Inuit, perhaps another name better known to the people, is the Eskimos. It is distributed in and around the Arctic Circle from Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, and belongs to the Arctic type.

Zhao Weiji probably never dreamed that he would meet the Inuit in this era.

When Wang Dayuan brought this person back to the Central Plains, Zhao Weiji thought he was an Indian. But after asking about the place where Wang Dayuan landed, Zhao Weiji could be sure that this person was an Inuit.

"You...... Good...... My name is...... Snow ......: "It seems that this Inuit learned a little bit of Chinese on the ship when he returned to the Central Plains with the ship, and although the pronunciation is very strange, it can be heard that he is working hard."

"Hello." Immediately afterwards, Zhao Weiji turned his head and asked Wang Dayuan: "What is this?" ”

"Back to the prince, they said that their ancestors came from the far western continent, and I guessed that they might be from the Central Plains according to the direction of our ship, so I brought someone back."

Zhao Weiji was happy when he heard it, it turned out that it was possible that the ancestors of the Inuit were from China, and it was possible that the Indians, who were relatives of the Inuit, were from China, and this point could be used well in the future.

Although Wang Dayuan did not land on the west coast of the American continent this time, it is not bad to find Alaska, where there are rich gold reserves and extremely precious fur animals.

"Huanzhang, let the crew go home first, everyone has worked hard to float on the sea for so long. As for Snow, let's settle him down at the inn first. I have something to do with you. ”

After receiving Zhao Weiji's instructions, Wang Dayuan took care of everything, and then followed Zhao Weiji back to the palace and entered the study.

As soon as he entered the study, Wang Dayuan saw a thing like a map hanging on the wall, although the painting was average, but the content of the map was something that Wang Dayuan had never seen.

This map is the map of both sides of the Pacific Ocean drawn by Zhao Weiji himself with his memory, although the painting is average, but it also basically depicts the appearance of both sides of the North Pacific Ocean and the islands in Southeast Asia on the map.

"Huanzhang took a closer look at the left side of the picture and saw that there was anything special?"

With the question asked by Zhao Weiji, Wang Dayuan looked carefully at the left side of the map, and soon he did see something. The left side of the map seems to be the coastal area of the Great Song Dynasty.

Especially the two big islands, it seems that one is Liuqiu and the other is Qiongzhou. The peninsula further south seems to be the land where Cochin, Siam, Khmer and other countries are located. And then there's the strait, which seems to be the way through which the sea trade route leads to the Arab Empire.

"This, this is the sea passage between the Great Song Dynasty and nearby countries." There were many maps of the Great Song Dynasty, but none of them depicted the sea, and all the ships of the Great Song Dynasty relied more often on experience and coastline to travel at sea. Although the depiction of the sea in front of him is still very simple, it gave Wang Dayuan a revelation whether he could draw a map of the sea.

Knowing that Wang Dayuan probably saw a reason, Zhao Weiji guided him to look at the top of the map again.

At the top of the map, Wang Dayuan found Dongying, and when he looked north, he saw two landmasses that might have been continents next to each other, but there was still a sea in between. Underneath these two continents is a chain of islands.

Seeing this, Wang Dayuan somewhat understood, what Zhao Weiji wanted to see for himself.

"Lord Wang, do you mean that I arrived at the one on the right side of the two continents?"

"That's right, you're not saying that you're sailing along the island chain and then landing when you see the mainland, but when you log in, you see a vast snowfield. Then you met Snow's people on the snowy plains. I think that's what you're describing right now. ”

After listening to Zhao Weiji's explanation, Wang Dayuan still couldn't believe that Zhao Weiji actually had the ability to draw the new continent directly on the map. But combined with the location of the land on the map and the description of indigenous legends, Wang Dayuan felt that the map drawn by Zhao Weiji was true.

Who is this? At this moment, Wang Dayuan felt that standing in front of him was not a person at all, but a monster.

Of course, Zhao Weiji noticed the changes in Wang Dayuan's heart, and he also knew that he seemed to have gone too far, but for the sake of the future cause, he had to take out this map in advance. But Wang Dayuan's side must calm his emotions now, otherwise the next conversation will not be able to go on at all.

So Zhao Weiji was ready to come up with that old method, that is, the immortal teaching, anyway, he had already used this method to fool many people, and the outside world also had some rumors about this statement.

"Huanzhang doesn't have to look at me like a monster, it's not my ability, it's taught by the gods, the gods taught me this picture in a dream, and I just drew it with my memory when I woke up."

As soon as Zhao Weiji explained this, Wang Dayuan was relieved, and it was not once or twice that this prince was favored by the gods and made a lot of novel things. There have always been many legends about the prince.

"Don't worry about it so much, Huanzhang, you look southeast along the land you landed."

Wang Dayuan looked along the southeast direction, and indeed saw a large new continent, this continent and the land they landed on were actually connected, but the land they landed on was too far to the north, so it was still freezing and snowy in that month. Although Wang Dayuan did not know that the reason for this situation was related to the angle of inclination between the earth and the sun, Wang Dayuan had heard the legend of the extreme north and roughly guessed that the land was like that because it was too far north.

If it is really as depicted on Zhao Weiji's map, is the land under this is the land that is really looking for?

Zhao Weiji saw Wang Dayuan's doubts, he nodded and said, "Indeed, the continent below here is the continent I want you to find." ”

At this time, Wang Dayuan was a little puzzled: "Since the prince is looking for the continent below, why do you want the ship to follow that "current"? Just crossing the ocean is not over. ”

"This is where I made a mistake, I wanted the ship to be able to catch up with the currents so that the windless weather would not cause the ship to lose power, but judging by the time you returned, I still underestimated the capabilities of the new ship. This time I'm going to go out to sea with you, to a new continent, and this time we're going straight through it. ”

Hearing Zhao Weiji's words, Wang Dayuan was a little excited again, it is true that this disappointment is a big blow to Wang Dayuan, but it is not without any benefits, at least it is clear that there is nothing on the other side of the sea. If the map drawn by Zhao Weiji is true, then it is really possible to find a new continent this time.

"We'll have another three months to prepare, and we'll be able to find a new continent this time. There is also that Snow, you find someone to give him more Chinese as soon as possible, I will be useful to this person. ”

……

Just when Zhao Weiji was preparing for the second voyage, Zhao Heng in the capital also began to move, and he didn't get the account book and handed it over to Zhao Guangyi as soon as possible, because this account book had another use for him.

Although Zhao Heng's personality is a little cowardly, it doesn't mean that he is stupid, he knows that there are too many things recorded in this account book, and he wants to use the things recorded in the account book to make more articles.

After all, there are too many ministers involved in this, and Zhao Heng wants to use this to see which ministers in the DPRK and China are more worthy of reuse.

When Zhao Heng was looking at the account book over and over again, Zhao Yuanxi was panicked, because he had already found that the account book had been stolen.

What is written in that account book as a record, will he not know? Once the account books are exposed, not only will he be in a different place, but even Zhao Pu will not end well. So he wanted to take advantage of this to force Zhao Pu to pay attention to him one last time.

But when he told Zhao Pu the whole thing, he got a ruthless betrayal from Zhao Pu. At this time, Zhao Pu was of course extremely scared after knowing about this, but after carefully inquiring about the time when Zhao Yuanxi's account book was lost, Zhao Pu concluded that at least so far Zhao Guangyi had not seen this account book. So after weighing it repeatedly, Zhao Pu decided to abandon Zhao Yuanxi in order to protect himself.

After Zhao Yuanxi was betrayed by Zhao Pu, of course, he could only return to his palace resentfully, and Zhao Yuanxi, who had already been exposed because of the disclosure of the Tongliao incident, lost the account books and was ready to wait for death at home, suffered a hammer the next day after returning to the mansion.

Zhao Pu proposed Zhishi above the court, on the grounds that he was old and sick, and hoped to return to his hometown. And Zhao Guangyi also agreed, and added the title of Zhao Putai, the title of Duke of Wei, and enjoyed the treatment of the prime minister. Zhao Pu withdrew from the political arena in this way.

When everyone didn't understand why Zhao Pu suddenly asked for Zhishi, only Zhao Yuanxi understood the truth. This old fox is for self-preservation, because once the account books are exposed, Zhao Pu will definitely not end well, it is better to choose Zhishi at this time, even if the account books are exposed, Zhao Guangyi is unlikely to punish a veteran of the two dynasties who has already been Zhishi.

Although Zhao Pu's move saved himself, it also completely pushed Zhao Yuanxi to the edge of the cliff, because after Zhao Pu withdrew, the responsibility for all the facts recorded in the account books had to be borne by Zhao Yuanxu alone.

It's just that Zhao Yuanxi doesn't understand why no one has come to trouble him in the Tongliao incident until now, and the account books have not been exposed until now.

Of course, he didn't know that the reason why the Tongliao incident had not yet broken out was because the father he hated had destroyed all the evidence that might be against him. And the account books have not been exposed because his brother is still studying the account books to see if he can dig up more useful things.

It's just that, he said, he will never know.