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In fact, what attracted Yang Jing was not the stack of second-hand books on the stall that were the same as the hill, but the old-looking maps hanging on the shed brackets of the stalls.

Yang Jing came up and looked carefully at these ancient maps.

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

There are seven maps in total, all of which are well protected with plastic seals.

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 they will be damaged if they are not careful, so it is not surprising that the stall owner uses this method to protect these old-looking maps.

The seven maps are "the youngest" and are still in their 100-year-old. They are a map from World War I, and this map is obviously a military map from a command center of the Allied Powers.

Yang Jing took out a magnifying glass from his pocket. He bought it from a store next to the hotel after having a full meal last night.

Put the magnifying glass in the lower right corner of the map and indeed saw the source of this map.

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

Obviously, this map was a military map of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Allies, when one of the Allies, fought with the Allied forces near Plovdiv.

If such a map is placed in China, it would probably be considered an amazing cultural relic. But in Europe and the United States, such maps cannot be said to be a big street, at least there are definitely many. Especially for 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 the map to death. Anyway, he didn't have the intention to collect this map. He was not a war enthusiast, so he really had no love for such a bloody map.

The second map is a map of the United States from the late nineteenth century, with no collection value, PASS.

Chapter 3 The map is also a map from the United States, but it is earlier, and this map was also dropped by Yang Jing without hesitation.

The fourth map aroused Yang Jing's interest.

Strictly speaking, this map is not a map, but a navigation chart. However, this navigation chart is very rough, and Yang Jing could barely recognize that this navigation chart should be a navigation chart near the North Atlantic Ocean and some of the United States and Canada's east coast.

This navigation chart was not made of paper, but seemed to be made of the legendary sheepskin. However, because it was wrapped in plastic wrap, Yang Jing could not confirm the materials for the production of this navigation chart.

From this nautical chart that has become somewhat blurred, you can barely distinguish the east coast of the United States and Canada. Of course, Greenland, Iceland, and Newfoundland, on the east coast of Canada, can still be seen.

Moreover, this nautical chart does not seem to be a complete nautical chart, but it is more like a part of it torn off from a larger nautical chart. Because below the nautical chart, which is close to the Bermuda Islands, the map shows a kind of ripples of tear-mounted ripples, and above it, almost half of Greenland is also torn apart.

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

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

There are very few places on this map. Apart from Greenland and Newfoundland, there are only two places, Boston and New York. Even Iceland is not specifically marked on this map, but it is just the shape of an island.

It goes without saying that Boston and New York are the oldest cities even if they look at the entire United States. This map should be a hand-painted nautical chart in the early 18th century, so it is not surprising that these two famous cities are on it.

In the 18th century, New York and Boston were undoubtedly important port cities on the east coast of North America. Merchant ships traveling between Europe and North America arrived at these two cities. Therefore, there are several routes representing the routes from Europe to North America on this hand-painted nautical chart.

In addition, some routes are from New York and Boston and extend southward, which is obviously a route to the Caribbean.

Some of them extend northward from these two cities. These routes go north along the east coast of North America, passing through Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland Island, then turning east, crossing the North Atlantic Ocean to arrive in Europe. This is the North Atlantic route.

In fact, in the 18th century, there were already several North Atlantic routes. Although the North Atlantic was relatively strong, it was the closest to North America from Europe. Therefore, in the 18th and 9th century, many of the routes from Europe to North America went to North Atlantic.

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

These routes look fine, but the route that starts from Boston and goes north, and after arriving at Newfoundland Island, instead of turning east but continues to continue north along the east coast of North America, through the Labrador Sea and the Davis Strait.

That route broke after reaching Davis Strait.

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

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

In that era, it would be better to go to Davis Strait in summer, but if you go there in spring and autumn or winter, you would be asking for death.

But why does such a strange route appear on this navigation chart?

What Yang Jing was most puzzled was that by the 18th century, when the navy of European powers were drawing navigators, they had basically started to draw them with special paper. The hand-painted sheepskin navigator charts were almost extinct for the navies of European powers.

In that era, the only one who insisted on drawing navigation charts in sheepskin was the only one who had insisted on drawing navigation charts in a very small number of private merchant ships left...
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