Luoyang.

Jia Runfu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, accompanied the emperor to look at the map in the Map Pavilion of the Guanwen Palace, which stored maps of all parts of the world known to the Great Qin, some of which were left by previous dynasties and some were drawn by this dynasty. There are people from the Jinyi Guard, people from the Imperial City Division, people from the Ministry of War, and many merchants who make them.

Countless maps and related information such as mountains, rivers, geography, customs, and people are gathered together, and these information are screened by top craftsmen, and then summarized and refined into maps and sand tables.

This pavilion can be called one of the top core secrets of Great Qin.

On one table, there is even a beautiful copper spherical instrument with many place names and many mountains and rivers drawn on it.

"Luoyang, Chang'an, Jincheng, Wuwei, Zhangye, Dunhuang, Yiwu, Gaochang, Yanqi, Qiuzi······ God, is this true, we live on a ball? ”

"Well, according to the known speculation, the world we live in is indeed a huge ball, which is no different from the sun and moon we usually see, they are all spherical, and even those shining stars at night are actually balls, the brighter the stars are closer to us, and the moon is the closest to us."

"What about the sun?"

"Various planets are also divided into different types, for example, the sun is a huge fireball that breathes fire day and night, which is difficult for human beings to live in, and the moon is also a barren planet, in this piece of planet we call the Milky Way, only the earth ball under our feet is known to be suitable for us human survival, there is air and water, ·······"

Lao Jia thought it was crazy.

But looking at the sign on the big earth, I think it's possible.

Because he not only saw Luoyang, Chang'an, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, but also saw the Tianshan Mountains, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Kunlun Sea, Tianzhu Sea and the Persian Sea.

And the north of Tianzhu, beyond a big snow-capped mountain is Tubo, to the north of Persia, is Tocharo, and then Zhaowu Jiu, and then to the Tianshan Mountains.

Went around and came back.

However, on this big copper ball, there are still many lines that are simply outlined, without any text, and in some places, there is only a blank space.

"This is the Arctic ice field, here is the Antarctic ice field, over there is the wild continent, here is also the great wilderness land in the sea, there is a black country south of the Taixi countries, blacker than Kunlunnu."

"How did Your Majesty know this?" Lao Jia asked.

"I have countless eyes and ears to find unknown places for me. I believe that one day, I, the adventurers of Great Qin, will be able to explore every corner of the earth. For example, not long ago, Shixin personally led an adventurous caravan to the north along the coast, and they found other people except for the Ya tribes, in the depths of the Northeast Pole outside the Guan, in addition to the Heishui Ya tribes, there are many more primitive and backward barbaric tribes, Shi Xin found out that there are the country of driving Du Mei, the country of wandering ghosts, and the country of Yasha. ”

"Shixin said that the country of flowing ghosts will go to Chang'an for fifteen thousand miles!"

Lao Jia exclaimed, "The Devil is six thousand miles northeast of Beijing, doesn't that mean that this ghost of the Flowing Country is still nine thousand miles away from the Spirit?" Isn't that an exaggeration? ”

"What is there to exaggerate, Chang'an to Sunset Country, there are thousands of miles away, and Luoyang to Kangju, isn't it more than 10,000 miles?"

"Also, I really can't imagine it, I thought that the black water elbow behind the Baishan Mischief was the farthest tribe in the northeast, but I didn't expect that there was a tribe thousands of miles away."

Shixin took the fleet to the north and ventured to the north in person, befriending many tribes along the way, establishing trade relations and setting up trading points to exchange goods from the Central Plains for their furs and herbs.

The further north you go, the better your fur is.

"To the north of Shixin is the country of the Yakshas, and on all three sides it is to the sea, and to the east, there are archipelagos. After the archipelago, another wild ice field continent was found, and there was a "Yaksha" in the north of the wandering ghost, "everyone has a pig tooth sticking out, and the people are sucking out" and passing through the Channel Islands, arriving at the wild ice field in the east, where the people drive long-haired dogs and are good at hunting whales. ”

Luo Cheng was also amazed by Shixin's adventure, which actually reached the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Chukotka Peninsula in later generations, and even crossed the Bering Strait to the east and arrived in Alaska.

Shixin said that those people have no bureaucratic law, do not know the four seasons, have the benefit of salt and fish, and have no castles.

"Heishui (Heilongjiang) northwest has Simu Ya, due north and ten miles to the east, there is a county Li Ya. Ten miles in the northeast, there are caves to say that the elbow, ten miles in the southeast, there are all the indigenous tassels. ”

In the past, the Central Plains only knew that this was the territory of the Ya tribes for the far northeast, and there were Su Mo Ya, Baishan Ya, Heishui Ya, and the distant places were all classified as the Heishui Zhubu. But now Shixin has figured out that in the Heishui River Basin, in addition to the Heishui Yak, there are also four major Devil tribes, and farther away, there are three kingdoms such as Wandering Ghosts and Yakshas, and further to the east, there is also an ice and snow wild world, where there lives a group of people who drive dogs and hunt whales, and the corners of their mouths are stuffed with animal teeth for decoration.

"The world is so big, it's really amazing!" Lao Jia sighed.

"Yes, Shixin has brought back a lot of magical things this time, and he is crossing the sea with a treasure boat, and he wants to come to Luoyang to pay tribute." Luo Cheng smiled, "Shixin also invited some envoys from the five major Yaksha tribes near the Heishui River, as well as several countries such as Yaksha and Wandering Ghosts, and I am going to confer on them the title of prince or tribal leader, and include them in the tributary system of my Great Qin." ”

Lao Jia smiled, "Your Majesty, those places are too far away, right?" ”

"If you are afraid of anything from afar, you can include it first, and then you can set up an embassy, send envoys, and then establish a trade point. Although these places are remote, backward and wild, there are still a lot of good things. There are sea and river transportation, in fact, they are not afraid of far, as long as they slowly master the trade routes, no matter how far they are. ”

Take the goods produced in the Central Plains, such as silk, cloth, porcelain, tea, wine, etc., to exchange those sea otter skins, beaver skins, whale skins, sea lions, seals, manatees, seals, tiger skins, mink and other precious furs, these furs can be processed into leather clothes and hats, in the Central Plains, they are deeply loved by the nobles and riches, the market for this thing is big and profitable, and the leather clothes and hats can also be exported to foreign trade, and there is a very good market.

Of course, it is worth going thousands of miles to open up, and even in Luo Cheng's view, opening the way with the fur trade economy will gradually guide the Central Plains to understand those wild places, and there will inevitably be trade points in the future, there will be some coastal ports, and then there will definitely be Central Plains people to establish trading points in the past, and then there will be people stationed there, and then there will be Tunpu market towns, and gradually there will be more hard-working and brave Central Plains people in the past.

In the future, there will be development and colonization, and in the long run, this is to be one step ahead and gain an early foothold.

And when the fur trade is done well, the profits in it are indeed extremely attractive.

In comparison, it would be a great deal to give those barbarian chieftains the title of duke.

Luo Cheng has even asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to start preparations for the formation of a new merchant fleet to run this fur route.

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