gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 243 Up South Down North Left East Right West
The four treasure maps were stitched together and placed in a glass display case, which looked very discordant. Fang Hong watched carefully, but he couldn't think of anything wrong.

After looking at it for a long time, Fang Hong felt a pain in his neck and turned his head to the left side.

That's it, a flash of inspiration!
When he bought it, Fang Hong had a flash of inspiration, but he didn't catch it. This time, Fang Hong finally saw the problem!
These four maps are spliced ​​together, but at first glance they do not appear to be maps of the same area. It feels like a cross-shaped striped map is missing in the middle. Because of the lack of this, it is still impossible to locate where the treasure is.

But Fang Hong spliced ​​them together in his mind, and found something was wrong.

If the assumption is that the four pictures are from the same area, then the longitude and latitude lines are too funny.

Each picture has a cross-shaped longitude and latitude line, but no orientation is marked. For the picture in the upper left corner, the intersection point of the cross lines is at the lower right, while the cross in the upper right corner is at the lower left. A small square is formed in the middle of the four pictures.

Then the problem comes, if it is a standard map, there should be a line every other standard latitude and longitude scale.

When the four maps are combined, the latitude and longitude area in the middle is obviously less than one-eighth of the entire map. Using a standard map, at least four lines of latitude and longitude should be added to the map. In this case, it is a standard map.

It is because of this that everyone feels that a key cross area is missing in the middle.

Everyone felt that the pirates in the past deliberately lacked the cross area in order to keep it secret, making it impossible to locate it.

However, this is absolutely not true, the reason is that these people are not pirates at all!

Everyone has watched Pirates of the Caribbean too much, thinking that it is history, but in fact, Pirates of the Caribbean is a fantasy film.

In the real history, the Spanish Armada was rampant on the sea. Intland was still very poor and could not be an enemy of Spain. Therefore, the government of the country in Intland organized three large pirates with the navy to rob at sea. .

If we say that in the world in 1500, Spain was the overlord of the sea and the Netherlands was the coachman of the sea, then England was the scumbag at sea.

But then the situation got out of control. The pirates were still loyal to England in the first generation, but not in the second generation.

Fuck you, I'm not your soldier, why would I use the money for you old masters?
And many poor people also joined the ranks of pirates.

Just because of this background, it proves that pirates are not motley crews, and their maps should be standard maps. As the former Inland Navy, before the birth of the Invincible Fleet, they were invincible at sea. It is the overlord, they will be afraid that someone will dare to find their treasure?

The answer is absolutely impossible!
It is absolutely incomprehensible to look at what has happened with the eyes of future generations.

Historically, Captain Kidd has absolutely no fear of any force in the Atlantic Ocean.

But what happened to the longitude and latitude lines of this chart?
The moment he turned his head, Fang Hong suddenly realized, and a world-famous map suddenly sounded.

Before Columbus arrived in the New World and before Magellan sailed around the world, it is recognized by the academic circle that the world has been explored and completed.

Because 1492 years before Columbus explored the world in 50, a map appeared in Europe. This map is called the Sea Chart of Nations.

This map depicts the geographic location of the whole world correctly, except for one point.

That is, in this map of that era, the people who drew the map thought that Antarctica and Australia were connected, so there was no Australia on this map, but Antarctica was wider and protruded a large piece northward in the Pacific Ocean.

This map was proved to be from the Ming Dynasty and was left to the world by the Ming Dynasty.

But this map also has a sister chapter, the sister chapter map is more detailed, but it is not famous in the world.

The reason is that this map goes up, south, down, north, left, east, and west!

It is completely opposite to the traditional map of up north, down south, left west, right east!

If it is suitable for a complete map, of course, just switch the direction up and down, and that's it.

But what about a mosaic map?

What if it was a big map with four maps spliced ​​together!

The answer is that the picture originally thought to be in the upper left corner should actually be in the lower right corner!
The original upper right corner is the lower left corner, the original lower left corner is the upper right corner, and the original lower right corner is the upper left corner!

Fang Hong didn't say anything, but took a picture with his mobile phone, and then went to his office.

You may not believe it, but the most valuable pirate map in the world was spliced ​​on PS!

In the newly spliced ​​map, the middle part occupies most of it, which is like a complete spliced ​​map with normal latitude and longitude.

But Fang Hong couldn't figure out where this was despite his knowledge of geography.

After nearly an hour of hard thinking, Fang Hong raised his forehead and said, "I'll go. I forgot about going up, down, north, left, east, right, and west. This map is reversed!"

Select all, rotate 180 degrees, this is correct.

Looking at the map, Fang Hong fell into deep thought.

In the upper left corner, there is a large ink blot. At first, or rather, everyone thought that the ink blot was stuck on it by accident.

But when Fang Hong saw this piece of ink, he subconsciously thought that this is a piece of land, and this island is on the edge of the land?

Impossible, what is this place?England?So the marked treasure location is on the Spanish pirates?
No, if it is Interland, then there should be a black ink mark in the lower right corner, indicating that it is Continental.

Finally, Fang Hong remembered 99 degrees, and you knew it.

Clicking on the search, Fang Hong found a key piece of news.

Historically, when Kidd returned to the Caribbean and learned that he had been placed on the pirate list, he abandoned ship and headed to New York, hoping to justify himself. Before arriving in New York, Kidd was rumored to have buried his treasure on the west end of Long Island Gardenas Island.

In 2000, a treasure hunting company found a treasure on St. Mary Island in Madagascar, which was identified as the treasure of Captain Kidd.However, the amount of property in this treasure is not much. Although it is recognized as Treasure Island and shocked the world, there is not much gold and silver in it.

The explanation they gave at the time was that when Captain Kidd was hanged, the British government recovered treasure worth 200 million pounds. Under crazy inflation, the 200 million pounds that year was now 200 billion pounds. That should be the main part of the entire treasure.

But now it seems that it is not right.

The British government found the first treasure in the upper right corner of the four maps that year, and St. Mary's Island was the treasure in the lower right corner, but St. Mary's Island happened to be a piece without cash (gold).

In the era of Captain Kidd, the world has quickly changed from a silver standard world to a gold standard world. Captain Kidd is no longer the pirate who robbed Spanish silver under the Interland organization, but the pirate who spontaneously organized the robbery of the East India Company.

It stands to reason that apart from gold and those unimportant cultural relics that were found, there should be some very important things, that is, oriental porcelain and a lot of silver, because at that time, the trade with China still depended on silver, although the Qing Dynasty had begun to close However, there are still secret transactions among the people.

Fang Hong dragged the mouse tremblingly, and looked at the remaining two treasure locations.

One is an unnamed island below Mauritius, and the other is an island that is not marked on the map at all.

(End of this chapter)