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Chapter 1578 Queen's Field of Research

Whitehall Palace, this is the palace where the kings of the Stuart dynasty lived. It is also the largest stone palace in Europe. It has more than 1500 rooms and has bowling alleys, tennis courts, cockfighting arenas, and knights. Check it out here It looks more like a small town dedicated to the Queen.

Queen Sophia was watching the knights performing a duel, surrounded by many female nobles, noble ladies and maids serving them.

They held a tea party in Whitehall Palace for Sophia and this group of landed noblewomen and noble ladies to pass the time, and Sophia also took this opportunity to win over this group of supporters.

In the West, in the absence of a male heir, daughters can also inherit the title of nobility, so there are many female nobles, or some family heads will leave manors exclusively for their daughters.These female aristocrats became the suitors of many male aristocrats, hoping that their lands could be merged after marriage. The marriage between the royal families was also based on such considerations.

The Habsburg family annexed almost half of the European land through marriage, which is why almost France, England, Sweden and other countries have united against the expansion of the Habsburg dynasty.

The knights in the arena held spears, wore heavy chain mail, and rode their favorite horses, preparing to show their bravery in front of the newly appointed queen.

This kind of duel game that has been handed down since the Middle Ages is very dangerous. Two spear knights try to knock each other off their horses in three rounds of confrontation, or try to make themselves more decent in three rounds of confrontation. is the winner.

Queen Sophia has asked them to replace the metal cones mounted on the long pole heads with sleek wooden cones to avoid casualties.

However, the queen still did not focus on the knight duel, and she had to take care of her son who was not yet one year old.A group of noblewomen and noble ladies were also full of interest in the little prince with black eyes. They curiously asked Her Majesty the Queen about what they had seen and heard in the East and the situation of the little prince.

The knights who were fighting felt very boring. They fought back and forth here. As a result, the queen and a group of nobles were completely chatting, and did not pay attention to the process and result of their duel.

"The little prince looks cuter and cuter. He doesn't like to make trouble. He looks very well-behaved. He is worthy of being a member of the royal family." The female nobles love the little prince very much.

The little prince already has hair, which is not blond like Queen Sophia, but rather black, showing the obvious characteristics of a mixed race.

"I just hope he can grow up healthy." Sophia said quietly.

In the era of poor medical conditions, the mortality rate of children remained high, even in the royal family.

Sophia originally had not only one brother Charles I and one sister Elizabeth, but several brothers and sisters. Only three of them were able to grow up smoothly. It is conceivable how high the premature death rate is.

"Her Majesty is blessed by God and the people. After the Prince of Wales is baptized, he will also be blessed with blessings, and he will be able to grow up safely." All the girls said one after another.

"Your Majesty, what kind of person is the little prince's father?" The gossiping female nobles followed suit and shifted the topic to the child's father.

Sophia seems to be recalling: "He is a great person who looks ordinary, but has a vision beyond the prophet. He is omnipotent in this world. At the same time, he has always been tolerant to me and does not strictly demand me."

"Then isn't he infinitely close to a god?" Many female nobles don't believe that there are such people in this world.

In fact, what Sophia said is a bit close to the truth. Chu Yun has indeed surpassed the prophet, because he is a "post-knowledge" from later generations.

When the female nobles heard that Queen Sophia gave Chu Yun such a high evaluation, they asked for more information about Chu Yun. Sophia was tired of coping, so she had to choose some unimportant information to answer.

"Your Majesty, I heard that you are studying in the East. I wonder what field you are involved in? Theology, mathematics, law?" a lady asked.

"Well... I study bacteriology, which may be difficult for you to understand, but there are many tiny creatures in this world that are invisible to our human eyes, and they are smaller than fleas." Sophia said.

"Bacteria?" Many female nobles and noble wives were puzzled.

Bacteria were first discovered by the Dutchman Leeuwenhoek, and Leeuwenhoek was still a kid at this time, and no one in this era knew what bacteria were.

"Go and bring the microscope on my desk." Sophia knew that if they didn't let their seeing be believed, they would definitely not believe that there are microorganisms in the world.

Soon the maid took the microscope Sophia brought back from the East and placed it in the middle of the tea party.

Almost all the female nobles looked at this strange instrument curiously, not knowing what it was used for, and they whispered in private: "What a strange instrument, what does it have to do with the bacteria Her Majesty said?"

Sophia temporarily entrusted the little prince to the care of the maid, which involved her field of research. She couldn't restrain her active nature, so she had to show what she had learned to the noblewomen in person.

For her, the sense of accomplishment that this display of knowledge brings is more satisfying than being a formidable queen.

"This is the microscope that my mentor in the East gave me when he left. It is actually a super-large magnifying glass. This strange instrument allows us to see the world that we couldn't see before. Stand up, everyone, we will You have to get close to the instrument to see these little guys."

Sophia stood up first, walked to the microscope, and stretched out her hand to signal many female nobles to come over.

Seeing that Her Majesty the Queen got up, the female nobles surrounded her one after another.

Sophia asked someone to take a glass of raw water and made a glass cover with water droplets by herself. Her skilled movements were obviously trained.

"Please observe the little guys living in the water." After finding the microorganisms in the water, Sophia adjusted to a high-power mirror, and then invited the noblewomen to observe the water droplets under the microscope like her.

A female aristocrat took the lead in volunteering. She saw many black and white bugs wriggling through the binoculars, and she couldn't help screaming in fright.

"What a disgusting thing, how could there be so many disgusting insects in the water!" The noblewoman was obviously frightened, she couldn't help but get goosebumps when she thought that the water she usually drank was so unclean.

Other aristocrats who followed up to observe the water droplets with a microscope were also startled by the microbes in the water.

Only Queen Sophia, who has been trained in the School of Biology, is very calm: "If you filter and boil the water, you can kill most of the microorganisms and prevent many diseases."

Alas, it seems that it will take some time to popularize this knowledge for his own people.Sophia was heartbroken.She immediately thought of Cambridge University and Oxford University. Could it be built like the Imperial University?But biology is in conflict with theology, and I don't know what kind of uproar it will cause.

(End of this chapter)