The Astromancer said with emotion: "The ruler told us before that the earth is a huge sphere, but many people didn't believe it, and we didn't believe it at the time either. After all, everyone can see that the earth is obviously flat.
But as my knowledge has deepened over the years, I have gradually discovered that this may be true. Even though there have been many examples over the years that the words of the government are true, the eyes may be deceiving.
But there are still many people who don’t believe it. Now that we have traveled around the world, we really came from the east to Tianzhu in the west. Now no one can refute this truth!"
Then he said excitedly: "We may be famous in history for this discovery, because we are the first people to complete a circumnavigation and prove that the earth is spherical."
Zhen Xing was not excited at all. He even felt that there was nothing exciting about it. "How can ordinary people care about this kind of profound knowledge? If it weren't for the ruling party, I'm afraid you people wouldn't even know how to study it." Study it!”
"Back then, the great scholar Zhang Heng proposed that the heaven and the earth were in a perfect circle, but even if a great old man like him said such a thing, who would care?
Ordinary people cannot understand that people at the same level as him are studying Confucianism. As long as ordinary people make such claims, everyone just thinks they are talking nonsense!"
Apparently they were almost home, Zhen Xing was in a good mood, and was in the mood to tease him.
The astrologer had no choice but to discover that what Zhen Xing said might be true. Not many people really cared about such a great geographical discovery.
"Sure enough, mediocrity still makes up the majority in this world, which makes me believe that the government will definitely understand our great discovery."
Not long after, the ship docked at the pier on Gem Island.
When the soldiers stationed here personally said that this was Tianzhu, Zhen Xing and the others breathed a sigh of relief. They were really back.
They walked the back channel many times, and it would take more than a month at most before they could return to Jidu.
Finally I can go home.
People on the Gemstone Pier heard that they were explorers looking for rubber trees. They were all shocked. They actually came all the way from the east to the west of Tianzhu.
But many people simply don't believe it.
These navymen swore that they came from the New World, crossed the ocean to the east of the New World, and then sailed across a continent for hundreds of thousands of miles, and finally returned to Tianzhu.
What these sailors said was true, especially when the rubber leaves were shown to them. There were also people on the island who had seen rubber trees. After proving this, everyone had to believe that the earth, which originally looked flat, was actually spherical. , there are really people who can keep walking eastward and reach Tianzhu in the west.
This matter even aroused Yan Liang's interest.
He went to Zhen Xing and said, "You are lucky enough to come back alive. Do you know that your father has offered a reward of 10 million for information about you?"
Yan Liang also knew Zhen Xing, because Zhen An not only tried to find ways to ask people to help find out the news about Zhen Xing, but he also spent 10 million to offer a reward for any information about Zhen Xing. Unfortunately, he found nothing, because he mainly went to the New World to look for it. Who would have thought that Zhen Xing would appear from Tianzhu.
And this matter is quite a hot topic in Daqian. Among the missing teams, they are the only ones with such financial resources.
Zhen Xing felt ashamed and said, "Am I the one dragging father down?"
Yan Liang said: "From now on, I can serve my old father peacefully at home and don't do anything risky anymore. If I really want a white-haired person to give a black-haired person, I'm afraid your father won't be the first to bear it."
Zhen Xing nodded. This trip around the world was the most adventurous in his life. He did not dare to experience such an action again.
Yan Liang said: "I sent a letter from Fei Ge to Jidu to let your father know in advance that you are still alive."
"Thank you, General!"
It's just a pity that he failed in the end. The only gain may be to bring some letters from the Roman emperor.
In this way, Zhen Xing and the others stopped briefly on Gem Island. After repairing the boat and purchasing supplies, they continued on their way home.
Daqian's current carrier pigeon system is extremely developed. A few days later, Zhen An learned the news that his son was alive, and he immediately cried with joy.
It's good for people to live.
At the same time, the news that Zhen Xing and his friends were heading east to Tianzhu and were about to complete their round-the-world journey began to spread in Daqian.
Ordinary people only regard such news as an anecdote. It is indeed a bit counter-intuitive that the earth is a round ball, but what does this have to do with their own lives? Everyone just laments that Zhen Xing is lucky enough to be alive after disappearing for three years. return.
The senior officials of Daqian are looking forward to it. The New World is a vast land of treasures. They have been digging for several years, but the area of the New World has not been fully explored. They don't know much about the New World.
The potential of the New World has been fully revealed in front of them. Daqian can make tens of billions of dollars in the New World every year, and the court can make billions in taxes alone.
Not long ago, an even more sensational news came. A mountain of silver was discovered in the south of the New World. It was said to be larger than the mountain of gold in the New World.
If this is developed, it will bring tens of billions of wealth to the big money in just a few years.
Because mountains of gold and silver were discovered one after another, the New World is now a continent composed of gold and silver to the people of Daqian.
Nowadays, there are many strange stories in Ji people, saying that farmers in the New World used gold hoes to farm and silver poles to carry things.
If you refute him that gold and silver are too soft to use a hoe and pole, they will refute you with all their heart. The New World is full of savages. There is no iron at all and gold and silver are not needed. Why should we use stones?
Of course, the senior officials of Daqian knew that this was nonsense. The area of the New World was not much smaller than that of the continent where Daqian was located.
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In such a vast continent, it is completely common to find several mountains of gold and silver. What they care about is the market opened up by the New World and the special products of the New World, although now it is only gold and silver.
The senior officials of Daqian found that it was difficult to do business in places with countries, just like Tianzhu and Anxi. Although they also needed a lot of silk, tea, and porcelain, they were more concerned about the loss of gold and silver in their own country.
The rulers of these countries will try their best to limit the scale of trade, but the New World in the South China Sea that Daqian developed himself has no such restrictions at all.
In a few years, the New World's trade has exceeded tens of billions, and the South China Sea's trade has exceeded hundreds of billions. Considering the South China Sea as a country, the South China Sea is actually the largest trading country in Daqian.
Now Zhen Xing is coming back from an unknown waterway. Will this waterway discover a new country? A new continent?
It can be said that Zhen Xing's discovery has determined that Daqian will obtain several new raw material producing areas and commodity markets.