Chapter 2184 Flower dispute (ninety-two)

Nick has not been to Istanbul yet. His journey around the world started in the UK, then went to the United States, and then to South America. In Brazil, he boarded a Dutch ship and sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India, and then along India to Burma, Siam,

Southeast Asia, Japan, and China, which he had to transfer to before arriving, meant that he had never been to a Mediterranean city.

In other words, he had been. When he was very young, his father took the whole family on a trip to Italy. It was then that he became obsessed with traveling.

Great political ambitions will not bring people a broad vision. Although business interests will encourage people to take risks, people are busy with business and have no time to take into account other things.

In the whole of eastern Zhejiang, only Ningbo has a mosque. It is located next to Tianyi Pavilion and is called Yuehu Mosque. It was built during the Kangxi period and is now somewhat abandoned.

Someone knew BJ's friends and they might be able to help, but he suggested that Nick divide the book into parts so that no one would know all the secrets in the book.

Nick felt that doing this was unnecessary, because the story the old man told him was similar to stories about fox fairies and painted skins, and others might think it was a story book.

However, he still followed Juren's instructions, copied the entire book, shuffled it, divided it into several parts, and put them in envelopes, and then sent them to BJ by the government's messenger.

If Chinese evolved from hieroglyphics, analogies are needed to understand the abstract concepts expressed. Turkish is an alphabetic script, and Arabic is a Semitic language. Nick was lucky that the book was not written in Arabic, otherwise

It will become very troublesome to copy.

Nick didn't know how long the Admiral would stay as Governor of Nanhe. If it was three years, he didn't want to wait that much. But if he wanted to continue traveling in China, he would need the Admiral's protection. This was the time when he had just taken over and was busy.

, it would be inappropriate for Nick to bring it up at this moment.

Yesterday, the officials and people of Qingjiangpu held a feast to honor the admiral, and a gate opening performance was held before the dinner. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xuan, the chief water transport officer, dug the Qingjiangpu channel along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

, and four ship locks were built on the river, mainly to ensure the water level of the canal and the smooth flow of water transportation. There are shipyards and "Changyingcang" granaries beside the river, and the city of Huai'an also developed because of Qingjiangpu.

This is also the former residence of Wu Cheng'en, the author of "Journey to the West". There may be some destiny. Nick has no way of knowing how the Huyin people arrived in Tabriz, but he estimates that they probably chose to go overland.

Silk Road. In 1221, when the Crusaders ended the Fifth Crusade, Genghis Khan sent envoys to the Caucasus region and asked the Caucasians to surrender. Europe had to face the Mongolian army flying all the way from the east.

However, the Mongolian attack suddenly stopped in 1227 because Kublai Khan died. After that, his descendants fell into a power struggle for a period of time and temporarily stopped attacking Europe. So in 1228, Europe launched the Sixth Eastern War.

In 1229, Yuan Taizong Ogedei succeeded the Great Khan, and the Sixth Crusade also ended at this time. Then the Mongols launched another western expedition. In 1235, the Mongols occupied Moscow and Hungary in 1241.

, the Pope wrote a letter and sent an envoy in 1245. In 1258, Baghdad was captured by the grandson of Genghis Khan, the Abbasid dynasty was destroyed, the Ilkhanate ruled by the Mongols was established, and Tabriz was designated as the capital.

He refused a drawing task worth 4,000 taels of silver, but seemed to have been given a new journey full of dangers and uncertainties. I said, "Misfortune lies on the back of good fortune, and good fortune lies on the back of misfortune." If one day he can return alive,

When he goes to Europe, he tells people that he once traveled with the Mongols. What will they think?

Nick investigated the content about mandrills, which were described in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and "Baopuzi", but he paid special attention to the content about the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

There is such a record in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Hai Nei Jing Juan": There is a Gan giant in the south, with a human face and long arms, a black body with hair, and inverted heels. It smiles when everyone smiles, and covers its face with its lips because it flees.

The meaning of this sentence is that there is a giant named "Gan" in the south. It has a human face, very long arms, long black hair on its body, and its ankles are long backwards. It laughs when people laugh.

With the ability to imitate, he can cover his face with his mouth and run away when he sees people coming.

"Gan" is the abbreviation of Jiangxi. Without that trip to Wuyi Mountain and the old man's advice, Nick would not have thought that mandrills would exist on the southeast coast, and they would also have a war with the Huyin tribe.

The Xiaoyang Kingdom is mentioned in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Hainan Jingjuan". The people there have long lips, black bodies and long hair, and have inverted heels. They smile when everyone smiles and hold a pipe in their left hand.

Can we understand that the "Giant of Gan" is an unarmed civilian from the Xiaoyang Kingdom, and the one holding a pipe is a soldier from the Xiaoyang Kingdom. He felt that he could deal with people approaching him, so he did not act like one.

The previous "Gan Giant" would run away from people like that, but he would also laugh when people laughed.

The Xiaoyang Kingdom is located to the west of the Beixian Kingdom. The description of the Beixian Kingdom is not described in detail in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It is only written that it is south of the Yushui. The "Shui Jing Zhu" mentions Tanshui, and the intersection of the Yushui is at Ah.

Lin County and Alin County have been abolished. Now it is called Guiping, Guangxi. We cannot have the same geographical knowledge requirements of ancient people as modern people. They use longitude and latitude to express it. The author describes the approximate location, and the river will change its course. In ancient Jiangxi

It is called Guanxiang, and together with the southern area of ​​Xiangling, it is called the Xiangling South Sea. In the understanding of ancient people, the river is a fixed coordinate, and it will not change easily. So the large area from the south of Jiangxi to Guangxi is

It may be the location of Beixin Kingdom.

Assuming that the two neighboring countries, Xiaoyang Kingdom and Beiyang Kingdom, are not friendly and have had a war, then the war between the Huyin tribe and Shandrill is understandable. It may be that the Beixyang people laughed at the lips and lips of the Xiaoyang people.

Strange ankles, or maybe the Xiaoyang Kingdom laughed at the people of the Beixin Kingdom. The name means dried meat, earthworms and some kind of plant. The old man said that the world of blind people only has poetry, darkness and secrets. The Beixin Kingdom is mysterious and unpredictable, and he still needs

He looked into the information, but he couldn't find a clue at all.

He didn't know how big the library in Istanbul was. Finding useful books in the library was like finding a needle in a haystack or a specific grain of sand on the beach.

And "shadow backlash", what does that mean?

Nick looked at his own shadow in the sunlight. Could it be that the shadow could kill people? It sounded like some kind of black magic.

Not only Nick was confused, but Georgiana was also confused. Shadows are left when light cannot pass through solids. Even soap bubbles leave shadows. Then she remembered a book written by a *** scholar,

It’s also about vision and shadows. Albus has been studying the Mirror of Erised. The reflection of a person standing in mirror A is refracted to mirror B. Does the figure on mirror B have anything to do with him?

Yes, they look the same in form, but mirror a is three-dimensional instead of two-dimensional. The shadow effect formed by light on a three-dimensional object is reflected in two dimensions, just like painting, using different colors. Mirror b

It's just a repetition of this color. When the first ray of light touches an object, how can the reflected light be the same as the light it touches?

Why do three-dimensional objects have the concept of "three-dimensional"?

A flat figure has no shadow, just like a piece of white paper, but if a shadow is added to it, it will be different.

So, does the shadow backlash mean that it is no longer the people in the light who control the darkness, but the darkness controls the people in the light?

After all, you can't see shadows in total darkness, but people in the darkness don't mean they don't exist.

Close your eyes, your sense of touch, smell, and hearing are all there, and they will make you feel the different contours of yourself as a human being.

"Who is the author?" She thought hard. It was too difficult to remember Arab names. She estimated that the person's name was Mohammed, which was a very common name.

At least she can recall the author's name, so that even if she has to find a needle in a haystack, she can ask the staff of the Paris library to find it for her. In the 21st century, perhaps she can find a solution by just typing on the keyboard, but in this era, she can only rely on

Manpower.

How should I put it? Fortunately, Napoleon robbed the church and the library of Alexandria. Otherwise, she would not be able to find it even if there was someone there. But if the books were not in the collection, then she would have to go to the Istanbul Library to "find" them.

"Oh my God, is this what he meant by 'useful'?" She murmured in disbelief.

"What are you talking about?" asked Carolan Lestrange.

"When did you come in?" Georgiana asked.

"Just when you asked who the author is?" Carolan said, "What are you busy with? Everyone is waiting for you!"

Should she ask Carolan: "Hey, do you think Napoleon would let the French take Istanbul again?"

She shook her head and looked down at the book, "Wait until I finish reading this book."

"What book is so good?" Carolan asked.

Georgiana smiled mysteriously and did not answer.
Chapter completed!