Chapter 18: Jingwei [1]

Zhu Houhuang said to Wu Ming: "For the rest of the period, there is nothing else, just practice every day, practice these into their bones, even if they die, they dare not disobey." ”

Wu Ming said: "Yes." ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Then I will leave it to you here." ”

Cultivating the army is sometimes very boring, and there is a lot of repetitive training every day. Zhu Houhuang can't tie all his time here.

He also has a new task, which is to draw maps, to make accurate maps.

"Shizi here, please," a white-haired old man walked towards Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang said: "You are the father-in-law of the Seal Ribbon Prison." ”

Old man Wei said: "It is the slave maid, the emperor handed over the matter of drawing the terrain of the world to the slave maid, and the slave and maid wanted to do it well, but in addition to the sand table drawn in other places inside and outside Beijing, His Majesty was not satisfied with it, so it was very difficult for the slave and maid to do it, and the emperor asked the slave and the maid to ask the prince for advice, but unfortunately the prince has been training." Today, the son of the world can be regarded as free. He also asked the prince to give the slave and maid an idea. ”

Although Emperor Zhengde is a little nonsense, he is not a master who is easy to fool, although these military attaches around him, although they have misbehaved, but they are still very qualified in their own positions, such as Jiang Bin, no, the current Zhu Bin, was originally meritorious because of the rebellion of Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi, which can be regarded as promotion and reuse. He ran in Xuanfu, Shandong, and Henan. For the sand table sent up below, you can see at a glance that something is wrong. Officers like him are not one or two, Zhengde transferred four foreign armies into Beijing, although he was criticized by civilian officials, but in fact he had to admit that these four armies were all armies that could recruit and fight well, and the officers among them were well aware of the situation in the border area. Let him draw a picture and set up a sand table, they may not be able to make it, but after they get it, they can still see it if it doesn't look like it.

This old man Wei is an old man in the previous dynasty, he was in the palace during the Chenghua period, and he did not have any great achievements, and he got through step by step to the palm seal eunuch of the seal and ribbon prison, but the seal of the silk eunuch is in charge of the ancient and modern collection library and iron coupons, amnesty, yellow, seal letters, books, surveys, verifications, letters, etc. It can be regarded as a real power department, but this old man, but an old man with qualifications, can barely support this seal prison.

This matter fell into the hands of Father-in-law Wei.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Don't worry, let's go and see your current achievements first." ”

Old man Wei took Zhu Houhuang in the palace, turned around several times, and finally came to the corner of the seal prison.

Countless small tunings in the whole hall are busy, and maps are hung on the walls in all directions, like door curtains, there are maps of all dynasties, but the most are still the maps of this dynasty, and there are countless maps next to them. It is worthy of being in charge of the world's books, the map here is quite rich, and Zhu Houhuang also saw a map of Yu traces here.

In this map, the outline of the coastline is almost exactly the same as on a modern map. Let Zhu Houhuang breathtaking.

Zhu Houhuang looked at the surrounding maps, and then looked at the sand table in the middle of the main hall.

The sand table in the middle of the main hall is not a whole piece, but a table with a square size of one meter, and there are dozens of pieces. The terrain on each piece is different.

Zhu Houhuang could see that the sand tables in various places were divided into pieces, and finally combined into a large sand table. The geography of Kyushu in the world is all included.

Now it's just the beginning, starting with Beijing.

With Zhu Houhuang's understanding of Beijing, he couldn't see anything wrong, so he knew that this old man was giving himself face, so he said so. Although the whole sand table has not been completely completed, there is already a sense of majesty. I want to come to Zhengde to see the finished product, and I won't study what is wrong. It's only a big difference, and it's good to do the nine-sided area carefully.

However, this is not what Zhu Houhuang wants.

Zhu Houhuang asked: "Father-in-law Wei, do you have a Nanyang chart?" ”

Father-in-law Wei said: "Of course there is, Zheng He's father-in-law's chart at the beginning, there is still a copy here." ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little surprised. said: "I didn't hear that this Zheng He chart has been burned by the Ministry of War." ”

Father-in-law Wei pouted and said: "The part of the military department is burned, no matter what is in the world, it has always been in duplicate, there are things outside, all of them are in the inside, there are no outside, there are also in the inside, there is no part of the military department, and there are still miscellaneous families here." The boys went to move out the charts of Zheng He's father-in-law. A few little eunuchs immediately obeyed the order.

After a while, several heavy boxes were lifted. All of them are mahogany inlaid with copper boxes, which look very magnificent. Father-in-law Wei opened the big lock, lifted the box and said: "Father-in-law Zheng He is a role model for father-in-law in the palace, so this father-in-law Zheng He's things are all under the care of the father-in-law here, there is no outside the palace, but there will definitely be no inside the palace."

A few little eunuchs unfolded a large map, which was three meters long and one meter wide on one side, with a total of six sides, drawing a clear chart from Southeast Asia to East Africa. And on the way, there are many small characters written in small characters, which are all signs of needle path.

For example, a certain star can be seen in a certain place, and a certain star can be seen from a certain angle.

It's just that Zhu Houhuang doesn't know anything about astronomy, so he can't understand this sign, but even so, this map is priceless in Zhu Houhuang's opinion.

Zhu Houhuang thought of what the father-in-law said: "The father-in-law also knows that he is good at martial arts and averse to literature today. And if you want to march and fight, you have to make a plan. I have a Western cartography method, I don't know if my father-in-law wants to hear it? ”

Father-in-law Wei had a smile on his face, but he secretly despised Zhu Houhuang in his heart, a good son, he didn't learn what his ancestors left behind, but learned what Western cartography was. It's really inexplicable. It's just that he didn't leak his face at all, and said, "The son of the world, please speak." ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "But I don't know that Gonggong Wei supports Hun Tian Theory, Gai Tian Theory, or Xuanye Theory?" ”

The Hun Tian Theory, the Gai Tian Theory, and the Xuan Ye Theory are the three ancient Chinese cosmic thoughts, among which the Hun Tian Theory is that the Hun Tian is like a chicken, the celestial body is round like a springy egg, and the earth is like a chicken in the middle of the yellow, living alone in it. "Gai Tian said, that is, the so-called heaven is round and the place is said, the sky is like Luo Gai, and the earth is like a chessboard, and Xuan Ye says that the sun, moon and stars naturally float in the void, and their trademarks must be angry."

These three ideas almost cover the ancient Chinese cosmology.

Father-in-law Wei didn't know what this Zhu Houhuang wanted to say, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this?" ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Whether it is Hun Tian or Xuanye, it shows a problem, that is, the earth under our feet is a round ball. Zhu Houhuang glanced at Father-in-law Wei, but Father-in-law Wei didn't have any expression, just made a deaf gesture. Zhu Houhuang was ready to convince Father-in-law Wei that the earth was round, but he didn't know that Father-in-law Wei didn't care about this thing.

Whether the earth is round or square, I just ask, is it good for me? Therefore, Father-in-law Wei directly omitted Zhu Houhuang's sentence and listened to the text behind.

Zhu Houhuang said: "In Zheng He's father-in-law's charts, many of them mention needle paths. And all the needle paths use the stars to locate the position on the sea. We know that the earth is a round ball, so why not use the stars of Zhou Tian to locate the places? ”

Father-in-law Wei looked confused, and couldn't understand what Zhu Houhuang meant, and finally Father-in-law Wei said: "Shizi, I don't understand?" Can you be more specific? “

Zhu Houhuang said: "Find a ball, or a bead." ”

Father-in-law Wei immediately said, "Little rabbit, don't go quickly." Under the urging of his father-in-law, after a while, a round stone was sent to Zhu Houhuang's hand.

Zhu Houhuang held the stone beads in his hand, but it was the size of a fist, and there was still some pulp on it. It looks familiar, and someone should have played with it often. He glanced slightly, pointed to the surface of the stone bead in his hand and said, "We take the longitudinal line as the warp and the horizontal line as the weft." The whole earth is divided into countless small parts, so that the location of each place can be determined, so that it can be accurately located, combined with field surveys, to draw a highly accurate map. ”

Father-in-law Wei looked at it, still confused, and said, "But how to do it?" ”