The ceremony to welcome the envoy of Qinni was held at the dock in Alexandria. When Meng Yi, a Qin envoy who had been in a strange country for nearly three months, left the cabin, he was inevitably scared when he saw countless people lined up to play music on the dock.

He was not a real envoy, without the royal gifts given by the king. In order not to let the king of Daxia know that he was coming to the sea of ​​the earth, the real envoy Ganluo stopped in Daxia. Maybe he has arrived in Persia now, but no matter where he goes, he would never be able to come here - he was just a Qin military academy officer who escorted Wu Yao here, plus Sogdian knowledge who knew Qin language, plus the accompanying counselors, armored soldiers and civil servants, he had only more than fifty people under his command. Such an identity was indeed flattered by the Egyptian king.

Meng Yi did not have the envoy's flag, and the flags he made overnight were held high by a soldier. The red flag was painted with the sun, moon, stars and three stars to make it clear. In contrast, there was a Qin national flag with the ancient "Qin" written on the white flag, which set off the tall lighthouse on Faro Island not far behind him. The flag was fluttering in the summer breeze of the Mediterranean.

"Enter the Qinni?" The merciless one preached on the dock.

"It is indeed an envoy of the State of Qinni." Another good man replied: "Chinni is the enemy of Chuni, and they have a million troops."

"One million troops?!" The former Persian Empire also claimed to have one million troops. Even if it was not the first time I heard about it, the Egyptians present took a breath.

"In order to form an alliance with His Majesty, the envoy of Qinni specially sent Zeus' thunder." The pervert continued to speak, his voice so loud that he almost covered up the music. "It was a weapon, a weapon that could blow up Mount Olympus..."

As the merciful man spoke, he held the flag and the Qinnigas had already disembarked. His shiny armor, neat steps, and a killing aura that was different from Greek mercenaries spread on the dock. Everyone, including the welcome chief minister Lisimakos, held their breath for a moment, and a magical idea was born in Lisimakos' mind: Are the Qinni soldiers willing to accept their employment?

"The King of Qin ordered his minister Meng Yi to visit Guiyi, and would like to be with you forever and never join the army..." Meng Yi said polite words when he asked. Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud and continuous sound of trumpets, and the crowd in the distance suddenly spread to both sides. Behind the army leading the way, hundreds of Ethiopian black slaves appeared in people's sight with the throne.

All the people on the pier, including Lisimacos, were shocked. The crowd was like wheat fields blowing by the wind. Countless people crawled on the ground. Only Greeks and Jews bent down and bowed. Zaras, who was standing beside Meng Yi, said, "This is the Pharaoh."

Although Meng Yi did not understand the pharaoh's intention, he was obviously the king of Egypt. He looked at the king sitting on the golden beard with some rudeness. In addition to the strange crown and the stick under his chin (fake beard), his left and right hands also grabbed the striped stick, one with a hook on his right hand, and the one with a whip on his left and right hand.

The king's decoration is strange, and the whole country is also a bit weird. This is a country with many bald men. Many men have no hair and beards, but they are not temples. Some of them wear Yue people's headwear and are barefoot like Yue people. Women's eyes are covered with thick dark colors (Horus' Eyes), and their faces are not as good as white croakers. They are not as good as hairpins, and their hairbands are decorated with gold, silver and jewelry. The only thing that makes people accept is that they have fragrance all over their bodies, and they can smell the fragrance wind several feet away.

A country with strange customs is twice as popular as Xianyang's capital, and there are warships that are shocking on the road. Meng Yi finally knew where the Jing people's warship came from, and it came from here. The Jing people's warships were only three people paddling, but the warships here were four people, five people, eight people, and ten people paddling. The most important reason why the Qin army could not defeat the Jing army was that it could not build the Jing people's warships. If we could learn the art of building boats from here, the Qin army would also gallop across rivers, lakes and seas, how could the Jing army be defeated?

Meng Yi, who stood still, remembered his thoughts when he first came. It was not until the black slaves brought Ptolemy III closer, and the guest habitually shouted out the big string of titles that he went forward to bow and said loudly: "Meng Yi, the envoy of Qin, visited the king. The Qin king ordered his ministers to attend the Guiyi. He wished to be in love with Guiyi forever and never join the war."

The Chuni and the Chinni were at least not different in appearance. Ptolemy III looked at Meng Yi and smiled. "Welcome to the Chinni messenger from the most eastern part. I heard that you brought Zeus's thunder..."

Ptolemy III spoke of Meng Yi's puzzled words. It was not until Sogdian's translation that he presented a wooden box containing witch medicine. "I am ordered by the King of Qin of the robbery to bring witch medicine to the noble town. If the robbery's robbery can know the secret, please inform the robbery."

The wooden box was taken over by the attendant and handed over to Ptolemy III. Ptolemy III opened the wooden box without any hesitation and took out a small part of the gunpowder contained in the brocade bag. The gunpowder was caught by him and fell into the brocade bag again in the sunlight. The tactful Dossios shouted: "Oh my God! This is really Zeus' thunder."

"The Thunder of Zeus?" Although the troublemakers have made several announcements, some people still don't understand what "The Thunder of Zeus" is. Fortunately, Dorsios arranged everything. The tips in Ptolemy III were taken by Erados in purple robe and handed them over to the commander of the guard Sospius, a small group of them were carefully placed in a crack of prepared rock in the distance.

The open flame ignited the fine powder made of gunpowder, "Boom-!" There was a loud noise that shocked the earth, and gravels splashed in the lightning, and the rocks that were several elbows were instantly blown into dozens of pieces. Two ignited slaves were killed on the spot, and gravels were also splashed on the throne of Ptolemy III. On the dock, tens of thousands of people on the merchant ship were completely petrified. They finally understood what was "Zeus' Thunder", and this was "Zeus' Thunder"!

"Bless Amonra!" Zeus was the Greek god's residence, but this did not affect the Egyptians present shouting the name of the sun god. While Ptolemy III's mouth was raised, tens of thousands of people worshiped and shouting the gods.

"This..." The witch medicine placed in the cracks of the rock was pitifully few, and Meng Yi was surprised that so few witch medicine had such great power. Sogdian pressed him down, "Pharaoh promised that once the secret of witch medicine was cracked, he would share it with Qinni."

The witch medicine was sent from thousands of miles away to crack the secrets and thus to imitate it. The common sayings made Meng Yi feel at ease. The most worrying thing about him was that the witch medicine was given to the Egyptian king, but he did not know the secret. In silence, Ptolemy III stepped down from the throne and held Meng Yi's hand affectionately and said, "I swear in the name of Amonra that from today on Egypt will be Qinni's friendly country. If King Qinni had no wife, I would marry Anosia to him as his wife."

‘Ah…!’ Things are more sensational than the other. First, the envoy of the Qinni State, and then the 'Thunder of Zeus's, and now they are going to marry Anosia, the most beautiful princess in Egypt, and marry the Qinni State. The crowd on the dock seems to be watching a drama.

Ptolemy III was very satisfied with people's reaction. He believed that soon "Qinni" and "Zeus' Thunder" would spread throughout the known world and would also be heard by the Chuni people in a very short time. These would prove Egypt's innocence and leave room for future negotiations.

The cheers were cheering on the dock. In the Alexander Research Park, nothing could affect the discussions of the bachelors except that earth-shaking explosion. The person who spoke to everyone in the assembly square was Kdasibus. He grabbed his robe with one hand and drew the shape of a cannon on the stone slab with the other: "I think the 'witch' is no different from the pressure pump I invented before, and the air guns are air guns. Zeus powder produces gases, which push the stones in the 'witch' and make it fly out of the front end of the 'witch'..."

"I don't think so. Zeus powder not only produces gas, but also emits thunder and lightning. Why are stones not driven by thunder and lightning?" There are arguments and refutations. At this time, the bachelor always expresses his own opinions. The bachelor who speaks is Krishipus, a student of Clinthers and a representative of Stoic logic. It is said that if God uses any logic, it will be Krishipus' logic. It is because of Krishipus' logic that later generations came to the conclusion that "everyone is born equal."

"But we did not see thunder and lightning pushing any object," stressed Kdasibus. "We only see that once Zeus powder is lit, it produces countless gases, which not only push stones, but also break through any container that binds it."

"But lightning can always break a big tree," someone interrupted. Apollonios said, the most famous geometrician since Euclid. "If lightning can break a big tree, it can also push the stone."

What Apollonios said seemed to make sense, and the bachelors in the square fell into contemplation. Unlike what Ptolemy III expected, they never considered how to imitate powder. They were thinking about pursuing the truth that caused this phenomenon, whether it was gas-driven or lightning-driven.

The bachelors in the square thought silently. A row of special-purpose vessels and flasks were under rows of special-purpose vessels and flasks. The blazing flames were licking the bottom of the evaporation dish. The water in the evaporation dish was boiling, and the boiling water floated on the boiling water, but the solution in the vessel was still calm. This is a water bath device, the purpose of which is to maintain the temperature of the solution.

On the side of the water bath, the decanter was also heating, and the sulfur at the bottom of the bottle slowly melted and sublimated, giving off a pungent smell. After the decanter, a slim woman with black hair turned her back to the decanter. She was wearing a linen robe with ears sewn on the robe, and a thin blue strip was nailed to the ears, murmured in Hebrew: "One and two, two and three, three and one, four for one..."

Accompanied by this Hebrew phrase, ‘Chi--!’, the bright flame of salt suddenly rose from her, followed by thick white smoke. When the assistants were stunned, the woman smiled charmingly, “I understand, it is saltpeter.”

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