The Rise of the European Emperor

As a father-in-law, Julius II naturally knew the thoughts of his son-in-law Marin. So 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 collection.

Julius II has found out that his son-in-law is definitely a scholar in geography, and he knows something about the whole world. Even Julius II had to believe that the ascetic named Einstein was a real sage. Because, "Einstein taught Marin" the geographical knowledge, it is too accurate. Although, the details may not be clear. However, this was judged by Julius II as his son-in-law was not serious about his studies. Or, that Daxian named Einstein has too little time to educate his son-in-law...

How did he know that his son-in-law's knowledge of geography came from 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 is not as precise as those navigators' precise descriptions in detail.

Then, Marin stayed in Rome in the name of "helping the Holy See revise the books". The first thing Marin did was to deny "Marco Polo's Travels" completely. Moreover, like writing a paper, I criticize the untruths in "Marco Polo's Travels" one by one.

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

In fact, this was Marin's deliberate cooling of the "nautical fever" that was popular in Europe at this time. Marin believes that if the "nautical fever" is overheated, it is inevitable that more Italian navigators, British navigators, and even French and Dutch navigators will participate in the "Great Geographical Discovery".

And this obviously violated Marin's interests. In particular, he was terrified of the British and French opening up the North Atlantic routes to the east coast of America and discovering its riches.

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

Therefore, Marin wrote in the paper - "India, China and Japan cannot be found in the west. Columbus has already explored it and found that the west is blocked by the wild continent. As for whether it can reach the east after crossing the wild continent, it is not yet known. It has been confirmed. But what can be confirmed is that the northernmost part of the Wild Continent is a land of ice and snow, and the sea is full of icebergs. If the wooden boat hits the iceberg, the only outcome is that the boat will be destroyed."

"So, the only correct route to the east at the moment is the route the Spaniards and Portuguese take from the south to the east."

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Of course, the main purpose of this paper is to refute the exaggeration in "Marco Polo's Travels". Even, Marin quoted a statement from later historians-that is, Marco Polo himself did not arrive in the East at all, but only in Persia. He heard some things about the East through the mouth of a Persian merchant who had been to the East. Then, according to those rumors, it was made up and exaggerated, and this "Marco Polo Travels"...

Marin's argument is that if the East is really as rich as Marco Polo said, and the land is full of gold, why didn't Marco Polo, who had been to the East, just pick up a few bags of gold on the ground and bring them back to Europe? As long as he does this, he will definitely become a millionaire. However, Marco Polo did not become a millionaire. Therefore, what he said was mostly exaggerated fake news. Even, it is very likely that he himself has never been to China. Because, according to the news confirmed by Einstein Daxian, China is very short of gold and silver, and neither gold nor silver coins are minted, only copper coins...

and,

Marin swears in the paper that it can be determined that there are no gold and silver coins in China, only copper coins. In order to prove it, Ma Lin also drew the appearance of the square hole copper coins of the Ming Dynasty on the book, and wrote four square Chinese characters "Yongle Tongbao" on it to prove it.

At the same time, Marin welcomes navigators to explore the Ming Empire to prove the truth of his words. If Huaxia has a large number of official gold and silver coins, he is willing to give up the title of duke...

This kind of guarantee, which is similar to betting on everything, makes people have to be convinced...

Then, in the paper, Marin also introduced in detail a special currency that the Ming Empire launched in order to solve the problem of lack of precious metals - treasure banknotes...

Treasure banknotes are banknotes. Marin introduced in detail the reasons for the emergence of treasure banknotes in the Ming Dynasty, and later the emperor issued treasure banknotes in order to search for wealth, resulting in the devaluation of treasure banknotes to the point where no one wanted them. If it wasn't for the Ming Dynasty's court forcibly converting officials' salaries into treasured banknotes, it is estimated that the treasured banknotes would have completely become waste paper...

What Marin didn't know was that his description of the treasured banknotes caught the attention of King Louis XII of France. Then, the greedy king of France also tried to issue paper money. However, because the official French monetary policy is chaotic, and it is too greedy to issue banknotes indiscriminately, French banknotes will soon be ignored... At least, French banknotes cannot buy anything in the international market...

In addition, Marin emphasized that Japan and North Korea are both poor countries in East Asia. He also explained that these countries all need to go to Huaxia to purchase the necessary materials, and they are happy to accept the canonization of the emperor of the Ming Empire, and they are complacent for some of the items that the Ming Empire gave them. To this end, they did not hesitate to send envoys to "kneel three times and nine times" on behalf of their respective kings to the emperor of the Ming Empire, humiliatingly express their submission...

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In fact, Marin's statement is not a problem. Because Iwami Silver Mountain, which is famous all over the world, will not find a large silver vein until 1526. From then on, Japan will become a big silver producing country. Before that, although Japan produced silver, it was not a lot, but more copper was mined.

Therefore, in this era, even if someone went to Japan to confirm, it is true that Japan is not rich in silver. What they see is indeed - Japan is a poor country...

Even North Korea in this era is richer than Japan. Because North Korea borders the Ming Dynasty on land, and has many contacts with Liaodong. In this era, it was not the period when the Jurchen rebelled in the late Ming Dynasty, and Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, North Korea can successfully conduct commercial exchanges with the Ming Dynasty on land. After all, Korean ginseng is still very popular in the Ming Dynasty. While the Ming Empire banned the sea, it did not ban the land. Therefore, North Korea's life at this time is much better than Japan.

Of course, Marin didn't write that much detail in the thesis, but just introduced to the Europeans that Japan and North Korea, two countries, were poor in domestic materials, and many things needed to be purchased from Daming. And this is a true description, even if someone proves it, it is not afraid.

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Julius II gave strong support for Marin's actions to cool the sea fever. After all, he also knew that the Americas would be the territory of his own grandson, Caesar. If it is discovered and robbed by Britain, France and other countries, it will be bad.

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