In 3000 BC, the 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian mummies wore blue dye and on Tutankhamun's clothing, which shows that the ancestors had already mastered this technology. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

…… In fact, it should be used by everyone, just chop the woad grass, step on it, stick it into powder, and the blue pigment will easily appear.

However, the blue pigment produced by this method is not easy to dye: in the 17th century dyeing workshop in Toulouse, France, for example, a skilled dyeing master can only make five dyed clothes a month, why is it so slow? It is because it is purely handmade, and it is necessary to repeat the indigo dyeing 15-16 times, and then wash it many times before leaving the factory to confirm that the color will not fade before it can be sold.

Therefore, you should have a general understanding of why the Chinese clothes in medieval Europe were so expensive - by the way, although William Wallace was very happy to smear blue grass on his body, but in fact it faded when he washed it, because it could not be fixed.

In fact, although Scotland is the largest growing area of woad grass in Western Europe, Scotland has always only sold tons of woad grass, not the reason why blue clothes are not sold.

Unfortunately, because of the existence of the Internet, many secrets will no longer be secrets, even the I Ching tendons of the Shaolin Temple have a pictorial audiobook version.

However, just as the most important step of the little Tang Grand Duke's fortune plan was carried out, the first batch of woad grass had just arrived, and he was about to deal with it, when an unexpected news reached his ears.

A fleet of 'unprecedented', 'huge', 'obscuring the sky', almost filling the horizon, appeared in the Strait of Bretagany, and was heading straight for Desmond!

The news came from a spy in Breton, when the Breton fishermen who had gone out to sea to fish were almost so frightened by the huge fleet that they fled in embarrassment without even recovering their nets, and ran back to the shoreline.

Suddenly, such a large fleet appeared, and naturally it was impossible to hide from the nobles of Breton, but this fleet was surprisingly silent, neither sending envoys to contact any nobles, nor landing and plundering along the coast, but just silently moving forward. And such a large fleet, as long as it does not show clear hostility, even the Grand Duke of Conuille would not dare to start the battle lightly, if this fleet is full of soldiers, no, even if only half of them are trained soldiers, then he can only flee in the desert!

To be realistic, when this fleet left the coast of Breton and headed straight for Desmond without saying a word, the Grand Duke of Conuille even had some schadenfreude in his heart, and Marseias had already reported all the replies of the Archduke of Little Don to him, and if it weren't for the distance, he would have ordered his troops and horses to use violence to determine who was stronger.

"Can you be sure it's Olaf Patriarch?"

Unlike Grand Duke Conuveye, Grand Duke Xiao Tang still has some foundation in his heart, and when he calculates the time, it should be almost the time when Patriarch Olaf returns...... However, this is also too strange.

Whether it is Olaf Patriarch or not, leading such a large fleet is an incredible thing in itself, and Grand Duke Xiao Tang does not think that the money he gave to Olaf Patriarch alone is enough to buy so many ships - even if these are cargo ships and not war ships, they are not just casual to buy!

Besides, if it was really Patriarch Olaf who had returned, it would be impossible for him not to send an emissary to contact him first, and this strange silence was so disturbing now!

"Whether it is Patriarch Olaf or not, Lord Grand Duke, we should still prepare in advance, just in case."

Many of the Earls of Alcobar who did not appear solemnly admonished, since this knight was named Count of Ormond, he has been working hard to develop and build the county according to the orders of the Elder Duke of the Little Tang, but this incident is too important and must concentrate all his strength, so the Count of Olcobar of the Little Tang also called back.

"The lord is right, pirates have been rampant lately, and several merchant ships to and from Desmond have lost contact, although I don't think that group of pirates still has the ability to repeat Viking Hurricane again, but it is better to be careful."

Klein continued the words of the Earl of Alcobar, and the Viking frenzy in his words was of course referring to the Viking king Harald of Norway who led the Vikings to invade in the war that decided the hegemony of England thirteen years ago, although they lost in the end, but do not forget that this war buried a whole generation of English, and King William was able to conquer England thanks to this Harald king.

In addition, as mentioned above, almost all of today's Vikings are controlled by King William, and with the relationship between King William and the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang, even if there is a surprise attack suddenly, it is not impossible.

Listening to the words of these important ministers, the little Tang Grand Duke turned his head again and looked at the only two children in the court - these are the sons and daughters of the Olaf patriarch who were handed over to the little Tang Grand Duke as hostages when he left, and after almost a year of education, he now looks much more mature; But when the little Tang Grand Duke looked at them, they all just shook their heads, indicating that they had not received any news from their clansmen.

To be honest, seeing these two children behaving like this, Xiao Tang's heart was half cold on the spot.

Tiger poison does not eat children, even if he is gone and sees the wrong person, it is impossible for the Olaf patriarch to abandon his blood relatives and flesh aside, but now there is no news about his blood relatives and flesh at all, it seems that there is really an eighty percent chance that it is not the Olaf patriarch.

That being the case, it is necessary to be prepared for war.

"Order, I demand that all the soldiers of the entire Grand Duke, the standing army, the town guards, the peasant soldiers, except for the five hundred men stationed in the Earl of Ulster, all the other soldiers must be assembled within ten days, and those who violate it will be beheaded!"

"Open the armory, let the engineers give me all the work to work, assemble the ballista carts for me, and bow and arrows and crossbows, what about Odega? Keep Odegar busy for me, and make sure every crossbow archer has access to a crossbow that they can't even lift their hands to! Let the knights start the pre-war mobilization, and I want all the soldiers to know that we are ready to fight a big war, a war to defend our parents! ”

After saying such a long sentence in one breath, the little Tang Grand Duke also felt a little dry, picked up the water on the table and poured a big mouthful, and then said to the important ministers who were sitting in front of him and listening carefully to the order:

"If this is just a false alarm, and it is indeed the Olaf Patriarch who leads that fleet, then this time it is a military exercise, and the assembled soldiers can be disbanded immediately, but if it is not ......"

"Ladies and gentlemen, ask the Lord Almighty to bless us and grant us victory!"