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Under Huang Shi's perfunctory, Xu Laowan finally stopped "pursuing" his disrespectful behavior to the Ming Dynasty, and remembered the bank card number that Huang Shi asked him for, so he took out the merchant card, Huang Shi took his card, and then operated on "Lakala".

Soon after, both of them received a message on their mobile phones that the bank transfer was successful, "Boss Huang, you are so refreshing." Xu Laowan saw that Huang Shi didn't say anything and paid the bill in full, and felt that Huang Shi was a good person, not the kind of stingy person, and the little unhappiness that happened just now also disappeared.

Huang Shi put away the "Lakala", saw Xu Laowan ran back to the map to watch, walked over and "coughed", this time Xu Laowan quickly reflected, turned his head back, and scratched his head a little embarrassed.

"Boss Xu, let's go outside to unload the goods."

"Well, ah, okay......" Xu Laowan was a little stumbling in front, and said with a face in the back, "Ah, Boss Huang, can you give me a copy of these two maps?" ”

"These two, yes, but the next time you're free, you can take the USB flash drive and copy it." Huang Shi didn't want to give him this map, but he couldn't refuse it very bluntly, so he said it vaguely.

As soon as Xu Laowan saw that Huang Shi was relieved, he hit the snake on the stick, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket with a smile on his face.

"Lao Huang, you see that you are outdated, what kind of USB flash drive do you use now, you just use your mobile phone as a USB flash drive to copy." After saying that, he handed over his phone, "Yo, you have a map on your computer now." He glanced at Yellowstone's computer on the table, because the two maps were not printed, but laser prints in color.

"Ugh." Huang Shi didn't think of this stubble, so he had to reply, "Okay, I'll find out where to put the data cable first." ”

As a result, Huang Shi didn't even find the data cable after rummaging through a few drawers, and then he remembered that the data cable was placed in the car, and he was charging it with a car charger just now, and he forgot to unplug it when he came back.

"I'm really embarrassed, Boss Xu, you see that I can't find the data cable here now, it seems that you still have to come to me again when you are free."

I thought that Xu Laowan would be able to retreat from the difficulty, where did he know that the Taoist people were a piece of kraft candy, and today he was determined to ask for this map, he heard Huang Shi say that there was no data line, and he didn't think that Huang Shi was lying to him, so his eyes rolled in a hurry, and his usually not very bright head suddenly sparked.

"Don't worry, Lao Huang, you must be on QQ usually, don't you just send my QQ mailbox directly." Xu Laowan was complacent about the eagerness he had shown, and persuaded Huangshi.

Huang Shi was speechless for a moment, and thought, okay, okay, for the sake of the third watch in the middle of the night, he will contribute this map that he spent thousands of dollars to get, hoping that this tenacious guy can help him unload the goods after he finishes copying the map.

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When Huangshi turned on the computer, he called up the folder where the map was placed, and there were rows of map file names in it, in short, they were all maps named after the Ming Dynasty, but wait, how could there be something that seemed to be wrong, Xu Laowan didn't think clearly what it was for a while.

This is a map of the world in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, or a political map of the Wanli period, the golden pink strong Ming Dynasty dominated the east, the dark blue seafaring overlord Spain traveled all over the five continents, the bright yellow Mughal Empire controlled many Indian princely states, the dark red Ottoman Turkish Empire across Europe and Asia, and the light blue Tsarist Russia that emerged hideously were all presented in front of Xu Laowan.

Xu Laowan looked at the map that Spain already occupies South America and North America, and the sum of these two pieces of land exceeds its local area, and the small Portugal occupies the east and west coastlines of Africa, and even the east coast of South America is also occupied by it.

Even the Netherlands, sandwiched between the major European countries, occupied a large piece of fertile land of the same size as itself in South America, thousands of miles away. In the world, except for Europe and Asia, the rest of the world is a blank of power.

"Ugh." Xu Laowan was obviously very emotional when he saw this, how can he say that the Ming Dynasty at that time was the first class in the world, but why did it become more and more miserable later.

"Boss Xu, then tell me your email address, or your QQ number, I'll send it over, and pay attention to check it when you go back." Yellowstone saves the image to his desktop.

Huang Shi was about to shut down the phone after sending the email, but was stopped by Xu Laowan.

"Lao Huang, don't worry, don't worry, show me all the other maps, wait for the feed I'll wrap it for you, don't you move a finger." Xu Laowan patted his chest.

Huang Shi thought that since people had this kind of awareness, there was no need for him to be too stingy, so he clicked on a map file of "The Complete Map of Kunyu Wanguo in the Old Ming Dynasty".

The map is available in only three colors: pink for North and South America and Antarctica, earthy yellow for Asia, and almost white for Europe and Africa. The edges of a few islands are faintly vermilion, the mountains are outlined in pale green, and the ocean is painted with dense ripples of water in dark green. Each of the five continents is written in vermilion handwriting, while the other place names, including country names, are written in ink, and are distinguished by font size.

The main map is an elliptical map of the world's realm, with some small astronomical and geographical maps: the ninefold celestial map in the upper right corner, the celestial sphere map in the lower right corner, the equatorial northern hemisphere and the solar and lunar eclipse map in the upper left corner, and the southern equatorial hemisphere and the mid-air map in the lower left corner.

Another measuring scale is attached to the lower left of the main picture. There are 9 sailing ships of various kinds, 15 marine animals such as whales, sharks, and sea lions, and 8 land animals painted on the Antarctic continent, including rhinoceros, elephants, lions, ostriches, etc.

Then there is a part of the preface inscription above, Matteo Ricci's self-preface and the inscriptions of Li Zhizao, Chen Minzhi, Yang Jingchun, and Qi Guangzong. There are 3 imprints in the picture, 2 of which are oval and 1 is square, all of which are the emblems of the Society of Jesus.

"This is a map drawn by my own people in the Ming Dynasty!" Xu Laowan only saw the words "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu" inscribed in the upper right corner of the picture.

"Not exactly, in fact this is just a scan of a map of the world that Matteo Ricci compiled during his Wanli years in China."

Who is Matteo Ricci Xu Laowan doesn't know the Dao, but he knows the Dao Wanli, Wanli has three major signs or something, he is most familiar with it, "Lao Huang, you said that our ancestors were too good, in the Ming Dynasty Wanli there was already such a decent map of the world, you look at the mountains and rivers, this terrain and territory is almost no different from our current map of the world!" ”

This is true, because even the four oceans are depicted on this map: the Atlantic Ocean, the Greater Eastern Ocean (i.e., the Pacific Ocean), the Lesser Western Ocean (i.e., the Indian Ocean), and the Ice Sea (i.e., the Arctic Ocean. Although the shapes of the continents and islands on the map are not correct, especially in the southern hemisphere, which is more different from the actual situation, in terms of the outline of the sea and land of the world, it is basically complete.

"Oh, hate that...... Roving bandits...... Wild boar skin ...... "Here it is again, Xu Laowan began to chant again."

Huang Shi couldn't help but have a headache, if Xu Laowan knew that his main task in the next stage was to beat the Ming Dynasty down, I don't know if Lu Dao would fight with him, and besides, no matter how Niu Fork this map is, it should be a Matteo Ricci cow, he came to China thousands of miles away, although it was said to pass on his own beliefs.

Of course, to be honest, the map of the world compiled by Matteo Ricci is mainly based on the map drawn by Ortilly and others, and the Chinese part of the map refers to the attached map in the "Unification Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty", Luo Hongxian's "Guangyu Map", Yu Shi's "Ancient and Modern Shape and Victory Map", Xu Shanji and Xu Shanshu's "Geography of the Son of Man" attached to the book "General Map of China's Three Dry Dragons" and "Yang Ziqi Bayu Map", etc., and also pay attention to absorbing the advantages of these maps.

Although there are still very inaccuracies and even errors in the outline and text description of this map, it was the most detailed map of the world in East Asia at that time, and it is indeed enough to prove that the Ming Dynasty had known the map of the whole world at that time.

And all this brilliance reached its peak in the Wanli period, and then began to enter the trough, so although Huangshi doesn't like Ming fans, he also understands their indisputable feelings for Da Ming's misfortune and anger.

Because since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there have been strange things one after another, although the "History of the Ming Dynasty" compiled by Zhang Tingyu, an important minister of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, recorded four names related to European countries, such as "Italy", "Franco", "Helan" and "Luzon", but it is only known in the "Atlantic".

Later, after being "verified" by officials of the Ministry of Rites, there was a record in the "Huidian" that there was no "Atlantic" in the "Western Zoli Country", so the information about this "Atlantic" became "absurd and unexaminable" or "its authenticity cannot be examined".

As for the name "Buddha Lang Ji", in the historical books and various works of the Qing Dynasty, it actually contains four meanings, including three countries and one weapon. Because the Qing Dynasty could not distinguish between Portugal and Spain for a long time, they were all referred to as "Franc Machine".

Later, the term "cannon" used by the Portuguese was added. After France came to China, because of the similar pronunciation of "France" and "Franc machine", France was once also called "Franc machine".

So much so that the Portuguese who have been in China for hundreds of years have no choice but to be called "Macao Yi" according to the place name. All Europeans who come to China are therefore sometimes referred to as "Western Australians".

The knowledge that the Ming Dynasty already possessed actually became a legend of "absurd Mokao" in the Qing Dynasty, and the real "legend of absurd Mokao" became the knowledge that people believed in during the Qing Dynasty - the Netherlands, France, England, and Gansila, there are still countries to examine, but the Atlantic, the small Western Ocean, where is the country?

Of course, the funniest thing is that in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Xu Tong, the minister at that time, he successively served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the head of the Hanlin Academy, and the chief master of the study, just such a character, he has a famous saying, "Xiban has teeth, grapes have teeth, teeth become a country, unheard of in history, unwritten, absurd, nothing more than this!" ”