Villager of Daming

Chapter 346 Ancient and Modern Unseen Maps of Mountains and Rivers (Third Change)
Zhu Yuanzhang followed the head of the village and Hanhan, together with Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi and the guards, all the way to the sacrificial hall of the village.

Outsiders are not allowed to enter other people's sacrificial halls, only the head of the village and Hanhan go inside, and Hanhan helps move a box out.

This box was brought from the sacrificial hall of Xiaqiu Village outside Chaoyang Gate when I came back. Wherever the person is, the box is there.

Inside the box are all kinds of drawings drawn by Hanhan, including letters and test books written by the head teacher before.

This box plus the contents inside weighs 150 kilograms. Hanhan doesn't need to wear a pole or rope through the buckle, he carries it directly on his shoulders.

There is a roll of cloth under Li Chang's arm. When he goes outside, spread the cloth on the concrete floor, fold it back and forth four times, and let Hanhan put the box.

The chief then took off a rope from his neck. There was a key at the other end of the rope, and he used the key to unlock the lock.

He opened the box carefully, and everyone smelled a fragrance, which was obviously used to prevent moths.

There is a layer of satin on the top, and the inner director lifted the satin to reveal the things underneath, including a large separate box.

He struggled to pick it up, put it on the cushion next to the box, opened the box, and revealed bundles of paper, the best rice paper that is less rotten than silk.

To describe this kind of rice paper, there is a saying: the rhyme of ink is ever-changing, and the life of paper is thousands of years.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi naturally knew that this was the best paper in Xuancheng, and it was expensive.

"Your Majesty, wait a moment." The chief turned around and ran into the sacrificial hall again, and brought out a basin of water after a while.

"Your Majesty, Crown Prince, King Qin, and Hanhan, wash your hands first." The Lieutenant handed over the soap and towel.

"Okay, wash your hands." Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry either, just feeling uncomfortable with sweaty hands.

After all five people washed their hands, the head of the village took out a rolled paper and asked Han Han, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Yu to show it to Zhu Yuanzhang together with him.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi leaned on two corners and watched together, and they were stunned for an instant.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened significantly, and a map appeared in front of him, marking the names of places and mountains, and drawing the direction of rivers and lakes.

The range of each state capital is marked, including the pass.

He watched, suddenly staggered, quickly adjusted his feet, squinted his eyes and took a deep breath, after a while, opened them again and continued to look.

"Father, this picture is great!" Zhu Xi said next to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him: "Do we still need you to say it? Oops! Huh~huh~~huh~~this picture..."

Zhu Yuanzhang never thought that one day he would be able to see such a map. The maps of previous dynasties are nothing compared to the ones in front of him.

He stretched out his hand to touch it, but as soon as his finger touched the paper, he quickly retracted it: "Be careful, don't use too much force, don't damage our picture."

His two sons nodded and relaxed a little, but the paper was of good quality.

Nowadays, the paper used for drawing maps is as large as silk and satin, and of course it cannot be compared with Shu brocade and Suzhou embroidery.

But now the things painted on this paper are much more valuable than Su embroidery and Shu brocade.

"Yichang, what are the little strips on it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the map and found that there were small bars on the upper and left, the upper one was vertical, and the left one was horizontal.

"Your Majesty, that is a scale. The scale on this map is one to 50. The distance of one grid on the map is equal to the actual distance of 50.

The distance of the grid right now should actually be nearly ten miles, there may be deviations, but thinking about it..."

"I'm not afraid of deviations. If we had this map back then, we would start a war... oops!"

Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that this map not only marked the names of mountains, state capitals, counties, locations of rivers and lakes, but also distances.

This is obviously used for war, and I have never seen it since I was a child, no, I have never heard of such a map.

How did the distance come about?It feels like painting against the ground in the high sky.

oh!This one grid on the picture is actually the length of 50 grids.

Then there are two rulers, one on the top and one on the left, and you can accurately know the distance from which place to which place.

"How many prefectures are these? Three, no, more than four, in the end it will be..." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it and found that it was not complete, just this little?
"Father, there's still more in the box!" Zhu Xi said again.

"Yes, put it away, put this one away first, be gentle, don't break it."

Zhu Yuanzhang directed everyone to reroll the picture.

The reason why it is a roll is because I am afraid that the folded position will be worn, so the folded part may break, or the words and lines may be worn away.

After a picture is rolled up, take out another roll and unfold it. The layout is the same as the previous picture, except that the place names and rivers have changed.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a look: "Okay, put it in. That... Yichang! How many places are there in the box."

"Your Majesty, there are places where Daming is located." The village head replied.

"All of them? All of Daming? It's a priceless treasure! It's really a priceless treasure, so let's put this in..."

"Your Majesty, the original manuscript has to be placed in the sacrificial hall of Xiaqiu Village. You can find a copy master to draw it, and you can't take it away from the village."

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take it away, the head of the village immediately became anxious. If you take this precious thing, how long will it take for the idiot to draw the next copy?
As for the accidental destruction of a certain picture, Hanhan can draw another one, the picture is in Hanhan's heart.

"Uh!" Zhu Yuanzhang was stuck. He looked at the picture scroll in the box, then went to the box, took out a letter from the box, opened it, and had an impression, but the word was different.

"Good handwriting, it's the same as the characters on the picture book! Huh? This is not block script, it's Xingkai. This Xingkai is beautifully written, and I think I have a strong running script skill.

ah!These are the original pictures for reading and writing by pictures. They actually used them to carve and stained them. Here, there are black ones.

We found out that the things in this box are all treasures!All right!Let's find someone to copy and send back the original drawing. "

Zhu Yuanzhang took a look at the contents of the box and immediately knew what it was.

For those things written and drawn by masters, those who couldn’t draw them could only send the original manuscripts, such as the drawings of open hearth furnaces for steelmaking, and those who could read pictures.

If it is simple, the chief can draw it, and the chief draws it himself, puts the original in a box and sends it to the sacrificial hall.

The head of the village nodded repeatedly, yes, these things in Xiaqiu Village are very precious.

"Zhu Lichang, I see that once you dispatch a large number of people, you will bring this box. Do you think the sacrificial hall with the box is the real sacrificial hall?"

Zhu Biao had seen this box several times. Xiaqiu Village moved it around, but this time they all came out and moved the box to the sacrificial hall in the village.

There should be four sacrificial halls in Xiaqiu Village. One is a place that sells boxed lunches.

One is outside the Donghua Gate, the other is outside the Chaoyang Gate, and finally it is the original place, the sacrificial hall here.

The head of the village heard what the prince said, but shook his head lightly: "His Royal Highness, you missed the point, the real sacrificial hall in Xiaqiu Village puts the box, and the real sacrificial hall is not where the box is.

Xiaqiu Village looks at the sacrificial hall, not the box, but the people. The sacrificial hall where the villagers live is the real sacrificial hall in Xiaqiu Village. Where the village guards are, the sacrificial hall is there. "

"Xiaqiu Village, the guardian of the village, Hanhan! Me, uh! Hehehehe!"

Zhu Wentian interjected, but he hadn't spoken for a long time.

(End of this chapter)