Diqin Designer

Chapter 165: After three continents, a nation finally exists

Li Nian moved the stick to Hezhou: "The situation in Hezhou is different from that in Xuanzhou, Yingzhou, and Rongzhou. It is a place where the country and primitive tribes coexist."

When the ministers looked over, they saw only the part of the map belonging to Hezhou, on which were marked some country names, such as Ptolemy, Carthage, Kush... But most places were not marked, indicating that no country had been established in these places.

It was not easy. After traveling through three continents, we finally saw a continent with an existing country. All the ministers were full of curiosity at this moment. It should be different from the Donghu and Xiongnu in the north, the Qiang and Dayuezhi in the west, and the Yuezhi in the south.

First, let's introduce the geographical environment, climate and people of the place. Li Nian said: "The climate of Hezhou is hot, rainless and dry. It is symmetrical from north to south along this line, and it gets lower as you go south and north from this line."

People had noticed the lines on the map a long time ago, but they didn't know what they were used for. Now when Li Nian mentioned it, it seemed that these lines were quite useful.

"Although it has declined, the climate in most places in Hezhou is equivalent to the transition between spring and summer in Xianyang. More than half of the areas are hot all year round, and nearly half of the areas have hot warm seasons and warm cool seasons."

The weather is hot, dry and with little rain. I'm afraid that Hezhou is suffering from severe drought all year round, making it difficult to grow crops. Everyone was thinking about this, but only Master Hu Hai had a strange idea and asked, "Don't people there need to wear thick clothes all year round?"

Li Nian looked at Prince Hu Hai. He didn't know how Ying Zheng would deal with Hu Hai, but even if Ying Zheng wanted to deal with Hu Hai, he was at least a prince at this time.

Li Nian smiled and replied: "Not only do you not need to wear thick clothes, you don't even need to wear extra clothes. You only need to wear enough to cover your private parts."

Hu Hai didn't seem to expect Li Nian to answer him. After a pause, he smiled and asked, "Wouldn't that save a lot of fabric?"

Hu Hai's words made Li Nian pause. After thinking about it carefully, it was true in a sense. This kid was also a talent. He could think of the hot weather and wore less clothes to save fabric.

Li Nian said, "Sir, you are right. It is indeed very economical. The people there also look different from us. Their skin color is darker and deeper than ours. The exposed skin is as black as ink, and their lips are thicker. You can tell at a glance that they are not from our tribe."

She had skin as dark as ink, thicker lips, and wore very little clothing. One could tell from the sound of her face that she was not very good-looking.

“Of course, not all Africans are like this, there are a few with lighter skin, but overall, most Africans have the above characteristics.”

"The terrain of Hezhou is generally flat, roughly divided by this line, with the southeast half higher and the northwest half lower. Mountains are mostly located in the coastal areas on both sides of the north and south. In the east of Hezhou is the world's largest rift valley, and the world's largest desert and longest river are also located in Hezhou."

People didn’t think much about the largest rift valley and the largest desert, but they didn’t expect that the longest river was also there.

Before today, they had thought that Qin was the best in the world in many things, but now they know that this is not the case at all.

The territory is not the largest, the river is not the longest, the mines are not the richest, the forests are not the most dense in the world, and the mountains may not be the highest...

Everyone's guess was correct, it was not the case, because Mount Everest was in the Western Regions at that time and did not belong to Daqin at all.

Li Nian said: "Let's talk about these countries first. In terms of civilization development, they are not inferior to the Qin Dynasty, especially Ptolemy. Ptolemy is actually the name of its dynasty. For example, what we call Xia, Shang and Zhou can actually be called Egypt." "Egypt's civilization has a long history. More than 3,000 years ago, a king founded a country here."

Unexpectedly, three thousand years later, a country was established in foreign lands. Everyone began to calculate in their minds which dynasty they knew was equivalent to more than three thousand years ago.

Li Nian continued, "Ptolemy was not a kingdom founded by the locals of Hezhou, but a dynasty founded by Ptolemy from Zhuzhou. As for why a foreigner founded a country in Hezhou, we will talk about it later when we have time."

"Ptolemy has been in power for three dynasties and his kingdom is stable. But in my opinion, the crown prince of Ptolemy does not look like a king. If he ascends the throne, he will be a tyrant, indulge in debauchery and pleasure, and will be the beginning of Ptolemy's downfall."

After Li Nian said this, Ying Zheng looked at him deliberately. This guy seemed to know Ptolemy IV and said this in a predictive tone...

If the news sent back in the future confirmed that what he said was true, the ministers would be surprised at the accuracy of this kid's prediction, not knowing that this was the history that this kid knew.

But he also understood why Li Nian did this. This was something he and Li Nian had discussed beforehand. It was impossible for Li Nian to stay out of public view for his entire life, so everything he said and did must have a correct and appropriate origin. He couldn't just tell everyone that he came from later generations and knew history, right?

Ying Zheng didn't want too many people to know Li Nian's true origins, so he had to fabricate a special background and experience for Li Nian.

Li Nian continued, "Egypt's monarchs are usually not called kings, but 'Pharaohs'. Their civilization has made great achievements in medicine, astronomy, mathematics, calendar, architecture, etc. Of course, if it comes to military strength, even six more Egypts would not be a match for the Qin Dynasty."

Hearing this, all the ministers smiled. The Qin Dynasty was indeed full of martial virtues.

The ministers who had just completed the great task of swallowing up the six kingdoms had absolute confidence in the military power of the Qin Dynasty. Even if Egypt was not inferior to the Qin Dynasty in other aspects, could its military power be compared with that of the Qin Dynasty?

"The pharaohs of Egypt today are from the Isthmus, which makes them distrust the local Egyptians. During the time of Ptolemy I, the initial soldiers were mainly Greeks who also came from the Isthmus. But now, the number of Greek soldiers is gradually insufficient, and the pharaohs can only include local Egyptians as soldiers. However, the troops composed of these local Egyptians are not loyal enough and often revolt."

Ying Zheng commented: "When a foreigner comes to a country with insufficient manpower and does not trust the local people, this is what you should expect."

He thought of the Qin Dynasty from Egypt. Although the Qin Dynasty and the six kingdoms were essentially one Chinese family, the people of the six kingdoms would not think so and would also regard the Qin Dynasty as a foreign country.

If Li Nian had not suddenly come to the palace and given him those suggestions, his Great Qin would have gone down the path of not being trusted by the people of the six countries.

The ministers were thinking about how to deal with Egypt. Since the Pharaoh of Egypt was an outsider, and his trusted confidants were also outsiders, and they were ruling the locals, why not provoke and deepen the conflict between the two so that Qin could benefit from it?
After briefly talking about the Ptolemaic Dynasty, Li Nian talked about Carthage: "It is said that this country has been established for nearly 600 years, and its system is quite special..."

Speaking of this, Li Nian deliberately emphasized the word "special".

Because Carthage had no king, it established a Senate like Rome, and set up a Citizens' Assembly and a Parliament of Hundreds, and was ruled by aristocratic senators.

(End of this chapter)