Diqin Designer

Chapter 321: Arrogant Qin People
Because according to Buddhism, there are insects in water, so before drinking water, you must recite the water purification mantra.

If this strange object called "microscope" can see tiny objects in the water, doesn't it confirm the Buddhist statement?
Buddhism is already very powerful, and this statement has been confirmed. What else can be done about it?
It will only increase the mysteriousness of Buddhism in the eyes of the people and make them believe in Buddhism more.

This was not conducive to the Maurya King's desire to weaken the influence of Buddhism.

Yao Zhi said: "Of course there are also tiny things in the water, and there are often more tiny things in the water than around us. If these tiny things enter the human body, sometimes they will make us sick."

A Maurya prince retorted: "According to the messenger, there are also such tiny things in the Ganges River, but why do we not get sick when we drink the Ganges River water?"

The Ganges is their holy river. They bathe in the Ganges, drink the water of the Ganges and bury corpses in the Ganges. They have been doing this for many years without any major problems.

Yao Zhi smiled and said, "Because our bodies can defend against most of the tiny things that harm us, but there are a few that we can't defend against."

Without giving the prince a chance to continue asking questions, Yao Zhi turned the topic back to the microscope.

He said: "The reason why tiny things cannot be seen by the naked eye is because they are too small, but this microscope can magnify their appearance to the extent that we can see it with our naked eyes. If you don't believe it, we can demonstrate it to you now!"

After hearing this, some princes and ministers became eager to try out this microscope to see what strange little things they could see.

But at this moment, the King of the Peacock Kingdom said, "It is not convenient today, so there is no need to demonstrate. I will use this precious mirror with you all when I have time in the future!"

Yao Zhi was stunned by the Peacock King's opposition. He thought that the king would be very curious about the microscope and would take the initiative to watch the demonstration.

But it is not allowed.

This is definitely not the reason that the Peacock King mentioned, "It's inconvenient today", but since the Human King has said that there is no need for a demonstration, it's better not to ask.

and……

Judging from the enlightened looks on the faces of some princes and ministers, they obviously knew the factors behind this matter.

Ignoring the microscope and not talking about the tiny things anymore, Yao Zhi introduced the box that contained the exquisite small cloth bags and said, "These brocade bags contain a kind of medicine!"

Yao Zhi deliberately emphasized the tone of the word "medicine" in his words, which made the princes and ministers of the Peacock Kingdom take it seriously and all look at the brocade bags.

The Qin people brought a medicine with them? What medicine was it? Did the Qin people want to cure them?

Yao Zhi continued in Peacock Mandarin: "These drugs can be used to treat malaria!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire palace fell silent.

Given the environment of the Maurya Kingdom, malaria naturally broke out from time to time. Even in later generations, it was one of the countries with the most serious malaria in the world. Moreover, in this era, the outbreaks were even more severe than in later generations.

Of course, Daqin would not give the medicine to the Peacock Kingdom out of kindness. Instead, it would use it to force the Peacock Kingdom to make concessions to Daqin on certain issues so that Daqin could gain more benefits.

After Yao Zhi's words, a minister said in a deep voice: "Messenger of Qin, do you know what you are talking about? Malaria has no medical treatment or medicine to cure it. Only with the blessing of the gods can there be hope of survival!"

Yao Zhi glanced at the minister and said with a smile: "Your country may be unruly, but my Great Qin may not be!"

This sentence made the princes and ministers of the Peacock Kingdom feel unhappy and offended.

What does "Your country may be ungovernable, but the same may not be true for our Great Qin!" mean?
Isn't this looking down on them?

Their Peacock Kingdom is the Celestial Empire, what is the Qin Kingdom? At what level is it?
How dare an envoy from a small barbarian country speak to them like this?
The minister then asked: "Emissary from Qin, are you sure this medicine can cure malaria?"

Yao Zhi thought to himself, "Unless you people of Peacock Country are not human, but a group of monsters in human skin, why can't you use medicine that humans can use?"

But he couldn't say it out loud, so he said, "If you don't believe me, you can find a group of people with malaria and try it out."

Seeing Yao Zhi speak so confidently, the princes and ministers of the Peacock Kingdom began to believe it to some extent: the Qin people might really have mastered the method of treating malaria.

But this matter is still a little unbelievable!

That's malaria. Those who get it can only survive on their own. Have you ever heard of a medicine to cure it?
The minister then asked, "If this medicine is real, can you give the prescription to our country?"

When deciding to send the anti-malarial drugs to the Peacock Kingdom, Li Nian had anticipated this: when they learned that there was a drug that could cure an almost terminal illness at the time, given the character of the Peacock people, they would definitely find a way to get the prescription and then imitate it themselves.

Unfortunately, the Peacock Kingdom is not the White Elephant of later generations, nor is it the world-famous generic drug factory, and Li Nian has also thought of a response strategy for the delegation.

Yao Zhi smiled and said, "Even if the prescription is handed over to you, you won't be able to use it because many of the herbs in it are only available in my Great Qin!"

The princes and ministers of the Peacock Kingdom immediately understood the Qin people's sinister intentions:
They deliberately took out this miraculous medicine, but the medicinal materials for making this miraculous medicine were only available in Qin. If they wanted to get the medicine, they had to agree to certain conditions of the Qin people and go to Qin to ask for it.

But this also further proves the authenticity of this medicine!
The Qin people are so hateful that they actually want to force them into submission in this way. They just felt that the Qin people are pleasing to their eyes, but now they only feel that the Qin people are hateful and abominable.

If they also understood the language of the Qin Dynasty, they would surely angrily say, "How dare you, a small country, bully me like this?"

But no matter how annoyed they were, they found that they seemed to have no good way to deal with these Qin people. They were obviously well prepared. Even if they were all captured and executed, it would be of no avail, unless they did not want to get this medicine from Qin anymore.

Moreover, although the man had ulterior motives, he was indeed an envoy sent by the King of Qin. He brought so many gifts and was very polite. It would be unreasonable to arrest him if he didn't hand over the prescription.

Yao Zhi and the others were now delighted, "Let you pretend to be the Celestial Empire in front of us, and think that we are small barbarians..."

The King of Maurya asked, "If we want to obtain this medicine, how can we obtain it?"

Yao Zhi smiled and said, "We are here on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor to establish diplomatic relations with your country. The so-called establishment of diplomatic relations is not a verbal agreement, but the mutual exchange of letters of credence between the two countries, with the two monarchs jointly leaving their names and each retaining a copy of the letter of credence." As he spoke, an envoy from Qin handed over two copies of the letter of credence that had been prepared long ago. In fact, several copies had been prepared to prevent damage or loss on the way.

The letter was handed over to the King of Maurya Kingdom.

This surprised the princes and ministers of the Maurya Kingdom. This was the way that the Great Qin established diplomatic relations. It felt very high-end and formal. Were they sure that the Great Qin was an ignorant and ignorant barbarian country?
The imperial book was exquisitely made. The cover was made of a special kind of tree bark with gold-plated fonts and strange monster patterns (the Azure Dragon and the Black Bird) painted on it. When it was opened, there were pages of a strange thing called "paper" inside.

But these papers are not white, they are covered with words.

Those are extremely beautiful characters, square, majestic, neat and orderly. Just by looking at these characters, one can seem to see a strong country.

Compared with this kind of characters, the characters of their Peacock Kingdom are like the crawling of insects, there is no comparison at all.

The King of Peacock Kingdom fell in love with this kind of calligraphy at first sight. Although he did not recognize a single word, the beauty revealed by the characters attracted him.

Unfortunately, this is the writing of the Qin people, not the Peacock Kingdom. Why couldn't the Peacock Kingdom create such beautiful writing?

The characters on the letter that the King of Peacock Kingdom read were actually simplified regular script, which Li Nian specially prepared for the delegation.

Because he thought that not only should the Qin Dynasty use simplified Chinese characters in the future, but he also wanted simplified Chinese characters to go abroad and become the world's common language.

The King of Peacock Kingdom took a look at it but didn't leave his name or seal it?
No one knows what the Qin people wrote on it, who would dare to sign it randomly?
Yao Zhi continued, "After the official establishment of diplomatic relations, your country will be a friendly country of our Great Qin. Both sides can take what they need and share what they have. For example, the anti-malaria medicine, the king and you can get it from our Great Qin..."

Yao Zhi spoke eloquently about the benefits of establishing diplomatic relations. Everyone should get along in a friendly manner and become stronger and more advanced together. From now on, you will be strong and I will be strong too, and we both have a bright future.

But the princes and ministers of the Peacock Kingdom sneered at Yao Zhi's words. If the medicine is really as good as you said, why don't you hand over the prescription first?
Whether we can find the medicinal materials is our business, but if you don’t hand over the prescription, your words will be greatly discounted and lack sincerity.

They now realized that although Qin might be a small country, it was definitely not ignorant; on the contrary, it was very arrogant.

Aren't they afraid that the Peacock Kingdom will get angry and raise an army to attack the Qin Kingdom?
With the strength of their Peacock Kingdom, there is no way that the Qin Kingdom will be able to resist!

I don't know what gave the Qin envoy such arrogant confidence. Perhaps he felt that the Great Qin Kingdom was far away from the Peacock Kingdom and not easy to reach.

Yes, if the two countries were neighbors, the Great Qin State would have become a part of them long ago, and how could there be envoys coming to speak nonsense to them?

In fact, they had thought of another possibility in their hearts, that is, the Qin State was not a small barbarian country, but a very powerful state, whose strength was not even inferior to their Peacock State. That was why the Qin envoy dared to speak to them like this, neither humble nor arrogant, without any fear of a small country, and even a little arrogant and bold.

But how is this possible? There can't be a country in the world as powerful as their Peacock Kingdom. The only powerful country in the world is the Peacock Kingdom!
Perhaps there was once a powerful country in the West that could compare with the Maurya Kingdom, but it is far inferior now, and they have won battles against Westerners before.

King Chandra had driven out the Greeks in Punjab, repelled the invasion of the Seleucid Empire, and occupied Aria (some areas of Afghanistan).

The Qin envoy may be ignorant and fearless. He is used to being the king and hegemon in his area, so he is arrogant and does not know his place.

In this situation, the only way is to strike hard and make the Qin people realize that they are nothing in front of a truly powerful country.

However, the Qin State was far away from them, and they couldn't reach it with their heavy punches at all!

In fact, Yao Zhi and others also had this idea. These people from the Peacock Kingdom were really lucky. They couldn't let them see the power of the Qin Dynasty. Otherwise, how could they be so arrogant?

The Lord of the Peacock Kingdom said, "I already know what the envoy meant. The envoy must be tired after speaking so much. Please go and rest for a while!"

Yao Zhi understood that the Peacock King wanted them to leave because he had something to discuss, so he smiled and said, "If the King hadn't said it, I wouldn't have felt anything. Now that I hear what the King has said, I feel really tired and thirsty. So I thank the King for his kindness."

After Yao Zhi and others left, a prince of the Peacock Kingdom shook his head and said, "You are really a barbarian country, so arrogant. Do you really think you can threaten us with a drug? As a small country, you don't know how to serve a big country. You have a way to bring disaster upon yourself!"

Another person agreed, "We must let these Qin people know how powerful we are. The Great Qin is too far away to go there, so we should hold a drill and invite them to watch."

One of them laughed and said, "Seeing that our soldiers are elite and good at fighting, won't they scare the Qin people?"

Yao Zhi's words and attitude irritated them. How dare they be so disrespectful to them? They had to strike him hard and let the Qin people know how powerful they were.

After hearing these comments, the King of Peacock Kingdom said nothing. He just handed out two letters and asked his attendants to pass them on to the princes and ministers.

The princes took it and looked through it in confusion. Some princes and ministers became more and more surprised as they read it, and their brows gradually furrowed.

At this time, the Lord of the Peacock Kingdom said, "The Great Qin Kingdom may not be a small, ignorant country as we thought before. They have such writing and can make all kinds of strange things. They may be a powerful and civilized country. We need to be cautious when dealing with them. Have you seen the things made by the jade jade?"

Indeed, those Qin people did not look like barbarians. They acted politely and with reason. Our attitude towards them seemed arrogant, but that was because they were standing from the perspective of a big country looking down on a small country and a strong country looking down on a weak country.

But what if the Great Qin State is not weak, and the other party is just treating them as a country of the same level?
So the remarks made by the Qin envoys were not disrespectful or arrogant, but a dialogue with them on an equal footing and a statement of facts.

But the princes and ministers of the Maurya Kingdom were reluctant to admit this, and they also felt it was unlikely.

One of the ministers retorted, "They must be skilled in ingenious techniques, so they can make many kinds of strange things. The microscope and jade instruments must have been made with great effort, just to show off to us."

"Among ordinary people, the poorer a family is, the more they value their reputation, fearing that they will be humiliated by others. This is true of the Qin State. Since they are weak, they are afraid of being laughed at by us, so they specially searched for treasures."

This statement attracted many people to agree. Although Guo Bang was not as powerful as them, a small country was still a country and had treasures. Taking out some treasures that their Peacock Kingdom did not have did not mean anything.

A prince echoed, "That must be the case. The country is small and the people are few, so they don't know how big a big country is or how strong a strong country is. They think they are the king and hegemon in their place, and they take the title of 'emperor' just to amuse themselves. A few rare things cannot represent anything. If our country wants to seek rare things, it can be a thousand times better than Qin."

This makes sense. A king is just a king, but he has to pretend to be an "emperor". How great can the achievements of the Qin emperor be? Can he be compared with King Chandrakirti or King Ashoka?
Obviously, they cannot be compared. It is like when there is no elephant in the mountain, the monkey will be the king. Only those who have never seen a truly great and outstanding king will think they are powerful. If he were in the same place as King Chandra and King Ashoka, the Qin emperor would have to bow down to them.

(End of this chapter)