Hearing Lin Ruo's words, Lin Qi blurted out and asked, "What is Tho but inkstone?" ”

Li Yan frowned, and said: "The Tho inkstone you are talking about, but during the Three Kingdoms period, when Zhuge Wuhou crossed Lushui and leveled southern Xinjiang, he accidentally obtained the 'Seven Star Inkstone'?" ”

Shopkeeper Yang exclaimed: "Seven Star Inkstone? ”

Lin Ruo nodded: "Exactly." ”

"Shopkeeper Yang, this thing is from the south, a place called Tho County?"

"Young Miss and Young Master Li are really knowledgeable, which makes the old man admire. Miss Shao guessed correctly, this inkstone is indeed from the land of southern Xinjiang, but it is unknown if it is not from this Tho County. The old man had only heard a little about the 'Seven Star Inkstone' from the storyteller, but he didn't expect to be lucky enough to see it! ”

Lin Ruomo rubbed the fine and slippery stone and said, "Mostly." Shopkeeper Yang, who did you get this Fang Tho inkstone? What is the price? ”

"It's a young man with a southern Xinjiang accent, who wants to raise money for his father's medicine, and asks several pawnshops, but those shopkeepers don't know the goods and refuse to accept them. I happened to be there and asked. He offered two hundred taels of silver, and although I did not know it, I thought it was a good good, and I remembered his filial piety, and gave him three hundred taels and bought it from him. ”

"Three hundred taels?" Lin Ruo screamed out in surprise.

Yang Zhuo's heart tightened, isn't the price high?

Li Yan laughed loudly on the side: "Shopkeeper Yang, you have picked up a big bargain!" This Tho but inkstone, not to mention three hundred taels of silver, is three hundred taels of gold, it is worth it! ”

"Really?"

Three hundred taels of silver and three hundred taels of gold, that's twenty times the price!

Lin Ruo was also a little excited at the moment: "Shopkeeper Yang, you hurry up and find someone, go find that young man from southern Xinjiang, his father's medicine money, we will go out, we want to see a doctor, we please!" If you know the location of the place of origin, quickly arrange someone to go over to mine, it's too late, but you have to let others take the lead! ”

When Yang Zhuo heard this, his little eyes flashed, and he immediately understood the trick, and immediately called the apprentice who had just helped him carry the box in, carefully instructed, and sent him to inquire about the whereabouts of the young man from southern Xinjiang immediately.

The faces of everyone in the inner room were all glowing, and their expectant eyes turned to the second treasure brought by Yang Zhuo - a sheepskin scroll.

Yang Zhuo carefully opened it and explained, "This is what I bought from a big food merchant, and the thing is indeed an antiquity, almost three or four hundred years ago. It looks like a map, but it's strange to look at. ”

The marks on the parchment scroll looked like a map, with strange words written on it. Everyone was confused and didn't know why, but Lin Ruo froze in place.

"Ah Ruo, what's wrong with you?"

Li Yan was the first to notice Lin Ruo's abnormality and asked with concern.

Lin Ruo froze for a long time before he came to his senses, pointed to the sheepskin scroll with a concerned look around him, and muttered, "I'm fine......"

She looks like she's fine! Not to mention Lin Qian and Li Yan, even Lin Qi doesn't believe it!

"Second sister, is there something wrong with this thing? How does it look like ...... Hooked your soul away? ”

Lin Ruo shook his head, took a long deep breath a few times, and then said slowly: "There is nothing wrong with things, I just didn't expect to really see this map......

"Yutu? What kind of map is this? ”

"Second sister, have you seen this map?"

Lin Qian, Lin Qi, Li Yan and Yang Zhuo all looked at Lin Ruo, waiting for her to explain where the country was depicted on this sheepskin scroll.

Lin Ruo thought about it for a while, and said cautiously: "By chance, I saw it in an ancient book......

This is Lin Ruo's commonly used excuse, Lin Qian, Lin Qi and Yang Zhuo all nodded, only Li Yan frowned slightly. He knew all of Lin Ruo's secrets, and naturally realized that this was just her cover-up.

The parchment scroll in front of her is true, but it is not something that Lin Ruo saw by chance from ancient books, but something she saw or knew when she was still Gu Mengyao!

Li Yan's expectation was indeed true.

Once as an excellent liberal arts student, she was quite good at geography, especially the first-hand map drawing, which was really beautiful!

She didn't recognize the words on this parchment, but she couldn't be mistaken about this epoch-making map—it was the first map of the world in human history, written by Ptolemy.

Although the world depicted on his map is not only incomplete, the continents are only Asia, Europe and Libya, that is, Africa, and the oceans are only the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; And there are many fallacies, such as the close connection between Africa and Antarctica, and so on. But in the second century A.D., Ptolemy's map of the world, using latitude and longitude and celestial calculations, was obviously much more reliable than those ethereal myths and hearsay travelogues.

And on it, there was already a place for China, and at that time, they made China the "country of silk".

After all, the real map of the world was gradually perfected in the 16th century, after Columbus discovered the New World and Magellan sailed around the world. The Europa were able to discover the New World of America thanks to this map of the world in the second century A.D. and Ptolemy's Geography.

According to Yang Zhuo, this parchment scroll is an antiquity from three or four hundred years ago, so it can be explained that it is not an original, but a copy and drawing by later generations. The value of this map is to be discussed in two ways.

As for the reason why it was able to spread to the Great Food Country, Lin Ruo vaguely remembered that he had read in a book that in the ninth century AD, Ptolemy's "Geography" had been translated into Arabic.

She didn't know how many centuries A.D. the history of Donglu should be, but Donglu was in the Tang Dynasty, and even passed the ninth century. It is not too surprising that Yang Zhuo was able to buy this picture from the Great Food Merchant.

Just, how to explain it?

Lin Ruo was silent, looking at the sheepskin map, a little nerve-wracking.

If you just explain to Li Yan, it would be good to tell the truth, but Lin Qian and Lin Qi still don't know her true details, let alone Yang Zhuo present.

Maritime trade, this is an area that Lin Ruo has not had time to plan in detail.

But if you want to sit on a wealth that can compete with the great imperial power, overseas gold and maritime trade are definitely a piece that cannot be ignored. Back in the day, Portugal and Spain, which had not yet experienced the industrial revolution and the electrical revolution, became the world hegemon by virtue of this vast sea plunder! Later, the Netherlands, relying on the prestige of the "coachman of the sea", succeeded Spain and Portugal as maritime supremacy.

They relied on nothing more than wooden brigs. And in the Ming Dynasty of their contemporaries, the shipbuilding industry has long been beyond their reach.

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.