The world view of the Dayu Dynasty from the emperor to the common people was not very big. It was basically limited to places not far around the country. The only way to understand the outside world was through caravans.
Who has made this land the most developed and advanced area in the surrounding known world?
Chen Ping did not take a negative attitude on this point. Let alone now, even in another two or three hundred years, the East will still be the most powerful country in the world, but this kind of strength and development cannot be maintained forever.
Just from the fact that maritime trade became increasingly prosperous during the Dayu Dynasty compared with ancient times, we can see the clues.
Although the tradition of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce has been maintained, it is undeniable that the proportion of commerce in the imperial economy has been increasing.
Developed commerce not only brings more income, but also brings information from distant places.
However, due to the limitations of ancient productivity, this information is often very distorted and very fragmented.
On June 12, the 18th year of Da Yu Tianqi's reign, in the East Palace classroom, Chen Ping's words moved the prince who was not interested in listening to the class.
World map!
Chen Ping slowly opened a map in his hand and spread it on the prince's desk.
It was a very sloppy map in the eyes of later generations. After all, it was drawn by Chen Ping based on his memory, and it was inevitable that many places were not precise enough.
But at this time in the Dayu Dynasty, this map is definitely a priceless treasure!
Especially for the prince in front of him, who has never left the capital and doesn't know much about the world, let alone Daiyu, the significance of this map is extremely important.
The prince's eyes widened almost immediately, and his interest was instantly aroused. He lay on the table and looked carefully.
The Prince's Master and the Doctor of the Five Classics, who originally wanted to see Chen Ping's teaching, were dumbfounded. They didn't expect such an operation. The Prince's Master was about to stand up and scold him, but then he seemed to think of something, and sat down again with a solemn expression.
Keep an eye on it.
"The map of the world... Why does Dayu occupy so much land? Why is Dayu not in the center of the map?"
"Is the universe really that big? How do you know about these countries without going to the ocean?"
The prince's interest was aroused, and questions came one after another. Compared with the restlessness of the prince's young master and the doctor of the Five Classics, Chen Ping was much calmer.
His finger landed on the map and slowly moved from Dayu to the West.
"Your Highness, the world is far bigger than your imagination. This is not the universe, it is just the world we live in. As for how the official learned this news..."
Chen Ping pointed to the bookshelf in the classroom and said with a smile: "It's all in the books."
"The book has its own golden house, and the book has its own beauty like jade."
If these words were said in the past, the prince would have scorned him, but now the prince did not refute after hearing this, but lowered his head with a complicated expression and continued to look at the map.
"Our Great Yu Dynasty has a radius of thousands of miles and a population of tens of millions. It is already the most powerful country in the world. However, the overseas land is tens of thousands of miles away and the population is countless. The customs, customs and culture of each place are different. There are countless continents in the world.
There is a piece of land, separated by the vast ocean, it is vast and boundless."
"Your Majesty, don't you want me to be so proud that one day my country will encompass all the oceans and east, and all the nations of the world will come to visit me?"
The things that young people, especially young men, like are often very similar. The prince stays in the capital all year round. His biggest wish is not only to go outside and see the vast world, but also to become the leader of a country that has been instilled in him since he was a child.
You, the goal of making the country prosperous and strong.
In the past, the prince's knowledge was limited to the country of Dayu. At most, he knew that there were some small countries around Dayu, and there was a barbaric neighbor in the north who came to rob him every now and then.
But now Chen Ping has directly moved the map of the entire earth in front of him. This kind of shock is unprecedented.
Coupled with Chen Ping's inflammatory words, they directly hit the most vulnerable area in the prince's heart. A shudder ran from his tailbone to Tianling Gai, and he subconsciously shouted.
"Think!"
Done!
Chen Ping showed an extremely bright smile, this is the effect he wanted!
The prince quickly became obsessed with this map that broke the worldview he had established for the previous eighteen years, because this map not only drew the boundaries of the continent, but also marked the climate, terrain, monsoon and other information of various places. As for
Chen Ping can only mark this country on the land through his only memory, but even this is enough.
At this moment, in front of the prince, Chen Ping was like an encyclopedia, answering various questions. As the prince's questions gradually became weird, the prince's young master who was watching the show couldn't sit still.
"Chen Xiuzhuan, the East Palace Teaching is to impart knowledge to the future emperor of the great prince, how can such strange and obscene skills be taught to His Highness?"
The prince's young master scolded him with a serious face. Facing this distinguished official of the second and third grades, Chen Ping replied in a neither humble nor overbearing manner.
"Young Master, Your Majesty ordered your officials to come to the East Palace, but you did not specify what you can and cannot say."
"Besides, how can this map that broadens His Highness's horizons be regarded as a strange skill or a heresy?"
The Prince's Young Master is a high-ranking official who teaches the Prince. Although he has a distinguished status, he does not have much actual power. He does not seem to be the kind of person to get involved in court disputes. He should just be unable to understand this novel teaching method.
Even so, Chen Ping's tone was very calm, and he even invited the young master to watch the map together.
The invitation didn't matter. The prince's young master just glanced at it and was attracted by the various unprecedented information contained in the map.
Soon, Dr. Liu from the Imperial College also smiled at Chen Ping and joined him.
The prince’s young master is already several decades old. Without profound knowledge, how can he take on the important task of teaching the prince of the empire?
However, even such an elder, after seeing the map Chen Ping took out with his own eyes, was so stunned that he was speechless, and the expression on his face was too complicated to be described in words.
The importance of maps in ancient times is self-evident. Whether you are marching to fight, managing a country, or clearing land, you need a map as a reference.
As for maps, naturally they cannot be distorted and the more detailed they are, the better.
Many times it is not even required to be very detailed, but as long as it is accurate enough, it can change the direction of many major events.
And Chen Ping's map is not only accurate enough, at least for the Dayu Dynasty's map, it is also large enough!
It’s so big that it encompasses the entire world, even though the Prince’s Young Master kept thinking after looking at the map that it couldn’t be the entire world.
The Prince's Young Master was still struggling with whether the map conformed to the orthodoxy, while Dr. Liu, the Imperial College Supervisor on the side, was more clever. He quickly realized the importance of this map and immediately proposed to send the map to the Qinzheng Palace to present it to His Majesty. "Without further delay, I believe that Master Chen's picture is most likely to be true. Such a treasure map should be carefully preserved!"
Chen Ping didn't think that far for a while. When Dr. Liu proposed it, the few people present had no reason to refuse and immediately got up to send the pictures.