Chapter 162 Taking the Great Qin Masters to See the World with Their Eyes
This large version of the globe and world map were imitated by Yingzheng’s people. The original globe and map made by Li Nian were too small and not suitable for everyone to watch together. Now This is so easy to see.
Although Fusu and other young masters had heard of the globe and the world map, this was their first time seeing them, and they all looked at these two objects with curiosity.
I only saw that Da Qin was only a small area on the map. There were many places outside Da Qin that were far more vast than Da Qin. I couldn’t help but be surprised. Then I thought of something I had heard before, and my father yesterday. After enfeoffing them to various places as kings, does the father really want to enfeoff them overseas?
If this is the case, it is a good thing for them. If they stay in Da Qin, only one of their brothers can ascend to the supreme position, but how can the others be willing to live under others and live their lives as a clan?
If they are really enfeoffed overseas, each of them will be a king. Even if they have to honor their brother in Da Qin as the emperor in name, they will be the actual supreme rulers in their own territory!
It is not difficult for these young masters of Great Qin to decide whether they would rather be a member of a clan that is strictly guarded all their lives in Great Qin, or go overseas and become a local emperor.
The only question now is how are the overseas environmental conditions?
If it’s not too bad, it would be nice to be a king in the past!
Now I finally understand what my father is thinking. The purpose of entrusting them to various places is not only to let them guard remote places for the Qin Dynasty, and to select the prince based on their achievements in governing the place, but also to let them accumulate experience in governing the place. experience to prepare for the future overseas kingship.
When the ministers saw the blue ocean on the map, which was far larger than the land, they immediately understood Li Nian's intention to establish a separate navy and build a naval school.
The ocean exceeds the land by too much, and some places are difficult to travel by land, but it is very convenient to travel by sea. For example, the place where "Rongzhou" is written on the map is almost inaccessible from land, and can only be reached by flying or traveling from Pass by sea.
Some ministers discovered that on the globe they looked at last time, this area was not labeled Rongzhou, but "Oceania". Now the name has been changed.
Seeing the word "Rongzhou", the ministers who understood the Yin-Yang theory already realized that this was the Dajiuzhou theory of Zou Yan, the Yin-Yang family.
Looking at the map, it turns out that there are also eight other continents mentioned in Dajiuzhou: Shenzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Hezhou, Zhuzhou, Xuanzhou, Yingzhou, and Bozhou.
This is what Ying Zheng requested to change. What's the matter with the continents and continents named after those Westerners in later generations? The future of this world will be dominated by Chinese civilization, and of course it must use the Chinese naming method.
Li Nian saluted Ying Zheng and said: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude!"
Ying Zheng knew what Li Nian was going to do, so he nodded and said: "It doesn't matter, let's talk!"
Li Nian walked to the large world map, and a waiter immediately handed him a long, thin wooden stick.
Holding the wooden stick in his hand, Li Nian clicked on the large ocean on the map and said: "Based on this map, you must have seen the importance of the navy. In our world, oceans account for 70%, while land Only 30%.”
"Whether we want to compete with foreign countries or expand our territory, we cannot avoid the ocean. We must ensure that we have sufficient power at sea, so a powerful navy is essential."
" Some people may think that we can just keep our own place safe and secure. Da Qin is a kingdom in the heavenly dynasty with rich products and a large population. Although other places are wider than Da Qin, they are all barbaric lands with poor soil and poor natural resources. The resources are scarce and not worth a glance..."
"Instead of going to great lengths to establish a navy and obtain profits from these overseas places, it is better to govern Da Qin well. Our Da Qin can be self-sufficient, so why do we need barbarian lands? This kind of thinking is completely wrong. Not only are these overseas lands not barren, they are even better than Da Qin in some aspects."
When he said "It's completely wrong," Li Nian deliberately emphasized his tone!
We can no longer let China in this world have the idea that "we are a kingdom of heaven, and other places are barbaric and barren lands." Otherwise, we will just keep reincarnating in this land. No matter how forward we are now, Others will eventually catch up. Wouldn't it be more regrettable to be thousands of years ahead only to be surpassed by others hundreds of years later?
Even if Da Qin cannot rule the world with its current technology, it still has to sow the seeds of the future and let people know that the outside world is very big and that the land outside is no worse than Da Qin. Only then can they be stimulated to forge ahead instead of being stubborn. keep.
Li Nian pointed with a wooden stick to a place marked as "Yingzhou Islands" on the map. This was also the name given by Ying Zheng, which shows that Ying Zheng also has a deep obsession with this place. .
Actually, Li Nian didn't really want to call the footbath "Yingzhou", but thinking that this place would most likely be included in Da Qin's territory in the future, he thought it would be okay. After all, it became his own territory.
"'Yingzhou' must be familiar to you. It is a fairy mountain in the East China Sea. Together with Abbot and Penglai, it is the legendary three fairy islands. However, this Yingzhou is definitely not the legendary fairy island. There are no immortals on it. There is no cure.”
"The conditions in this place are not very good. There are typhoons every year. Typhoons are called the 'Eight Winds'. Occasionally there are earthquakes, but there are silver mines on it, and the amount of silver that can be mined reaches 800,000 tons."
< br>After hearing what Li Nian said, the ministers were busy calculating in their minds, eight hundred thousand catties of silver, how many taels is that?
Soon, the ministers calculated it, twelve and eight hundred thousand taels, how much silver would that be? Although Da Qin mainly uses copper now, who would object to having too much silver?
After the calculation results were calculated, all the ministers were breathing faster. If there really is so much silver, if silver is used to make coins in the future, it will be a huge amount of money. They may not be able to live for more than ten lifetimes. Saw so much.
The ministers' eyes were fixed on the place pointed by Li Nian's wooden stick. This place was smaller than Da Qin. If there really was so much silver, Da Qin must find a way to seize it.
Most of the important ministers of the Qin Dynasty in this era had no idea of being benevolent to the barbarians and implementing benevolent policies. What they pursued was that if there was really something good, the Qin Dynasty would definitely get it.
Li Niandao: "Actually, in the world, the silver reserves here are not ranked high, but it is close to our country, Daqin, and it is convenient to mine and easy to extract!"
Twelve and eight hundred thousand taels of silver are not even ranked, and there are silver mines with greater reserves. Many ministers are even more eager to look at it, including all the young masters of the Qin Dynasty. This is money.
Li Nian moved the wooden stick to another place on the map and revealed an astonishing revelation: "There is a silver mine here, and the amount of silver that can be mined reaches 100 million kilograms of silver."
Now even Ying Zheng had a look of surprise on his face. One hundred million kilograms of silver could recast the entire Xianyang Palace with silver, right?
If so much silver could be brought back, wouldn't the entire Qin Dynasty become extremely wealthy immediately?
From now on, all our people in Da Qin will have clothes to wear, everyone to eat, and live a prosperous life.
Ying Zheng and the ministers of Da Qin all came up with this idea, but they immediately felt that something was wrong...
Da Jiuzhou said that it was also an opinion raised by a great leader, so he used it if he thought it could be adopted. : The corresponding one was searched on Baidu, God Zhou (China), Rongzhou (most of Southeast Asia and Oceania), Yangzhou (Indian subcontinent), Yizhou (Arab Islamic civilization in Central Asia), Hezhou (Africa), Zhuzhou (Europe), Xuanzhou (North America), Yingzhou (Central and South America), Bozhou (Antarctica).
(End of this chapter)