Chapter 142 The earth is round

Xiao Tianjian slowly walked to the front of the globe, reached out and stroked the globe, and slowly turned it. This thing took him several nights. First, he drew the graphics with his memory, and then sent someone to find a craftsman, and worked more than half of the drawings he drew day and night. The time of the month was made in order to show it to the ministers in the court today.

Because when Xiao Tianjian came to this era, he didn't bring anything at all, let alone a world map, so he can only make this globe with his previous memory and roughly mark the shape and location of the seven continents without referenced information, in addition to it. The names of some countries and oceans are marked, so they are not very detailed, and there are even many deviations.

But on the whole, the main land and oceans of the earth are basically carved into this globe. Even if there is an error, there will be no big fallacy. It is enough to teach these ministers a lesson and broaden their horizons!

After looking at this newly made globe, Xiao Tianjian slowly turned around and said to the ministers, "Don't kneel down! Stand up and gather around. Let's have a look!"

After listening to this, the ministers quickly thanked, stood up one after another and walked to this novel object. They looked curiously at the strange big wooden ball and whispered about what this thing was.

When they saw a place on the sphere marked with the word "big and medium", they all exclaimed, and they also saw the names such as Luzon, Great Ryukyu, Little Ryukyu, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Spain... mentioned by Xiao Tianjian just now. Some people realized that this may be a map.

But what makes them strange is how can the map be made into a big round ball? So most people suddenly became confused.

Although as early as the fifteenth century, Western countries had opened the curtain of the era of great navigation through the exploration of the depths of the ocean, and completed the great discovery of geography. They understood that the place where human beings live is actually a sphere. This theory has also spread to China, but for the vast majority of people in China However, I don't know about it, and I don't even know that the place where they live is a big ball.

The long-standing and deep-rooted tradition affects all Chinese people. People deeply believe that the land under their feet is flat, so when they see this big round ball, Xiao Tianjian has carved a lot of country names, so they don't understand why.

After a glance at the ministers, Xiao Tianjian asked Ding Qirui by name, "Ding University Scholar, as far as I know, you are also a full-learned scholar. So as you know, why do we call ourselves Chinese? And why do we call it Zhonghua?"

Ding Qirui quickly replied, "The emperor of Qizuo, Weichen thinks that the reason why we call it China is from a lot of meanings, but it is mainly because the place we were born and raised is in the world, so we call ourselves China! As for China, the ancestors in the Yellow River have called themselves China since ancient times, so there is a saying of China!"

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "The university scholar is right. The reason why we call ourselves China is that the first dynasty for thousands of years has thought that the country is in the middle of heaven and earth, so we call ourselves China, which later continued!

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

After hearing this, everyone nodded with doubt and agreed. Basically, everyone thought that the land under their feet should be a large plane, but there were mountains, rivers and seas on it!

After looking at the reaction of the ministers, Xiao Tianjian shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then asked, "If you think that the world under our feet is a plane, then who can tell me where it is at the end of the sea in the east?"

When Xiao Tianjian asked this question, he immediately asked everyone. In this era, Chinese people's thoughts are still quite imprisoned. Readers often read books such as the Four Books and Five Classics. The vision does not reach the depths of the sea at all, so no one can explain clearly what is at the end of the sea! I even think that the sea is endless, and no one can go to the end of the sea!

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

I'll tell you! The world we live in is not a plane, nor is it simple to have some mountains, rivers and seas on this plane!

The world we live in is actually a big ball shape. 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 the ball should be!

Xiao Tianjian raised his eyebrows, glanced at the ministers, snorted dissatisfiedly, and asked them, "What's wrong? Don't you believe what I said? Or do you think I'm talking about it?"

After listening to this, the ministers quickly bowed their heads and said, "I dare not!"

"Huh! Dare not? I think you are not only brave, but also very brave! Because you don't believe my words at all!" Xiao Tianjian snorted angrily.

After hearing this, the ministers were so scared that they all knelt down and quickly 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 know very little about it!

Then I'll talk to you today! I'm not talking nonsense today, but with evidence! I'm afraid that many of you have been to the lake or the seaside and have seen sailboats coming from afar, but do you remember that the first thing you see is a mast, then a sail, and finally you can see the hull! Why is this?

In fact, the reason is very simple. The reason is that the land under our feet is spherical, which is a sufficient proof! I can also tell you that now the Thai people can drive their warships and merchant ships from the other end of the earth to any place in the sea in the world! Of course, the Arctic Ocean does not count for the time being!"

When the ministers listened to Xiao Tianjian's words, they were extremely shocked. This was something they had never heard of. Each of them used to think that the previous Ming Dynasty was the center of the world, and the Chinese were the masters of the world, but they didn't think about it. Now the Taixi people have far surpassed China. People, this makes everyone present feel unbelievable and very difficult to accept! It seems that self-esteem has suddenly been hurt.

Everyone looks at the globe in front of them carefully. It can be said that there are mixed flavors in their hearts, and they can't tell what it tastes like.

On the contrary, Li Jinde suddenly remembered another thing. He circled around the globe and found the American location on the other side of the earth. He pointed to Xiao Tianjian and asked, "Qi Zhuo Sheng, there is something unknown to Weichen!" Don't you dare to ask the Holy to solve the puzzle!"

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

But I didn't think that Li Jinde pointed to the position of America on the globe and asked Xiao Tianjian, "Weichen dared to question what the emperor said. The emperor just said that the land under our feet was on a ball, and Weichen took this as a fallacy! Holy Spirit, please see, if we are on this ball, we are here! But these two pieces of land are on the other side of the ball. Now we are all standing, so aren't the people in these places all head down? If this is the case, aren't the people and things here going to fall?

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian almost fell down on the spot. His eyes were full of little stars, and he almost collapsed. His face was full of black lines. When he was ready to say, he was blocked back and almost choked him. Xiao Tianjian rolled his eyes angrily.

As soon as Li Jinde's words fell, he immediately got the approval of others. Although he did not applaud, they nodded one after another, and then looked at Xiao Tianjian with a little gloating, as if to say, "Your Holiness, just talk nonsense! There are still people who understand! Let's see how you answer this. How is this possible?

Xiao Tianjian turned dizzy. He suddenly remembered that Newton was not born at this time. This law of gravity has not appeared yet! If you follow the thinking of a normal person, Li Jinde can ask him this question at once. If this question is replaced, it is really difficult to answer! If you were an ordinary person, if you said something like this to these guys, I guess you would be beaten by these guys on the spot! Fortunately, he was the emperor, and these people did not dare to do anything to him, which made him so "euphemistically" to question him.

Xiao Tianjian took a deep breath, calmed himself down and stabilized his mood. So he reached out and took a tea bowl. As soon as he loosened his hand, the tea bowl fell to the ground and fell to pieces.

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

Li Jinde was so scared that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Your Majesty is angry! The emperor is angry! Weichen is guilty! Weichen..."

The others also knelt down in a hurry, and also kowtowed and pleaded guilty.

Xiao Tianjian rolled his eyes and waved his hand, "Excuse you for your innocence! Get up, all! I'm not a faint king, and I can't hear other people's doubts! You asked this question well. Get up and talk!

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

Li Jinde was scared enough just now. It took Shane to dare to get up after a long time. After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, whether it was Li Jinde or others, they all felt that Xiao Tianjian might be confused and asked such a childish and ridiculous question. This teacup can't fall to the ground. Is it possible that he still fly to the sky?

Li Jinde couldn't laugh or cry. After thinking for a while, he replied, "This... Weichen thought it was reasonable..."

"That's what it should be! So today I will tell you what gravity is..." Xiao Tianjian then racked his brains and collected some knowledge about gravity in his mind, and then gave a physics lesson to the literary ministers and generals in the hall as simple as possible.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, some people seem to understand more or less, and some people don't know what to say, and some people understand it as plausible. But anyway, everyone thinks that Xiao Tianjian still justified himself, and finally gave a more reasonable answer to the question asked by Li Jinde just now. .

Xiao Tianjian can't continue to tell them more about gravity. He pointed to the globe and began to play a scoundrel. Anyway, now he is the emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. What he says is what he says. Sometimes dictatorship really has a lot of benefits. Even if these guys don't believe his words, they dare not dare to say anything about him. It's wrong.

Xiao Tianjian turned this huge globe, pointed to the ministers and said, "In a word, 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 sea boat now, set out east in Ningbo Prefecture and drive all the way east. After passing through a huge sea, you will encounter a very large land! This continent is called South America and North America. It bypasses this land and continues to face east. After passing through a sea, you will meet a continent again. This is where the Thai people are located, which is called Europe! Then go south and go around here. This piece of land is called Africa! Continue to sail along here, and eventually you will return to where we are. The land where we are is called Asia! In addition, at the southernmost point, there is a piece of land covered with ice and snow, which is called Antarctica! In this place, there is also a piece of land called Oceania!

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

The world is much bigger than you think! In fact, you know very little! But now, the Taisi have set foot on almost all the land, and bypassed Africa through the Atlantic Ocean, and then entered the Indian Ocean, and from the Indian Ocean, through Manthorn, which is here, into the Southern Ocean as you know it, and then to our China!

At the earliest time, Zheng He, the eunuch of Sanbao, once led the Ming Dynasty's fleet to Africa. Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea again, which deprived our Chinese people of the opportunity to explore the other side of the world! Let the successors of the Taisi come to the top and finally set foot on every piece of land in the world! Leave their footprints!

So although I am in the new era, it is time to wait. If we miss this era, then our China will always be closed in this corner, and I'm afraid there will be no chance to stand proudly in this world from now on! Don't think I'm alarmist, because I know far more than you know!

This is also the reason why I often visit the Chinese shipyard outside the city in person in the past few months. We Chinese can't just stare at the land in front of us. In the sea, there are still a lot of very large land waiting for us to occupy and explore! On the vast sea, the benefits that can bring us are far greater than the benefits produced by our land alone now!"

The more Xiao Tianjian said, the more excited he became. He waved his arm hard and said to the ministers in the hall.

Even if the ministers don't quite understand what Xiao Tianjian said today, when they listen to Xiao Tianjian say that they want to occupy more territory for the Chinese people, whether they are literary ministers or military generals, they are quite excited. Whether they are emperors or civil and military ministers in all dynasties, as long as they are self-motivated, there is no Xiao Tianjian, who doesn't want to expand the territory for the country, as the founding emperor of the Great China Dynasty, is also gratified that they can have such ambition. What's more, Xiao Tianjian also said that in the sea, the benefits that can be brought back for the Chinese people are far greater than the land they control at present, which makes people more A kind of yearning.

When the night banquet was over, the bell on the bell tower of the imperial city had sounded, indicating that a new year had arrived. The first year of the Tianyuan Dynasty of the Dazhong Dynasty came to an end under Xiao Tianjian's generous statement.