What about men? The answer given by Carl is that men and women are about the same, except that men have an extra type of military clothing. Pullover shirt without sleeves, low-waisted tight-fitting pantyhose, and two sleeveless robes over the outside. Why don't you have sleeves? It's not that there are no sleeves, but that this sleeve can be removed from the shirt. The European aristocracy of this era was very particular about sleeves, and would buy all kinds of sleeves, and changing clothes was actually changing sleeves.

Oh, by the way, there is another thing that is a must-have, which is a small pocket hanging from the waist, whether it is leather or cloth, for money, cosmetics or snacks, both men and women.

"I'm afraid the church won't agree, such clothes are too extravagant and not to the taste of the church......" Karl poured cold water on Hong Tao's ideals.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Your God can control everything, and the only thing that can't control is human nature. As long as it is something beautiful, women like it, and even if you burn ten people a day, they will never back down. Hong Tao is not worried at all, he is just going to make trouble, whether it can be done is one thing, and whether he does it is another. The church can't control itself, and within the scope of the cannon, anything will be in vain. And it's not forcibly promoting, just letting them see it. Once you have a goal in your heart, you can't stop it.

"You have a point, but what about men's clothing? Make me a suit too, I didn't go home until ten years, I can't wear a military uniform, is there any good-looking men's clothing? After ten years of living in a foreign land, Carl has long forgotten his original habits, and he doesn't believe in the church as much as he used to. Just like Hong Tao said, everyone has a love for beauty, and he also wants to get a beautiful dress. Returning to his hometown in style. Didn't the ancients pass by? Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as the night walk of the brocade, who knows!

"Ladies first! I'll make it for Jiang Niangzi and Hong Salamander first. Then it's your turn, just wait! "Men's clothing? Hong Tao didn't have this plan at all, the old man was dressed up to show off his hair?

From making clothes, Hong Tao remembered a lot of things that could harm Europeans. For example, cosmetics containing lead and mercury; exquisite tableware and wine utensils made of lead-tin alloy; These things can make people chronically poisoned and even pass on to the next generation. Imagine that those who can afford these expensive cosmetics must be the European aristocracy, in other words, the European elite. If they were allowed to suffer from chronic lead poisoning, their mental retardation, their memory and their fertility would be weakened. And this method is invisible, not only can harm people but also make money. Lots of money! Once women learn that they can make themselves more beautiful, the madness that radiates is not even God's, and whoever dares to stop them from pursuing beauty is their mortal enemy. The Pope is a fart, he will be stabbed to death by his lover in his sleep one day, who told him not to allow women to be beautiful!

In addition, Hong Tao extended it from this aspect, and suddenly found that he had a lot to do in Europe! For example, the establishment of a luxury base, specializing in the production of cosmetics, hairdressing products, high-end clothing and accessories for the European aristocracy. Then guide them how to make food, how to enjoy life, the only thing that is not taught is how to create, how to produce. It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, and a Europe that only pursues eating, drinking and having fun is more in line with its own requirements. It would be interesting if all the court women of Europe could be made to be like Queen Mary of Louis XVI.

Fighting tigers also needs their own hardness. Europeans are not stupid, and without a set of methods to fool people and real good things, this plan will be difficult to realize. Hong Tao belongs to the existence of doing serious things without any spirit, and his eyes light up when he says that he is harmful. In order to realize his ideal of harming people, the captain's office of the Jinhe immediately became a laboratory, and Jiang Zhuyi and Hong Salamander became his two accomplices, every day from morning to night, either cutting clothes or developing cosmetics, and from time to time they had to bring Carl and Luo Youde over to hold a new product launch conference, so that they could express their opinions with senior officers, and then gradually improve.

Dabao! This is a beauty brand that Hong Tao developed in a month before the fleet arrived in Cape Town, and there is currently only one product, called Dabao Whitening Cream. No one knows what its ingredients are, but it can really make people's skin look a lot whiter after being applied, and it has a funny feel. But Hong Tao only tried it on his face a few times, and it was strictly forbidden for Jiang Zhuyi and Hong Salamander to use it, because this thing was full of white lead powder, and regular contact with it was not good for the human body.

White lead, the scientific name is Hongtao is not clear, anyway, it is a derivative of lead ore mining, in the form of translucent crystals, mainly used in the Great Song Dynasty to configure pigments, Taoist priests also use them for alchemy, and as cosmetics. The Song people grinded this mineral into a fine powder, mixed it with spice powder and oil, made it into a paste, and rubbed it on the face to whiten it. There is a saying called washing away the lead flower, and this lead flower is a cosmetics made of white lead powder.

Of course, the yield of this kind of white lead is not high, and it is impossible for everyone to use it, and more cosmetics made of rice flour are used. It is to crush the rice and soak it in water, and then precipitate some very fine starch-like things from the rice soup, and use it to apply noodles after drying. To be honest, Hong Tao really didn't think there was anything beautiful about smearing a layer of white powder on his face, he looked white and miserable like a living ghost. But this is the difference between the times, he, a modern person, thinks it is ugly, and the ancient people think it is beautiful.

Hong Tao's Dabao whitening cream is much more advanced, in addition to white lead, there are pearl powder, talcum powder, musk powder, mint powder, with boiling purified four times after the whale oil blended into a paste, smelling the fragrance, rubbing it on the face is the same as scraping putty, immediately white and miserable, and there is a simple waterproof and sweatproof function. But this thing is easy to clog the pores of sweat, and absorbs metallic lead through the capillaries on the skin, and it is not good for the human body to use it for a long time.

Once the lead has settled under the skin, the whole face is blue, and it can't be done without wiping. Therefore, Hong Tao strictly forbade Jiang Zhuyi and Hong Salamander to use Dabao Whitening Cream, the reason is that this thing is poisonous, but looking at the eyes of the two of them, there is not much fear, it is estimated that Hong Tao is not staring, they must secretly try it. This increased Hong Tao's confidence even more, and told them that they were poisonous, and they still yearn for it so much, the same women, can those European ladies resist?

In addition, there is also a kind of lipstick cream and mascara Hong Tao has also been developed, and there is still white lead powder in the ingredients, which has strong adhesion and can be put into anything. It's just that the white lead raw materials on the ship are not enough, and the test alone has been consumed. But it doesn't matter, South Africa is a big mineral country, Hong Tao thinks that when he arrives in Cape Town, he will definitely be able to get this kind of associated mine, and then get a small workshop, take some time to produce some samples and bring them to Europe to try. If it's really popular, then mass production, if people don't like it, just throw it into the sea and finish it, anyway, there is no cost.

Cosmetics are just a small weapon for him to harm Europeans, and the harm of absorbing lead from the skin alone is not so great, and the biggest thing is to directly eat food with high lead content. What foods are high in lead? Hong Tao really doesn't know very well, at this time, there is no heavy metal pollution, and there is no place to find this plant or animal. So what to do? In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome, the ancient Romans used themselves to demonstrate how to chronic lead poisoning, they used lead tableware, kitchen utensils, which is not enough, and also used lead to make water pipes. This fearless spirit of sawing bulbs and welding detonators was ready to help the Europeans carry it on, and he wanted to make the Europeans like all kinds of metal utensils made of lead.

Lead is a metal that is soft and easy to process, so the ancient Romans liked to use lead as daily necessities. But now it is all bronze, iron, porcelain, and silver, so how can Europeans like gray and unsightly lead? It's a technical job. If you don't make light lead, you have to alloy! Lead, silver, and copper can be alloyed, and in later generations, these alloys were used in industry and would never be made into daily necessities, but now they can. All kinds of lead alloys not only maintain the general appearance, luster and color of silver and copper, but also have the characteristics of low melting point, good fluidity, good ductility and low hardness, which are more suitable for later finishing. The biggest advantage is that these alloys are cheaper than pure silver and pure copper, and the manufacturing cost is also low.

Using these alloys to make tableware, kitchenware, and cooking utensils is simply too suitable, and it can be made beautifully, and it is more corrosion-resistant than sterling silver and pure copper, and it is not easy to rust, even if the outer layer is oxidized, it becomes shiny and shiny after rubbing. But they are all poisonous, and long-term use of these dishes, kitchenware, cooking utensils, there is only one consequence, chronic lead poisoning! People with this disease have memory loss, deterioration of reproductive ability, loss of appetite, and fatigue, and inheriting it to the next generation will have an irreversible impact on the brain, simply put, it is easy to give birth to mentally retarded children.

These two alloys were tried by the blacksmiths on the Jinhe with the crucibles on the ship, and they were easy to make, but the optimal ratio had not yet been determined. There is no hurry in this work, there is a smelting workshop in Cape Town, and let the slaves try it slowly there, the air in the cabin is not very circulating, and the smell of lead vapor is also poisoning.

The rest is the clothing, these clothes are not poisonous, and they are quite beautiful, especially when worn on a tall woman like Jiang Zhuyi, it is indeed more graceful. The chest padded by the chest cushion is bulging and half exposed, the waist tightened by the chest is more slender, and the bottom is equipped with a long skirt that is supported by a whale baleen skirt, standing there like a blooming flower, walking around like floating on a cloud, very fairy. It is a little bit of space and fabric, a skirt supported by a skirt, at least more than two meters wide, Hong Salamander often gets under Jiang Zhuyi's skirt to play with Hong Tao's Tibetan cat, it can't be seen from the outside at all, and the silk fabric used is enough to make five cheongsams. (To be continued.) )