Chapter 33, Digging the Pit

Liu Jin looked at the pride on the faces of the people around him, although this pride seemed to Liu Jin to be a bit of a feeling of sitting in a well and watching the sky, but thinking of later generations, Huaxia had suffered a hundred years of humiliating history, and the once proud backbone was almost broken, so that there were too many, too many people who admired foreigners, felt inferior and ashamed.

Such a strong sense of pride and self-confidence is difficult to see in my own era, but in this era, everyone is full of this kind of look, a pair of I am a bull fork, I am the first in the world, and I am the best in the world.

"Maybe I should do something about it."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin couldn't help but think like this in his mind.

"What? You can't tell, can you? ”

Lin Shuhong looked at Liu Jin, who was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but smile and said again.

"yes, I can't tell."

The other diners also laughed, ready to see Liu Jin's joke and see how Liu Jin answered.

"After all, it's just a little clever, and it's hard to become a big climate."

The extraordinary middle-aged man looked at Liu Jin, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes, he originally thought that this young man could have any special opinions, but now it seems that he is just playing smart.

"Who said I don't know."

Liu Jin, who came back to his senses, immediately replied.

"Shopkeeper, please go buy a white cloth and come over, and I'm preparing pen, ink, paper, and inkstone."

Then Liu Jin took out a tael of silver from his hand and instructed the shopkeeper who was watching the excitement.

"Okay, guest officer, wait a minute, I'll be back soon."

The shopkeeper took the silver, handled things very neatly, and went straight downstairs.

At this time, there are more and more visitors gathered in the entire Moon Tower, everyone has heard that there are a few scholars upstairs who are competing for something, it is very exciting, this is not too much to see the excitement, even the shopkeeper of the Moon Tower is also smiling while entertaining guests while waiting for the following.

Hearing Liu Jin's answer, everyone who originally wanted to see the joke waited very patiently, some of them had already finished eating, and there was a good show to watch, so they ordered a few more side dishes, a pot of good tea, and some wine, and continued to wait slowly.

"I'd like to see what he can say."

The middle-aged man who was originally disappointed was about to leave, there were many people, and there were always many people, but when he heard Liu Jin's words, he also returned to his desk and waited patiently.

As for the young man next to him, he showed a strong interest, and seemed to be eager to know the situation west of the Western Regions, north of Tatar and Warat, south of Annam, south of Siam, and east of the Korean Wa Kingdom, but his teacher had never taught this knowledge.

Everyone didn't wait too long, the shopkeeper was very efficient, and soon walked up with a white cloth, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"I'm tired."

Liu Jin directly spread out this white cloth, picked up the brush and began to draw on the white cloth, the audience was very curious, and some even stood on tiptoe to see what Liu Jin was painting.

"Huzi, hang it up."

Soon, Liu Jin put down the brush in his hand and instructed Zhao Erhu.

"Hmm~"

When Zhao Erhu heard this, he picked up the white cloth and hung it on a pillar, and suddenly everyone saw what Liu Jin had painted on the white cloth, which was a picture of Kanyu.

"Everyone, please see, this is the Ming Dynasty, this is the Yellow River, this is the Yangtze River, Beijing is here, Nanjing is here, the north is Tatar and Warat, the east is Korea and the Wa Kingdom, and the sea, the south is the 100,000 mountains, Annam, Siam, and the Western Regions in the west."

Liu Jin looked at Kanyu and pointed out several main points one by one.

"This map is a good drawing, quite accurate."

The middle-aged man carefully looked at the map drawn by Liu Jin, nodded and thought.

"Yes, Brother Liu's Kanyu drawings are very accurate, and there is not much difference from what I have seen."

Lin Shuhong looked at it carefully, and also nodded and said.

"Alright, I'll answer the question I just asked."

"There is a North Sea (that is, Lake Baikal) in the Tatar and Warat regions, and everyone should know that Su Wu went to the North Sea during the Han Dynasty."

"But the North Sea is not actually a sea, it is just a lake, and north of the North Sea is a very vast plain, we can call it the Siberian Plain, and the climate here is very cold, and more than half of the year is spent in ice and snow."

"It's uninhabited, it's very sparsely populated, and only a handful of hardy races can survive here, they're the Tungusic people, the Tunguska don't grow food, they live by hunting, they don't have their own writing, they don't have their own civilization."

"Although the weather here is cold, it is impossible to grow crops, but the resources are extremely rich, with a large number of gold, silver, copper, iron ore, and all kinds of precious animal skins, which can be worth hundreds or thousands of silver in our Ming Dynasty at will."

Liu Jin also took a brush to write and draw on the white cloth while speaking, explaining the situation on the Siberian Plain in detail.

"Let's talk about the east side, we all know a little bit about Korea and the Japanese country, these two are our vassal states, I will pick the Japanese country to talk about it, the Japanese country and North Korea are separated by a Korean strait, although it is an island country, there are many islands, and there are many earthquakes and typhoons."

"In everyone's impression, the Wa country also belongs to the wild land outside the country, very barren and poor, but in fact, the resources of the Wa country are very rich, not to mention anything else, there is a place called Iwami in the Wa country, there is a Iwami silver mine here, this silver mine may contain more than hundreds of millions of taels, and it is extremely easy to mine."

Liu Jin continued to write and draw on the white cloth, and when it was said that the silver mine contained hundreds of millions of taels of silver, everyone present couldn't help but gasp, and then their eyes widened, and they couldn't believe Liu Jin's words at all.

"This is impossible, how can there be so much silver in the world, hundreds of millions of taels of silver, we don't have much silver in total."

Someone immediately shook his head and said, feeling that Liu Jin was bragging nonsense and talking nonsense.

"Yes, how can a silver mine have hundreds of millions of taels of silver, then wouldn't the Japanese have already been rich and flowing, why bother to harass us Daming again."

Someone followed suit.

"Hundreds of millions of taels of silver? Is there really such a place in the Wa Kingdom? ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, his eyes were also wide open, and he looked in disbelief, and looked at the white-haired middle-aged man behind him, and the other party also looked incredulous, obviously not knowing about it.