The four-wheeled carriage dragged by two horses is very brisk, with pure steel skeleton and spokes, solid rubber wheels and spring shock absorption, non-load-bearing independent frame, and steering wheel system to bring ride comfort, Zhu Shou was amazed.

Li Jing opened the table drawer in the middle, took out two cigars, cut them, and handed one to Zhu Shou, Bai Yu and Broad & Bright hurriedly lit the fire with a zipo lighter, Li Jing and Zhu Shou both skillfully held the cigar zipo The fierce flame rotated the cigar and heated it. Then they all cocked Erlang's legs and began to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog.

Bai Yu opened part of the sunroof to disperse smoke.

"Brother, this cigar seems to be different from what Sister Ling gave me, and it seems to taste better," Zhu Shou said after a while.

"It's true that the quality is much worse, the opening is cheap, after all, it's a giveaway, you won't use it too well, otherwise the cost is too high, that is a Luzon tobacco roll, this is a Cuban Havana cigar."

"Where is Cuba, and where is Havana"

Li Jing took out a piece of paper and drew it with a graphite-core pencil produced by the newly established pencil factory on Nanao Island, and a simple world map appeared on the paper, and then marked the approximate locations of Cuba, Daming, India, Dashi, and Franky.

"I'm afraid there are more than 10,000 miles from Cuba to Daming," Zhu Shou said in surprise.

"Not only that, because the road has to go around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, the actual voyage is about 35,000 kilometers, about 70,000 miles of the Ming Dynasty, and the ship has to sail at sea for more than a year." Li Jing immediately drew the approximate route with a pencil.

Zhu Shou and Shi Ze were stunned, although they had seen the globe before, they didn't have an intuitive feeling, it turned out that this world was so big.

"Then how old am I?" Zhu Shou couldn't help but ask,

"The Ming Dynasty actually controls only the thirteen provinces and a small part of the southernmost part of Liaodong, about a little more than three million square kilometers, about the same size as India." Li Jing said and drew the map symbol of the Great Wall, "It is the place inside the Great Wall." Plus a little Liaodong"

"And how big is the world?"

"The total area of the world, i.e. the Earth's surface area, is 510.072 million square kilometres, of which about 29.2 per cent, or 148.94 million square kilometres, is land and the remaining 70.8 per cent, or 361.132 million square kilometres, is water. It is about one-fiftieth of the world's land area. Of course, two-thirds of the land area is currently borderless, or simply inhabited. In fact, the Ming Dynasty is already the largest, most populous and most abundant country. ”

This is even more Zhu Shou and Broad & Bright, who couldn't hold their tongues, it turned out that this world was so big and Daming was so small. I don't know how many nations and races, how many civilizations and countries there are under the sky, and the original high-mindedness no longer exists.

"You see, this is the Franco-Robot region, called Europe," Li Jing said, drawing Europe as a diagonal line to the left. Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Venice, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Ruidan and Russia are identified.

"This is a Muslim region," Li Jing paints a diagonal line to the right in North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Southeast Asia. Identified as the state of Lumi (Ottoman Turkish Empire) "They were Turkic people, who were driven out of China during the Tang Dynasty. ”

The Arab region and Persia are then identified.

Then, in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, Zheng He's routes and cities were marked, with emphasis on the Indian states and the vassals of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Asia, as well as Korea and Japan, Liaodong and Mongolia.

"Listening to my brother's words is better than reading a book for ten years, and today I really have opened my eyes to the world. The world is so big, I really want to go and take a look, and give me this three-foot picture."

"No problem, I'll give you a finely drawn map of the Ming Dynasty and the world, and then write a book, specifically talking about the customs of various places, national history, religious beliefs, beasts and trees, natural resources, mountains and rivers, climate change, etc., this is a separate science, called geography."

"Great, my brother is really my mentor and friend, I am really lucky to meet my brother," Zhu Shou said excitedly.

At this moment the carriage stopped, and the coachman and the guard respectfully opened the door, and the bargain shop had arrived.

There was an ox cart parked at the door, which was full of the Longfu Temple business district for this shopping trip, and the women were fighting hard to lay down the country. Li Jing sighed. I have to marry my two sisters out quickly, it's too much of a loser.

Zhu Shou is also the first time to come to the cheap shop, looking at this inconspicuous shop in the rice market alley, the façade of the three rooms. There are five deep rooms, the first floor is a loose seat, and the second floor is a private seat. In front of the door are the guards of Li Jing's family, and it seems that the store has been packed. Li Jing and the others went directly to the second floor. The guards of the Ma family, the Li family, the Zhang family, and Zhu Shou all sat downstairs, each sitting in one piece.

"Little brother, come and see if the Suzhou embroidered shawl I bought, it looks good." Li Wei'er pulled Li Jing and turned around in front of his eyes, Li Wei'er's improved cheongsam already set off her temperament, plus this Su embroidered shawl is even more beautiful, people are more beautiful than flowers, and Zhu Shou was stunned. Where did Li Jing dare to say that it was not good-looking, to touch the moldy heads of these two female insects, and hurriedly said: "It's so good-looking, it seems that it was born to be custom-made for my sister,"

Li Wei'er raised her eyebrows, and she was as white as Li Jing, and Zhu Shou was stunned and almost drooled when she saw it. Li Yue'er kicked Zhu Shou lightly and said, "Idiot, what's the wait, it's not good-looking?"

Zhu Shou was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Good-looking, good-looking, the two girls wear this shawl, like fairies descending to earth."

Li Wei'er and Li Yue'er blushed, and they collectively gave him a blank look. Zhu Shou felt that the bones in his body were lighter.

Li Jing hurriedly pulled Zhu Shou into the table, so as not to let him be tossed by these two little devils.

A large round table sat Li Jing, Zhu Shou, the Ma family brothers and sisters, Zhang Fengyi and Li Jing's two sisters. Eight people are just right. Four maidservants waited around. Li Jing gave the four maids a small square table next to him and asked them to eat next to him.

The old shopkeeper hurriedly came over to serve diligently, although the cheap shop has been around for more than 200 years, but it is not a first-class restaurant in the capital, it is just distinctive. Today, the big customer came, and he directly left the official silver bag of 50 taels and 1 ingots to go to the restaurant for one night, and returned more and made up for less at the checkout. What good wine and good food as much as possible.

"Distinguished guests, although the shop is not big, but the capital is a time-honored brand, the store was founded in Yongle 14 years (1416), to say that this roast duck can have a long history, as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the "Food Treasures" that there is a dish of "roasted duck". After I built the capital of Jinling in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial palace chef used Nanjing's fat and meaty lake duck to make dishes. In order to increase the flavor of the duck dish, the chef uses charcoal fire to bake, and the duck is crispy and fragrant after the dish, fat but not greasy, praised by the nobles, and named "Jinling Roast Duck" by the palace. Emperor Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, and the roast duck technology was also brought to Beijing, and the small shop was brought to Beijing at that time, which was run by a retired imperial chef and modified the taste according to the north, making this "Beijing roast duck" name. ”

"Your shopkeeper is right, this roast duck is indeed from the Nanjing Palace, I have eaten it at the imperial banquet" Zhu Shou said, "Shopkeeper, what good wine do you have here." There is also a royal sake. ”

"Oh, this lord, you are a connoisseur, don't say it, don't look at the small shop compared to the big restaurants outside the front door, but the wine is dominant. Our family has a good "wine under the corridor". The folds on the old shopkeeper's face were all smiling like a chrysanthemum.

Most of the court wine in the Ming Dynasty was made according to the brewing method handed down from the Song and Yuan dynasties, but this does not mean that there was no innovation in the Ming Dynasty winemaking. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the brewing method of "Langxia Inner Liquor", which was popular in the capital, came from the imperial court.

It turned out that near the back wall of the imperial wine room of the Ming Palace, there used to be "jujube trees, which are actually very sweet and crisp." The elders make wine with their own koji and sell goods for a living", "the so-called 'wine in the corridor' is also", this kind of jujube wine made by the palace eunuchs was spread outside the palace.

"The wine in the corridor is not good, and it is not a real imperial wine, autumn dew white, lotus stamen, bergamot soup, osmanthus brew, chrysanthemum pulp, hibiscus liquid, orchid drink, gold plate dew, etc., you can have it in this store" Zhu Shou inadvertently showed the posture of the superior, shook the folding fan, and said leisurely.

"Oh, my lord, you are really a big expert, what you said, the little old man has just smelled it, let alone drinking, he can't smell it." The old shopkeeper is also a wonderful person, and he called the sky bending.

"What's so difficult about this, it's just a few bottles of wine, Broad & Bright, send someone to my house to get two bottles." Zhu Shou said very chicly, and immediately received a table of cheers, and all the women applauded excitedly. Zhu Shou's face is full of red light, and Bei'er has face.