"This North and South America is so good, but no one is there?"
The other vassal princes and clans nodded unconsciously. In such a big place, there must be an empire that is not inferior to the Ming Dynasty. We are all sealed there and treated as decorations!
Wen Tiren looked at Zhu Yousong and explained to him: "It can be said that there is someone, but it can also be said that there is no one."
What does this mean? Someone is someone, and no one is someone. How can this person be both present and absent?
All the vassal princes and clans looked at Wen Tiren to see how he would explain next.
"During the Yin and Shang dynasties or even earlier, people from North China migrated north, from the extreme northeast to North America, and then their leaves fell and flowers bloomed, and they settled throughout North and South America."
The waiter at the screen followed Wen Tiren's explanation and rowed the thin stick along the coastline, across the Bering Strait, and then across the Americas from top to bottom.
Listening to Wen Tiren's explanation and looking at the signal from the servant's thin stick, many of the vassal princes and clan members had questions.
"How do you know about such early things?"
"How is that possible? Isn't that the sea? You can just go there and play house?"
"Don't talk nonsense, how can these ancient people get along?"
"..."
Zhu Yousong had already asked, and Emperor Chongzhen and the civil servants in the palace were not seen to be dissatisfied at all. The feudal princes and clans all started asking their own questions.
Wen Tiren didn't speak for a while and let them chatter. At about the same time, he gestured for silence with his hands, and then explained: "We have people from Ming Dynasty who have been there, so we naturally know the situation."
After saying that, he motioned to the chamberlain on the side to bring Li Wei, who had been waiting in the corner of the hall, to the hall, and then said: "His name is Li Wei, and he has been in North America. He can answer your questions."
Li Wei had been in contact with Marquis Zhongxing many times before and was no longer afraid of officials. He stood in full view of the public and took the thin stick from a chamberlain and began to explain.
"The grass-roots people have been here, here, and here. They have met the locals, and some of their things are very similar to the utensils of their ancestors from the Yin and Shang Dynasties, as well as the writing. Of course, the grass-roots people don't know this, they are one of the people who accompanied them. The scholar said it."
"What about the scholar?" Seeing that this man did not look like a scholar, Zhu Yousong was a little contemptuous. He heard that a scholar had been there, so he asked immediately.
Where can there be talented people? These are all made up by Zhong Jinwei based on the impressions of later generations and asked by Wen Tiren and Li Wei to tell them.
I saw an expression of envy and a little regret on Li Wei's face as he replied: "He did not return to the Ming Dynasty. He said that it was a paradise over there and he only wanted to be Mr. Wu Liu."
Zhong Jinwei looked at Li Wei from the side and really thought that there was such a thing. If Li Wei reaches future generations, he will definitely be an actor or something.
"What is Mr. Wuliu?" an unlearned clan member asked a relative on the side.
Most of the people in the clan were well-educated, and those who were willing to answer first looked down upon the man, and then replied: "Tao Yuanming, Tao Yuanliang, who wrote "The Peach Blossom Spring" during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was known as Mr. Wuliu."
More people ignored those people who didn't even know Tao Yuanming. They were full of questions and asked Li Wei questions one after another.
"How did you get there?"
"What's the situation there, how many countries are there, how big is their country's territory, and how big their army is?"
"Don't lie to us. The further north you go, the colder it gets. You won't be able to freeze to death."
"..."
The Minister of Rites and the Assistant Minister of the Cabinet on one side, He Ru Chong Chong, saw that these clan members were becoming bolder and kept asking questions, making the whole hall a mess. He couldn't help but frowned and coughed a few times.
When the clan members saw that it was the Minister of Rites who had sent a signal of dissatisfaction, they quickly shut up.
The clan mansion of the Ming Dynasty clan is under the control of the Ministry of Rites. If you offend him and give yourself little shoes to wear, even if you are a prince, you will not be able to live without it.
As soon as Li Wei saw that the hall became quiet, he continued to explain: "In the far north, it is frozen all year round, and even in autumn, winter and spring, the sea freezes. But there are still people who have lived there for generations, and they call themselves Inuit.
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This is not what Zhong Jinwei said, because Li Wei has met him before.
"There is also a very strange phenomenon in this area. The sea water here is warmer than other places. It flows north and does not freeze all year round. The temperature here is about the same as that of the capital."
The place Levi was pointing to was the Petropavlovsk area of the Kamchatka Peninsula in later generations. Due to the influence of the warm current of the Sea of Japan, the temperature here is quite high and it is navigable all year round.
To be able to say this while standing in the Forbidden City, the authenticity is more or less endorsed by the imperial court.
The reason why these clan members were suspicious and asked about it before was because the information they heard was too surprising. Now that they have heard more about all kinds of unheard of things, it is no longer surprising. And these are the truth, Li Wei
There is no need to act at all, so it feels very real to the clan members.
The combination of these reasons made almost all the feudal kings believe it.
After hearing this, the vassal kings in the south were secretly amazed. This world is so big and there are so many wonders. However, they live in warm places all year round, so relatively speaking, they are still afraid of the cold.
"When you arrive in North America, you can first take a boat to the north. Then there are two ways to choose from. One is to wait for the ice to freeze over, then walk from the ocean and take a dog-drawn sled to reach North America in two hours. The other is to
One way is to wait for the warmest summer to take a boat through this narrowest place and reach North America."
The current feudal princes and clans are listening as if they were listening to a book from heaven. There are some things beyond their understanding.
Having said this, Li Wei gave them a little suggestion: "If you are going to North America on a large scale, the common people suggest that it is better to take a boat. The land route is not necessary and is ultimately unrealistic."
At this time, King Tang finally began to speak: "Are those Yin merchants living in North America strong in combat?"
Li Wei had already visited the King of Tang with Marquis Zhongxing in advance, and had spoken to him for a long time, so he knew that the King of Tang was cooperating with him.
So, he quickly explained: "Those Yin merchants, also called Indians, are of the same clan as us, but they are not as civilized as us, and they still live a primitive life of drinking blood. They use stones to make weapons.
, hunting wild beasts and picking wild fruits to satisfy hunger. There is no big country, only tribes exist..."
Before Li Wei finished speaking, the feudal clan couldn't help but started talking again. Such a good place was occupied by such a group of people. This was a waste of natural resources and a waste of a good place!
Some members of the clan didn't quite believe it, and King Tang asked them the question in their minds: "Since they are all Chinese civilization, why do they live such a simple life?"