Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2184 The Battle of Flowers (Ninety-two)

Nick had not been to Istanbul, his journey around the world started in England, then to America, then to South America, in Brazil boarding a Dutch ship, going around the Cape of Good Hope to India, then along India to Burma, Siam, Southeast Asia, Japan, and China, which he arrived at after a transfer on the way, which means that he has never been to a Mediterranean city.

   Or he went, when he was very young, his father took the family on a trip to Italy, and he was also obsessed with travel at that time.

  The lofty political ambitions do not give people a broad vision. Although commercial interests can prompt people to take risks, people are busy with business and take care of others.

   There is only a mosque in Ningbo in eastern Zhejiang. It is located next to Tianyi Pavilion and is called Yuehu Mosque. It was built during the Kangxi period and is now somewhat abandoned.

   Get someone to know BJ's friends who might be able to help, but he suggested that Nick split the book into sections so no one would know all the secrets in the book.

  Nick felt that it was superfluous to ask people to do this, because the stories the old man told him were similar to ghost stories such as fox fairy and painted skin, and others might think it was a story book.

   However, he copied the whole book and put it in several envelopes in a random order, and then sent it to BJ by the official messenger.

If Chinese evolved from hieroglyphics, we need to use analogy to understand the abstract concepts expressed. Turkish is alphabetic, and Arabic is Semitic. Fortunately, Nick’s book is not written in Arabic, otherwise It becomes very troublesome to copy.

Nick doesn't know how long the Admiral will stay as Governor of South River. If it's three years, he doesn't want to wait so much, but if he wants to continue to travel in China, he must be protected by the Admiral. At this time, he was just busy when he took over. , Nick proposed at the moment would be very inappropriate.

   Yesterday, the officials and people in Qingjiangpu held a feast for the Admiral to "catch the wind and wash the dust", and before the dinner, there was a gate-opening performance. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xuan, the chief military officer of water transport, dug the Qingjiangpu River along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and built four locks on the river, mainly to ensure the water level of the canal and the smooth flow of water. There are shipyards and granaries next to the river, and Huai'an City has also developed because of Qingjiangpu.

This is also the former residence of Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West". It may be that there is a destiny. It is impossible to know how the Yin Yin people arrived in Tabriz, but he estimates that the other party mostly chooses to go on land. Silk Road. In 1221, when the Crusaders ended the Fifth Crusade, Genghis Khan sent messengers to the Caucasus to demand the surrender of the Caucasus, and Europe had to face the Mongolian army that flew all the way from the east.

But in 1227 the Mongol attack suddenly stopped, because Kublai Khan died, after that his descendants were caught in a power struggle for a period of time, temporarily stopped the attack on Europe, so in 1228 Europe launched the sixth east to recapture Jerusalem. In 1229, Yuan Taizong Ogotai succeeded the Great Khan, and the sixth crusade ended at this time. Then the Mongols launched another westward expedition. In 1235, the Mongols occupied Moscow, and in 1241 they occupied Hungary. In 1245, the Pope wrote a letter to send messenger. In 1258, Baghdad was captured by the grandsons of Genghis Khan, the Abbasid Dynasty fell, the Ilkhanate was established under the rule of the Mongols, and Tabriz was designated as the capital.

He refused a drawing task worth 4,000 taels of silver, but he seemed to get a new journey full of hardships, dangers and uncertainties. Lao Tzu said, "Fortune depends on misfortune, and misfortune lies in it." If one day he can return alive To Europe, he told people that he had traveled with the Mongols, what would they think?

  Nick investigated the content about the mandrill, which was described in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai" and "Baopuzi", but he paid special attention to the content about the Shanhaijing.

  In the "Shan Hai Jing·Hai Nei Jing Scroll", there is such a record: In the south, there is a giant of Gan, with a long face and long arms, a black body with hair, and a backside.

The meaning of this sentence is that there is a giant named "Gan" in the south. It has a human face, very long arms, long black hair on its body, and long ankles. It also laughs when it sees people laughing. The ability to imitate, the mouth can cover the face, and run when people come.

  "Gan" is the abbreviation of Jiangxi. If it hadn't been for the trip to Wuyi Mountain and the old man's advice, Nick would not have thought that mandrills would exist on the southeast coast, and they also had a war with the Huanyin tribe.

  In "Shan Hai Jing·Hainan Jingjuan", the country of Xiaoyang is mentioned. The people there have very long lips, black bodies and long hair, and their legs are turned upside down. They laugh when they see others, and hold a pipe in their left hand.

Can we understand it this way, "Giant Gan" is a civilian of Xiaoyang Kingdom without a weapon, and the one with a pipe is a soldier of Xiaoyang Kingdom. He feels that he can deal with those who are close to him, so he does not like The previous "Giant Gan" would run away when he saw people, but he also laughed when he saw people laugh.

Xiaoyang State is in the west of Beiyang State. There is no detailed description in Shanhaijing, the description of Beiyang State. It is only written that it is in the south of Yushui. In the Commentary on Shuijing, it is mentioned that Tanshui and Yushui meet at Ah. Lin County and Alin County have been abolished. Now it is called Guiping, Guangxi. We cannot ask the ancients to have the same geographic knowledge as modern people. It is expressed by latitude and longitude. The author describes the approximate location, and the river will be diverted. In ancient Jiangxi, it was called Guanxiang, and the southern area of ​​Xiangling was collectively called the South China Sea of ​​Xiangling. In the cognition of ancient people, the river was a fixed coordinate, and it would not be easily changed. Then the south of Jiangxi to Guangxi A large area may be the location of Beiyang Kingdom.

   Assuming that the two neighboring countries, Xiaoyang Kingdom and Beiyang Kingdom, are not friendly, and there was a war, then the war between the Yanyin tribe and the mandrill is understandable. It may be that the people of Beiyang laughed at the lips and strange ankles of the people of Xiaoyang, or maybe the people of Xiaoyang laughed at the people of Beiyang, which means dried meat, earthworms or some kind of plant. The old man said that the world of the blind has only poetry, darkness and Secret, Beiyang Kingdom is mysterious and unpredictable. He still needs information to investigate, but he can't find any clues at all.

   He had no idea how big the library in Istanbul was, and finding useful books in the library was like looking for a needle in a haystack or finding a specific grain of sand on the beach.

   And "shadow backlash", what does that mean?

  Nick looked at his shadow in the sun. Could it be that shadows can kill people? It just sounds like some kind of black magic.

Not only Nick is confused, Georgiana is also confused, shadows are left when light cannot pass through solid bodies, even soap bubbles leave shadows, and then she remembered a book written by a *** scholar, It is also about vision and shadows. Albus has been studying the Mirror of Erised. The reflection of a person standing in mirror a is reflected on mirror b. Does the figure on mirror b have anything to do with him?

Yes, they look the same in form, but a mirror is three-dimensional and becomes two-dimensional, and the shadow effect formed by light on three-dimensional objects is reflected in two-dimensional, just like painting, with different colors, b mirror Just repeating this color, the first ray touches something, how can the reflected light be the same as the touch light?

  Why do three-dimensional objects have the concept of "three-dimensional"?

  A plane figure has no shadow, just like a piece of white paper, but if you add a shadow to it, it will be different.

   So, does the shadow backlash mean that it is no longer the people in the light that control the darkness, but the darkness that controls the people in the light?

   After all, you can't see shadows in darkness, but people in the dark don't mean they don't exist.

  Close your eyes, your sense of touch, smell, and hearing are all there, and they will make you feel the different contours of yourself that you were born to be.

   "Who is that author?" She pondered hard, the name of the Arab is too difficult to remember, she guessed that the other party's name is Mohammed, this name is more common.

At least she can remember the author's name, so that even if she has to find a needle in the haystack, the staff of the Paris library can find it for her. manpower.

  How to say, fortunately Napoleon robbed the collection of the church and the Alexandria library, otherwise she would not be able to find even if there were any, but if these books were not in the collection, then she had to go to the Istanbul library to "find".

   "My God, is this what he meant by 'useful'?" she murmured in disbelief.

   "What are you talking about?" Carolan Lestrange asked.

   "When did you come in?" asked Georgiana.

   "Just when you asked who the author was?" Carolan said, "What are you doing? Everyone is waiting for you!"

  Should she ask Carolan: "Hey, do you think Napoleon will let the French rob Istanbul again?"

   She shook her head and looked down at the book "Wait until I finish this book."

   "What book is so good?" Carolan asked.

  Georgianna smiled mysteriously and did not answer.

   (end of this chapter)