Urban Sims

Chapter 598 Family
There are two main cores in clothing design.

One, the process of expressing the beauty of human body curves.

Second, the process of color matching is reasonable.

Especially women's clothing, what type of clothing is the most popular in Zhou Ming's world?

Generally, long and short skirts, pleated skirts, dresses, princess skirts, tassel skirts, suspender skirts, skirts, etc. with waist design... The common feature of these skirts is that they highlight the graceful figure of women and highlight their beauty. Proud curves.

There are also high-heeled stockings that set off the beautiful legs of women. Needless to say, the temptation of these two things, it is estimated that some people will start to imagine when they hear these four words, and their nostrils will bleed.

High-heeled shoes are not difficult to make. If silk stockings can be developed, Zhou Ming will probably make a fortune.

However, the highly elastic material used to make stockings needs to be synthesized by industrial methods. Ordinary velvet and other materials can also be used to make stockings, but the thickness is difficult to make thin.

Zhou Ming didn't have much strength in his hands, so he made some investigations on this plane. If he could find a natural material with high elasticity, high toughness and lightness for making stockings, Zhou Ming would be very happy.

But he stopped thinking about it for the time being, without silk stockings, relying on various styles of dresses, underwear, women's shoes, bags... He has contracted the aristocratic clothing market in this world.

Because he has more than a million sets of clothing design blueprints in his hand... If it is not enough, he can find an artificial intelligence design.

Of course, a half-step ahead is a genius, and a step ahead is a weirdo. It is impossible for Zhou Ming to directly apply the increasingly revealing modern clothing to this relatively conservative plane...he has to make some localization-based modifications.

On the basis of local clothing, make some bold innovations.

So Zhou Ming took Lina to a clothing store specializing in aristocratic clothing, and bought several sets of skirts and shoes that cost more than 100 to 300 gold coins.

Then I went to the fabric store to buy some high-end fabrics, and when I returned to the apartment, Zhou Ming took Lina to start researching.

Regarding clothing, Zhou Ming taught Lina a lot.

He taught her advanced theories such as "Human Structure", "Principles of Costume Design", "How to Match Colors" and so on... These things were all obtained by Zhou Ming from the real world, and he explained costume design very thoroughly. Some theories, no matter how fashion trends change, will not be outdated in a thousand years.

Lina had never been exposed to this kind of knowledge. Zhou Ming's explanation opened a door for her, leading to the top fashion design master.

She absorbed it eagerly, and even recited some of the main points, with assiduous energy, no less than her brother Henry.

Even in the middle of the night, Zhou Ming saw that she was still sewing clothes, her eyes were red and swollen, and her fingers were full of needle holes.

Zhou Ming felt a little distressed, she worked so hard, it would take ten days and half a month to sew a piece of clothing, the efficiency was too low.

"The working efficiency of a sewing machine is more than ten times that of a human. Let me make her a sewing machine."

Of course, with the level of industrial development in this world, the probability of making a sewing machine with hundreds of parts that is easy to use and labor-saving is almost zero.

Fortunately, there is magic in this world.

Magic can do countless incredible things.

In particular, it took three days to master the first-level fire magic—after the fireball operation, it was found through measurement that the average temperature of a fireball that was no bigger than a fist reached 1500 degrees.

This temperature can melt steel.

Using the fireball technique, Zhou Ming can easily shape the steel parts, ensuring the quality and precision of each part.

By cooperating with a blacksmith shop, Zhou Ming successfully made the first sewing machine in ten days and at a price of thousands of gold coins.

After using this sewing machine, Lina's sewing efficiency has increased by more than ten times.

It took a total of 10 days, and she made a very gorgeous sky blue dress.

This skirt is not only exquisite in workmanship, but also has a lot of weight because of the cancellation of the skirt structure.

A few words describe it: lightweight, comfortable, gorgeous, and beautiful.

Lina, who is a model, put on this dress for a try, and when she appeared in front of everyone, although she was used to the beautiful scenery, Zhou Ming was still slightly absent-minded for two seconds.

"Sister, you are so beautiful!"

Henry clapped his hands and shouted, my sister is so beautiful.

Lina smiled shyly, glanced at Zhou Ming, two blushes appeared on her face, and she was full of gratitude in her heart.

How could she have achieved such a result without the help of her husband?
Zhou Ming encouraged her to make persistent efforts, while he began to recruit partners to prepare for the establishment of a clothing brand.

As usual, the first partner he thought of was Lilith, a female classmate who had a good cooperation and formed a tacit understanding.

But this time, when he approached Lilith and said that he planned to enter the field of clothing and make aristocratic clothing, Lilith took a look at him, then shook her head and rejected him.

Zhou Ming was taken aback, rather puzzled, and asked why he was unwilling to cooperate?
Could it be that you are not interested in the field of clothing?

"No, my family doesn't let me get too close to you, because...you are from the Leylin family."

Lilith hesitated and hesitated, and finally told Zhou Ming the real reason.

"Is that so?"

Zhou Ming suddenly realized, and nodded immediately.

Understood.

He totally got it.

To put it bluntly, among the aristocratic class in the capital, the Leylin family was not well received and was severely excluded.

Including him, the servant son of the Leylin family, is also "unwelcome".

why?
What on earth did the Leylin family do to make them so unpopular?
Combining the residual memory in his brain and the rumors he heard about his family, Zhou Ming roughly understood the reason.

Loyal to the royal party.

His family is one of the few loyal royalists in the kingdom.

And in the past 300 years, it has been reused by the king three times, and a series of reforms have been implemented to consolidate the royal power.

For example, the reform of prefectures and counties, increasing the amount of taxes paid by the lords, comprehensively collecting commercial taxes, etc... Without exception, these reform measures have greatly damaged the interests of the nobles while consolidating the royal power.

There was a lot of opposition and boycott.

But the Leylin family still wants to carry out the reform firmly.

As a result, the three Patriarchs of the Leylin family, one died of an assassin's assassination, one died of food poisoning, and one died in a war against foreign countries...all of them did not end well.

All three reforms failed.

However, Zhou Ming's father, Korn Leylin, was summoned and reused by the king, but before he launched reforms, he was co-opted by his political opponents, and his whole family was exiled to the southern swamp.

Depending on the situation, there is no possibility of turning over again.

The exile of the Leylin family was a sign that the forces of the loyal royal party were almost completely withered and declined in the kingdom.

In fact, from Zhou Ming's point of view, for a kingdom like the Yadude Kingdom that has existed for thousands of years, the decline of royal power is a historical necessity. centralization of power.

Because the system of lord enfeoffment determines that the scope of the king's rule is limited to a small area within the kingdom.

Most lords will abide by some obligations, but more requirements are unlikely to be met.

However, resources are fixed and limited. The royal family's pursuit of money and land will increase with the increase of royal family members. Over time, the king will definitely try his best to strengthen his power and obtain more benefits.

But are the lords willing to donate their land and population to satisfy the king's appetite and needs?

Of course it is impossible.

The land resources mastered by the lords are also limited, and they are not enough for themselves, so how can they give some to the royal family?

In the final analysis, in the case of insufficient resources, no lord is willing to cut meat to meet the needs of the royal family.

Foreign wars can grab land and benefits, but the kingdoms around the Yadude Kingdom are not weak, and fighting them will only hurt both sides... Internal conflicts cannot be transferred abroad.

Under such circumstances, the king hoped that a family like the Leylin family would take the lead and fight for some benefits for the royal family.

but……

"It's just stupid loyalty. How can the combined power of the nobles be resisted by a few loyal parties? In the eyes of the king, the loyalty of the Leylin family is just a tool that can be used, and it was doomed to be sacrificed from the very beginning. fate."

"If it were me, I would never use my family's life in exchange for an increase in the king's interests. That would be too stupid. Why not make the profit cake bigger and realize hello, me, and everyone."

Of course, a great country does need centralization, but that depends on the overall quality of the supreme leader and whether the successors can maintain the "Mingjun Tradition".

But according to Zhou Ming's observation, in the feudal society of the home world, the more concentrated the power of the king, the faster the decline and decline will never exceed 300 years. One emperor creates a flourishing world, and the next emperor will be a subjugated king... Absolute power, absolute corruption, the collapse will be even faster.

In the human world of the continent of Azeroth, there are many feudal feudal countries like Yadude with a history of more than a thousand years.

And the longer it exists, the weaker the kingship will be.

Basically irreparable.

Zhou Ming would not be so stupid as to stand in the same team as his family, and act as cannon fodder to be loyal to the royal party.

However, because his surname was Leylin, it was impossible to draw a line with the Leylin family. Since the Rudolph family behind Lilith didn't want to cooperate with him, he went to find someone else.

Zhou Ming also found a suitable partner - the Torres family behind the female classmate Betty.

The main area of ​​business of the Torres family is aristocratic clothing. There are thousands of professional tailors, and they control half of the aristocratic clothing market in the capital.

The female classmate, Betty, is the most beautifully dressed among all the female classmates. The clothes are not the same every day, and the popular styles of the upper class always appear from her.

And she has a proud personality, like a white swan, always looking at people with her nostrils, Zhou Ming said that she wanted to cooperate with her, she looked disdainful, and said impatiently: "My classmate cake maker, you should make your magic cake well Well, don’t come in the clothing field, the clothes you design won’t be worn by anyone.”

Zhou Ming smiled slightly, took out a set of blueprints from his pocket, stalked him, and asked Betty for advice.

Betty, who was so impatient with him, reluctantly flipped through the fashion design draft after hearing a lot of flattery.

As soon as she opened the first page, her eyes lit up.

Afterwards, the cooperation between Zhou Ming and the Torres family was successfully concluded.

Betty sells tailors, machines and storefronts, accounting for 50% of the shares.

Zhou Ming issued 10 gold coins, technology and design drawings, accounting for 48% of the shares.

Lina, as the chief designer, replaces Zhou Ming and participates in all fashion design, personnel management and store operations, accounting for 2% of the shares.

An agreement was reached, and a clothing brand store named "Menglan" will soon open in a bustling street in the capital.

At this time, the Brno School of Magic also officially opened.

(End of this chapter)