In order to reward Bai Yingli, Wang Yan gave him the title of a squire of the Ministry of Works, and when he heard Wang Yan's voice, he walked to the edge of the map, first saluted Wang Yan, and then said: "Lord Jianguo, colleagues, this is the Netherlands, and this is Spain!" ”

Bai Yingli has been in Daming for many years, and his Chinese dialect is the same as that of the Ming people, but with a Cantonese accent, and everyone does not sound difficult.

Seeing that he pointed to two pieces of land, both of which were extremely far away from the Ming Dynasty, almost several times the distance from Beijing to Guangzhou on the map, everyone was shocked.

Wang Yan experienced this kind of distance when he first went to Macau, and he is still amazed today, especially when he is standing in the center of the map, the feeling is like being in the middle of the map, which is very subtle.

Wang Yan immediately waved his hand and said, "Come on, paint it out!" Come and watch too! ”

As soon as he gave the order, he saw several painters, carrying dye in wooden barrels and brushes the size of a baby's arm, and after dipping the dye with the dyes, according to the instructions of Bai Yingli, they painted first the places in Spain scarlet, and then the Netherlands green.

The civil and military forces in the main hall listened to Wang Yan's words and surrounded them curiously.

After coloring, the territory of the two countries became more intuitive, they saw that the golden Ming Dynasty in the middle occupied a large central position, and Spain was only the size of Fujian, and the superiority of the territory immediately suppressed the shock of the distance, and a royal historian smiled and said, "A small country, I really don't know whether to live or die!" ”

When they saw the territory of the Netherlands, the feeling of heaven and heaven immediately returned, and someone pointed to the Netherlands and said, "The feces are small, and the night is arrogant." ”

From the point of view of the territory, that is, Spain and the Netherlands combined, the Ming Dynasty is still more than ten times them, although the territory does not represent everything, but it can explain a lot of problems, especially in the traditional agricultural society, the area of land determines the population and the amount of arable land, which also determines the strength between countries.

At this time, Bai Yingli said, "My lords, this is just Spain's territory before the Ming Dynasty!" According to the Western calendar, it was probably before 1506 AD, more than 100 years ago today, and in this 100 years, because of the great geographical discoveries, Columbus discovered the new continent, and Spain quickly became a big empire! The Netherlands, on the other hand, is a spit off from Spain and is now one of the strongest countries in Europe. ”

Although Bai Yingli likes the Ming Dynasty very much, he is still very dissatisfied with the attitude of the Ming Dynasty people who are high up in China, claiming to be China, and treating the Quartet as a disdain.

In fact, the attitude of the Ming Dynasty was much more moderate and civilized than that of the West, and although China had a high-minded self-satisfied mentality, it still regarded the surrounding ethnic groups as human beings, more like an aristocracy. These ethnic groups came to pay tribute, and China gave them book culture and a system of rules and regulations to teach these ethnic civilizations, but when Westerners became stronger, they did not regard blacks and Indians as human beings, and they were directly and barbarously slaughtered, and after they were killed, they became civilized people.

Gu Yuanjing, a member of the cabinet university, couldn't help frowning when he heard what was going on across the world, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, and said: "What a big empire, what a big empire, I went to the West for tens of thousands of miles to the extreme west of the Three Treasures, and what I saw and heard was far from my Heaven and Heaven Kingdom, and I had never heard of any big empire. ”

Many officials listened to Bai Yingli's words, and most of them frowned and were not very happy, feeling that this Westerner was not very shameful.

In this world, who dares to call the great empire in front of the Ming Dynasty? Besides, Da Ming once went out to see, and he really didn't see anything that could threaten the existence of Da Ming, and now what is the big empire, what is the world, isn't it a joke?

Gu Yuanjing's words immediately caused a burst of applause, and the hall suddenly became noisy.

After Wang Yan summoned Bai Yingli, he naturally talked to him in advance, and he had some understanding of the current world, so he decided to gather all the ministers to listen, and when he saw the noise in the hall, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Quiet, listen to Bai Shilang!" ”

Wang Yan spoke, and everyone could only shut up one after another, but Bai Yingli continued according to Wang Yan's instructions, "Prison country, everyone, I will talk about the Netherlands first. It clashed with Spain for religious and other reasons, split off to form a republic, and then rose rapidly. Over the course of a few decades, the Dutch seized some colonies on the west coast of Africa from the Portuguese, then seized the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean, established a foothold on the west coast of India, and occupied Ceylon, the Lion Kingdom recorded by the Three Treasure Eunuchs, and finally reached the South Seas, occupying Malacca, Java and other places. ”

Bai Yingli said that the painter painted the areas he only went out of one by one green, and every time they painted a place, the Ming Dynasty officials around the map saw the green Holland, from the far west, along the coastline step by step to the east, approaching the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't help but feel tight, and unconsciously frowned.

However, after all, the Netherlands has few people and is a commercial country, so the colony area is relatively small, mainly snatched from the weak Portuguese, and distributed on the route in a dotted manner, the momentum is not very hideous, and many officials of the Ming Dynasty just frowned.

At this point, he continued, "I'm talking about Spain! As he spoke, he walked from Wang Yan's west side, around the edge of the map, to Wang Yan's east side, standing in the position of Central America, and continued: "Since Columbus discovered the New World of America, the entire central part of America has been occupied by the Spaniards. Here, and here, all painted! ”

The painter immediately followed his request, and in a matter of moments, he painted a large area of scarlet land on the American continent, making the territory of Spain several times larger in an instant, almost catching up with the Ming Dynasty.

A group of Ming Dynasty officials were dumbfounded, and Qian Qianyi couldn't help it, he raised his arm and said loudly: "Wait!" ”

Qian Qianyi came out of the angry officials and accused: "A bunch of nonsense, gossip to confuse the public, according to Bai Shilang's words, how can Spain and the Netherlands occupy the far east in the far west?" And that Glumbu, how could he possibly find here? Besides, this land is so big, is there no one on it? So easy to be occupied? ”

Many ministers also reacted, judging from the map, Spain and the land called America are on both sides of the Ming Dynasty, separated by the Ming Dynasty, and the ocean, the Spaniards will not be able to fly, many ministers immediately discussed, thinking that Bai Yingli is nonsense.

"Everyone, be quiet!" Wang Yan raised his hands and pressed down, he had to control the situation again, he waited for everyone to calm down, and then waved his hand to let the officials of the Ministry of Industry lift out a three-foot diameter globe, which also had a map of all countries on it, but it was connected.

Wang Yan opened his mouth and said, "It's not easy to explain this matter, this is a globe made by Bai Shilang, they think that the world is round, and people are standing on a ball, while we think that the sky is round and the place is completely different." Lonely, like you, has a lot of problems and thinks it's unlikely. If the earth is round, how can man survive on it? However, Kashiwa Shirou told me a few points, such as the further north you go, the higher the North Star; The farther south you go, the lower the North Star, and you can see some new stars that you can't see in the north, and there are Kashiwa Samurai who claim that they have completed their circumnavigation of the globe. ”

The earth is round, so the Huayi worldview of "the sky is round and the place is round, and China is in the center" in China for thousands of years has completely collapsed.

At this time, even Wang Yan couldn't suppress it, and the entire hall suddenly became a pot of porridge, and many people had begun to get angry, suggesting that Bai Yingli be killed, and all Xiyi should be driven out of the Ming Dynasty, and another lesson plan would be raised.

Of course, there are also calm people, and there are many people who have heard this doctrine very early, after all, the West has been learning from the East for decades, and there are many Xiyi who have been active in the Ming Dynasty over the years, and many people have heard of this doctrine for a long time, and there are also ancient Chinese people who also have the theory that the earth is round, Chu Ci "Tianwen Chapter", and the Confucians have also put forward the theory that the earth is a sphere and is covered by the sky by observing the high and hanging of the water in the water of Dongting Lake, as well as the different times of the sun in various provinces.

Wang Yan saw that the noise was getting louder and louder, and he couldn't help but stomp on the ground, so that everyone was quiet again.

In this meeting, the hall has been out of control several times, which shows that the impact on the officials of the Ming Dynasty is very great, and the more rational ministers will think about it, and the irrational will want to burn these heretical Xiyi directly.

"In this matter, Lone has asked the Ministry of Industry to send someone to prepare to confirm it, and will send a fleet to sail eastward all the way to see if it is as Bai Shilang said, and finally the fleet can return to Daming." Wang Yan waved his hand and said, "So don't argue about this matter now, Bai Shilang said that two years is enough, then let's see what the result will be after two years of departure?" ”

Wang Yan shouted in a hoarse voice, and when he said this, the hall was newly settled.

Bai Yingli was a little frightened, he felt that he was like those who provided heresies in the Inquisition, he could be burned at any time, he paused, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said: "Just now, Lord Qian asked a few questions, and the first few only need to prove that the ground is round. These questions will be proved once the fleet sets off on a circumnavigation of the world, and I will not explain them again. The latter question is to ask if there is anyone in the New World. There are people, a large country with a population of more than 20 million, but it has been wiped out by the Spaniards. ”

The faces of the ministers in the palace were stunned for a while, Su Guansheng looked at the scarlet territory that continued to expand under Bai Yingli's instructions, and turned his head to the few ministers around him and said, "What did you think of?" ”

"Meng Yuan!" Chen Bangyan suddenly said in a deep voice.

The other ministers did not say anything, but nodded, these Westerners are rising like the Mongols back then, sweeping the world, destroying people's countries, and killing people.

After a short time, Bai Yingli finished introducing the Netherlands and Spain, these two countries, starting from the European continent, one to the east and the other to the west, formed a flanking trend against the Ming Dynasty.

This should be because the Pope once drew a line, so that Spain and Portugal divided the world equally, and the two countries stood on one side, and after the rise of the Netherlands, it was mainly to rob the interests of the relatively weak Portuguese, so it happened to occupy one side with the Spaniards.

Wang Yan was silent for a while, and then asked, "Bai Shilang, the form of other countries in the West, you can also explain it, and finish drawing the map!" ”

At that time, Bai Yingli used other colors to draw England, France, Poland, Rakshasa and other countries one by one. If everyone sees the Netherlands and Spain, one green and one red only forming a flanking trend against the Ming Dynasty, then when these European countries are drawn on the map, the golden territory of the Ming Dynasty seems to be about to fall into encirclement, and there are enemies coming from all sides.

The current situation is like a huge Go chessboard, with the Ming Dynasty occupying the middle, but all four corners of the world are occupied by Westerners. Wang Yan stood in the middle of the map, watching the various colors approaching him, and he only felt that the Ming Dynasty would gradually be surrounded······

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