At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 510: Tempting the Elders and Sacred Things
Qi Palace Garden sand table.

Dozens of veteran generals were discussing around a sand table that was three meters long and three meters wide. The sand table was made in proportion to the core territory of the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty. The territories of the seven major powers in the Warring States Period could be found on this sand table, which made it convenient for these veteran generals to re-play war games based on historical battles.

The battle before us was a replay of the Qin's attack on Zhao in the 9th year of King Zheng of Qin.

Wu Sheng looked at the Qin army gradually encroaching on the territory and army of Zhao on the sand table, and cursed loudly: "I said that old guy Cao Xing is no good. How can he fight? Those battles where he defeated the larger force with a smaller force were all fought with the help of Han Xin. He was just lucky to become Han Xin's superior. He really thinks of himself as a famous general, saying that he was the only one in the Han Dynasty who fought a large battle where the smaller force defeated the larger force. Only he can handle a situation like this where the weak defeated the strong. He really thinks of himself as a famous general of the same level as Li Mu. He really can't tell his own weight. Now he's exposed. In less than half an hour, he will definitely lose this battle."

Wu Sheng originally wanted to seize Li Mu's position as the commander of the Zhao army, saying that he was the commander of the cavalry and Li Mu was also the commander of the cavalry, and only he could fight such a battle. However, Cao Xing said that he had annihilated 3000 elite Qin troops with only 3 men at Hukou Pass, and that only he could change the situation of Zhao State, and he eventually seized the position of commander of the Zhao army.

Li Mu held a very high position in the hearts of the Han generals. In the end, the loyal minister and famous general did not lose to the enemy, but to his own people. This made the Han generals feel pity and full of fantasy. If Li Mu had not died at the hands of King Zhao, could Zhao have resisted the Qin army?
Deng Zong smiled and said, "We'll scold him when he comes out later, but this battle is indeed difficult. I don't know how Li Mu withstood the two attacks of the tyrannical Qin a few decades ago. Zhao has lost all its strategic locations. We are inferior in weapons, manpower, and even food supplies. If I were to command this, I wouldn't see any chance of winning. Among us, I guess only Han Xin has some ideas."

Wu Sheng said: "Han Xin may be able to fight, but he is probably about the same as Li Mu. He can withstand a few attacks from the tyrannical Qin, but he will still be defeated in the end. The gap in strength is too big. At this time, the Great Qin has occupied more than half of the world. The important outposts outside Zhao have all been occupied by the tyrannical Qin. Even Handan is under the attack of the Qin army. The situation has reached such a point that Li Mu alone is powerless to turn the tide. Only the six kingdoms of Kanto can unite to have the strength to fight. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is impossible. If you want to change your fate like this, I'm afraid only Your Majesty can do it."

Deng said with a smile: "If your majesty is Li Mu, then there will be no chance for King Zhao. I am afraid that after your majesty defeats Qin, he will attack Handan and kill all the nobles in Handan."

Deng Zhong said disdainfully: "The King of Zhao is not even as good as one of your majesty's toes. The country is about to perish, but he still wants to destroy his own pillars. Weren't the kings of the six countries in the past all such fools? That's why the world was won by the tyrant Emperor Qin Shi Huang."

While they were chatting, the situation on the battlefield was advancing rapidly. Pang Yuan, the commander of the Qin army, built a strong camp and fought a stupid battle. When he encountered an insurmountable obstacle, he fought with the Zhao army there, refusing to split his troops or advance rashly.

Cao Xing led his army several times to try to lure the Qin army into advancing rashly, but failed. He wanted to fight head-on but was defeated by the Qin army. In the end, the battle fell into a war of attrition. However, Zhao State could not defeat Qin State in a war of attrition. Soon the Zhao army was short of food and grass, and several key camps were defeated. Hundreds of thousands of Qin troops surrounded Handan, and the Qin army was finally determined to be the winner.

"Tsk!" The veterans present all sneered at Cao Xing's command ability.

At this time, people from both sides came out. Cao Xing said unconvincedly, "If I didn't know, I would have thought the person on the other side was Wang Jian. Now I realize it's actually you, Pang Yuan."

Pang Yuan smiled and said, "Since we have an absolute advantage, as long as I don't make any mistakes, I will definitely win. This is the art of war that the emperor taught me. Is there anything wrong with it?

You still want to win with fewer troops and find someone's flaws, but the premise of finding flaws is to have a keen insight into the battlefield. Do you have that ability? You don't have it at all. Now this is your true strength. "

When the others heard this, they burst into laughter. The one among these veterans who was most dissatisfied was Cao Xing. He always brought up the Battle of Hukou Pass, saying that it was a rare battle in the Han Dynasty where the few defeated the many and the weak defeated the strong. But they were unable to refute it.

They had fought against the Qin army personally, so they naturally understood that the Qin army's combat effectiveness was not bad. If the difference in troop strength was not big, although they were sure to defeat the Qin army in a head-on battle, the Han army would also suffer heavy casualties. Facing a Qin army that was 10 times larger, they had to avoid its sharp edge.

Although they knew that Han Xin was the main commander of the Hukou Battle, Cao Xing was Han Xin's commander at the time, so it was okay to give him the credit. As a result, he really thought he was a famous general and boasted about his achievements at every turn. This time Pang Yuan also vented their anger for them.

And at this moment a voice said: "You are all here."

Everyone turned around and saw that it was the current father-in-law of the emperor, Chen Lin.

"Old Chen, you're here. Do you want to come and play a game?" everyone said with a smile.

Chen Lin has a high prestige among these elders, not because of his status as the father-in-law of the emperor, but because if these old brothers have any troubles and come to him for help, Chen Lin will find a way to help them solve it.

Chen Lin shook his head and said, "No, I have something important to do. Put your things down."

The two officers placed a pile of things that looked like books on a stone table.

Chen Lin said: "You all know that the Global Fleet has returned to the Han Dynasty and brought news about the New World."

Wu Sheng smiled and said, "Of course I know. I also know that Liu Bi is Liu Ji's nephew. He is a son of a general. Now that he has made such an amazing achievement, I'm afraid his future is limitless."

Deng Zong sighed, "Liu Bi was already a 2,000-stone commander, but he still dared to risk his life to sail around the world. This courage and perseverance is beyond the reach of our nephews and nephews."

How to train the second generation to inherit the family business has always been the biggest worry for these people. Now that they see that Liu Bang's nephew has such a promising future, these people are extremely envious.

Cao Xing said: "Speaking of the descendants of the princes, there are quite a few who have become talented. For example, Zhang Ao himself is talented and has managed the princely states in an orderly manner over the years. He is also first-class among the young people of our Han Dynasty. Liu Ying of Pei State inherited Liu Ji's family business and did a good job. There is also Zhang Buyi in Nanyang. These princes' children who have begun to inherit the family business are all good."

"On the contrary, the sons of nobles who stay in the Great Han Neng have nothing to do every day. They only know how to fight cocks and run dogs, and get into trouble everywhere. Compared with the princes and sons of princes overseas, the gap is too obvious. Maybe it's just like what the emperor said, that only by doing practical work can a person's talent be truly cultivated."

Chen Lin took out a sea chart and spread it out, saying, "We'll talk about educating our descendants later. This is a sea chart of the New World. Although it's not accurate, it gives you a rough idea of ​​how vast this continent is."

The map that Chen Lin took was very close to the world map of later generations, only Oceania and Antarctica were missing. Liu Bi and his party naturally could not go deep into Yinzhou, but Xu Fan still retained the memory of later generations and roughly filled in the blanks.

After the map was spread out, all the elders gathered around.

"The New World is so vast! This continent is even more vast than our Han Dynasty, and there are three such continents!" Everyone was amazed at the wonder and vastness of this world. The location of the Yinzhou continent was much farther away than they had imagined. There was actually a vast ocean with a diameter of tens of thousands of miles in the middle. They couldn't imagine how the Han Dynasty's team could run to such a distant place.

Chen Lin pointed to the North American continent of later times and said, "These two new continents were named Yinzhou by the emperor. The upper one is Northern Yinzhou, and the lower one is Southern Yinzhou. There are no powerful countries on these two continents, only some savage tribes. There is a savage country in the central region, but this country is extremely primitive and backward. Not to mention iron tools, there is not even bronze. The army of this country actually uses stone tools and wooden spears."

"How could there be such a barbaric and backward country of savages?" Everyone was a little bit unbelievable. Even in the backward South Seas, those savages knew how to make bronze ware.

"The more backward they are, the easier it will be for our Han people to take root in this land," Deng Zong said calmly.

Chen Lin smiled and said, "Liu Bi has brought the princes of the original country here. The emperor will formally enfeoff them at the meeting of princes. If you want to know about Yinzhou, you can find out more about the situation from these princes." Cao Xing said with embarrassment, "The emperor won't want to transfer us to Yinzhou, will he?"

When the other elders heard this, their faces turned extremely ugly.

Here, some of the veterans and meritorious officials have been enfeoffed in Nanyang. They should have gone to Nanyang to build a country. But they also learned from Zhang Liang and sent their sons and nephews to build the vassal states. They stayed in Chang'an on the grounds of being weak and sick. Xu Fan didn't want to be too drastic and divided the Qi Palace as a place for the meritorious officials to retire.

Another group simply wrote a letter to the emperor directly, stating that they would decide where to build the vassal state after the Han expedition team returned. Xu Fan also agreed to their request.

But they never expected that this new world would be so far away, and the local area was so backward that there was not even bronze ware. How could it be considered civilized? This was a wild land, and it was even more wild than Nanyang. These heroes were unwilling to go to Nanyang, let alone the more wild new world.

Chen Lin smiled and said, "The New World is a good place. Although the local savages did not make bronze artifacts, Liu Bi and his men found gold and silver. Moreover, they did not find them in one tribe, but in dozens of tribes, covering a very wide range. Just think about it, a tribe that can't even make bronze artifacts can get so much gold and silver. Then how rich are the local gold and silver mines?"

"Have you forgotten about Treasure Island? Even now, the gold and silver mined from Treasure Island every year are worth hundreds of millions of coins, which strongly supports the economic development of our Han Dynasty. There is so much gold and silver on one island, not to mention the two continents now. The emperor estimates that the gold and silver produced on this continent may be hundreds of times more than that of Treasure Island."

"Is this true?" Hearing this, the veterans all showed a fiery look. Even for them, gold and silver were still a huge temptation.

If it is really possible to establish a vassal state in such a place, it would be worth it even if it is a little remote.

"When has Your Majesty ever lied to us? Your Majesty said there is so much gold and silver, so there must be so much gold and silver!" Chen Lin said firmly.

Wu Sheng and others also nodded. Indeed, the emperor had never deceived them.

"I came here to inform you first. You should prepare yourselves. The court will establish a governor's office in the New World and then gradually develop the New World. Although the gold and silver mines in the New World are rich, it is first come first served. You chose too late. If the territories of the vassal states are not good, don't blame the court."

Cao Xing pointed to another continent and asked, "What is the situation of this continent? Why is there no explanation?"

Chen Lin said: "This continent was named Yanzhou by the emperor. The people on the island have dark skin, just like ink. There is a country called Egypt on this continent. Its civilization has lasted for as long as our China, but it has declined. Above it is the Qin Kingdom. Although its civilization is not as advanced as our Han Dynasty, it is also a powerful empire in the local area. In the area behind, which is close to the Western Regions, there are many small countries, including nomadic countries and agricultural countries. The area is very chaotic. Liu Bi did not find much information on his exploration. After passing this area, you will reach Tianzhu and finally Nanyang of our Han Dynasty."

"This is roughly the original appearance of the entire world, but the natives of Yanzhou are not the same as our Han people. They are obviously not of the Yanhuang bloodline and are difficult to assimilate. Daqinzhou has a strong civilization and army and is difficult to conquer. The area west of the Western Regions is chaotic and difficult to rule. The emperor's main focus in these three areas is trade."

"Only in the southern and northern Yinzhou, the local natives are no different from us Han people. Their civilization is weak and easy to rule and educate. Therefore, the emperor has set the national policy that the main direction of the Han Dynasty's education is in these two continents."

Wu Sheng smiled and said, "I'm afraid that Mr. Shusun Tong and Mr. Fu Sheng are very busy. I just don't know which branch of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors the natives of this new continent are?"

Deng Zong said disdainfully: "You are ignorant and unskillful. You call it Yinzhou Continent. Don't you know that the Shang Dynasty is also called Yin Shang?"

Deng Zong and his people were right. Shusun Tong and others in Kuaiji County were really scratching their heads. Because this country called Maya was so fucking weird, so weird that they didn't know how to connect it with the Shang Dynasty.

Kong Zhong said: "Brother, this indigenous country called Maya also has the tradition of blood sacrifice. This is the orthodox custom of the Shang Dynasty. And you can see that their writing is somewhat similar to the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty."

Fu Sheng asked, "Does it look like that?"

"This is pictographic writing. It's just that they have been stranded in the New World for 800 years, so pictographic writing has evolved anew." Kong Zhong said solemnly, "And look at the totem image they worship, isn't it the same as the Yinglong of our China? Obviously, they also worship dragons. In addition, their hair and skin are the same as ours. There is no doubt that they are the descendants of the Chinese people who have been stranded overseas."

Shusun Tong nodded with satisfaction. His junior fellow apprentice had a very flexible moral line. Although he was not suitable for academic research, he was very suitable for surviving in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty.

Fu Sheng said helplessly, "But they can't forge bronze ware, so what? Since Yanhuang, China has been able to forge bronze ware, which has a history of thousands of years, but these natives only have stone tools. Moreover, they can't build cars, not even wheels. I remember when the emperor told me about this a few years ago, I thought he was joking. How could there be a civilization that can't build wheels? Now I can only say that I am short-sighted. The world is really full of wonders, and there really is a civilization that can't even build wheels."

Kong Zhong thought for a while and said, "I found from the expedition team's data and minerals that there seems to be no malachite in the New World. Could it be that there are no large open-pit copper mines in the New World? Naturally, they have no way to forge it, and after a few generations, they naturally lost this craft."

Shusun Tongdao said: "The emperor has already told us about the wheel problem. The sea does not need wheels. The Shang immigrants who fled to that continent may have forgotten how to make a car because of this."

Fu Sheng looked at the uncle and nephew who were in cahoots with each other and said unhappily, "It's better to push it back a thousand years. Otherwise, it's hard to explain. It's just sailing, but even the technology of building cars has been lost."

Shusun Tongdao: "Not everything is lost. Look at their astronomical technology. Their understanding of various stars is no less than that of the Han people. Obviously, their astronomical technology has not been lost. Do you think such powerful astronomical technology can be mastered by indigenous civilizations?"

This is also what Fusheng found strange. If you say that this civilization is backward, its astronomy and calendar are extremely advanced and are not much inferior to that of the Han Dynasty.

Shusun Tongdao said: "They look exactly like us, and their customs are somewhat similar. If you compare the information from other continents, you will find that the races of other continents are different from our Han people. They are real foreigners. These people have the same hair and skin color as our Han people. They are so close to our Han people, so it is almost certain that they are the descendants of our Chinese people."

Then Shusun Tong said seriously: "Does Master Uncle have to find evidence that they are foreigners? Just look at the situation of the Indians in Southeast Asia. Because of their identity, they cannot integrate into the Han people and can only do the hardest and most dangerous work. They are dispatched laborers, but in fact they are no different from slaves."

"How many natives will there be in the New World? According to the situation in Tianzhu, there are at least tens of millions. The New World is too far away from the Han Dynasty, and it is impossible for the court to rule directly. Given the nature of the emperor, the New World will definitely be divided into vassal states, and at most the princes will be sent to establish a country to guard the New World."

"If these natives have the bloodline of the Yanhuang people, they can be integrated into the Han Dynasty smoothly, and then they can become ordinary people of the Han Dynasty. If they don't have this identity, most of the natives of the New World will become slaves of those princes and work until they die."

"Uncle Master, what we are doing now is extremely important and sacred. It concerns the future fate of tens of millions of people. The Han people of future generations will surely be grateful for our contribution if they know this history."

After hearing this, Fu Sheng finally lost his sense of guilt and became more serious. He continued to look for information about the customs of primitive countries in the New World and those of China.

(End of this chapter)