On the second floor of Wangyue Building, Liu Jin is like a geography teacher, popularizing global geography knowledge to his students. The people present include businessmen who travel around the world and pursue profits; there are scholars wearing robes and scarves;
The pillar of the country above the temple; and ordinary people who heard the news and came to join in the fun.
These people have always been immersed in the self-satisfaction of a great country. They have heard very little about the world outside the Ming Dynasty and understand even less.
Outsiders call them barbarians.
The so-called places outside the law do not refer to places without legal constraints or moral jurisdiction. They refer to places where there is no education and no respect for saints and sages. They are called places outside the law.
Barbarians are savage and unreasonable. They have not received the teachings of saints. They do not know the masters of heaven and earth, and they do not know etiquette, justice and integrity. They are barbarians.
The Ming Dynasty has a pride that has been passed down for thousands of years. This pride gives them strong self-confidence. Everything is good at home, and the moon abroad is smaller than the moon at home.
The same kind of pride can easily turn into arrogance and complacency, gradually blinding one's own eyes, unable to see the world outside the Ming Dynasty, nor the strengths and progress of other civilizations and countries, and eventually will
Slowly falling behind the world.
Now, Liu Jin gave a very systematic lesson to everyone present. He described the world outside the Ming Dynasty with pictures and texts. At the same time, from multiple perspectives such as geographical environment, natural conditions, humanistic environment, etc., for the first time, he described the world outside the Ming Dynasty.
The world is clearly displayed to everyone present.
It allowed these people to see the world outside the Ming Dynasty for the first time. They saw that the world outside the Ming Dynasty was not only very vast, but also many places were richer than the Ming Dynasty, and many civilizations and countries were richer than the Ming Dynasty.
The same brilliance, the same power.
Similarly, through Liu Jin's words, everyone present clearly realized that the world outside the Ming Dynasty is full of endless wealth. There is gold all over the Golden Continent, rich and vast land, and there are three kinds of land that are said to be able to produce dozens of dollars per mu.
of food crops.
The richness of Nanyang, the natural climate that can produce three crops a year, and the endless supply of fruits. You can just sow a few seeds on the land and wait for a good harvest. This kind of farming method and the rich output shocked everyone present.
people.
We must know that since ancient times, we all know that "it is noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat drips from the soil. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work." Food is hard to come by, and it requires farmers to work hard and serve it carefully throughout the year.
, and also pray to God for good weather and good weather so that we can have a good harvest and be able to barely eat enough.
But now, Liu Jin is telling you that in Nanyang, not far from our Ming Dynasty, people there just sow seeds and wait for a good harvest. Three times a year, there are endless fruits and fruits everywhere, and food is not available to them.
Words mean nothing at all.
This is like a person who works hard and only earns a few thousand yuan a month. Now someone tells you that in other countries, people eat and drink every day and can earn tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands every month. You can imagine this feeling.
We know that a huge impact will also bring envy, jealousy and hatred, and it will also give people a huge impulse.
We are all human beings, why do we have to work hard to do things, but they can live a good life without any worries?
The fertile land of India, Ceylon is a gem island, full of precious gems, and Europeans, the silk and porcelain are as valuable as gold in Europe. People here don't like to bathe, so spices can be used as food if they are shipped there.
For gold.
The eyes of all the businessmen present are red. For businessmen, as long as there is 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; if there is 20%, it will become lively; if there is 50%, it will arouse enthusiasm.
If it is 100%, it will make people ignore all laws; if it is 300%, it will make people not afraid of crime or even the danger of sand head. If turmoil and disputes can bring profits, it will encourage them.
Businessmen are all profit-seeking. As long as there is enough profit, there is nothing they dare not do, whether it is a long journey, a storm on the sea, or returning nine times out of ten, this silk, porcelain, and spices can be turned into
As for gold, nothing is a problem, even mountains and rivers don't matter.
There is also Africa. In Liu Jin's description, this is a blessed land given by God. However, the Kunlun slaves here do not cherish it. They cannot even smelt iron and cannot even build cities. The gold, gems, ivory, and silver here are
Aren’t you just letting anyone ask for it?
Not only were the businessmen present jealous, but the people who could come to the restaurant to spend money were at least somewhat valuable, either landlords or businessmen, or scholar-bureaucrats, the powerful class, etc.
For landlords and powerful people, this fertile and vast land is their favorite thing. Naturally, the more land, the better, and the more fertile the better. Land is what the landlord class and powerful people rely on.
The land in Huangjin Continent is fertile and vast, and the land in Nanyang has high yields and can be harvested three times a year. The key is that farming is extremely easy. If your own land can be like this, you can then plant high-yielding crops from Huangjin Continent.
Thinking of this, the breathing of these people present became thicker and their eyes began to turn red. Profit is the root of everything.
"Is there really a place like Nanyang in this world?"
"Rice can be harvested three times a year without management. Just sow the seeds. So why do we have to work so hard to cultivate it?"
Some people muttered to themselves, unbelievable.
"Every mu can produce dozens of acres of food crops. If there were such crops, there would never be a famine in the Ming Dynasty, and everyone would be able to have enough to eat. We can hope for eternity~"
The three crops Liu Jin mentioned, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, have been echoing in the middle-aged man's mind. No one knows better than him the importance of high-yielding crops to this country.
"Cities built with gold, silver mines with hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and the island of Ceylon full of gems... Is the world outside the Ming Dynasty really so magical?"
Lin Shuhong, one of the three talented men who made a bet with Liu Jin, loved geography the most. He also loved traveling around the mountains and rivers, appreciating the magnificence of the mountains and rivers, and seeing the world he had never seen before.
Now that I heard Liu Jin's words, there was infinite longing in his eyes. He seemed to want to go to these places now to see the golden city made of gold, and to see the Ceylon Island with hundreds of millions of silver mines and gems.
There is also Africa, the legendary hometown of the Kunlun slaves. I want to go to Europe to see how smelly Europeans are who don’t like to bathe...