Everyone was enthusiastic about Zhen Gan's words one by one, except for Wang Lun and a few people, the rest of the people followed Zhen Qian not to live a good life, Wang Lun's purpose this time was to move the set formulated in the wolf's den to the Wufeng Islands, and now Zhen Gan said it, giving them infinite space and hope for reverie.

"The climatic conditions here are good, the area is larger than the wolf's den, although the population is not much, but it has a great space for development, as long as 10,000 people can be transported this year, the Wufeng Islands will be able to develop next year!"

The Wufeng Islands have a natural geographical advantage, and if there is no technical advantage in shipbuilding, the geographical advantage will become the biggest disadvantage, so Zhen Qian has always regarded shipbuilding and training sailors as the top priority.

Wang Lun said: "We have been looking for places to grow cotton and sugar cane all these years, the soil on the Wufeng Islands is not fertile, but it is just right to grow cotton and sugar cane, and both of these goods can produce huge economic benefits, I suggest that these two crops be planted on some small islands?" ”

Zhen Qian asked Wang Tianxing to find the Wufeng Islands planning book that he had done and handed it to Wang Lun and said: "Uncle Wang's suggestion is good, the Wufeng Islands have their own advantages, if we simply plant grain yield, the output will not be too high, we can exchange cotton and sugar for the grain we urgently need, but the fish and shrimp resources in the waters around the Wufeng Islands are abundant, and they are also a good source of economy, and the fishing industry should also be developed, these Wang Bo has rich experience and should be able to do very well!" ”

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

A group of people decided on the future development plan of the Wufeng Islands while eating and drinking, and after they were full of wine and food, Zhen Qian left Wang Lun and Zhen Jiu behind, and after entering a room, he asked Witui and Pilates to guard the door, and no one was allowed to enter, so he took out a one-meter-square cowhide from the wooden box and hung it on the wall and said, "Who knows this map?" ”

Zhen Jiu glanced at it, then his eyes fell on the left side of the map, and he pointed to an island and said: "This should be our Wufeng Islands, above which are the Seikaido and the main island of the Wa Kingdom, on the left is the Silla Kingdom, above the Silla Country is the Balhae Kingdom, to the south of our Wufeng Islands should be the Ryukyu Islands, and further down is the Taiwan Island ......." ”

Zhen Jiu said and looked at the large area in the middle of the map, and then compared the length of the map with his hand, and suddenly exclaimed, "Oh my God! To the east of us is a much larger ocean, how can there be a piece of land on the other side of the ocean, is it the legendary Great Qin? ”

What Zhen Qian took out was not a complete world map, but only a simple outline map of the surrounding area of the North Pacific Ocean, which only roughly marked a few famous landmarks, and the scale was a little wrong, but it was already the most detailed map of the Pacific Ocean in this era.

"That's it! Let me explain the map first! ”

A long time ago, Zhen Qian intentionally or unintentionally mentioned the land under his feet to Wang Qun and Zhen San and a few young people, tentatively, and even with some jokes, saying that he saw in a dream that the land under his feet was actually a huge sphere, and everyone lived on this sphere, observing the reactions of these people.

The result naturally attracted a burst of ridicule, thinking that Zhen Qian was dreaming and thinking, even if Zhen Qian deliberately refuted and cited some examples in life to prove that his point of view was "maybe" correct, he was also refuted by people with the round sky of his ancestors, and in the end, only Zhen San asked Zhen Qian, if people really live on a huge sphere, then whether they are standing on the upper half of the sphere or the lower half, and this sphere is there, if someone keeps going west, or east, will they return to the same place.......

Since then, Zhen Qian knew that some of his ideas were too advanced and it was better not to say them, the accumulation of knowledge was a gradual process, if he hadn't had absolute authority in the wolf's den, he would have been treated as a madman a long time ago.

However, after that incident, Zhen Qian purposefully picked out a group of young people and asked them to accept their new ideas and new knowledge in private, which can be regarded as the first batch of people in Datang to look at the world with their eyes again, and they are the source of power for Zhen Gan's future development.

Zhen Qian pointed to a vast ocean in the middle and said: "I call this ocean the Pacific Ocean, which means peaceful and peaceful, this is a very vast ocean, from our Wufeng Islands to the nearest mainland is 20,000 li, which is more than 1,000 miles from Yangzhou to the Wufeng Islands, I don't know how many times larger, according to the speed of our current ships, it will take at least a year to reach the opposite shore?" ”

"Twenty thousand miles, a year's time, oh my God! How far is that! ”

It is too far away, in the fifteenth century, Columbus crossed the Atlantic four times with the support of the king of Spain, and it took more than two months to complete this great voyage, from Spain to the Americas only 10,000 miles, more than twice the distance from the Five Peaks Islands to the Americas. At that time, the three 100-ton sailing ships led by Columbus were larger than the 500-stone sea ships in Zhen Qian's hands, using the most advanced navigation technology at the beginning, but there was still a big gap with the new sailing ships that Zhen Qian was about to build.

"It's a little far away!"

Zhen Qian also had to admit that this distance was a bit out of reach for this era.

Think about the Tang Dynasty Chang'an to reach Byzantium in the far west is only 12,000 miles, at that time, the distance between the east and west of the Tang Dynasty, from the Shandong Peninsula in the east, to the green ridge in the west is only 10,000 miles away, business travel needs to walk day and night for a year to go from east to west, this distance has made the Tang people unimaginable, so there is a saying that the territory of the Tang Dynasty is vast.

"This is a continent that no one knows so far, I call it the American continent, take the meaning of the beautiful continent, this is also a continent as rich as the Tang Dynasty, the continent is inhabited by countless indigenous and barbarian people, they also have their own cultural and social structure, but compared to us, the indigenous people living on the American continent have been isolated from the outside world for millions of years, and they don't know that there are other worlds outside, our goal is to send people to this continent?"

Zhen Qian's map only shows the west coast of the Americas, and he also does not draw a complete map of the Americas.

The people around them looked at the large map in front of them, and the countries of the Wa Kingdom and the Silla Kingdom were only half the size of a palm's hand on the map, and the entire map was an ocean as far as the eye could see, giving people a deep sense of powerlessness.

At this time, even Zhen Jiu, who was very familiar with the ocean, looked at Zhen Qian with a puzzled gaze, "Master, what is this going to do?" ”