In the study, Yongshengbo Zheng Cai sat comfortably on the sofa, holding a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other.

He looked at Shi Lang in front of him with a smile and listened carefully to his explanation.

Shi Lang didn't like this sofa, sitting on it, always made him feel trapped, he wanted to learn from Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai, put his elbow on the armrest, but he felt that his heart was open to others - uncomfortable.

The smell of that cigarette was nothing, but he didn't like to smoke it, and that hundred years of loneliness tasted good—he took a sip of it like Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai.

It was a quiet and ordinary afternoon in the spring of 1650, which can be counted as an exchange of two generations.

After listening to Shi Lang's description, Yongshengbo Zheng Cai recognized it very much in his heart, which was roughly the same as the situation he secretly understood-

He was thinking about the overall situation in the land of eastern Guangdong...... Suddenly, he interjected, saying, "You still have some taels of silver in your hands...... Why not just buy it? Those farmers don't all grow grain for food, and they must have some surplus in their hands; After all, that Chaozhou City is owned by the Ming Dynasty, if he buys rice and grain from them with silver taels, what reason does he Hao Shangjiu have for not selling it to us? As you said, the area around Jieyang is in our hands...... It is completely possible to farm in peace, and accumulate strength while training people and horses...... There are also many villages that have been cited as Australian aid. ”

After Shi Lang pretended to listen carefully, he laughed in his heart, this is really a housekeeper...... Food, the foundation of the army, the army has not moved, grain and grass go first, how can it be in the hands of others? ?

But Shi Lang's face was as respectful as ever...... He took the opportunity to stand up in high spirits, clasped his hands into fists, and saluted slightly: "Before, when I was collecting grain in eastern Guangdong, I planned to make a slight ...... in eastern Guangdong This place of Chaozhou City is a key point that cannot be bypassed no matter what. ”

He stood up and walked straight to the map on the wall.

He had already seen the map hanging on the wall, and on the left side of the map was a few large red letters: Da Ming and Simplified Map. There are also three small red characters written horizontally under the big red letters: Subscription to be repaired.

Daming map!

The outline of the coast is very detailed, and several rivers are marked on it - but it is not convenient to look at it in detail at first.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to stand up, he took a closer look, and immediately found Chaozhou, where Taiwan and Xiamen were marked with green colors, which were very conspicuous, and when he looked southwest, Chaozhou City was also in the map.

Shi Lang pointed to the word "state tide", and suddenly understood in his heart that the horizontal word was written backwards.

His fingers swiped around on the big wall chart there, and said impassionedly: "Presumably Yongshengbo has also noticed that the northeast of Chaozhou City can be connected to Fujian and attract the people of southern Fujian as Australian aid; Southwest Yao is ordered by Emperor Yongli, I have great righteousness; In the northwest, the Tartars are about to go south, and their swords are aimed at Guangzhou, and now they are patrolling the land of Meiling, and they will not be able to divide their forces to attack us......"

Yongshengbo Zheng Cai turned his head sideways and looked at Shi Lang pointing back and forth on the wall chart.

This map was purchased by the third brother from Taiwan with a lot of money, and I heard that it was counted as a "sponsored publication fee", or they Hantang Group would not sell it, saying that it would be sold at least ten years later, under the pretext that many places needed to be revised, and they were afraid of losing the name of Hantang Publishing Company.

Hehe, such a superficial excuse - I just want to ask for more silver taels - the third brother is really discerning, a thousand taels of silver are spilled, and a few woodblock craftsmen send it - there is it, the Hantang Group is really a small family, heh, heh.

Yongshengbo Zheng Cai fully understood Shi Lang's plan, he nodded, this Shi Lang is really a general, and he still has a lot of talent, which is better than his second brother.

He took a sip of wine lightly and said, "That Chaozhou chief soldier Hao Shangjiu, how can he sit and wait to be killed?" If he returns to the Tartars in a fit of rage...... How do you deal with it? ”

"Ahh Shi Lang smiled, patted the palm of his right hand with his left hand, and then bowed to Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai more respectfully, and said, "This is even more confirming that he has the heart to surrender...... Righteousness is as heaven...... It's a pity that the first attack on the city was unfavorable, so I was sent here, and I couldn't write two Zheng characters in one stroke...... I also hope that Yongsheng will help a lot, and I have the courage to invite the ...... for the surname of the country."

"Your own sons and nephews, you don't need to ...... politely" Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai still smiled and said, "You have seen those siege tools, and you have also seen demonstrations...... What do you think? ”

Shi Lang thought for a moment and slowly commented: "The rockets and ballistas are not unusual...... But the gunpowder was so good that it was several times more powerful than ordinary things, and this was very different -- in the past, when rockets were loaded with gunpowder, there was too little to use, and too many things that did not fly far, and they were not very good...... In this way, it shows that it has great use, if it is used to attack Chaozhou City, it should be as easy as Zhangzhou City...... It's just a matter of the strength of the medicine. ”

"Science and technology drive the development of history-"

“――”

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai sighed: "This is what the people of the Han and Tang groups are talking about, let's not mention them - this kind of gunpowder, the legend is that it was created by Sun Si, the divine doctor of the Tang Dynasty, someone has kept that ancient recipe to this day, even if I pay 10,000 gold, that person will not give it -"

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai saw a trace of murder flashing in Shi Lang's eyes, he smiled in his heart, after all, he was still a young person, and the thoughts in his heart still couldn't be suppressed-

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai then sighed: "However, although he didn't sell me his ancestral things, but fortunately, that person was only willing to prepare for me - I had to regard him as my life, and I protected him with heavy troops-"

Seeing that the murderous intent in Shi Lang's eyes was gone, leaving only full of regret, Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai pretended to pat his thigh helplessly and stood up.

"Shi Qianfeng, can you take a closer look?"

Shi Lang looked at the map carefully and thought quickly in his mind. Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai didn't bother him, went to the bookshelf to remove something, and lifted off the gold velvet cloth covering it.

Shi Lang's finger was on the map, following Chaozhou in the direction of due north, and he drew the Yangtze River, which was a thick blue line - he recalled in his mind the scene when he crossed the Yangtze River several times -

Shi Lang sighed and said, "If I wait for the south bank of the Great River to be guarded by heavy troops, and there are Nali boats patrolling on the river, how can the Mantars cross the river?" ”

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai saw that Shi Lang's originally young and straight back was now a little heavy, so he smiled and said, "Can you go further-"

Shi Lang looked up again, saw a place with a red star, thought about it, and said: "That must be Beijing City, the Taishi is still under house arrest there-I'll escape faster, otherwise-"

"Farther away—"

Shi Lang raised his head and saw that in the northeast place, there was a smaller red star, which said Shenyang, presumably Shengjing, and it was there that the Mantar was changed to the country name - Qing, but when was it changed to Shenyang? Further north, there are two red stars - and there is a big city in the far north? Changchun, Harbin? How come I've never heard of it? Farther north, there was a large blank space -- so big, and even further north was the sea!

"Oh, heh, the young man's eyes are good, if it were me, I would have to step on the high chair - come, come back to the seat."

Shi Lang glanced at the high chair next to him, there were really faint footprints on it, this old guy really didn't know how many times he had seen it. It's a pity that such a military treasure is in his hands.

Back on the sofa, Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai took out the globe and said: "Shi Qianfeng, this is the earth where we live - I didn't believe it at first, but then when I thought of sailing the sea, I always saw the sails in the distance, and barely figured it out - it's okay, it's not anything valuable, you can play with it at will." ”

After Zheng Bin saw the globe in the city of Gelansha, he was anxious to buy it, and the technician in charge of publishing of the Hantang Group resolutely refused to sell it, thinking that if this was lost, it was not because he was afraid of leaking anything, but because he was afraid that it would be more troublesome to explain in the future.

Like that map, Zheng Bin wanted to buy it, and he ate the Hantang Group, just to ask for more silver taels.

The technician of the publishing house finally accepted again, no matter what time and space, rich people are capricious. He can only put forward conditions, Zheng Bin can find a few Zheng family craftsmen, if they can turn wooden balls, they will wait to enlarge, and let the Zheng family make a few, but it must be processed under his guidance and requirements.

After Zheng Bin figured out the technical requirements, he almost laughed out loud, and said in his heart, Hugh has to underestimate my Daming carpentry!

As a result, in less than three days, the processing was completed, and it was made exactly according to the technician's requirements, and if the technician hadn't stopped them, they would have inlaid the warp and weft wires with gold and silver wires. Mark it out with ink and you're done.

The technician repeatedly examined the camphor wood ball with a radius of 15 centimeters, and determined that some of the world's major cities were ancient names found in the data, and that all the countries had not drawn their borders, but only conceptually named regions, and that the continents of North and South America, Oceania, and Africa had been restored to their original state.

and deliberately arranged a random location in Antarctica, indicating that it was a big city in Antarctica.

Well, that's it, give it to him.

When Zheng Bin got this big globe, he peeped around with it, raised and turned, and didn't speak for a long time.

The technician said, "It's not difficult to make a bracket, what are you in a hurry?" ”

"I've got my own way—I only have such a big piece of land?"

"It's not small."

After Zheng Jiaming's carpenter obtained the globe, he easily imitated a few more in the same way, and had to inlay gold and silver threads on the latitude and longitude, and if it were not for the twists and turns of the coastline, I am afraid that he would also have to inlay them -- he also inlaid gold characters in Xiamen, and Taiwan also inlaid them -- and also inlaid a ruby in the place of the big city in Antarctica.

After being sent back to Xiamen, Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai referred to the original, and made hundreds of them, picked a decorative exaggerated, almost ten taels of gold and silver thread, hundreds of jade gems of the globe, in order to lose weight, but also can be cut in half without pulling the trouble, hollowed out, carefully glued.

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai was in the study when he had nothing to do, according to some instructions sent by the third brother, carefully checked, turned to watch at any time, and slowly knew the entire globe well, and there were too many middle-aged vicissitudes in his heart - sometimes it is difficult for a wise person to understand a person, what is the pain -

Where has the young Shi Lang seen it, he was immediately fascinated, but it was by no means those precious jades and the like.

He searched again and again, and found Taiwan, Relanza City, Fujian, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou-Chaozhou?? What about Nanao Island?!

Yongsheng Bo Zheng Cai pointed to the eastern part of Guangdong and said: "The people of the Hantang Group said that it is too troublesome to mark the second- and third-tier cities."

"Yongshengbo, what is a second- or third-tier city?"

"I don't know, they made us brain---I figured out that they probably disliked the fact that the places were too small."

The young Shi Lang made up for the globe and was quiet for a while.

Yongshengbo Zheng Cai leisurely poured himself another cup of Hundred Years of Solitude, knowing that he would definitely have a lot to ask, and he was the same at that time.

The young Shi Lang sighed suddenly, the voice did not match the young man.

"Yongshengbo, this world is so big-"