jdhmnovel Chapter 366 World Map
Chapter 366 World Map
Mrs. Tao actually ate a lot of salt. When Yun Ji said this, she guessed something: "You are not feeling well. You should see a doctor earlier! Why did you say it now?"
"I've seen it and taken countless medicines, but none of them worked. Grandma, this matter is really hard to talk about. It concerns my dignity as a man, so I don't want others to know. After the Yun family has expanded, we can only rely on Lin'er. I will devote all my energy to him." Yun Ji's ears felt a little hot. He felt so embarrassed to lie and make fun of himself.
When Mrs. Tao heard this and looked at his reaction, she completely believed his words and found it hard to accept for a moment: "Where is the imperial physician? Has he seen him too? Have all the doctors in the capital seen him?"
Yun Ji shook his head: "I've seen it, there's no cure."
"But if you don't get married, people will be suspicious and make gossips, which is not good for your reputation. You should marry one, even if her family background is lower." Old Madam Tao felt that she had to marry one to keep her at home to hide her identity.
"How can that be possible! If I get married, won't my secret be known to outsiders? Then my reputation will be really ruined." Yun Ji said.
Old Madam Tao thought about it and it seemed to be true. However, when she thought that such an outstanding grandson could not marry and have children because of his health, she felt as if her heart was being cut out. Therefore, she did not even want to be a matchmaker for Min Xi.
After a long time, she finally returned the girls' paintings. The reason for her refusal was that Yun Ji already had someone she liked.
Mrs. Tao said this to give Yun Ji a way out. She wanted to give her grandson enough respect. Little did she know that the real reason why Yun Ji didn't want to marry was that he really had someone he liked. However, although this person lived at home every day, he couldn't marry her back to his family.
Min Xi didn't expect that Yun Ji could solve the problem so easily. After all, it was because his elders cared about him and wanted to save face that they were willing to help maintain Yun Ji's image.
Min Xi went to the Honglu Temple to take up his post. As he had expected, the Honglu Temple was indeed a quiet government office. On days when there were no foreign guests visiting, they were so idle that they only had to report to the government office every day. Before noon, their colleagues would all go back to their homes. No one would stay in the government office until the afternoon.
Min Xi had just arrived at the Honglu Temple and was not in a hurry to start working on his own things. Zhao Shizhen was not there, and it would be awkward for him to work alone, so he planned to draw a world map first.
Min Xi was very familiar with the world map. As a former sailor, this map had long been engraved in his mind. So he could draw the world map almost with his eyes closed.
He did not report to his superiors. According to his observation, his colleagues were also good at arranging their own time. Some liked to drink tea, some liked to read opera scripts, some liked to play chess, some liked to collect antiques, and some liked to listen to music... Anyway, everyone had their own little hobbies. Everyone did their own things in the government office and no one interfered with anyone else.
Min Xi also knew that this was normal. The Honglu Temple was redundant, but it was not. It was indeed necessary. After all, once an envoy came to visit, it would be the responsibility of the Honglu Temple. The entire Honglu Temple had about 50 to 60 people. If there were more envoys, they would be busy enough.
Colleagues in the Honglu Temple were not too surprised by Min Xi's arrival. Those who could come here either had some special talents, such as knowing foreign languages and writing, or had some background, but not too big, and were arranged by their families to come here to make a living.
Everyone had already known Min Xi's background. He was a juren, had returned from a shipwreck in Europe, knew many languages, and was appointed as the chief clerk because he was appreciated by the emperor. He did not have a background, but rather a special talent.
At the beginning, colleagues were a little curious about Min Xi's overseas life, and many people came to him to chat. Since they had nothing to do anyway, chatting was not against the rules.
Min Xi chatted with everyone for a few days and finally found out the names, personalities, hobbies, etc. of his superiors and subordinates.
After everyone lost their curiosity about him, no one came to chat with him, so Min Xi began to draw a world map.
Every day when he went to the yamen, he would draw on the desk in the yamen using his own homemade pencils. After all, drawing with a hard pen was much more convenient than drawing with a brush.
He didn't try to be special. Like everyone else, he left work in the afternoon to avoid being the maverick and went back to his carpentry work.
Now he also has time to cook, and every night, brothers Yun Ji and Yun Lin can eat meals prepared by Min Xi himself.
The Hanlin Academy is naturally busier than the Honglu Temple. Yun Ji has just joined the company, and his main job responsibility is to compile history books, so he is relatively free and does not need to work overtime. After leaving the office, he still has time to pick up Yun Lin and take him home.
In this situation, the happiest person is naturally Yunlin. His two brothers will finally stop running around. They will be at home every day. In the morning, they will send him to Tao Mansion to go to school together, and then go to the government office to report for work. In the evening, the eldest brother will come to pick him up and when he gets home, the second brother will have already prepared dinner.
After dinner, we can play together for a while. There is no happier day like this.
After Min Xi drew the map, he asked Yun Ji to help him redraw it with a brush, still using colored ink, with the land in yellow and the ocean in blue. Such a map naturally cannot be drawn into a topographic map, and can only mark the location of land, islands, etc., and some known country names, but many places cannot be written with country names, because it is not known who is currently ruling those places.
After Yun Ji finished drawing the map, he was still shocked when he looked at it. It turned out that this was the world they lived in. "This map should be shown to His Majesty."
Min Xi said, "Then I'll trouble my seventh brother to help me draw another one and present it to His Majesty." Wanli must know what the real world is like, how big and how small the Ming Dynasty is, and we must never take foreign races lightly at any time.
Yun Ji said: "I want to keep another one at home."
"Of course you can. If you are not afraid of being tired, just draw one more picture and leave it for Lin'er to study in the future." Min Xi said with a smile.
After Yunlin finished drawing the map, he took it to the Hanlin Academy. When his colleagues saw the map, they were all surprised: "Who drew this map?"
Yunlin said, "I drew this with my brother. We drew this world map together based on our own sailing experience and the maps we saw in Europe." He certainly wouldn't say that Min Xi drew this alone, otherwise, they were both stranded overseas, but Min Xi could draw and he couldn't. Isn't this strange? He couldn't let people see that Min Xi was different.
After reading the map, his colleagues stroked their beards and said, "No, no! This map is too distorted. Is our Ming Dynasty really so small?"
"Our Ming Dynasty is indeed not small, but the world is really big." Yun Ji said, "We plan to present this map to His Majesty for review."