He Wenxi obviously had prepared for a long time. When he pushed open the solid wood door of the conference room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the huge space was empty, but there was a huge world map eight meters long and ten meters wide on the ground. Li Junwei leaned over to check it out, and the screen on one side was full of work tools such as globes.

"This is really a detailed world map..." Li Junwei said with emotion.

He Wenxi said: "Yes, it is big, detailed and spectacular enough. Everyone who sees it will exclaim and sigh. Only the Supreme Emperor. When he visited here, he looked at the map and shook his head slightly. To be honest, I have followed the Supreme Emperor for decades, but I still can't see how broad his mind is."

Li Junwei smiled slightly. This map was now shocking. If it were in later generations, it would definitely be ridiculous. Li Junwei couldn't help but sigh, what kind of era was my father living in? How many interesting things would there be? After sorting out his thoughts a little, Li Junwei picked up his pen and wanted to write in the lower right corner, but he stopped.

"Does the prince have anything to write?" He Wenxi asked.

Li Junwei said: "I want to leave your name in the lower right corner so that future generations can know that you have spent the most exciting fifteen years of your life for it, but you also feel that your writing is too ugly. Chief He, I will ask the emperor to inscription this map. Everyone should remember what you have done for the empire."

This map is actually He Wenxi's masterpiece. His footprints have traveled to almost all overseas colonies of the empire and major countries in the world. In Lisbon, He Wenxi built the empire's overseas intelligence network. This intelligence network is very simple, but it is actually a cooperation with merchants from all sides to let merchants all over the world know that selling intelligence to the empire is absolutely profitable.

Many of the information on the map came from these people, members of the Spanish East India Affairs Commission, executives of East India companies from various countries, and merchants and captains who sailed thousands of miles, especially deep in Africa and most of the Americas, which were unfamiliar areas of the empire as a whole, but they were briefly marked here.

It's still very simple, but He Wenxi at least guaranteed that the empire is not less known than European countries.

"Why do you want me to name me?" Li Junwei asked with a smile. The two of them each sat at the end of the world.

He Wenxi said: "Famous mountains and rivers, continents and oceans. I think the prince is the most suitable, especially during the Western Expedition that year, the name of the Xijin area was simply impeccable."

The empire did not have a fixed principle in naming overseas places at the beginning. If you have to say that there is one, that is, for the venerable, the higher the position, the more likely it is to be used. For example, the naming of continents and oceans such as the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Americas was all set in the era of Emperor Li Mingxun.

The empire set off the first wave of colonial development. Li Mingxun personally named the coast of Africa, which few Chinese people set foot on. Madagascar was named Yingzhou, the capital was called Junfu, etc. Later, there were gradually rules. For large-scale place names, they were generally named by the imperial emperors or other high-level officials, but some small places, such as an island, a certain sea area, a certain mountain range, or a river, whoever found it was named.

However, there is one thing about this principle: it must be recognized by the National Map Administration. Some names that are not recognized must be recompiled to meet the standards of Xinyada.

The latter principle is to deal with a special situation. For example, an adventure fleet starting from Australia to open a route to the Americas discovered an island in the South Pacific. According to the rules, the fleet commander should name the island Shit Orange Island. His reason is that the island is relatively round and looks like a dung ball, but those who are actually familiar with him know that his nickname is Shit Orange, and the daimyo Zhang Zhiyuan has named a newly discovered island in front.

In the end, the name was rejected by the Map Bureau, but in order to protect the naming rights of the captain Zhang, the Map Bureau slightly modified it, using its pronunciation instead of its words, and changed Shidan Island to Shidan Island. Of course, it finally made a story. After the twists and turns were passed back to Australia, it had become a little distorted, saying that the emperor did not agree with Shidan Island, so he changed his name to Shidan Island.

So, the captain surnamed Zhang changed from his name Zhang Zhiyuan and his nickname Shidan to his name Zhang Zhiyuan and his name was Shidan. His ability to climb along the pole is also amazing.

Of course, anyone with discerning eyes knows that the naming right is more about protecting the naming right of the empire, because overseas governments and colonial companies of the empire often hire some foreign captains or explorers to explore. If they were asked to name them, wouldn’t there be many more bullshit names like Santiago and El Salvador in the future?

Of course, He Wenxi would not ask Li Junwei to name too many places. After all, after the cultural level of His Royal Highness Yu, he would have to rack his milk at the twenty-year-old. What he needed to name was the famous mountains, rivers and important places in the New World.

When Li Junwei named the land along the Black Sea, he regarded the surroundings of the Sea of ​​Azov as a mirror image of the Bohai Sea. Combined with the historical names that are no longer used in various places, he chose elegant and used them in a grand manner. Therefore, the Sea of ​​Azov was called Shaohai, the Don River was called Dagu River, the Azov was called Xijin, the Sevastopol was called Xibin, the Shaohai was called the Bohai Sea, the Dagu River was called the ancient name of the Hai River, and the Bin was called Dalian.

“Where to start?”

He Wenxi pointed to North America, which is the farthest from the empire, and said, "Your prince should know that you, the minister of the ruler, will go to America in the future, so start from North America."

When Li Mingxun named America, he came from the name of later generations. When people asked, he said that America, America, the continent of beauty, had fooled the selfishness of being simple because of the complexity.

The Empire's American Development Company has already had a considerable colony in North America. This colony starts from the estuary of the Colorado River at the top of the Bay of California in later generations, and runs north along the coastline and the Central Valley, all the way to Alaska, connecting with the fur winter camps that capture prey such as seals in Kamchatka and East Siberia in the Imperial Yongning Province.

On this land, there are three cities with more than 10,000 people, plus four towns with more than 3,000 people. The national identity and national population of this colony have reached more than 430,000, and there are also 30 to 400,000 vassal Indians.

Except for the continent of America, almost all the place names are named by senior management of the American Development Company or local people. At first, the Emperor named the capital of the American Development Company Kingsoft (San Francisco). However, with the continuous discovery of gold rush points, in order to distinguish them from the new locations and to demonstrate the status of this region, Kingsoft was renamed Jinzhou.

The remaining areas are more casually named. Vancouver is called Beiyuan, the second largest city in the American colonies. It was discovered that the climate of this land is more suitable for growing wheat, and the Lower Mainland is everywhere. It is named after it. However, it was soon discovered that local grain and grain are not as good as irrigated agriculture developed in the Central Valley. The northern reason for the purpose of agricultural development was to rise for gold digging, but instead it was necessary for the supply of grain in the Jinzhou area.

Lincheng, where logging and timber processing industries gather, is the southernmost land, the entrance to Colorado, called South Bay, and the Los Angeles area that once resisted the invasion of Spain's sea and land, is called Linhai Harbour. The fur town to the north is called Sanhe River because of the convergence of three rivers.

In terms of city naming, the American colonies are relatively stable, but they are far behind in the mountains and rivers. The South Bay was first discovered by the expedition team, and then established by the South Bay. Because the banks of the Colorado River are mostly red, the river water is a little red, so it is called the Chishui River. This coincides with the Spanish. The colorado was named by the adventurer who discovered the river more than a hundred years ago, meaning the red river.

When the first immigrants landed in Jinzhou, facing the mountains rising and falling east of the coastal plain, they naturally named them Dongshan. However, with the development, the immigrants discovered the central valley east of the coastal mountains and west of the Rocky Mountains. Because there are many American bisons here, they are naturally called Bison Valley, and the Rocky Mountains became the Great Dongshan.

In the following twenty years, the American Development Company did not find the way to go through the Great East Mountain, so it naturally found Spain, the Spanish colonized predecessor of the American colonization. However, the Spanish had a lack of knowledge of North America. They just told the American Development Company roughly that the Europeans had colonized the east coast of North America. Coincidentally, the west was also an insurmountable mountain range. This led to a long time when people thought that there were mountains in the middle of North America. Until the French entered the heartland of North America from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, they found the Mississippi River, went south and ran through the continent, named Louisiana, and people only knew that there was a large plain in the middle of North America.

Obviously, it is impossible for the Map Bureau to recognize the crude naming methods such as Dongshan and Dadongshan.

While listening to He Wenxi telling interesting stories about North American colonies, Li Junwei had an idea in his mind and said, "Sir He, do you look at the mountains and geography of North America very similar to the Northeast?"

He Wenxi glanced at him, shook his head slightly, and Li Junwei said, "Remove the area we have occupied and look at it."

When He Wenxi looked at this, his eyes immediately lit up, and he felt that it was indeed a bit similar. The Greater Khingan Mountains in the northeast and west were as tall and stretched as the Rocky Mountains in the west of North America. There were Changbai Mountains and Appalachian Mountains in the east, and there were large plains in the middle. On the land that has been discovered in North America now, there were large rivers that originated from the western mountains and flowed south into the sea, namely the Liao River and the Mississippi River. To the north, there were large rivers flowing northeast, namely the Songhua River and the St. Lawrence River.

The north and south are all seas, and they are hot and cold in the south. Isn’t North America the enlarged Northeast?

Once you find the template, it's easy to name it. The Rocky Mountains are named Daxianbei Mountain, which is the ancient name of the Great Xing'an Mountains. The Appalachian Mountains are named after the ancient name of the Changbai Mountains. The Liao River was called the Great Liao River in ancient times. The Mississippi River is indeed larger than the Liao River, so it is reasonable to call it Daliao River. The St. Lawrence River is also called the Huntong River.

As for South America, the two were not in a hurry to name it. There are two main points. First, the largest Brazilian part in South America is owned by Portugal. According to the Lisbon Treaty, if the empire wants to permanently recognize this, it will naturally not be named. Second, according to the empire's strategy, the focus of the competition is North America, and the Spanish colonies in South America are not considered for the time being.

More importantly, naming is just a subsection, the key is strategy.

"Before the prince came back, the emperor held several meetings of the imperial court. In fact, he wanted to make a plan for the American strategy, but it was not going well from the beginning. The key was to be blocked from the question of whom to form an alliance with." The two came to the restaurant and talked while eating.

"There is nothing worth discussing about this, we seem to have no choice." Li Junwei expressed his confusion.

The current situation in Europe is that the Holy Roman Empire, the Politic Federation and the Venetian Republic have formed a sacred alliance with the support of the Pope and declared war on the Ottoman. This time, although the empire did not participate in the war, because of the Suez plan, it was essentially on the Ottoman side.

But the problem is that with the merger of Britain and the Netherlands, a new war will soon break out, or even have already broken out. One side of this war is France, the most powerful country in Europe with the strongest navy and the largest army, while the other side must include the Holy Roman Empire and Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain. The problem is that the Catholic and Protestant camps can form alliances into sacred alliances, but France and the Ottoman may not form alliances.

Li Junwei personally believes that in this European war, the empire had no choice because the empire's main interests in Europe were concentrated in the Mediterranean. The development of the Xijin region relies on the Mediterranean. The Suez plan was also for the Mediterranean, and the Mediterranean sea rights were in the hands of France. If there was the Suez Canal, the empire could still fight with it. Now the problem is that there is no canal, and the empire must respect France's hegemony in the Mediterranean.

In this case, it would be natural for the Empire to form an alliance with France.

But everyone knows that once France is chosen, it will be enemies with most of Europe. It should be noted that during the period when He Wenxi presided over European diplomatic affairs, he signed agreements with several principalities of Denmark, Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire. The imperial ships could directly enter the Baltic Sea. After Li Junwei's expedition, Poland and Russia also opened their doors to the empire. If they set off war with the Holy Allied, all this would be over.

"It doesn't matter, I will convince all parties at the imperial meeting." Li Junwei shook his head when he saw He Wenxi shook his head.

"It's very difficult." He Wenxi obviously tried it.

Li Junwei smiled: "It doesn't matter if I can't convince you. Anyway, this matter will fall on my shoulders. I will not accept the orders of the outside king. I will do what I want."
Chapter completed!