"this......"
Li Lin was immediately startled.
Fortunately, the psychological pressure he was under was no longer as great as before. Although he appeared somewhat frightened, he quickly calmed down and even managed a smile.
"Your Majesty, do you know why I possess extraordinary talent yet refuse to display it? It is because I am a banished celestial being from Heaven. Long ago, the Queen Mother of the West did not invite that弼马温 (Bima Wen) – I mean, that齐天大圣 (Qitian Dasheng) Sun Wukong – to her Peach Banquet, which angered him. He wreaked havoc in Heaven, and I was punished and banished to the mortal realm for failing to resist him and for flirting with the Jade Emperor's lover..."
As he spoke, Li Lin revealed the tragic background to his desire to slack off: "If I were too outstanding in the mortal realm and my merits were too great, it would alarm the Jade Emperor. If he finds out that I have revealed such serious heavenly secrets, he might kill me and cause my demise!"
"So that's how it is! The monkey story you told at the Censorate that day was actually your personal experience. No wonder you knew so much about it!"
The First Emperor nodded.
It's clear that they believed about 30%.
After all, the way he had behaved in recent days was indeed different from that of ordinary Qin people, and the First Emperor was aware of this. Therefore, his initial judgment of Li Lin was that he was a mortal who had a miraculous encounter or a mortal who had received guidance from an immortal.
Now, considering the background Li Lin himself described, it not only matches his behavior over the past few days, but also perfectly reflects his personality.
"Your Majesty, do you understand my predicament?"
"I understand now, Minister Li. I finally understand. I had been suspicious of you before, but now I can trust you!"
Ying Zheng nodded.
"Your Majesty, you must not believe those sorcerers in the martial arts world who try to make you take some kind of elixir. They are all sent by the Jade Emperor to harm you. As long as you live, you have the opportunity to unify the world and become the Human Emperor, which is why they are plotting against you in every way."
"I understand now. What you meant when you said that Di Xin was defeated and killed by mortals is probably this too, right? Gods can't openly attack mortals, especially their leaders; they can only do it covertly, right?"
Seeing that the First Emperor had so cleverly put forward the argument of "drawing inferences from one instance," Li Lin finally calmed down.
"Your Majesty, you shouldn't work so hard every day. You should go to bed earlier at night and get four hours of sleep every day. Otherwise, your lifespan will be greatly reduced. The darkness of the Bitter Land has a destructive effect on the human body, so you must sleep when it gets dark. Otherwise, it will damage your bodily functions and even shorten your lifespan."
"real?"
"Um!"
He nodded confidently, which startled the First Emperor. "I will try to sleep for four hours every day!"
"That's good!"
Li Lin exhaled a breath of stale air.
It seems His Majesty still values his life. Once we grasp this mentality, it will be easy to fool him. In this way, it will be difficult to make His Majesty learn the ways of health preservation and longevity, making it difficult for him to live to be a hundred years old.
But it would be easy for him to live another ten years, to reach the age of fifty-nine.
This was also Li's expectation.
If Fusu had lived another ten years, he would have been nearly thirty years old, settled down with a family, and become more mature. If he had ascended the throne and adopted the same approach as Emperor Wu of Han in his early years, the Qin Empire could have remained stable for at least another hundred years.
"Your Majesty, we are currently in Asia, a land inhabited by people of the yellow race. The Great Qin is located right in the middle of this world. If we go west, we will reach the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, which is extremely high, probably tens of thousands of feet tall. Beyond the mountain lies the Great Tang Dynasty."
"The Great Tang? Is it the Great Tang that you just mentioned, the one that invented gunpowder? And it's so close to my Great Qin?"
The First Emperor immediately showed a hint of panic. He had read Li Lin's description of the power of gunpowder. If the Tang Dynasty was so close, wouldn't that be the greatest threat?
"Your Majesty, it was my oversight. After Rome, this is India."
"Sanya?"
"Yes, it's India. Well, how should I put it, this country is not unified. It's split into three forces, and it doesn't pose a threat to our Great Qin."
"call!"
Only then did the First Emperor feel relieved.
If the Tang Dynasty were located near the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor probably wouldn't have been able to sleep. After all, with such a fierce tiger sleeping soundly beside his bed, what normal emperor would be in the mood to sleep?
If he doesn't try to kill the Tang Dynasty instead, how can he sleep soundly?
"Where is the Tang Dynasty?"
"Your Majesty, please do not be hasty. This is India, the hegemon of South Asia. Although they are the hegemon, Your Majesty can disregard their fighting strength. After India comes West Asia, then the Mediterranean Sea, then the Aegean Sea, and then the Roman Empire. A vast empire spanning three continents, Your Majesty, you must not underestimate it!"
"Was the Roman Empire really that large?"
The First Emperor, who once thought that the territory of the Qin Dynasty was large enough, was dumbfounded. The territory shown on the Qin Dynasty map drawn by Li Lin was probably less than half the size of Rome.
Of course, it wasn't actually that big; Li Lin just didn't remember the size of the two countries and drew it on a whim, but unexpectedly it startled the First Emperor.
"Uh... yes, Your Majesty, the Roman Empire is that big. They have a highly developed Greek civilization, which is the source of the entire Western culture. In some ways, they can be considered a formidable enemy of our Great Qin!"
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