Xiao Tianjian slowly walked to the front of this globe, stretched out his hand to stroke the globe, and slowly turned it, this thing took him several nights, first drawing the graphics with his memory, and then sending someone to find a craftsman, day and night according to the drawings he drew for more than half a month, before it was made in a hurry, in order to show it to the ministers of the court today.

Because when Xiao Tianjian traveled to this era, he didn't bring anything at all, let alone a world map, so to make this globe, he could only rely on his previous memories and without reference information, roughly mark the shapes and locations of the seven continents, and mark the names of some countries and oceans on it, so it is not very detailed, and there are even a lot of deviations.

But on the whole, the main land and sea of the earth are basically carved onto this globe, even if there is an error, it will not be too big, it is enough to teach these ministers a lesson and broaden their horizons!

After Xiao Tianjian took a look at the newly made globe, he slowly turned around and said to the ministers: "Don't kneel!" Stand up and gather around, and see! ”

After hearing this, the ministers hurriedly thanked them, and then stood up one after another, walked to the front of this strange object, looked at this strange big wooden ball curiously, and whispered about what this thing was.

When they saw a place on the sphere marked with the word "Dazhong", they all exclaimed, and they also saw what Xiao Tianjian mentioned just now: Luzon, Great Ryukyu, Small Ryukyu, Japan, North Korea, Portugal, Spain...... Someone realized that it could be a map.

But what makes them wonder is how the map could be made into a big ball? So the vast majority of people were confused.

Although as early as the fifteenth century, Western countries have opened the curtain of the Age of Discovery through the exploration of the depths of the ocean, and completed the great geographical discoveries, and figured out that this place where human beings live is actually a sphere, and this theory has also spread to China, but for the vast majority of Chinese people, they do not know about it, and even do not know that the place where they live is a big round ball.

The long-term deep-rooted tradition affects all people in China, and people deeply believe that the land under their feet is flat, so when they see that this big round ball has been engraved with a lot of country names by Xiao Tianjian, they don't understand why.

After Xiao Tianjian glanced at the group of ministers, he asked Ding Qirui by name: "Scholar Ding, as far as you know, you are also a well-educated person, so with what you know, why do we call ourselves Chinese?" And why do we call it China? ”

Ding Qirui hurriedly replied: "Qisheng Sheng, Weichen thinks that the reason why we call it China has many meanings, but it is mainly because the place where we were born and raised is in heaven and earth, so we will call ourselves China!" As for China, since ancient times, the ancestors of the Yellow River called themselves Huaxia, so there is also the saying of China! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "The scholar is right, the reason why we call ourselves China is because the ancestors of thousands of years thought that the country was in the middle of heaven and earth, so we called ourselves China, and then it continued!"

But what do you think should be the shape of the world we live in? Is it flat? ”

After hearing this, everyone nodded with doubts and agreed, basically everyone thought that the land under their feet should be a large plane, but there are mountains, rivers and the sea on it!

After Xiao Tianjian saw the reaction of the ministers, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then asked, "If you think that the world under our feet is a flat surface, then who can tell me what is the place at the end of the sea to the east?" ”

Xiao Tianjian asked this, and immediately asked everyone, in this era, the thinking of Chinese is still quite imprisoned, readers read more books such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and their vision does not reach the depths of the sea at all, so no one can say clearly what is at the end of the sea! It is even believed that the sea is endless, and no one can reach the end of the sea!

Xiao Tianjian looked at the ministers who looked at each other and didn't know how to answer, smiled bitterly again, shook his head and said, "You are wrong, and it is a big mistake!"

I'll tell you! The world we live in is not a plane, nor is it simply that there are some mountains, rivers and seas on this plane!

The world we live in is actually a big ball shape, and we live on a planet! This planet is called Earth! ……”

There was a buzz in the hall, and the ministers were shocked, they couldn't imagine whether what Xiao Tianjian said was true, and they couldn't imagine that they actually lived on a ball, so how big should this ball be!

Xiao Tianjian raised his eyebrows, glanced at the ministers, snorted dissatisfiedly, and asked them, "What?" Don't you believe what I say? Or do you think I'm just talking? ”

After hearing this, all the ministers quickly bowed their heads and said, "Weichen doesn't dare!" ”

"Humph! Can't? I see that you not only dare, but you also dare! Because you don't believe me! Xiao Tianjian snorted angrily.

After hearing this, the ministers were immediately so frightened that they all knelt down, and hurriedly said that they didn't dare.

Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said, "Get up!" I don't blame you! You are not to blame for this! After all, you don't know much about it!

So I'll tell you about it today! I'm not talking nonsense today, but I'm well-founded! Many of you have probably been to the lake or the sea, and have seen sailing ships coming from afar, but have you ever remembered that the first thing you saw was the mast, then the sails, and finally the hull? Why is that?

In fact, the reason is very simple, the reason is that the land under our feet is spherical, which is sufficient proof! I can also tell you that the Tessians can now sail their warships and merchant ships from the other side of the earth to any part of the seas of this world! Of course, the Arctic Ocean doesn't count for the time being! ”

The ministers listened to Xiao Tianjian's words, their hearts were extremely shocked, this is something they have never heard of, each of them used to think that the previous Daming is the center of this world, and the Chinese are the masters of this world, but they didn't think about it, now the Taixi people have far surpassed the Chinese, which makes everyone present feel unbelievable and very difficult to accept! It's as if my pride has suddenly been hurt.

Everyone carefully looked at the globe in front of them, and their hearts could be said to be mixed, and they couldn't tell what they were like.

However, Li Jinde suddenly remembered another thing, circled around this globe, found the location of the Americas on the other side of the earth, pointed to Xiao Tianjian and asked: "Qisheng Sheng, there is something unknown in Weichen!" Dare to ask the Holy God to solve your doubts! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "If Li Shangshu has any questions, you might as well ask me directly!" He saw that Li Jinde had found the location of America on the map, and seemed very curious, so he was quite happy in his heart, thinking that this showed that they had begun to notice that there were still many parts of the world that they did not know, so he was ready to bewitch them.

But he didn't think that Li Jinde pointed to the location of the globe in the Americas, and asked Xiao Tianjian: "Wechen has the courage to question what the saint said, the saint just said that the land under our feet is on a ball, and Wechen thinks that this is a fallacy!" Holy Lord, please see, if we are on this ball, we are here! And these two fields are on the other side of the ball, and now we are all standing, so aren't the people in these places all head down? If that's the case, isn't it true that people and things here are going to fall? ”

After Xiao Tianjian heard this, he was like a hammer, and almost fell on the spot, all the little stars in front of him, almost collapsed, his face was full of black lines, he was ready to say what he wanted, and he was blocked back at once, almost choking him with a white glare, and Xiao Tianjian rolled his eyes in anger.

As soon as Li Jinde's voice fell, he immediately got the approval of the other people, although he didn't applaud, but they nodded yes one after another, and then looked at Xiao Tianjian with a little schadenfreude, as if he wanted to say: "Holy Lord, you just talk nonsense!" There are still people who understand! Now it depends on how you answer, how is this possible? ”

Xiao Tianjian was dizzy, and he suddenly remembered that Newton didn't know if he was born at this time, and this law of gravitation has not yet appeared! If you follow the thinking of normal people, Li Jinde's question can be asked at once, and this question is really difficult to answer if you change people! If you were an ordinary person and say such a thing to these guys, you would probably be beaten up by these guys on the spot! Fortunately, he is the emperor, and these people don't dare to do anything to him, so they will question him so "tactfully".

Xiao Tianjian took a deep breath, calmed himself down, stabilized his emotions, and then reached out and took a tea bowl, and as soon as he let go, the tea bowl fell to the ground and shattered.

This frightened Li Jinde, Li Jinde thought that this was a bad thing, it must be because he questioned Xiao Tianjian's words, Xiao Tianjian couldn't answer, this time Long Yan was furious, and he was so angry that he even dropped the tea bowl, so ......

Li Jinde was so frightened that he kneeled on the ground, kowtowed again and again: "The emperor is angry!" The emperor is angry! Wechen is guilty! We-Chen......"

The others also hurriedly knelt in a large area, and they all followed and kowtowed.

Xiao Tianjian rolled his eyes and waved his hand: "Forgive you for your innocence!" Get up! I'm not a faint king, I can't listen to other people's doubts! That's a good question, get up and talk!

I also ask you, can you tell me why this bowl fell to the ground after I let go? ”

Li Jinde was scared enough just now, and it took a while for Xie En to dare to get up, after listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, whether it was Li Jinde or others, they all felt that Xiao Tianjian might be confused, and actually asked such a childish and ridiculous question, this teacup will not fall to the ground, is it possible that it can still fly to the sky?

Li Jinde couldn't laugh or cry, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "This...... Wechen thinks that it should be like this......"

"What a deserved one! So today I will tell you what gravity is...... Xiao Tianjian racked his brains, collected some knowledge about gravity in his mind, and then gave a physics lesson to the civil and military generals in the hall as simple as possible.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, some people seem to understand a little, and some people don't know what to do, and some people understand the plausibility, but no matter what, everyone thinks that Xiao Tianjian still justifies himself, and finally gives a more reasonable answer to the question asked by Li Jinde just now.

Xiao Tianjian didn't want to continue to tell them more about gravity, pointed to the globe and began to play scoundrels, anyway, now he is the emperor of the Ninety-Five, what he says is what he says, sometimes dictatorship really has a lot of benefits, even if these guys don't believe his words very much, but they don't dare to say that he is wrong.

Xiao Tianjian turned the huge globe, pointed to it and said to the ministers: "All in all, what I said is true, whether you believe it or not, time will prove that I am not wrong!" If you send someone to take a big boat now, set off from Ningbo Mansion and head east, all the way east, after passing a huge sea, you will encounter a very large land! This continent is called South America and North America, and after going around this land, continuing to the east, and then passing through a sea, you will meet a continent again, and this is where the Tessy people are, which is called Europe! Then go south around here, and this piece of land is called Africa! Continue sailing along this route, and eventually you will return to where we are, and this land we are on is called Asia! In addition, in the southernmost part, there is a land covered with snow and ice, which is called Antarctica! In this place, there is also a land mass, called Oceania!

The world is divided into seven continents, a total of four oceans, here called the Pacific Ocean, here called the Atlantic Ocean, here called the Indian Ocean, and here called the Arctic Ocean!

The world is much bigger than you think! You know very little! But now, the Tessians have set their feet on almost all the land, and have passed through the Atlantic Ocean around Africa, and then into the Indian Ocean, and from the Indian Ocean, through Manchuria, which is here, into the South Sea, as you know it, and then into our China!

In the earliest days, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, once led the fleet of the Ming Dynasty, one by one, to Africa, but unfortunately, later the Ming Dynasty banned the sea again, and we Chinese lost the opportunity to explore the other side of the world! Let the Tessie people come first, and finally set foot on every land in this world! Leave their footprints!

If we miss this era, then our China will always be closed in this corner, and I am afraid that there will be no chance to stand proudly in this world! Don't think I'm alarmist, because I know more than you know!

This is also the reason why in the past few months, Shu often personally visited the Chinese shipyard outside the city, we Chinese can not only stare at the land in front of us, in the sea, there are many, very large land, waiting for us to occupy, to explore! The benefits that can be brought to us on the vastness of the sea are far greater than the benefits that can be produced by these lands of ours alone! ”

The more Xiao Tianjian spoke, the more excited he became, the more excited he became, and he waved his arms vigorously and said to the ministers in the hall.

Even if the ministers did not quite understand what Xiao Tianjian said today, but when they heard Xiao Tianjian say that they wanted to occupy more territory for the Chinese, whether it was a civil minister or a military general, they were quite excited, whether it was the emperor or the minister of culture and military in the past dynasties, as long as there was self-motivation, there was no one who did not want to open up territory for the country, Xiao Tianjian, as the founding emperor of the Great Chinese Dynasty, could have such ambitions, so that these people were also gratified, not to mention that Xiao Tianjian also said, in the sea, The benefits that can be brought back to the Chinese far outweigh the land they currently control, which makes people yearn for it.

When the night banquet dispersed, the bell on the bell tower of the imperial city had already sounded, indicating that a new year had arrived, and the first year of the Dazhong Dynasty was drawn under Xiao Tianjian's generous statement.