After the shock, the two calmed down and boarded the carriage again. The carriage slowly started. Along the way, the two of them felt dazzled.

The deepest impression on the Ming Dynasty on both sides was civilization. Although the city of Ming Dynasty was large, it was not chaotic.

Of course, it is not like European cities like horse manure, cow manure, and human manure are everywhere, and sewage flows through the mountains of garbage.

The Ming Dynasty was not Europe, Europe was just beginning to live a good life, civilization was just emerging, and the urban population expanded rapidly.

For them, they have no experience in this area at all, and they don’t know how to manage such a super-large city.

But the Ming Dynasty is different. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, super cities with more than one million people have appeared, so generations of accumulation and generations of transformation.

Gradually, a set of design methods and management systems for megacities were explored, so the Ming Dynasty was definitely far superior to the European streets of the same period in municipal management.

In addition, in order to prevent the plague, since the environmental reform in the capital was considered effective, various places have arranged military soldiers to serve as urban cleaning personnel.

Therefore, the cities of the Ming Dynasty must pay attention to public health compared to previous dynasties, so they are naturally cleaner.

In addition to being clean, civilization also has order. The Beijing camp either opens street-facing shops or neat roadside stalls.

Pedestrians and horses travel according to their own paths, and the bustling is not busy, crowded but not messy.

The two of them were inexhaustible novelty along the way. Although many missionaries in Europe arrived in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty they described were not as clear as they saw in person.

The carriage walked westward and walked for a whole morning before leaving the city. After leaving the city, the road was no longer paved with bricks and stones, but the three-dimensional pavement was sturdy and the flatness was very high.

The carriage trotted on such a road without feeling bumpy at all.

The villages and towns in Jiangnan with white walls and gray tiles in the distance, the lonely mountains, small bridges, and the girls picking lotus roots in the river, all of which make them new.

They stayed at the Kunshan County Inn that night. Although Kunshan is just a county, it is located between Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture. It has a unique geographical location, so the prosperity also opened the eyes of the two of them.

The next evening, they arrived in Suzhou. Zhou Tongyi rarely took them to visit several famous attractions and explained to them the history of Suzhou for thousands of years.

Of course, they also saw the powerful city defense and strict army of Suzhou City, which was not much more than the first-class European army.

They could not imagine that if an army of 600,000 would be dispatched, they would not know which country on the earth could resist?

The two were shocked by the city's towering walls, powerful army, and long history. They were also immersed in the beautiful Jiangnan garden design.

At this time, Europeans had not yet developed the courage to be the best in the world, nor had they pushed capitalist civilization to the peak, thinking that they were the beautiful standard of the world.

So when I saw the Jiangnan gardens, I naturally marveled at the wisdom of the East, envied and longed for possession.

The several houses they visited were also selected by Zhu Cilang, representing the essence of garden architecture.

Then they passed Wuxi, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and finally arrived in Jinling. Sure enough, after seeing it all the way, they had a deeper understanding of the prosperity and strength of the Ming Dynasty.

There are many big and small towns along the way, and it is an ordinary town that can be called a city in Europe. It is really amazing!

Of course they didn't know that the route they saw was the golden route of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, at the beginning, Zhu Cixuan planned to ask them to set off from Hangzhou and then go all the way to Suzhou, but considering that it was a bit too deliberate, he didn't do that.

Large cities like Suzhou and Hangzhou are not only well-known to the Ming people, but also to be world-famous cities in the whole world. Marco Polo has praised these two cities a lot.

If you have finished reading Suzhou and Hangzhou, will the other party definitely be the only two cities in the Ming Dynasty?

So Zhu Cilang chose Songjiang Prefecture, a new city. Songjiang Prefecture rose because of cotton cloth. When Marco Polo came, he was not so prosperous.

Zhu Cixuan also decided on the Bund of Songjiang Prefecture as the site of the expo, so it is reasonable to get off the boat from Songjiang.

There were so many shocks along the way that they were no longer surprised to see the twenty-meter-high wall of Jinling City.

They think that it is not natural for Jinling to have such a majestic city wall, as one of the three capitals of the Ming Dynasty.

This reminded them of Constantinople, which was even more majestic than Constantinople.

Especially the more and larger muzzles and the warships cruising on the river made them realize that they couldn't help but feel awe.

When they arrived in Jinling, the two were arranged in the inn and told to learn etiquette and wait for His Royal Highness to summon him.

Only then did the two remember the purpose of their trip and became more worried about the future.

Especially Weidell, he didn't think it was a big deal to attack the Humen Fort before, and what could the so-called Ming Dynasty's anger really do?

This time he came, he just thought he was here to open the route, so he chose to compromise. It was not that he really couldn't beat it. He was not defeated and surrendered. He could have talked about the conditions with the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

After walking along the way, he saw clearly himself and the strength of the Ming Dynasty. He finally knew what he had brought to Britain.

Norreti was right, this time he provoked an existence that could not be accused of indiscriminately in the UK.

He could have imagined that when the Emperor Ming Dynasty was furious, he sent out twice as many warships as the Spanish Invincible Fleet, and carried his six hundred thousand, no, only one hundred thousand army would be needed, the British Empire would be less.

So the two of them became much more obedient.

Zhu Cixuan did not meet these two people at the first time. After the initial anger, Zhu Cixuan calmed down again. He could not pretend to be a taboo in the military and could not go to war on both sides.

The most important thing for the Ming Dynasty is to stabilize the north. Although Jiannu has been crippled, he is indeed not dead. They may still go south to invade the borders of the Ming Dynasty at any time.

After consolidating the north, the time to move south is the time to move south.

The order for the 200 warships has just been issued, so it is still too early to develop combat effectiveness.

Even if you complete outfitting, it is not something that can be done in a year. These two hundred ships require 12,000 artillery pieces.

The gun factory in Beijing now produces only more than 300 units per month. If it is at its current speed, it will take four years to supply only these ships.

But it is impossible to only supply ships, and the army is still waiting for artillery!

According to Zhu Cixuan's original plan, it was to increase production while simply installing, that is, each boat was equipped with ten cannons first and use it as much as possible.

When the output is up, the full range is full, so now that war is declared, Zhu Ciyang can't drive a lucky boat to India to find British people, right?
Chapter completed!