Diqin Designer

Chapter 10 Not in the same generation

Meng Yi didn't know what Ying Zheng was thinking, so he swiped the screen again. This time it was no longer a picture, but a video.

The mobile phone used by Li Nian will automatically play videos when you swipe to them in the album.

The video is taken at night. In a brightly lit city under the night sky, points of light rise from all over the city and bloom in the night sky like flowers.

After the fireworks video ended, Meng Yi stopped swiping the screen. Li Nian only swiped a few times as he was told.

But the video is over, but the story is not over yet.

Ying Zheng looked at Li Nian and said, "I believe you are indeed from the future. These things cannot be made in my Great Qin today. There is one thing I am quite curious about!"

"Your Majesty, it's not that it can't be made now. Even when you die, the Qin Dynasty won't be able to make it."

Li Nian complained in his heart. He knew that this was Ying Zheng trying to save face for himself, so he wisely didn't say it out loud. It would not do him any good to expose the First Emperor's vanity.

Li Nian said: "Your Majesty, please tell me. If the common people know, they must report the truth!"

Ying Zheng was silent for a while before he spoke: "Who is stronger, my Great Qin or the country from the future that you came from?"

In fact, Ying Zheng knew the answer in his heart, but he was very uncomfortable that the Qin Dynasty, which he was proud of, was surpassed by later generations, so he asked Li Nian specifically.

What if Li Nian’s answer is that the Qin Dynasty is stronger than later countries?
To put it bluntly, Ying Zheng is now dissatisfied!
He has been working hard to build the Qin Dynasty over the years, and thought he had built it to be the best in the world, unrivaled in ancient and modern times. Otherwise, he would not have thought that his achievements surpassed those of the Three Sovereigns and his virtue was higher than that of the Five Emperors, and he came up with the title of "Emperor".

But today, this confidence was shattered by Li Nian. His Great Qin was not unique in ancient and modern times, so strong that it was unprecedented and unrivaled. There might be countries in the future that were stronger than the Great Qin.

As soon as this question was asked, everyone in the hall perked up and wanted to know the answer.

Their Great Qin swallowed up the other six kingdoms and ended hundreds of years of chaos. They should not be weaker than the countries in later generations, right?

Li Nian had anticipated this question. If the First Emperor believed that he came from later generations, he would certainly ask it given his temperament.

Li Nian said: "My king, this is no longer a question of who is stronger or weaker, but they are not in the same generation. If we really want to evaluate, even if there are thousands of Daqins, tens of thousands of Daqins, they are no match for the countries of later generations. The difference between the two sides is like Kunpeng and mayfly, bright moon and firefly."

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall fell silent!
Even though they knew that future countries might be stronger than the Qin Dynasty, Ying Zheng and Meng Yi did not think the gap would be that big.

Listen to what this guy said. Even a thousand or ten thousand Qin states would not be a match for the countries of later generations?

Do you know how many warriors the Qin Dynasty had? Do you know how many chariots and crossbows the Qin Dynasty had?
Even if a country in the future is strong, there is a limit, right? If there really were a thousand or ten thousand Daqins, they would be exhausted to death even if they were used to consume their manpower.

Although this person came from later times, he had no idea of ​​the power of the Qin Dynasty, which is why he said such ridiculous words.

Meng Yi shook his head and laughed, "Do you know how many people and soldiers we have in the Great Qin? How dare you say such a ridiculous thing?"

Li Nian said: "General, you are just saying that the population of Daqin is prosperous and there are many warriors. If there are thousands of Daqins, everyone can spit and drown the future countries. But it is not the case!" "The common people have said before, 'It's not a question of who is strong or weak, but that we are not in the same generation.' The weapons of my time can kill thousands of people in an instant, and even destroy the entire Xianyang in an instant."

"This gap cannot be made up by numbers. Unless the number of people is infinite and the speed at which people go to the battlefield is faster than the speed at which bullets are produced, even if there are tens of millions of Daqins, they will still be defeated."

Although he didn't understand what "bullet" was, Meng Yi was still shocked by Li Nian's words, "killing thousands of people in an instant" and "destroying the entire Xianyang in an instant."

He blurted out: "This is impossible. Where in the world can such a weapon exist? Do you know how big Xianyang is and how many people there are?"

Li Nian said: "The Qin Dynasty did not have such weapons, but the era I came from did! Xianyang City, I don't know how big it is, or how many people there are, but cities in our country generally have millions of people, and the largest have tens of millions. Our country has a total population of 1.4 billion!"

"Hundreds of millions, tens of millions!"

Ying Zheng and Meng Yi estimated Li Nian's words in their minds. The population of Daqin plus the original six countries was only between 16 million and 17 million. But according to this person, there would be so many people in a city in the future, and the entire country would have 1.4 billion people, which was dozens of times that of Daqin.

Ying Zheng instinctively didn't want to believe it, but when he thought of the city he had just seen, he felt that with the size of the city, it was not impossible to accommodate millions or even tens of millions of people.

Li Nian pointed to the cell phone still held by Meng Yi and continued, "I know the king and the general don't believe it, but this thing contains records of certain weapons from my time. In later generations, this thing is called a 'cell phone'. Its main function is to communicate, and it can contact people across thousands of miles."

Meng Yi looked at the mobile phone in his hand. Could this thing he was holding communicate with people across thousands of miles?

He said: "Then why don't you use this thing to connect with future generations?"

Li Nian said helplessly: "General Meng, mobile phones can communicate over long distances because there were satellites and communication base stations in my era, and their communication distance is also limited. Moreover, I traveled through time and space to Daqin, and mobile phones cannot communicate across time and space."

Although he couldn't understand some words, Meng Yi still understood that after this person came to Daqin, this strange thing called "mobile phone" could no longer communicate over long distances.

At this time, Ying Zheng said: "Since this phone has records of the weapons of your era, show them to me!"

Ying Zheng still didn't believe that there would be such powerful weapons in the future.

Li Nian said: "General Meng, please give me your phone!"

Meng Yi walked to Li Nian again. He also wanted to see what the future weapons that Li Nian mentioned looked like, which could destroy a city in an instant and kill thousands of people in a split second.

Li Nian was ready to show Ying Zheng the nuclear bomb, to demonstrate that ordinary weapons were definitely not as effective as nuclear bombs. He searched through the folders on his phone for the movies he had downloaded, to see if there were any with scenes of nuclear bomb explosions.

I actually found one for him, "Resident Evil 2". At the end of the movie, Alice and others fled Raccoon City by helicopter, but a nuclear bomb struck and reduced Raccoon City to ruins.

Li Nian opened "Resident Evil 2", dragged the progress bar to the point where the nuclear bomb attacked, and cut out the clip of the nuclear bomb attacking Raccoon City.

Meng Yi, who was standing by, naturally saw the nuclear explosion in Raccoon City. His face was filled with shock and disbelief, and his mind was full of thoughts: What this man said is true, there really are such powerful weapons in the future that can destroy Xianyang in an instant!
Ying Zheng noticed Meng Yi's expression and realized that what the man said was most likely true. Otherwise, why would he, the prime minister, have such an expression?

(End of this chapter)