Regarding the infiltration of Western academics, the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty were extremely divided into two factions. One faction was like Li Guopu and others, and they rarely took the initiative to contact them, resulting in little knowledge of Western learning.

Another faction, such as Xu Guangqi and others, took the initiative to contact and communicate with Westerners in order to explore the truth of the world, and knew very well about Western affairs.

In addition, because private smuggling trade became popular, the Ming people on the southeast coast had closer ties with Westerners.

Needless to say, Fujian Guangdong people who went to Southeast Asia to make a living in the early years, even in major cities along the southeast coast, there are many Westerners who have entered the house, not to mention Xiangshan County, which has been doing business with Haojingao all day long.

Zheng Zhilong, who had just been named the Five Tigers Guerrilla General by Zhu Youjian, was proficient in many foreign languages ​​such as Spain and Portugal. His first pot of gold was obtained by acting as a proxy for Westerners to carry out maritime trade.

When Matteo Ricci saw everyone's incredible expressions, he felt a little secretly proud. These scholars and officials who did not believe in my Catholicism were indeed extremely ignorant and did not even know that the earth was round.

When Matteo Ricci told Xu Guangqi about this, he had already known about it.

However, Xu Guangqi gave the example not Magellan's voyage around the world, but when he approached the ocean, he saw the sails first and then the cabin. When he left, the cabin disappeared first and then the sails disappeared.

With just this simple natural phenomenon, Xu Guangqi conjectured that the earth was not flat, but should be an arc.

Sure enough, I am still Catholic, and I am relatively smart.

Thinking of this, Matteo Ricci put away his teasing thoughts and decided to work hard to completely calm these self-righteous Ming literati and doctors.

"Of course it's a spherical shape. My adults have confirmed this a hundred years ago. Nowadays, the sea ships departing from the Big Flags will circle the earth and return to the Big Flags every year."

"And there are countless silver coins and spices returned with the ship. This is also the reason why small countries such as the Big Francisco, the Small Francisco and the Netherlands dominate the world."

Speaking of this, Matteo Ricci's face looked quite resentful.

Matteo Ricci is an Italian and has the superiority of the location of the Roman Catholic Church. He naturally has a hint of disdain for these later wilderness places such as Spain and Portugal.

What's more, Spain and Portugal were occupied by the Arabs more than a century ago.

But this resentment was taken into consideration by Guo Yunhou.

"Brother Sitai, you said that this big Francis is a small country, so how big is it?"

Matteo Ricci's real name is Marteo Lich. Matteo Ricci is his Chinese name. In addition, in order to interact with the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty, he also gave himself the name of Xitai.

“It’s right here.”

Matteo Ricci pointed to a country on the map, which was about the same size as the Ming Dynasty's Northern Zhili.

"So small? I don't think it's big in Beizhili yet."

Everyone was a little surprised.

"Where is that little Francis?"

Xue Fengxiang stepped forward and asked again.

"The one next to the Big Farrow machine is."

Matteo Ricci reached out and pointed to the peninsula at the west end of the Thais, but this time it became much bigger.

"Hey, why is this little franchise bigger than that big franchise? Why is this?"

Li Guopu was the first to discover the problem, and everyone was also a little surprised.

When Matteo Ricci heard this, he spread his hands and his expression seemed to be saying, "Are you people from the Ming Dynasty who don't understand the world and are blindly named."

After glanced at Matteo Ricci's expression and expression, everyone understood the whole story. If they didn't understand the situation, there would indeed be many jokes and they didn't want to continue this topic for the time being.

"Brother Xitai, did you just say that these two small countries dominate the world?"

Li Guopu changed the topic a little embarrassedly.

"Yes, my lord, a whole century ago, under the auspices of the Pope, the large and small Francisco signed the Treaty of Zaragoza from here, and the earth was divided into two parts, the western half belonging to the Great Francisco and the eastern half belonging to the Small Francisco."

Matteo Ricci said, and carefully glanced at all the important officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, he didn't want to talk about this content, which could easily arouse the disgust of the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty, but the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also knew about the existence of this treaty at some time, and he called it to let Matteo Ricci tell it to the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, Li Guopu and others blushed when they heard this.

"What? This line is going westward to the Great Farrow. Could it be that my Ming Dynasty is also a Great Farrow? No wonder this Great Farrow takes over the Haojingao of my Ming Dynasty and will not leave. It's a wolf ambition and a wolf ambition!"

Li Guopu pointed to the non-existent East Longitude line with an indignation.

"The two small countries dare to divide the world, and are not afraid of breaking up their teeth. They are so arrogant. Yelang is arrogant and bullied me, no one is there in the Ming Dynasty? Why do they dare to exaggerate so much? Why? Why?"

Guo Yunhou pointed to the Thai Peninsula. Although he was disdainful, he was extremely angry.

"By the ship, the cannon is powerful!"

As everyone was filled with righteous indignation, a voice sounded from outside the hall gate.

Everyone looked closely and saw that Zhu Youjian, dressed in Minghuang clothes, stood at the entrance of the hall. Under the sunlight outside the hall, his whole body was covered with a layer of gold.

"I will bow to my emperor, long live my emperor!"

"My dear friends, please be calm."

Zhu Youjian walked into the hall amid the sound of the mountain, signaling everyone to flatten, and said to Matteo Ricci.

"Father Leach said it well, reward."

Matteo Ricci has been in China for many years and has learned a lot of knowledge of observing words and expressions. After thanking him, he followed an eunuch out of the palace to receive the reward.

Seeing Matteo Ricci walking out, Zhu Youjian said seriously.

"Guo Butang just asked, why do two small countries dare to divide the world? They even included my glorious China in the scope of division. Then today I will tell you what confidence they are in dividing the world."

As he said that, Zhu Youjian lifted a piece of red silk covered on the table in front of him, and several models of ships immediately emerged into everyone's eyes.

Everyone could see two of the types of ships. The Ming Dynasty's blessing ships and sand ships could not only sail on the sea, but also many of them in the canals. These ministers had seen them.

But most of the officials didn't recognize the other large ships.

"You dare to ask your Majesty, are these Western ships?"

Liu Zongzhou is from Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang, and has seen many Western ships since childhood.

"Haha, Lord Liu is worthy of being a master of Neo-Confucianism, and he is very knowledgeable. Yes, these are the main warships of the small Franc aircraft at present."

Zhu Youjian pointed to the Western ships that were several times larger than the sand ships of the Ming Dynasty and the lucky ships, and paused and said.

"The Francos are brave enough to divide the world, because they rely on these warships full of artillery. I heard that the Francos has a fleet called Invincible. The largest warship is actually equipped with more than one hundred artillery guns, and the largest artillery is much larger than the Red Barbarian cannons of our Ming Dynasty."

When everyone heard this, they immediately took a breath. The warship containing a hundred artillery was larger than the Red Cannon.

The Red Barbarian cannons were destroyed for several miles at one shot, and the scene of hundreds of cannons being fired at once was unimaginable.

One hundred red cannons, even more than the cannons on the city walls of the capital. What kind of ship would it be if so many cannons were loaded on a ship?

Westerners are so powerful that they are so powerful that they are so terrifying. No wonder they have the confidence to divide the world.

With Matteo Ricci's preparation, Zhu Youjian took out a model of the sail warship, which completely suppressed these stubborn Ming Dynasty scholars and officials, and then asked loudly.

"My dear friends think that my Ming Navy can fight with the Westerners? Can the war be won?"
Chapter completed!