Today, craftsmen are well-known high-income occupations in Chizhou. Compared with a bad man who dies farming, learning a craft is considered a very long-faced thing. As for reading? It's a difficult topic to define.

After all, Qiao Antai's Chinese culture is only responsible for the popularization of words, and to put it bluntly, it teaches you to recognize words. And to take it a step further, you need to wait until the exam is suitable to write a beautiful answer sheet. Then Qiao Antai, Meng Zhuoyan and others will mark the papers together. For students who have the ability to go further, they are called into higher institutions. There's no tuition there. In other words, when you come out, you will be an official!

But so many children, how many have such a future? So most families leave school after their children can recognize a few hundred words and know how to count.

Up to now, there are only 17 or 8 people in this place, which is similar to the official reserve, and in addition to listening to lectures by a few high-ranking officials, they are responsible for collecting all kinds of official documents and miscellaneous documents and accumulating administrative experience.

Conrador came to Chishu City again.

"Your Highness Thomas, this is the last batch of thirty guns to be delivered. King Han also sent a few extra cannons. Conrado wiped the sweat off his forehead, in fact, without Conrado's efforts here, the Genoese would have been ready to lose the Black Sea. However, the huge amount of trade in wool and ironware brought by Conraddo made the Genoa people unwilling.

What's more, if Constantinople were lost, with the habits of Ottoman Turkey, such a colonial area as Galata would definitely not be allowed to stay. The Genoese will lose two important trade nodes in a row, which is an unacceptable consequence for Genoa.

The delivery of fifty-four guns apparently raised the guards of Constantinople several floors. Constantine XI already knew that the Hungarian who had cast the cannon for him had fled to Edirne, the capital of Ottoman Turkey. Mehmed II was collecting brass and bronze to forge siege cannons for him. Fortunately, Conrador knew that there was a kingdom in the Black Sea that was good at forging cannons, otherwise he wouldn't know how many lives he would have to throw away.

Thomas was the younger brother of Constantine XI, who was the absolute monarch of the Duchy of Morea after the death of Constantine XI, while the other part of the Peloponnese was controlled by another brother, Demetus, as the Achaean monarchy.

In fact, in the late Eastern Roman period, there was already a tradition of princes in charge of all parties. Constantine XI was a pledge of the Duchy of Morea in exchange for the position of co-emperor and Thomas. Once Constantine XI died, Thomas would succeed him as emperor.

That's why Thomas himself came forward. Keep Constantinople and he will be the future Roman Emperor. Because Constantine XI had only one daughter, and the first two wives died. Can he conjure up a child out of thin air?

Looking at the thirty brand-new guns, Thomas breathed a sigh of relief. It's finally a peace of mind.

With these cannons, those so-called giant cannons of Mehmed II should not be a cause for concern.

Mehmed II, the monarch of Ottoman Turkey, was an epoch-making figure, as he destroyed the walls of Collins with his artillery, helping him to expand into Europe no less than twenty times. In the frenzied bombardment of these huge artillery, the walls of Serbia, Wallachia, Albania, Montenegro and other countries fell one after another. The best thing about the cannon is that it can shorten the time of protracted siege battles indefinitely. If you have enough cannons, you can smash all the walls on the opposite side in one day.

Unlike those cannons that bombard the city walls in an instant, these cannons in front of you represent the real pace of the times. These cannons had longer barrels and more graceful shapes, and their cannons weighed two pounds, not enough to destroy the walls, but they could destroy the cannons that attacked them.

Conrador is gone, and he is now going to Sudak to deal with the trade dispute there. The locals, as well as the Genoese merchants who were encouraged by the locals, demanded an increase in the share of trade. This matter is about to reach Genoa itself. It's not good news, and Conrador won't leave a pretext for its competitors.

And in fact, the method that Conrador used to cover up the problem on Qin Cang's side was also quite good. Taking advantage of the woolen trade, he reported to the Genoese authorities that the Cyrias from the East had settled in the "East" of Kaffa.

And about this definition of the East, he is alluding to the Emirate of Circassia, etc. In other words, Conrador has almost succeeded in getting rid of the crime of losing his homeland.

After Conrador left, the artillery was taken to Constantinople by Thomas.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, but there is a solemn atmosphere in Constantinople. Faced with an impending threat of life and death, the people of Constantinople did the same as their ancestors twenty years ago to fortify the walls and rally the militia. Whichever time, Mehmed I was defeated, this time, Mehmed II will not be an exception.

As for the impression of Mehmed II, since the conqueror of the world had only been on the throne for two years, the general impression in the West of him was that he was not a very young man. Odd enough, because as soon as Mehmed II ascended the throne, he agreed to various treaties left by his ancestors, which facilitated the movement of Italian merchants here.

This gave the West the impression that Mehmed II was not good at governing the country. Coupled with false rumors, his cowardly temper immediately went away. This is also the reason why the West is not so keen on rescuing Constantinople, which they believe will hold out for a long time.

But they did not know that Mehmed II was a man of character like Alexander the Conqueror. He was born to be a conqueror.

Orhan had just taken away four not very good quality guns from Constantine XI. He was the trigger for this war.

Because of the West's impression of Mehmed II's weakness, and because the young man had only been on the throne for a year, the dead Constantine XI used the pretext of releasing his uncle Orhan to blackmail Mehmed II into handing over a large amount of annuity.

Orhan was the uncle of Mehmed II and the brother of the previous Sultan Murad. Once Orhan reached Anatolia, the mainland of Ottoman Turkey, then Mehmed II would probably suffer a great loss.

But Constantine XI miscalculated Mehmed II.

This is not a docile hound, a wolf who eats people and does not spit out bones!

War!

It's coming!