In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, Xiong Jing began to draw a map of the world that night, but unfortunately he was young and frail, and his eyes were hazy before he could write. Over the next two days, he sketched a simple map of the world, and on silk he introduced the corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes grown in the Americas, the horses of Western and Western Europe, and the spices of India and the gold and precious stones of Africa.

It is not difficult to draw a map, and it is not difficult to introduce the products of each continent - for a great seafaring enthusiast in later generations, this is a matter of hand, and the real difficulty is how to dedicate the map to the king of Chu. Thinking of the last unpleasant experience, Xiong Jing felt that it was better to take the initiative to offer the treasure than to wait for the price and sell it, and let the King of Chu ask for it himself, but how could he let the King of Chu ask for it himself?

"Don't worry, the school palace will open the day after tomorrow, and the king and the hundred officials will go to Lantai to release the food. The king will have a time to be alone. Ge saw that Xiong Jing was worried about going to the book, and spoke out to explain.

"The gift of releasing the dish?" Xiong Jing muttered, hesitating to present the map so early.

"This sacrifice to the first saint and the first teacher also. Its ritual is to sacrifice such as apple baths, and it is not a genus of animal prison coins. "Ge Dao.

"The day after tomorrow...... The day after tomorrow. Xiong Jing made up his mind in his heart, gave up waiting for the price and sold, and planned to speak directly the day after tomorrow. However, the day after tomorrow, there was another problem.

"Why didn't my father come?" When the dishes were released, the drums were made, and the students of the whole school sat upright in the court, chanting the deer song, the four peons, and the emperor's Chinese poems, Xiong Jing did not see the king of Chu, and the sacrifice was presided over by Ling Yin Huangxie alone.

Ge did not see the car of the King of Chu outside the palace, and he was also surprised by this. "The old servant has sent someone into the palace to inquire."

"Forget it, if you don't come, you won't come." Xiong Jing was so anxious that his carefully prepared rhetoric was useless. "How's the shipbuilder doing?"

"Slave City Craftsman is very expensive......," Ge's face showed bitterness again, "Ordinary slaves and maids are worth fifteen thousand yuan, and shipbuilders are ten times as much. The old servant searched all over Yingdunu City, but only found a dozen people. ”

"Ten times?!" Xiong Jing quickly calculated in his heart, and was suddenly startled, ordinary slaves and maids need two gold, and ten times that of a craftsman is twenty gold, and he only has a total of one thousand gold, and there is no money to buy fifty craftsmen. "Why is it so expensive?"

"The waters of Chu are vertical and horizontal, and there are many boat builders. In Shouying alone, there are more than 10 boat fangs. There are Xiacai, Jiuzi, Que'an, Zhongli, Xiyi in the vicinity, and there are Que'an, Tongxi, Zhufang, Guangling and other ports in the distance. The minister has asked the young lady to find a boat-building craftsman in Zhao Kingdom......"

"Looking for craftsmen from the country of Zhao?" Ge is really the confidant of the mother, and the first thing that comes to mind when encountering difficulties is the mother. "The country of Zhao is too far away, and the craftsmen arrived in the month of the unknown year. Since there are more than a dozen craftsmen, let's use them first. Xiong Jing said, "If there are not enough manpower, I will be transferred from my tomb, which is my fiefdom after all." ”

"Yui." Ge agreed.

"What about the place? Have you found a suitable place to build a dock? Xiong Jing asked.

"The old servant found a good place in the north of the Purple Mountain and on the shore of the Huaishui." Ge gradually got used to Xiong Jing's style of doing things, and immediately took out a sketch in his arms. "There are streams in the mountains, which flow into the Huai. Building an embankment can get water for many years, and digging a pond can become a dock for shipbuilding. ”

The sketches of Kudzu were drawn by the palace studio, and the mountains, slopes, trees and ravines are clear at a glance.

"What is this?" Pointing to a place on the mountain in the upper left corner, Xiong Jing asked.

"This is the ......," Ge glanced at it, "This is the tomb of the great general Jingyang." ”

"The tomb of the Great General Jingyang? Why is it buried here? "The spiritual seat of the nobles with status is entered into the ancestral temple, and the tomb is buried with the ancestors. Jingyang was buried alone on the Purple Mountain, which is really strange.

"Four years ago, the five kingdoms joined forces to attack Qin, and the king was the commander of the alliance, so that Yin Chunshen was the monarch, and Pang Xuan was the commander, and he was defeated." Ge's tone sank and he talked about the past of the military state. "According to the law of Chu, the army will kill the general. Although the army was not overturned this time, it fell short, making it hopeless to restore the old Ying, so Jingyang hanged himself outside Shouying, under the Purple Mountain, and his generals and military officials were martyred. The king of Chu read his merits and was allowed to be buried in the ancestral mausoleum, but Jingyang asked his servants to be buried in the northwest of the mountain. ”

"Why did he have to be buried in the northwest of the mountain?" Xiong Jing was a little dazed, and the Chu law of overthrowing the army and killing the generals made him feel related.

"Buried in the northwest, in order to ring the Qin division." Ge replied solemnly, looking at Xiong Jing's eyes with a slight disappointment.

Originally, it was to discuss the shipyard, but what was inadvertently inserted made Xiong Jing feel uncomfortable. Although he has lived in Chu for several years, he does not understand this era at all, does not understand this country, and he has always treated himself as an outsider. Chu Jiang Jingyang's experience touched his heart and made him block something in his heart. After finishing the discussion, he inexplicably went to the Xuegong Library.

The library is in the south of the school palace, an independent building, the platform is high, and it looks like the Chu Palace. After entering the house, Xiong Jing hesitated: What does the affairs of Chu have to do with him? The fall of dynasties, the rise and fall of dynasties, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, what is there to regret? Let's forget about crying for the ancients......

Xiong Jing hesitated in the library, but did not notice an old man with a crane crown looking at him with a smile, and when he turned around to leave, the old man with a crane crown shouted to him: "Huh! Boy ......"

"Is the old man calling me?" There was no one else on Xiong Jing's side, and when he thought of learning the palace law, he had to answer with his disciples.

"Haha......" Lao Suo laughed, he was too old, and the wrinkles on his face and the feathers on the crown were indescribably weird. But Zijing? He asked.

"It's just not a good thing, dare to ask what Mr. is called?" The youngest of the school palace entered the school at the age of seven, and Xiong Jing was too young, so it was naturally eye-catching.

"Haha." Lao Suo didn't say who he was, but said, "Son." "Anyway, I went into the depths of the library.

There are many windows in the "Foot ......" library, which can remain dark. Lao Suo's figure is submerged in the mountain-like bamboo slips. Xiong Jing's entourage was afraid that the master would lose, so he had to remind him.

"What is there to fear?" Xiong Jing was also furious when he said it, but after all, this is a library, although Lao Su doesn't feel like a bad person, he has already moved forward when he speaks, and he took two steps before saying, "You follow me." ”

Jianshan and a sea of books, the deeper the library goes, the musty smell is heavier, the light is darker, and Xiong Jing almost tripped over the bamboo slips in the middle of the narrow road during the journey. Fortunately, as soon as the darkest place passed, and as soon as I turned my feet, a bright ray of sunlight slanted in from overhead. In front of it is no longer a mountain of bamboo slips, but a pile of oracle bones. The old man stood at the small door at the end of the oracle bone a hundred paces away, looked back, saw him coming, beckoned again, and then flashed through the small door and disappeared.

"It's a deed." Pick up a piece of oracle bone and have words engraved on it. "What's up ahead?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Little servant knows." Feather hands pressed the hilt of the sword, fully guarded, and walked in front of Xiongjing.

"It's okay if you don't know, let's go over and take a look." Exploring the secluded, Xiong Jing wanted to know what kind of mystery this old man was doing.

"I've seen Zijing." When he was about to walk to the door, a person came out, but it was Zhao Xuan, the good son who came to visit that day.

"How is Zi Duan here?" Xiong Jingqi said, his heart was no longer so hairy.

"Zijing will know when he enters the room." Zhao Xuan wanted to explain and exhaled again, and directly made a gesture of please.

Xiong Jing didn't doubt him, he seemed to hear the sound of reading inside. Indeed, as soon as I entered the room, I heard someone reading: 'The void of Kunlun is eight hundred miles in radius, and it is ten thousand miles high. There is Mu He, long five fathoms, big five around ......', but more people sit on the ground, are carving abbreviated characters, although the scene is large, but not chaotic at all.

Zhao Duan stepped forward, walked through the crowd and walked to Lao Suo to make a bow, Xiong Jing also bowed, and said, "I've seen Mr."

Lao Su coughed and said, "The old man has no name, please be commensurate with the crown of the bird." I heard Zijing once say: 'Kunlun, the mountains at the end of the quicksand. The Queen Mother of the West is not an immortal, and neither is the Queen of the Western Regions. Dare to ask how to know? ”

It turned out to be the pot that was provoked by the world geography of science last time, and Xiong Jing was determined. However, he couldn't explain what was thousands of miles away, so he had to say: "I don't know it by birth, but I tell it according to the truth." ”

"Born to know? That is, I was born to know it, and I dare to ask Zijing about the rivers and mountains of my Chu country. The middle-aged man next to Lao Suo opened his mouth, he was wearing a Xuanduan on his head, and he was dressed in plain clothes, and he should be a doctor in the court. There is also a person standing next to this person, with a high crown and a broad belt, a dark robe, and deep eyes. Xiong Jing didn't look at him much, only attracted by his girl - his eyebrows were picturesque, his skin was better than snow, like a piece of glowing white jade, even if he was wearing men's clothes, he could not hide his beauty.

"The rivers and mountains of the Chu Kingdom?" Xiong Jing tried his best to look away, his face a little hot. "There is the Yangtze River, from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau down, into Sichuan and Shu, out of Jianghan, Jiangdong and out of the sea, more than 10,000 miles. Water has Huai, Han, Xiang, Jiangxi, Qiantang ......" ancient and modern place names are different, when talking about the Qiantang River, Xiong Jing stopped, saw a few people are not unusual, he continued: "The mountain has Hengshan (Dabie Mountain), Tongbai, Huiji has four Ming, there are five ridges south of Hunan and Jiangxi, and the mountains of this Chu country are also." ”

“…… The shape of the state of Chu is all in the Huaishui Yangtze River. Seeing that the doctor was about to ask questions again, Xiong Jing was afraid that he would continue to ask Qin Guo and Zhao Guo, and if he couldn't answer the world geography he described, no one would believe him, and he was even more stimulated by something strange in his body, and began to say amazing words. The three levels of the underworld are not enough to hold, and they cannot be held. ”

Sure enough, this topic immediately attracted everyone's attention, and Lao Suo asked, "May Zijing tell me." ”

It is really unbelievable for the octogenarian to ask the three-foot boy for advice, but the topic of the conversation is extremely attractive, and everyone present not only did not feel that it was inappropriate, but leaned all their bodies into Xiongjing.

"The world is like a chessboard, which can be divided into four corners and four sides." Although all dynasties did not like to study mountains and rivers, SC used to be a military arena, and there were many posts on military geography. As soon as Xiong Jing opened his mouth, he calmed everyone down—no one had ever compared the world to a chessboard.

"The four corners, Guanzhong, the north of the river, the southeast, Bashu; The four sides, west of Taihang, south of the river, east of Taihang, Jianghan and Hanzhong of the old Yingzhi of our Chu State. "Stumbling to replace the name of the place in the future with the name of the current place, Xiong Jing breathed a sigh of relief." Guanzhong is the Qin State, the danger of Hangu Pass is well known, and the wealth of Qinchuan for 800 miles is also obvious to all; The north of the river is the land of Yan Zhao, there is Taihang in the west, and there is Yanshan in the north. The southeast is the realm of Chu State, and the north of Huaishui is a plain, there is no danger to defend, and the only one who can hold it is Jianghuai Er, and it is by no means the three passes of the underworld. If the enemy attacks, he will never go through the underworld, but go south along the Rushui and Yingshui, or raft on the river and ride the wind to the east. ”

Lao Suo's eyes became brighter and brighter, and Xiong Jing's words went to his heart. He immediately called for a map and asked, "If the enemy is like this, what can he do?" ”

"If you want to be invincible, you must recover. Wanjun is the gate of the world, extending in all directions, southeast and northwest; Deng is the waist of the world, and the south of the Yangtze River is unstable. Xiong Jing pointed to the map, there was no Nanyang or Xiangyang on it, but there were neighboring cities. If the old Ying, the enemy can enter the river in the old Ying, and go down the river, and I have no way to stop it. Huaishui side must keep the period of Si, Shouying, Zhongli, Gaoping, Pengcheng also have to defend to the death, if this number of cities are lost, you can retreat to the Yangtze River, take Jinling as the foundation, strangle Guangling, Liyang two crossings, and resist the enemy by natural danger. ”

"Where is Liyang?" There is also no Liyang on the map.

"Between Zhaoguan and the Yangtze River is Liyang, and the river is also crossed." Xiong Jing added.

"It's so hard to restore the old Ying." The doctor lamented. "The capital was moved to the east, and the east was also. Xiyang Lingjun reverted to the fifteenth town by the river, and only got more than 100,000 soldiers. Destroy Lu and take the Song Dynasty, but the people of Lu Song are not all for my use. The division of the five countries met the Qin army and left, and the vole saw the tanuki. With the power of my Chu country alone, how can I restore my old Ying? ”

At the mention of state affairs, everyone shook their heads. Before the Battle of Lisha in 301 BC, the state of Chu was strong, and after the sand was hit one after another, the northwest defense line was completely out of control, and then it was Bai Qi, and the foundation of the Jianghan Plain, which had been operated for 800 years, was taken by the Qin State and had to move east to the Huai River Valley. This is a broken backbone for the Chu State, and the body is only half a section, or a small half.

The eastern land is vast and sparsely populated, and Zhuang Xin, the king of Yangling, who persuaded the king of Chu to 'make up for the dead', only raised 150,000 soldiers for the recovery of Dongting County, and the total number of men between the ages of 17 and 60 was only more than 300,000. In the following decades, the state of Chu continued to expand its territory to the east, snatching part of the Song land from Wei Qi and destroying the state of Lu, but the harvest in the east still could not make up for the loss in the west.

Four years ago, I pinned my hopes on Hezong, but who expected that the Hezong army would retreat without a big war, so that the Chu State had to move its capital to Shouying, and it was surviving. The countries also complained about the poor planning of the Chu State, and the idiom that was passed down to later generations was that the Chu State should not recommend Qin Linwu Jun Pang Nuan as the commander; The king of Chu complained to Chun Shenjun, believing that he should not have privately ordered the Chu army to retreat.

Even in the war a few years ago, Xiong Jing was at a loss, and when he saw everyone's expressions, he could only keep silent.

"If you don't return to the old Ying, what is the best plan for Zijing?" Lao Suo was the first to come back to his senses from his sorrow.

"If you don't return to the old Ying......" I looked on the map again, there is no Wuhan, only Ezhou." Only by building a strong city here to defend it, and building a large naval division, the combined force of water and land may be able to block the enemy's eastward advance. ”

"Xiazhou?" Xiong Jing said that the place to build the city is the Three Kingdoms Sun Quanyu "to Wu and Chang" meaning to build Wuchang, located in the south of the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River, but unfortunately this is already the border, the north of the river is the Qin State, the south of the river is the Chu State, and the Yangtze River of the two countries is the boundary.

"South of Xiazhou." Xiong Jing corrected, and then pointed to Deng, who was close to Xiangyang, and Jiu Ying, who almost coincided with Jingzhou, and said, "Deng, Ying, and Xia, the three legs are also standing." In terms of the world, it is important to focus on Deng, in terms of the southeast, it is important to focus on Xia, and in terms of Huguang, it is important to focus on Ying. Those who are not allowed to go southeast and be invincible will build this city. ”