Diqin Designer

Chapter 62: Give the Ministers a Globe Shock
After finalizing the decree to establish the Zhiyutai, Ying Zheng asked another question: "Do you know what this place we live in is like?"

After hearing this question, the ministers became even more doubtful whether the king sitting on the throne today is the real king?

First he suddenly said he wanted to appoint a crown prince, then he said he wanted to set up a "Media Control Office" to monitor public opinion throughout the world, and now he asked questions like "What about this world we live in?"

The king would never be like this.

When all the ministers were silent, Ying Zheng added: "I am not asking how the heaven and earth we live in were formed, but what is the appearance of the heaven and earth?"

What is the appearance of heaven and earth?

Although they were puzzled as to what happened to Ying Zheng today and why he asked such a question, the ministers still gave an answer.

One of the ministers said: "I think the sky is like a canopy and the earth is like a chessboard. The sky is round and the earth is square!"

This statement was recognized by most ministers, and the round earth and square sky was the most mainstream understanding of the world in that era.

Another minister said: "I think the body of heaven and earth is like a bird's egg, with the sky surrounding the earth."

This statement was not agreed by many people. The Hun Tian theory had already appeared in this era, but it was not recognized by people.

The minister said this not because he believed in this statement, but because he deliberately distinguished it from "the sky is round and the earth is square" in order to arouse Ying Zheng's interest.

Ying Zheng said: "If the shape of the heaven and earth is like a bird's egg, how can our Great Qin stand on the earth, and what about the Xiongnu in the north and the Baiyue in the south?"

The minister was stumped by the question. He had only heard of this saying and had never studied it himself, so he could only honestly say, "I don't know!"

Ying Zheng said: "I have heard a saying recently that is similar to what you said. It says that the world we live in is a sphere, and the Great Qin is just a region on the sphere. It is not the most central and vast place in the world as I and you think. In fact, it is less than one hundredth of the entire world."

At this moment, the entire hall fell silent. The information in the words really overturned their previous notions.

Although the ministers did not care whether the world was round or square, since it did not affect their governance anyway, the sentence "It is not what I and the ministers think is the most central and vast place in the world. In fact, it is less than one hundredth of the entire world" really shocked them.

Because most of the ministers have always developed the idea that Jiuzhou is the most central, most essential and most fertile land in the world. Apart from Jiuzhou, other regions are all barbaric lands. Even if there are fertile lands, they can hardly be compared with Jiuzhou.

Of course, the ministers at that time were far superior to the ministers who were later influenced by Confucianism. They were more enterprising and had a stronger ambition to expand the territory. They did not think that our Celestial Empire was rich in resources and had everything we needed, so there was no need to conquer those barbarian lands.

But Ying Zheng’s words were still too explosive. If Ying Zheng was not the king, I’m afraid some ministers would have refuted him on the spot: What the hell are you talking about?
Ying Zheng had been observing the expressions of his ministers. Seeing their surprise and disbelief, he felt a sense of pleasure in his heart and was even more looking forward to their reactions when they saw the globe.

"Show us the globe!"

What is the Earth? What is a globe?
Following Ying Zheng's order, four eunuchs came in carefully carrying a tray from outside. The eunuchs were so careful, as if they were carrying their lives.

Indeed, in Ying Zheng's heart, this globe is more important than the lives of these eunuchs.

Four eunuchs carried a tray into the hall, and the ministers saw a ball painted in various colors on the tray.

Is this the globe that the king mentioned? Is this the world we live in? If so, where is Daqin, and where am I?
All the ministers had various thoughts in their minds, but they heard Ying Zheng say: "This thing is called a 'Globe'. 'Globe' is the name of the world we live in, but it is too big for us to see directly, so we made this thing instead. All the colors on it, except blue, represent a country or a region."

Seeing the many colored areas on the globe, even though they were all important officials of the Qin Dynasty, they were all shocked. There were too many. Li Si saw the only black area on the globe and asked, "May I ask your Majesty, what is this black area?"

When saying this, Li Si's voice was trembling, because if this black area was the Qin Dynasty, then compared to the entire sphere, it was really less than one hundredth, no, it might not even be one thousandth.

How could this not shock Li Si?
He thought that by helping Ying Zheng conquer the six kingdoms, he had accomplished an unprecedented feat, but he never expected that the Great Qin that unified the world would be less than one thousandth of his size on this planet.

Ying Zheng said: "According to what that person said, this black area is exactly where my Great Qin is!"

One of the ministers shook his head and said, "It's impossible. The Qin Empire has a territory of thousands of miles and tens of thousands of miles. How could it be so small? That person must have deceived the king!"

At this time, Meng Tian, ​​who had been watching the excitement in the hall without saying anything, said: "If we all live on a ball, then we must be on the top, otherwise we will fall down."

Hearing this, Ying Zheng glanced at Meng Yi who was not far away. Meng Yi looked a little embarrassed.

Meng Tian noticed the change in his brother's expression and immediately understood that his brother, who was always by the king's side, must have seen the ball before and asked him the same question.

A minister asked, "Your Majesty, may I ask if it is as General Meng said?"

Ying Zheng said: "According to that person, it is not true. This ball is suspended in the universe, without any distinction between up, down, left, and right. People can live on it, in it, and below it."

Anyway, he had said it, so he might as well satisfy his curiosity and pretend not to notice his brother's embarrassed expression. Meng Tian asked again: "My king, the people living down there won't fall down?"

Ying Zheng said: "That person said that there is a force pulling us, as if an invisible rope is binding us to the earth. Have you ever thrown stones or shot arrows into the sky? Will the stones and arrows eventually fall to the ground?"

When the ministers thought about it carefully, they found that it was indeed true. They were used to it in their daily lives and had never thought deeply about the reason behind it.

Some ministers wanted to object that stones and arrows were too light to be trusted, but then they remembered that those large objects seemed to fall down and eventually landed on the ground.

Wang Ben, who was standing behind his father, asked, "My lord, what is this blue?"

Ying Zheng said: "This is the sea!"

When the ministers heard Ying Zheng say that the blue on the ball was the sea, they were shocked again. If the world they lived in was really such a ball, wouldn't it mean that the land area was much smaller than the sea?
This gave the ministers who did not believe that the world was a globe a point of rebuttal: "If that were true, wouldn't it mean that we are all floating on the sea water? How is that possible? How can the sea water float all the continents in the world?"

Ying Zheng said simply: "That person didn't say it!"

Meng Tian stared at the wooden ball and suddenly had an idea: "If the world is really like this, wouldn't it be possible for us to go from south to north and from east to west?"

At this point, Meng Tian said excitedly: "Yes, if you want to verify whether this ball is real, go directly to the east. If you can return from the west, this ball is real."

One of the ministers shook his head and said, "The Great Qin only has this small piece of the ball. Judging by this, when will it be possible to verify the success?"

　感谢“我不记得了”大大2张月票、感谢“不周圣君”大大1张月票、感谢“苦瓜之神”大大1张月票、感谢“星辰、点点”大大2张月票、感谢“桀修”大大1张月票、感谢“我儿…有大帝之姿”大大1张月票

　　
　
(End of this chapter)