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　　 The new week has begun. Lao Mo knelt for a recommendation ticket, and please brothers and sisters to support Lao Mo!

　　 Actually, what attracted Yang Jing was not the piles of second-hand books on the booth, but the old-looking maps hung on the stand of the booth.

　　 Yang Jing leaned forward and carefully looked at these old-looking maps.

The owner of the 　　 booth was busy talking with another customer. When he saw Yang Jing approaching, he just greeted him and continued talking with that customer. Yang Jing was so happy that no one interrupted him.

　　 There are seven maps in total, all of which are well protected by plastic wrap.

　　 This is also a common way for flea market stall owners to protect some vulnerable things. The maps are all a piece of paper and will be damaged if you don't pay attention, so it is not surprising that the stall owner used this method to protect these old-looking maps.

　　 One of the seven "youngest" maps is also a hundred years old. It was a map from the First World War period, and this map was obviously from a military map of a certain Allied power headquarters.

　　 Yang Jing took out a magnifying glass from his pocket, which he bought in the shop next to the hotel after having a full meal last night.

　　 put the magnifying glass in the lower right corner of the map, and he saw the source of this map as expected.

　　 This is a large-scale map of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Allied Powers during World War I. It clearly marked some military deployments near Plovdiv, an important town in central Bulgaria at the time, with pens of different colors.

　　 Obviously, this map was a military map of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Allies at the time, and the Allied forces were fighting near Plovdiv.

　　 If such a map were placed in China, it would be considered an incredible cultural relic. But in Europe and America, such maps cannot be said to be bad streets, at least there are definitely many. Especially this kind of local military combat map that only involves one place, the value is even less high.

　　 Yang Jing shook his head slightly and sentenced to death for this map. Anyway, he didn't mean to collect this map, and he was not a war enthusiast, and he really didn't love this kind of **** map.

　　 The second map is a map of the United States at the end of the 19th century. It has no collection value, PASS.

　　 The third chapter map is also a map from the United States, but earlier in time, this map was also PASS dropped by Yang Jing without hesitation.

　　 And the fourth map aroused Yang Jing's interest.

Strictly speaking, this map is not a map, but a nautical chart, but the nautical picture is very rough, Yang Jing can barely recognize that the nautical chart should be the North Atlantic Ocean and parts of the United States and Canada. A chart of the offshore east coast.

　　 This nautical chart is not made of paper, but it seems to be made of the legendary sheepskin, but because it is wrapped in plastic, Yang Jing can't confirm the material of the nautical chart.

　　The east coast of the United States and Canada can barely be distinguished from this nautical chart that has become a little fuzzy. Of course, Greenland in the North Atlantic, Iceland, and Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada can still be seen.

　　 And this nautical chart does not seem to be a complete nautical chart, but rather like a part torn from a larger nautical chart. Because below the nautical chart, which is close to the location of Bermuda, the map shows a ripple of tearing equipment, and above, almost half of Greenland's location is also torn apart.

　　 Obviously, this nautical chart should have originally belonged to a relatively large and relatively complete nautical chart, but for some reason, this part was torn off.

　　 What attracted Yang Jing most was not the raw materials of this nautical chart, nor the history of this nautical chart, but the clear points and a broken route marked on this nautical chart.

On this map, few locations are indicated. Except for Greenland and Newfoundland, there are only two places, Boston and New York. Even Iceland is not specifically marked on this map. Just the shape of an island.

　　Boston and New York, of course, needless to say, even if you look at the entire United States, these two cities are also the oldest cities. And this map is supposed to be a hand-painted nautical chart in the early eighteenth century. It is no surprise that there are two famous cities on it.

In the eighteenth century, New York and Boston were undoubtedly important port cities on the east coast of North America. Merchant ships between Europe and North America arrived in these two cities. Therefore, there are several lines on this hand-drawn nautical chart that represent The route from Europe to North America.

　　 In addition, there are some routes that depart from New York and Boston and extend to the south. Obviously, they are routes to the Caribbean.

Some of them extend northward from these two cities. These routes follow the east coast of North America all the way north, passing Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland Island, and then turning east, across the North Atlantic Ocean to Europe. This is the North Atlantic route.

　　 In fact, in the eighteenth century, there were already several North Atlantic routes. Although the North Atlantic Ocean is relatively windy, it is the closest to North America from Europe to www.wuxiaspot.com. Therefore, in the 18th and 9th centuries, many routes from Europe to North America took the North Atlantic Ocean.

　　 For example, the most famous Titanic took the North Atlantic route on its maiden voyage. As a result, the big ship was so unfortunate that it encountered an iceberg on the way, and then sank directly in the deep sea of ​​more than 4,000 meters in the North Atlantic.

These routes seem to be no problem. The only one that departs from Boston and goes all the way north. After arriving at Newfoundland, it does not turn east but continues north along the east coast of North America, passing through the Labrador Sea and The Davis Strait has a northward course.

　　 The route was cut off after reaching Davis Strait.

　　 Although it is impossible to know the specific destination of this route, this route is really weird.

You should know that even in the modern age where the navigation industry is extremely developed, apart from some fixed routes and scientific research ships, few commercial ships go on this Arctic route, let alone the sailing ships in the 18th century. Time is up.

　　 In that era, it would be nice to say something if I walked Davis Strait in summer, but if I walked there in spring, autumn or winter, it would be a death.

　　 But why is there such a strange route on this nautical chart?

What made Yang Jing a little puzzled was that by the eighteenth century, when European powers’ navies were drawing charts, they basically began to use special paper to draw them. That kind of hand-painted sheepskin nautical charts were very important to European powers. As far as the navy is concerned, it is almost extinct.

　　At that time, the only people who insisted on drawing nautical charts in sheepskin, except for a few private merchant ships, were the pirates who crossed the world...

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