In the current world, except for Europe and Asia and North Africa, as well as a few parts of the Americas, most of the regions have not had a civilization, or rather, there is no modern civilization.

There are countless lands waiting for the Ming to occupy, and there are countless resources waiting for the Ming to plunder.

In this era, no ethnic group is as strong as the Han people, and the rest of the world together does not necessarily have more Han people.

However, the closure of the Ming Dynasty made some small European countries become the hegemon of the world, which made it particularly unacceptable to travel around the country that had experienced national decline in later generations.

So now that he has come to this era, he wants to change all this, make the whole world the land of the Ming Dynasty, and even if it falls apart in the end, he wants to make the Han people the masters of this world.

Let all people be proud of learning Chinese and being able to speak Chinese, and let the world become a world dominated by Chinese civilization.

He didn't want to wait any longer, there were still ten years before he ascended the throne, and what he could do, in fact, Zhu Di could do.

As long as...... Let Zhu Di accept all this.

So in this way, he caught an alien under the pretense of Jin Kuo, and then that alien was a traveler, and then he traveled all over the world and recorded these things.

The source of these materials, even if Zhu Di will doubt it, but as long as he sees that these records are true, it is enough.

Because of this, Zhou Nan deliberately marked several large gold, silver and copper mines around the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di only needs to send someone to investigate, and he can find out, with these mines, it will not be difficult for him to believe in the existence of other regions.

At that time, the source was no longer important.

After installing the globe, Zhu Zhanji began to fiddle with the three balls in another box.

A ball the size of a basketball is also carved from wood, but it is a common sycamore wood, with a medium ball about ten centimeters in diameter and a small ball the size of a ping-pong ball.

The three balls are relatively light and have rough workmanship, but there is a delicate bracket underneath.

The big ball does not move in the middle, the earth can revolve around the sun, and the moon can revolve around the earth.

This is what Zhu Zhanji is going to use to popularize astronomical knowledge for Zhu Di, even if this is leaked, it is not a big problem, and Zhu Zhanji even hopes that Zhu Di will hand this over to Si Tianjian to popularize this common sense.

But this matter is difficult, because the Ming Dynasty was the most strict control of astronomy, not only did not allow the people to study astronomy, but also the calendar.

It is also for this reason that Chinese astronomy, which was originally at the forefront of the world, has gradually lagged behind the world.

Before Zhu Zhanji could install the moon, he heard the sound of Yu Xian and Li Liang meeting Zhu Di downstairs.

"Where is the grandson?"

"Back to the emperor, the grandson and Ambassador Jin are upstairs and instruct the servants to guard the corridor."

"What's the mysterious ......" Then came the sound of Zhu Di going upstairs.

Zhu Zhanji and Jin Kuo hurriedly greeted the staircase, "Grandpa Huang is coming, everyone else is waiting downstairs except for Eunuch Wang." ”

After Zhu Zhanji bowed and saluted, he held Zhu Di's arm and greeted him.

Jin Kuo knelt on the ground and bowed: "The slave Ningbo City Bosi Town Guard Jin Kuo knocked to see Your Majesty." ”

"Flat ......" Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanji and asked, "Why is Ji'er so mysterious?" ”

"Grandpa Huang, please calm down, Ambassador Jin reported a very important matter, the grandson was afraid of the news leaking, so he has been hiding it from the imperial grandfather, he arrived in Beijing today, so the grandson told the imperial grandfather early in the morning that he must come over after the next court. Please come with your grandchildren ......"

Zhu Zhanji first brought Zhu Di to the side of the globe, and then knelt down and bowed. "Taisun Zhanji congratulates His Majesty Grandpa Huang on obtaining a town artifact today."

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanji in surprise, and then looked at the ball, a little confused.

Wang Yan was also confused by Zhu Zhanji's behavior and didn't understand what was happening.

"Kier, tell me what's the matter?"

Zhu Zhanji got up and turned the globe slightly, and then aimed Daming's side at him. "Grandpa Huang, please look, where is this?"

Zhu Di looked at the globe, and at first he didn't know why, but then he understood it, and his face became solemn. "On weekdays, the map and the sand table are flat, but I don't know why the map is engraved on a ball?"

Jin Kuo quietly glanced at Zhu Di and Wang Yan, who were also surprised, and beat drums in his heart.

If this matter is exposed, of course Zhu Zhanji will be fine, at most he will be reprimanded, but his head will not be guaranteed.

However, he and Zhu Zhanji are already honored and disgraced now, and it is impossible for him to get off the ship just because he has as much as 3 million taels of silver and 200,000 taels of gold in his hands.

Therefore, he couldn't persuade Zhu Zhanji to stop this matter, so he could only complete this matter more satisfactorily.

But after all, this is a crime of deception, how can people live on a ball, and the ball is still spinning......

But since Taisun said that the emperor would believe it, he could only hope that the emperor would believe it.

He didn't know that as early as the Tang Dynasty, astronomers presided over the national astronomical geodetic survey, using the height of the North Pole and the length of the summer day to calculate the length of the meridian and the circumference of the earth.

It's just that all these things were hidden by Si Tianjian, and he hadn't been exposed to this concept, which didn't mean that the emperor didn't know.

The difference between superiors and subordinates is the amount and scope of control over resources, and the asymmetry of information.

In modern society, because of the spread of the Internet, it seems to have narrowed the distance between the upper and lower positions, but there are still many secrets that the inferior cannot know.

Not to mention, this is still in the era of feudal centralization.

The asymmetry of the news makes the gap between the superior and the inferior seem particularly huge.

Just like in this palace, the Yongle Canon that has just been compiled, Zhu Zhanji can read it at will, and many secrets can also be read at will.

But most eunuchs, even if they want to be literate, they still need to make great contributions.

Zhu Di had heard that human beings lived on a sphere, but he only thought it was nonsense. Even when he saw the globe now, he still couldn't believe it.

Zhu Zhanji didn't want to give him time to doubt, and then he said: "Grandpa Huang, there are some things we don't know, but it doesn't mean that they don't exist. You see this Ming, Japan, Goryeo, including the southern Ceylon, Java, Chenla, even if you can't believe it, but you have to believe it. And this, let the grandson know why there is sunset and sunrise, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and it is only today that the grandson knows that he knows too little. ”

Zhu Zhanji put the last moon on it, then turned the earth and said: "This is the sun, this is the place where we live, let's call it the earth for the time being, this is the moon." A small circle of the earth is a day, and a large circle around the sun is a year. Because it is not a fixed orbit when it rotates, the earth is near the sun in the north for half the year, and the south for half the year. And our Ming Dynasty is in the north, so when the north is slowly facing the sun, it is summer, and vice versa. This also explains why the sun rises due east in the summer and southeast in the winter. ”

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhu Di was completely stunned, and after a while, he came to his senses and ran to the front of the globe to look at the map.

When he saw that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was blurred, just a large plane higher than other places, he said in disappointment: "Why are other regions clear, but my Ming Dynasty is blurred." ”

Jin Kuo hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the slave is guilty of death." ”

Zhu Zhanji hurriedly said: "Grandpa Huang, I think Jin Kuo is not only not guilty, but a great achievement. ”

Zhu Di was a little confused again, hesitated for a moment and said, "Explain the matter to me as it is." ”

"Your Majesty, things have to start from three months ago......"

What Jin Kuo said was a set made up by Zhu Zhanji, who went to Nanyang and met a sea ship that encountered a storm, and saved a Xiyi and dozens of servants he carried.

Everything is real here, because their interpreter died, and the interpreter of the fleet did not understand what they spoke, so they were taken all the way to Ningbo.

Then after Zhu Zhanji learned the news, he asked Jin Kuo to lock them up until a month ago, and executed them all.

The rest of these stories are all made up by Zhu Zhanji, who installed them as Spanish explorers, drew maps of the world and made models of the earth.

Zhu Zhanji also gave him the name of Magellan in a wicked way, and disguised some nautical diaries and world maps.

As for why they were killed, of course, it was because they knew too much.

And they also want to draw a map of the Ming Dynasty, so they deserve to be killed.

As for these dozens of lives, they are negligible compared to the great era of navigation that is about to open up the Ming Dynasty.

In the future voyages, I am afraid that thousands of people will die at sea, but all this is worth it.

Zhu Zhanji has been thinking about this story for a long time, and when he encountered this incident three months ago, he just included and rounded up many details, even if there were some loopholes, it could almost make Zhu Di dispel his suspicions.

"The minion only thought that this Magellan was guilty of snooping on me, and that he was able to draw a map of the whole world and know so many things that should not be known, so he must not be allowed to live. But after killing him, I thought that such a talent could also be used by my Ming. ”

Zhu Di asked, "Are you sure that only you know about this?" ”

"Because this matter is too serious, the slave got the order of the grandson and communicated with him personally. From the beginning when he could only be familiar with one or two words a day, to the end he was familiar with dozens of words a day, his diary was copied down word by word by a minion, and it definitely did not pass through the hands of a second person. ”

Zhu Di laughed: "It's good to kill." Good kill. Ambassador Kim, you have made a great contribution this time. Some things can only be in the hands of our Daming. ”