Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 88
After Zhu Liang left, Zhu Di was left alone in the hall.

"The sea... is vaster than the land, and is extremely mysterious. A fish that can hold a boat in its mouth... a school of tens of thousands of two-foot-large fish..."

While muttering to himself, Zhu Di reopened the two sheets of paper and looked at them.

After a while, I became a little fascinated!

……

The next day.

"Wipe..."

Guo An, who was lying on the desk in the public room, writing and drawing, suddenly saw a face in front of him, and jumped back in fright.

"His Royal Highness King Yan?"

Zhu Di was also taken aback by Guo An's appearance.

"What bad things are you thief officer doing? How can you be so scared in broad daylight?"

Zhu Di glared at Guo An, then looked at the paper on the table.

After looking at several sheets of paper in a row, there are some wooden shelves and a big wheel on them.

Guo An explained casually: "Forgive me, Your Highness, I'm just drawing some wooden wheels!"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Di curled his lips, "You are clearly painting a spinning wheel!"

"what?"

Guo An was startled, "Your Highness knows about spinning wheels?"

"Humph!"

Zhu Di thought that Guo An was underestimating him, so he snorted coldly, "No one in the world knows the spinning wheel invented by Huang Daopo? There is one in this palace!"

Guo An was overjoyed, "His Royal Highness really exists, can I borrow the official to have a look?"

"Ok?"

Seeing Guo An's expression that doesn't seem to be fake, Zhu Di's expression softened a little, "Have you never seen a spinning wheel?"

"I am ashamed to be an official!" Guo An replied.

He had seen it in his previous life, but he had never seen it in this life, so he had long forgotten it.

Zhu Di said: "The spinning wheel is quite big, so you can only go to the palace to watch it."

"Big?"

Guo An was a little puzzled again.

However, he nodded quickly, "Your Highness will follow His Highness to the palace!"

"Ah."

Zhu Di followed subconsciously, and after realizing it, he came here specifically to ask the thief officer for questioning, not to lead the way for the thief officer.

"When did this king say that he would take you to watch it right now?"

Guo An asked curiously, "Then why did your Highness come to the county government office?"

"we……"

Just as Zhu Di was about to express his intentions, he noticed Wang Zhen, Li Wang and others beside him, so he stopped them directly.

Both Li Wang and Wang Zhen, who were full of curiosity, were startled.

"You wait outside!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

A trace of disappointment flashed in the eyes of the two of them, but they dared not listen to Zhu Di's words.

As the two went out, Guo An looked at Zhu Di curiously.

Zhu Di smiled to himself, sat on Guo An's official chair, and stared directly into Guo An's eyes.

"We remember that you are from Shunde Mansion, and you have never been out of the sea, how can you know so many things about the sea?

Especially only knowing that the sea is bigger than the land?
How can there be such a big fish in the sea, which can accommodate a big boat just by opening its mouth wide?
How can the sea be more than a thousand feet deep?

The number of big fish in the sea exceeds thousands?
How do you know this?
and also……"

"..."

After a while, Guo An finally realized.

Looking at Zhu Di sincerely, he cupped his hands, "Please forgive me, Your Highness, the mystery of the sea cannot be proved to Your Highness.

Because, these things, the lower officials also learned from the ancient books. "

"Ancient books?"

Zhu Di's expression changed, "Where are the ancient books, show them to us?"

Guo An said honestly: "Your Highness, forgive me, the ancient books seem to be in the study of the Xiaguan Mansion, or in the old house of the Xiaguan Shunde Mansion?

Xiaguan loves to read these miscellaneous books all his life. If he read too much, he can only remember the general meaning of the book. As for which book it is and where it is placed, Xiaguan is not very clear. "

Zhu Di smiled softly, "We forgot that you are a descendant of Guo Taishi, a thief official. talent.

Its collection of books is even more innumerable. I want to go to your residence to look at Guo Taishi's collection of books. I wonder if Guo Xianzun can agree? "

Guo An was excited, and quickly said: "The ancestors spent their entire lives, but left so many ancient books alone. In order not to let the knowledge in these books be cut off from the world, since your highness is willing to condescend to go and watch it, I can't ask for it! "

Zhu Di nodded slightly, very satisfied with Guo An's answer.

However, after waiting for a long time, the thief officer Guo An didn't even make a request, so his expression turned ugly.

"Your Highness, what's wrong with your body?"

Guo An also had a strange expression on his face. He wanted to go to his house to look at the collection of books excitedly just now, but now he sat motionless on the chair again, and his face became more and more ugly?

Zhu Di: "..."

After a long while, Guo An still looked at him worriedly, Zhu Di couldn't hold back anymore, this thief officer is really out of character.

"call……"

Zhu Di let out a long breath, and the expression on his face quickly returned to calm.

"The king is fine!"

The face changed so quickly that Guo An, who came from later generations, was a little ashamed.

Guo An: "..."

He would be an idiot if he didn't react.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, but he still suppressed the smile in his heart, and invited respectfully: "So, please Your Highness follow the official to the lower official's mansion."

"Ok!"

Zhu Di got up.

Guo An hurriedly walked ahead to lead the way for Zhu Di.

After a quarter of an hour.

Guo Mansion, the study room in the back house.

Zhu Di was dumbfounded as he looked at the bookstore full of books.

"Are these the books left by Guo Taishi?"

"It's all left by the ancestors!"

"Have you finished reading it all?"

"I am ashamed, some books are too esoteric, I can only read them briefly, but I don't understand their meaning..."

The corner of Zhu Di's mouth twitched slightly, and he turned his head to look at Guo An, who was full of sincerity. He always felt that Guo An was a bit weird, but he couldn't say anything.

Of course, if Zhu Di understands the thoughts of later generations, he may complain viciously in his mind: Pretending to be forced is not a good thing to die!
Turn around directly and check the bookshelves side by side.

Before, he still had some doubts about Guo An's words, but now that among the four walls, only one wall is Confucian ancient books, and the rest are study rooms for miscellaneous books, he really believes it.

However, Zhu Di didn't know that Guo An was telling the truth this time.

He had really read a rough idea of ​​the books in this room.

Although he didn't know how many books were loaded in his mind, he really couldn't understand the obscure contents of some books in this study room.

On the other side, Zhu Di looked around the entire study room carefully, but he couldn't find the kind of ancient books he was looking for, and a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

Sitting casually on a chair beside him, he couldn't help asking curiously, "Is the sea really that vast?"

The corner of Guo An's mouth rose slightly, "Your Highness, I remember reading a saying that the area of ​​the sea is three times that of the land."

Zhu Di flinched, "It's so big?"

Guo An said again: "Moreover, it's the whole land, not just the land where my Daming is!"

Zhu Di said, "What do you mean?"

Guo An chuckled and said: "Your Highness should also know that my Ming Dynasty is not the only big country in the world here, and there are countless foreign countries overseas.

However, now it seems that with His Majesty's ban on the sea, it is difficult for those foreigners to come in, my Daming.

However, Xiaguan remembers that someone said that the territory of my Ming Dynasty only occupies half of the entire world area. "

……

(End of this chapter)