On the morning of the flotilla's arrival in Le Havre, Charles got up and washed up and went to breakfast.

Then go back to your room again and take a shower in your own bathroom.

Thinking that he was about to see his parents again, Charles was a little emotional.

I imagined the various situations I might encounter after I went out, and I was a little apprehensive in my heart.

I have to face a large number of French nobles and officials, and there should be a grand banquet in the future.

Then there is a tour of the fleet, after which we will return to Paris.

On his return to Paris, he will take part in the operation to capture the restless nobles and merchants led by the Duke of Orleans.

The task on me is very important......

Charles rubbed his cheeks, trying to cheer himself up as much as he could.

Wash your body step by step, dry your body, apply deodorant, dry your hair and get dressed.

Coming to the large closet in the room, Charles hesitated for a moment.

Charles subconsciously wanted to wear the clothes he had adapted to in New Tianfu and Canada.

But I am no longer dealing with strangers today, nor is it a close friend who understands and supports my preferences.

This includes close but sensitive family members, less familiar but very important officials and nobles.

However, as soon as the hesitation and entanglement began to brew, Charles's mind came to mind the words of his best friend:

"The first impression you make on a stranger can be a simple and straightforward one-step approach.

"But to change the perception of familiar people, it's best to take a step-by-step approach."

So Charles quickly settled on his doctrine and chose a relatively compromise set.

Well, a compromise between Lolita and the uniform......

Charles left the room after cleaning up, and asked the guards around him to gather his guards and go to the deck together.

Talleyrand was already on deck, and immediately came to greet Charles as soon as he saw him.

Talleyrand was slightly relieved to see Charles's image, but his expression was complicated when he saw the hundreds of guards around Charles.

Talleyrand didn't quite understand why Charles was recruiting a group of guards in Canada.

And he took it back to France without leaving an inch.

Does Charles still need to worry about his own safety in France?

Talleyrand couldn't imagine what the Charr was going to do.

The passenger ship was stable on the dock, and after lowering the special gangway, Shire, as the crown prince, was the first to disembark

When Charles appeared on the gangway, there was a cheer all around him.

Thanks to the cooperation with the Great Food clothing firm, the charr was very popular among the French aristocracy.

Especially among the younger generation, Shire, who can be called the most cutting-edge representative of Paris and even Tessy fashion, is particularly popular.

And Charles' outfit today also caught their attention again.

Charles wears a dark red coat that sits between a cropped trench coat and a dress, with a normal white shirt and tie underneath.

The hem of the trench coat or the hem of the dress is just up to the knee, and there are softer and smaller skirt supports inside.

Pure white pantyhose without embroidery patterns, and thick-heeled pumps with no intricate decorations.

Pure white silk gloves, decorative top hats, and the cane given by Zhu Jingyuan.

The male aristocrats and officials at the scene basically wore simple Xinming-style formal clothes.

The nobles and ladies wore mostly the intricate traditional Tessie women's clothes.

The Shire are now in a completely new style that is markedly different from both.

Many people have already started to wonder if this will be the next popular style.

Charles smiled and waved down, and walked down the gangway unhurriedly, first to meet his parents.

Louis XVI and his wife were very happy, and hugged their only child vigorously.

After hugging and greeting, Queen Marie Antoinette took her son's hand and looked him up and down:

"It seems that the weather in Xintianfu is very good, and you have not gone out less for activities, and it seems that you have sunned a little.

"Well, the identity clothes are also very distinctive, is this a new design of His Royal Highness Prince Daishi?"

When Charles heard his mother ask about the clothes, he immediately introduced them quite complacently:

"It's really the latest design from my dear friend, a completely different design from the previous style, a whole new collection.

"I've got this just one of them, I've brought back a whole box of clothes, and I'm going to show you slowly."

Queen Mary smiled and nodded, and said:

"It seems that Prince Dashi has a really good relationship with you, and you are also the embodiment of Tessie's fashion because of what he just had.

"It's a pity that there are no women's clothes in the design of His Royal Highness the Prince, and my mother can only envy you......"

When Charles heard this, he shook his head and said:

"I used to think the same thing as my mother, but now I know we were all wrong.

"When I saw my best friend again this time, I discussed it with him and realized that things were not what we thought it would be.

"A piece of clothing itself has no male and female attributes, and the classification of men's and women's clothing is artificially imposed.

"My dear friend designs the same way he wears, and his clothes can be worn by both men and women."

Queen Mary and Louis XVI, as well as the surrounding nobles, were a little stunned when they heard this subversive logic.

Louis XVI and his wife did not think of refuting their son immediately, but prepared to talk to him when they returned.

But the Duke of Orleans retorted quite bluntly at this time:

"Your Highness Charles, of course the clothes are divided into men and women, just like the pants are men's and the dresses are women's."

Charles has a lot of regard for the Duke of Orleans, and has already regarded him as an enemy that must be dealt with.

But Charles remembered his best friend's advice to have a city in front of outsiders, especially enemies.

You can't let the other party see what you're thinking, and you can't let the other party know that you're going to deal with him.

If it is really difficult to control the emotional expression, you can deliberately find something that does not matter to play on the topic.

Let the other party think that they have a conflict with the other party because of these indifferent small problems.

And then ignore the real practical plan that may exist.

So Charles deliberately kept a straight face and stretched out his hand to point to the legs of the Duke of Orleans:

"In Daming, both adult men and women and children usually wear pants.

"It's just that nobles will wear pants inside their skirts, and commoners in short clothes will leak their pants directly outside.

"At the same time, the robes of the Ming Emperor and the nobles and officials can be regarded as dresses in the eyes of our Taixi people.

"Do you think that the Ming Emperor and the nobles are wearing women's clothes?"

Charles refuted and rhetorically questioned the Duke of Orleans to his face.

The Duke of Orleans was a little stunned, and then instinctively retorted:

"How can the robes of the nobles and officials of the Ming Dynasty be considered a dress, His Royal Highness Charles is really joking.

"Their clothes are all open from the side, so they should all be considered trench coats."

Charles put on a posture of arguing with the other party to the end:

"Not to mention whether a trench coat is a dress or not, even a trench coat itself cannot be considered men's clothing!

"Many of the skirts of Daming women are directly open on the side, are they also windbreakers?

"In Daming, trench coats and dresses are essentially the same thing, both of which have nothing to do with men and women.

"So, dresses are not women's clothing, pants are not men's clothing, and there is no distinction between men and women.

"The Tessians forcibly divided it, which is a reflection of your ignorance and old-fashionedness."

The Duke of Orleans, a traditional nobleman, had no research on this kind of thing, and was directly speechless.

But he didn't have a good impression of Charles and Louis XVI or even the royal family.

Relying on the royal blood relationship and title, he does whatever he wants, and he also relies on the old and sells the old character.

In addition, the relationship between the nobles and the royal family is very different from the relationship between the nobles of the Ming Dynasty and the royal family.

At this time, the Duke of Orleans said in a revelry manner:

"No matter what Your Highness says, I wouldn't treat dresses as men's clothes anyway, and I wouldn't treat pants as women's clothes."

Charles immediately followed after him and said:

"There is an old saying in the Ming Dynasty that 'knowing mistakes can be corrected, and being good is great'.

"If you know your mistakes and don't change them, you should be the so-called 'stubborn'.

"This kind of stubborn person really doesn't deserve to be a French nobleman."

Having said this, Charles turned to his father, Louis XVI:

"Father, such a stubborn man as the Duke of Orleans is a disgrace to our French nobility and royal family.

"I propose that the Duke of Orleans be removed from his title and exiled to New Brunswick, Canada."

The Duke of Orleans was directly stunned when he heard this, and immediately looked at Louis XVI here:

"Your Majesty, Your Highness and I are just arguing about clothes, and this is not a violation of any law at all!"

Louis XVI was also very helpless, thinking that Charles was making trouble:

"Charles, alright, don't argue about this......"

Charles also accepted it when he saw it, and it was just right to argue like this.

If it is for the sake of this matter, it will directly chase after it, but it may arouse the vigilance of the other party.

Charles went on to greet the other nobles.

Then he greeted the main officials of the French cabinet headed by the Duke of Richelieu.

Then the crowd gathered around Louis XVI and Charles and returned to the city to begin the feast.

At the banquet, Charles again took the initiative to go to the Duke of Orleans, seemingly trying to convince the Duke of Orleans.

Let him accept and admit that pants are not men's clothing and dresses are not women's clothing.

The Duke of Orleans was rather speechless about this, and he did not expect Charles to dwell on this issue.

The old man was very stubborn when he was old, and he felt that Charles couldn't do anything about him as a close nobleman of the royal family anyway.

So I have been holding my neck and not bowing my head, insisting on the view that pants are men's clothing and dresses are women's clothing.

A similar situation was repeated, and the matter began to spread in small circles of the nobility.

After the feast, Charles stayed in the city with his parents.

The next morning, the French nobles and officials again followed Louis XVI and Charles to visit the Ming warships.

Yesterday morning, most of the people only watched from a distance, and could only roughly see the outline of the battleship.

After boarding the ship today, the nobles and officials led by Louis XVI were able to directly observe the details up close, and then also experienced the size and uniqueness of the ship.

From the triple main gun, to the same turret-like secondary gun, as well as a large number of small and medium-caliber guns, it is a completely new design.

Louis XVI and many other aristocrats once again had the idea of building their own.

But they all began to worry about this idea, and began to worry about whether their country could be built.

By noon, a small banquet was held on the battleship.

Once again, Charles took the time to find the Duke of Orleans and continued to try to make the other party accept the perception of men's and women's clothing.

Although the Duke of Orleans was very annoyed, he still kept his mouth stiff and refused to bow his head.

The spread of this matter expanded again, and more and more nobles knew that Prince Charles and the Duke of Orleans had a certain contradiction in their understanding of "fashion".

The nobles are usually very idle, and all kinds of gossip and secrets are their favorites.

The logic of Charles's proclamation also spread quickly among the French aristocracy as these gossips spread.

There are many nobles who think that the logic is very reasonable, but there are also many who think it is too strange and think that the Duke of Orleans is right.

Due to differences in perception and acceptance, the French aristocracy had different views on the matter.

The French nobles and officials, led by Louis XVI and his wife, stayed in Le Havre for seven days.

Three of them were spent visiting the battleships from the Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the time was spent on banquets and entertainment.

At every banquet, Prince Charles went to the Duke of Orleans to try to convince him to do so, but to no avail.

The dispute between the Prince of Charles and the Duke of Orleans, and the content of the dispute, became a hot topic in aristocratic circles.

Then there are little aristocratic men with pompous personalities, who put on women's skirts and come out to sensationalize.

Finally, at a dinner seven days later, Louis XVI and his wife announced that they would lead the nobles back to Paris tomorrow.

The Duke of Orleans breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, feeling that he could finally be freed.

When I get back to Paris, I'll have to plan how to teach this obnoxious crown prince a little lesson.

After the feast, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans left the manor house in the city and prepared to return to their lodgings in a car.

As a result, as soon as the port went out, it was surrounded by dozens of soldiers.

Dozens of black muzzles were aimed at the Duke of Orleans, father and son, as well as several of their servants.

The Duke of Orleans was taken aback, and immediately instinctively moved out of his identity:

"I'm the Duke of Orleans, France, and you're from that unit? What are you doing here? ”

Hearing that the Duke of Orleans declared his identity, a small officer took out a piece of paper and announced loudly to the Duke of Orleans' father and son:

"His Royal Highness Louis Charles, Dauphin of France, ordered:

"Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, and his son, connived at the rebels in their palace with the intention of overthrowing the rule of His Majesty King Louis XVI.

"Repeatedly colluded with British speculators, betrayed the interests of the French state, evaded taxes for a long time, facilitated smugglers, and obtained improper benefits.

"All the evidence is conclusive, and now we will be arrested on the spot and escorted to the Supreme Court for trial.

"His Royal Highness Charles proposes to remove the knighthood, confiscate all assets, and exile to New Brunswick, Canada."

As soon as the reading was completed, more than a dozen soldiers rushed up and controlled the Duke of Orleans, his son, and his servants.

The Duke of Orleans was directly blindfolded, and howled loudly as he struggled:

"The Charles are crazy! I just don't agree with you, you're kidnapping me!

"You guys are out of line! I want to see Your Majesty......"

A soldier took a ball of cloth and stuffed it into the mouth of the Duke of Orleans.

They tied their hands and feet and threw them into a large cart.

At the same time, there were nearly 100 other nobles and wealthy businessmen, who were also surrounded and arrested one after another.

Charles was basically a public arrester, and the banquet had just ended when he was arrested, and most of the personnel had not yet arrived at home.

So the news of Charles' arrest spread quickly.

Talleyrand was stunned directly after receiving the news:

"Could it be that His Highness Charles...... This is to clear the king's side! No wonder to recruit guards from Canada! ”

Talleyrand subconsciously wanted to run to find Louis XVI, but he controlled his impulse before he could go out.

"If His Highness Charles succeeds, will he become the new king immediately?

"I will go to Your Majesty at this time, will I be targeted by His Highness Charles in the future?"

(End of chapter)