Urban Sims

There are two main core points in clothing design.

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

Two, the process of reasonable color matching.

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

Generally, long and short skirts, pleated skirts, dresses, princess skirts, fringed 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 Proud curves.

There are also stockings and high heels that set off a woman's beautiful legs. Needless to say, the temptation of these two things. I guess some people started to think about it when they heard these four words, and their nostrils bleed.

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

However, the high elasticity material used to make stockings needs to be synthesized using industrial methods. Ordinary velvet and other materials can also be used to make stockings, but it is difficult to make them thin.

Zhou Ming didn't have much strength in his hands. After some investigation in this area, Zhou Ming would be very happy if he could find natural materials with high elasticity, high toughness, and lightness that could be used to make stockings.

But he gave up on his delusions for the time being. He had no stockings and relied on various styles of skirts, underwear, women's shoes, bags... He had taken over the aristocratic clothing market in this world.

Because he has more than a million sets of clothing design drawings...if he doesn't have enough, he can find artificial intelligence designers.

Of course, if you are half a step ahead, you are a genius, and if you are one step ahead, you are a weirdo. It is impossible for Zhou Ming to directly apply the increasingly revealing style of modern clothing to this relatively conservative dimension... He has to make some modifications based on localization.

Make some bold innovations based on local clothing.

So Zhou Ming took Lina to a clothing store that specialized in aristocratic clothing and bought multiple sets of skirts and shoes that easily cost more than 100 or 300 gold coins.

After going to the fabric store to buy some high-end fabrics, and returning to the apartment, Zhou Ming took Lina and started doing research.

Zhou Ming taught Lina a lot about clothing.

He told her about advanced theories such as "Human Structure", "Principles of Clothing Design", "How to Match Colors"... These things were all obtained by Zhou Ming from the real world, and he gave a very thorough explanation of clothing design. Some theories, no matter how fashion trends change, will remain out of date in a thousand years.

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

She absorbed it eagerly and even recited some of the key points, as hard as 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 quite distressed. She worked so hard that it would take ten days and a half to sew a piece of clothing, which was too inefficient.

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

Of course, with the level of industrial development in this world, the probability of building 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 - Fireball. After the surgery, it was found through measurement that the average temperature of a fireball no bigger than a fist reached 1500 degrees.

This temperature can melt steel.

Using the fireball technique, Zhou Ming can easily shape steel parts to ensure the quality and accuracy of each part.

By cooperating with a blacksmith shop, Zhou Ming spent ten days and thousands of gold coins to successfully make his first sewing machine.

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

It took her 10 days to make an extremely gorgeous sky blue dress.

This skirt is not only exquisitely made, but also reduces a lot in weight due to the elimination of the skirt support structure.

A few words to describe it are: light, comfortable, gorgeous and beautiful.

As a model, Lina put on this dress and tried it on. When she appeared in front of everyone, even though she was used to seeing beautiful scenery, Zhou Ming was still slightly distracted for two seconds.

"Sister, you are so beautiful!"

Henry clapped his hands and shouted, his sister turns out to be so beautiful.

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

How could she have achieved such results without her husband's help?

Zhou Ming encouraged her to keep up her efforts, and 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 with whom he had a great time working together and had 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 costumes, Lilith looked at him and then shook her head to reject him.

Zhou Ming was surprised and a little puzzled, and asked why he didn't want to cooperate?

Is it because you are not interested in the clothing field?

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

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

"So that's it?"

Zhou Ming suddenly understood and nodded immediately.

Understood.

He totally gets it.

To put it bluntly, among the aristocracy of the royal capital, the Leylin family was not popular and was severely ostracized.

Including him, the servant son of the Leilin family, was also among the "unwelcome".

Why?

What on earth did the Leilin family do that made them so unpopular?

Combining the remaining memories in his mind with the rumors about his family, Zhou Ming roughly understood the reason.

Loyalist party.

His family is one of the few royal loyalists in the kingdom.

In the past three hundred years, it has been reused by the king three times and implemented a series of reforms to consolidate the royal power.

For example, the reform of counties and counties, increasing the amount of taxes paid by lords, comprehensive collection of commercial taxes, etc... Without exception, these reform measures not only consolidated the royal power, but also greatly damaged the interests of the nobles.

It was met with a lot of opposition and resistance.

However, the Leilin family must still carry out the reform resolutely.

As a result, of the three heads of the Leylin family, one died from an assassin's assassination, one died from food poisoning, and one died on the battlefield during a war with a foreign country... all of them did not die well.

All three reforms failed.

Zhou Ming's father, Cohen Leilin, was summoned and re-employed by the king, but before he could initiate reforms, his political opponents joined forces to attack him, and the whole family was exiled to the southern swamps.

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

The exile of the Leilin family marked the decline of almost all the power of the Loyalist Party in the kingdom.

In fact, from Zhou Ming's perspective, for a kingdom like the Yadud Kingdom that has existed for thousands of years, the decline of royal power is a historical necessity. Even if there are several wise and powerful kings who work hard, it will not be possible. of centralization.

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

Most lords will comply with some obligations, but are unlikely to meet more requirements.

Resources are fixed and limited, and the royal family's pursuit of money and land will increase with the increase in 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 sacrifice their land and population to satisfy the king's appetite and needs?

Of course it's impossible.

The land resources controlled by the lords are also limited. If they don't have enough for themselves, how can they give some to the royal family?

In the final analysis, when resources are insufficient, no lord is willing to cut off his flesh to meet the needs of the royal family.

Foreign wars can capture land and interests, but the kingdoms surrounding the Yadud Kingdom are not weak. Fighting against them will only hurt both sides... Internal conflicts cannot be transferred abroad.

In this case, the king hoped that families like the Leilin family would take the lead and secure some benefits for the royal family.

but……

"It's just foolish loyalty. How can a few royal loyalists resist the power of the nobles joining forces? In the eyes of the king, the loyalty of the Leilin family is just a tool that can be used. It is destined to be sacrificed from the beginning. fate."

"If it were me, I would never trade the lives of my family members for the increase in the king's interests. That would be too stupid. It's better to make the profit pie bigger and realize the good for you, me, and everyone."

Of course, a great country does need centralized power, but that depends on the overall quality of the top leader and whether subsequent successors can maintain the "tradition of wise kings" well.

But according to Zhou Ming's observation, in the feudal society of Jia Tianxia, ​​the more concentrated the power of the king, the faster it will perish and decline. It will never last more than 300 years. There is no other reason. The probability of a faint king or tyrant is too high, and it is often the case in the upper class. One emperor created a prosperous age, and the next emperor destroyed the country... Absolute power and absolute corruption will lead to faster collapse.

Countries like Yadude with feudal lordships that have a history of more than a thousand years can be said to be everywhere in the human world of Azeroa.

And the longer it existed, the weaker the royal power became.

Basically impossible to save.

Zhou Ming would not be stupid enough to join the same team as his own family and become cannon fodder and loyal to the king.

However, because his surname was Leylin, it was impossible to draw a clear line with the Leylin family. Since the Rudolf family behind Lilith was unwilling to cooperate with him, he went to find someone else.

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

The main area of ​​business of the Torres family is aristocratic clothing. They have thousands of professional tailors and control half of the aristocratic clothing market in the royal capital.

Female classmate Betty is the most flamboyantly dressed among all the female classmates. Her clothes are different every day, and the fashionable styles of the upper class always start to appear on her.

And she has a proud personality, like a white swan, always looking at people with her nostrils. Zhou Ming said that he wanted to cooperate with her, but she looked disdainful and said impatiently: "My classmate, the cake chef, you'd better make your magic cake." Well, it’s better not to come into the clothing field, no one will wear the clothes you design.”

Zhou Ming smiled slightly, took out a set of design drawings from his pocket, and pestered classmate Betty for advice.

Betty, who was impatient with him, reluctantly flipped through the costume design draft after listening to his 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 stores, accounting for 50% of the shares.

Zhou Ming offered 100,000 gold coins, technology and design drawings, accounting for 48% of the shares.

As the chief designer, Lina replaces Zhou Ming and participates in all clothing 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 busy street in the royal capital.

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