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Chapter 35 Chang'an Trip

"Your Highness, I think you are drunk too." Ziyuan touched the Green Ivy, "Let your Highness go back and rest."

Luluo nodded and went forward to support Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming was not drunk much just now, but he never thought that the alcohol had a strong stamina. After talking for a while, he felt a little dizzy and had to go back to the bedroom with the help of Luluo.

Ziyuan also went downstairs and saw Luluo helping Xiao Ming back. She called the servants responsible for transporting the wine from Zuiqingzhou and said, "This time, the distilled and the last time they were sent to the Qin family, don't rush to let the Qin family take goods. Now, Zuiqingzhou has to mention His Highness's poem."

"Yes, Miss Aster." The servant responded.

Ziyuan turned around and prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Luluo happened to be back at this time. She said, "The Qin family is going to Chang'an tomorrow. Your Highness is drunk again. It seems that you and I can only copy this poem down and paste it on the wine jar one by one."

"Hehe, since that's the case, my sister's handwriting is so beautiful. If you write, I just need to post it." Luluo laughed.

Aster glanced at Green Ivy, "You are the ones who are the most lazy."

After saying that, she handed a piece of Chengxintang paper to Luluo and said, "This piece of Chengxintang paper was brought by the Empress from Chang'an. It is very precious. You should be more careful when cutting it. Your Highness said that this Chengxintang paper is also of style with Zuiqingzhou."

Green ivy took it carefully. This Chengxintang paper is the most famous paper in the Great Chongqing Kingdom. It is known as the skin eggs like films, as firm as jade, thin and smooth. Most literati and poets left their calligraphy on this paper.

Showing a look of distress, Luluo said, "Your Highness is the same. How can such precious paper be pasted on the wine jar? It is important to copy the poem on it and frame it, and what is this style?"

"I don't know either. It's probably his nonsense again. I advised him not to waste it, but Your Highness said that we can use a lot of paper after waiting for a while." Ziyuan shook her head.

"Yes, Your Highness now has many ideas."

The two looked at each other and smiled, one pasted the colored paper, and the other copied it.

At noon, they would post all the Zuiqingzhou and ask Li San to send Zuiqingzhou to the Qin family, and Xiao Ming also woke up.

He was not very drunk, he just took a nap and then recovered.

After asking about Zuiqingzhou, he learned that it was all sent to the Qin family. He felt relieved that Li San could set off for Chang'an tomorrow.

In the afternoon, he discussed with Aster Green Ivy and asked Li San to buy something from Chang'an and come back.

Xiao Ming, a vegetable oil, was ranked first. He may have eaten meat oil these days. Sometimes due to shortage of supplies, he really couldn't stand it now. He could still stir-fry after buying vegetable oil.

Then there are some snacks such as bacon, maltose, pastries, etc., which are not as modern as this place. When winter comes, there is no need to eat vegetables. At this time, radishes have not been introduced to the Great Yu Kingdom.

Cabbage is a native domestic product. In this mid-winter season, cabbage is also sold in Qingzhou and can be bought in the East and West Markets of Qingzhou.

Thinking of a home-cooked cabbage and pork stewed with vermicelli in modern winter, Xiao Ming's saliva was like the Yellow River flooding, but when he thought of the vermicelli, he suddenly became wilted again. The sweet potatoes made of the vermicelli seemed to be foreign, and there was no such thing as the Great Yu Kingdom.

"It's really a place where supplies are scarce." Xiao Ming shook his sleeves last and simply stopped thinking about what to buy, but there were only a few of them anyway.

But for him, this is also an opportunity. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and other common things on modern dining tables are not available. If he can cause these things to be planted in the fiefdom.

But with the high yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes, is he still worried that the people in his fiefdom will not be able to eat?

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming remembered Zhang Liang, and he left him to build a ship, and to build a large ship.

Today, the Great Yu Kingdom is like a frog locked in a well, full of self-conceitedness, knowing nothing about the outside world at this time. If the historical process of the West has not been interrupted, then now is the glorious era of navigation.

The country he loved in the past was lost in the era of maritime power, and he could not let this happen.

Of course, he also understood that the upper class of the Great Yu Kingdom, who was immersed in the dream of the beauty of the Celestial Empire, would not recognize him, but he did not need anyone to agree with him. With his own fiefdom, he could use his own power to be the pioneer.

Left behind Aster and Luluo continued to discuss the acquisition with excitement, and he went to the third floor of the main hall alone.

Here, he could take a look at Qingzhou City and pick up a piece of paper again. On the paper, he drew the most famous ocean-going sailboat in the Age of Discovery - the Galen Ship.

This kind of ship is a three-rail sailboat, whose life has lasted for almost hundreds of years. It has been transformed several times until the emergence of the giant steel ship.

The Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean is what the Garen ship looks like.

Of course, Xiao Ming also mastered the structure of the treasure ship and the blessing ship. However, compared with the Garen ship, the treasure ship was too huge and was not suitable for later warship transformation.

This Galen ship that had been rampant for centuries had a narrow and long hull, low sideways, cross sails, and seaworthiness. Its seaworthiness was obvious among all kinds of sailing ships at that time.

And the most important point is that it is suitable for naval battles. The Galen ships equipped with artillery on both sides are also a model of battleships later.

The picture drawn by Xiao Ming now is of course not the Garen ship at the beginning, but the later improved models, which have been optimized in terms of airworthiness, construction speed and material saving.

He also left muzzles on both sides of the ship, which can be converted into gunboats at any time in the future.

However, his purpose of building the Garen ship now is not for naval battles, but for potatoes.

Compared with the steel assembly line, the structure of this Galen ship is much more complex. Xiao Ming painted it for only one-twentieth of it after drawing it for the afternoon.

Because he had a nap in the afternoon, he was not sleepy at night, and he was not sleepy at all. It was snowing anyway. He drew all night and completed another part of it early the next morning.

At this time, Li San came over and asked An and talked about going to Chang'an.

"This time I go to Chang'an, you must be careful in your words and actions, and do not cause trouble. Do you understand?" Xiao Ming reminded sternly.

Li San’s task was to ask for money, but he didn’t want to make any deviations.

"Yes, Your Highness." Li San was startled and nodded quickly.

He took Li San and Xiao Ming to the dock again, and he paid more attention to this matter.

"Your Highness, this time I will go to Chang'an with Li San, so you can rest assured." Qin Mu stood on the merchant ship and said to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming nodded. Qin Chuanyun was still a little sloppy. Qin Mu followed him, but he felt a little relieved, "Then I'll ask Brother Qin this time."

Qin Mu nodded, ordered the boatman to row, and said goodbye to Xiao Ming with fists.

Xiao Ming also clasped his fists to face him, watching the gray merchant ship slowly leaving.
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