Diqin Designer

Chapter 168 The Importance of Jizhou

Everyone's eyes followed Li Nian's stick and fell on the area on the map. The place was not big, but Li Nian spoke very seriously, which showed the importance of this place in the heart of Minister Li.

Li Nian said: "There is a thing here that can be called 'petroleum', or 'lime water', 'terrestrial fat', 'paint'... This thing called petroleum can also be found in the area of ​​Gaonu County in Shangjun, Daqin. It is flammable and can burn even when placed in water."

Hearing this, a young man asked, "Since we already have the Great Qin, why do we need to go to this continent?"

As soon as he asked this question, the young man knew that he had asked a stupid question.

There must be a lot of oil in this place. Even if Daqin also has oil, when it comes to using it, if there is oil from other places available, it is of course better to use the oil from other places first.

As expected, Li Nian's answer was: "The oil reserves here are extremely large, almost the largest in the world, far surpassing that of the Qin Dynasty. If it can be mined, it can meet the needs of the Qin Dynasty for hundreds of years in the future. This is necessary for the future prosperity of our Qin Dynasty, and it will be needed in many aspects."

People don’t understand what its uses are and where it should be used.

Without waiting for them to ask, Li Nian took the initiative to say: "This thing will be used for food, clothing, housing and transportation!"

This one sentence alone established the importance of oil in the minds of all the ministers, but they were still puzzled. Even if this thing could be turned into clothes and food, what did it have to do with living and transportation?
However, Ying Zheng thought of the scenes of the future that Li Nian had shown him: the airplanes flying in the sky, the cars shuttling through the city, and the giant boats sailing on the boundless blue waves. These might be related to oil. Even the fact that future generations could develop to that level and create these strange things might be related to this thing.

Ying Zheng thought even more deeply that the future generations that Li Nian came from were not just the Chinese nation, but also many other countries.

This kid is now talking about oil so seriously. Even when he mentioned those gold mines and silver mines before, he didn't show such an expression... I'm afraid that countries in the future will also compete for this oil.

Even countries in later generations are scrambling for it, which shows that oil is definitely a top-notch good thing. It seems that it is really as this kid said, we must try our best to control this area. However, this place is not close to Daqin, so it is definitely impossible to do it now, but this matter must be recorded.

Li Nian continued, "There are also states here. The local people have high eyebrows, deep eyes, hooked noses, deep eye sockets, long faces, and thick hair and beards. The temperature is hot, dry, and rainless. The temperature varies greatly between day and night. The terrain is mainly plateaus and mountains. Although there are plains, they are not many."

Several great empires in later generations all ran into trouble here and failed to actually control it, because there are indeed many mountains, and if they can't win, they won't hide in the mountains and wait for you to let your guard down, and then suddenly jump out and shoot you. Anyway, we are barefoot and not afraid of those wearing shoes, so if you dare, just fight me here.

Even though it is still early, it is not easy for Daqin to control this place. However, they will not be able to sleep if they don't control the rich oil resources in this place.

Thinking of certain things in the future, Li Nian specifically reminded: "There is a tribe here who believe that they are God's chosen people, and the others are God's abandoned people. God is the supreme god they believe in, the omniscient and omnipotent Lord who created the world."

When people heard Li Nian's words "They consider themselves as God's chosen people and everyone else as God's abandoned people", they frowned. What an arrogant nation, not only do they label themselves, but they also belittle others.

"They believe that they, God's chosen people, are superior to others and deserve to enjoy everything in the world. If we help them when they are in trouble, they will not be grateful but will think that it is God's will that we should help them."

"For example, if they are wandering around, and we give them a piece of land to live in, they will not be grateful, but will think that the land we give them is too small, and ask for more, or even think that this land of Daqin originally belongs to them, and then drive out the people of Daqin and occupy more land." Everyone was enlightened. Chunyu Yue, who had the highest personal moral standards, couldn't help but say: "There are such shameless people in the world, how are they different from beasts?"

Although this tribe does not seem to be barbaric or ignorant, this behavior seems to be more disgusting than barbarism and ignorance.

It's too shameless, and it's not just one person, but the entire clan. If this group of people gain power, they will definitely become rampant and kill other people.

If Daqin encounters this tribe in the future, it must be extremely careful with them and not be deceived by them.

A creature that does not know how to be grateful, and instead thinks that others' kindness is its due, is like a beast that cannot be tamed. Who knows when it will bite back?
"Jizhou has a large population. According to what I have heard, there may be tens of millions of people. Many countries here are influenced by the countries of Zhuzhou..."

The ministers were quite surprised that there were tens of millions of people in foreign lands.

One of the ministers looked at the map and caught a point in Li Nian's words, saying, "When we talked about Egypt before, Minister Li said that Ptolemy in Egypt was built by people from Zhuzhou. Now he is saying it again. Could it be the same country?"

Li Nian nodded and said, "It is indeed the same country. This country is called Macedonia. It reached its peak more than a hundred years ago. It successively occupied the entire territory of Egypt and annexed the Persian Empire. Alexander's army went straight to Yangzhou (India)."

Li Nian took a wooden stick and drew on the map, roughly outlining the land occupied by Macedonia more than a hundred years ago.

Seeing the territory drawn by Li Nian, Ying Zheng and all the ministers stared in amazement. This territory was as large as several Qin states, and spanned the three continents of Zhu, Ji, and He.

Compared with this, what is the Qin Dynasty? It only unified the six kingdoms, and could not even leave its own continent. It was not even an intercontinental empire. What was there to be proud of?
Although the area of ​​Shenzhou is indeed a little big, and Macedonia happens to be close to the intersection of the three continents, so it can span the three continents at the same time. If Daqin is placed in that position, it will definitely not be inferior to Macedonia, and will even defeat it, but it still makes the ministers a little frustrated.

But then a raging fire ignited in the hearts of the ministers again. If foreign countries can do this, why can't they?
We must accomplish greater achievements than Macedonia!

After conquering the six kingdoms and unifying the world, not only did Ying Zheng develop a lazy mentality, but the Qin ministers also did so, so some ministers retired or fled.

After all, the goal has been achieved, and it looks like the Emperor of Qin is about to become difficult to get along with, so why not seize the opportunity to run away?
Taking the initiative to retire can still retain some favor from His Majesty and preserve my glory and honor.

"Your Majesty asked Minister Li to come to court today. His intention was not just to have him attend the court meeting for the first time and to make us familiar with each other, but also to inform us through Minister Li... This talk was actually instructed by Your Majesty!"

It is not ruled out that some of the ministers are not very smart, but most of them are smart people, and smart people always like to think more and think they have figured it out.

(End of this chapter)