As soon as he woke up, Nie Peng took his mobile phone into the bathroom, which was a pastime to pass the time.

When I connected to the Internet, I saw Jiaying's news pop up and wrote a long text. Even he slid his fingers and pulled for a long time before he found the article:

[Sister pondered for a long time last night, and I think it would be more helpful to tell you a story, so calm down and take a look.

The story is about Columbus.

You should know that Columbus was a hero, both in Spain and in world history, and deservedly the first to reach the New World for commercial gain.

You might be the second.

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451 into a family of workshop owners of Jewish descent, who professed Christianity. Due to his modest wealth, he received only a short period of formal education. However, since he was a teenager, he liked to watch "The Travels of Mark Polo" very much, and he can be regarded as an out-and-out money worshipper.

In 1465, at the age of 14, Columbus boarded a freighter for the first time as a sailor, and from that moment on, the doctrine of the circle of the earth was imprinted in his bones and lingered.

In 1476, during a caravan voyage, Columbus's fleet was attacked by the Portuguese, and the captured Columbus took the opportunity to come to the "explorer" transition, where he learned more about navigation, participated in many ocean voyages, became familiar with the use of compasses, charts and various new nautical instruments, and mastered the method of determining the position of ships by using the position of the sun and stars.

Over the course of eight years, the Portuguese trained him to become an accomplished navigator.

However, due to the perception of the time, it was generally believed that the ocean was only a finite and narrow body of water. And a Portuguese feat changed the situation: Prince Enrique sent a small fleet to sail south along the west coast of the continent. During that time, they harvested abundant goods, such as spices, which allowed Portugal's wealth to skyrocket.

However, it was a long and winding route, which made the adventurous Columbus reluctant to give up, and in his imagination: to the west, maybe more could be gained.

So he came up with a new business plan, which was to sail west to the east along the new route.

At the time, it was a high-stakes and highly creative project. No one has ever tried it, and there is a high risk of failure, but it is also possible to get higher returns.

However, few are convinced.

At that time, the cost of going to sea was also very high, almost equivalent to a person with an annual salary of one million, and he had to take out 30 million at one time. If you convert it to the same value, that's 30 years, how many 30 years can a person have in a lifetime?

As a result, Columbus traveled around the world, lobbying the aristocracy and wealthy merchants of the time. This is another eight years.

Here's an interesting story, so I might as well tell you.

Having lived in Portugal for many years, Columbus's first lobbying target naturally chose the Portuguese royal family, but the speech was very successful, but it went in the wrong direction, and he targeted the unofficial academic council, a presence that was used by the Portuguese royal family as a think tank.

As a result, the Portuguese experts, who thought they were smart, rejected his plan.

If this is the end of the matter, then perhaps the discovery of the American continent will drag on for another half a century. However, fate always favors the brave.

Columbus, who suffered a failure, took his son and returned to Spain, and when they passed by a convent to rest, they met the abbot, and by chance, Columbus took advantage of the abbot's relationship to submit the plan to the queen.

Thus, there was the famous "Santa Fe Agreement". It's a legal robbery license.

The queen used the crown jewel as collateral to help him raise 70% of the funds, and Columbus himself took advantage of the east wind to lobby for the remaining funds.

So from 92 years to 1502, Columbus finally discovered the route from Europe to North America.

This led directly to the shift of the economic center of Europe, and by the end of the 16th century, more than 80% of the world's total gold and silver production had been occupied by Spain.

It's all about whether you can believe it or not. 】

Nie Peng looked at the time when the message was sent, half past four in the morning.

In other words, Jiaying was still awake an hour ago.

At this moment, Nie Peng suddenly understood that he couldn't explain anything to Jiaying, and even confessed as if he was completing the task, what went wrong:

It's just that before that, he hadn't really been moved.

At this moment, he deeply felt an unprecedented sense of urgency, and he desperately wanted to rush to Jiaying and hold her tightly in his arms. Those small emotions that were originally shy and reserved have become vanished in the face of such an impulse.

[Have you rested?] A WeChat message was sent over, Nie Peng was silently thinking in his heart, and his lips were unconsciously counting the seconds.

1、2、3。。。

When Nie Peng counted to 10, Jiaying sent a reply.

[Wait for me to pass]

Without saying a word, I ran out of the door with my pants, and then hurriedly ran back and pressed the flush button on the toilet, and then cleaned up my personal hygiene as quickly as possible, and the bathroom suddenly clanged.

After brushing and combing his hair at a speed that he had almost never done before, the rippling heart had long since simulated the scene of the meeting. When he passed by the table, he grabbed a pie, put it in his mouth, hurriedly put on his clothes, and ran out of the door.

"Nie Peng!" Nie's mother chased out the door and shouted at her son, who had already run down the stairs.

"Do you remember to buy a few pots of flowers for your home today and decorate them"

"Got it...

By the time the reply reached Nie's mother's ears, the person had already run far, far away.

In the early morning, there are few cars on the road, not even many taxis, and occasionally a few passes, all of which are fully loaded, and for someone who has been impatient for a long time, perhaps taking a taxi while running along the road is the most efficient way.

So I saw a man running at a slower speed than running on the side of the road where there were few pedestrians, occasionally stretching out his hand to shake the approaching taxi, and when he saw that there was no sign of stopping, he ran again with his head buried in his head, and then waved again, and ran again.

By the time he finally got in the car, he was out of breath and had run half of the starting price.

Plopping, plopping, his heartbeat was like a drum, and with the longing of the person he was about to see his sweetheart, Nie Peng felt that this unspeakable throbbing was not much easier than when he was on the moon and just climbed out of that deep crater.

Even, there is a heavy happiness.