Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that he wanted to do something good for his brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling in front of his empress dowager sister, but he cheated them. He couldn't help but say: "What the Empress Dowager said is that these two uncles are still very ignorant, but this is also their wish. You accept it, at least the Virgin seems to have to accept it."

"Is this the Holy Mother of the Western Yi? Looks very kind, then the Ai family will accept it." Empress Dowager Zhang smiled and nodded, and at this time, the inner official Gao Feng hurriedly ran in: "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, Marquis Jianchang has returned to the capital!"

...

Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, has indeed returned to Beijing.

However, because his fleet sailing around the world is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, he still has to come to the Ministry of War to deliver the matter.

Although Zhang Yanling lost a lot of people to this round-the-world voyage, Zhang Yanling still had only excitement after calming down.

"Wangbutang, I really didn't lie to you! This place is indeed a ball, and the place where we live should be called the earth! Really, I completely believe it now!"

Zhang Yanling stomped his foot and walked up in the main hall of the Ministry of War: "No, I must tell Your Majesty this even if I tell Your Majesty, not just your Majesty. I want to tell people all over the world that the earth is indeed a ball. We live on the same ball, and it is really the earth!"

Seeing that Zhang Yanling was like a man with madness, Wang Shouren, the Minister of War, had to hurry and persuaded: "Mr. Jianchang, you should drink a little tea first, don't worry, your fleet is really moving forward and then back?"

"I did not lie to you. Wangbutang, you must believe me. I didn't expect this to be the result, but it was true. I went through a lot of hardships and discovered many new continents, but after crossing a vast ocean, I did arrive at my Daming Sea (the entire map of Kunyu Wanguo is called Daming Sea, so I wrote it like this here)!"

"I didn't expect such a thing to happen, but it was the fact that the earth was indeed a ball. If I hadn't been to this trip myself, I wouldn't believe it!"

Zhang Yanling sat down and kept shaking his head.

Wang Shouren was also somewhat skeptical when he was influenced by Zhang Yanling, but he couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Jianchang, even if what you said is true, why didn't we fall on this ball, especially people or other things on the other end of the ball, why didn't they fall?"

"I am wondering too! I don't understand what's going on, why the person at the bottom of the ball won't fall down, why the sea water won't flow out, many of us can't understand, but what I can be sure of is that the ground is a ball!"

Zhang Yanling was just talking, and Xia Yan also walked in at this time. When he saw Zhang Yanling, he threw the Ministry of War documents on the ground in surprise: "Mr. Jianchang, when did you come back? Have you not continued sailing?"

"No! Mr. Xia! You are here just in time. I have something to tell you. Since I parted with you in Ceuta, I have been walking forward. I first crossed a sea (Atlantic Ocean), drifted for a long time, and died of sixteen or seventeen people. I really found a new continent, and I really found the sweet potatoes that His Majesty mentioned, brought back a lot of spices, and then continued sailing. This time it was a sea, and I had been wandering for a longer time (South Pacific). Even I was seriously ill. But when I felt that my group of people were about to die on the sea, I found my Ming ship. At that time, I was happy and shocked. I was happy that I finally had the opportunity to return to my Middle Earth. What was shocked was that the earth was really a ball, and I could really walk back from a place and walk forward!"

After Zhang Yanling said this, Xia Yan, who had sailed with Zhang Yanling for a while, was naturally convinced and couldn't help but be shocked: "It seems that the earth is indeed a sphere, and the place where we live should indeed be called the earth!"

"Lost your companion!"

Xia Yan said and then surrendered and ran out.

Seeing this, Wang Shouren hurriedly shouted: "Mr. Xia, where are you going?"

"Go to the Capital University! If the place where we live is really the earth, then the model of the earth made by His Majesty is real! You have to go and take a look!"

As Xia Yan said this, he hurriedly ordered an official from the Ministry of War: "Take the navigation information of Sanbao's father-in-law back then and go to the Capital University with me!"

Seeing this, Zhang Yanling became interested and hurriedly followed: "Shilarious Minister Xia, wait for this marquis, I will go with you!"

...

One hour later.

In front of a wooden globe, Xia Yan, Zhang Yanling and Wang Wensu stared at the globe intently.

"Marty Jianchang, is it true that we live on earth?" Wang Wensu, the current priest of the Peking University, asked Zhang Yanling.

Zhang Yanling nodded: "It's true! I just don't know if the sea and land are really consistent with the ones on the globe."

"It is consistent. The navigation records of the Sanbao father-in-law are combined with the navigation records of this official. With the records of Jianchang Hou, the place you experienced is exactly the same as the land sea mark on the globe of His Majesty. After we first crossed the Ming Sea from the sea of ​​Malacca (Malacca), we should enter the Indian Ocean, and then bypassed Cape Verde and entered the Atlantic Ocean. Look, the sea that Jianchang Hou first passed alone should be the Atlantic Ocean, and then the place you landed should be the Americas, and the sea that Jianchang Hou passed by again should be the Pacific Ocean!"

Xia Yan slapped the table with great excitement: "If we are really on the earth, if all these are true, then what Your Majesty says is true, then there are so many lands in the world that have not been discovered by our Ming Dynasty. And what does the Antarctic look like? As Your Majesty said, there are extreme day and extreme night?"

"Your Majesty is really a god!" Zhang Yanling couldn't help but say.

"The ancients said that the earth is in the sky, and its body is round to meet the sky. China should live north of the equator, so the North Pole often appears and the South Pole hides for a long time. When traveling south by 250 miles, the North Pole is one degree lower. The Yuan people's land is indeed true! But, it's just that we are on the earth, why don't we fall down?" Wang Wensu couldn't help but recite a few ancient Chinese and then asked again.

"That's right, since you and I don't fall down on the ball? Why doesn't the sea water overflow?" Xia Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Zhang Yanling said: "Maybe only Your Majesty knows that Your Majesty is the Emperor, and his knowledge is granted by God!"

"Then let's ask your Majesty?" the three of them asked in unison.

...

Zhu Houzhao also just got the news that Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, returned to Beijing. He smiled faintly and thought to himself: "Is this Zhang Yanling really back from voyage around the world? In history, Magellan started voyage around the world from 1519 AD to 1522 AD, that is, the voyage was completed between the fourteenth year of Zhengde and the first year of Jiajing. Now Zhang Yanling completed the voyage around the world in 12th year of Zhengde, which was only five years earlier than Magellan! The gap between Portugal and its own Ming Dynasty was not big, and the Ming Dynasty had to speed up the pace of global colonization!"

Just as Zhu Houzhao was thinking this way, the eunuch Liu Jin came to report: "Your Majesty, Marquis Jianchang, Xia Yan, Right Minister of War, and Wang Wensu, Priest of the Capital University, asked for a visit."

"Xuan and the others come in." Zhu Houzhao said and met Zhang Yanling and others directly at Cining Palace.

When Zhu Houzhao saw Zhang Yanling, he asked directly: "Mr. Jianchang, do you believe that the earth is a ball?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, I am completely convinced now that the earth is indeed a ball!" Zhang Yanling nodded, as he said himself, now he no longer dares to have any doubts about the holy study proposed by Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao saw this and just smiled slightly, asked Xia Yan and Wang Wensu: "Why are you here to come with me? I believe that the earth is indeed a ball?"

"I believe it, but what I don't know is that since this earth is a ball, why wouldn't people fall down and the sea water did not overflow?"

Xia Yan replied.

Wang Wensu also nodded: "So, I'm here to ask Your Majesty for advice."

Zhu Houzhao saw an apple on the desk table, so she held the apple in her hand, stood up, and threw the apple on the ground: she asked, "Do you understand now?"

Zhang Yanling, Xia Yan, Wang Wensu and others were a little confused, and they didn't know what Zhu Houzhao wanted to tell them about such a move.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao had to continue inspiring: "The apple will fall to the ground, and the person will fall after jumping from a high place. No one will fly up or even go up. Haven't you ever thought about the reason?"

"Is it attractive? Is it the earth attracting us and attracting everything?" Xia Yan suddenly realized and asked.

Zhu Houzhao nodded.

"Your Majesty is really a god. I didn't understand such an obvious truth. Your Majesty's saint theory: All things move because of the force, so the earth makes objects fall because of the power of attraction. Because of the power of attraction, it will not fall."

At this time, Wang Wensu suddenly realized it, and laughed as if he had eaten candy. He hurriedly bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said, "Thank you Your Majesty to give me some advice. I understand in a daze. I will leave."

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Go."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Wensu just wanted to go back quickly and study and think about the natural science knowledge written by Zhu Houzhao. He suddenly felt that he wanted to discover new natural laws, so he excitedly ran out of the Forbidden City.

Here, after Xia Yan asked, he did not have the intention to rush back to the Capital University to study. He was different from Wang Wensu. He only needed to know that all things did not fall on the earth because the earth had gravity on all things. He was not very interested in studying the gravity that the earth attracted all things. He is now more concerned about how the Ming Dynasty responded to this new discovery.
Chapter completed!