As his father-in-law, Julius II naturally knew what his son-in-law Marin was thinking. So the Pope found some other excuses to keep Marin in Rome. The specific work was mainly to revise the fallacies in the records of some geographical books in the Vatican collection.
Julius II discovered that his son-in-law was definitely a geography master and had some understanding of the whole world. Even Julius II had to believe that the ascetic monk named Einstein was a real sage. Because the geography knowledge "Einstein taught Marin" was too accurate. Although the details may not be clear. However, Julius II judged that his son-in-law was not serious in studying. Or, the sage named Einstein had too little time to educate his son-in-law...
How could he know that his son-in-law's geography knowledge came from later textbooks. Because textbooks with introductory nature were naturally not as detailed as professional books. Therefore, Marin generally had a good grasp of geography knowledge, but the details were not as accurate as those navigators.
Then, Marin stayed in Rome under the name of "helping the Holy See to modify classics". The first thing Marin did was to completely deny "The Travels of Marco Polo". Moreover, as if he was writing a paper, he criticized the falsehoods in "The Travels of Marco Polo".
Of course, this paper specifically points out the mistakes in "The Travels of Marco Polo", but deliberately does not give a world map, so as not to allow other European powers such as Britain and France to obtain information and also open routes to the East.
In fact, this was Marin deliberately cooling down the "fading heat" that was popular in Europe at this time. Marin believes that if the "fading heat" is overheated, there will inevitably be more Italian navigators, British navigators, even French navigators and Dutch navigators participating in the "Great Geographic Discovery".
And this obviously infringed on Marin's interests. In particular, he was afraid that the British and French would open routes on the North Atlantic Ocean to go to the east coast of America and discover the rich there.
Therefore, Marin must cool down this "fading fever" so that other countries will no longer be so keen on sailing.
So, Marin wrote in the paper - "It is impossible to find India, China and Japan to the west. Columbus has explored it and found that the west is blocked by the wild continent. As for whether you can reach the east through the wild continent, it has not been confirmed yet. But what can be confirmed is that the northernmost part of the wild continent is a place of ice and snow, and icebergs are everywhere on the sea. If a wooden boat hits an iceberg, the only consequence is that the ship is destroyed and the people are killed."
"So, the only correct route to the East at present is the route to the Spaniards and the Portuguese from the south to the east."
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Of course, the main purpose of this paper is to refute the exaggeration in "The Travels of Marco Polo". Even Marin quoted a statement from the later historical community - that is, Marco Polo himself did not arrive in the East at all, but only arrived in Persia. He heard about some things in the East from the mouths of Persian merchants who had been to the East. Then, based on those rumors, he made up and exaggerated, so that this book "The Travels of Marco Polo" was created...
Marin's argument is that if the East is really as rich as Marco Polo said, and there is gold everywhere, why wouldn't Marco Polo, who has been to the East pick up a few bags of gold on the ground and bring it back to Europe? As long as he does this, he will definitely become a Monopoly. However, Marco Polo did not become a Monopoly. So, what he said was mostly exaggerated false news. Even he himself may not have been to China. Because, according to the information confirmed by Einstein, China lacks gold and silver, and has not minted gold and silver coins, only copper coins...
Moreover, in his paper, Malin swore that he could be sure that there were no gold and silver coins in China, only copper coins. In order to support it, Malin also drew the square-hole copper coins of the Ming Dynasty in the book, and wrote four square Chinese characters "Yongle Tongbao" on it to prove it.
At the same time, Marin welcomed the Navigator to explore the Ming Empire to prove the truth and falsehood of his words. If there were gold and silver coins officially issued by China, he would be willing to give up the title of Duke...
This is like a guarantee of everything that makes people convinced...
Then, in his paper, Marin also introduced in detail a special currency launched by the Ming Empire in order to solve the problem of lack of precious metals - Baochao...
Baochao is a paper currency. Marin introduced in detail the reason why the treasure banknotes of the Ming Empire appeared, and later the emperor issued treasure banknotes in order to plunder wealth, which led to the depreciation of the treasure banknotes to a situation where no one wanted it. If the Ming Empire's court had not forcibly converted the salaries of officials into treasure banknotes, it would have probably become completely waste paper...
What Marin didn't know was that his description of Baochao attracted the attention of King Louis XII of France. Then, the greedy French king also tried to issue paper money. However, because the French official monetary policy was chaotic and too greedy, and the indiscriminate issuance of paper money, the French banknotes soon disappeared... At least, French banknotes could not buy anything in the international market...
In addition, Marin emphasized that Japan and North Korea are both poor countries in East Asia. He also stated that these countries all need to go to China to purchase the required materials, and readily accept the enthronement of the Ming Empire, and are complacent for the items they rewarded them by the Ming Empire. For this reason, they did not hesitate to send envoys to represent their respective kings to "kneel three kneeling and nine bows" to the Ming Empire emperor, and humiliatedly expressed their surrender...
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In fact, there is no problem with Marin's statement. Because the famous Shijian Silver Mountain will not be discovered in 1526. From then on, Japan will become a major silver producer. Before that, although Japan produced silver, it was not a lot, but there were more copper mining points.
So, in this era, even if someone goes to Japan to confirm, he can't see the situation where Japan produces a lot of silver. What they see is indeed - Japan is a poor country...
Even in this era, Korea was richer than Japan. Because, North Korea bordered the Ming Dynasty on land and had many exchanges with Liaodong. This era was not the period of the Jurchen rebellion in the late Ming Dynasty, and Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, North Korea was able to successfully conduct commercial exchanges with the Ming Dynasty on land. After all, Goryeo's ginseng was still very popular among the Ming people. Although the Ming Empire forbidden the sea, it did not ban the land. Therefore, North Korea's life at this time was much better than Japan.
Of course, in the paper, Marin did not write so much in detail. She just introduced it to Europeans, saying that Japan and North Korea are poor in domestic supplies and many things need to be purchased from the Ming Dynasty. This is a true description, and even if someone confirms it, it is not afraid.
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Julius II gave strong support for Marin's behavior of cooling the navigation heat. After all, he also knew that America would be the territory of his own grandson, Caesar, in the future. If it was discovered by Britain, France and other countries and robbed it, it would be bad.
Chapter completed!