As an old father-in-law, Julius II naturally knew the thoughts of his son-in-law Marin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 So the Pope found some other excuse to keep Marin in Rome. The specific work is mainly to correct the errors in the records of some geographical books in the collection of the Holy See.

Julius II found out that his son-in-law was definitely a scholar of geography and knew something about the whole world. Even, Julius II had to believe that the ascetic named Albert Einstein was a real sage. Because, "Einstein taught Marin" the geographical knowledge is too accurate. Although, the details may be a little unclear. However, this was judged by Julius II to be his son-in-law's lack of seriousness. Or maybe the great sage named Albert Einstein had too little time to educate his son-in-law......

How did he know that his son-in-law's geographical knowledge came from the textbooks of later generations. Because they are introductory textbooks, they are naturally not as informative as professional books. Therefore, Marin has a good grasp of geographical knowledge in general, but the details are not as precise as those of the navigators.

Marin then stayed in Rome under the pretext of "helping the Holy See revise the texts". And the first thing Marin did was to completely deny "Marco Polo's Travels". Moreover, as if writing an essay, he criticized the inaccuracies in "Marco Polo's Travels" article by article.

Of course, this paper specifically pointed out the mistakes in "The Travels of Marco Polo", but deliberately did not give a map of the world, so as not to let Britain, France and other European powers obtain information, and also open up routes to the East.

In fact, it was Marin who deliberately cooled down the "nautical fever" that was prevalent in Europe at this time. Marin argues that if the "seafaring fever" is overheated, it is inevitable that more Italian navigators, British navigators, and even French and Dutch navigators will participate in the "great geographical discoveries".

And this is obviously infringing on Marin's interests. In particular, he was afraid that the British and French would open routes over the North Atlantic, go to the east coast of America, and discover the richness there.

Therefore, Marin must cool down this "seafaring fever" so that other countries are not so keen on the great voyage.

As a result, Marin wrote in his essay - "It is impossible to find India, China, and Japan by going west." Columbus had already explored and found that the western side was obscured by the Savage Continent. As for whether it is possible to reach the east by crossing the Savage Continent, it has not yet been confirmed. But what can be confirmed is that the northernmost part of the Savage Continent is a land of ice and snow, and the sea is full of icebergs. If a wooden boat hits an iceberg, the only fate is that the ship will be wrecked and people killed. ”

"So, at the moment the only correct route to the East is the route taken by the Spaniards and the Portuguese from the south to the East."

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Of course, the main purpose of this essay is to refute the exaggeration in "The Travels of Marco Polo". Marin even cites a later historical theory that Marco Polo himself did not arrive in the East at all, but only in Persia. He heard something about the East from the mouth of a Persian merchant who had been to the East. Then, according to those rumors, they were fabricated and exaggerated, and this "Marco Polo's Travels" was born......

Marin's argument is that if the East is really as rich and full of gold as Marco Polo said, why didn't Marco Polo, who had been to the East, just pick up a few bags of gold on the ground and bring them back to Europe? As long as he does this, he will definitely become a monopoly. However, Marco Polo did not become a monopoly. Therefore, what he said is mostly exaggerated fake news. Even, it is very likely that he himself has never been to Huaxia. Because, according to the information confirmed by Einstein, China is very short of gold and silver, and there are no gold and silver coins minted, only copper coins......

Moreover, Marin swore in his paper that it was certain that there were no gold and silver coins in Huaxia, only copper coins. In order to corroborate this, Ma Lin also drew the appearance of the square hole copper coin of the Ming Dynasty in the book, and wrote on it the four square Chinese characters of "Yongle Tongbao" to prove it.

At the same time, Marin welcomes navigators to explore the Ming Empire to prove the truth of his words. If Huaxia has a large number of gold and silver coins issued by the government, he is willing to give up the title of duke......

Such a guarantee that is similar to gambling everything is convincing......

Then, in his dissertation, Marin also gave a detailed introduction to a special currency launched by the Ming Empire in order to solve the problem of lack of precious metals-treasure banknotes......

Treasure banknotes are paper money, Ma Lin introduced in detail the reasons for the appearance of treasure banknotes in the Ming Empire, and later the emperor in order to loot wealth, wantonly issued treasure money, resulting in the depreciation of treasure banknotes to a situation where no one wants. If it weren't for the Ming Empire's court forcibly converting the officials' money into treasure money, it is estimated that the treasure money would have completely become waste paper......

Unbeknownst to Marin, his description of the treasure caught the attention of King Louis XII of France. Then, the greedy king of France, also tried to issue paper money. However, because of the chaos of France's official monetary policy, and because it was too greedy to issue paper money, French paper money soon fell into disuse...... At the very least, French banknotes can't buy anything on the international market......

In addition, Marin emphasized the assertion that Japan and North Korea are both poor countries in East Asia. He also explained that these countries all needed to go to China to purchase the necessary materials, and gladly accepted the canonization of the Ming Emperor, and were complacent about some of the items that the Ming Empire rewarded them. For this reason, they did not hesitate to send envoys to "kneel and bow nine times" to the emperor of the Ming Empire on behalf of their respective kings, and expressed their submission in humiliation......

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In fact, there is no problem with Marin's statement. Because, the world-famous Iwami Silver Mountain, it was not until 1526 that a large silver vein was discovered. From then on, Japan will become a major producer of silver. Before that, although Japan produced silver, it was not very much, but copper mining was more.

Therefore, in this era, even if someone went to Japan to confirm it, it was true that Japan was rich in silver. What they saw was indeed that Japan was a poor country......

Even, in this era, North Korea was richer than Japan. Because, Korea borders the Ming Dynasty on land and has many contacts with Liaodong. This era was not the period of Jurchen rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Korea was able to smoothly conduct business with the Ming Dynasty on land. After all, Goryeo's ginseng was still very popular with the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Empire forbade the sea, it did not ban the land. Therefore, the days of North Korea at this time are much better than those of Japan.

Of course, in the paper, Marin did not write in such detail, but only introduced it to the Europeans, saying that Japan and North Korea are two countries with poor domestic materials, and many things need to be purchased from Daming. And this is a true description, even if someone confirms it, it is not afraid.

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Julius II gave great support to Marin's efforts to cool down the seafaring fever. After all, he also knew that the Americas would henceforth be the territory of his grandson, Caesar. It would not be good if it was discovered and robbed by Britain and France.

Therefore, after receiving the assurance that "these statements are definitely true", Julius II used the name of the Holy See to officially promote Marin's thesis. If it is in China in later generations, it is equivalent to making headlines in the "People's Daily" and being given the super treatment of "editor's note......