Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 37, We Live On A Ball
Everyone looked at Liu Jin with red eyes, wanting to continue to listen to Liu Jin talk about the world outside of Ming Dynasty.

However, Liu Jin's mouth was dry at this time, and he drank tea slowly and took a breath.

"Then what is the east of the Golden Continent, the west of Europe and Africa, the north of Siberia, and the south of Australia and the South Seas?"

"What's so special about these places?"

Lin Shuhong thought for a while and asked Liu Jin.

This question is also a question that everyone present is concerned about. At this time, everyone has already whetted their appetites, and they really want to continue listening to Liu Jin's lecture, and hear about the treasures in the wider world.

"That's right, hurry up and continue talking with us. Didn't you just say that you know everything, and this hasn't finished answering his question?"

The others followed suit, and none of them had the intention of leaving, and they all wanted to continue listening.

"If this Golden Continent continues eastward, it will be the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is as vast as the Pacific Ocean. After passing the Atlantic Ocean and continuing eastward, you will reach Europe and Africa."

Liu Jin smiled, pointed to the map and said.

"This... this, isn't the Golden Continent in the east, isn't Europe and Africa in the west? If you keep going east, why do you end up in Europe and Africa?"

When everyone heard this, they were all dumbfounded.

In the traditional concept of geography, the sky is round and the earth is square. How could it be possible to go east all the way, and walk to the west again.

"You mean, if we go east together, we can also reach Europe and Africa, and then we can return to our Daming after passing through Africa, Europe, and the Western Regions?"

Lin Shuhong widened his eyes, unbelievable, and asked after thinking about it.

"Well, that's right, your brain is quite good. If you keep going east, you will eventually return to our Daming. Similarly, if you keep going west, you will return to our Daming again. The same goes for north and south.”

Liu Jin looked at Lin Shuhong, he didn't expect that the scholar's head could be saved, he was not stupid.

"It's impossible. How could you go east and end up in the west? It's impossible. You're just talking nonsense from beginning to end."

When Lin Shuhong heard this, he shook his head again and again, then fixed his eyes on Liu Jin and said.

"That's right, it's really ridiculous. I'll see how you can justify it."

The businessman who got up to answer Daming's crop output also stood up and said.

"The sky is round and the earth is round. Today the sky is round and the earth is square. Our Ming Dynasty is the center of the world. It's ridiculous!"

Tong Yuan couldn't help but said sharply.

"Everything from southeast to northwest will return to the original point, so what is the world we live in?"

Huang Jinquan also followed suit, really unable to imagine what the world would look like.

"Of course we can, because we live on a giant sphere."

Seeing the anger of the crowd, Liu Jin smiled, stood up and said, then took off the white cloth, slowly trying to shape the white cloth into a spherical shape, but the white cloth was too soft.

"Xiao Er, please bring some hay here."

Liu Jin thought for a while and told the waiter who was watching in a daze.

The waiter looked at Liu Jin, and then at his shopkeeper. The shopkeeper glared at the waiter and said, "Hurry up and get it."

"We live on a huge ball, how is this possible, how big is this ball?"

"What's more, in this round place, how can we live on a ball?"

Lin Shuhong shook his head again and again, Liu Jin's words had already exceeded everyone's understanding, beyond too much, too much, it was really hard to believe.

"On a ball?"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he vaguely remembered an ancient book he had read, which seemed to say the same thing, saying that the ground under his feet might be a ball, but he would not be able to remember this for a while. What is the name of this book.

Ancient astronomers also had extremely powerful people. After years of observation of astronomy and geography, these people were able to gradually discover some laws and infer some things.

"It's not hard to prove that we live on a sphere."

Liu Jin looked at the bell tower in the distance, and said to everyone: "We are in a flat and open place, and when we see mountains and rivers in the distance, have you noticed that the first thing we see are all the peaks of the mountains, and then As the distance gets closer, we slowly see the mountainside, and we can see the foot of the mountain only when we are closest to it.”

"Have you ever thought about it carefully, why when we stand in the distance, we see the top first, and finally see the bottom when we get closer?"

"If the world we live in is really round, the earth should be flat. When we look at things from a distance, we should be able to see both the top and the bottom at once."

Everyone listened to Liu Jin's words, then looked at the bell tower in the distance, and then connected to the scene when they saw the mountain in the distance, their eyes widened suddenly, and they all began to think.

"That's right, that's true. You see the mountain peak first, then the mountainside, and finally the foot of the mountain."

"Yes, but why?"

Everyone was lost in thought, frowning bitterly.

"Because the land is not flat, it is an arc."

The handsome young man rolled his eyes, as if thinking of something, he immediately yelled loudly.

"That's right, what you said is very correct, and you are also very smart. You immediately thought of the key point."

When Liu Jin heard this, he gave the boy a thumbs up. He was really very smart.

At this time, the shop waiter also came up with a pile of hay, panting, as if in a hurry, for fear of missing the exciting content.

"Thank you, little brother."

Liu Jin threw out a dozen copper coins as a reward, and then began to knead the hay into a big ball, and finally took a bag of white cloth on which the map was just drawn, and a simple globe was made.

"Please see, everyone, this is the sphere we live in, we can call it the Earth, this is our Ming Dynasty, this is the Golden Continent, this is Nanyang, Australia, and this is Europe and Africa."

"If we go straight to the east, we will first reach North Korea and Japan, then we will come to the west coast of the Golden Island, and then go south along the coastline until we reach the southernmost point of the Golden Island. Africa and Europe."

Liu Jin asked Zhao Erhu to hold a simple globe, and he continued to paint on it with a brush, outlining a voyage around the world.

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