Yan Siqi withdrew his gaze from the vast sea and landed on Zheng Haizhu's eyes reflecting the high mast.

"You say it's right or wrong, how do you say it?"

Zheng Haizhu said in a harmonious voice: "Brother Yan, Shen Wansan is a huge rich, they were punished and their homes were raided, and their banquet high-rise collapsed overnight, because they are just extremely rich, rich but have no soldiers, and they are in a corner of the city or a corner of peace, in the eyes of the imperial court, of course, they are just a money bag, if they want to dig out, they will be emptied, and they will be thrown away." In the Jiangnan area of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Huaiyang, such a luxury family that seems to be rich and rivals the country, but is actually walking on thin ice, all dynasties, hemp is like a carp crossing the river, and the end is miserable. But Brother Yan, you are different from them, you, Taiwan's propaganda envoy, are earning your own money while guarding the Ming Dynasty. The court collects your tribute, filial piety taxes and silver, and does not spend a penny on your soldiers, how can they be willing to kill you? Unless ......"

Zheng Haizhu stopped and pointed to the sky above him.

"Unless, the Son of Heaven listens to slander and thinks that you are going to rebel. Or, as you go downhill, a new right-hand man will appear, and the court will replace you with him. ”

Yan Siqi narrowed his eyes, and suddenly realized: "Ah Zhu, what you said reminds me of the Liaodong Jiangmen Li Chengliang family that General Mao told me before. ”

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "Yes, I am in Liaoyang this time, and I have seen and heard a lot of situations. The Li family is in Liaodong, what business is not done, what money cannot be made? But they also have troops, and they are indeed on the side, so even if the Beijing division continues to have officials to arrange the Li family, even if the governor of Liaodong or the general army are no longer the people Li Chengliang was good friends with, the Li family is still safe and sound. By the way, Brother Yan, I'll show you something. ”

The two entered the sheltered cabin, and Zheng Shoukuan sent a burden.

The thick cover bag made of Songjiang leaf reed cloth has a layer of waterproof oiled paper inside.

Zheng Haizhu carefully opened it, took out a scroll and unfolded it, it was a map more than four feet wide and two feet high.

Yan Siqi took a closer look, although he could see at a glance that it belonged to the map of the sea frontier, but it was a perspective that he had never seen before.

Zheng Haizhu's finger landed on the northwest of the central crosshair in the map.

She lit a piece of land like camphor leaves and said, "Brother Yan, we are here, this is Taiwan." ”

Starting from Taiwan, Yan Siqi quickly found Penghu Island, Zhangzhou Yuegang, Ningbo Shuangyu Port, and found the long and magnificent coastline of the Ming Dynasty, and the small countries of Japan, Luzon, Champong, and Siam.

But what really excited him was that outside the "Asian" continent where Yu Daming was located, at the left and right ends of this map, Yan Siqi found four continents with the names "Europa", "Leviia", "Northern Amorica" and "Southern Amerika" written on them.

Between these five continents, there is a large blue color marked with the words "Little Oriental Ocean", "Great Eastern Ocean", "Small Western Ocean", "Atlantic Ocean", "North Sea", etc., which are the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Arctic Ocean in later generations.

Since escaping to Hirado, Japan, Yan Siqi has had countless dealings with Portugal, Spain, and the Dutch in his ten years of reckless career, but it is the first time that he has found familiar place names such as "Franky" and "Italy" on the clearly graphically illustrated "Europa" continent, as well as the place names of "Chile" and other places such as "Amerika do Sul" that he heard from the Chinese in Luzon.

Zheng Haizhu looked at the changes on Yan Siqi's face.

Yan Siqi's reaction, although she expected it, still made her feel a kind of joy and happiness that the sword rewarded her confidant and the pearl did not have a secret investment.

Only a Chinese like Yan Siqi, who is full of adventure and pioneering will and looks to the ocean, can show an expression of the world when he sees this Chinese version of the map of the world.

Zheng Haizhu said: "Brother Yan, this is the sea and land of all countries where we live with our friends and our enemies. ”

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When Zheng Haizhu visited Taiwan again, he brought this map from Li Zhizao's hand.

As Xu Guangqi's proud protégé, Li Zhizao and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci jointly drew a Chinese version of the world map, which was highly praised by later scholars: "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu".

This map is ten feet wide and six feet high, perhaps considering the sacred will of Chenghuan, Li Zhizao and Matteo Ricci, placing the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the center, but it also expounds the idea that the earth is a circle and that it is not a wild land outside the Ming Dynasty.

The Wanli Emperor, who was in strong opposition to his ministers, was not resistant to Western learning, and not only allowed Li Zhizao and others to print this map, but also asked court painters to depict a more exquisite version and give it to the emperor's relatives for collection.

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However, in a country where Baguwen has become the only criterion for selecting talents, science, especially the part of science related to Western studies, is still not among the enlightenment education.

Zheng Haizhu traveled to the late Ming Dynasty for three or four years, and he had never seen a physical geography textbook or book similar to the "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu".

Finally, Li Zhizao, who was idle at home from Hangzhou last year, was recruited from Hangzhou, and Zheng Haizhu asked him to draw a simpler map of the world, which was only a quarter of the size of the original large version, and was easy to carry.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu explained the source of the map, and after Yan Siqi's excitement calmed down slightly, he cut to the chase.

She stretched out her finger and swiped from Luzon on the map, across the entire Pacific region, to the land marked with the five Chinese characters for "New Ehibania."

"Brother Yan, this 'New Ehibania' is New Spain. We don't distinguish between the Frankians of the two countries, but in fact, one of them is Portugal and the other is Spain, and the two countries have long been on the same page because of the struggle for sea power. Spain occupied this part of Northern Ameriga and named it New Spain. It also occupies Luzon, south of Taiwan, and has a governor in Manila, and every year there are galleons across the ocean. There are Indians in Northern America, and like the Siraya people in Taiwan, they are all people who live in the world. And we Han people, also from the Great Song Dynasty, have been running sea ships back and forth to Luzon. However, when the Spaniards discovered these two areas, they began to demand the submission of the Indians and the Han Chinese, and even went on a killing spree. ”

At the beginning, Yan Siqi offended the Spanish colonists in order to rescue the Chinese in Luzon from the butcher's knife, and almost died in Penghu.

He sighed and said in a deep voice: "Ah Zhu, I know the character of these foreigners too well. In the past, the imperial court said that we were pirates, but in fact we were just businessmen who wanted to run ships across the sea and earn hard-earned money. These foreigners are the real murderers and bandits, and they still pretend to hang a cross and tell lies of compassion for the world. ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "That's right, the current situation at sea is like this. The Spaniards have occupied Manila, and we cannot drive them away for the time being, but we must beware of the Hongyi, that is, the Dutch, who have already opened the East India Company, and beware of their coveting of the Fujian and Taiwan areas. Brother Yan can ruthlessly clean up the Dutch, which will naturally be of great benefit to our maritime trade, and the imperial court will regard the eldest brother as the reliance of Hai Bo Pingning in the southeast country. In the future, it would be better if the naval division could be strengthened, the gunboats could be expanded, and the Spaniards could be driven out further south. The profit of our Chinese merchants trading in Luzon is at most double, and the profit of the Manila galleon can be ten times that of sea sales. ”

Yan Siqi listened very attentively, and his eyes moved back and forth on the route proposed by Zheng Haizhu at the same time.

He already knew everything about navigation, and now combined with the map in front of him, it is very clear that the best starting point for the sailing from the coast of Daming, relying on the wind, ocean currents and star-pulling boards, to the north and south continents of the United States is Manila.

If you depart from Japan, you have to stick to the north, and the big ships are very easy to be frozen in the ocean.

He raised his head, looked at Zheng Haizhu and said, "Since I have taken root in Taiwan, the route from Luzon to the east naturally wants it." But you are right, the Hongyi people are the first disaster to be solved. Ah Zhu, have you heard the name 'Xu Xinsu' when you came from Zhangquan this time? ”