Jin Feng said: "The world is very big, and Dakang only occupies one corner of it."
"Dakang only occupies one corner?"
The Ninth Princess frowned slightly.
Qing Xinyao also quickly signaled to the guards to close the door.
Although Dakang does not have the saying that everything in the world must be the king's land, he still has the idea of a kingdom in heaven.
In the minds of the successive rulers of Dakang, they were the most authoritative people in the world.
Of course, the European rulers at this time may have thought so too.
After all, the world they know is too limited, probably just their respective countries and surrounding areas.
Jin Feng said that Dakang only occupies a corner of the world. If someone interpreted it maliciously, they would probably accuse him of having bad intentions again.
As a member of the royal family, the Ninth Princess also instinctively disliked Jin Feng's tone of contempt for the royal family.
But then he suppressed his dissatisfaction and asked with a smile: "Sir, can you tell me, apart from Dakang and the Europe you just mentioned, what other countries are there in the world?"
"Da Liu, go back to the Chamber of Commerce and bring over the black box on my bookshelf!"
Jin Feng shouted outside.
"yes!"
Da Liu, who was guarding the yard, agreed, turned around and ran away.
"Everyone, please wait a moment. It will be easier to talk about it when Da Liu brings the things over."
The Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce was not far from the Qing Mansion. Da Liu rode on horseback again and soon came back with a black box.
Also entering the house with Da Liu were Wei Datong and Qin'er.
"I have met His Highness, Mr. Qing, Mr. Jin, and Miss Qing."
Wei Datong saluted everyone in the room, not even Qing Mulan.
"Master Wei, why are you back at this time?" Ninth Princess asked.
"I would like to borrow a telescope from Mr. Jin."
Wei Datong turned around and saluted Jin Feng: "I hope you will be successful, sir."
There were several canals under construction at the same time around Yulei Mountain, and he really couldn't run through them, so he planned to build an observation tower on Yulei Mountain and use telescopes to control them remotely.
"no problem."
Jin Feng took out the telescope from his pocket and handed it to Wei Datong.
"Thank you, sir. Don't worry, Sir, Wei will use it carefully and won't damage or stain it."
Wei Datong carefully took it with both hands, as if what Jin Feng handed him was a peerless treasure.
In fact, telescopes are also considered treasures in Dakang.
Not to mention other things, concave and convex mirrors made of polished glass are quite valuable based on the current market price of Dakang.
Qing Mulan looked at Wei Datong with envy in her eyes.
She pestered Jin Feng to ask for it several times, but Jin Feng never lent her the telescope for long-term use. At most, he lent it to her temporarily for fun.
Jin Feng had no choice. Glass was not a rare item for him, but grinding the lenses took too much time.
Although he has built a machine tool, the precision required for grinding lenses is too high, and his machine tool is really not up to the task.
I've been running around a lot recently, and I really don't have time to improve the machine tools, so I can only use the original method of manual grinding.
Therefore, the number of telescopes produced was very small, and each one was of great use, so there was no extra for Qing Mulan to play around with.
"Your Highness, all the prisoners in the dungeon have been executed. The slave has confirmed that there is no missing one."
Seeing that Wei Datong and Jin Feng had finished speaking, Qin'er stepped forward to report.
When Wei Datong heard this, he almost dropped the telescope in his hand.
The execution ground of Xichuan City was in the south of the city. He came in through the Xicheng Gate and did not pass through Caishikou, so he did not know about it.
But he understood what Qin'er was saying.
Wei Datong had the same idea as Qing Xinyao before, thinking that after the Ninth Princess forced the food from the powerful, Fatty Xu and others would be released.
Unexpectedly, she actually chopped people down without sparing any one!
"I'm afraid Sichuan and Sichuan will be lively in the future..."
Wei Datong sighed secretly in his heart.
If you kill so many powerful representatives at once, the powerful people will definitely take revenge.
Not only will he take revenge on the Ninth Princess and Jin Feng, but he will also take revenge on Qing Xinyao, Xichuan, and even the entire Sichuan and Shu.
But the Ninth Princess had a calm look on her face: "Just chop them off as long as they are a group of worms that feed the common people. I keep my word. Since they honestly handed over the food, I will notify their slaves to collect the corpses."
"yes!"
Qin'er agreed and went out to make arrangements again.
The Ninth Princess looked up at Jin Feng.
Jin Feng nodded slightly in response.
He had long received a message from Xihewan that the newly appointed Jinchuan County Magistrate Cai Liuyang and Guangyuan County Governor Xie Xiguang were secretly executed by the people left by the Ninth Princess on the day the dignitaries were arrested.
Now that all the dignitaries have been beheaded, the Ninth Princess has finally fulfilled her promise in the grove.
Jin Feng believed that Princess Ninth would not lie to him, and there was no need to lie to him.
For such a big thing as killing a powerful person, he didn't need to explain it. The Bell Team of Xichuan City would definitely keep an eye on it.
When the Ninth Princess saw Jin Feng nodding, the stone in her heart finally fell to the ground.
Compared with the revenge of the powerful, she was more worried about Jin Feng's rebellion.
After confirming that Jin Feng was satisfied, the smile finally appeared on Princess Ninth's face: "Stop talking about these disgusting things, sir. Now that the things have been brought, you should talk about the countries other than Dakang."
"good!"
Jin Feng opened the black box and took out a coconut-sized ball.
From a pile of drawings, I found a world map that I had hand-drawn.
"This thing is called a globe. I made it according to the expert's description."
Jin Feng raised the ball for everyone to see.
"Why would you, sir, carve a map on a ball?"
Qing Mulan asked curiously.
"Because this is the way the world is."
"The way the world is? What do you mean?" Qing Mulan was even more confused.
"That's what it means on the surface, we live on such a ball." Jin Feng explained.
puff!
The tea in Qing Xinyao's mouth suddenly spurted out.
The Ninth Princess also looked at Jin Feng strangely.
Even Da Liu, who had always blindly worshiped Jin Feng, thought he was talking nonsense.
"Sir, the sages have long said that the sky is round and the earth is round. How can people live on the ball?"
Qing Mulan rolled her eyes at Jin Feng: "Stop joking and get down to business!"
"It is better to believe in books than to have no books at all. What the sages said may not necessarily be correct."
"What the sages said may not be correct. How can you confirm that the expert is correct?"
Qing Mulan asked: "If we live on a ball, how come the earth is flat?"
"Who said the earth is flat?"
Jin Feng looked at Wei Datong: "Master Wei, have you been to the East China Sea?"
"I've been there before," Wei Datong nodded: "I go there only once in a year or two."
"Then have you ever seen a sailboat coming back from the high seas?"
"I've seen it."
"Then you saw the sail first and then the hull?"
"I didn't care if you didn't tell me, sir. Now that I think about it, it seems like this." Wei Datong nodded.
"The earth is not flat, and neither is the sea. It's just that the ball we live in is so big that we can't feel it." Jin Feng explained.