fact that they occupied Ryukyu, but now this King of Qi has changed everything.

"Fifteen Garen warships?"

Claire recalled the fleet that belonged to King Qi, and now he is most confused about why this King Qi has both a flintlock gun and a Galen ship, a standard European warship.

He has been thinking about this question since returning from Dengzhou, but no one can give him the answer.

The arquebus can be explained, but he still can't figure out the flintlock gun and the battleship, because with the industrial capability of Dayu Kingdom, even if he masters the flintlock gun technology, it is impossible to manufacture the flintlock gun and the battleship so easily.

Especially the cast-iron guns on the city walls. This kind of cast-iron guns has only become the mainstream of naval guns in Europe for more than 30 years, but even so, the firing rate of this kind of naval guns is higher than that of bronze guns.

However, the cast iron guns purchased by the King of Chu from Qingzhou are of very good quality. According to the King of Chu, these guns had explosion accidents, but each explosion would not cause too much damage, and the accident rate was very low, which was enough Explain the excellent quality of this cast iron gun.

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

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

So at the beginning, he did not consider Rhodes' suggestion. If the British were involved, it would only anger the King of Qi, and the British had coveted the East Asian route for a long time.

After hesitating for a long time, Claire was going to take a more secure approach. He was going to let Rhodes go on an envoy again, but this time he wanted to send Rhodes to Qingzhou, the capital of King Qi's fief.

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 suggestion, so that at least they can keep their trade in East Asia, which is better than losing everything.

In his opinion, Rhodes has been in Ryukyu for too long, and he has no understanding of the current situation in Europe. Today's Netherlands has become increasingly weak and unable to compete with European powers for trade routes.

So East Asian trade was vital to the Dutch.

With a sigh, Claire looked towards the bay. At this time, his fleet was parked in the crescent-like wharf. Many Dutch merchant ships docked here. It was through here that they brought goods from East Asia back to the country.

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

Such a national war machine would be terrifying in operation.

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Qingzhou.

Xiao Ming's days suddenly became more leisurely. In the past two days, he was either in the Wangfu and Feiyue's underwear design problems or went to Bowen College to supervise the students' learning.

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

His aim is to make Bowen College technology bloom everywhere.

"His Royal Highness, the style of this underwear is basically determined now. The female workers in the textile mill are producing underwear, but how to promote this underwear now?"

In the bedroom, Fei Yue'er propped her arms on the table. She was unfamiliar with this place and didn't know where to start.

Xiao Ming actually had an idea in his heart for a long time. There are not many powerful people and ladies in Qingzhou, so he can only find an authority figure from another place.

So he said to Fei Yue'er, "Actually, is there a person who wants to promote underwear?"

Fei Yue'er said eagerly: "Who is it?"

"Princess Pingyang." Xiao Ming said lightly, Princess Pingyang has always been known for her bold style, and things like this bra are expected to interest the princess.

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

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

"That's not necessarily true. Last time she came to this king's fief for the sake of glass. Now you send a letter in the name of Princess Qi, and maybe she will come over." Xiao Ming rolled his eyes, "Then you will Describe the changes in Qingzhou now, with my aunt's temperament, I can't say she will come."

Fei Yue'er bit her lip. She was timid, but thinking about being able to help Xiao Ming, she nodded and said, "Chen concubine, I will send a letter to the princess."

After all, Fei Yue'er asked Xiaohuan to take a pen and paper and start writing.

Xiao Ming sat on the side to supervise. When Fei Yue'er started to write, a line of beautiful 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, her own handwriting is as shabby as an earthworm looking for a mother.

After writing the letter, Fei Yue'er gave it to Xiaohuan and asked her to send it to Chang'an. Then she seemed to remember something and said, "Your Highness, this underwear is made, but the dyeing workshop in Qingzhou There are very few, and they can only dye a single color, the concubine thought that there are some dyeing skills in the books given by His Highness, and let the dyeing workshop learn it."

Textile and dyeing are not separated. Although Xiao Ming is free now, he has been thinking about improving the quality of Qingzhou clothes so that he can quickly occupy the market.

In this way, in addition to the textile process, what is needed is the dyeing workshop. Only the fabrics that can dye the color conflicts can sew exquisite clothes.

This cloth dyeing workshop is also the industry that Xiao Ming intends to improve, so he said: "The princess and this king really have a good understanding of each other. The textile workshop in Qingzhou is still 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.