Lin Ruo is not clear about how the shipbuilding technology of Donglu compares with the Ming Dynasty, but if it is compared with the shipbuilding technology of the Europa, Lin Ruo is still full of confidence - not that she boasts, most of the craftsmen in Donglu are in the hands of the Lin family, and the dozen or so sand boats of the Jinling royal family are proof.

Besides, under the heavy reward, why worry about not having excellent craftsmen to build first-class ships that can ride the wind and waves?

This is God who has put the opportunity in front of her!

Gold, diamonds, spices, crops...... The whole nine yards.

That's endless wealth!

An opportunity hundreds of years earlier than Europa, how could you miss it!

As for the explanation......

Lin Ruo stepped forward, carefully put away the sheepskin map, wrapped it back into the oil paper, met the eyes of the four suspicious foxes, and said to Yang Zhuo: "Shopkeeper Yang, the matter of this sheepskin scroll, go out of this door, don't talk about it to anyone again!" ”

Looking at Lin Ruo's fierce gaze, Yang Zhuo felt a little uneasy in his heart: "Young Miss, don't worry. ”

No matter where the capital is, the leakage of the map is a fatal crisis.

Yang Zhuo knew the severity, but Lin Ruo still wanted to give him a reasonable explanation: "I once read an anecdote in a volume of ancient books of Fanbang, saying that in the neighboring countries of the Fanbang country, there is an excellent wise man who can know astronomy when he looks up, and can look up geography when he looks down. He drew a picture and said, 'This is the world,' and presented it to the king of Fanguo. The king did not believe it, but he was concerned about the prestige of the wise man, so he asked people to follow the picture drawn by the wise man to explore the 'world' in the mouth of the wise man. ”

"And then?"

Lin Qi likes to listen to Lin Ruo tell these strange anecdotes the most, and he listens to them with relish, and unconsciously urges Lin Ruo to go on.

"Naturally, it didn't work out. The search party has been gone for several years and has not been heard from. ”

"Huh? How so? ”

Lin Qi was quite disappointed.

Li Yan thought for a moment and said: "I remember, Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ren Yin in November of the third year of Yangjia, Zhang Heng, who invented the geodynamic instrument, because one of the dragon machines of the geokinetic instrument suddenly started, spit out a copper ball and fell into the mouth of the toad, Zhang Heng said that there was a ground movement in that direction. Emperor Hanshun said that his demonic words confused the public, and he wanted to ask for beheading. However, under Zhang Heng's efforts, he decided to send someone to verify and confirm that there was indeed a ground movement in Longxi. Luoyang and Longxi are thousands of miles apart, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth, and I am a big country in the east, and now it will take several months to go back and forth. Perhaps the 'world' is too big for the exploration team to complete, but it is also possible. ”

Lin Ruo nodded: "At that time, the wise man also justified it. Therefore, the king of Fanguo sent several groups of explorers to follow the instructions of the sheepskin painting to disperse and explore, spending a lot of manpower and financial resources, but still without success. None of those explorers returned. The families of the explorers began to riot and demand that the king execute the wise man. Later, the king burned the wise man to death. ”

Lin Qi's eyes widened: "Burned, burned to death?" ”

"Well, burned."

This kind of death can best be explained.

Misleading the public, of course, they must be burned at the stake!

Lin Qi sighed: "Sure enough, it's an uneducated barbarian......

Yang Zhuo nodded in agreement.

It was Li Yan who continued to ask: "What about later?" The group of explorers still hasn't returned? ”

Lin Ruo shook his head and continued to talk nonsense without guilt: "There is no one, until the son of the king of Fanguo succeeds to the throne, no one has returned." Some people didn't believe it, so they secretly went to the students of the wise man, copied the map of the 'world' left by the wise man, and tried to try again, but there was no follow-up. Therefore, this map of the 'world' was considered hoodoo and was sealed. ”

Lin Qian and Yang Zhuo were older after all, and they were quite afraid of these so-called "ominous" things, and hurriedly suggested that Lin Ruo burn them.

Lin Ruo shook his head: "This is not painted by that wise man, but copied by later generations, don't worry." So, Shopkeeper Yang, after you leave here......"

Without waiting for Lin Ruo to finish speaking, Yang Zhuo hurriedly said: "Don't worry, young lady, I won't say a word!" ”

It's about to be the New Year, but it's so unlucky to hear such bad news!

Yang Zhuo had a sad face, and while feeling unlucky, he also felt a little guilty about the Lin family: Why did he send such a bad thing to the owner during the Chinese New Year?

Fortunately, Lin Ruo didn't care and sent him away.

Yang Zhuo walked away, waited out of the Lin Mansion, felt the biting chill in this winter, inexplicably felt a chill on the back of his neck, shivered for a while, and felt the need to go to the temple to burn incense, ask the Buddha and Bodhisattva to bless and get rid of bad luck.

I made up my mind at the moment, and without further ado, I rushed in the direction of the Temple of Mercy and Grace outside the city.

In the inner room, only four people remained.

The shopkeepers have all finished reporting and dispersed one by one.

Seeing that Lin Ruo had reopened the "ominous" sheepskin map, and his white fingertips rubbed on it repeatedly, Lin Qian frowned and reminded: "Ah Ruo, let's burn this thing!" ”

"Burned?" Lin Ruo raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Uncle, this can't be burned!" ”

"Why?"

Lin Ruo smiled and said nothing, Li Yan was the first to understand the meaning of her smile, and said with relief: "Uncle Lin, don't worry, I think, Ah Ruo must have something to say, and he can't say it in front of Shopkeeper Yang, so he scared people away." ”

"Really?"

Lin Ruo smiled: "Those who know me, Brother Mo Ruo Huaijin!" ”

"Huh? Second sister, you just Kuang us? ”

Lin Ruo shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not Quankuang. This parchment is indeed a copy of the 'world' drawn by the wise man of Fanbang, but he was not burned to death, but no one has explored the 'world' according to the picture drawn on this map. ”

Lin Qi was so shocked that his jaw dropped: "So ......"

So, all the conclusive words just now were made up?

What "hoodoo" is nothing?

It's too true!

Everybody's believing it, okay?

Well, it seems that only Li Yan believed half of it......

"What's going on?"

"Uncle, look!" Lin Ruo pointed to the location of Donglu on the map and said, "Here, now it is Donglu." But at that time, it was called the 'Land of Silk'. Because Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions at that time, he let Fanbang in the Western Regions know the existence of the Central Plains. This is Tianzhu, here is Dashi, here is ......"

Lin Ruo pointed out the location on the parchment map one by one, and there were many places in it that the other three had never heard of.

Under Lin Qian and Lin Qi's surprised gazes, as well as Li Yan's thoughtful expressions, Lin Ruo continued to explain: "Although the boundary is very different, this wise man, through astronomical calculations, has marked the location of at least half of the 'world'. ”

"Half?" Lin Qi looked at Lin Ruo in surprise, "Second sister, how do you know, there is only half of it?" ”

Belch......

This one......

Lin Ruo didn't know how to explain it.

But Li Yan helped her out of the siege: "It can't be seen from some strange anecdote, right?" ”

Lin Ruo is well-read and knowledgeable, but he never remembers the name of the book, which is a well-known thing in the Lin family.

Lin Qian and Lin Qi looked at her awkward laughter, and knew that Li Yan had broken the truth, and they didn't care about it anymore.

"Then Ah Ruo, what are you going to do with this thing?"

Lin Ruo shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet." But ......"

A sly smile evoked: "This is the wealth that God gave us to the Lin family, we can't let the opportunity slip away from us!" ”

Splashing wealth?

The three of them looked at Lin Ruo, still puzzled.

But since Lin Ruo is so sure, it will definitely not be fake!