The sunlight shines through the glass lattice window and sprinkles in the room, reflecting the floor, reflecting the study room brightly. Yuwen Wen sat upright on the couch by the window and looked at the "Taiqing Jinye Shendan Jing" and was fascinated.

"Taiqing Jinye Shendan Jing" (abbreviated as "Shendan Jing"), it is said to be written by Ge Hong and was written in the Jin Dynasty. However, various signs indicate that this is the work of an anonymous man named Ge Hong during the Southern Dynasty.

This book describes Taoist theory of spirit and qi, and has a magical way of health preservation. It also emphasizes the technique of replacing the golden liquid alchemy. It is said that once this elixir is practiced, it can ascend in the daytime. It is a must-have reading for ordinary people to practice ascend to become immortals.

In Huangzhou Book Market, this book "must-read for practice" is priced at 100 ci per book, with a large amount and a discount.

As he looked, a series of titles suddenly popped up in Yuwen Wen's mind:

Why did King Bin, who has always disbelief of ghosts and gods, study alchemy books? Why did King Bin’s mansion scream in a strange way late at night? Why did King Bin’s wife and concubine become more charming? Who was the one who killed hundreds of sows in Luoyang City?

Is the truth of the matter a distortion of King Bin's human nature or a decline in morality?

After thinking about several "Shock" series titles by himself, Yu Wen Wen put down the book and sighed.

The "Shendan Jing" not only records the golden liquid and alchemy technique, but also records the strange and strange overseas events during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, including the adventures of the South China Sea, the Western countries, and the Central Plains maritime merchants overseas.

Yuwen Wen came to "A leaf tells autumn" through this book, and seemed to see the magnificent journey of the Central Plains navigation in this era.

Volume 2 of the "Shendan Jing": When the Chinese went to Funan, they took a boat from Funan. The boat entered the sea. They wanted to reach the ancient country of Nu, but the wind could not reach it, so they went there. The sails were not allowed to stop walking day and night, and after sixty days, they arrived at the shore and didn't know where.

When I went ashore, I asked someone and asked him about it, saying that it was the Great Qin State. This merchant was not where he was, and was very frightened, afraid of being robbed, so he pretended to be the King of Southern to help the King of Qin.

The king was shocked when he saw it: The seaside is far away, so there is someone else, so who is the one from my country?

What is the messenger of Funan?

Answer: I am the envoy of the King of Funan in the North Sea and came to pay tribute to the royal court and held the head in the north. I also heard that the kingdom had strange goods and treasures, and wanted to ask for Xuanhuang to despise the city with light.

This passage talks about the adventure of a Chinese (yes, the term is Chinese). This man went from the Central Plains to Funan and then to the ancient Nu Kingdom, but because of the wind direction, he was driven to follow the trend.

It took sixty days to reach the shore. When I asked the local people, I found that I had arrived in the Great Qin State.

The man was worried that he would be killed by the natives, so he pretended to be an envoy of Funan. He then accidentally hit him and was able to arrive at the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom to meet the King of Qin.

This passage has a lot of information. First of all, it means that as early as the Later Han Dynasty, the east-west route connecting the Red Sea and the Central Plains had matured, and a large number of foreigners and Chinese people were on this route.

A Chinese first arrived in Funan Kingdom (probably Cambodia in later generations), and then went to the ancient slave Kingdom (Yuwen Wen judged based on various information that this may be a country on the Indian subcontinent).

As a result, I encountered strong winds during my sailing and was blown to the west by the wind. It took me 60 days to dock.

Wherever Yuwen's docking was judged by various literatures, it was very likely that it was the Red Sea area, which later generations called the Arabian Peninsula, which was the jurisdiction of the Great Qin (Roman Empire) at that time.

This Chinese man was knowledgeable and was afraid that the locals would "kill", so he pretended to be the envoy of Funan, which turned the danger into safety.

Why did he do this? Logically speaking, this Chinese man had to pretend to be a familiar "international friend" in the local area to ensure safety, and Funan Kingdom is a very familiar country for the Great Qin Kingdom.

The sea ships in Funan should often arrive in this area, so the locals are so familiar with Funan that they were welcomed by fake Funan envoys and officials to arrive in the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom and be received by the King of the Great Qin.

Yuwen Wen didn't know the specific era when this incident happened, he didn't know whether the Roman Empire was Rome or New Rome (Constantinople), nor did he know whether this incident was compiled by the author of the "Shendan Sutra", or whether it was true.

But what is certain is that in this era, the knowledgeable people in the Central Plains (coastal areas) really know very well about the maritime routes to the extreme west.

When voting to the West, many Chinese had already taken the voyage to Zheng He, the eunuch of Sanbao, "as early as" before many Chinese people. The Zheng He fleet in the early Ming Dynasty took a mature route that had been in full swing for thousands of years.

The book "Shendan Jing" records in detail the customs and customs of the countries in the South China Sea and the Western countries. This is all due to the developed Nanyang routes, Western routes, and customs and customs of various countries. It was not compiled out of thin air by the author.

After Yuwen Wen saw it, he felt a little sad.

For many later generations, when talking about the South Ocean during the Age of Discovery, they would think of Luzon (Philippines), which is rich in gold and copper mines, and the Manila stronghold established by the Western Tertiary Colonists, and the same is true for Yuwen Wen.

However, in fact, the Central Plains had already known about Luzon as early as the end of the Later Han Dynasty.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Eastern Wu fleet had already arrived in the Philippine Islands. At that time, Sun Quan sent Zhu Ying and Kangtai to Funan to investigate the countries in the South China Sea. These two led the fleet to the "natural continent" across the eastern border of Changhai.

The rising sea is what later generations call the South China Sea, and the "natural continent" is the Luzon (Philippines) archipelago. Zhu Ying and Kangtai's trip did not open up new routes to explore unknown seas. They sailed based on previous routes.

Therefore, in the late Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, sea ships from the Central Plains arrived at the "Natural Continent". Maritime merchants were familiar with this place. The news collected by the Maritime Merchants said that the maritime merchants in the Jiaoguang area reported that people from Jiaoguang were already mining and mining gold and silver on the "Natural Continent".

This fact made Yuwen Wen stunned, and then he was silent.

Regarding the Age of Discovery, the thing that was talked about by later generations in the history of the Central Plains was the "Zheng He's voyage to the West" in the early Ming Dynasty, but many people don't know that this maritime Silk Road had matured during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Those who traveled frequently to Southeast Asia by sailing were not the Spanish and Dutch in the mid-Ming Dynasty.

They were from the Qin Dynasty (Fuqin), Persians, Indians, and later Arabs.

The countries in the west were keen on the Maritime Silk Road and the countries in the South China Sea far exceeded that of the Central Plains. In the late Tang Dynasty, more than 100,000 Arabs settled in Fanyu, Guangzhou, while the countries in the South China Sea did not believe in the Central Plains religion.

The countries in the South China Sea have successively accepted various religions from the west. The huge Celestial Kingdom in the north has a contempt for the sea and land that is so close to it, and has made no substantial progress after thousands of years.

Only those people who cannot survive will leave their hometowns and "go to Southeast Asia" and take root and sprout in the smoky and smoky places. They will be treated as leeks by local indigenous people and foreign Western colonists, and will be cut from time to time.

Kill a group, another group, another group, another group, another group, another group, the attitude of the Central Plains court regards these people who settled outside the world as rebellious people and thinks they deserve to die.

For the people along the Central Plains who spontaneously "going to the South China Sea", they only have fellow villagers and no compatriots. The continuous massacres in the South China Sea are targeted at people from a certain township, not at the "Chinese".

When others raise the butcher's knife, they even push their compatriots over to please the butcher.

It is for this reason that even though the Central Plains were very familiar with the routes to the West during the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, and also familiar with the routes to the South China Sea to the South China Sea, they still watched this area be swallowed up and occupied by forces from the west.

Just like a childhood sweetheart who was young, the man sat down and watched the woman become someone else's girlfriend and finally became someone else's bride, but he was indifferent throughout the whole process because he did not cherish it at all.

Looking at this book "Taiqing Jinye Shendan Jing", Yu Wen felt powerless. In the agricultural era, the Central Plains dynasty would inevitably adopt the national policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, and would inevitably focus on the northwest grasslands and on the Baishan and Black Water in the northeast.

In the eyes of rulers, the South China and the West were worse than useless. Even during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, folk maritime merchants had already explored the routes of the South China and the West very clearly. The courts of all dynasties were still indifferent, only thinking about the South China Sea fragrance medicine, but not the substantial expansion.

Yuwen Wen suddenly remembered a passage, which was particularly appropriate: It was me, it was me first, it was obviously me who came first...

Whether it is Jiaozhou, natural continents, or mining gold and silver...

The Central Plains dynasties have let down Nanyang, a "children" in history, so what should he do to live up to this era?
Chapter completed!