The earth is round!

After Chen Duan and his entourage returned to Zhenhai, the news quickly spread to all the counties and territories in the entire Xia Kingdom at an alarming speed, and then spread to the ears of the people of the surrounding countries along the dense trade routes.

If you tell him such a thing in modern society, he will definitely look down on you with a neurotic look, and then say to you with certainty, "Aren't you talking nonsense?"

But for those who have not experienced the information explosion in ancient times, such a news that has been experienced by someone is shocking enough!

In the mainstream public opinion, the Chinese people have lived for thousands of years, and now you suddenly tell them that the earth under their feet is a round sphere, many people will inevitably say that they cannot understand it, even if the geography of the East China Sea has been promoted for many years.

Over the years, although the geography advocated by Wang Ze has been popularized in various schools in the East China Sea, after all, these can only affect those young children, and have little impact on young people who have become adults, mainly technical education.

For adults and the elderly, such education is even rarer, and these people have become more stereotyped and more stubborn, even if they were told in the past that the earth is round, they will not believe it.

With the influx of a large number of Han people in Sanqi, Nanchen and other places over the years, this situation has increased a large number of people who are not particularly convinced of the Haotian God Sect, especially some Futu Sect believers, or believers of other religions, who even sneer at the Haotian God Sect's ideas.

In their opinion, the statement of the Haotian God Sect is simply nonsense, if the earth under their feet is a round ball, and this ball will still rotate, then when this ball turns, won't they fall down, even if someone uses the earth's gravity to convince them, it is useless.

These people are the most stubborn people for whom they trust only their own analysis and judgment, and they do not want to believe the truth even when others put it before them.

When Chen Duan, who had been traveling eastward, suddenly appeared from Great Qin in the extreme west and returned to the Xia Kingdom, the personal practice of this Haotian Daoist really proved that the theory that if you keep driving eastward, you can reach the place where you set off.

A large number of Han people who were originally convinced of the Haotian God Sect were completely conquered, in their opinion, the Haotian God Sect put forward this theory very early, so it must have been guided by Haotian God, and the first to put forward these was Wang Ze, so Wang Ze was ordered as an apprentice by the Antarctic Immortal Emperor, and it was turned out again and hyped up.

Not to mention anything else, just the storytellers from all over the Xia Kingdom have really made a fortune, and in their witty words, the Antarctic Immortal Emperor has become a doppelganger and a legal minister of Haotian God, that is to say, Wang Ze has become a disciple and successor of Haotian God!

Although Wang Ze was a little crying and laughing at these statements, he still acquiesced, anyway, no matter how he explained it, no one believed it, in ancient times when the ghosts and gods were very loud, Wang Ze had done so many great things since he was a child, if there was no fairy to guide him, how could he have done it today?

In order to entertain Chen Duan, Mi Ke and others, Wang Ze simply threw his third brother Wang Yu to his second brother Wang Hui to greet him, and he toasted the returning heroes in each seat.

This unpretentious and extremely important gesture moved everyone's eyes to tears, especially Mi Ke's moved tears at the same time, he also wept bitterly and declared that he must continue to work hard for the interests of Xia Guo, and he must be so appreciative of Wang Ze.

This made Wang Ze happy and surprised, but also full of emotion, accidentally fooling the heart of a pure child, but it really didn't mean it!

Soon after Chen Duan's return, Lu Wangzhi, Li Jie, and Zhou Cheng, among Liu Qing's major disciples, gathered in Zhenhai under the convening of Wang Ze, and then there was extremely shocking news that Wang Ze was going to rectify the Haotian God Sect and begin to form the highest authority of the Haotian God Sect!

Although very early, Wang Ze established a very complete missionary system of the Haotian God Sect with the assistance of Liu Qing, but at the earliest time, the population of the Xia Kingdom was very small, and under the restriction of the ratio of Taoist priests to the people to one thousand, the Haotian God Sect was only a few hundred people, and there was no need for any supreme organization.

But now that the population of the entire Xia Kingdom has broken through to four million, the number of Taoist priests of the Haotian God Sect has also reached more than 3,000 people, and these Taoist priests are distributed in the range of tens of thousands of miles from east, west, north and south.

In the past, Wang Ze may not have cared about these differences, but after personally inspecting the Roman Empire and knowing what role the differences of various Christian denominations played in the decline of the Roman Empire, Wang Ze had to pay attention to this matter.

After consulting with several old ministers such as Liu Xin, Yang Ku, Lu Wen, and Xiao Jing, Wang Ze finally decided to establish the Heavenly Dao Academy, the supreme authority of the Haotian God Sect that had been planned long ---ago. China

At this point, the Haotian God Sect has finally formed a complete system, from the lowest level of Taoist Tong-Gong-Daoist Priest-Transmission Taoist-Wine Sacrifice Taoist-Law Enforcement Taoist-Heavenly Master Taoist, a total of six levels and eighteen grades.

Among these six levels of Taoists, each level is divided into upper, middle and lower grades, so that the entire system of the Haotian God Sect has finally become a complete system!

Since then, the Haotian God Cult has Liu Qing as the spiritual leader, and Wang Ze and his descendants as the protector king, the descendants of the Haotian God, and the Haotian God Cult is to assist the protector king to calm people's spiritual world.

At this conference, Lu Wangzhi, Zhou Cheng, Li Jie, Chen Duan, and several other leaders of the Southern Dynasty Daomen who were willing to participate in the Haotian God Sect, a total of nine people became the first 'Heavenly Dao Academy' Heavenly Master Dao Master, responsible for the operation of the entire Heavenly Dao Academy.

The Heavenly Dao Yuan is the highest authority of the entire Haotian God Sect, and has the power to make clear provisions on all doctrinal differences in the texts of the Haotian God Sect.

The Heavenly Dao Academy is only the highest institution of religion, but he has no independent judicial power and law enforcement power, and his property is entrusted to a special fund for management, so it cannot threaten the stability of the power of the Xia Kingdom.

Moreover, the Heavenly Master Daoist of the Heavenly Dao Academy is not a lifelong system, but every ten years, the Taoist priests of each county will uniformly elect the representatives of each county, and then these representatives will elect suitable candidates for the Heavenly Master Dao Chief, and finally it will take effect only with the approval of His Majesty the King.

Under the "Heavenly Dao Academy", according to the population and area of each county, a bishopric will be set up according to three or five counties, and the law enforcement Taoist priests are responsible for the teaching work in the area.

In the same way, the Taoist priests and sacrificial Taoist priests in various counties were also produced under the same principle, with such supervision and the management of the government, Wang Ze was not worried that the Haotian God Sect in the Xia Kingdom would become a terrifying thing like the Holy See in the future.

At the same time that the Haotian God Sect was reorganized by Wang Ze, dozens of ships set sail without seeing them off, and the destination of this fleet was not anywhere else, it was the American continent that Chen Duan and his party had been to before.

After Chen Duan returned to the East China Sea, under Wang Ze's orders, scholars in the East China Sea began to name the oceans and continents that had been discovered.

With the cottage of Sanqi Changguang County as the zero degree longitude, and then according to the standards of later generations, the Pacific Ocean became the Eastern Ocean, the Indian Ocean is still the Western Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean of later generations is officially called the Taixi Ocean, but the people are called the Atlantic.

The land is divided into nine continents according to geography and culture, among which the land where the Xia Kingdom and the Central Plains China countries are located is called the Middle Earth Divine Continent, which includes most of the Asian lands except South Asia and West Asia, and is also the largest continent in terms of area.

Then the continent of Africa in the European population was called Kunlun (Africa), the Arab region in later generations was called Tianfangzhou, and the European part was named Taixi.

As for the American continent explored by Chen Duan and his entourage, they are named after the three immortal mountains on the sea in the original mythology, which are called: Penglai Island (North America), Fangzhang Island (Central America), and Yingzhou (South America).

Further south in the South Seas, Australia, which had only explored a part of the northern coastline just now, was named Yanfu Island (Australia) because of the hot weather, and Antarctica, which has not yet been discovered, was discovered by navigators in Xia hundreds of years later and named it Ice Continent.

Wang Ze of the other continents can't be taken care of for the time being, but how can the American continent newly discovered by Chen Duan not be occupied in a hurry, and now the Xia Kingdom is not without that condition.

Although Wang Ze could not fully occupy the American continent for a while, he could still do some things on the west coast of North America, which was the closest to the west coast of North America, and the Whale Island whaling team had set up many supply points in the northern part of the American continent, and even Chen Duan had built three castles in Panama in the future.

Wang Ze can completely establish his own strongholds according to these, although the population of Xia Kingdom itself is very small now, but it can occupy a few strongholds first, and then the population will gradually increase and then immigrate on a large scale!

In any case, Donghai City, located in the Panama region of the later generations, can be regarded as the farthest land from the Xia Kingdom itself, Wang Ze thought proudly in his heart, in the future, his buddies can use exile for 30,000 li to scare people.

After dealing with these messy things, Wang Ze had a noisy New Year, and finally began to set his sights on the battlefield against Goguryeo.