"Brother Hong, what are you painting?" At night, Li Juaner saw that Zhu Yicheng was still busy at the desk. Seeing that the oil lamp was a little dim, she added another one next to her and turned the wick. When she inserted her hairpin back, she saw that Zhu Yicheng was not writing something, but drawing a painting. The painting was twisted and curved, and she didn't understand what it was painting.

“This is a map.”

"Map?" Li Juan'er looked at it curiously: "Where is the map? I can't even understand it."

"This is the whole picture of the world." Zhu Yicheng replied proudly, and the pen in his hand hooked the bottom Antarctic state. After putting down the pen, he rubbed his slightly sore wrist.

In this era, if anyone knows the world best is Zhu Yicheng, although he is just a high school student and is not a professional geography, don’t forget the information explosion in later generations. For modern people in later generations, it is okay to draw a rough outline of the world map, not to mention that Zhu Yicheng had played the game of sailing earlier, so he has clearer world maps than ordinary people.

However, his map is not worth mentioning from a professional perspective, but it is not easy to put it in today's era. At least the locations of major states and oceans are correct, so there is no need to consider the details.

"The whole picture of the world?" Li Juaner said in surprise. She didn't expect that Zhu Yicheng would understand this, but if you think about it carefully, it would be appropriate. As a descendant of Zhu Ming, some secrets that outsiders don't know are normal.

"Brother Hong, where is Ningbo?"

"Ningbo is here, see, this is Ningbo." Zhu Yicheng, who is a good teacher, pointed to a place on the map: "From Ningbo to the east, the Zhoushan Islands, and then to the northeast, the Japanese archipelago. A large area of ​​this area is an ocean. Through this area is a new continent. Look here, this is the South Ocean, and there is a continent south of the Southeast. There are many animals on the other side that we have never seen before. Can you see here? It is India, also called India, and this is Africa. People in Africa have black skin. Going west is Europe. We are also called Europa. This place is the hometown of the Red-haired Western Devils..." The fastest update is mobile: https://fast update is computer: https:///

Zhu Yicheng explained to Li Juaner with great enthusiasm. As he told him, Li Juaner became more and more surprised. She never expected that the world would be so big and there would be such strange people.

"There are people like black carbon in the world? And the red-haired foreign devils?"

"Haha, actually these people have been to our China long ago. For example, black people were there in the Tang Dynasty. They were called Kunlun slaves at that time. As for the red-haired foreign devils, there were a group of people living in Macau. By the way, Ningbo has been here, but very few have been there."

"Really! But how did they come from such a long way? Did you take a boat?"

"Smart!" Zhu Yicheng nodded and smiled, "It was the one who came by boat. The people on Europa made a large ship that could cross the ocean a long time ago. They wandered on the sea for hundreds of days or even more time from Europa. The purpose of the trip was to obtain silk, tea, porcelain, etc. in our opinion. These things that are ordinary in our eyes are good things that are in short supply when they arrive in Europa, and their value can even be equal to gold of the same weight!"

Li Juan'er was surprised when she heard this: "So expensive? Isn't they there?"

"You guessed it, just because there is no talent and rare things are precious!" Zhu Yicheng nodded and said, "In ancient times, the Silk Road in the Western Regions was the same, but with the changes of the times, the Silk Road moved from land to ocean. Now is the ocean era. Apart from this profitable trade, these vast continents also have countless things we don't have."

Li Juan'er is a smart girl and immediately understood. No wonder Zhu Yicheng has been asking people about the sea trade and ship situation in Ningbo these days. It turns out that his real intention is here. If it is really like Zhu Yicheng said, it would be incredible.

"Don't our Celestial Kingdom have everything? Is there anything we don't have?" Li Juan'er thought about it and couldn't help asking.

"The Kingdom of Heaven? Haha!" Hearing this sentence, Zhu Yicheng couldn't help laughing, but the laughter was bitter: "The people of the Qing Dynasty have been blocked for a long time, and the Qing court intended it, so the Kingdom of Heaven is just a gift on its face. In fact, from the current world, China is indeed the most powerful country. Unfortunately, China is the fall of China and the Qing Dynasty is not willing to make progress. It will probably not take long for others to catch up with it. By that time, hey..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yicheng couldn't help but sigh. The development of Western countries began to rise in this era, and it will open China's doors with strong ships and powerful guns in a century, so that China will usher in its darkest and most miserable period.

After a long time in this era, although Zhu Yicheng still possesses the ideas of modern people, he has gradually integrated into this era in terms of identity. Moreover, because he understood the development of historical changes in later generations, he deeply hated the incompetence and regression of the Qing Dynasty.

"Put it away first, I will tell you slowly." Zhu Yicheng felt very uncomfortable when he thought of the Raven War and those humiliating treaties. He sighed and told Li Juan'er. Li Juan'er carefully put away the map of the world and kept it carefully in a wooden box.

After picking up the tea and taking a sip, Zhu Yicheng pulled open the drawer and exposed a rectangular wooden box placed inside. When he opened it, a sophisticated musket was exposed.

This musket was found in the Ningbo Prefectural Office. It is probably the collection of the previous prefect Zhang Chaozong. Judging from its shape and pattern on it, it should be from the West. If you guessed correctly, it should be a toy presented by the merchant to Zhang Chaozong.

Muskets are not spontaneous, but are fuse ropes. Although spontaneous muskets have appeared in this era, their reliability is not strong due to smelting and technology. In fact, until the First Raven War, the muskets used by the British army were not spontaneous guns.

Zhu Yicheng is still quite interested in this musket. Since he got it, he tried it himself. Although its accuracy is not very good, he is still careless within twenty steps. After twenty steps, he doesn't know where the lead is flying. Moreover, every time he loads and shoots, it requires a complex process. From the perspective of a single weapon, it is not as convenient as a bow and arrow.

But Zhu Yicheng knew very well that the future is the era of firearms after all, and only firearms can replace today's cold weapons. When the large-scale use and development of firearms reaches a certain level, that is, the day when cold weapons completely withdraw from the stage of history.

At present, Zhu Yicheng is already using this firearm and the searched shotgun as a prototype for research and manufacturing. However, this plan has just begun. When will it be successful and when will it be able to obtain a qualified firearm again? This is still unknown. But he believes that as long as there is a good start, there will inevitably be good results, let alone his vision in hundreds of years.

Just as he was playing with a musket and thinking about how to improve it, a burst of rapid footsteps came, and soon Li Juaner took Dong Dashan away.

"Master Hong is really a clever plan. Sure enough, someone is in a bad mood." Dong Dashan said in admiration: "The person who arranged the matter here just returned, and found that Zhao Jishi's son Zhao Guoyuan secretly left the Zhao family from the back door a moment ago and went to the dock at night. Do you think you want to take it down immediately?"
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