Chapter 122: Up, South, North, Left, East, Right, West
The four treasure maps were spliced together and placed in the glass display case, looking very discordant, Fang Hong looked at it carefully, but he didn't remember anything wrong. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After looking at it for a long time, Fang Hong felt a pain in his neck and tilted his head to the left side.
That's it, a flash of inspiration!
When he bought it, Fang Hong had a flash of inspiration, but he didn't catch it, this time, Fang Hong finally saw where the problem was!
These four maps are stitched together, but at first glance it is not a map of the same area, and it feels like there is a missing striped map in the shape of a cross in the middle, and because of this lack of this, it is impossible to locate where the treasure is.
But Fang Hong spliced them together in his mind, and found that something was wrong.
If the assumption is that the four charts themselves are in the same region, then the latitude and longitude lines are too funny.
Each picture has a cross-shaped longitude and latitude line, but there is no direction, the top left of the picture, the intersection of the cross line is at the bottom right, and the cross in the upper right corner is at the bottom left, forming a small square in the middle of the four figures.
Then the question arises, if it is a standard map, there should be a line every other standard latitude and longitude scale.
Taken together, the latitude and longitude area in the middle is obviously less than one-eighth of the whole map, and it should be estimated that at least four latitude and longitude lines should be added to the map with a standard map, so that it is a standard map.
It is because of this that everyone feels that there is a key cross area missing in the middle.
Everyone felt that the pirates of the time deliberately lacked the cross area for the sake of secrecy, which made it impossible to locate it.
However, this is definitely not true, the reason is, these people are not pirates at all!
Everyone has watched Pirates of the Caribbean a lot, and they all think that it is history, but in fact, Pirates of the Caribbean is a fantasy movie.
In real history, the Spanish Armada was rampant on the sea, and Interland was still very poor and could not be the enemy of Spain, so the government of the country of Interland used the navy to organize three large pirates to rob at sea.
If in the world of 1500, Spain was the hegemon of the sea, and the Netherlands was the coachman of the sea, then Interland was the third of the sea.
But then the situation got out of control, and the pirates were loyal to Interland in the first generation, but not in the second generation.
you, I'm not your soldier, why did I rob the money for you lords?
And many poor people also joined the pirates.
Just because of this background, it proves that pirates are not a ragtag army, their diagram should be a standard standard diagram, they are the former Interland Navy, before the birth of the Interland Armada, they are invincible at sea, they are the hegemon, they will be afraid that someone will dare to find their treasure?
The answer is never!
It is absolutely impossible to look at what has already happened through the eyes of the afterlife.
Historically, Captain Kidd had absolutely no fear of any power in the Atlantic.
But what is the longitude and latitude of this chart?
At the moment when he turned his head to the side, Fang Hong suddenly had a realization, and suddenly a world-famous map sounded.
It is recognized that the world had been explored before Columbus arrived in the New World, before Magellan sailed around the world.
Because before Columbus explored the world before 1492 and fifty years ago, a map appeared in Europe, and this map is called the Atlas of Nations.
The map is correct in its depiction of the world's geographical locations, except for one point where it is wrong.
That is, in this map of that era, the people who depicted the map thought that Antarctica and Australia were connected, so there was no Australia on this map, and Antarctica was much larger, and a large section of the Pacific Ocean protruded to the north.
This map proves to be from the Ming Dynasty and was left to the world by the Ming Dynasty.
However, this map also has a sister chapter, and the sister map is more detailed, but it is not famous in the world.
The reason is that this map is up, south, down, north, left, east, right, west!
It is completely opposite to the traditional map, which is up, north, down, south, left, west, right, east!
If it fits into a complete map, of course, just reverse the direction up and down.
But what if it's a patchwork map?
What if it's a big map with four maps stitched together!
The answer is that the picture that I thought was in the upper left corner should actually be in the lower right corner!
The original upper right corner is the lower left corner, the original lower left corner is the upper right corner, and the original lower right corner is the upper left corner!
Fang Hong didn't make a noise, but took a picture with his mobile phone, and then went to his office.
You may not believe it, but this world's most valuable pirate map was stitched together on Photoshop!
In the newly stitched map, the middle part occupies most of it, which is like a map with a complete stitched map with normal latitude and longitude.
But Fang Hong corresponded to his geographical knowledge, and he couldn't think of where this was.
After thinking hard for nearly an hour, Fang Hong raised his forehead: "I'll go, what a special up, south, down, north, left, east, right, west, forget, this map is the opposite!" ”
Select all, rotate 180 degrees, this time it's right.
Looking at the map, Fang Hong fell into deep thought.
In the upper left corner, there was a large ink blot, which at first, or rather, everyone thought had been accidentally glued.
But when Fang Hong saw this ink, he subconsciously thought that this was a piece of land, and this island was on the edge of the land?
Impossible, what kind of place is this? Interland? So the location of the treasure marked on the Spanish pirates?
No, if it's Intland, then there should also be a black ink in the lower right corner, indicating that it's European.
Finally, Fang Hong remembered ninety-nine degrees, and you know.
Clicking on the search, Fang Hong found a key news.
Historically, when Kidd returned to the Caribbean and learned that he had been placed on the pirate list, he abandoned ship and went to New York to justify himself, and it is said that Kidd buried his treasure on the island of Gardenas on the western tip of Long Island before arriving in New York.
In 2000, a treasure hunting company found a treasure on the island of St. Mary in Madagascar, which was identified as the treasure of Captain Kidd. However, the amount of treasure in this treasure is not much, although it is considered to be Treasure Island, shocking the world, but there is not much gold and silver at all.
At that time, the explanation they gave was that when Captain Kidd was hanged, the Interland government recovered two million pounds worth of treasure, and under the crazy inflation, the two million pounds that year was now two billion pounds, which should be the main part of the whole treasure.
But now it doesn't look right.
The Interland government found the first treasure in the upper right corner of the four maps, and St. Mary's Island is the treasure in the lower right corner, except that St. Mary's Island happens to be a piece without cash (gold).
In Captain Kidd's time, the world had quickly changed from a silver standard world to a gold standard world, and Captain Kidd was no longer the pirate who robbed Spanish silver under the Interland organization, but a pirate who organized a robbery of the East India Company on his own.
It stands to reason that in addition to gold, in addition to those unimportant cultural relics that have been found, there should be some very important things, that is, oriental porcelain and a large amount of silver, because at that time to trade with China, or to rely on silver, although the Qing Dynasty has begun to close, but the people still have secret transactions.
Fang Hong trembled and dragged the mouse, looking at the remaining two treasure hiding locations.
One is a small unnamed island below Mauritius, and the other is an island that is not marked on the map at all.