"Big brother, what did my sister-in-law say just now?"

Zhu Jie asked.

The red lady's face turned red, she glared at Zhu Jie fiercely, and said coquettishly: "I said that you painted a watermelon, what's wrong?" ”

"Hahaha......"

Zhu Jie laughed and said: "Mrs. Sister-in-law, in fact, what you said is not wrong at all, this is a watermelon, an out-and-out watermelon, you are much smarter than the eldest brother, he is a stupid goose, I don't see it, haha!" ”

The red lady glared and said, "You are not allowed to make fun of me!" Otherwise, one day I will castrate you! ”

Belch......

Zhu Jie smiled for a while, and hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, this time I am really praising you, the Han Dynasty scholar Zhang Heng once said, 'Heaven and earth are like chickens, and the earth is like the yellow of eggs', this sentence, the eldest brother knows, you imagine, the yolk of the egg, after magnification, the shape is not the same as a watermelon?" ”

The red lady looked embarrassed, why, did she really let herself be blinded? Hurriedly looked at her husband.

Li Yan took a deep breath and replied: "Yes, this is from Zhang Heng's "Armillary Sphere Illustration", I have read it, but I have always thought that this is an absurd idea. ”

"No!"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice: "Big brother, this is what I want to tell you today, the great changes in the world now are closely related to the shape of this world!" You see, this world was originally a ball, because in order to make it easier for you to understand, I divided this ball into two, so it became this shape, and in the future, when we have leisure time, we only make a wooden ball out, and we carve the whole world on it, and it is easy to understand, our location is here, to the east is the vast ocean, about six thousand miles east of us, is the Japanese archipelago where the Japanese pirates are located, which is the birthplace of all the Japanese pirates; About 25,000 miles east from us, there is also an independent land here, and its territory is so vast that it is about the size of four Ming empires. ”

Li Yan's heart shook, equivalent to the size of four Ming Empires, this, this is inevitably too terrifying! Of course, the most terrifying thing is not this land, but the direct ocean of the two lands, which is 25,000 miles wide and 25,000 miles, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty from Haizhou to Ili is only more than 10,000 miles, which is less than half the width of this ocean! Twenty-five thousand miles, if you row, the year of the monkey and the month of the horse can cross this sea? Not to mention, there are constant storms and raging waves!

Zhu Jie continued: "That's not all, big brother, you also know that more than half of the money and grain taxes in the Ming Dynasty are in the south of the Yangtze River, because here are all plains, and the climate is warm and moist, suitable for farming. However, in this land, the plains are like the south of the Yangtze River, and the land is as warm as the south of the Yangtze River, which is really innumerable, and the area of the plains is even ten times that of the Ming Dynasty, with a warm climate and fertile land! Imagine what it would be like if such a land were to be occupied and ruled by a country one day? Where else in the world are they to be their opponents? ”

Li Yan nodded heavily, Zhu Jie was right, if such a vast and fertile land was in the hands of one country, this strength would definitely surpass the Ming Dynasty.

"The changes I am talking about are concentrated in these lands, and now those countries in the West have begun to invade this land, and it will not take too long to completely occupy it, and the vast land will be divided by two or three countries! Once their strength skyrockets, you can imagine whether Da Ming will be able to be as stable as Mount Tai in the future? If nothing else, the red-haired pirates on the southeast coast, you should have heard of it, right? This is just some of their rogues, so arrogant, if one day the strength soars again, then our entire southeast coast and even the northern coast, Gyeonggi region will be in danger! ”

"Invade the land? Won't the people of this land rebel? I have some understanding of the West, and I have heard those foreign priests say that which countries are not even as large as our province, and there are many small countries, do they still have the strength to invade such a vast land? This land is so vast, and the population living on it is no longer a minority, even if it is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, it is not far behind, how can the West occupy it? ”

Li Yan exclaimed.

Zhu Jie replied: "Under normal circumstances, it is indeed difficult for a few small countries to annex a continent, but the east of this land is still a vast sea, which is not much smaller than the sea to the east of us!" That is to say, this land, for thousands of years, has been independent of the whole world, whether it is Western philosophy, the study of things, or our Confucian and Mencian ways, gunpowder, papermaking, has not come to this land, there is still a foolish and backward land, slash and burn, where is the opponent of the robbers equipped with artillery and muskets? Big brother, you have also seen, at the beginning, I was able to withstand the attack of your five infantry battalions with only two musket battalions, and after a long time, I could even defeat five or six of your infantry battalions! Nowadays, the muskets of the West are similar to ours, and the artillery is still superior to ours, and you say, a group of people with wooden sticks and stone axes in their hands can be the opponents of robbers? What's more, don't forget, the Mongolian iron cavalry back then was only hundreds of thousands, less than a million, but what about the Han people, tens of millions of people, didn't they still let the Mongols lose the entire country and live under the enslavement of others? ”

Forehead......

Li Yan was speechless.

Zhu Jie continued: "From this continent to the east, across the sea called the Atlantic Ocean, you will arrive at the Western Ocean, you can also call them Europa, this is it!" Europa is connected to the land where we are, from the land, with vast deserts and plateaus in between, and it was very difficult for them to reach us, a thousand or two thousand years ago

You can reach us here through the Silk Road, at that time the Western Ocean was called Daqin, here is the nest of the Western Ocean, from here to the south, thousands of miles later, there is another land, is here, this land is equivalent to the size of the four Ming Empires, but the central and northern parts of this land are vast deserts, only the east and south are mountains and plains or plateaus, and this location, that is, the place where the Three Treasure Eunuchs finally reached the Western Ocean after seven trips, Malindi. Now this continent has also been invaded by Western countries, and a large number of people have even been directly plundered to become slaves of Western workshop owners, you may not know that the people here are the most suitable for work because of the difficult conditions and strong physique......"

The corners of Li Yan's mouth twitched constantly, the two vast lands were invaded by the West, this Westerner is really a bandit, more fierce, cruel, and greedy than the Mongolian iron cavalry three hundred years ago!

(End of chapter)