As he spoke, Zhang Che seemed to have thought of something.
He suddenly stood up and walked into the house.
"I'm going to get something. You'll know when you see it.”
After a while, she heard the sound of moving a box from the room.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Di looked at each other curiously.
What Zhang Che said just now was a complete fantasy to them.
In any case, they didn't believe that Zhang Che's words would be credible just because he took out something.
Old Zhu closed his eyes slightly, thinking about something.
Soon, Zhang Che walked out with a scroll in his hand.
Zhang Che didn't keep him in suspense after sitting down beside Old Zhu.
The scroll slowly opened, and a painting appeared in front of everyone.
At first glance, Old Zhu was confused.
He was a boorish man, and his ability to appreciate paintings was almost zero.
But after watching for a while, Old Zhu suddenly realized something!
"This is…a map?"
Zhang Che smiled and nodded, saying,""That's right, this is a world map!”
Instantly, the three of them became interested.
In this era, even an emperor like Old Zhu didn't know much about the world outside of Great Ming.
Zhang Che casually took out a map, telling them that this was the world map.
Old Zhu didn't believe it, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity.
He stared at the map for a long time, and then his expression became a little ugly.
"Is this Big Ming?" Old Zhu pointed at Da Ming's position on the map.
Da Ming was in the middle of the map. To the east was the endless sea, and to the west was a vast continent.
What made Old Zhu unhappy was that Big Ming's territory was really too small!
With a slight gesture of his hand, he could easily circle a piece of land in the north that was not smaller than the Great Ming territory!
And the land to the west was at least three times the size of Da Ming!
Ever since the Qin Dynasty, the emperor was known as the Nine Five Supreme, and was regarded as the Son of Heaven!
As for the founding emperor, Old Zhu, he had a kind of domineering aura that looked down on the world and was the only one in the world.
After establishing Da Ming, Old Zhu felt that he had already achieved success and fame.
In his eyes, the remnants of Northern Yuan were like a plague that would be wiped out sooner or later.
In the past twenty years, he had put his main energy into governing the internal affairs and had no intention of expanding outwards.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was not satisfied with the Ming Dynasty's current territory.
Just as he had told Zhang Che earlier, the west and north of Da Ming were barren lands.
It was meaningless to come to that kind of territory.
At the end of the day, the Great Ming Dynasty stopped fighting because of their lack of understanding of the world!
It wasn't just the Great Ming Dynasty. Looking at the history of the various countries, there were many periods of prosperity.
Not to mention anything else, just the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties alone had the strength to sweep across the world during their heyday!
Why didn't he do it?
Wasn't it because the people at that time didn't know how big the outside world was?
Think about it, if Zu Long, Liu Che, or Li Er saw this map, what would their reaction be?
Old Zhu did not know how these three people would react.
However, he only had one reaction when he encountered this matter.
He couldn't tolerate it!
He had thought that the Central Plains was the place where the world was rich and prosperous.
Since the Han Dynasty, it had been known as the Celestial Empire.
After calling him that for more than a thousand years, he finally realized that this description might not be accurate!
The western side of the Ming Dynasty was indeed filled with mountains and deserts. It was not suitable for human survival.
However, further west was a flat land with lush water and grass.
Old Zhu was the emperor, and he had planted his own land when he was young.
Even if he only looked at the map, he had a rough guess of where it was suitable for farming.
He felt his heart ache when he thought of how such a large piece of good land was occupied by the barbarians!
It was not good to do something up there, but in the end, it was used by those barbarians to graze sheep. It was really a waste of natural resources!
Old Zhu's heart ached.
Zhang Che didn't know what Lao Zhu was thinking. After all, in his eyes, his father was just a thousand-man household.
What he was saying now was just a family member who had nothing to do after eating.
As such, Zhang Che didn't have any qualms when he spoke.
"Father, the world we are in is actually a huge ball floating in the void. I call it Earth. On the surface of the earth, the ocean occupied 70% of the area, while the land only occupied 30%.”Zhang Che couldn't decide.
He didn't realize how much impact his words had on Old Zhu and the others.
The people of the various countries had never stopped thinking about the world they were in.
From the Gai Tian theory, to the round sky and square earth theory, and then to the muddy sky theory.
Among them, the theory of the round sky and square earth was considered orthodox because it was vaguely consistent with the Confucian theory of 'internal saint and external king'.
If a pedantic scholar heard Zhang Che's words, he would definitely be criticized as treasonous!
"Look at the map. It says seven continents and eight oceans. As for Great Ming, it was only the largest country in Eastern Asia. It could not be said to be small, but it was definitely not big!”
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