Claudia's best route was to go to the Italian League of Cities, both in Florence and Venice, but the Autonomous League of Merchants there had a more robust system of commerce and trade, and a protectionist system that was gradually improving, and the shrewd Italian merchants were always able to extract the last of their profits, and the goods purchased by merchants from all over the world were always expensive.

What's worse is that England was listed as the most unpopular customer as early as the time of Henry VIII, and the current Queen Elizabeth I is a devout Protestant, Italy is just the stronghold of Catholicism, and Florence has several popes in a row from the Medici family, and has unparalleled influence in the city league, needless to say that Claudia has no choice, and countless British businessmen have fallen into the sand there before, and there is no chance at all.

The fundamental antagonism between Protestantism and Catholicism could not be resolved, the dichotomy of European countries could not be changed, and there was no other way to find trading partners in Europe, Spain and Portugal were devout Catholic countries, and the Spaniards could barely allow England to enter the East Asian routes, or did they allow the Duke of York's fleet to enter here only if their king Philip II was trying to pursue Elizabeth I.

John Hawkins had previously proposed a trade relationship with the Portuguese colony of Brazil, but this did not seem like a very safe option by any means, and the Mediterranean spoiler that the pagan Ottoman Empire was so powerful and inextricably linked to the Italian city league that it was impossible to talk about the possibility of a trade partnership.

Claudia knew she had little choice but to focus on East Asia, the legendary country of gold that was repeatedly mentioned in "Marco Polo's Travels". However, she was well aware of the Ming Empire's strategy of banning the sea, treating non-vassal states with a posture of almost locking off the country. Not to mention England, an island nation that has never been famous. Even Japan, a former feudal state, was shut out during the rise of the Japanese Invaders.

She had to choose Japan, which she was relatively more familiar with, or she could only choose Japan, the first transit point in East Asia, hoping to obtain the much-needed trade goods from here, and Kira Yoshitoki also knew that her options were limited, so he opened up the topic and said: "Porcelain and cloth are my main industrial products, in addition, I can also provide the printing and dyeing silk yarn and cloth I need, raw silk is more difficult to obtain due to the forbidden sea, but I can provide you with an unexpected industrial product." Muskets. ”

Claudia's eyes widened in surprise, her small mouth opened slightly to reveal a pink lilac tongue, and she asked in disbelief, "Musket?" If I'm not mistaken, a few years ago you brought in a batch of arquebuses from the Argotic Chamber of Commerce, and the clockmaker named Kronberg, is your territory now ready to produce muskets? ”

One can imagine how surprised this girl was at the moment, the arquebus was introduced to Japan for more than ten years, and it was able to be copied in large quantities, which made her extremely shocked by the creativity of the Eastern civilization countries, and in order to show his sincerity, he decided to release a fierce news: "It can be produced, and it is a new type of musket." I'll send someone to bring you a new musket to try it out, as you'll remember when I said that Japan is a country lacking iron. Therefore I hope that your country will provide me with some fine iron, which I can exchange for brimstone, pure lead, and iron cannons. ”

"Then let's wait until we see the real thing!" Claudia smiled slightly, and then said: "I am very interested in the new mode of cooperation mentioned by Joseph, but my fleet is too limited to carry as many trade items as you need, and the current trade items in the fleet are the ones I mentioned, as well as the luxury goods purchased from the Spice Islands along the way, and we still need to discuss the specific details of this new mode of trade." ”

"I don't care about those luxuries, making some floating money is just a small way after all, if I have time this afternoon I can take you to see my workshop, as well as the trade goods produced, I wonder if the beautiful lady is interested in visiting Naoejin Port?" Kira Yoshitoki stood up and made a gesture of please.

"A gentleman's sincere invitation cannot be refused." Claudia stretched out her hand and put it on the palm of his outstretched hand, and said with a smile: "Then ask the gentleman to show me this magical land!" ”

Yesterday's unpleasantness seemed to disappear suddenly, and the two of them arrived at Naoetsu Port after the winter snow with a happy mood, and the sun was beautiful to reveal the sun that they had not seen for many days, and under the warm sunlight, they joined hands to visit several workshops in the town, and saw how many tens of thousands of workers in hundreds of workshops repeated the same work over and over again, which made her see the power of large-scale handicrafts.

Kira told her that the textile industry was a labor-intensive industry, that a large number of workers could be employed to produce countless textiles, and that the improvement of production efficiency required the transformation of looms.

A bowl of braised pork rib noodles in the noodle house at noon, a bowl of beef bone soup in this cold season is really beautiful, and in the afternoon, he visited the printing and dyeing workshop, the shipbuilding workshop and the most proud pipa house and the triple house, the lord's own business system once again opened his eyes.

The afternoon passed unconsciously, and Claudia, who was still a little unsatisfied, agreed to continue tomorrow, and for the next period of time, the two of them walked through the streets and alleys of Naoetsu Town, tasting local flavors, and visiting the countryside near the castle town to investigate the agricultural system of the Kira family and the development direction of ecological agriculture.

Later, she followed him on a boat to Sado Island to watch the meat processing industry, and Niigata Port overlooked the vast plains as far as the eye could see, all of which brought her a huge shock in her heart, and gradually Claudia's attitude towards him changed subtly, and she seemed to be more lively and cheerful, as if she had rediscovered the familiar figure of the little girl many years ago.

I don't know when the two no longer discuss economic and political topics, but like a couple around the famous mountains and rivers, once walked through the snow to visit the ancient temple to listen to the monks' morning lessons, and also braved the hardships to climb the second mountain to enjoy the beautiful snow scene, Kira Yoshitoki also took her to the Yuzawa Imperial Palace to enjoy the strange feeling of soaking in the hot springs in the winter snow.

By the time I got back to the York, it was the middle of November. Only then did the two find out that they had been playing in Echigo for a whole month. The York's fleet had already traded all the goods. John Hawkins was full of praise for the new flintlock iron cannon provided by the Kira family, and when he saw Kira Yoshishi again, he no longer had the slightly cold attitude he had at the beginning, respecting the strong is one of the virtues of human beings, and John Hawkins was a gentleman who respected the strong.

John Hawkins shook his hand warmly as if he had seen a best friend he hadn't seen in years, and said, "Sorry, Joseph! Frans was my cousin, and his mother was my only aunt, and I brought him on board to see him for a long time. I didn't expect him to do something about a duel, I'm really sorry. ”

"Francis and Joseph duel? When did this happen? Claudia's brows furrowed slightly, and a pair of blue eyes were full of questions: "The two of them shouldn't know each other, why did they duel?" ”

John Hawkins was very embarrassed, and he didn't dare to open his eyes and say nonsense when he didn't react when he faced Kira Yoshi, so he could only secretly scold Francis for making trouble for himself, while pretending not to care, and explained: "Speaking of which, it is also related to His Royal Highness the Duke, Frans is a dueling challenge launched at the cost of the loser giving up the qualification of pursuing His Royal Highness the Duke forever." ”

"At the expense of pursuing my qualifications......" Claudia looked like she didn't know what to say, in fact, she was not impressed by Francis, only that the relatives of the Hawkins family were a brother and sister. With the captain's relationship, he went through the back door to board the York.

Christine is a girl and a likable, and Francis is always unpleasant with her unpleasant face. Fortunately, he usually hides in the cabin honestly and doesn't come out, no one thought that such a young man would fall in love with the Duke of York, let alone that he would start a duel when he found Kirayoshi.

At this time, even Claudia was a little embarrassed, and said apologetically: "Francis is the youngest sailor on this ship, and he has always been very well-behaved, I didn't expect him to do such a thing to Joseph, I will ask Captain John to be more disciplined, and I am very sorry for causing trouble to Joseph for his reckless behavior." ”

"It's okay, I like this guy a lot and I'm optimistic about his future, I believe Captain Hawkins can make him a good navigator, and I won that duel." Kira Yoshitoki winked at Claudia, and the girl immediately understood what he meant, and dared to wink at him so boldly that Kira Yoshitoki was shocked.

"This foreign girl is different, she is very bold, she has seduced me many times in the past month, which makes me a little unbearable." was shocked by this ecstasy, and unconsciously began to think about how to compose a singing and crying love story with this little beauty.

Kira Yoshitoki is not a gentleman, let alone a fledgling without emotional experience, he has seven wives and seven children, two of which are still pregnant and about to give birth, whether it is personal achievements or the number of wives and children he has, he is an absolutely successful person in this era, compared to those middle and low-level samurai who did not marry until they were in their forties, his life is as wonderful as a fairy tale.

The more successful the person, the easier it is to get more successful resources, this truth is like a monkey before the development of only one "bad chaff wife", after the development of hundreds of side room ladies for him to enjoy, Kira Yoshishi is also a successful person, I feel that most of the little beauty sent to the door can not escape from the palm of his hand.

A month of getting along day and night has long made him see that this little beauty is interesting to him, although he can't understand whether this little silly girl has a psychological problem, or what is difficult to say is inconvenient to explain, but this does not prevent him from enjoying a new relationship, and at the same time he thought proudly: "Could this be the legendary peach blossom luck, that is, I am lucky so I can meet it?" ”

Because it was the middle of winter, which was not conducive to sailing, this fleet from England was not accepted by the Spanish and Portuguese chambers of commerce, so they chose to spend this cold winter in Naoetsu Port, but fortunately, the ports of Hokuriku Province are natural ice-free ports, so there is no need to worry about the ships being trapped here and unable to move.

Seeing that he couldn't leave for a few months, John Hawkins found a reason to relax and take half of the crew to the nearby hot springs for a vacation, and the other half of the crew guarded the fleet and would rotate once in half a month.

More than half of the crew of the York is gone, and the few remaining crew members are also hiding in the cabin to drink and play cards and sleep. The actual security of the fleet was actually handed over to the concentric police of the port. One of their tasks was to keep the ships in the harbor safe. And a certain management fee is charged from this care process.

As soon as the crew was gone, it meant that Kira Yoshitoki could rightfully live in the York, and the maid Sarah was sent to other rooms, and Kira Yoshitoki left his room every once in a while to talk about life and ideals with Claudia, unaware of how embarrassing it was to be alone in the same room.

One night, the two were drinking and chatting under the moon before the flower, Claudia drank half a bottle of wine, and the whole little face was as red as rouge, leaving a faint red color on the mutton fat jade, and the slightly drunk girl smiled coquettishly: "Joseph, you coward, why don't you dare to touch me for so long?" I'm afraid I'll eat people. Or are you afraid of the lady in your house? ”

"Reserved, you are a lady, don't act like a ...... Ahem! You know the general meaning, I don't think you have gone through personnel yet! When the words came to her lips, she swallowed the two dirty words back, but Claudia giggled, "Are you going to be a slut?" Virgin slut do you dare to ask for it? ”

Claudia, who was drunk, stretched out one hand and put it on her forehead when she felt Kirayoshi, and put the other hand on her forehead, and said seriously after a while: "There is no fever, it seems that you must be drunk, alcohol is really the natural enemy of human beings, let you not drink so much, how can we get along in the future by saying this kind of thing now." ”

"I don't want to get along with you. I just want you to be who you are! Claudia dropped her glass in a daze, staggered to her feet, walked to the edge of the bed, and lay down on her back. In this very unladylike sleeping position, he said to him: "Joseph, answer my question, as a man, do you dare to ask me?" ”

"Why don't you dare! The little fool who sent it to the door, you just wait to die! Kira jumped up at the moment, but the next moment he forcibly suppressed the lust rising in his body, and said calmly: "But I have a question, how did you become like this?" It stands to reason that the Duchess of York should be a woman sought after by thousands of people, so many excellent aristocratic men, you don't choose, but choose me, a man who is thousands of miles away and has a wife? ”

“…… You really can't help but ask! I thought you'd be pretending to be crazy and stupid all the time, and be a boring bastard! Claudia's cheeks were still as red as fire, but her hazy drunken eyes gradually became clear and clear, and she said with a slightly mocking smile on the corner of her mouth: "No matter how much a woman achieves, she cannot avoid the eternal topic of men, and I am like this, and Her Majesty is the same, so Her Majesty would rather find a married man as a lover than marry Philip II of Spain." ”

“…… Didn't you say that Queen Elizabeth I was going to marry that Robert Dudley? ”

"They are in a love affair that is destined to come to fruition, and the Queen understands it, and so does Robert Dudley." Claudia was silent for a long time and said: "When I left Portsmouth, the nobles of the country were planning a conspiracy against Robert Dudley, the queen knew, Robert Dudley did not know, the queen could not stop the nobles from uniting against him, and their love had ended from the beginning. ”

Robert Dudley is a married man, in this era of Catholicism and Protestantism, monogamy is a deep-rooted and unchangeable iron law, Elizabeth I wants to marry Robert Dudley has only one way, let him divorce and then marry the queen to be the prince of England, unfortunately Robert Dudley's wife resolutely does not allow divorce, and the nobles deliberately fabricated that he wants to abandon his original partner to climb the high branch of the "Chen Shimei" behavior, so that the queen and her mistress dare not act rashly.

The nobles knew that sooner or later the stalemate would make the queen make up her mind to cook the raw rice, and once the queen tore her face and put forward a big belly to the noble council to ask Robert Dudley to marry Robert Dudley, it would really be a shame for the entire English aristocracy and even the kingdom, which was not in the interests of the Protestant aristocracy, nor was it in line with the interests of some Catholic nobles marrying King Philip II of Spain.

The British aristocracy can accept the queen having a mistress, but they can't accept the queen marrying a nobleman who has great influence in the country, and he himself is morally flawed, and they can't accept that the queen gave birth to the illegitimate son of this married man, and the queen's father, the cruel king Henry VIII, stipulated that the illegitimate son has no inheritance rights.

And the queen's mother, Anne Boleyn, was also beheaded by her cruel father for absurd "adultery" because she couldn't give birth to a son, and the queen herself was once beaten as an illegitimate daughter and thrown into the convent to live. Her power and status came from the British aristocracy. She can only lead the noble gentry of LinkedIn to higher success. And the existence of the aristocratic group itself cannot be moved at will.

The general situation is like the environment at the beginning of the reign of Takeda Shingen, the retainers of the lineage did not have much autonomy, and he had only one choice to make an appearance to prove that he was worthy of the rebellious election of the retainers of the lineage, otherwise his fate would be a tragedy.

He probably knew what the conspiracy mentioned by Claudia was, probably that when Robert Dudley was returning home to visit, his wife suddenly fell down the stairs and died on the spot, which led to a series of rumors that the queen's mistress killed his wife in order to clear the obstacles. Even if there is evidence to testify for him afterwards, his reputation is doomed to complete loss, and he is destined to be a loser in this marriage battle.

Kira Yoshitoki walked to the bed and sat down gently, stroked Claudia's soft and white delicate body like mutton fat jade, and asked softly: "I can understand the love tragedy of Elizabeth I, but what does the queen's tragedy have to do with you?" ”

"The relationship is very important, because I am a close confidant of the Queen, I am the last descendant of the York family, and I am a daughter." Claudia laughed at herself: "Since I am a girl, if I were a boy, I would have become a pile of dry bones in the Tower of London, just like my ancestors."

The aristocracy was very taboo about my origins. More than one person told me coldly in front of me the fact that the House of York would be extinct in my generation. The Duchess of York is the only one who will not allow any nobles to marry me, let alone the nobles of Europe, and if I have illegitimate children, I will only die......"

Kira Yoshishi was silent, he couldn't imagine a teenage girl, being told to her face by a group of middle-aged and elderly nobles that you don't want to get married and have children in your life, and if you dare to disobey, you will be severely punished by us, what an arrogant and shameless face, let alone treat a young girl who is helpless.

"Joseph, do you know what that means? This means that my life has ended early, and they can't even allow me to appear frequently in the parliament in London, just because my identity is too sensitive and will cause a lot of trouble, and the queen can't protect me, so I can only take advantage of the fact that the nobles are busy dealing with Robert Dudley, and give me a chance to go out and hide, and I, the Duchess of York, may really become a lonely ghost. ”

Claudia is a strong girl, she still didn't cry until this moment, Kira Yoshishi lay beside her and hugged the poor girl, gently kissed her forehead and said gently: "I've really worked hard for you all these years, I didn't expect you to go through so many hardships and ups and downs, until I looked down on you before, I feel very ashamed of my rashness and stupidity, I'm sorry!" ”

"I don't blame you, it's because I'm too anxious, I want a child, I don't want to be a woman without offspring, and I don't want the York family to be extinct in my hands...... I think you're good, being my lover won't make me feel wronged and suffer, can you help me? Claudia stared at him, her eyes unleashing endless longing.

Kira Yoshitoki was dissatisfied: "I became your fertility tool? That's! How can I say that I am also a dignified man, how can I do such a thing, and besides, shouldn't you choose a lover among the nobility of Europe? ”

Claudia winked at him and said: "England has a bad relationship with the countries of Europe because of religious beliefs, you also know that my origin has never been in contact with these corrupt and dark nobles in the past, I don't like those hypocritical and pretentious guys who smell of stench and perfume, and the nobles in London don't want me to find reinforcements outside England, according to their plan, after taking the power of the queen, they will send me to spend the rest of my life in a convent, do you want to see me spend the rest of my life miserable like this?" ”

"Alright! We don't bother with tracking and that question......" Kira Yoshishi stared at her with black lines on his head: "Besides, how do you plan to raise the child?" Those London aristocrats don't allow you to have illegitimate children, which is a very troublesome thing! ”

Claudia stroked her long hair and smiled at him charmingly, and said confidently: "I will put him in the New World until he is an adult and then send him back to London, I will make those nobles angry, and I believe that the queen will protect my children by that time." ”

Kira Yoshitoki shrugged his shoulders and said that he was okay, it is almost self-evident how powerful Elizabeth I is, her brilliant achievements are a hundred times stronger than his lord, who has struggled for ten years, and perhaps in the future he will be able to achieve his dreams to the point of being able to barely compare to the achievements of contemporary times, but he is the top ruler who created the "Golden Age", and he is not at all confident that he will achieve that exaggerated historical achievement.

"Alright! If you're right, I really know some places in the New World, and I guess Captain Hawkins probably walked through that channel, and I'll mark you the approximate location of these islands when the time comes, which is still a very good choice for raising a baby and having children. ”

"So what are you waiting for? If you don't come up, I'm going to come up! Claudia sat up and took off her long skirt three or two times, revealing a red fruit like a large piece of white jade, and to his surprise, it was empty and she didn't wear any underwear, which was slightly more arrogant.

Ji Liang Yoshishi was amazed, while taking off his clothes with his hands and feet, the two of them took off at the same time to reveal two slippery bodies, Claudia suddenly shivered and immediately got into the quilt, Ji Liang Yoshishi then remembered that the weather outside was still below zero and was so unrestrained and a little up, and hurriedly got in and hugged the little foreign girl's fleshy body and said: "I can't see that your body is so strong, just wear nothing in a thickened woolen skirt, and I'm not afraid of freezing." ”

"Don't be afraid!" Claudia rolled over and rode on top of him, grabbed Kirayoshi's hands and rubbed them on the two plump breasts in front of her, and gently held his scrappy spear down slowly.

This series of movements seemed to be rehearsed thousands of times as if it were concise and smooth, if it weren't for the familiar feeling of the spear piercing the barrier, and Claudia's frowning expression of pain, it really made him think that he had met a slut who pretended to be innocent, and said secretly: "This little foreign girl is so special, it really can't be measured by common sense!" ”

It didn't take long for the two of them to start wearing lightly, from lightly twisting and grinding to flying up and down in less than a moment, the strong physique of the Anglo-Saxon shocked him again, this is him playing with women, it is completely women playing with him, he has no movement from beginning to end, the only thing that can be called interaction is to hold the two peerless breasts on her chest as a support point.

This love lasted for nearly an hour, as the first taste of the forbidden fruit of the broken virgin knight, Claudia rode on the body of the "war horses" of Kira Yoshishi, even if the puncture part began to be red and swollen, she resolutely refused to come down, she stubbornly said to him: "This is my child, not yours and will not give your surname, so I have to maintain the initiative, I would rather suffer more than let myself feel indebted to you." ”

"What the hell is this!" Ji Liang Yishi took this stubborn and stupid little girl, and it was not until he finished tossing and falling that he took out the ointment and smeared it on her injured parts, and declared in time: "Don't think about it, this is something I have prepared a long time ago, I thought it would take advantage of you, so I prepared some ointment afterwards, don't think you will owe me!" After giving birth to a child, you raise it yourself, I, who is a father, will only owe you something, and I will be kind to you at this time, and the right is to compensate for the loss of the child's father's love. (To be continued......)

PS: Just like a book friend in the book review area asked Umei when to fill this hole, many book friends in the group asked me, Umei was really hesitant to write this, and then was encouraged by the book friend to write it, if you don't write this paragraph, then you can only use the "non-traverser" method to slowly rub N long to play a piece of land by the book friend complained that "it doesn't look like a traverser at all".

In addition, yesterday chapter 483 was modified by Umei a few sentences and explained, and book friends who have subscribed can read it again.