Chapter 345： Cool down the nautical heat

As an old man, Julius II naturally knew the thoughts of his son-in-law Marin. As a result, the Pope made some other excuses to keep Marin in Rome. The specific work is mainly to revise the errors in the records of some geographical books in the Holy See.

Julius II discovered that his son-in-law is definitely a master of geography and knows the whole world. Even Julius II had to believe that the bitter monk named Einstein was a real virtue. Because the geographical knowledge "Einstein taught Marin" is too accurate. Although, the details may be somewhat unclear. However, this was judged by Julius II as his son-in-law not studying seriously. Or, the Daxian named Einstein had too little time to educate his son-in-law ...

Where did he know that the geographical knowledge of his son-in-law came from the textbooks of later generations. Because it is an introductory textbook, it is naturally not as informative as professional books. Therefore, Marin has a good grasp of geographical knowledge in general, but the details are not as accurate as those of navigators.

Marin then stayed in Rome under the name "Help the Holy See to revise the classics". The first thing Marin did was to totally deny "Marco Polo's Travels." Moreover, like writing a thesis, one by one criticizes the inaccuracies in The Travels of Marco Polo.

Of course, this paper specifically pointed out the mistakes in "Marco Polo's Travels", but deliberately did not give a map of the world, so as not to let other European powers such as the United Kingdom, France, etc. get the information, and also open up the route to the East.

In fact, it was Marin who deliberately cooled the “nautical fever” that was popular in Europe at this time. Marin believes that if the "navigation fever" is overheated, it is inevitable that more Italian navigators, British navigators, even French navigators and Dutch navigators will participate in the "geographic discovery".

And this obviously violated Marin's interests. In particular, he was afraid that the British and the French would open up routes on the North Atlantic Ocean and go to the east coast of the Americas to find the richness there.

Therefore, Marin must cool down this "nautical fever" so that other countries are not so keen on big sailing.

As a result, Marin wrote in the paper-"In the west, India, China and Japan cannot be found. Columbus has explored it and found that the west is blocked by the wilderness continent. As for whether it can reach the east across the wilderness continent, it has not yet been It has been confirmed. But what can be confirmed is that the northernmost part of the wild continent is the land of ice and snow, and the sea is full of icebergs. If the wooden boat hits the iceberg, the only ending is the destruction of the ship. "

"Therefore, the only correct route to the East is the Spanish and Portuguese routes from the south to the East."

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Of course, the main purpose of this thesis is to refute the exaggerated elements in Marco Polo's Travels. Even, Marin quoted a saying from later generations of history-that is, Marco Polo himself did not reach the East, but only arrived in Persia. He was in the mouth of a Persian businessman who had been to the East and heard about things in the East. Then, according to those rumors, they were made up and exaggerated to make this "Marco Polo Travels" ...

Marin ’s argument is that if the East is really as rich as Marco Polo said, and if there is gold everywhere, why have n’t you been to Marco Polo in the East, why not just pick up a few bags of gold on the ground and bring them back to Europe? As long as he did so, he would definitely become a rich man. However, Marco Polo did not become a monopoly. Therefore, what he said was mostly exaggerated false news. Even, he probably never went to China. Because, according to the news confirmed by Einstein, Huaxia is very short of gold and silver, and has not minted gold and silver coins, only copper coins ...

Moreover, Marin vowed in the paper that he can be sure that China has no gold and silver coins, only copper coins. In order to corroborate it, Marin also painted the square-shaped copper coins of the Ming dynasty in the book, and wrote four "Fangzheng Tongbao" on the book to prove it.

At the same time, Marin welcomed the navigator to explore the Daming Empire to prove the truth of his words. If Huaxia has a large number of officially issued gold and silver coins, they are willing to give up the title of Duke ...

This kind of guarantee like gambling makes people have to convince ...

Next, in the paper, Marin also introduced in detail the special currency introduced by the Ming Empire in order to solve the problem of lack of precious metals-Bao banknotes ...

Bao banknotes are banknotes. Marin detailed the reasons for the emergence of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes and the emperor's subsequent issuance of treasure banknotes in order to search for wealth. If it were not for the Ming dynasty to forcibly convert the salaries of the officials into treasure banknotes, it is estimated that the treasure banknotes must be completely waste paper ...

What Marin didn't know was that his description of the treasure notes attracted the attention of French King Louis XII. Then, the greedy French king also tried to issue banknotes. However, because of the chaotic French official monetary policy, and too greedy, and excessively issued banknotes, French banknotes quickly became uninterested ... At least, French banknotes can not buy anything in the international market ...

In addition, Marin emphasized that Japan and North Korea are both poor countries in East Asia. And explain that these countries all need to go to China to purchase the necessary materials, and gladly accept the empire of the Ming empire, complacent for the Ming empire rewarding them with some items. To this end, they did not hesitate to send envoys to represent their respective kings to "three knees and nine worships" to the emperor of the Ming Empire, expressing their humiliation in disgrace ...

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In fact, Marin's statement is not a problem. Because the famous Shijian Yinshan will not discover the large silver veins until 1526. From then on, Japan will become a major silver producer. Before this ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Although Japan produces silver, but not a lot, it is more copper mining.

Therefore, in this era, even if some people went to Japan to confirm, it is indeed impossible to see that Japan is rich in silver. What they saw was indeed-Japan is a poor country ...

Even North Korea in this era is richer than Japan. Because North Korea borders with the Ming Dynasty and has many contacts with Liaodong. This era was not the period when the Jurchen was chaotic in the late Ming Dynasty. Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, North Korea can smoothly carry out commercial transactions with the Ming Dynasty on land. After all, Korean ginseng is still very popular among Ming people. Although the Ming Empire banned the sea, it did not ban the land. Therefore, the days in North Korea are much better than in Japan.

Of course, in the paper, Marin did not write so detailed, but just introduced to Europeans that Japan and North Korea, two countries, have poor domestic supplies, and many things need to be purchased at Daming. And this is a true description, even if someone proves it, it is not afraid.

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Julius II gave great support to Marin's action of cooling the nautical heat. After all, he also knew that America would be the land of his grandson Caesar in the future. If it was discovered and robbed by countries such as Britain and France, it would be bad.

Therefore, after receiving Marin's assurance that "these statements are definitely true", Julius II used the name of the Holy See to officially promote Marin's papers. If you are in the later generations of China, it will be equivalent to making a headline in the "People's Daily" and being added the super treatment of "Editor's Note" ... 8)