"What is this?"

After Gu Xu spread out the kraft paper, he was stunned when he saw the things on the paper. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Huo Sining turned his head, and his gaze fell on the brown paper along Gu Xu's gaze, and he was also stupid.

Since going to school, Huo Sining has been exposed to the history of the Ming Dynasty, where several generations of emperors have been arrogant and complacent.

Self-sufficient countries are still immersed in the dream of a great power, but they do not know that outside the country, the Renaissance, the development of science and technology, and the progress of astronomy, physics and chemistry are advancing rapidly, and they have sharpened their knives and wanted to touch this fertile land of the East.

Zheng He, the first to bravely step out of the country to the world, drew a map of the sea line to the West, leaving a mark for himself in the history, but unfortunately, in that feudal era, his behavior was not understood.

In the self-contained, self-righteous and self-righteous dynasty, Zheng He's behavior seemed to show his incompetence, the trip to the West was considered to be a waste of money and money, no benefit, Zheng He's navigation chart was also regarded as a crime that brought disaster to the country and the people, and was burned by the upright but short-sighted minister of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of this historical fact, not only Huo Sining, but also people who know a little bit of history will grit their teeth with hatred for the person who ordered the burning of the chart.

What an important move to open up the country, and it was ruined like this.

Huo Sining always thought that Zheng He was the first person in the history of Chinese navigation, and in Huo Sining's heart, his status could even be compared with Columbus.

But now seeing the brown paper in Gu Xu's hand, Huo Sining realized that she was wrong, very wrong.

No, it's not just that she is wrong, the world is wrong, the first person to go to the West is not Zheng He, but Shen Wansan!

Huo Sining thought that this red lacquerware was used to hide people's eyes and ears, in order to cover the white agate wine glass of grapes under the moon, but after she saw the agate cup, she completely ignored the brown paper wrapped in this agate cup.

As a result, now seeing the brown paper that Gu Xu spread out, Huo Sining's mind buzzed, and it was blank in an instant.

Although it is only a piece of kraft paper that is no more than half a meter square, it marks all kinds of navigation routes very clearly.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was not like now, there were aerial recorders and satellite maps, which could monitor everything on the earth at all times.

Especially in the context of closed and backward thinking at that time, Shen Wansan wanted to go to sea and conduct maritime trade, not only to take great risks, but also to withstand huge pressure to establish good relations with various departments, which was definitely not a simple matter.

Huo Sining remembered reading in a book of materials, the sea is vast, such as North Korea, Ryukyu, Luzon, Penghu and other dotted dots, and China around the sea, during the Ming Dynasty, Portugal, Spain and other countries rushed to the Ming Dynasty to worship, with Penghu, Taiwan as the base to take root, a stay is hundreds of years, relying on the smuggling trade.

How did Shen Wansan's huge wealth come about? It is recorded in the history books that an analysis of the world economic pattern at that time showed that Shen Wansan earned a huge fortune by engaging in foreign trade. Even after he was sent to Yunnan, he used the Ancient Tea Horse Road to continue international trade.

When Shen Wansan was running his family business in Zhouzhuang, he often traveled to and from the sea, and he drew a nautical chart with the name and direction of the ******, which was later passed on to the descendants of Shen Fu.

Shen Fu walked along the road that Shen Wansan walked, and had a detailed witness record of the situation and location around the island, and wrote the famous "Six Records of Floating Life", which became ironclad evidence that ****** belonged to China.

Now looking at the kraft paper in Gu Xu's hand, Huo Sining looked at it again and again, afraid that this thing would be fake, and deliberately used the eye of heaven to see through, seeing that the purple aura shrouded in this kraft paper was the same as that of the white agate wine glass, Huo Sining was sure in his heart that this thing should also be left by Shen Wansan.

However, the record in the history books should not be wrong, since Shen Wansan left the navigation chart to his descendants, why did he still save his back hand, and drew such a picture to hide it together with this cup, what is the intention of this?

Huo Sining couldn't figure out the problem, so he simply focused on this brown paper, since he couldn't guess Shen Wansan's intentions, let's take a look at this nautical chart.

On this small drawing, Huo Sining is very familiar with the navigation route, which is the sea route from Suzhou City to the Persian Gulf and European countries, that is, the maritime Silk Road recorded in the history books.

However, in addition to the nautical route, Hosining is more concerned with the text part of this drawing.

On one side of the drawing, there are also a lot of annotations, which not only write the people's customs, politics, regions and other precious information of the countries along the way, but also have detailed information about maritime transportation and supplies, maritime communication and so on.

How much effort and cost does it take for a businessman, starting from nothing, to draw up such a nautical chart?

Seeing this map, Huo Sining's mood is complicated, if this is Shen Wansan's business kingdom, then this map is enough to get a glimpse of the whole leopard, but such an excellent business genius who is almost against the sky, but was strangled in the cradle by the Ming Emperor, how can it not be embarrassing?

Forget it, what makes Huo Sining feel even more sorry is that a small Yin businessman can do it like this, and Zheng He, who uses official power to do it, is definitely better than Shen Wansan.

That means that the nautical chart that Zheng He burned shortly after he went to the Western Ocean is more detailed than the one in front of her, and it is also more valuable for historical commemoration and research.

Huo Sining boldly guessed in his heart that if the nautical chart had not been burned, but had been taken seriously by the superiors, perhaps Huaxia could have participated in the Industrial Revolution, and then there would have been no subsequent invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and there would have been no turmoil and war in the following decades?

Thinking of this, Huo Sining had a feeling of suffocation in his heart, that fire burned not only a nautical chart, but an opportunity for a great power to rise and lead the world for decades.

Of course, these can only be thought about, and now that they have become a reality, they can only sigh in the bottom of their hearts.

Huo Sining thought regretfully, his eyes fell on this drawing, and suddenly noticed that there was an ink-colored dot on the navigation route on this drawing. (To be continued.) )