Chapter 1607 The Queen's Car
"What did you come out of the palace just now? Why did I vaguely see Her Majesty the Queen?"
"You probably saw it wrong. How could Her Majesty the Queen not bring her guards and maids when she traveled?"
The guards standing at the gate of the palace guarding the palace saw a strange carriage driving out quickly, but they had not yet reacted.
After a while, a group of maids rushed out: "Her Majesty the Queen is driving out, you guys hurry up and chase after me!"
"Is that really Her Majesty the Queen?"
The guards heard the maids mention that the one who was in the strange carriage was really the queen, so they hurriedly chased after him on foot.
Sofia was sitting in the driver's seat and drove a four-wheeler on the streets of London. Because the streets were large, she had to slow down her speed.
The people on the street looked curiously at this strange machine that had no horses to pull but could walk.
"She has a crown, can't she be our queen?"
"It's very likely that he is really the queen..."
The citizens on the streets of London immediately turned their attention to Queen Sophia sitting in the driver's seat.
It is impossible for Sophia, who is still wearing a crown and dressed in gorgeous clothes, to avoid being noticed.
"I heard that the Spaniards were defeated by the French, and the Swedish army defeated the Holy Roman Empire again at Bledenfield. I guess the Habsburgs will be over. There are Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, and Tsarist Russia in Sweden, and only England can check and balance France."
"The death of the Archbishop Richelieu in Cardinal, and it is estimated that the French court will also shake. I wonder if Louis XIII can stabilize the aftermath of the death of Richelieu."
Prince Rupert is talking to new general George Monk about changes on the European continent, who are now the main officers of the Royal Army.
Suddenly, they sensed the commotion on the street and looked at the source of the riot.
"Isn't this Her Majesty the Queen?"
As the current army general and nephew of Queen Sophia, Prince Rupert naturally knew this sister-in-law. He did not expect that Sophia would go out to the streets without guards!
If the queen of a country is assassinated on the street without a guard, the consequences will be quite serious!
Especially the existence of muskets and gunpowder makes assassination easier!
"What is that?" George Monk was deeply curious when he saw the car Sophia was driving.
"Her Majesty, why did you leave the palace without taking the guards? This is really dangerous!" Prince Rupert, George Monk and his two men stopped Queen Sophia's car with several guards.
"It's really Her Majesty!" After the Londoners on the street were confirmed to be Queen Sophia, they kept gathering.
"I'll see how the people live." Sofia parked the four-wheeled car on the side of the road, turned off the engine and got out.
Behind were the panting Royal Guards, who had finally kept up with the Queen with their feet.
"Even if you want to come out, you have to bring the guards." Prince Rupert warned the queen while turning his attention to the four-wheeled car.
This strange black machine is like a weird carriage-except for no horses.
In fact, cars are designed based on the appearance of the carriage. At the beginning, they try to simulate the appearance of the carriage as much as possible. They only gradually break away from the framework of the carriage after the development of fluid mechanics and engineering.
"This thing is called a car in the East. It uses an engine to replace horses to provide power. It can be used for several hours without resting, and the speed is comparable to that of a horse. I got this car a few years ago, but unfortunately I have been putting it on hold since I returned to London. Today, I suddenly wanted to try driving it for some reason." Sophia said.
"Car!?" Prince Rupert and George Monk looked at each other, neither knowing what the car was.
The residents of London City knew nothing about cars and whispered in private.
"I'm going to go to Queen's College to inspect. Do you want to come with me?" Sophia asked.
"Okay!" Prince Rupert saw that his sister-in-law was inexplicably energetic today and did not want to discuss state affairs with her to avoid making her feel heavy, so she followed her with George Monk.
Sofia got on the car again and drove a four-wheeled car to Queen's College on the Thames. Prince Rupert and George Monk experienced the pain of the Royal Guard. Although Sofia deliberately lowered the speed of the car, it was still quite difficult for Prince Rupert and his friends to keep up with the effortless car.
"Is this a car? As long as a person sits on it, it will walk automatically like a carriage, and Her Majesty does not seem to have any effort at all, it is like witchcraft."
"There are many strange things in the East. Her Majesty the Queen has been studying in the East. It is not uncommon to bring some strange things back from the local area."
"If you use it to transport artillery, goods, and travelers, then wouldn't you save thousands of horses? You don't need to raise horses for food, don't worry about the birth, old age, sickness and death of horses, and don't have to endure unpleasant horse manure on the streets!"
Prince Rupert and George Monk saw the magic of the car, following closely behind the car, while discussing the possible uses of this tool.
Most people don’t understand the principles of cars, but they only need to know the purpose of something. Thinking that cars may be used instead of horses, the prospects may be quite broad.
The Queen's College has been established for three years, and a group of lecturers assisted by Chu Yun also used Chinese to teach for a year to train new English scholars to offset the long-term influence of theology, Latin, Greek and other words in the Western academic circles.
Sophia has been educated in Latin, Greek and other languages since she was a child, but now she seems that other ancient disciplines are not worth much value except mathematics and logic.
"Her Queen has been patrolling, we will welcome you before suspending classes."
The teaching model of the college is quite relaxed. I heard that Queen Sofia, the founder of the college who sponsored the establishment of the college, has arrived. They temporarily stopped the course and about 600 people came to welcome the queen.
Queen's College has three classes of students, each class enrolling 200 people, half of the nobles and civilians, both men and women, but the proportion of men is significantly higher.
Because Queen's College strongly broke the stubbornness of Cambridge University and Oxford University, especially the large number of recruitment of common people, the Queen received support from many businessmen, squire, farmers, handicraftsmen, and farmers who had no aristocratic status, and also received additional support from the female group.
Chapter completed!