Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 379 The map is going to be painted red again! (Please subscribe!)
After finishing the deal with the Yokut tribe, Xiao Wu is also ready to return to Daming.

After the fleet he led came to the west coast of America, it perfectly completed the task set by Zhu Kezang.

Earning a small amount of money and expanding the territory are the same, and you will definitely be promoted and raised when you go back!

When he returned to the mainland of Ming Dynasty, it was already the end of the fifth year of Shenwu.

In December of the fifth year of Shenwu, old eunuch Li didn't know what Zhu Kezang was thinking while looking at the map. He thought Zhu Kezang was thinking about the new strategic direction of Ming Dynasty.

Over the years, he discovered that the emperor has a habit of always staring at the map in a daze.

Every time he heard that a new territory was added to the Ming Dynasty map, the emperor would always rush to the map, find this place with his own hands, and paint it red!
He felt that the emperor looking at the map should be happy. After all, the land of Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger. Once the Central Plains is unified, it will be far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties. worthy of the title of emperor through the ages.

While Zhu Kezang was in a daze, Chen Weiguo ran in happily and knelt down on his knees panting, "Your Majesty, good news. After the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Wu of the National Defense Forces, the Honolulu Islands and Jinshan City that the Emperor said were found!"

"They have arrived at Yingtian Port, and I have come here to announce the good news to the emperor!"

Zhu Kezang happily took over the announcement document and unfolded it: "Lao Li, quickly bring the ruler and compass!"

When the old eunuch Li brought the ruler and compasses, he asked, "Your Majesty, should the little eunuch mark the Honolulu Islands?"

Zhu Kezang waved his hand: "No, I want to do it myself! Bring the ladder here, the southeast of Chiyoko Port, the north of the equator, this is here, the archipelago is slanted to the northeast and southwest, and there is a large island at the southernmost point with sandalwood on it. This is what I'm looking for Hawaii, now it belongs to Daming!"

Zhu Kezang looked at the map and grinned happily: "Look, with this relay island, the distance between Da Ming and the New World will be shortened in the future. Moreover, the entire North Pacific region is under the control of Da Ming. We have half of the Pacific Ocean!"

Chen Weiguo, eunuch Li Zhongjie and others obediently bowed their hands: "Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

"Let's go, follow me to clean up Xiao Wu's life."

Zhu Kezang was very happy and decided to give Xiao Wu a warm welcome!
Soon, a luxurious convoy arrived outside the Yifeng Gate of Yingtian Mansion, and Zhu Kezang led the important ministers of Ming Dynasty to greet them here.

Although Xiao Wu didn't come back triumphantly because of the war, the discovery of the New World was enough for him to be recorded in history.

With such a great achievement, Zhu Kezang will naturally not treat the hero badly.

Seeing such a big battle of the emperor, Xiao Wu was almost moved to tears, so he took a sliding step and quickly came to Zhu Kezang.

He was about to kneel down immediately, but fortunately Zhu Kezang stopped him: "Xiao Aiqing, get up quickly, you are a great hero of Ming Dynasty!"

"My meager contribution is not enough for the emperor to treat me so favorably!" Xiao Wu was so moved that he immediately dedicated all the gold brought back from America to Zhu Kezang.

Zhu Kezang immediately distributed part of the gold to the exploration team. This is what they deserved. Zhu Kezang is not a stingy person.

"Your Majesty, by the way, we brought back some strange things." Xiao Wu showed Zhu Kezang the tortoise shell he brought back from the Yokut tribe.

Seeing these tortoise shells, Zhu Kezang's memory of history class came back immediately. He remembered that the history teacher had taught a lot of oracle bone inscriptions. He took the tortoise shell and looked at it carefully, but he only recognized a few words. It is still too far away to decipher it and form a complete meaning.

Zhu Kezang asked people to send these animal bones and tortoise shells to Gewu Zhizhi College, where there are more talented people.

Although the Academy of Gewuzhizhi does not offer archeology, it has antiquities and epigraphy.

Epigraphy is the predecessor of Chinese archaeology.

It is a discipline with ancient bronze wares and stone inscriptions as the main research objects, focusing on the description and textual research to achieve the purpose of verifying scriptures and supplementing history, especially the text inscriptions and rubbings on them; in a broad sense, it also includes bamboo slips, General cultural relics such as oracle bones, jade wares, bricks and tiles, sealing mud, military charms, and Ming wares.

Jinshixue was formed in the Northern Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu was the founder of Jinshixue. His student Zeng Gong’s "Jinshilu" first proposed the word "Jinshi".

After the dean Yan Yuan heard about it, he took a look at the tortoise shells and animal bones and thought they should be old objects.

However, the text experts of Gewuzhizhi Academy have studied it for a long time, and there are still some contents that have not been deciphered. The cultural background here is still too poor.

The Institute of Gewu Zhizhi focuses more on various technologies, and the Four Books and Five Classics are not very popular.

However, judging from the deciphered content, it seems that these tortoise shell and animal bone characters are earlier than those of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Could it be that the Xia Dynasty failed?
Even Yan Yuan is not sure. If it is really Xia Chao, then this discovery is too important.

Zhu Kezang was also very excited when he heard that it might belong to the Xia Dynasty. You must know that in later generations, China is said to be 5000 years old, but the history before the Shang Dynasty is not recognized internationally.

The reason is the lack of written records. The Xia Dynasty has names and surnames, which have been handed down from generation to generation. Taishigong Shiji also records it very clearly, but there is only one thing. If you don’t find the text at that time, you can’t verify the authenticity, let alone know this. Dynasties do not really exist.

So if it is really written before the Shang Dynasty, deciphering it is undoubtedly a huge discovery, and it can even rewrite history.

In fact, as Xiao Wu and Bian Yongkang thought, Zhu Kezang didn't care about the source of those Yin Di'an people.

It's better to have a relationship, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't matter, but if it is the oracle bone inscriptions of the Xia Dynasty, Zhu Kezang must let them have a connection, and there must be a connection.

He directly wrote a recruitment list in Huangming Daily, recruiting people in the Ming Dynasty who have researched ancient characters.

The emperor's call was terrifying, but in less than half a month, an "expert group" in the study of ancient characters was found for the Gewu Zhizhi Academy.

There are officials in this team, some well-known Confucian scholars, and some monks and Taoist priests, but all of them are well-known figures in the cultural world.

Even Zhu Kezang personally hosted these expert groups.

Not to mention that this group of experts really researched something after seeing the animal bones and tortoise shells.

Even Zhu Kezang, who knew a thing or two about Chinese history, was shocked.

"What are you talking about? This is not a record of a period?"

Zhu Kezang almost petrified when he heard the report from the great Confucian surnamed Shen.

According to the research of these people, most of the contents of animal bones and tortoise shells have been deciphered.

It turned out that these records were not from one period, and the time span was as long as more than 400 years.

The earliest batch even mentioned Houyi replacing Xia, which happened in the Taikang period, the early Xia Dynasty!

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