In the empty hall on the second floor, Zhu Di's even brought an echo, making the window paper buzz. His laughter stopped, and he asked, "Does anyone else in the Barbarian Land know about this except this Magellan?" ”

"The slave confirmed with him that the size of his country is only the land of my Ming Dynasty, and he is the only one who is determined to draw a map of the world like him. And he hasn't been back to his hometown in years......"

Zhu Zhanji saw that Zhu Di's expression was a little wrong, and immediately said: "Grandpa Huang, this secret of Magellan is now only known to Ambassador Jin, and there are many things that he can explain clearly. Therefore, Sun Er wants Ambassador Jin to return to Yingtian, and he will be in charge of the children's palace in the future. ”

Jin Kuo understood a little, although it was a cold winter, but all the cold sweat came out at once. He threw himself on his knees, and he didn't dare to beg for mercy, because that meant that he dared to speculate on the holy will, so he could only say, "Your Majesty, the slave is right...... The grandson is loyal and just wants to stay by His Royal Highness's side and die for the grandson. ”

He was a little carried away just now, and he only cared about being loyal to his grandson, but he forgot that the emperor was the greatest, and now he can only go one way to the end.

Secondly, since only he knows about this matter, if he kills him, one less person will know.

And the importance of this matter is enough for Zhu Di to start.

Now the emperor has a murderous intention, but the grandson wants to protect him, which makes him moved, but he can't help but be afraid.

In Ningbo City, and even in Ningbo Prefecture, he is used to being a master, as the agent of the grandson, he can not sell anyone's accounts, even the prefect has to stammer him.

When he first returned to the palace, his sensitivity was reduced too much, but he forgot his duty.

Now he even needs Taisun to remind him......

Seeing that his grandson wanted to protect him, Zhu Di's trace of killing intent immediately dissipated without a trace, and laughed: "You have made great contributions, how can I be a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong." …… Wang Yan, the proposed ......, and Liu Yin, the supervisor of the seal ribbon, worked hard and made great contributions, and allowed the old righteous to provide for the elderly. Sheng Jin Kuo served as the chief eunuch of the seal and ribbon eunuch, and was allowed to accompany him to live in Xingqing Palace. ”

"Slave Xie Your Majesty Hong En, long live the emperor's grandfather, long live, long live!"

Hearing the eunuch shouting the emperor's grandfather, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help frowning. When I came to this era, I learned that the eunuchs called the emperor, although they called the emperor or Your Majesty most of the time, but on formal occasions, they actually called the emperor's grandfather.

They used a written word and added their grandfather to express their respect for the emperor, but for Zhu Zhanji, a grandson, he was mixed up with the eunuchs.

However, he did not show it, but admired Zhu Di's rapid transformation.

Just now, he clearly felt that Zhu Di was murderous. But this incident was provoked by Zhu Zhanji, and Jin Kuo is still in charge of most of his wealth, so Jin Kuo must not be allowed to have an accident.

And Zhu Di saw that Zhu Zhanji wanted to protect Jin Kuo, so he immediately changed his words and promoted him instead, and he was promoted to the top.

The chief eunuch of the twelve eunuchs is already the head of the eunuchs in the palace, and only the emperor can manage it, and even the ordinary princes and grandsons still have to slap them.

For example, Wang Yan, the celebrant and eunuch, is Zhu Di's first confidant, and even Zhu Gaochi often has to accompany him to talk carefully.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji will not scold him, but he will not offend him either.

During this period, in fact, the celebrant was not the head of the eunuchs, and the real head of the twelve eunuchs was the eunuch of the inner palace.

However, the current eunuch of the inner palace is Zheng He, who is often outside, so the authority to manage other eunuchs was handed over to the eunuch Wang Yan.

As for the celebrant who has the right to approve the red, that is a matter of the future, and the current celebrant has no privileges except for being in charge of the emperor's seal.

Jin Kuo was promoted to the eunuch of the seal ribbon eunuch, and he was also allowed to live in the Taisun Palace, that is to say, this is Zhu Di directly selling his grandson a face, and he is also allowing his grandson to meddle in the affairs of the palace now.

However, Zhu Zhanji's eyes were looking at the court, the battlefield between the north and the south, and abroad, and he had no interest in the small place of the imperial palace.

"Your Majesty, this is America. According to Magellan, there are only a few savages of the same color as us in this continent, but they are rich in gold and silver, and they can exchange a knife for the same weight of gold. The continent is divided into two parts, estimated at more than 80 million square miles to the north and 40 million square miles to the south. A mountain range runs from north to south, almost sending us to the northernmost part of the planet where we live, and all the way to the southernmost part. There are many gold, copper, and silver mines in the mountains. Over here...... He gave it the name Chile, and it was said that a large area was covered with copper mines. This 40,000-mile-long mountain is in the west of America, and in the east it is all a large plain, and there are countless fertile fields, but the wild people there do not know how to cultivate, and the large areas of fertile land are barren. ”

Zhu Di asked curiously, "Then what do they eat?" ”

"It is said that one kind of corn, one kind of potato, and one kind of sweet potato, these three kinds of grain can produce ten stones per acre of land, so the people there do not need to cultivate intensively to harvest endless grain."

Zhu Di's eyes lit up when he heard it, he hadn't heard of these things, but now the harvest of one acre of land in Daming is only about three stones, and the yield gap is a bit big. He stared at the map of the Americas for a few moments before saying, "Go on." ”

"It's called Australia, and that's what Magellan called it. It is slightly smaller than my Ming Dynasty, with a wasteland to the north and abundant iron ore, and a plain to the south, suitable for farming and rich in gold. Your Majesty, please look at this map, in these two places, there are two mines that can produce 500,000 taels of gold per year. However, this is not the place with the most gold, here, he called this place Africa, that is, the hometown of Kunlunnu. In the far south, it is said that gold can produce more than one million taels a year. ”

"There are no countries here?"

"There are only some savages in Australia, and there are only some tribes in Africa, and there are no countries."

Zhu Di looked at the globe and his hands were trembling excitedly, and asked again: "That is to say, the whole earth is ...... now On the ball, only we have some countries in the Ming and the West? ”

"Yes. Your Majesty, please look at this map of the surrounding countries of the Ming Dynasty, here in Annan, at the mouth of Shenglong, where we are the residence of the political envoy in Jiaozhi, there is a large carboniferous mine, which is our Danzhou of the Ming Dynasty, and there is a large iron mine. This is the northern part of the country of Sulu, where a large gold mine is reported. And here, in the Japanese island of Izumo, there is a very large silver mine here. It was when the slave saw this that he moved to kill, but after killing him, he remembered that he had not yet learned his method of mining and drawing. ”

Zhu Zhanji continued: "It was Sun Er who asked Ambassador Jin to kill, we have learned his stargazing skills, learned to distinguish ocean currents, and as for the rest, they are all small sections, I am a great talent, so why worry about not learning these methods." ”

Zhu Di nodded and said, "Secrecy is the most important thing, and there is nothing wrong with Ji'er's move." It's just that this Magellan is indeed a talent, he has traveled all over the world in just a few years, and he can still record so much useful information, it is indeed a pity to kill him......"

Having said that, his attention was not in these places at all, and his eyes were fixed on the globe, and he was already a little crazy.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately whispered: "Grandpa Huang, it's time for lunch." ”

"I won't eat it." He waved his sleeves and glanced at Zhu Zhanji again. "Ki'er, you're growing your body, you can't skip eating. Go ahead, I want to be alone for a while. ”

Zhu Zhanji made a look, and Jin Kuo immediately consciously sorted out the sextant production method, calculation and positioning method, the law of ocean currents, mineral resources around the world, and population and ethnic statistics and put them in front of Zhu Di.

Of course, these are only a few, and most of the mineral resources are not marked in Zhounan, but only a few mines are marked close to the sea, which is convenient for finding and excavating.

What's more, with the current level of refining, there is no need for so many mines at all.

When Wang Yan went down the stairs, he was still a little distracted, stepped on the air, and almost fell straight down, but fortunately he was pulled by Zhu Zhanji.

He didn't bother to thank him, looked at the other eunuchs under the stairs, and asked softly, "Your Royal Highness, do we really all live on the same ball?" ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded, he sighed and said, "When Eunuch Zheng told me, I didn't dare to believe it, but I didn't expect it to be true. ”

In this era, the people who believe most that human beings live on a ball are fishermen and navigators like Zheng He.

Because the fishermen found the boat in the distance, the first thing they found was the mast, so it caused their suspicions, and then there was the astrology.

Zhou Nan did not have any research on the astrological technique of the Ming Dynasty, only knew that it was similar to the principle of the sextant, but it was much more complicated.

In the era when there was no GPS, the sextant was the most complete positioning test tool.

This kind of technology can be used for 500 years without lagging behind, and since Zhu Zhanji knows about this technology, of course he wants to "invent" it.

The others had no appetite, only Zhu Zhanji had lunch under the service of Xue Shanggong. When I came upstairs, I found that Zhu Di was still sitting there in a daze like half an hour ago, staring at the globe in front of him.

After the death of Empress Xu, the harem was headed by Concubine Zhaoyi. Zhaoyi's concubine Zhang is the daughter of Zhang Yu and the sister of the current British Duke Zhang Fu.

Today is the time for the palace to meet with Xungui and his family at the end of the year, and Concubine Zhaoyi has already sent people to urge her several times.

Wang Yan didn't dare to disturb him, so he asked Zhu Zhanji to help scream.

"Grandpa Huang, only me, you, Eunuch Wang, and Eunuch Jin know about this matter now, and we will decide what to do when we have a detailed strategy. I will meet you this afternoon, and I will have a banquet in the evening, so it's not good to delay. ”

"What time is it?"

Wang Yan said in a low voice: "Back to the emperor, it will not take three moments. "In the afterlife, it's about one forty-five.

Zhu Di frowned and said, "Ji'er, here...... Ball, it's inconvenient to put it here, move to ......" Zhu Di wanted to ask for this globe, but after thinking about it, it seemed that it was best controlled by Zhu Zhanji here.

The other palaces are either crowded with people, or it is difficult to control personnel, and Zhu Zhanji is a family alone behind closed doors, and it is more convenient to keep it secret.

However, he obviously liked this globe very much, and said: "You put this earth away, and after the New Year, let the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry imitate a few more." Not only me, but also let your father come to see how many great rivers and mountains there are outside of our Ming Dynasty. ”