Chapter 145 Ying Zheng: Mine, mine, all mine!
"Oh my god, you're still using slavery, which has been abolished in our Great Qin for hundreds of years."
Liu Ji was dressed in a full set of official uniform, looking serious and dignified. His exaggerated and unspoken contempt made his words and actions more convincing.
"Only those barbaric and backward barbarians around the Qin Dynasty would use large numbers of slaves to demonstrate their noble bloodline."
"I thought Rome was a mature civilization that could communicate with the Qin Dynasty on an equal footing, but I didn't expect..." He shook his head and sighed.
He can set up the stage and perform the show by himself without any help from others.
In a corner of the stage, Shusun Tong frowned slightly and asked in a whisper, "Why did you send this scoundrel over here?" More importantly, "If he's here, what's my business?"
Noticing the surprised looks from all around him, he kept smiling.
—I’m sorry, colleagues, I really want to make progress.
Wei Shengxue leaned against the railing of the flying boat and looked down. Liu Ji's high-pitched voice came clearly from below.
"He's a real PUA expert. General Han, you must be very happy to work with him."
Han Xin's gaze still fell on the ground below, and he nodded after hearing this: "Liu Ji is very... discerning. It's very comfortable to get along with him."
Because of his upbringing, he was not very good at dealing with people, and he was arrogant because of his talent. Apart from those who were impressed by him in the army, he had very few friends, and he did not get along with the civil servants at all. Liu Ji was an exception.
"Then I'll trouble General Han to garrison here for the next few years."
Han Xin turned his head quickly, his eyes shining, and asked expectantly: "Only me?"
Wei Shengxue raised her hand, a piece of white raft tucked between her fingertips. "Fellow Daoist Ying Zheng has sent a message, entrusting all military affairs here to you. Once the teleportation array is built, the official eunuchs who will deliver the decree will be here."
She took out a piece of letter paper and handed it to him. The familiar handwriting on it made Han Xin couldn't help but feel happy.
Wei Shengxue quietly put the other pieces of letter paper into his pocket, saying that Han Xin was ignorant of the ways of the world and did not treat people he disliked well, and that he was just the right person to deal with the local nobles who bullied the weak and feared the strong, so there was no need to let the person involved know.
She turned her gaze to the south.
The embassy to the Ptolemaic Empire (ancient Egypt) should be arriving soon.
As his eyelashes opened and closed, his spiritual consciousness continued to extend, covering thousands of miles in an instant, and in the blink of an eye he found the delegation that had set out more than half a month ago.
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A civilization with a low level of technology must live near water. This is knowledge we learned in elementary school, but this civilization, called Egypt by outsiders, seems a little different.
The yellow sand all over the sky almost covered the road, and the dazzling sunlight gave people the illusion of being dried out.
Huh?
Wei Shengxue focused his attention and spread his consciousness around, and a fresh scent unique to plants and trees came over.
water source.
We have arrived at the Ptolemaic settlement.
The first thing that catches your eye is the broad and surging river.
It is unscrupulously expanding its territory on both sides of the river, submerging all the cultivated land.
"Aren't you going to control the floods?" One member of the delegation frowned as they watched. "If we don't build water conservancy projects, we'll have to rely on the weather for our livelihoods. Too much rain will flood the fields, and too little will mean insufficient irrigation, which will seriously affect the harvest."
As the grandson of Li Bing, he had profound knowledge of water control, and the people of Daqin were very convinced of his judgment.
But the locals were unaware of this and retorted, "This is the Nile River, a gift from our gods. Every year its floods bring fertile soil, allowing us to cultivate and harvest abundant crops. Without the Nile River, there would be no prosperous Egypt."
Deputy Envoy Li: "...Have you ever thought about separating the river water from the silt?"
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, which turned Bashu into thousands of miles of fertile land, is a cement separation system. It stores water to prevent floods in the rainy season and releases water to irrigate fields in the dry season. The separated river mud can also be used as fertilizer to increase production.
It can be said that Dujiangyan played an indispensable role in Qin's unification of the six kingdoms.
The local guide, upon hearing his description, showed a look of horror and screamed, "Control of the Nile is the domain of the gods! How dare you challenge the authority of the gods! You will definitely be punished!"
"No one wants to endure divine punishment! Behave yourself!"
Everyone in Daqin: ???
Confused, incomprehensible, and unreasonable.
Is this what the immortal master was talking about, the cultural generation gap?
Deputy Envoy Li did not dwell on this issue. After all, there were hundreds of famous teachers and publicity personnel in charge. After years of accumulation, there was no need to worry about the talent pool at the grassroots level.
Ignoring the guide who was still screaming, he had already started discussing how to transform it with his colleagues in the delegation.
Once the Qin Dynasty conquers this place, they will be responsible for these backward infrastructures. The sooner they start construction, the sooner they can finish.
Sooner or later, this place will belong to the Qin Dynasty.
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“…Anyway, that’s it.”
After listening to the delegation's report, Wei Shengxue couldn't help but fall into silence.
It's true that there is no coincidence in the world.
According to their plan: the delegation entered the territory of the Ptolemaic Kingdom → integrated and verified all relevant intelligence → the Qin army, having obtained accurate intelligence, went out to fight → first use force and then courtesy, and swallowed up the land.
As a result, the delegation ran directly into the coup scene, and in order to protect themselves, they launched a magic attack and were mistaken for God's messengers.
Ah, this...
"Don't they have any strange visions there?" Wei Shengxue wondered.
Considering the concentration of spiritual power near Rome, this distance is completely unable to block the flow of spiritual power. It is impossible that there is no abnormality over there.
The head envoy who came to report was also a little speechless. He paused before saying, "The people there, um... like to do things... they look weird..."
Wei Shengxue:???
It took me a while to react and then I remembered that I had learned in history class at school that some civilizations that pursued noble bloodlines would develop the tradition of intermarriage within the family in order to ensure the purity of their bloodlines. The closer the blood relationship between the two parties, the purer the bloodline.
It seems that the Ptolemaic Kingdom had such a tradition.
With a strange sense of witnessing history, she gestured, "Go on."
Zhengshi took a deep breath, put aside those distracting thoughts, and spoke more fluently: "In order to maintain mystery and authority, the royal family there attributed all visions caused by spiritual power to gifts from God."
"It has developed into a situation where visions = miracles = messengers of God."
"Their king is the most powerful, and they have established the concept that the greater the 'divine power', the more favored the gods are."
It was originally designed to facilitate governance, but now it has benefited them completely.
"Take down the Ptolemaic Kingdom as soon as possible. Wang Li will be the chief general, and Han Xin will be in charge." Ying Zheng's order came from the sound transmission device. There was some distortion, but it did not diminish the domineering and majesty in his words at all.
Han Xin and Wang Li, who had hurried over, heard the order as soon as they stepped through the door and immediately bowed and accepted it: "I obey your command."
Ying Zheng's voice rang out again, but it was much gentler than before. "Fellow Daoist, you have been away for a long time. I wonder when you will return?"
Without hearing Wei Shengxue's reply, he continued, "The fleet heading for Outer Kyushu is about to depart. Fellow Daoist, perhaps you will be interested."
Outer Kyushu?
Decades ago, Zou Yan, a representative figure of the Yin-Yang School and the founder of the Five Elements Theory, proposed the theory of "Big and Small Nine Provinces", believing that there were lands like the Nine Provinces outside the vast ocean.
Wei Shengxue has not traveled around the world, but the corners of the system map do show that there are other continents.
After more than ten years of exploration and pursuit, Daqin finally determined the location of the continent over there.
Wei Shengxue was a little moved.
Compared to Rome, which is no longer anything new, the unknown Outer Kyushu is more interesting.
She replied to Ying Zheng: "In two days..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted, "Master, Dr. Yan Jun has an urgent report."
Yan Jun?
Didn't he go to Ptolemy?
Wei Shengxue glanced sideways at the sound transmission array. No sound came through, so he understood what the other party meant and ordered, "Transmit."
The person who came was a member of the communications team. He was holding a piece of paper in his hand. It seemed to be the urgent message from Yan Jun.
Wei Shengxue took the urgent message and scanned it quickly, then smiled. She shook the corner of the white raft and said, "Good news! Yan Jun discovered a large library in Ptolemy, which contains hundreds of thousands of volumes."
As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of everyone present lit up. Wang Li and Han Xin even jumped up and asked, either reservedly or directly, to go to the Ptolemaic Kingdom immediately.
For a very long time, books were very precious treasures.
The more the merrier! The more the merrier!
"His Majesty!"
"Master!"
A series of broken screams came from the sound transmission array.
You can imagine how excited the people on the other side were.
Wei Shengxue tilted her head and asked, "Daoist friend?"
How to deal with it?
Ying Zheng: Mine, mine, all mine!
"Wang Li, take the Black Armor Army..." Weishengxue didn't pay attention to the series of orders that followed. She was shocked that the Black Armor Army was mobilized right away.
Is this really that exaggerated? It seems like they're planning to just take it by force if they can't get it.
It can only be said that she is accustomed to the knowledge and books that can be found everywhere in the interstellar age. Even if it is a rare ancient book, she can apply for an admission pass and enter the holographic library to read it.
"Trouble you, fellow Daoist," Ying Zheng said gently, "these books..."
"I guarantee that you will be sent back to Daqin safely." Weishengxue agreed without hesitation.
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