Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 26 How big is the world?

As soon as Zhao Dezhao started, a boy from the Duke's family jumped out to answer:
"Blonde hair and blue eyes, I've seen it before, isn't it a barbarian businessman who landed from Fujian!"

Maritime trade in the Song Dynasty was already very prosperous. Among them, Quanzhou Port in Fujian was a leading international trade port. Most of the Yi people who came to do business were Arabs who occupied the trade routes between Europe and East Asia, and occasionally there were a few Western Europeans. of Caucasians.

Most of these Western European whites were captured by Arabs in wars or slaves bought in slave markets, both male and female; in addition, some African blacks were captured by Arab pirates as slaves and brought to the East Asian continent. This existed in the Tang Dynasty, commonly known as "Kunlun slaves".

Seeing that he couldn't hold back the situation, Zhao Dezhao raised his voice and said, "You have seen girls with blonde hair and blue eyes, but have you ever seen girls with red hair and blue eyes?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the audience opened their mouths.

Here, Zhao Dezhao is talking about the Nordic race. At this time, there are still hundreds of years before the age of great voyages, and the proportion of red-haired races is very small. The Vikings can't come to East Asia right now, so they naturally have no chance See.

Zhao Dezhao believed in nonsense, no matter how exaggerated he came.

"Those girls with red hair and blue eyes live in the extreme cold and extreme north. Because of the lack of sunlight, their complexion is extremely white; because of the cold climate, they usually eat sea fish, and their figures are also in good shape. Their breasts , That figure... tsk tsk!"

The boys in the audience opened their mouths even wider, and several of them even drooled onto the table.

"Oh, if they eat sea fish instead of rice and wheat noodles, wouldn't they always have a fishy smell? This will be a disappointment!" The person who spoke was obviously thinking deeply, and was already worried about the woman's body odor. .

Zhao Dezhao actually knew that Caucasians had a high proportion of body odor, but in order to catch their yearning, he deliberately vaguely mentioned it and changed the topic to whales.

"Uh, there may be a little bit of this. But because of this, in order to cover up the unpleasant body odor, the people there are especially good at making incense. For example, the ambergris you like is produced there. It is produced in Big Fish Obtained in the abdomen."

"It turns out that ambergris is produced in this way. It is a good thing. It is worth the money of the old man, more expensive than the same amount of gold!" Another young man showed greed, his eyes were shining, and he showed the true colors of a money fan, " If I get a lot of ambergris, I'll be rich!"

Zhao Dezhao continued talking about whales.

"...The size of this sea fish is extremely large, and the inside of its mouth alone is enough to place an Eight Immortals table!"

"My God, it's so big!"

The students exclaimed, the Huaxia coast is not the main habitat of whales, and coastal fishermen have never had a tradition of whaling, so even though they are the most experienced people in the Song Dynasty, they have never heard of whales. Giants beyond imagination.

"My God, how big a piece of water does it need to support such a big sea fish?" Finally someone asked a valuable question.

Zhao Dezhao himself didn't know the total area of ​​the world's oceans, so he simply let go of the nonsense:
"From our Great Song Dynasty to the east, south, and west, there are tens of thousands of miles of ocean, adding up to hundreds of thousands of miles! How many sea fish can you produce if you can't keep them alive?"

All the students were immersed in shock, and all remained silent for a long time.

Under Zhao Dezhao's indoctrination and temptation, for the first time in their lives, such a thought came to their hearts: "The world is so vast, what I hear and see, what I enjoy and use is just a drop in the ocean, a drop in the bucket!"

Zhao Dezhao struck while the iron was hot and continued to exaggerate vigorously:

"Among the hundreds of thousands of miles of ocean, there are also several large pieces of land. Each piece of land is a fertile plain that stretches across thousands of miles. There are abundant products, there are large areas of gold and silver, and there are countless rare treasures produced. There are countless, and most of them are sparsely populated, whoever occupies it first will own it..."

"Second brother." Zhao Defang interrupted her brother who was talking endlessly in the audience, and suddenly asked the ultimate question: "How do you know this?"

With a swipe, there were many suspicious eyes from the audience.

Zhao Dezhao was already prepared for this, smiled slightly, and replied calmly: "These are given by the gods in a dream, and the details are secrets, how can they be easily revealed?"

……

On that day, Zhao Dezhao talked for several hours about the geography and products of the world to these young children from prominent families.

He bragged about the world outside the Great Song Dynasty, making everyone's eyes shine and their mouths water.

In the original historical time and space, the Great Geographical Discovery was a great divergence between East and West, which directly changed the distribution of population and race in several big states!

The absence of the Chinese nation from the Great Geographical Discovery was one of Zhao Dezhao's greatest regrets when he was studying history in his previous life!

"Since I came to this world, and since everything is still in time, I must make up for this huge shortcoming for the Chinese nation!"

Zhao Dezhao said so in his heart.

And all of this started today, from arousing the curiosity of this group of teenagers who are destined to become powerful in the imperial court, and letting them understand "how big the world really is".

This is the first seed sown!
The next day.

When Zhao Kuangyin learned that Xue Juzheng, an elder of the imperial court, was dying of illness, he immediately sent Wang Jien as an envoy, carrying the medicine bestowed by the emperor, to Xue's mansion to visit and inquire about his illness.

Not long after Wang Jien left, he came back with a look of sadness on his face and reported back to Zhao Kuangyin: "Mr. Xue just died of illness."

Zhao Kuangyin let out an "ah" and was dazed for a moment, then asked, "Will you meet Xue Gong in time?"

"As soon as it was too late, Mr. Xue said a few words to the servants on the sick bed, and then left."

As he spoke, Wang Jien took out a memorial and presented it with both hands.

"This is the last seal that Xue Gong presented to the Holy Majesty!"

The posthumous chapter is not only the last memorial before death, it represents a subject's political last words, and represents a subject's last advice and hopes for the emperor.

Therefore, its weight has always been extremely heavy in all dynasties, far exceeding the usual.

Zhao Kuangyin took a deep breath, reached out to take the memorial in Wang Jien's hand, and opened it carefully.

After taking a second look, he exclaimed "Ah" again and stood up from the chair.

The memorial reads:

"The spring and Autumn period of the sage was at its peak, and the position of the crown prince has been vacant for a long time, which is not conducive to the hearts of the ruling and wild people. It is advisable to register a crown prince as soon as possible."

"Brothers end up with brothers, the source of the chaos is definitely not the right way."

"The king of Jin is powerful and majestic, and the ministers are afraid that they will not lose their tails, and will eventually cause disasters for the country. The Holy One should repress the king of Jin a little bit, and with the kindness of all brothers and sisters, don't let the fraternal fratricide in the palace in the future!"

"The king of Tianshui County is my emperor's direct son. He is born noble, talented, kind-hearted, and knows what to advance and retreat. It is advisable to quickly establish him as the crown prince and the heir apparent of the Great Song Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)