Shenkeng system

Chapter 172
"If industry and commerce are really established, they will naturally be very rich! Because the world is very vast, and the land of our Great Song Dynasty is less than one-tenth of the world, so if we can produce advanced commodities, we can exchange for wealth from all over the world! The collection of industrial and commercial taxes can fully meet the needs of the treasury..." Zhao Sidao.

"What did you say? The territory of Song Dynasty is less than one-tenth of the world?" The emperor asked in shock.

"How do you know?" After the emperor finished speaking, Tong Guan also asked very curiously.

"Your Majesty, in fact, it's not even one-twentieth!" Zhao Si turned to Tong Guandao, "As for why I know, I'm afraid that His Majesty and Tong Shumi will not believe you if I tell you this. This is also in my dream..."

"Ying Xing, I did doubt what you said in the past and thought you were perfunctory with me! I didn't think it was credible to have Zi Bu Yu's strange powers and chaotic gods, or the chance of gods' dreams! So I sent someone to investigate your past in detail! However, after many inquiries and investigations, your past is as simple as a piece of blank paper. It only takes more than ten years, and you can see through it at a glance!"

Emperor Zhao Ji showed a very surprised look, and continued: "But you are such a powerful person, you can make any kind of magical gadgets, and you have all kinds of magical insights. It's like a man who has lived for thousands of years. Monster... This made me think about it, and I couldn't figure it out! Slowly, I finally accepted that you really didn't deceive the emperor! Maybe what you said is true..."

"How dare I deceive the emperor!" Zhao Sidao: "Your Majesty, I can still draw the general outline map of the world! Wait for me to draw it in ten days and half a month, and present it to Your Majesty for viewing." !"

"Hey! There is such a thing! Haha, you are always so unexpected!" Zhao Ji said with great interest: "I don't have any important things these days, so please draw a picture quickly. I really want to see it. What does the whole world look like!"

Zhao Sixin said, when did your old man have something important!As long as you don't want to have important things, nothing in the world is important!Even if the world is lost, you always don't care about it. In the future, you will be arrested by the people of the Kingdom of Jin and become a dungong, and you will even give birth to a bunch of children!You are such a man, such an emperor, what can you do...

Of course, Zhao Si absolutely couldn't say these words out of his mouth!Zhao Sidao: "I complied with the order, but now I can only draw a rough sketch. When I go back, I will be able to draw a more detailed and accurate drawing in ten days!"

"Quickly prepare the four treasures of the study!" Zhao Ji was very interested.

Zhao Sidao: "It's better to use a stick of charcoal and a brush to draw a map, I don't have the ability to do it!"

So, the emperor ordered someone to find a charcoal stick for Zhao Si. Zhao Si closed his eyes and thought about the four oceans and seven continents. , just sit on the ground and travel [-] miles a day, consciously drawing a world map is not difficult, but after starting to write, I feel that it is not as simple as imagined...

In the end, Zhao Siqi drew a circle like an orange, and then drew the general outline of the seven continents. There are important big islands and peninsulas, but he also forgot the details of the complicated coastline, so he just drew it casually ...

Then asked someone to find a map of the time, and marked the territory of the Song Dynasty in East Asia against it!
"It's so small?" Zhao Ji originally thought that he was a majestic China, a place with the heart of heaven. He originally thought that his ancestors had left him the largest country in the world, but who knew that it only occupied a small part of the world!
"Are you sure?" Tong Guan is not like Zhao Ji. He has gone to wars, and he has been to the Song Dynasty and even the Liao Kingdom, Xixia Kingdom, and Jin Kingdom. Song Tianxia is far more than that!
"Reporting to Your Majesty, this is true!" Zhao Si then gesticulated on the map and said, "This is Tubo, this is Xixia, this is Liao, and this is Jin! The plateau where Tubo is located is on average about one hour higher than the sea. More than one thousand five hundred feet..." Zhao Si pointed to the area on the edge of Tubo, and said, "Your Majesty, look, this generation is all snow-capped mountains of more than two thousand feet, here is the grassland, here is the desert, here is the sea...we I was surrounded by such a circle in the past, and my ancestors thought that the farther away the surrounding area, the more barren land or mountains and seas, but in fact, far away, many places are still very fertile and rich in products..."

Seeing Zhao Si pointing at the map and saying bluntly, they didn't seem to be fake at all, so they believed what Zhao Si said!
"Then what is this large white area?" Zhao Si painted the land black in order to contrast the ocean and land, which caused Zhao Ji's almost idiotic question.

"It's all the ocean..."

"Ah??" This was the voice of the emperor and Tong Guan at the same time, they were obviously shocked.

"Then what about this side? Is it the end of the sky? Or is the world as big as you know?" The idiot emperor asked the essence.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this is the only way to represent the world on a piece of paper. In fact, the world is not on a plane. The whole world is actually distributed on a huge sphere! The radius of this sphere is nearly 200 million feet. We may call it Earth..."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor, Tong Guan, and even the very calm Mage Jing Kong were almost so shocked that their eyeballs popped out!This is simply too shocking!The ancestors always believed that the sky is round and the earth is round, but now this argument comes out, everyone lives on a sphere!

Everyone was stunned and speechless for a long time!In the end, it was this very creative emperor who asked a question that was both naive and familiar to Zhao Si: "Then, the people who live under our feet, and our feet are facing down, won't they fall out... "

"Reporting to Your Majesty, no! This earth has a strong gravitational force, and we are attracted to the ground! And no matter where we are on the earth, we feel like we are standing with our heads up... This question involves a lot of astronomy and geography Knowledge, I can’t finish talking about it for a few months..."

"Uh...I heard you talk about so many strange things without knowing it! Anyway, the last question is, how can you make me believe what you said? For example, this shocking earth is a round ball?" The emperor also felt that he could no longer be entangled. , there must be many problems in this, and they are entangled endlessly. He is an emperor, and he is not a curious child. He cannot appear so rude in front of his ministers, but it is still difficult for him to suppress his burning curiosity...

"It's simple, send someone to hold a compass, go east, and finally return from the west! This proves that the earth is a sphere!"

The emperor fouled by asking one more naive question: "Why don't you go all the way north and come back from the south?"

"Because the north is a vast ocean with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, and the south is a vast continent with a radius of tens of thousands of miles. These two places are covered with snow all the year round, and the glaciers are hundreds of feet thick. Crossing those two places under the current conditions is undoubtedly fatal. ..."

"Ah..." Although the emperor's curiosity was still raging, he had to restrain himself and asked, "I called you here today, why did you come?"

Nima!What an emperor!

(End of this chapter)