open sea

Chapter 905 Ignorance
On the table is a map, a large map of Asia.

At the top of this map is the Heishui Mohe Islands, and further north is a dotted line that outlines the sea area leading to the North Pole. The mark on it is the route surveyed by Zhao Yongxian, the magistrate of Macheng County in the sixth year of Wanli.

Half of the whole map is almost useless to look at, and it is useless to look at it. It is completely blank. Only the central strip of the New World has multiple data comparisons from the Ming and Western countries. Even so, the map of the West Indies is still doubtful.

Chen Mu has always suspected that Spain gave him several fake maps through different channels in order to prevent him from getting involved in the West Indies. As a result, the Eastern Military Government now has seven or eight different maps of the West Indies, and they don’t know which one is the right one. real.

But now I'm only doubtful on this map. After all, Li Dan and Chen Jiujing have passed by, and the fleet is collecting insurance. No, the fleet is recording the map while driving out the pirates.

As for the lower part of the picture, it is almost the same as the upper part, it is a large blank area, not as accurate as the middle, and you can use different colors to wipe out the height difference and the approximate vegetation terrain and roads. After all, although there are Mongolian cavalry in the north. It's expensive, but the information will inevitably lag behind in a year and a half.

The south is clearer than the north on the map, but it is not precise enough. It is divided into large chunks of land, such as Peru under the control of Spain, north-central Chile in the Ming Dynasty, southern Chile in the aborigines, and Argentina in Spain.

However, it is only part of it. For some, such as the desert that Shao Tingda is currently exploring, no one knows how big it is, so the direction is roughly drawn with a dotted line for reference only.

When Chen Mu looked at this map, he was undoubtedly full of pride in his heart. Obviously, this constantly updated "Wanli Asia Map" is a masterpiece of geography by the Eastern Military Government.

After obtaining the materials archived by the Spaniards in Panama, the aborigines did not know as much as they did about the entire continent, and the Spaniards did not know as well as they did about the northern part of the New World and the northern interior.

Chen Mu can even say proudly: They are the people who know the New World best in the world.

But Chen Mu had a question in his heart that he wanted to ask Zhao Shizhen, and he said softly: "Chang Ji, I asked you to get the information, what information do you want?"

"What I want is information about Brazil. The map you put on the table has everything. It even has a cannon hole where Ma Shuai hides. But what about Brazil—come back to me!"

When Chen Mu asked this sentence, Zhao Shizhen had already hopped and moved to the threshold of the side hall with his hands behind his back and his sleeves shaking. Hearing Chen Mu's shout, his body stopped, and he moved back step by step in dejection. He spread his hands and said, "Marshal, That's all the data we have on Brazil -- there is no data."

"We don't know how big Brazil is, what the mahogany looks like, how many indigenous people there are, how many rivers there are, and the terrain there. The Spaniards in Panama didn't record it either."

Chen Mu frowned gradually: "No, what are you doing with these things?"

"The commander-in-chief wants it, so I brought 'no' for the commander-in-chief."

Zhao Shizhen was serious, and Chen Mu looked at him for a long while without getting angry, and finally just shook his head helplessly and sighed.

"I always thought that there was only one lunatic in the staff of the commander-in-chief."

Unexpectedly, there was another fool.

Zhao Shizhen turned his head away, ignoring the second half of Chen Mu's unspoken sarcasm, he felt that Chen Mu was not very smart, knowing that it was a land that no one had touched, and asked the military officials to hide Shuige searched again.

No, after rummaging through, if I bring you something, you get angry again.

Chen Mu also ignored Zhao Shizhen's little annoyance. He scratched his head at the map, put his hands on his hips and said, "In this case, do you really have to send someone to explore the place? No, it's better to stand on the shoulders of others first."

"Think of a way to bribe the Brazilian businessman, buy a few maps and return them, at least with roads and rivers marked, and then wait for the Brazilian governor to reply before talking about the next step, but I know this place."

Chen Mu moved his hand down from the large blank area on the map where Brazil should be, and pointed, "Argentina, this should be called the Pampas Grassland, and there should be a lot of cattle. Mr. Zhao, you have been a little bit angry recently. It's not good to work with emotions, shall I give you a vacation?"

Zhao Shizhen was listening to Chen Mu's 'prophecy', and suddenly heard Chen Mu talking about his emotions, which made him suddenly alert, squinted his eyes and noticed a hint of ominous breath, shook his head decisively: "The commander-in-chief is too worried, Students have no grievances, no emotions, no tiredness, and no holidays."

Chen Mu didn't care about this at all, and said to himself: "Go here to eat beef, decorate with saltpeter, let's design an ice-making ship, and then you go to Panama first, and ask General Deng to send you a fleet of guards, go here Buy beef from the Spaniards and bring me a piece."

Zhao Shizhen no longer knows where the problem in Chen Mu's sentence should be provoked. Should he say that he bought beef from thousands of miles away, or should he say that he should bring a piece of beef to Chen Mu to launch a fleet of six warships and add at least one blessing? What about the size of the ship with nearly a thousand people?
"Just, just for a piece of beef?" Zhao Shizhen moved towards this side cautiously, stretched out a finger from his big sleeve, pointed to Majiagang in the north and said: "There are cows, and they are far away, so it doesn't affect the piece of beef." Your honor, a lucky boat will do.”

"But the equator is in the south. I don't want that piece of beef, but I want you to take a piece of beef across the equator. If the piece of beef is not broken, you will be the first in the world to send food to the other side of the equator in a refrigerated ship." Isn't this amazing?"

"Bravo!"

Zhao Shizhen's tone was quite on point, but the corners of his eyes were drooping, and he didn't care about his speech at all: "Marshal, you can just talk about something before I was born, why are we not number one?"

Suddenly, Chen Mu really didn't expect it.

It wasn't because it was indeed number one, but because Chen Mu was ignorant—that's what Chen Mu thought, because he still didn't expect the second sudden blow.

"You won, the half-year trip to Argentina belongs to you."

Zhao Shizhen didn't say anything stubborn, because he knew that being stubborn was useless, so he accepted the reality very smoothly, and said: "Then let me bring more nitrate, at least buy a few more cows, and bring back a piece of meat, thanks a lot!"

"It's really a loss for you to bring me a few cows back. You can make a teacup of ice with five taels of nitrate. If you want to freeze a piece of beef, it costs a catty. A catty is enough for an hour. How many cows do you want to freeze for me? It's enough for a dozen It’s been a battle, you’re going to be like an ice wall, you’ll feel better if you’re cooler?”

In fact, Chen Mu didn't know how this idea popped into his head, he just thought he wanted to try it, and it happened that Zhao Shizhen was a little irritable recently, so let him float on the sea for a few months to sober up.

In fact, what he really wants to do is a freezer, but what can really be used for cooling?he does not know.

Perhaps when Zhao Shizhen completes this pioneering work, the subsequent influence can find a breakthrough for him.

(End of this chapter)