Chapter Eight
Military and geography knowledge from a thousand years later made everyone onlookers stunned. Xiong Jing, a child with hanging hair, had a bit of Zhuge Liang's style of the world. The group of people first stared at the map on the table, then their eyes turned around, and finally they all looked at the old man. The old man was also an ordinary man, and he wrote the nineteen chapters of "The Legend of the Cong of the Later generations". In Chu State, he had no name or surname, and only regarded the title of "The Legend of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Cong of the Con
"Is what Zijing said to take the former land of Jiangdong, Wu and Yue as its foundation?" Wu Guanzi understood Xiong Jing's intentions while pondering.
"That's right." Xiong Jing smiled awkwardly - the military geography thousands of years later may not be suitable for the present, and the old man has seen the problem.
"The land in Jiangdong is vast and sparse, and there is no fish for rice, soup for fish, and no hungry people, and there is no family of gold. In the end, Wu and Yue destroyed the country, and there was less than 200,000 households. After the country was destroyed, the king had the intention to divide the feudal, but this matter was not done." Yu Guanzi remembered that the King of Chu had intended to enfeoff the nobles in the border areas, but unfortunately the matter was not done. The Huai River area was already very biased. "Now, our Chu State is the north of the Huai River. Even if the Jianghuai River can be defended, it is difficult for the people in Huaibei to move; once it moves, there is no land to establish it."
Jiangdong was prosperous after the Qin and Han dynasties, at least after the Qin dynasty. It is impossible to divide the world with Jiangdong as the base. Now it is impossible. Xiong Jing directly concealed the geographical population of later generations, so he ignored this issue, but some people do not believe in evil.
"Sir, my ancestors are basking the wind and rain, and they are storing their way through blue wisps and fish. In this way, we can have the great Chu of today. Since Jiangdong is rice, so why can't we turn wild into fertile fields?" Zhaoduan is a young man, and young man always feels that everything is possible.
"It's wrong." Feng Guanzi shook his head repeatedly. "The sea tides are flooding in the various parts of the east of the Yangtze River, and the vast marsh is connected. Without the power of the whole country, it cannot be achieved through fields, and without a hundred years of contribution, it cannot be seen in mulberry fields. It's too late! It's too late!!"
"It's not too late. If there are corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes in Dongzhou..." Xiong Jing finally seized the opportunity to start advertising. "The land of Jiangdong can also be the foundation. Crops in Dongzhou will grow if they have soil, and they will be ripe for several months, with a yield of twice as much as corn."
"East continent..." When drawing the world map, Xiong Jing had already called America the East continent, Asia the Central continent, Europe the West continent, Africa the South continent, and Antarctica the Hanzhou. As for Australia, when I thought of the five hundred ruins of Ao Song in Linggao, it was called the Aozhou - anyway, there were no great resources on it. Apart from Zhaoduan, others were confused when they first heard the name of Dongzhou, and only the Gaoguan man who had been silent nodded and asked, "But Fusang?"
"Fusang?" Xiong Jing thought of neon and was about to shake his head and said again: "The ancient people once crossed the sea east of the sea. People who came back said that there is a naked country in the east of the sea, and there is a black teeth in the southeast of the naughty country. It takes a year to arrive."
"Ah?!" Xiong Jing couldn't help but kneel down, looking at him in disbelief. He could still come back after going to America. I'll take your lungs! "Sir, have the people who came back brought their crops back?" Xiong Jing asked again.
Compared to Xiong Jing's excitement, the high-crowned man remained silent. "I have never heard of the ancient things, only the tortoise shell is recorded."
"Record of the tortoise shell?" Xiong Jing understood a little.
"Mr. Ji Lingjun and Bu Yin have compiled the scriptures for ten years. The books record the mountains, rivers, creatures and monsters inside and outside the mountains and seas. Zi Jing talked about all continents of the world that day, so he invited Zi Jing to come here." Zhao Duan explained the reason why Wu Guanzi invited Xiong Jing to come here. The person next to him immediately opened a bamboo slip, and raised his head on the left three words that made Xiong Jing suddenly jump: Nanshan Jing.
"Shan Hai Jing?" Xiong Jing's face changed drastically, and then looked at Feng Guanzi, Ji Lingjun, Bu Yin, Zhao Duan and others, and finally looked around. He never thought that the Mountain Hai Jing was compiled by these people.
"I originally wanted to be called Shanhai Tu Jing, and Zijing called it Shanhai Jing, which is very good." Ji Lingjun smiled and saw Xiong Jing at the court meeting that day, and he also supported Xiong Jing as the prince because of his position. After saying that, he bowed to him: "Ji Lingjun has seen the prince's foot."
The tall crown also smiled a little, and he bowed: "Bu Yinguanyi has seen the prince's foot."
"I dare not be honest." Many of the gentlemen in the school are official teachers - one is an official and the other is a teacher. He has to take the rituals of his disciples to the teacher Xiong Jing. Now the two of them bow to him, he dare not accept it.
"The soup pond is far away, and corn and sweet potatoes are really twice as many as corn?" You can put it aside when compiling the Shanhai Jing. What Feng Guanzi is most concerned about is the yield of crops in Dongzhou. It is twice as many corn, which means that the grain output of Chu State can double.
"I dare not speak nonsense." Xiong Jing replied seriously, the yield is no joke. "The corn yield is relatively low, but the yield per mu of sweet potato can indeed exceed 10,000 kilograms."
"Ten Thousand Jins?" This time it was Feng Guanzi's turn to change his face.
"It really has ten thousand jin." Xiong Jing thought that the city mu he said should be different from Chu mu, but then he thought that the city mu was twice as big as Chu mu. According to the sweet potato yield he remembered, the yield of 5,000 jin was still available - this is the figure in "Jin Potato Tradition" of Chen Shiyuan, a Qing Dynasty man who introduced sweet potatoes, or the output of the lower-class areas. The output of the upper-class areas was said to be more than 10,000 jin.
"But five kilograms of sweet potatoes are equal to one kilogram of corn." Xiong Jing made another addition. He saw that there were many modern history. When calculating sweet potato production in modern times, he had to divide it by five, so that it could be converted into grain. There was a lot of potatoes.
"The yield of ten thousand kilograms per mu, and 50% off is one, and there is two thousand kilograms." Zhao Duan trusted Xiong Jing the most and believed it deeply.
"Potatoes yield is low, and the yield per mu may be 2,000 kilograms. The same as sweet potatoes, it must be 5 kilograms per kilogram." Xiong Jing said again. "There is no need to be quarantined, and the yield per mu may be 400 kilograms. All three can be planted in barren lands, drought-resistant and cold-resistant. There is no need for farmers to work too much, nor do they occupy fertile land, and they can be wasteland."
"How far is Dongzhou?" Dongzhou's crops are so good and the yield is so high that even Guanyi sighed.
"Sir, it's a year to sail in Dongzhou..." Xiong Jing immediately mentioned what he had just said.
"This is not what I say, it is carved by oracle bones, and it is a strange thing." Guan Yi explained: "There are no north and south on the East China Sea, and there are many ferocious beasts. Can you go to Dongzhou to find the three and return?"
"If I can really go there, I will go back to the three valleys!" Guan Yi said a little cold, but Xiong Jing said firmly that he would definitely be able to do it. For a moment, everyone's eyes looked over again.
Zhu Guanzi: "I would like to ask Zijing: How do boaters distinguish north and south on the sea and avoid wind and waves? What do you feed on when you sail for a year? What drinks are you drinking..."
Guanzi asked a lot of technical questions, and he really had to answer these questions patiently, and he couldn't finish it for three days and three nights. Xiong Jing didn't want to go to America to find any sweet potatoes or potatoes, but in order to gain support for shipbuilding and sailing, he had to make up these things.
It is not impossible to cross the Pacific Ocean - it is indeed difficult for a layman to ascend to the sky, but he is not a layman. One of the general navigation is a ship, and the other is navigation. As for ships, Arab ships in the Song Dynasty without keels can communicate with the two oceans, and 19th-century sailing ships with keels and ribs can gallop across the sea.
Navigation techniques, sextant, ship clock, etc. may not be made in a short time, but there is no sextant and there is a quartern. There is no quarter to use the Vikings' sun panel. The most important thing is that as long as you arrive at the right place at the right time, the currents and monsoon will automatically send you to the Americas, and then automatically send you back. This was how the Spanish crossed the Pacific Ocean and traded for large sailing ships.
Although Xiong Jing could not afford the "World Oceanic Way" compiled by the British Navy (Chapter 8-10 of which is sailing route, specialized for low-speed cargo ships), he still remembers these classic routes that early sailors have discovered with their lives. Give him a qualified ship and some more qualified sailors, and he can cross the Pacific Ocean to reach the Americas, and then come back along the current in May and June of the following year.
"It's hard to say it." Xiong Jing took a deep breath, "The connection between navigation is very deep, and it cannot be described one by one without ten months. As I said before, you can build a ship and navigate various continents by just the power of a county. At that time, you can take the three valleys of the East continent, find the horses of the West continent, and get the gold and stones of the South continent. A gentleman should ride the wind and waves to see the wonders of mountains and seas and to overcome the greatness of the world. How can you watch the sky in a well, build a car behind closed doors, and follow the crowd?"
The young man's brows were raised and moved, and the young man was frowning, and Guan Yi was frowning.
Xiong Jing said again: "The so-called world is just a corner of the Central continent. There is a sea in the east, grasslands in the north, yellow sand in the west, and miasma in the south. All summer summers are trapped here. Qin State goes west, there is the land of the Western Regions in the west, and the kingdom of the West at the end of the yellow sand. If you cross the Pamir Mountains, you can reach the Great Xia in the two rivers, and then go west, there are Persia and the sea in the middle, thousands of miles south, and there are Nanzhou and Hanzhou in the equator."
Since he talked about the equator, Xiong Jing simply tried his best to increase his voice after he cleared his cough: "Now people think that the earth is square and the sky is round, but they don't know that the continent is also round. The water surface is flat, but why does the boat in the water see its head first and then its belly? The sun shines on the earth, why does the shadow shorter the shadow as it goes south, and the longer the shadow goes north..."
"If the earth is round, is the sky square?" Guan Yi interrupted. He, including Feng Guanzi and Ji Lingjun, seemed not surprised by Xiong Jing's theory of earth round.
"The earth is round and the sky is also the garden." Xiong Jing replied. This is a fact, and he does not want to touch the theory of Gai Tian.
"If the earth is round, how can a person stand on the ground?" Feng Guanzi inserted.
"The center of the earth is strong, and everything falls to the ground in the air." Xiong Jing pushed the bamboo slip down the desk. "This is true in any place on the earth."
"Strength?" The most common heavy object has a different charm at this time. This is a question that no one has ever thought about - why did Shu Jian fall to the ground instead of flying into the sky after leaving a few cases?
"That's right." Xiong Jing originally wanted to continue to popularize Newton's three laws, but he yawned a few times in a row, and he was trapped. "Three gentlemen, I'll cut off all the lords, and I'm trapped. Can I talk about it later?"
Xiong Jing's yawning expression made Feng Guanzi a little dazed. He just felt that he was talking to an adult, but now he realized that the other party was just a child. This feeling was very uncomfortable. After Zhao Duan sent Xiong Jing out, he sighed and asked, "How is Prince Jing?"
"When you are born to know, the talent of heaven will be able to become kings and great Chu." Ji Lingjun also sighed.
Chapter completed!