Tian*Tian*Xiao* said m. On the podium, Li Fan looked calm.

He said: "Let's first introduce the background of Marco Polo, who was born on September 15, 1254 and died on January 8, 1324.

The reason why he is well known to us Chinese is because of the book Marco Polo’s Travels that he or she described.

This is introduced in our history book, saying that Marco Polo was the first Italian traveler to travel to my country and Asian countries.

Based on his experiences in our country for seventeen years, he told a beautiful country that shocked the Western world. It was the first great work of Westerners in human history to perceive the East. It opened the mysterious door to the East to the entire Europe.

This is the positioning of Marco Polo and the value of this book!

Let me introduce to you the process of the birth of Marco Polo’s travelogue.”

Li Fan briefly introduced this. Marco Polo's travel notes were originally called Million because the word "Million" is often mentioned in books to highlight the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty.

Marco Polo has a characteristic that he is illiterate. He can still write because after returning from the Yuan Dynasty, he had the experience of being captured and imprisoned. Some of his inmates were writers named Rustichen, so they dictated and recorded one by one, and formed this travelogue.

Li Fan said: "I will tell you now why Marco Polo is a liar and why this book deceives the world and steals the reputation.

Point 1: Marco Polo claimed to have traveled in my country for 17 years and represented Kublai Khan to visit many areas. However, there were no such things as chopsticks, traditional Chinese medicine, tea, brushes, foot binding, and the Great Wall that were very distinctive in our country.

This is very bizarre. Just like the first time we see other people of skin color or the first time we see Westerners eating with knife and fork, we will definitely exclaim that we will be surprised. Moreover, the essence of the travel notes is curious. It is too incomprehensible that it does not mention these in Marco Polo's travel notes.

Point 2: What image did Marco Polo brag about himself? He said that he was the emperor's most powerful little brother, he was catching domestic and foreign taxes, represented Kublai Khan on missions to many countries, etc. Such a great person, I thought of a person who was similar to him and was particularly awesome, please look at the big screen!"

On the big screen, photos of Wei Xiaobao and his seven wives appeared.

After the audience burst into laughter, Li Fan said: "I'm sorry, this photo is wrong. Wei Xiaobao has seven wives, but Marco Polo does not. Marco Polo took the opportunity to get his wife after publishing the book.

Please note that such a great person is such an important person in the history of the Mongolian Empire, but he does not even have half of his name in historical materials!

He also said that he had been the prefect of Yangzhou for three years. The Yangzhou local chronicles were digging three feet into the ground, but he had never found this person. The local chronicles in our country were very detailed, how could it be that he was not there?

Point 3: Xiangyang offers cannons.

Everyone is familiar with it, and it contains the plot of Guo Jing and Huang Rong guarding Xiangyang.

How did Xiangyang City conquer the battle between the Song and Yuan dynasties? Historical records show that Kublai Khan went to Persia to recruit cannon craftsmen, resulting in extremely powerful Hui Hui cannons, and then he successfully conquered Xiangyang City, which had not been conquered for five years. The Hui Hui cannon here is a stone throwing machine.

Of course, this matter was also brought to him by Marco Poloan, and he had no relationship with him.

Point 4: He made a fatal mistake in the book, and he actually thought that the prince at that time was Kublai Khan's son. This was a big mistake. According to the time he verbally accompanied Kublai Khan, the prince at that time was Kublai Khan's grandson! He was the son of the dead prince."

There was a burst of exclamation at the scene:

"Wow!"

"This is a big mistake, a head-lost mistake!"

"If I were so strong as Kublai Khan, and were a powerful minister and a favorite minister, how could such a low-level mistake occur?"

Li Fan continued:

"On the 5th point, the city of Tsutong, Quanzhou was the most prosperous foreign trade port in the world at that time, and hundreds of large ships from Arabia were always staying in the port.

At that time, there were many people in the Seminar City. Seminar was the general term for all ethnic groups from Central and Western Asia during the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the Yuan Dynasty had a four-level national system, including Mongolians, Seminars, Hans and Southerners.

At that time, the mayor of Tsutong City was an Arab. At that time, there were at least three cathedrals and seven magnificent mosques in Tsutong City.

As a result, when he arrived in Tsutong City, he did not mention anything.

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After listing countless evidence, Li Fan continued: This book is basically all problems, unlike travel notes, and its boastful talk is no different!

However, according to my analysis, this book is more like a travelogue created by a person who is full of fantasy about the East and heard about it.

Marco Polo had this condition. First of all, he was indeed a businessman who traveled around and had a lot of knowledge, so this could not be denied.

Secondly, Kublai Khan was famous all over the world at that time. During his prosperous period, his land area reached 240,000 or even 330,000 square kilometers. There was a dispute here. Some people thought it was 240,000, and some people thought it was 330,000, so I won’t talk about it.

As a traveling businessman, he had this sufficient condition to learn a lot of information about Kublai Khan and even the Yuan Dynasty.

Finally, according to Venetian historical records, Marco Polo was sued to court because he was sued for defrauding people of money.

This work that is popular in the West, the oralist can't find any conclusive evidence of its existence in our country, and the book is full of falsehoods. This book is more like a travelogue, but it is included in our history textbook and affirms it. We have to think deeply about what the reason is!

Could it be that we must need this person to come to the Yuan Dynasty, right?

By the way, there is a proverb in Marco Polo's hometown, which is translated by SSLP, which is to fool people or not reliable at all."

The audience was fascinated by the audience, and many people were still in deep thought.

In the audience, a student whispered to the professor around him: "Professor, do you think Li Fan is right?"

The professor frowned, "There is indeed no direct evidence that Marco Polo appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, and some historians also tried to find evidence that Marco Polo came to China."

The student asked: "Then why, without objective evidence, the book is contrary to the facts in a large number of ways. Will such a person like Wei Xiaobao appear in the history textbooks of our country as a great traveler?"

Professor: "Well, this book is a handwritten copy. Various errors are inevitable during the handwritten process, which is also an explanation."

Another student asked: "Even the movable type printing technique was obvious at that time. A powerful figure like Marco Polo and a businessman, why are he still doing handwritten copies in Europe and printing them directly!"

"This" professor was asked.

On the stage, after three consecutive episodes of the program were finally recorded after 3 hours.

"Thank you for watching today's show, see you next time."

After Li Fan said that, after bowing to the audience, he did not go back to the backstage directly as usual, but instead raised his feet to the audience and gently carried the jelly from his mother's arms into his arms.

Jelly slept for two and a half hours. At this time, her thick eyelashes opened slightly. When she saw that it was her brother, she hugged her brother's neck, closed her eyes and continued to fall asleep peacefully.

Her mouth subconsciously blew a bubble, exactly the same as Li Fan's sleeping habits.

Li Fan said: "Mom, we're back home."

Professor Diao, who was beside Li's mother, suddenly asked: "Li Fan, on the show just now, you said that Marco Polo has come to our country and there is no direct evidence, so I have a different view."

Li Fan shook his sister lightly and said, "Oh? What does Professor Diao say?"

Professor Diao said: "I recently found a record in the fragments of the Yongle Ceremony. Wulude, Abishi and the Fire Master took the Ma Erba to the throne of Aluhun, which is consistent with the records in Marco Polo's travel notes."

Li Fan said: "However, this book also records the Yuan Dynasty's expedition, and the king's rebellion. He can't say a few things right, just say that he must have been to the Yuan Dynasty!

These things should have been widely circulated at that time.”

Professor Diao nodded, "You are right!"

There was constant debate in the historical community of Chinese and foreign countries about Marco Polo's experience and travelogues in previous lives. Some historians tried to find evidence that Marco Polo came to the Yuan Dynasty, but the direct evidence was not found at all, and there was a lot of speculation.

In order to verify whether Marco Polo really came to the Yuan Dynasty, the United States even formed a scientific expedition team in 1999. They retake the road that Marco Polo took back then, but used modern means of transportation.

However, the journey was still extremely difficult. After the inspection, 10 inspection team members and 22 experts who provided support unanimously agreed that it was unimaginable for Marco Polo to come to our country through this path.

However, even if Marco Polo’s Travels is a "work" composed of hearsays, its world influence does exist objectively, affecting a large number of people, even Columbus.

Professor Diao pondered for a moment and then said, "I will continue to look for relevant evidence."

Li Fan smiled softly, then hugged his sister and left the studio.
Chapter completed!