East Palace, Xiyuan.
"Your Highness, do you like this outfit of my concubine?" Li Qiuya's eyebrows were curved, her beautiful face showed a full smile, showing her enchanting charm.
Since the last time he wore a female Taoist robe, His Royal Highness has come to Xiyuan a lot more times.
However, later Yang Yuhuan sent his sister to the East Palace, and the number of visits by the Crown Prince decreased a lot.
Fortunately, several sets of clothes she asked the embroiderer to make were finally completed.
She was just waiting for the Crown Prince to come to Xiyuan so that she could wear something for His Highness to see.
After all, Li Qiuya has always felt insecure, and has always wanted to rely on Prince Xiao Yi to find some sense of security.
The prince Xiao Yi was away on an expedition, but she didn't even leave Xiyuan. She stayed in the garden and chanted sutras and worshiped Buddha for Xiao Yi every day, asking the Buddha to protect the prince Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi raised his eyes to look at the beauty with bright eyebrows and said, "I like it. This outfit does look a bit like a peacock princess."
Li Qiuya said softly: "As long as His Highness likes it. I also asked someone to make a few sets of clothes. From now on, whatever your Highness wants to see, I will find a way to sew them and wear them for His Highness to admire."
Xiao Yi was silent for a moment and said: "Well, I have some ideas here. Come on, come over and let me tell you."
Li Qiuya's eyes were as bright as water, she nodded and said: "Your Highness, I'm here."
Xiao Yi opened his hand, and Li Qiuya kneaded it directly and poured it on his chest, and a scent filled his nostrils.
It seems that the perfume Xiao Yi recently asked the Qin family to develop has been used.
As the glass manufacturing process becomes more and more mature, glass tubes can be made, and then the distillation technology also reaches a higher level.
Highly distilled liquor, that is, alcohol, also came out.
Perfume can also use the raw material of alcohol, plus distillation, to obtain essence. Only a little bit is needed to create a charming fragrance.
Xiao Yi said: "Your legs would actually look good if they were paired with tight white silk stockings."
"It looks like this..."
Xiao Yi tried his best to describe the shape of the white stockings of later generations, so that Li Qiuya could have a similar look in her mind, and she could sew it with improvements later.
This pair of long legs without stockings is really a waste.
Xiao Yi thinks that in the future, she can also sew black stockings or black fishnet stockings.
Since it's just for fun.
Naturally, it comes as fun.
Li Qiuya is also very cooperative now.
This is the enjoyment of an emperor.
Li Qiuya frowned, her beautiful eyes suddenly filled with solemnity, and said, "Your Highness, stockings like this are difficult to sew, and I don't know if they can be made."
She really hoped that she could sew it and then wear it for His Highness to see.
After all, this is the first time His Highness the Crown Prince has made a request.
No matter what, you must find a way to satisfy yourself.
Xiao Yi said: "Don't be anxious. If there is no way, just slowly think of a way. When the textile machine is improved again in the future, maybe it will be OK."
If it can be made, it would be great.
With stockings, it is actually more convenient for women.
Xiao Yi had a thoughtful look on his face and whispered: "There is one more thing. If you can sew this, it will be remembered in history. Many women will be grateful in the future."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and directly entered Li Qiuya's collar.
Li Qiuya's eyes widened and asked: "Really, Your Highness, what is it?"
Xiao Yidao: "It's similar to a tube top, but it's more practical. It's good for women's safety and it's also a very convenient underwear."
Finished speaking.
He actually carried Li Qiuya directly to the outside, and asked Mingzhu to bring a pen and paper. The pen was a specially made charcoal pen, and then he drew it.
Draw and explain at the same time.
"Wonderful idea." Li Qiuya said in surprise with bright eyes.
Xiao Yi continued to explain: "Yes, if you can find a way to sew it, it will be convenient for yourself and for the women who work hard."
"Not only that, it can also be treated as a patent and let other companies sew it. Every year, you will be given a thousand silver coins as patent fees."
"This way, you can still make money."
Li Qiuya hugged Xiao Yi tightly, sobbing slightly in his arms and said: "Your Highness, you are so kind to me. I have always felt guilty, ugh..."
In fact, Li Qiuya is not stupid either. Prince Xiao Yi's affection for her, Yang Yuhuan and others is not the same.
She could feel this.
She has always known it, but she has never complained. After all, after what she did back then, it would not be an exaggeration for Prince Xiao Yi to kill her now.
Now, with just one word from His Highness the Crown Prince, she can be remembered in history, become the object of gratitude to women all over the world, earn money, and get royalties and so on.
This kind of friendship cannot be faked.
So, Li Qiuya has already been moved by herself, and she is almost obsessed with it.
Xiao Yi held the beauty in his arms and said, "Don't think too much, live well."
Such an obedient little lover.
There are still some differences between that and the empress in the palace.
Li Qiuya immediately raised her head, her pink and slightly shiny lips came up to her, and said softly: "Your Highness, I am..."
Thunder from the sky stirred fire from the earth.
Just when the two of them had almost taken off their clothes, Mingzhu walked in, blushing and said, "Your Highness, the imperial concubine is here."
Xiao Yi: “…….”
It's better to come early than to come by chance.
He looked at the rosy-faced Li Qiuya and said directly: "Well, let her come in."
After a while, I saw Concubine Li, who was wearing a beautifully woven and embroidered imperial concubine's dress. She had a plump figure. Her bright cheeks on both sides were red, and she said softly: "Greetings to His Royal Highness."
Xiao Yi looked at the beauty with warm eyes and called, "Come here."
I haven’t seen her for a while. As she gets older, Concubine Li becomes more plump and more gorgeous.
Concubine Li came closer, looked at the two of them with watery eyes, and said softly: "Your Highness..."
Li Qiuya smiled and said: "Aunt, I haven't seen Your Highness for several months. Why, you are so unfamiliar."
Concubine Li bit her pink lips with her white teeth. Under her light and thin eyebrows, her beautiful eyes were as full as water. She chuckled and said, "Yes, I toss and turn every day, but I didn't expect that there would be someone hugging me from left to right every day."
Xiao Yi helped Li Qiuya get on the bed and covered her with an autumn-colored hibiscus embroidered quilt.
Then he looked at Concubine Li and said, "Why, are you feeling empty, lonely and cold?"
Concubine Li's beautiful eyes were as full as water. She was stunned for a moment after hearing this, pouted, and cried: "Your Highness, if you hate me, why bother..."
Haven’t seen each other for several months.
Nowadays, Concubine Li hardly cares about her reputation. She sneaked out and arrived at the East Palace.
What for?
It’s not like I miss you.
Xiao Yi smiled directly and stepped forward to hug him.
"Okay, okay, it's boring. We haven't seen each other for a few months. We are really unfamiliar and have no tacit understanding."
Concubine Li smiled and gave Xiao Yi a roll of her eyes.
"I've been waiting for you for several months, but you didn't even bother to visit me. Why don't you just use the excuse of saying hello to see me?"
"You are a heartless man."
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"As the saying goes, where the soil and water support the people."
"Just like the Mongolians, Dangxiang people, Jin people, etc. in the north, they live in the grassland and have never farmed, only herding, so their daily food is beef and mutton, plus a little goat milk tea and so on. , Only then will you grow taller, taller, taller and thicker."
"In the south, because there is abundant rain and a wide variety of species, people never worry about food, so there are many weak people who do not work."
"More importantly, the people raised in this land have different ways of thinking."
The civil and military officials were a little confused as to why His Highness the Crown Prince said this.
"In the future, you will know what it means to have enough water and soil to support one people. On this continent, that is, on this ball, there is not only one continent where we are, but there are three more."
"Go east from Daqian, cross an ocean, and you will reach Australia."
"Going west from Dagan, crossing the Strait of Malacca, you can reach North America and South America. The people here include golden-haired people with golden hair, red-haired people with red hair, and black people with very dark skin. .”
Xiao Yi cleared his throat and continued: "At the same time, there should be four ancient civilizations on this ball."
"The first, and also the largest and best developed ancient civilization, is the Central Plains where we are located, which is the earliest era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors."
"The beginning of the tribes of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang was the emergence of civilization."
Di Yan was a little surprised. It turned out that there were three other ancient civilizations. It turned out that there were so many places on this continent?
The key is, how did His Highness know?
Book from heaven?
Or is it really Ziwei Xingjun who descended to earth and was born to know it?
"The origin of the ancient civilization in the Central Plains is because the Yellow River Basin is relatively flat and lacks terrain that can sufficiently block communication between small geographical units. Therefore, as the population grows, exchanges among various regions quickly become more frequent."
"Human beings cannot survive without water, so they must build tribes based on water."
"The birth of the first tribe was the beginning of civilization, and then the tribes grew stronger, and then more tribes appeared, so that in the end, a powerful tribe swallowed up other tribes in order to survive and develop. .”
"This point was mentioned in the change of dynasty, so I won't talk about it anymore."
"Next, I can talk about the other three ancient civilizations."
"They are: ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt, and ancient India."
"The ancient Babylonian civilization had the earliest slave state in mankind and had advanced casting technology. It not only invented writing, namely cuneiform writing, but also invented a tool suitable for writing - "clay tablets"."
"It's just that this ancient civilization that first appeared on the land where it is located has been in a state of constant war for food due to climate change, which has led to desertification, fewer rivers, and underdeveloped water areas. As a result, food production has decreased. "
"Now, they are here, west of Tianzhu."
"The ancient Egyptian civilization is also on the same continent as ours, and it is not far from ancient Babylon."
"Because people here are located in the center line of the ball, they face the sun directly, so their skin is darker."
"And this ancient civilization has strong construction knowledge."
"They spent huge amounts of manpower, material and financial resources to build a mausoleum for their king."
"A pyramid as tall as a mountain."
"I just moved a mountain, cut the rocks from the mountain into very large stone bricks, and then built them layer by layer."
"And because of the construction of such a mausoleum, one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world has finally become lonely."
"The last ancient Indian civilization is actually Tianzhu."
"The development of such a country, the earliest civilization to appear, can be regarded as second behind the ancient civilizations of the Central Plains."
"In other words, the Central Plains is still the overlord of this world."
"However, you have also seen that among the first four ancient civilizations, one of them was in a place that was unsuitable for survival and development due to climate reasons. As a result, disputes continued. Until now, it seems to be the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Central Plains."
"A man who built a mausoleum for an emperor directly turned millions of people into corvees to build a mausoleum for the emperor."
"Then, an ancient civilization that could have prospered has since become more and more backward and poorer."
"From the birthplace of civilization, it went into decline and became a wedding dress for others."
This time, the civil and military officials once again listened to Xiao Yi's story about the origins and decline of the four major ancient civilizations in the world as if they were listening to a book from heaven.
They originally thought that the land they were on was only this small.
North to the north of the grassland.
East to the coast of the East China Sea.
South to the south of body poison.
West to the west of Tianzhu.
But don't want to.
To the north, there is another vast land called the North Sea.
Going east, across the sea, you can see an Australia about the same size as the Central Plains.
To the west, there are even two very large continents.
Now that I think about it carefully, people like me are like sitting in a well and looking at the sky. Even now, I still can't imagine how big this world is and what it's like.
In the clouds and fog.
My head feels a little like paste.
New knowledge, new things, and new perspectives must always be established layer by layer.
Instead of throwing out all the knowledge at once, the civil and military officials can take in as much as they can.
Xiao Yi continued: "This is why Gu insists on managing the two rivers. The climate cannot be determined by humans. Temperature rises, storms, tornadoes, heavy rains, flash floods, even volcanic eruptions, earth dragons turning over, etc."
"Natural disasters are a natural process of development, not a punishment from God."
"People must have fear, but they cannot be so fearful that they put all their hopes in God."
"The civilization of ancient Babylon can be regarded as a very early civilization, even a little earlier than the civilization of the Central Plains."
"But what's the result?"
"They're lonely."
"Natural selection, survival of the fittest."
"The Central Plains is a unique geomantic treasure land in the world."
“However, we cannot ignore protection.”
“Clear waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver.”
"We want to leave behind a treasured land suitable for their development, survival and life."
"Instead, after the natural disaster strikes, we have to attack ourselves."
"If the ancient Babylonians had prevented wind and sand, built water conservancy projects, built reservoirs to store water, and dug canals to divert water, they would never have allowed the place where civilization first appeared to turn into a place of chaos."
"The civilization of the Central Plains originated in the Yellow River Basin, and the centralized system was formed because of this. It is for this reason that the great river civilization naturally regards the ocean as its boundary, just like Kyushu is a chessboard, with the desert in the north, the plateau in the west, the jungle in the south, The ocean to the east is the edge of this chessboard.”
"It seems that our development is limited, but... because our Central Plains civilization is the best and fastest developing ancient civilization."
"Our Dagan Imperial Army and Yanyun Sixteenth Cavalry are the most powerful cavalry teams in the world today."
"How about the Meng Yuan cavalry?"
"It's not like we were defeated by the Imperial Guards."
"In this case, the so-called edge of the chessboard does not exist for us."
"Going east, we have begun to reach the land of Japan."
"Going west, we have also reached the land of Tianzhu."
"In the future, we can also reach three other continents to find high-yielding agricultural seeds."
"If possible, our descendants will also have a goal that they can strive for throughout their lives."
"So, no matter how large the population is, it doesn't matter. There is plenty of space for Dagan people to farm, live and live."
"The civilization of the Central Plains must be the most advanced and excellent civilization in the world."
"And if you want the Daqian people to reach these places, you need the best sailing ships, the best navigation routes, and the best strong ships and cannons."
"And if we want Daqian to be remembered in world history, we need to be innovative and inclusive."
"Be tolerant to diversity, tolerance is a virtue."
“The eyes of Dagan people should not just stare at the Central Plains, the birthplace of our civilization, but look at the world!”
This lesson from Xiao Yi.
It was enough to shock all civil and military officials.
At the same time, it spreads very quickly.
When the next day's Di Bao appeared, in addition to the originally reserved section about new learning, and the section on Journey to the West to Conquer Demons.
All other sections begin to tell the story of continental geography.
Seven continents and four oceans.
The names of the seven continents and four oceans can of course be renamed.
In the future, in the history of the world, it must be the first time that merchants from Daqian traveled around the world, thus proving that the earth is the center of the globe. It must also be recorded that someone from Daqian discovered the New World.
However, Xiao Yi still named it according to its original name, and then introduced the civilizations of the seven continents.
To do so is to force enlightenment.
Many people were amazed.
Some people are also questioning.
There are even some old rotten Confucians who are confusing the public with their evil words.
However, for the maritime merchants of Daqian, for the merchants of Daqian, and for the martial artists of Daqian, they all saw the hope.
It turns out that there is such a vast continent!
