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A group of courtiers who were discussing the emperor's inspection of the navy in the imperial study room couldn't help but cast their eyes on the little servant, to be precise, they fell on the memorial that the little servant was holding in his hand.

As for the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty led by Luo Xiang, Jiang Bin, it can be said that everyone present knew it well. It can be said that it is widely known that the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty went to the Wa Kingdom and earned several times the benefits.

However, Jiang Bin and Luo Xiang immediately led the fleet full of goods and headed for Nanyang.

Others don't know, it's just that Luo Xiang and his fleet went to Nanyang just to sell Ming's goods to earn profits, but the people present, as important officials of the court, knew that Luo Xiang and his team went to Nanyang for more than just To earn profits, the more important thing is to inquire about the intelligence of Southeast Asian countries.

Even deeper, he carried Li Huan's order to verify the accuracy of the charts left by Zheng He when he went south in the past, so as to prepare for the return of Ming's power to Nanyang in the future.

Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting there, couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard the words, and nodded slightly to Qiu Ju who was serving beside him.

Seeing that Qiu Ju stepped forward to take the memorial and carefully presented it to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao took the memorial and opened it with some hope. To be honest, Zhu Houzhao was really curious about what Luo Xiang and the others had gained from their trip to Nanyang.

As the emperor's eyes fell on the memorial, the smile on Zhu Houzhao's face gradually disappeared, and was replaced by an angry look.

The important minister who had been paying attention to the changes in the emperor's expression obviously felt the anger in the emperor's heart at this moment, and he couldn't help feeling a little bit puzzled.

What kind of news is in this memorial that makes the emperor so angry.

We must know that normally speaking, Luo Xiang and the others should bring good news when they come back from Nanyang. The emperor should not say happy, at least he should not be angry.

Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao slapped the table with his palm, and said with anger on his face, "What a barbarian, dare to attack my Daming royal caravan, they still have my Daming in their eyes, but they still have me .”

After hearing the emperor's words, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they realized that although they didn't know exactly what happened, they could guess more or less just by listening to the emperor's words, perhaps something happened to the fleet in Nanyang.

The eyes of Wang Yangming and the others turned to Li Huan who was sitting there. Because of Li Huan, the strength of the Ming military has skyrocketed, so that the Xungui Group has regained its former right to speak in the court.

And Li Huan happened to be the representative of the Xungui Group, so the first reaction of Wang Yangming and others at this time was to see Li Huan's attitude.

Li Huan's expression was quite calm, as if he had not been affected by anything, his voice was a little calm, and he said slowly: "Your Majesty, I don't know what happened?"

Zhu Houzhao listened to Li Huan's words, his eyes fell on Li Huan, he took a deep breath and handed the memorial in his hand to Qiu Ju and said, "Duke Qin, let's take a look, Luo Xiang and the others were attacked by barbarians in Nanyang, and the loss is not small. "

"what!"

Among the important ministers, someone was obviously shocked by the news, and subconsciously let out a bit of exclamation.

At least in the eyes of everyone present, Daming is the center of the world, a kingdom of heaven that is respected by all nations. Except for those Tatar barbarians in the northern grasslands, no one dares to be an enemy of Daming.

But now, according to the Son of Heaven, there are barbarians attacking the Daming Royal Caravan in Nanyang. Could it be that these barbarians don't know that the Daming Royal Caravan represents the face of the imperial court and the royal family.Attacking the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty is almost equivalent to declaring war on Ming Dynasty.

Li Huan took the memorial from Qiu Ju and looked through it. Compared with the emperor's anger, when Li Huan read the memorial, he knew it.

Especially when he saw that it was mentioned in the memorial that it was the Portuguese fleet that attacked the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty, Li Huan was not too surprised.

Others don't know, but Li Huan is very clear that in this era, Westerners are rising at an astonishing speed on the sea. The Netherlands, formerly known as the coachman of the sea, will soon be divided up by Portugal and Spain. There will be a war in the future The rise of the British who defeated the Armada.

At the same time, as the Eastern Chinese civilization that has been passed down for thousands of years and stands on the top of the world, it has suffered unprecedented damage, so that the Chinese civilization has sunk for hundreds of years.

And this era is precisely when Spain and Portugal, the two major maritime powers, carve up the world, and it is also when Portugal's maritime military power is at its peak.

Whether the Portuguese ruled India or spied on Southeast Asia, it can be said that during this period, apart from Spain, the Portuguese had no opponents at all on this vast sea.

Perhaps other countries did not dare to attack the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty, but if it was the Portuguese, Li Huan was not at all surprised that the other party attacked the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty because of the wealth of the caravan.

These Westerners are like robbers in their bones. They have always believed in the strong and respected them. They have traveled more than half of the world, and there are not many tribal kingdoms destroyed by these Westerners.

Maybe Da Ming's reputation is somewhat intimidating to these people, but if it is really possible to calm down the other party's wealth worth millions of taels of silver, Da Ming's deterrent power may have been thrown away by these people long ago In the back of my mind.

A sneer gradually emerged from the corner of Li Huan's mouth, and he raised his head and bowed to the emperor, saying: "Your Majesty, Portugal is just a small barbarian country in the west. How dare you attack my Daming royal caravan? You really don't take me seriously, please. Sending troops to Nanyang, we must wipe out this group of barbarians and rats, and raise our Ming Dynasty's prestige."

As soon as Li Huan finished speaking, one person said: "Duke Qin is polite, but I have some doubts, so I ask Duke Qin to clarify."

Li Huan saw that the person who spoke was none other than Yang Tinghe, one of the elders of the cabinet.

Seeing that Yang Tinghe was looking at him with some doubts on his face, Li Huan smiled lightly and said, "If Mr. Yang Ge wants to ask anything, just ask, if Li knows, he will definitely know everything and talk about it." .”

Yang Tinghe nodded slightly at Li Huan and said: "As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing the enemy will win a hundred battles. I want to ask Lord Qin, what kind of country is this Portugal?

The rest of the people also looked at Li Huan. To be honest, although they said they knew some countries other than Ming Dynasty, what they knew about these countries was the vassal states of Ming Dynasty. What country, they really don't know much about it.

From what I heard now, it seems that in the South Seas, people from a country called Portugal attacked the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty. They were very curious as to what kind of country Portugal was, and how they had the guts to attack the Royal Caravan of Ming Dynasty.

Although under the influence of Li Huan, Daming has now lifted the sea ban, and a large number of fleets have gone to sea for trade, which has promoted Daming's overseas trade and brought a lot of overseas news.

But to be honest, the people who are important ministers of the central government may not know as much about overseas as those maritime merchants in the southeast coast who make a living by sea trade.

At least those sea merchants who want to make a living by sea trade must have some understanding of overseas countries, otherwise they don't even know what they want to trade with, so how can they conduct long-term trade.

Li Huan glanced at the crowd, nodded slightly and said: "Since you all want to know what kind of country this Portugal is and what its national strength is, then today Li will introduce to you the current situation of overseas countries in the world."

Speaking of which, Li Huan bowed to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, please send someone to the minister's mansion to fetch a map of the universe."

Zhu Houzhao nodded when he heard the words and said to Qiu Ju who was beside him: "In this case, let Qiu Daban go there himself, go and come back quickly."

Li Huan explained a few words to Qiu Ju, and Qiu Ju immediately left the palace and headed towards Duke Qin's mansion at a very fast speed.

And in the imperial study room, everyone couldn't help feeling a bit puzzled when they saw this. What is the map of the universe that Li Huan is talking about? Could it be a map?
At this time, Zhu Houzhao opened his mouth and asked the doubts in the hearts of the crowd: "Li Qing, what is this map of the universe?"

Li Huan said solemnly: "Return to Your Majesty, this map of the universe is a general map of the current world compiled by me based on various sources of information, covering all countries in the entire world..."

Many people were surprised by Li Huan's words. Although they had some guesses in their hearts, they were still shocked when they heard what Li Huan said.

Although it is said that Zheng He made several voyages to the Western Seas in the past and also left behind a large number of sea charts, no one has compiled a map of the world based on these fragmentary sea charts.

A hundred years have passed, and even a lot of information about Zheng He's voyages to the West has been lost and incomplete. The important officials of the Ming Dynasty who have taken their eyes back from overseas have really limited understanding of overseas.

Here, Qiu Ju went to the Duke of Qin's mansion. Because of Li Huan's souvenir, Qiu Ju met Zhang Jin, one of Li Huan's wives.

Li Huan's study is naturally a forbidden place in the Duke of Qin's mansion. On weekdays, there are a few eunuchs who have practiced evil swordsmanship to guard secretly. It can be said that without Li Huan's permission, no one can enter without permission.

On weekdays, only Zhang Jin and Zhu Lin were able to enter the study room, and Zhang Jin helped Li Huan clean up the study room on weekdays. After seeing Li Huan's handwriting, he entered the study room and quickly took out a huge roll to write it down. Give it to Qiu Ju.

Qiu Ju hurried back to the palace, took the scroll into the imperial study room, and the eyes of everyone in the imperial study room naturally fell on the scroll at the first time.

Li Huan unwrapped the reel and slowly opened it, revealing a map of the universe with a radius of one zhang, with densely drawn lines of various sizes and tiny characters on it.

Everyone's eyes fell on the map of the universe, and soon some people saw the familiar picture. It was the territory map of Daming. After all, as the central officials, they may not be familiar with other things, but they must be familiar with the territory map of Daming .

On this map of the universe, it is not surprising that everyone can see the area where the territory map of Daming is located at a glance, and when Li Huan draws this world map with the memory of his previous life, it is naturally the area where Daming is located. As the center, so from the world map, the territory map of Ming Dynasty is located in the most eye-catching position of this map.

Based on Li Huan's previous life experience, it is really not difficult for him to have a mere map of the world, but even so, Li Huan really doesn't know much about the countries in the world in this era except for the very famous countries. Therefore, on the world map, he only drew continental plates in many regions. As for the countries on them, Li Huan really didn't mark them.

But even so, this crude version of the world map can be said to be the first map of this era to mark the world's continents and oceans in detail.

A servant stared at the map that was laid flat on the ground, and his eyes fell on the area that was obviously the territorial map of the Ming Dynasty. He was looking at the large and small countries around the Ming Dynasty and on the entire map of the universe, his eyes were filled with a kind of shock. And unbelievable, he muttered to himself: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible..."

Not only this servant, it can be said that among all the officials present, when faced with this world map that included the territory map of the Ming Dynasty, almost no one could keep calm, even Zhu Hou, who is the emperor, acted like this. Shi also looked shocked, just looking at the world map in front of him stupidly.

After a while, Li Huan couldn't help coughing lightly, waking up the crowd from the shock and loss of consciousness.

After regaining consciousness, the eyes of all the people fell on Li Huan almost instantly, Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, stared at Li Huan without hesitation and said, "Li Qing, this... this world Whether the map of the universe is real or not, how can I, Da Ming, occupy such a small area on this map?"

This doubt is not only shared by Zhu Houzhao, it can be said that all the officials present have the same doubt, because the education they have received since childhood is that Ming Dynasty is the center of the world, and it is the kingdom of heaven. The foreign people are all small countries of Quer, and outside of Ming Dynasty are all barbarian lands, and the world is bigger than Ming Dynasty.

However, just a picture of the world and the universe shakes the solidified impression in their hearts. It turns out that the world is so vast. Although Da Ming is big, the world is only a palm-sized area. There is still such a vast territory, and an unknown number of kingdoms exist.

Under the eyes of the crowd, Li Huan nodded slowly and looked at the crowd and said: "This is the map of the world we live in. Although Li can't guarantee that it is [-]% correct, it is at least eight or nine percent accurate. , even if there is some error, the error is not big, and Li is not interested in using a fake map to deceive people. After all, there are many places on this map. You only need to send someone to the southeast coastal area to ask about the sea Shang can ask clearly."

Eighty-eight, as Li Huan said, there is such a map, they can definitely send someone to confirm it, it is obviously impossible for Li Huan to cheat on this kind of thing.

Since what Li Huan said is true, the meaning represented by the map in front of him is suddenly different. At this moment, when everyone looks at the huge world map in front of them, their eyes especially fall on Daming Looking at the area where he was, and looking at the vast area beyond Daming, everyone present had a strange look in their eyes.

Especially Zhu Houzhao, who is the son of heaven, walked forward quickly at this time, took off his shoes, stepped on the world map on the ground with a bit of excitement between his faces, stepped on the map of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and looked down. Looking at the territory of the Ming Dynasty under his feet, and then looking around the surrounding area, he couldn't help showing an inexplicable expression on his face.

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