Compiling a book these days is not a simple matter. For example, Luo Hongxian has read many books and worked hard to compile "Guangyu Map". It has been five or six years since he has only completed half of it.

This is a big reason why Yang Cong has not started to compilation "Theory of Understanding and Knowledge". He has limited energy alone and cannot complete such a huge project. At this moment, he has no knowledge of writing books. If he is asked to compile it alone, he will probably be so tired that he will not be able to complete such a masterpiece.

However, it was different now. He happened to have some free time and met Luo Hongxian, the top scholar who was particularly interested in geography. Therefore, he decided to start compiling "Theory of Investigating Things and Knowing. Geography Chapter". As for the others, he had to slowly gather talents before he could start.

In order to have a good start, Yang Cong also tried his best. These days, he ran to Luo Hongxian almost as soon as the court finished. The two of them discussed for a long time and decided to make a cross-cut page. On one side was a simple map with symbols, and on the other side was a topographic map of mountains, rivers and cities. When the two sides were compared, it looked very clear, and it was many times better than the previous maps.

As for the content of the entire geography chapter, of course, not only included in the Ming Dynasty, but also included the entire world. However, Yang Cong only remembered the outline of the world map and the general orientation of some major countries. He was really detailed in mountains, rivers, roads, cities, etc., and he was also distorted.

What should I do with this problem?

Yang Cong originally thought that this problem was difficult to solve. He might have to catch a few merchants from the continent, or directly fight with the navy of a colonial power, and seized his navigation map to slowly complete the world map. Unexpectedly, Luo Hongxian thought of a simpler solution, which is to flip a book.

He really didn't expect that the Hanlin Academy had a lot of books. The three lofts in the front of the Hanlin Academy were all used for collections of books. The books inside were as vast as a sea of ​​smoke. The dense bookshelf were full of books, and the books from the entire three buildings were all!

When Luo Hongxian used to draw "Guangyu Map", he took out relevant books from it for reference. However, he only read books that recorded the territory of the Ming Dynasty. He rarely read other books and had no time to read them.

Yang Cong discovered that he really found a treasure. The Hanlin Academy's collection of books was beyond his imagination. Not only did he have geography related books, astronomy, equipment, metallurgy, water conservancy and other books, but the three lofts were equivalent to a huge encyclopedia, but there were too many books and too many mixed books, and a person could not finish reading them in his lifetime.

As long as he has enough manpower, he can basically read the scientific and technological knowledge of this era. In other words, as long as he combines his later experiences with the content recorded in the Hanlin Academy, a set of "Theory of Studying Things and Learning Knowing" will be almost completed.

Of course, this is also a very huge project, and he has not yet fully developed it. Now, what he can do is to dig out the records about geography in the collection, add his own experiences in later generations, and compile it with Luo Hongxian into "Theory of Studying Things and Knowing. Geography".

The workload was also quite large, but it brought him many surprises. The Hanlin Academy's collection not only contained books that recorded the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but also picture albums from various surrounding vassal states, detailed records of Zheng He's voyage to the West, and various geographical books from the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the Former Dynasty.

This guy, the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the previous dynasty, was a great empire that spanned the entire Eurasian continent. They not only had detailed maps of their own territory, but also detailed maps of hostile European countries. With these books, the topography and landforms of the entire Eurasian continent have almost come out. As for Africa and North and South America, just roughly mark them first. Anyway, those places were basically colonies of European countries in this era of navigation, and there is no need to be too detailed marks on the map.

Yang Cong originally thought that the maps about the Eurasian continent in "Kunyu Wanguo Map" were brought from the continent by Western missionaries later. Now it seems that this is not the case. The Ming Dynasty originally had related maps, but no one summed them up and merged them into a complete world map.

This is not surprising, because people's energy is limited. People like Luo Hongxian, who was obsessed with geography, spent five or six years to draw half of the Ming Dynasty map. He didn't even have time to read geography books outside the territory of the Ming Dynasty, let alone others. Unless the emperor issued an order, no one would do this in boredom. The reason why "Kunyu Wanguo Map" was born was because Wanli became curious about the world.

It can be said that using the Hanlin Academy's collection of books, you can draw a rough world map. If you add Yang Cong's later experiences, the map drawn is even more comprehensive than "Kunyu Wanguo Map".

This discovery really made Yang Cong and Luo Hongxian very excited. They were obsessed with the compilation of "Theory of Investigating Things and Learning Knowledge. Geography" all day long, and half a month passed.

On that day, Yang Cong still had morning court as usual, took a short rest, and then went straight to Luo Hongxian's duty room. Unexpectedly, there were already customers in Luo Hongxian's place.

This person is Zhao Shichun, an editor of Hanlin Academy, and he is also a lazy and frustrating guy.

Yang Cong also heard about Zhao Shichun's deeds. This guy is a strange guy. He was the first in the Bingxu exam in the fifth year of Jiajing, that is, Huiyuan. At that time, Jiajing had a conflict with the court officials due to the dispute over the rituals, so he did not hold a palace exam. Logically speaking, he, Huiyuan, should have naturally become the top scorer, but he did not expect that after Jiajing looked at the exam paper, he did not specify him as the top scorer, but instead ranked him as the third in the second grade.

This guy doesn't know if he has a strong sense of justice or doesn't like Jiajing. He just entered the official career and argued with Jiajing. He submitted a complaint to criticize Jiajing if he had something to do. This is wrong, and that is wrong!

Well, you are fighting against the emperor these days, and the result is conceivable that his career has almost been ruined because of this.

Jiajing started a riot and could not bear it. After he submitted several memorials, Jiajing was furious and issued an order to imprison him in the imperial prison and beat him up for a few days, and then dismissed him from office and removed him from his post!

However, almost ten years have passed since this incident. Jiajing may have found out with conscience that it was still wrong, so he was reinstated as editor of Hanlin Academy.

In other words, he, a talented man in the second grade, has been in the officialdom for more than ten years, and is still a small official in the seventh rank!

What are you doing to Luo Hongxian this guy?

Before he could ask, Zhao Shichun took out a memorial like a treasure and asked him to comment.

Yang Cong opened the memorial and saw that he didn't faint if he was wrong.

This guy, he actually wanted to criticize Jiajing again. He should not be superstitious about the art of immortality, but should be diligent in government affairs, prolong visits, and encourage shame.

Brother, can you be more reliable? Will you have good results if you hand over this memorial?
Chapter completed!