Everyone looked at Liu Jin with red eyes, wanting to continue to listen to Liu Jin talk about the world outside the Ming Dynasty.

However, Liu Jin had a dry mouth at this time, drinking tea slowly and taking a breath.

"And what is the place east of the Golden Continent, Europe, west of Africa, north of Siberia, and south of the South Seas of Australia?"

"What's so special about these places?"

Lin Shuhong thought for a while and asked Liu Jin.

This question is also a concern of everyone present, at this time, everyone has already whetted their appetites, and they really want to continue to listen to Liu Jin's lectures, and listen to what treasures there will be in the wider world.

"yes, hurry up and continue to talk to us, didn't you just say that you all know that this hasn't answered his question yet?"

The others also followed suit, and none of them had the intention of leaving, and they all wanted to continue listening.

"If this golden continent continues to the east, it is the Atlantic Ocean, which is as vast as the Pacific Ocean, and after this Atlantic Ocean continues to the east, it will reach Europe and Africa."

Liu Jin smiled and pointed to the map and said.

"It's... Isn't the Golden Continent in the east, Europe and Africa in the west, and it's going all the way to the east, walking, walking, how did you get to Europe and Africa? ”

When everyone heard this, they were all dumbfounded.

In the traditional concept of geography, the sky is round, and the place is square, how can it be possible to go all the way to the east, and walk and walk to the west.

"Do you mean that if we go eastward in unison, we can also reach Europe and Africa, and then pass through Africa and Europe and the Western Regions, and then return to our Daming?"

Lin Shuhong's eyes widened in disbelief, and he thought about it and asked.

"Well, that's right, your brain is quite good, this goes all the way to the east, and eventually it will return to our Daming, and in the same way, this goes all the way to the west, and it will also return to our Daming again, and the same goes to the north and south."

Liu Jin looked at Lin Shuhong, but he didn't expect that this scholar's head was still saved, and he didn't read stupidly.

"It's impossible, how can you go all the way to the west and finally return to the original point, it's impossible, you're talking nonsense from beginning to end."

When Lin Shuhong heard this, he immediately shook his head again and again, and then stared at Liu Jin with his eyes and said.

"yes, it's ridiculous, I see how you can justify it."

The businessman who originally got up to answer Daming's crop yield also stood up and said.

"The sky is round, the sky is round, the earth is square, our Ming is the center of heaven and earth, it is really ridiculous!"

Tong Yuan couldn't help but say sharply.

"What will go all the way from the southeast, northwest, and northwest to the original point, so what is the world we live in?"

Huang Jinquan also said, I really can't think of what this world will be like.

"Absolutely, because we live on a giant ball."

Liu Jin looked at everyone's angry looks, smiled and stood up and said, then took off the white cloth, and slowly wanted to make the white cloth into a spherical shape, but the white cloth was too soft.

"Little Er, please bring some hay over."

Liu Jin thought for a while, and instructed the stunned shopkeeper who was watching from the side.

The shopkeeper looked at Liu Jin, and then looked at his shopkeeper, who glared at the shopkeeper and said, "Why don't you go and get it quickly." ”

"We live on a huge ball, how is that possible, how big does this ball have to be?"

"What's more, how can we live on a ball in this round world?"

Lin Shuhong shook his head again and again, Liu Jin's words had exceeded everyone's cognition, too much, too much, it was really hard to believe.

"On top of a ball?"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he vaguely remembered an ancient book he had read, which seemed to say the same thing, saying that the earth under his feet might be a ball, but he couldn't remember the name of the book for a while.

Ancient astronomers also had extremely powerful people, and these people were able to discover some laws and deduce some things through their own observation of astronomy and geography for many years.

"It's not hard to prove that we live on the same ball."

Liu Jin looked at the bell tower in the distance and said to everyone: "When we see the mountains and rivers in the distance in a flat and open place, have you noticed that all we see first are the peaks of the mountains, and as the distance gets closer and closer, we can slowly see the mountainside, and we can see the foot of the mountain when we are closest." ”

"Have you ever thought carefully about why when we stand in the distance, we see the top first, and then we see the bottom when we get closer?"

"If the world we live in is really round, the earth should be flat, and when we look at things from a distance, we should see all the top and bottom at once."

Everyone listened to Liu Jin's words, looked at the bell tower in the distance, and then connected to the scene when they saw the mountain in the distance before, and suddenly their eyes widened, and they all thought about it.

"That's right, it's true, it's all about seeing the mountain peaks first, then the mountainside, and finally the bottom of the mountain."

"yes, but why is that?"

One by one, everyone fell into deep thought, frowning bitterly.

"Because the ground is not flat, it is an arc."

The clear-eyed young man rolled his eyes, seemed to think of something, and immediately shouted loudly.

"That's right, you're very right, and you're very smart, and you immediately thought of the key point."

When Liu Jin heard this, he gave a thumbs up to this young man, he was really very smart.

At this time, the shopkeeper also walked up with a pile of hay, and the whole person was out of breath, as if he was in a hurry, for fear of missing the wonderful content.

"Thank you, little second brother."

Liu Jin threw out a dozen copper coins as a reward, and then began to knead the hay into a large ball, and finally wrapped the white cloth that had just drawn the map, and a simple globe was made.

"Look, this is the ball we live in, we can call it the earth, this is our Daming, this is the Golden Continent, this is the South Seas, Australia, this is Europe and Africa."

"If we go all the way east, we first reach Korea and Japan, then we come to the west coast of the Golden Continent, and then we follow the coastline all the way south to the southernmost part of the Golden Continent, and then we cross the Atlantic Ocean and then we come to Africa and Europe."

Liu Jin asked Zhao Erhu to hold a simple globe, and he continued to scribble on it with a brush, outlining a voyage around the world.