Following Wang Chengen, everyone came to the side hall next to the Ganqing Palace.

When I entered the side hall, I was about to kneel down, but I didn't see Zhu Youjian here. Instead, a huge painted map on the front of the hall attracted everyone's attention.

"King Zhongguan, this?"

Zhu Youjian agreed to see them, but did not show up. Li Guopu didn't know what Zhu Youjian was selling in the gourd.

"Don't worry, Master, Your Majesty said, let the adults see the artifacts in this side hall first, and Your Majesty will come later."

After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he turned around and left the hall without waiting for everyone to react.

When Li Guopu and others heard this, they were even more confused, but since the emperor had given instructions, they could only obey orders, so they began to turn around the various objects in front of them.

"Is this a map of my Ming Dynasty?"

Guo Yunhou was first attracted by the huge map in the hall.

Guo Yunhou has seen many maps of the Ming Kun Map, so he recognized it at a glance that this was the map of the Ming Map, but it was the first time he had seen it so big and so precise.

Moreover, this huge Kun map is different from the past. In this map, in addition to the Ming Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom in the northeast, the Mongolian tribes in the north, the Japanese Kingdom in the east, and the Jiaozhi in the south were also marked.

Although Guo Yunhou was not very familiar with these geography, he still recognized them based on their position in the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, in addition to these countries, there are larger territory in the north, west, east and south, more than ten times larger than the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there is also the ocean that has been painted blue, the huge blue waters that can even contain all the land on the map.

And against the background of the blue waters over there, the Kunyu in the Ming Dynasty seemed much smaller.

"Is this what Westerners call the world Kunyu? The world is really so big?"

Guo Yunhou stared at a line of black regular script directly above the map - World Kun Map, muttering to himself.

“The world is really so big.”

As soon as Guo Yunhou finished speaking, a blond and blue-eyed old man replied.

A thousand waves were shocked, and the eyes of the people in the hall were attracted by this Westerner.

The Ming Dynasty was still very tolerant of Westerners' missionary preaching in China. Although Westerners in the capital were not as common as later generations, they were still not unfamiliar with the important officials who held high positions.

Moreover, Li Guopu and others knew this old Westerner, Matteo Ricci, the "host" of the church outside Xuanwu Gate, and he had seen him through Xu Guangqi, Li Guopu and others.

And not only that, this foreigner who traveled thousands of miles to the Ming Dynasty was once warmly received by Emperor Wanli.

As long as anyone stays in the court for a long enough time, no one doesn't know him.

"My dear sirs, His Majesty, the wise and wise Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered me to explain to you."

Before Li Guopu and others could ask questions, Matteo Ricci told everyone about his mission here.

Matteo Ricci came to the Ming Dynasty in the 34th year of Wanli, and has been around for more than 20 years. Not only does it speak very well, but his blond hair, blue eyes and high noses are also a complete Ming Dynasty person in terms of dressing etiquette.

Seeing that it was Zhu Youjian's arrangement, Li Guopu and others stopped asking questions, and followed Matteo Ricci to look at various objects in the hall.

First, there was the huge map of the world Kun. Under the introduction of Matteo Ricci, everyone made up for the world geography knowledge they didn't know before.

Of course, this map was not taken by Zhu Youjian from the ship, but was made by Matteo Ricci, and was magnified by the painter in the palace in proportion.

Zhu Youjian had several accurate world maps in his hand, but he could not easily show them to others.

Because in the early seventeenth century, the precise world map of later generations was undoubtedly a huge treasure map. Once it was released, it would cause huge waves, and the beneficiaries were definitely not the Ming Dynasty, which even the navy did not have.

Of course, with the Westerners' adventurous spirit of fearlessness, continents such as Africa, America, Oceania, etc. have been discovered today, but they are just discoveries.

Westerners are currently ignorant of how big these continents are and how rich their products are.

So from this map of the world in the early 17th century, the entire American continent is a little blurred on the edge, while Australia is a square.

However, even so, the Ming Empire, which seemed much smaller in the world Kun map, still surprised everyone.

Especially after they watched the territory of the Big and Big Folang Ji, the shock became even more intense.

"Host Li, is this world really so big?"

Although he knew that Matteo Ricci was a Catholic priest, Li Guopu still felt that it was more interesting to call the host.

Moreover, Matteo Ricci did not object to this. He was used to it. Except for a few church members, the officials of the Ming Dynasty did ask him to preside over the presidency.

At first, he had argued with people about this, but later he found that these people were stubborn and stopped caring.

As long as I am allowed to preach in the Ming Dynasty, I will call you whatever love is called.

Matteo Ricci was very open to this.

The key is that it is not easy to be open-minded. Compared with the Indian and Batavia areas, the people of the Ming Dynasty had much better life, and it was very difficult to preach in such places.

Commonly used missionary methods such as medicine and rice delivery were not very effective in the Ming Dynasty, because in the early 17th century, the medical skills of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be more sophisticated than those of the Western Ocean.

Therefore, with the advice of local church members such as Xu Guangqi, Matteo Ricci could only follow the local customs and make his doctrine more in line with the understanding of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, when Matteo Ricci heard the minister of the dynasty call him to preside over the presidency, he was not disgusted. He was able to catch the eyes of today's son and popularize world knowledge to the important officials. Matteo Ricci was already very flattered.

Moreover, after talking to His Majesty the Ming Emperor before, it seems that the current Emperor of Ming Dynasty does not object to his mission in the capital.

Being able to obtain the approval of His Majesty the Emperor is undoubtedly great news for Matteo Ricci, who has been in the Ming Dynasty for more than 20 years.

Therefore, Matteo Ricci also spared no effort to complete some delegations from the Ming court.

Whether it was the craftsmen who went to Haojingao to invite shipbuilding and cannon castings, or this time he came to the palace to popularize knowledge to the important officials of the Ming court, Matteo Ricci agreed immediately.

"If you go back to Ge Lao, this is the world today."

Matteo Ricci replied to Li Guopu's words, but he still couldn't believe it. Then he pointed to the huge American continent on the winter noodles and said.

"This continent was discovered by Genoese Columbus a century ago. Because it was funded by Little Florida, this continent is currently occupied by Little Florida."

"It's just that this continent is too big. Later, the Big Fo Langji also went to sea along the route of the Little Fo Langji and occupied a lot of land from it."

"There are also these lands to the south that were discovered by a navigator of Little Ferrand during a voyage around the world twenty years ago."

In order to better gain Zhu Youjian's trust, Matteo Ricci spoke in his words and introduced this world map in full.

"What, sailing around the world? What ball is surrounding?"

Guo Yunhou was a little puzzled when he heard this.

"Yes, sir, that's right, sailing around the world is about sailing around the earth, and the land we are in is actually a ball."

It was somewhat unhappy to make a Catholic in the seventeenth century admit that the earth was a ball, but Matteo Ricci could only compromise in order to preach the great cause.

"Sir, this matter has been confirmed a hundred years ago."

Matteo Ricci is no longer surprised by the one-sided understanding of the world by some scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

But there was a ball under his feet. For Guo Yunhou and others, it was nothing different from a fantasy. They stared at Matteo Ricci with a little incredible look.
Chapter completed!