Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that he originally wanted to do a good deed for the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling in front of his queen mother's sister, but instead he cheated the two brothers, and couldn't help but hurriedly said: "What the queen mother said is that these two uncles are still very ignorant, but this is also a piece of their mind, you can accept it, at least this statue of the Virgin Mary must be accepted." ”

"This is the Virgin of Xiyi? Looking very kind, the mourning family will accept it", Empress Dowager Zhang nodded with a smile, and at this time, the eunuch Gao Feng hurriedly ran in: "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, Marquis Jianchang has returned to Beijing!" ”

……

Jianchang Marquis Zhang Yanling has indeed returned to Beijing.

However, because the fleet he sailed around the world was under the control of the Ministry of War, he still had to come to the Ministry of War to hand it over.

Although this round-the-world voyage caused Zhang Yanling to lose a lot of people, Zhang Yanling at this time was still only excited after calming down.

"Wang Butang, Ben Hou really didn't lie to you! The earth is indeed a sphere, and the place where we live should indeed be called the earth! Really, Ben Hou is now completely convinced! ”

Zhang Yanling stomped his foot and walked up in the main hall of the military department: "No, Ben Hou has to tell His Majesty this, not just tell Your Majesty, Ben Hou wants to tell the whole world that the earth is indeed a ball, we live on a ball, it is really the earth!" ”

Wang Shouren, the secretary of the Ministry of War, saw that Zhang Yanling was like a person with madness, so he had to hurriedly persuade: "Marquis Jianchang, you take a sip of tea first, don't worry, your fleet really keeps moving forward, and then walks back?" ”

"Ben Hou really didn't lie to you, Wang Butang, you must believe Ben Hou, Ben Hou didn't expect this result, but it is true, Ben Hou has worked hard to discover a lot of new continents, but after crossing a slim sea, he did arrive at my Daming Sea (the South Seas are called Daming Sea on the whole map of Kunyu Wanguo, so it is written here)!"

"Ben Hou didn't expect such a thing to happen, but that's the case, this earth is indeed a round ball, if it weren't for Ben Hou personally going on such a trip, Ben Hou wouldn't believe it!"

Zhang Yanling sat down and kept shaking his head.

And Wang Shouren was a little suspicious of Zhang Yanling's influence, but he still couldn't help asking: "Jianchanghou, even if what you said is true, then why didn't we fall on this ball, especially the people or other things on the other side of the ball, why didn't they fall?" ”

Ben Hou also wondered! Ben Hou doesn't understand what is going on, why the people at the bottom of the ball don't fall, why the sea water doesn't flow out, many Ben Hou can't figure it out, but what Ben Hou can be sure of is that the ground is a round ball! ”

Zhang Yanling was talking, Xia Yan also walked in at this time, and when he saw Zhang Yanling, he was surprised and threw the military department documents on the ground: "Marquis Jianchang, when did you come back?" You didn't sail any further? ”

"Why! Xia Shilang! You came just in time, Ben Hou has something to say to you, Ben Hou has been moving forward since he separated from you in Ceuta, first crossed a sea (Atlantic), wandered for a long time, died of sixteen or seventeen people, but really found a new continent, really found the kind of sweet potato that His Majesty said, and brought back a lot of spices, and then continued to sail, this time it was another sea, and drifted for a longer time (South Pacific), even Ben Hou was seriously ill, but just when Ben Hou felt that his group of people were going to die at sea, But I found my Ming ship, at that time, Ben Hou was happy and shocked, happy that he finally had the opportunity to return to my Middle Earth, shocked that it turned out that this earth is really a round ball, starting from a place and going forward can really walk back! ”

When Zhang Yanling said this, Xia Yan, who had sailed with Zhang Yanling for a period of time, was naturally convinced, and couldn't help but be very shocked: "It seems that the earth is indeed a sphere, and the place where we live should indeed be called the earth!" ”

"Unaccompanied!"

Xia Yan said and ran out.

Seeing this, Wang Shouren hurriedly shouted: "Xia Shilang, where are you going?" ”

"Go to Kyoto Normal University! If the place where we live is really the earth, then the model of the earth made by His Majesty is real! The next official has to go and see it again! ”

As Xia Yan spoke, he hurriedly instructed an official of the military department: "Bring the navigation materials of the father-in-law of Sanbao back then, and go to Jingshi University with this official!" ”

Seeing this, Zhang Yanling was also interested, and hurriedly followed: "Xia Shilang, wait for Ben Hou, Ben Hou will go with you!" ”

……

An hour later.

In front of a wooden globe, Xia Yan, Zhang Yanling, and Wang Wensu all stared intently at the globe.

"Jianchang Hou, we live on the earth, is it true?" Wensu, the current wine festival king of Beijing Normal University, asked Zhang Yanling.

Zhang Yanling nodded: "It's true!" I just don't know if this sea and land are really the same as those on this globe. ”

"It's the same, the voyage record of the Three Treasures Gonggong is combined with the voyage record of this official, plus your record of the Marquis of Jianchang, the place you have experienced is exactly the same as the land and sea mark on the globe of Your Majesty, after we originally crossed Manraka (Malacca) from the Daming Sea, we should have entered the Indian Ocean, and then bypassed Cape Verde and entered the Atlantic Ocean, you see, the sea that the Marquis of Jianchang first crossed alone should be the Atlantic Ocean, and then the place where you landed should be the Americas, Then the sea that Jianchanghou passed through again should be the Pacific Ocean! ”

Xia Yan slapped the table excitedly as he spoke: "If we are really on the earth, if these are true, then what Your Majesty said is true, then there are still so many lands in the world that have not been discovered by our Ming Dynasty, and what is this South Pole and North Pole like, is it really as Your Majesty said, there are polar days and polar nights?" ”

"Your Majesty is a true god!" Zhang Yanling couldn't help but say.

"The ancients dwelled in the sky, the earth dwells in the sky, its body is round, in response to the heavens, China should live in the north of the equator, so the North Pole often appears, and the South Pole is long hidden. Two hundred and fifty miles to the south, the North Pole is one degree lower, and the land of the Yuan people is really true! It's just, it's just that we're on Earth, so why don't we fall? Wang Wensu couldn't help but read a few sentences of ancient text, and then asked again.

"That's exactly what you and I say, why don't you fall off the ball? Why doesn't the sea overflow? Xia Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Zhang Yanling said: "Maybe only Your Majesty knows, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and his knowledge is bestowed by God!" ”

"Then we ask to see Your Majesty?" The three of them asked in unison.

……

Zhu Houzhao had just received the news that Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, had returned to Beijing, so he only smiled faintly and thought to himself: "This Zhang Yanling has really returned from a round-the-world voyage?" Historically, Magellan sailed around the world from 1519 A.D. to 1522 A.D., that is, from the 14th year of Zhengde to the first year of Jiajing, and now Zhang Yanling completed the circumnavigation of the world in the 12th year of Zhengde, only five years earlier than Magellan! The gap between Portugal and its own Ming is not big, and the Ming has to speed up the pace of global colonization! ”

Just when Zhu Houzhao was thinking like this, the eunuch Liu Jin came to report: "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Jianchang, the right attendant of the military department, Xia Yan, and the king of the wine of Jingshi University, Wensu, ask to see you." ”

"Announce them in", Zhu Houzhao said and directly met Zhang Yanling and others in Cining Palace.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao saw Zhang Yanling, he asked directly: "Marquis Jianchang, now do you believe that the earth is a round ball?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is now completely convinced that the earth is indeed a round ball!" Zhang Yanling nodded, as he himself said, now he no longer dared to question Zhu Houzhao's holy science.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao just smiled slightly, and asked Xia Yan and Wang Wensu: "Why are you also here, and you also believe that the earth is indeed a round ball?" ”

"The minister believes it, but what the minister doesn't know is that since the earth is a ball, why don't people fall and the sea water doesn't overflow?"

Xia Yan replied.

Wang Wensu also nodded: "So, the ministers came to ask Your Majesty for advice." ”

Zhu Houzhao saw an apple next to the desk, so he took the apple in his hand, stood up, and then threw the apple to the ground: asked, "Do you understand now?" ”

Zhang Yanling, Xia Yan, Wang Wensu and others were a little dazed, and they didn't know what Zhu Houzhao wanted to tell them by doing this.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to continue to inspire: "When an apple falls, it will fall to the ground, and a person will fall after jumping from a high place, but he doesn't fly up, or even go up, haven't you thought about what the reason is?" ”

"Is it attractive? Is it the earth that attracts us, that attracts all things? Xia Yan suddenly shouted and asked first.

Zhu Houzhao nodded.

"Your Majesty is really a god and a man, such an obvious truth, the minister didn't even think about it, Your Majesty's holy doctrine says that all things move because of the force, so the earth makes objects fall because of the force of attraction, because of the force of attraction, so it will not fall."

At this time, Wang Wensu also suddenly came to his senses, and he couldn't help laughing as if he had eaten candy, and hurriedly said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty Xie dialed, the minister understood in a trance, and the minister retired." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Go ahead." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Wensu just wanted to go back quickly, go back and study and think about the natural science knowledge written down by Zhu Houzhao again, he suddenly felt that he was going to discover new natural laws, so he ran out of the Forbidden City directly and excitedly.

And here, after Xia Yan asked, he didn't mean to rush back to Beijing Normal University to study, he was different from Wang Wensu, he just needed to know that everything does not fall on the earth because the earth has a gravitational attraction to everything, and he is not much interested in studying this kind of gravity that the earth attracts all things, and he is now more concerned about how Daming responds to this new discovery.

Zhang Yanling, like Xia Yan, did not think about studying the attraction after listening to Zhu Houzhao's reason why the people at the bottom of the ball did not fall because of the gravitational attraction of the earth, and only said: "According to what Your Majesty said, the earth has gravity, so we will not fall, but in any case, the earth is a round ball, and the name of the earth is right." ”