[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

The blue waves are rippling on the blue sea.

When the mother of all things is in a peaceful state, she is as beautiful as a sapphire with a high degree of clarity.

However, the sailors who had been sailing on the ship for several months were not interested in her at all, and they said very calmly—tired of watching it!

"Hey, Sierra, how long before we get to the Land of Gold?" a bearded sailor asked loudly, leaning on the deck, holding a glass of wine.After asking, he shook the turbid wine in the glass, then drank it in one gulp, and after a whistle, he threw the cracked glass into the sea.

Accompanied by the sound of a wine glass falling into the sea, the young man who was holding a square and a wooden stick and kept drawing on the parchment seemed to be awakened. He raised his head and blinked. Broken glasses, it was difficult to focus on his companion: "Let me remind you, Jesse, we have been lost for a month, and please don't throw away the cup, even if it has a hole, it has its own. available, knowing that we have no more materials to waste. Although there are many raw materials in the hold, we have no way to make them into physical objects here."

"Oh! Shit." The man broke down and scratched his head.

After messing up his unwashed, greasy mess, the man took a deep breath, and shouted loudly to the vast and endless sea level: "Where the hell is Mingguo—"

None of his companions reacted to his behavior.

Anyway, here is the ocean, not the snow-capped mountains, so if you want to shout, you can shout, and you can't shout a tsunami.

It doesn't matter if you shout it out, as long as you can give it a good time.

Yes, this group of people who have been drifting at sea for almost two months are extremely frustrated.

They also want to vent out like their friends, but because of the shortage of supplies and the successive bad weather, they are exhausted and have no energy to waste.

Over the past few years, with the more frequent communication between East and West caravans, the Golden Kingdom in the East is no longer the mysterious existence in Marco Polo’s travels. Everyone gradually knows that the Golden Kingdom is not really a kingdom made of gold, but just a kingdom. In their opinion, the building materials they used were too precious, so they were given this title by the old seniors.

But so what, from their point of view, the country and gold that even farmers can wear silk, people all over the country can eat white rice, and barley must be ground into fine flour before eating. What is the difference between the country.

In their country, only noble emperors, empresses and earls can afford silk, and rice is so precious that even the emperor is reluctant to eat more expensive imported ingredients. As for flour...

The royal families in most countries eat rye bread that is so hard that it can be used as a fire stick. This kind of refined grain made through several procedures is the first-class food that only appears in ceremonies or entertaining envoys from the Ming Dynasty.

Our best is just ordinary in the eyes of others, which can't help but give birth to the desire to find out in addition to frustration.

About ten years ago, the envoys of the Ming Dynasty who came to Europe along the European land line brought something called Dongyang Jing. They sent a wooden box-like thing to His Majesty the Holy Roman Empire. It is said that through that Things, even if they are thousands of miles away, they can still see the appearance of that magical country and the appearance of the Ming Emperor.

However, only noble kings and queens are allowed to view this treasure. It is said that everyone who watched it was fascinated by the appearance of the Ming Dynasty on it. There are even rumors that a certain queen directly exclaimed that it is heaven.

Although there are different rumors, but because the Pope hid this miraculous mirror in the temple and did not allow outsiders to see it again, these are just legends and cannot be verified.

Later, people discovered that when the kings built the capital, they changed the previous rough style and divided it into several blocks.

And when His Majesty the King asked court painters to leave portraits for them, he often liked to arrange the background in a style full of Ming Dynasty. For this reason, they purchased a large amount of silk, porcelain, and gold and silver ornaments.But according to the court painters, they were always dissatisfied with their portraits, and chagrined that the painter had not left their mighty and domineering charm on the paper.

While this kind of mood breeds inferiority complex and yearning, of course it also nourishes ambition and the desire to plunder. In fact, it is not that no one has thought about it. As far as Jesse knows, no fewer than seven countries once formed an alliance to send ships The team went to the East.

Needless to say, they knew what they were going to do, but in the end the fleet that went to the East never came back.

The uncle of a foreign friend of Jesse used to be a cook on a warship. He used the fact that he lost an arm to tell everyone how powerful Ming was.

It is said that their ship was equipped with artillery, and the range of the artillery was far beyond their imagination. Before they could see the specific appearance of the Ming ship, they were smashed into the water by those big iron balls.

The boat that the uncle cook was on was more lucky. It was a fish that slipped through the rain of bullets.But when it stepped on the "corpses" of its teammates by relying on its coquettish position, it rushed all the way, and finally came to a place where the artillery fire was not easy to attack, and when it was about to start hand-to-hand combat, it was installed on the ship of the Ming Dynasty like a seesaw. The pole smashed right on.

Yes, seesaw.

I don't know how the Ming army did it. The long and heavy wooden stick was wrapped in a tense force, and the appearance of hitting it head-on was extremely ferocious. It directly smashed through the wooden boat that the cook's uncle was in.

Yes, wear it!

Forgive these ignorant foreigners, no one could have imagined this scene!

But this is also the luck of Uncle Cook's boatman. Compared with the violent attack with gunpowder, physical attack and close relationship, they became the prisoners of Da Ming - it's not bad if they don't die, they are prisoners in Da Ming The treatment is not worse than that of the small lords in their own country!

All the prisoners said that Daming's prison is super good. Although it is a bit gloomy, the background sound is a bit weird, and they have gone through various interrogations in the early days, but after they made it clear, they love this place very much now and don't want to go home at all!

But it is a pity that this group of people was finally thrown out of the country by Daming who found out the situation, cutting off the way to eat.

How should I put it, there is a saying in later generations that you can sit down and talk if you are honest. It is precisely because that big eastern country has shown off its muscles, and since then it has stared at the ships of these countries and chased them for nearly a year. Those aristocratic lords fell under this desperate difference in strength, and honestly talked about cooperation with others.

However, this also caused an important change.

Now all the ships coming and going must fly the national flag of their own country, but those who do not fly the national flag and enter the waters of Daming will directly eat the big iron ball, and those who enter the territory of Daming with the ship that Ming judges as unfriendly will also have to eat the big iron ball.

Because of this incident, the previous seven countries that were running sideways in the European continent have completely become the existence that businessmen dislike the most. Going out...especially those who run to the east, no one dares to say that they are from those seven countries.

The European situation in this era is similar to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in China. Apart from the numerous small countries, the people do not have any sense of belonging to their own country. They adopt a single-line connection model. For ordinary people, they only obey their own The lord, and who the lord obeys, and the relationship between them has nothing to do with the people.

This kind of governance model is entirely for the convenience of tax collection and management, but just like the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it also caused a consequence, which is to say figuratively—my master's master is not my master.

The people have no sense of belonging to the country, and it is easier for them to change their nationality than to change their clothes. As we all know, businessmen have the lowest morals.

Therefore, for businessmen, once they find that their identity as a national of one of the seven countries is not conducive to their entry into the East, changing their nationality really does not require much consideration.

Anyway, everyone was a family hundreds of years ago, and changing nationality was just a matter of investing some money there. The money was nothing compared to the profits made in the East.

And with the status of these businessmen, wherever they want to change, they will be welcomed by the crowd.

Does identity matter in Europe?It used to be important, but now, the European royal families who blindly pursue luxury and rich life are glamorous on the surface, and only they themselves know how much debt they have behind them.

In more than a hundred years, the capitalists in this territory will be able to climb up the vines named "greed" and "arrogance" that are rooted in the nobles, and eventually become the new masters of political power.

But now, this trend has already appeared faintly.

There is no doubt that the trade links between China and Europe and the opening of the Age of Discovery will catalyze this process.

But it is not up to you who hangs the national flag.

Daming, who has opened his eyes to see the world, sent a large number of visitors to the world. These people traveled back and forth, not only sparking the fire of civilization, earning huge profits, but also spending a lot of energy on information exploration.

It has to be said that facing Daming, who has a set of professional probing and induction skills, if it were not for the language gap between him and these countries, the love, hatred, and hatred in this land would have long been scripted and sent to the young emperor of Daming. In the hands of the emperor.

But it's not too late now =w=

It is no problem to pretend to be one's nationality, provided that one can pass a lot of screening after docking. If it is determined that the nationality of the ship is false, then the people on board will be deported and all the goods will be detained.

The money is gone, can't I go back?

Well, that's the price of dishonesty.

In order to prove their nationality, those businessmen scrambled to confide gossip about their "home country" when they were under investigation, and tried every means to prove their identities to Daming.

And what they confide will be used as basic data to compare and screen with the words of thousands of businessmen, and the accurate information obtained through the final analysis will undoubtedly help Daming understand these friends who came from afar more clearly.

But apart from the love and hatred between countries, Daming is also very interested in other aspects.

For example, the big epidemic that happened in Europe not long ago.

This plague pandemic, known as the "Black Death" in later generations, started suddenly and ended quite inexplicably. After inquiring around, everyone found that they really didn't seem to use any special medicine after all. Inexplicably disappeared.

This disappointed the medical officers of Daming, but after several inquiries, they found that this was the case.

Although some crew members felt that this was God's will, more people still felt that it had nothing to do with God. It was entirely because too many people died, which resulted in natural isolation. To put it bluntly, it was because of the decrease in population The frequency of contact between people is reduced, and the infection will naturally be less.

This is terrifying.

How to prevent and control the epidemic disease that was stopped at the cost of nearly two-thirds of the European population when it came to Ming Dynasty is a question that medical officials are currently discussing.

However, several young medical officials discovered during the investigation that the cause of the epidemic may be the extermination plan for cats in the Middle Ages in Europe.Of course, with today's science and technology, medical craftsmen did not realize the relationship between the great plague and rats. After going up, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince mysteriously agreed with their views, and issued such a ridiculous order that "every foreign ship that docks must carry a cat, and this cat must be free-range".

Although the foreign sailors on the ship couldn't understand what the prince of Ming was thinking, but in order to make money, they had to follow suit.

As a result, cats of various breeds and colors came to this exotic land on ships from various countries, and the sailors soon discovered that it was not a bad thing to bring a few cats on board.

The cat catches mice, and can eat fish and seabirds when hungry. The cost of raising is not high, and it is also good to pet the cat to relieve stress on weekdays.

For example, now, Jesse and his party lost in the ocean rely on a few cats on the boat to decompress, otherwise the fear of losing their way and running out of supplies will sooner or later lead them to the road of mutual destruction.

And they were undoubtedly lucky, because just when this group of people were about to run out of water, they really encountered a ship flying the flag of Ming Dynasty. This is a later story.

In fact, when Daming was in contact with foreign countries, there was a small point of disharmony.

That is belief and traditional culture, but fortunately, the religions that can be passed down in China are generally quite tolerant and gentle, and they are not too aggressive towards other sects, and the people of Ming Dynasty... ahem, they are also practical, you Let him have a try to see if the preached God is effective.

Can it rain?Can you make it sunny?Can sows give birth to more litters?This can't make us believe anything!

The work of foreign missionaries in China is very difficult. They have never seen such difficult people. Try it. Do you think it is to buy vegetables?How unreasonable!

In fact, the missionaries were also suffering because they had already missed the most prosperous period of the church.

Just like the crew member who mentioned that God healed the disease before was afraid to speak out after being dissed by everyone, similar situations often occur in the entire European continent, but this situation would never have happened decades ago. could happen.

No one would have imagined that only 100 years had passed since the mighty Crusades, but the theocracy had become so weak as it is today.

Yes, in the era when the Black Death had just ended, it was the era when theocracy and aristocratic status were the lowest in the Middle Ages.

In the face of the disease, the ugly gesture of the royal family and nobles taking the lead in fleeing remained in everyone's eyes, and the church priest tried his best to heal even one person's weakness, which destroyed people's faith.

It can be said that Europe in this era is a bit crazy. On the one hand, they follow their past habits and believe in religion, but they no longer believe in religion from the bottom of their hearts, and because of the passing of a large number of noble forces, they lose their restraint. confusion.

Faced with this situation, the leaders were overwhelmed, the credibility of the church was reduced to the lowest level, and the new and old powers of various countries merged, and the situation of testing each other and plundering each other also made them burnt out. The profit-oriented merchant class is rising rapidly again. Therefore, the result of the struggle between several forces in Europe is that each country is trying to win over Ming Dynasty.

"Is Daming so pleasing?" After reading the peace letter written by the king of one of the seven kingdoms translated by the Secretary of General Administration, the wooden text that has grown into a clear and handsome young man put together the copied memorial, Raising eyebrows, he said angrily, "They were the ones who gathered the other six nations to attack Daming back then, right? Now they are talking nicely, pretending to be innocent, and marrying a princess?! Bah! Who wants their princess?! This group of people People don’t take a shower! It’s so dirty!”

As he said that, he turned his head abruptly, and looked at another young man who was leaning on the small couch, petting a puppy while calmly reading the official document, with a serious expression on his face: "Brother, don't agree! I heard that there are lice on their heads, if we bring them back, our family will suffer! Don’t forget the tragic situation when Xiaobai got lice not long ago!"

"Promise what?" Pulling out a hand from under the warm dog's belly, Mu Bai calmly drew out a vermilion pen and marked a big X on the memorial, ruthlessly typing it back and rewriting it.

Before touching the next memorial, Mu Bai raised his head under his younger brother's mournful gaze, his brain started working again, and he immediately realized, "They want to get married with our father, it's useless if you tell me."

Mu Wen was stunned for a moment, and two lines of words appeared on his sluggish face: Yes!I forgot about dad.

Generally speaking, the marriage of the country is to send the princess to the harem of the current emperor, and only a very small number can marry the prince.To put it simply, marrying the current emperor is a kind of peace, seeking peace for three to five years based on kinship, and marrying a prince is a good thing for Qin and Jin. If you want to take a long-term development, at least three to 50 years of peace .

Given the current situation in which European countries have just been blown away by fleets and almost chased them back to their hometowns, frankly speaking, if they really married princesses, Daming probably pointed it out to a certain courtier.

It's really not qualified to enter the harem, and the harem of His Majesty the Ming Emperor is really very clean, even the princes and nobles today can't get in if they want to, how can a foreign woman enter the harem?Ah bah, that's a good idea, it's clear that they want to take advantage of it.

Thinking of this, Mu Wen couldn't help clenching his fists, his eyes became a little more determined, "Brother, this country is uneasy and kind, why don't we go and kill that country."

"..." Although there is no hope anymore, can this guy be worthy of the name he gave him, don't keep thinking about fighting and killing.Mu Bai looked up at his brother speechlessly, "You want to go to sea too?"

"Hey, big brother." Mu Wen shyly rubbed against the edge of his brother's bed, stretched out his hand to stroke the sleepy dog's legs twice, and at the same time acted like a baby with his brother: "I'm not It’s about to end soon, and after the event, I won’t be so free, so I want to go out and have a look first~~”

"You can go out—" His Royal Highness, who has been fooled by his unfilial siblings to go to sea countless times with various excuses, is very calm, "Just pass the exam."

Hearing this, Mu Wen's face immediately fell down. He looked around to see if there was no one around, and immediately turned over on the small couch as he did when he was a child.

If he can pass the exam, does he still need to ask his elder brother to open the back door?Just can't pass! !

Because the number of young people in the royal family who want to go abroad has reached a new high. In order to restrain these cubs and avoid unnecessary attrition, members of the royal family of Ming Dynasty must pass a series of exams if they want to go abroad.

In addition to basic physical fitness, one of the most important items in the exam is language. Each person must learn three languages ​​at least, and the must-learn is Dashihua.

As a bridge connecting the east and the west, the current Dashi language is similar to the later English, which is considered a half-lingua franca. If you want to go to sea, you must master this language.

This is exactly what stuck Mu Wen.

I don't know why, Mu Wen's language talent is really a bit of a mystery. When he was young, he was very good at this aspect, but when he grows up, these talents are like being eaten by dogs - all of them are gone! ! !

The languages ​​in East Asia are not bad, but when he comes to the western languages, which are like ghostly symbols, he can't understand them at all. He forgets them when he just learns them. Even if he forces his younger brothers to create a language environment for him to speak together, it's useless. , If he can't learn it, he can't learn it. He even learned complex Sanskrit, but he can't learn Dashiyu.

If it weren't for the fact that there were no major problems in reading and writing, Mu Xiaowen would doubt life.

As a crippled undergraduate, in order to be able to go to sea, Mu Wen also went all out. He plowed back and forth on his brother: "Brother! Let me go out! I know a lot of things, you know, I can take care of everything." Be yourself!"

"I also want to eat canned food, fried noodles and pickled vegetables!"

Two blue veins popped out of Mubai's head. He wanted to spank his younger brother like he did when he was a child. But look at his long legs and tendons. Forget it. My younger brother is different now. In the past, it probably wouldn't hurt to beat him up. The imperial family's sea exam is not so easy to pass.

Just as he was thinking this way, he suddenly felt something more in front of him. He turned his head and saw that the little puppy who was thrown off the bed by his younger brother's retaliatory coquettish behavior was holding a bamboo stick in his mouth. plate.

Seeing that their eyes met, the puppy moved its head forward and handed the bamboo board to Mu Bai's hand.

This black and white puppy is sitting upright, with its long tail flicking and flicking, and its two butterfly-like ears fluttering non-stop.

Mu Xiaowen was stunned. He couldn't help but look at the big brother who habitually took over the bamboo board with a somewhat surprised expression, and then looked at this innocent-looking puppy. He felt a sudden sense of crisis and threatened loudly: "Good guy, you're even worse than me!!"

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