Everyone looked at Liu Jin with red eyes, wanting to continue to listen to Liu Jin talk about the world beyond the Ming Dynasty.
However, Liu Jin's mouth was dry at this time, so he drank tea slowly and took a breather.
"Then what is the place east of the Golden Continent, west of Europe, Africa, north of Siberia, and south of Australia's South Sea?"
"What's so special about these places?"
Lin Shuhong thought for a while and asked Liu Jin.
This issue is also a matter of concern to everyone present. At this time, everyone has been whetted and want to continue listening to Liu Jin's lectures and hear what treasures there are in the wider world.
"Yes, hurry up and continue talking to us. Didn't you just say that you knew everything, and you haven't answered his question yet?"
Others also followed suit, no one had any intention of leaving and wanted to continue listening.
"If you continue eastward from this Golden Continent, it will be the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is as vast as the Pacific Ocean. If you cross the Atlantic Ocean and continue eastward, you will reach Europe and Africa."
Liu Jin smiled, pointed at the map and said.
"This...this, isn't the Golden Continent to the east, and isn't Europe and Africa to the west? If you keep going east, walking, walking, how come you are in Europe and Africa?"
When everyone heard this, they were all dumbfounded.
In the traditional geographical concept, the sky is round and the earth is square. How could it be possible to keep walking eastward, and as I walked, I ended up walking to the west again?
"You mean that if we all go east together, we can reach Europe and Africa, then pass through Africa and Europe, and then return to our Ming Dynasty after the Western Regions?"
Lin Shuhong's eyes widened in disbelief, and he thought for a while and asked.
"Well, yes, your brain is pretty good. If you keep going east, you will eventually return to our Ming Dynasty. In the same way, if you keep going west, you will also return to our Ming Dynasty.
The same goes for north and south."
Liu Jin looked at Lin Shuhong, but he didn't expect that this scholar's head could be saved and he was not stupid because of his studies.
"This is impossible. How can you go all the way east and end up in the west and end up back where you started? This is impossible. You are talking nonsense from beginning to end."
When Lin Shuhong heard this, he immediately shook his head, then stared at Liu Jin and said.
"That's right. It's really ridiculous. Let me see how you can justify it."
The businessman who originally stood up to answer the question about Ming's crop yield also stood up and said.
"The sky is round and the earth is square. Our Ming Dynasty is the center of heaven and earth. It is absolutely ridiculous!"
Tong Yuan couldn't help but said sharply.
"If you go all the way from southeast to northwest, you will return to the starting point. So what is the world we live in like?"
Huang Jinquan also said, he really couldn't imagine what this world would be like.
"Of course, because we live on a huge ball."
Liu Jin looked at the angry look of everyone, smiled, stood up and said, then took off the white cloth, and slowly tried to make the white cloth into a ball shape, but the white cloth was too soft.
"Boy, please bring me some hay."
Liu Jin thought for a while and gave instructions to the waiter who was watching in a daze.
The waiter looked at Liu Jin, then looked at his shopkeeper. The shopkeeper glared at the waiter and said, "Go and get it quickly."
"We live on a huge ball. How is this possible? How big must this ball be?"
"What's more, the sky is round, how can we live on a ball?"
Lin Shuhong shook his head repeatedly. Liu Jin's words were beyond everyone's understanding. They were too much, too much, and it was really hard to believe.
"On top of a ball?"
When the middle-aged man heard this, he vaguely remembered an ancient book he had read. It seemed to say the same thing, saying that the ground under his feet might be a ball, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
What is the name of this book?
There were also extremely powerful astronomers in ancient times. Through their long-term observations of astronomy and geography, these people were gradually able to discover some patterns and then infer some things.
"It's not hard to prove that we live on a ball."
Liu Jin looked at the bell tower in the distance and said to everyone: "When we are in a flat and open place and see the mountains and rivers in the distance, have you noticed that the first thing we see are all the peaks of the mountains, and then
As the distance got closer and closer, we slowly saw the mountainside, and when we got closer, we could see the foot of the mountain."
"Have you ever thought carefully about why when we stand far away, we see the top of things first, and then we see the bottom when we are closer?"
"If the world we live in is really round and square, then the earth should be flat. When we look at something from a distance, we should be able to see both the top and the bottom at once."
After listening to Liu Jin's words, everyone looked at the bell tower in the distance, and then related to the scene when they saw the mountain in the distance. Their eyes suddenly widened and they all began to think.
"Yes, it is indeed like this. You see the mountain peak first, then the mountainside, and finally the foot of the mountain."
"Yes, but why is this happening?"
Everyone fell into deep thought and frowned.
"Because the land is not flat, it is an arc."
The handsome young man rolled his eyes, seemed to have thought of something, and immediately shouted loudly.
"Yes, you are very right and very smart. You immediately thought of the key point."
When Liu Jin heard this, he gave this young man a thumbs up. He was really very smart.
At this time, the waiter came up with a pile of hay. He was panting and seemed to be in a hurry, for fear of missing the wonderful content.
"Thank you, little brother."
Liu Jin threw out a dozen copper coins as a reward, then began to knead the hay into a large ball, and finally wrapped the white cloth on which the map had just been drawn, and a simple globe was made.
"Everyone, please see, this is the ball we live on, we can call it the earth, this is our Ming Dynasty, this is the Golden Continent, this is Nanyang, Australia, this is Europe and Africa."
"If we go all the way east, we will first reach North Korea and Japan, then come to the west coast of the Golden Continent, and then go south along the coastline to the southernmost part of the Golden Continent. After passing here, we will reach the Atlantic Ocean. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, we will arrive at
Africa and Europe.”
Liu Jin asked Zhao Erhu to hold a simple globe, and he continued to draw on it with a brush, outlining a voyage around the world.
