The arrival of the Daxia delegation became the last major event in Xianyang at the end of the 35th year of Qin Shihuang and caused 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, Shusun Tong 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, a magician, but had a thorough study of the "Yin Yang and Five Elements of Great Nine Provinces", joined them and called themselves the Yin Yang Family.
These two groups of people were both knowledgeable and well-read in poetry and books. They began to quote scriptures and look for similarities between the "Yadianna" described by the Queen Mother of the West and the people of Daxia.
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 and feather crown. 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: "I am the emperor's daughter despite the good fortune." 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 everyone looked at each other in confusion. 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's teeth and leopard's 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 a large amount 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 trend 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 begun again. The people in the court publicly congratulated Qin Shihuang on finding the Queen Mother State of the West, but in private, they all looked sad. The war is endless and the disasters are endless. There will be no peaceful day in this world...
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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's interest in the armored and spear-bearing female Hu Goddess, who killed Zhang Cang with a hundred men, was only due to the fact that 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 Xiongnu 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 It had language but no writing, so it could only tie ropes to draw pictures to record events, and it had no currency for barter exchange. Slightly more advanced countries, such as Jizi Korea, directly used the writing and currency of the Central Plains.
Zhang Cang believes that these two, like Zhangfu, are the difference between a country with civilized rituals and music and a barbarian Rongdi.
However, Daxia accounted 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 barbarian emperor holding a thunder gun who was "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 secretly complained.
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 knowledgeable man of the Qin Dynasty was visiting, they were particularly enthusiastic and sent a A scholar with a shaggy beard contacted Zhang Cang.
Fatty Zhang knew nothing about the 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 "Suhe Ketel" 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 for short. "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 conversation at the beginning focused on simple matters, such as food. Zhang Cang discovered that Su did not like millet rice, but had a soft spot for the baked flatbread that became popular ten years ago.
He said that the staple food of Daxia people was also bread baked from wheat flour, usually served with olives, wine, salt, and occasionally some fish and meat. Until they encountered sugar from the Qin Dynasty, the epidemic A taste bud revolution. The dignitaries of Great Xia are very fascinated by this reddish-brown sweet item. 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 completing his studies and returning home, 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 could 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. They also had an emperor as great as Qin Shi Huangdi: Ya Di. He conquered half of the world, and many cities in Daxia were named after him.
It is a pity that Emperor Ya died young, and his generals each divided themselves into one country, and then they had several kingdoms, such as Daxia, among which Daxia was located in the far east.
"There is no emperor above and no magistrate below. If we compete with each other for strength, the winner will be the one on the 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 Chinese name, and the two of them would talk through the translator about the meaning of this star 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 what the translator said, 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. Where 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 Star'!"
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, and he was preparing his troops and troops, and believed that the emperor's decree would soon come, telling him to point his sword towards the west!
And in Minyue, thousands of miles south of Yumen, a bright light shines in the sky, and a black disaster star has arrived here!