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The arrival of the Daxia delegation became the last major event in Xianyang at the end of Qin Shihuang's thirty-fifth year, causing a sensation.

As expected by Wu Shiluo, Qin Shihuang sent Dr. Ling to demonstrate whether Hu Shenya Dianna was the Queen Mother of the West. This incident turned into an academic farce.

After two incidents of collecting books and trapping sorcerers, the group of doctors has been rotated several times, and a large number of Confucian scholars, Huang Lao, and Taoist doctors have left one after another. Only Zhou Qingchen, Shu Suntong and other imperial literati and Confucian scholars are left, advocating the greatness of Qin Shihuang all day long.

In addition, a group of scholars from Jiaodong who were in the favor of Qin Shihuang, although they were not Fang Xiandao, who were magicians, but had extensive research on the "Yin Yang and Five Elements of Great Nine Provinces", joined and called themselves the Yin Yang Family.

These two groups of people were both knowledgeable and memorized, and read poetry and books. They began to quote scriptures and look for the similarities between the "Yadian Na" described by the Queen Mother of the West and the Daxia people.

For example, the literature says that the Queen Mother of the West has fluffy hair. Initially, it was thought to be a hairstyle, but now there is a new explanation: the fluffy and curly hair of the Taixi Hu people.

Another example is the "Hoopoe", which should be a phoenix crown with feathers. Coincidentally, the statue of Hu God is wearing a Corinthian helmet decorated with horsehair...

As for the biography of Emperor Mu, it is said to be the self-statement of the Queen Mother of the West: "The fortune will not change, I am the daughter of the emperor." This is better explained. I heard people from Daxia say that this "Yadianna" is the supreme emperor god they believe in. Cursed to death" daughter.

The owl, the messenger of God Hu, is said to be the three blue birds, the messenger of the Queen Mother of the West.

"What about tiger teeth and leopard tail? How to explain this?"

The Confucian scholar Fu Sheng raised this question at an inappropriate time.

For a moment, the lively hall fell silent, and all the students looked at each other. This setting was not liked by His Majesty and had been ignored for a long time. Then they all laughed and planned to pretend not to hear and skip the conversation.

But Shusun Tong, the current leader of the Confucian scholars in Xianyang, is a capable person. He coughed lightly and said: "The so-called tiger teeth and leopard tail means that the Queen Mother of the West has the power of a tiger and a leopard!"

Everyone agreed. Look at God Hu holding a spear and carrying a shield. Isn't that the power of a tiger and a leopard?

Then something surprising happened. With the arguments of the doctors, you will be surprised to find that the image of the Queen Mother of the West in the murals imagined by the Central Plains people began to slowly change and quickly transformed into Athena...

After three days and three nights of discussion among seventy doctors, and through the argumentation of a large number of documents and ancient books, it was confirmed that the Queen Mother of the West was Athena. It became a "fact" and was reported to Qin Shi Huangdi...

Qin Shihuang was also very straightforward and immediately followed the current situation and made an underground plan: he made Wushiyan a traveler and returned to Daxia with a letter of credence. He also ordered Dingyuan Houxin to send troops out of Yumen and establish outposts in the Western Regions to provide support for future expeditions. Prepare to open the road to the "Kunlun Ruins" in the West Sea!

The war in the south has not subsided, and the expedition to the west has resumed. The people in the court publicly congratulated Qin Shihuang for finding the Queen Mother State of the West, but privately, they all looked sad. The war is endless and disasters continue. There will be no peaceful day in this world... …

Under such circumstances, the thirty-fifth year of Qin Shi Huang began to come to an end!

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On the last day of the thirty-fifth year of Qin Shihuang's reign, Shi Zhangcang, the imperial censor's official, did not go home to rest. He wore a thick dress and visited the building where the Daxia people lived.

As the most knowledgeable person in the world, Zhang Cang was also invited to participate in the seminar of doctors, but he flatly refused.

As someone who told the truth during the Fengchan Taishan and was almost beheaded by Qin Shihuang, Zhang Cang certainly understood that this was a meaningless argument. Everyone was just pretending to be confused. Don't look at the etiquette allusions. It's all nonsense.

Besides, Zhang Cang was only interested in the armor-bearing female Hu Goddess who was beheaded by a hundred men because she was a "virgin". Compared with the statue, he was more interested in this group of Daxia people, or in other words, Daxia people. The country's interest is even greater.

"Daxia is the only country besides the Central Plains that has coins and writing..."

This is the conclusion Zhang Cang came to. Looking at the whole world, from the three Koreans in the east of the sea to the barbarians in the southwest, from the Huns in the north to the Baiyue in the south, those regimes have different costumes and customs, but they are all regarded as barbarians by the Qin people because they have There is no language but no writing, so we can only tie knots to draw pictures to record events, and we can barter but have no currency. Slightly more advanced ones, such as Jizi Korea, directly used the characters and currency of the Central Plains.

Zhang Cang believes that these two, like Zhangfu, are the difference between a country of civilized rituals and music and a barbarian Rongdi.

However, Daxia accounts for at least two out of three.

Zhang Cang has seen the national book of the Daxia people. The characters on it are like tadpoles. They are completely different from the Qin seal system. After careful study, he found that the origin of the characters is twenty-four characters, which are transformed into each other. They are used to prepare things. The book can be read horizontally. , from left to right, are actually Greek letters written horizontally...

In addition, Daxia used silver as money. On the front of the coin was the portrait of the King of Daxia, and on the back was a standing statue of the Hu emperor holding a thunder gun and "cursed to death". However, the naked and muscular man turned out to be the emperor. ? This made Zhang Cang greatly discount the level of civilization in Daxia.

"If the Emperor God is like this, no wonder those people don't have the beauty of uniforms. They just wear a long piece of cloth as clothes." He complained secretly.

Although not as good as Great Qin, Great Xia was still the first civilized country that the Qin people encountered outside the territory. Out of curiosity, Zhang Cang visited the post house where the envoys lived.

Due to various considerations, the people of Daxia were not allowed to go out after meeting Qin Shihuang once, and they were bored in the house. When they heard that the most learned man of the Qin Dynasty was visiting, they were particularly enthusiastic and sent a scholar with a shaggy beard to contact Zhang Cang.

Fatty Zhang knew nothing about Daxia language, so the conversation between the two had to go through an interpreter. Just like this, one word at a time and one at a time, a slow and difficult conversation began.

The two of them have something in common, that is, they are fat. Zhang Cang weighs about 200 pounds. The Daxia scholar who calls himself "Su Hektel" is also about the same, but is slightly taller than Zhang Cang. Zhang Cang thinks his name is hard to pronounce, so he calls him "Su's".

This is the first in-depth dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations in history, China and the Greek world, both represented by a fat man.

The initial conversation focused on simple matters, such as food. Zhang Cang discovered that Su didn't like millet rice, but he had a soft spot for the baked flatbread that became popular ten years ago.

He said that the staple food of Daxia people is also flour bread baked from wheat flour, usually served with olives, wine, salt, and occasionally fish and meat. Until he encountered sugar from the Qin Dynasty, it triggered a taste bud revolution. The dignitaries of Daxia are very fascinated by this sweet reddish-brown product. This time, they have the mission to buy a large amount of brown sugar and return home.

Zhang Cang told Su that he knew the first person to make brown sugar, a general.

Su listened very carefully to every word that the translator translated from Zhang Cang. After hearing this, her eyes lit up and she wrote it down on precious papyrus.

Su claimed that when he was young, he went to the motherland of Daxia and studied with some scholars. After returning home after completing his studies, he became an advisor to the king of Daxia.

However, Su had some concerns about the geography and history of the countries west of Daxia, so he was secretive and did not explain it very clearly.

Zhang Cang only found out that the mother state of the Daxia people was located to the west of the West Sea, and they once had an emperor as great as Qin Shi Huangdi: Yadi. He conquered half of the world, and many cities in Daxia were named after him. It was a pity that Emperor Ya died young, and his generals each divided themselves into one country, and then there were Tiaozhi, Daxia and other kingdoms, among which Daxia was located in the east.

"There is no emperor above and no magistrate below. If we compete with each other for strength, the winner will be right?"

Zhang Cang could only understand it this way.

Seeing that it was getting dark and the topic was at an impasse, Su was unwilling to reveal more, but Zhang Cang was not satisfied with this superficial communication. He suddenly remembered something and invited Su to the yard and started pointing. Stars in the sky.

I can’t say geography, but the astronomy head office, right?

This conversation was surprising. Su's understanding of the stars was far beyond Zhang Cang's imagination. He excitedly pointed at the stars in the sky and read out strange pronunciations one by one. The translator told Zhang Cang that people in Daxia used Name the stars after animals or gods.

So, every time Su clicked on a constellation, Zhang Cang reported its name in China, and the two of them would talk through the translator about what the star represented in their respective civilizations.

"Ares."

Su pointed to the slightly bright red star in the southern sky and told Zhang Cang that in Greece, it was the guardian star of Ares, the god of war. It represented war and disaster, and was also the mortal enemy of Athena.

After hearing the translator's words, Zhang Cang was a little surprised and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, just like the Central Plains, it also means the weapon of the soldier. Wherever the division is, there are thorns. After the army, there must be bad years, and the country The country will also encounter great chaos."

Thinking of the successive wars and the crisis-ridden empire under its prosperity, Zhang Cang couldn't help but look worried, pointing at Mars and telling Su:

"We call it, 'Yinghuo Planet'!"

At the same time, at Yumen Pass in the west, Li Xin was also looking at the star hanging over the desert. He had already anticipated something. He was preparing his horses and troops, and believed that the emperor's decree would soon come, telling him to point his sword towards the west!

In Minyue, thousands of miles south of Yumen, the sky was brightly lit, and a black disaster star had arrived!

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