Following Wang Chengen, everyone came to the side hall next to the Qianqing Palace.

Entering the side hall was about to kneel and worship, but he did not see Zhu Youzhen here, but a huge painted map on the front of the hall attracted everyone's attention.

"Lieutenant Wang, this?"

Zhu Youzhen promised to see them, but he didn't show up, and Li Guopu didn't know what kind of medicine Zhu Youzhen was selling in his gourd for a while.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty said, let the adults take a look at the utensils in this side hall first, and Your Majesty will come later."

After Wang Chengen finished speaking, without waiting for everyone's reaction, he turned around and walked out of the main hall.

When Li Guopu and the others heard this, their faces were even more puzzled, but since the emperor had confessed, he could only obey orders, so he began to revolve around the various utensils in front of him.

"Is this the map of my Da Ming?"

Guo Yunhou was first attracted by the huge map in the hall.

Guo Yunhou had seen a lot of Daming Kun maps, so he recognized this as Daming maps at a glance, but it was the first time he had seen it because it was so big and so accurate.

And this huge Kunyu map is not the same as the previous ones, on this map, in addition to the Ming Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom in the northeast, the Mongolian tribes in the north, the Wa Kingdom in the east, and the Jiaozhi in the south are also marked together.

Although Guo Yunhou is not very familiar with these places, he still recognizes them according to their location in Daming.

And in addition to these countries, the north, west, east, and south also have larger territories, more than ten times larger than the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there is also the ocean that has been painted blue, and the huge blue water area can fit even all the land on the map.

And against the backdrop of the blue waters over there, Daming's Kunyu looks a lot smaller.

"Could this be what Westerners call the world's kunyu? Is the world really that big? ”

Guo Yunhou stared at the line of black italics-World Kunyu map directly above the map, and muttered to himself.

"The world is so big."

As soon as Guo Yunhou finished speaking, a blonde and blue-eyed old man replied.

The words startled a thousand waves, and the eyes of everyone in the hall were also attracted by this Westerner.

The Ming Dynasty was very tolerant of Westerners preaching in China, and although Westerners in the capital were not as common as later generations, they were still no strangers to high-ranking ministers.

Moreover, this old Westerner, Li Guopu and others still know that Matteo Ricci, the 'host' of the church outside Xuanwu Gate, has seen him through Xu Guangqi, Li Guopu and others.

And not only that, this foreigner who came to Daming from thousands of miles ago was once cordially received by Emperor Wanli.

As long as he has been in the court long enough, there is no one who does not know him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who is benevolent and wise, has ordered me to explain to you."

Without waiting for Li Guopu and others to ask questions, Matteo Ricci told the puzzled people about his mission here.

Matteo Ricci has come to the Ming Dynasty since the 34th year of Wanli, and it has been more than 20 years, not only the official words are very slippery, but also in addition to his blonde hair, blue eyes and high nose, only in terms of dress etiquette, Matteo Ricci is already a thorough Ming Dynasty person.

Seeing that it was Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, Li Guopu and the others didn't ask any more, and followed Matteo Ricci to look at the various utensils in the hall.

First of all, the huge map of the world, under the introduction of Matteo Ricci, everyone made up for the knowledge of world geography that they did not know before.

Of course, this map was not brought by Zhu Youzhen from the ship, but by Matteo Ricci, and was enlarged to scale by the palace painters.

The kind of accurate world map of later generations, Zhu Youzhen has several in his hand, but he can't easily show it.

Because in the early seventeenth century, the accurate map of the world was undoubtedly a huge treasure map, and once it came out, it would make huge waves, and the beneficiary was definitely not the Ming Dynasty, who did not even have a navy.

Of course, with the adventurous spirit of Westerners who are not afraid of death, Africa, the Americas, Oceania and other continents have been discovered, but only by discovery.

Westerners do not know how big these continents are and how rich their products are.

So from this map of the world at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the whole American continent is a somewhat blurred mass on the edge, and Australia is a square square.

But even so, the Ming Empire, which seemed a lot smaller on the world map, still surprised everyone.

Especially after they saw the territory of the big and small franc machines, this shock was even more dramatic.

"Lord Leigh, is this world really so big?"

Although he knew that Matteo Ricci was a Catholic priest, Li Guopu still felt that it was more catchy to be called a host.

And Matteo Ricci did not object to this, he was used to it, except for a few parishioners, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did ask him to preside over more people.

At first, he argued with others, but then he found out that these people were stubborn, so he stopped caring.

As long as I am allowed to preach in Daming, I can call it whatever I love.

In this regard, Matteo Ricci is very open.

The point is that it is not possible to see it, compared with Tianzhu and Batavia, the life of the people of the Ming Dynasty was much better, and it was not easy to preach in such a place.

The common missionary methods such as medicine and food were not very effective in the Ming Dynasty, because in the early 17th century, the Ming Dynasty's medical skills seemed to be more sophisticated than those of the West.

Therefore, at the suggestion of Xu Guangqi and other local parishioners, Matteo Ricci could only follow the local customs and make his teachings more in line with the understanding of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, hearing that the old man of the court called himself to preside, Matteo Ricci did not feel disgusted, and was able to enter the eyes of the current son of the day to popularize world knowledge to the important ministers, and Matteo Ricci was already very flattered.

And through the previous talk to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty does not object to him preaching in the capital.

To obtain the approval of His Majesty the Emperor is undoubtedly great news for Matteo Ricci, who has been in Daming for more than 20 years.

Therefore, for some assignments from the Ming court, Matteo Ricci also spared no effort to complete the district.

Whether it was the craftsmen who went to Haojing Ao to invite shipbuilding and cannon casting before, or this time he came to the palace to popularize knowledge for the important ministers of the Ming court, Matteo Ricci agreed immediately.

"If you go back to the old man, this is the world today."

Matteo Ricci replied to Li Guopu's words, seeing that he still couldn't believe it, and then pointed to the huge American continent in Dongmian and said.

"This continent was discovered by Columbus, a Genoese a century ago, and because it was funded by the little Franc man, this continent is currently occupied by the little Franc man."

"It's just that this continent is too big, and later the big Buddha Lang machine also went to sea along the route of the small Buddha Lang machine, and also occupied a lot of land from it."

"And these lands to the south, which were discovered twenty years ago when one of the Petite Franc navigators sailed around the world."

In order to better gain Zhu Youzhen's trust, Matteo Ricci introduced this world map in a knowing and endless way.

"What, circumnavigating the world? What ball to ring? ”

When Guo Yunhou heard this, he was a little puzzled.

"Yes, my lord, that's right, circumnavigating the world is circumnavigating the earth, and the land we are on is actually a sphere."

Matteo Ricci was somewhat unhappy to have a seventeenth-century Catholic admit that the earth is a ball, but for the sake of missionary cause, Matteo Ricci could only compromise.

"My lord, a hundred years ago, this was confirmed."

For the one-sided understanding of the world by some scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty, Matteo Ricci is no longer surprised.

But there is a ball at his feet, for Guo Yunhou and others, this is tantamount to a fantasy, one by one, their eyes widened, and they looked at Matteo Ricci in disbelief.