On the table was a map, a large map of Asia.

At the top of this map is the Heishui Ya Islands, and further north is the dotted line outlining the sea area leading to the North Pole, and the mark on it is the route surveyed by Zhao Yongxian, the magistrate of Macheng County, in the sixth year of Wanli.

Half of the whole map is almost useless to look at, it is useless to look at, it is all blank, only the middle of the New World is narrow and long with a number of materials from the Ming and Western countries, and even then the map of the West Indies is still doubtful.

Chen Mu has always suspected that Spain gave him several fake maps through different channels in order to prevent him from getting involved in the West Indies, so that the Oriental Military Government now has seven or eight different maps of the West Indies, and he doesn't know which one is true.

But now there are only doubts on this map, after all, Li Dan and Chen Jiujing have already passed, and the fleet is taking insurance on the side, no, the fleet is surveying the map while expelling pirates.

As for the lower part of the map, it is almost the same as the upper part, it is a large blank, far from being as accurate as the middle, and it can also use different colors to rub out the height difference and the general vegetation terrain and roads, after all, although there is a Mongolian horse team in the north following Ma Gui Sahuan, but the intelligence will inevitably lag behind for a year and a half.

The south is clearer on the map than the north, but it is not precise enough, and it is divided into large chunks of land, such as Peru in controlled Spain, north-central Chile in the Ming Dynasty, southern Chile in the indigenous people, and Argentina in Spain.

However, it is only a part, some such as the desert that Shao Tingda is exploring now, no one knows how big it is, so the direction is roughly drawn with a dotted line, just for reference.

Chen Mu was undoubtedly full of pride when he looked at this map, and it was obvious that this constantly updated "Wanli Asian Map" was the culmination of the geography of the Oriental Military Government.

After receiving the information archived by the Spaniards in Panama, the natives did not know as much about the continent as they did, and the Spaniards did not know as much about the northern part of the New World and the northern interior as they did.

Chen Mu can even proudly say that they are the people who know the New World in the world.

But Chen Mu had a question in his heart that he wanted to ask Zhao Shizhen, and he said softly: "Chang Ji, I asked you to take the information, what information do you want to take?" ”

"What I want is information about Brazil, you have everything on the map on the table, there is even a cannon hole on it, but what about Brazil - you give it back to me!"

When Chen Mu asked this sentence, Zhao Shizhen had already jumped up and down with his hands behind his back and moved to the threshold of the side hall, and when he heard Chen Mu shouting, his body paused, and he moved back step by step in frustration, and spread his hands and said: "Dashuai, this is all we have about Brazil - there is no information." ”

"We don't know how big Brazil is, we don't know what the rosewood looks like, we don't know how many indigenous people there are, we don't know how many rivers there are, we don't know the topography there, and the Spaniards in Panama don't record it."

Chen Mu's brows gradually wrinkled: "No, what are you doing with these things?" ”

"Dashuai wants it, so I brought Dashuai 'no'."

Zhao Shizhen was serious, Chen Mu looked at him for a long time, did not move his liver, and finally just shook his head helplessly and sighed.

"I always thought that there was only one madman among the staff of the Shuai Mansion."

I didn't expect there to be a fool.

Zhao Shizhen didn't look over, ignoring the second half of Chen Mu's unspoken sarcasm, he felt that Chen Mu was not smart enough, knowing that it was a land that no one had ever touched, and asked the military officials to rummage through the water shelter.

No, after rummaging, I brought you a one, and you were angry again.

Chen Mu didn't pay attention to Zhao Shizhen's little troubles, he scratched his head at the map, and said, "In this case, do you really want to send someone to explore the place yourself?" No, it's better to stand on someone else's shoulder first. ”

"Find a way to buy the merchants of Brazil, buy a few maps and come back, at least the roads and rivers are marked, and then wait for the governor of Brazil to reply before the next step, but I know this place."

Chen Mu's hand moved downward from the large blank space on the map, where Brazil should be located, and pointed: "Argentina, this should be called the Pampas grassland, there should be a lot of cattle, Mr. Zhao, you have been a little angry recently, it's not good to always work with emotions, I'll give you a vacation, right?" ”

Zhao Shizhen was listening to Chen Mu's 'prophecy', and suddenly heard Chen Mu talk about his emotions, which made him suddenly alert, squinted his eyes and noticed a trace of ominous aura, and shook his head decisively: "Dashuai is too worried, the student has no grievances, no emotions, no tiredness, no need to take a vacation." ”

Chen Mu didn't care about this stubble at all, and said to himself: "Let's go here to eat beef, decorate with saltpeter, let's design an ice-making boat, and then you go to Panama first, and let General Deng send you a fleet of guards, go here to find the Spaniards to buy beef, and bring me a piece back." ”

Zhao Shizhen no longer knows where the problem in Chen Mu's sentence should have started, buying beef from thousands of miles away, or should he bring a piece of beef to Chen Mu and launch a fleet, six warships and at least one lucky boat with a scale of nearly 1,000 people?

"Just a piece of beef?" Zhao Shizhen cautiously leaned towards this side, stretched out a finger from his big sleeve, pointed to Majiagang in the north and said: "There is a cow, it is also far away, it does not affect the dignity of that piece of beef, just a lucky boat." ”

"But the equator is in the south, I don't want that piece of beef, I want you to take a piece of beef across the equator, if this piece of beef is not bad, you are the first person in the world to take a refrigerated boat to deliver food to the other side of the equator, isn't that amazing?"

"That's amazing!"

Zhao Shizhen's tone was quite in place, but the corners of his eyes drooped, and his speech was not distracted at all: "Dashuai, you can casually talk about something before I was born, why are we not the first?" ”

Suddenly, Chen Mu really didn't expect it.

Not because it was indeed the first, but because Chen Mu was ignorant - Chen Mu thought so, because suddenly he didn't expect it.

"You win, the half-year tour of Argentina belongs to you."

Zhao Shizhen didn't stiffen his mouth, because he knew that it was useless to stiffen his mouth, so he accepted this reality very smoothly, and said: "Then let me bring more nitrate, so I can buy a few more cows and bring a piece of meat back thanks to it!" ”

"It's a real loss for you to bring me a few cows back, five taels of nitrate for a teacup of ice, if you want to freeze a piece of beef, it's good to get a catty, a catty is enough for an hour, how many cows do you want to freeze for me? It's enough for a battle, and you're going to be a wall of ice, so it's cool and comfortable? ”

Chen Mu actually didn't know how this idea popped up in his head, he just felt that he wanted to try, it just so happened that Zhao Shizhen had been a little irritable recently, so he let him drift at sea for a few months to sober up.

In fact, what he really wants to make is a freezer, but what can really be used for refrigeration? He didn't know.

Maybe when Zhao Shizhen completes this initiative, the impact that will be brought about will be able to find a breakthrough for him.