My Daming New Empire

Zhu Zhanyong and his group of children were the happiest. Seeing so many things moved down from the boat, they pestered Zhu Zhanji for gifts one by one.

Jin Kuo had also prepared a long time ago. He brought back all kinds of pearls, rare and precious specialties of Ming Dynasty. According to each person's different preferences, each person prepared a small box.

After they got the presents, they went back to show off happily one by one.

After a while, all the concubines in the harem who have a good relationship with Zhu Zhanji also came to watch the fun, and his cheap mother, the princess, helped him deal with them one by one.

At noon, they dispersed one by one, because they all knew that Zhu Di was coming.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji winked with Jin Kuo and Yu Xian, and the two followed Zhu Zhanji up to the second floor with a big box in their arms.

Li Liang was also ready. He placed the two short tables at a window with bright light, and then went to guard the stairs.

The faces of several people were very heavy. Looking at Zhu Zhanji's still calm face, they felt a little relieved.

Yu Xian's list was the smallest, and he couldn't help saying with a trembling voice: "Your Highness, this is a crime of deceiving the emperor..."

Zhu Zhanji glared at him and said: "What is deceiving the emperor? This is the truth. You all calm down and don't show me your feet."

After thinking about it, he felt that Yu Xian and Li Liang had little experience, and they were really not good enough in front of Zhu Di.

So he said again: "You two go downstairs and watch. When the emperor comes, you don't have to stay here."

Yu Xian seemed to be pardoned, and immediately said: "The servant is going to see if lunch is ready."

After they went downstairs, Zhu Zhanji took Jin Kuo and opened two boxes.A large ball was contained in one box, but three small balls of different sizes were contained in the other box.

At the same time, there is also a stack of raw-edged parchment books filled with crooked characters.

Zhu Zhanji skillfully lifted the big ball out of the big box first, and then installed it on a slightly inclined bracket.

This sphere is carved out of Nanyang mahogany, which is heavy, and the sphere with a diameter of about [-] centimeters is also very heavy.

Judging from the appearance, the outside of this sphere is painted with various colors, and most of the topographic maps and oceans on the earth have been carved out.

Yes, this is a globe.

Moreover, this globe is a globe that includes the general topography of the whole world. Plains are light green, forests are dark green, mountains are white, plateaus and deserts are yellow, and rivers and oceans are blue.

This globe took Zhu Zhanji almost a year on and off, and was carved in Xiamaqiao Farm.

In modern times, he launched his own satellite and visited most of the world, so it is not difficult for him to carve a rough topographic map. possible.

Moreover, he deliberately ignored the topography of Ming Dynasty, and only marked Europe, America, Oceania, and Africa very clearly.

For the people of later generations, a globe is not a rare thing, but in this era, this globe can only be regarded as a priceless treasure.

Most people today think that they live on a flat plane. It was not until 100 years later, when the Age of Discovery began, that they gradually realized that the place where human beings live is a sphere.

In order for Zhu Di to see the globe "reasonably", Zhu Zhanji also spent a lot of thought, until he caught a foreigner who didn't know where he was in the summer, and the conditions were considered mature.

A month ago, Zhu Zhanji asked Jin Kuo to imprison the foreign devil for two months, then executed him directly, and then pretended to translate a little "travel diary."

The parchment was written by Zhou Nan in Spanish, and the translated text was first copied by him in Chinese, and then copied by Jin Kuo.

The reason why he has gone through so much trouble is to convince Zhu Di that there are countless places on this earth waiting for him to conquer.

Chapter 23 Our World

In the current world, except for Europe, Asia, North Africa, and a few areas in the Americas, most areas have no civilization, or in other words, no modern civilization.

There are countless lands waiting for Ming to occupy, and countless resources waiting for Ming to plunder.

In this era, no nation is as powerful as the Han nationality, and other countries in the world may not necessarily have as many people as the Han nationality.

However, Ming Dynasty's blockade made some small countries in Europe become the hegemons of the world, which made Zhou You, who had experienced national decline in later generations, extremely unacceptable.

So now that this era has come, he wants to change all of this and make the whole world the territory of Ming Dynasty. Even if it falls apart in the end, he wants to let the Han people become the masters of this world.

Let all people be proud of learning Chinese and being able to speak Chinese, and let this world become a world dominated by Chinese civilization.

He didn't want to wait any longer, there were still ten years before he ascended the throne, what he could do, Zhu Di could actually do.

As long as... let Zhu Di accept all this.

So he used this method to capture a foreign race under the guise of Jin Kuo, and then that foreign race was a traveler, and then he traveled all over the world and recorded these things.

Even if Zhu Di doubts the source of these materials, as long as he sees that these records are true, that's enough.

Because in it, Zhou Nan deliberately marked several large gold, silver and copper mines around Daming.

Zhu Di only needs to send someone to investigate, and they can find out. With these mines, it will not be difficult for him to believe that other areas exist.

At that point, the source doesn't matter anymore.

After installing the globe, Zhu Zhanji started to play with three balls in another box.

A ball is the size of a basketball, and it is also carved from wood, but it is a common sycamore wood. The medium-sized ball is about ten centimeters in diameter, while the small-sized ball is the size of a table tennis ball.

These three balls are relatively light and rough in workmanship, but there is a precision bracket underneath.

The big ball does not move in the middle, the earth can revolve around the sun, and the moon can revolve around the earth.

This is Zhu Zhanji's plan to popularize the common sense of astronomy for Zhu Di. Even if this is leaked, it will not be a big problem. Zhu Zhanji even hopes that Zhu Di will hand this over to Si Tianjian so that this common sense can be spread out.

But this matter is very difficult, because the Ming Dynasty was the dynasty with the strictest control over astronomy. Not only did people not allow people to study astronomy, even the calendar was not allowed to study.

It is also for this reason that Chinese astronomy, which was originally at the forefront of the world, has gradually fallen behind the world.

Before Zhu Zhanji installed the moon, he heard the voices of Yu Xian and Li Liang visiting Zhu Di from downstairs.

"Where is the grandson?"

"Reporting to the emperor, the grandson and Ambassador Jin are upstairs, and ordered the servants to guard the corridor."

"What's so mysterious..." Then Zhu Di's voice came upstairs.

Zhu Zhanji and Jin Kuo hurried to the stairs, "Grandpa Huang, come quickly, the others are waiting downstairs except Eunuch Wang."

After Zhu Zhanji bowed and saluted, he held Zhu Di's arm and welcomed him up.

Jin Kuo knelt on the ground and paid homage: "Slave Jin Kuo, the envoy of Bosi in Ningbo, kowtows to His Majesty."

"Pingshen..." Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanji and asked, "Why is Jier so mysterious?"

"Grandpa, please calm down. Ambassador Jin reported a very important matter. My grandson was afraid that the news would leak out, so I kept it from my grandpa. He arrived in Beijing today, so my grandson told my grandfather early in the morning. You must come here. Please come with your grandson..."

Zhu Zhanji first brought Zhu Di to the side of the globe, and then knelt down to pay respects. "Grandfather Zhanji congratulates His Majesty the Grandfather today on obtaining a state artifact."