"What else do you have to worry about with Your Majesty? I can share your worries!" Chen Xu asked in confusion.

Qin Shihuang sat down again, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Your dear talked about the Tang King Li Shimin in the past. The Tang Dynasty's visit to the Western Regions was not only several times larger than the territory of our Great Qin, but also had a lot of flowers and flowers. The boats and caravans were thousands of miles away. I believe that my martial arts skills are not inferior to him, but the people in the country are suffering and there is not enough food and food. I don't know when I will reach the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty?"

"Your Majesty, why should you worry? Although the King of Tang has created the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he is just standing on the shoulders of giants. Before the Tang Dynasty, there were countless kings working hard to govern and open up territory. It was like my Great Qin. Several generations of the previous kings accumulated strength. In your hands, he took the right momentum of heaven, time, place, and people, and tried to wipe out the princes in the world. This is a natural thing, and it cannot be completed overnight. At present, the main thing about our Great Qin is to cultivate, nourish and develop people's livelihood and continue to accumulate strength. Otherwise, even if we conquer the Western Regions, there would be no enough manpower to do it.

Rule and governance, if we forcefully migrate the people of the Central Plains to supplement the Western Regions, it will inevitably damage our Central Plains' human resources. This is a strategy that is not worth the loss. I can say that with the current military force of our Great Qin, at most, we can conquer the entire Western Regions and expand the country to the west for thousands of miles. However, it is meaningless to be unable to rule and naturalize after occupation. Moreover, Your Majesty is now at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, so why just focus on the Western Regions? The countries in the Western Regions are just a group of barbarians... Your Majesty, have you seen the Mountains and Seas?" After a long discussion, Chen Xu changed his mind.

Qin Shihuang nodded: "The Mountains and Seas Sutra were written by an unknown person. The ones written without roots and no reason are illusory things. The mountains, rivers, geography, monsters, ghosts and monsters recorded in them have never heard of them. They are actually false books. I have naturally read them in my spare time!"

"Have Your Majesty ever read the Legend of Emperor Mu?" Chen Xu continued to ask.

"The emperor Mu recorded the story of King Mu of Zhou's journey to the west, and even went to Kunlun Mountain to have a banquet with Queen Mother of the West. It is rumored that Queen Mother of the West lived in Kunlun Mountain. I also wanted to visit him, but there was no map or guide, and the carriage and horses were frayed and might not be able to find his place. I have mentioned this matter to my beloved, and I have offered my beloved list of gods. It is said that after the war of gods, the journey of immortals and mortals had long been cut off. I have given this idea. I don't know what I mentioned today?" Qin Shihuang looked at Chen Xu in confusion.

"I cannot tell the truth about the things recorded in the Shanhai Sutra and the Biography of Emperor Mu, because the three heavenly books taught by Taiyi Immortal Lord have not recorded them in any way. However, what I want to say is that there is not only the prosperity of the Central Plains between the heaven and earth. Although the Western Regions are bitter and cold, the Western Regions are a channel from the Central Plains to the West. Tens of thousands of miles away from the Western Regions, there are several countries in the West that are no less than our Great Qin. The nine states of heaven and earth, and China is just a part of the east, and it is definitely not the Middle Earth..."

"What? Is this happening?" Qin Shihuang stood up suddenly, his face changing to horror and strangeness, and his eyes stared at Chen Xu's face.

"I dare not lie. Although I have never been to those local ministers, there are records in the books of heaven. Even a hundred years ago, there was a great king named Alexander in the extreme west. He established a kingdom called Macedonia. He once led tens of thousands of troops to conquer dozens of Western vassal states and then attacked outside the Western Regions. It was just because he had no guide and map to withdraw his troops. Otherwise, a hundred years ago, Alexander might have attacked our Great Qin along the Western Regions. At that time, our Great Qin had just risen from the West. If he really had a conflict with Alexander's army, the outcome would still be unknown..."

Qin Shihuang was completely confused at this time, his face was dull for a while, his fists were clenched for a while, and his face was twisted and twitching. His mind was completely in a dizzy and blank state. It took a few minutes for his eyes to return to focus. However, he still stared at Chen Xu in a daze. It took another half a minute before he spoke hoarsely: "I know this, why... why are you talking about it now?"

"Your Majesty, this matter is not very meaningful when you say it early or late. The Macedonian Kingdom is tens of thousands of miles west of the Western Regions, and is separated from my Great Qin by thousands of mountains and rivers. According to the strength of my Great Qin, I said it today to remind Your Majesty that the world is vast, and I cannot be a frog in the well, and I must prepare early. Once Your Majesty is preparing to collect all the lands of the Western Regions, then you must always prepare for a arduous decisive battle with the great powers outside the Western Regions. Perhaps ten or twenty years of stalemate battles, without a stable domestic environment, without the support of the general public, without a strong economic foundation, without abundant food and excellent equipment, and without heroic soldiers who are brave and good at fighting. Once you rashly open up the various lands of the Western Regions, you may attract a tiger..."

"There are also the mountains, rivers, geography and monsters recorded in the Mountains and Seas Sutra, which seem to be rude, but not all are nonsense. Many strange-looking wild beasts can see some similar things in the West. Therefore, I guess that the Mountains and Seas Sutra should be a record left before the Battle of the Gods. Then someone compiled it into a book, but because many of them were already lost and could not be verified, they were also written simply and extremely false, which made the world think it was just a false book. When Emperor Yu ordered Shu Hai to measure the earth, measure the east, west, south and north with Qingqiu as the center, and then cast the nine tripods and divide the nine states. However, after the Gods, there was no legend of the nine states in the Central Plains. The nine tripods inherited by the Great Zhou Dynasty were no longer the nine tripods. Now that the Central Plains are unified, the nine tripods are even unknown... "

"Nine Cauldrons...Nine Cauldrons... When the Zhou royal family declined, all the princes did not accept their position. Thirty-eight years ago, King He of Zhou passed away. My ancestor, King Zhao, wanted to collect the nine cauldrons and enter Qin, but he searched all the Zhou royal temples but did not see the whereabouts of the nine cauldrons. Some people say that the nine cauldrons were blown by the wind, but I sent people to salvage them several times but they were not seen. I have never seen the nine cauldrons. There are many folk legends about the whereabouts of the nine cauldrons, but they all have no roots and no reason. This is a big heart in my heart. The nine cauldrons are the symbol of royal power. I cannot get the nine cauldrons, and I always feel uneasy. My beloved is a disciple of the immortal family. Does the whereabouts of the nine cauldrons record in those three volumes of heavenly books?" Qin Shihuang looked at Chen Xu.

Chen Xu:...

I still want to know the whereabouts of Jiuding?

There are countless versions of the records about the Nine Triads in history, but the only consensus is that the Nine Triads, which symbolize royal power, disappeared during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

As for when the Nine Cauldrons disappeared, there is no unified statement. Some people say that the Zhou royal family knew that the Great Zhou would definitely not be able to save the Nine Cauldrons, so they hid it secretly. Some even more excessively speculated that the Zhou royal family lacked money, and they melted the Nine Cauldrons and spent money. There are also rumors that King Zhao of Qin took the Nine Cauldrons from the Eastern Zhou royal family, but on the way back to the country, the Nine Cauldrons capsized, and the Nine Cauldrons fell into the swimming pool and disappeared. Some people say that King Zhao of Qin took the Nine Cauldrons and brought it back to Qin, and then suddenly disappeared.

However, today when Qin Shihuang heard that Qin State had not obtained the Nine Cauldrons from the Zhou royal family, Chen Xu was sure that the Nine Cauldrons might have disappeared long ago.

There is no need for Qin Shihuang to lie about this matter.

Moreover, Chen Xu has been to Xianyang for more than a year and has never heard of the news about the Nine Tripods. Even if the Nine Tripods symbolize royal power, all the kings and princes and ministers dare not talk about it. However, during several major sacrificial activities every year, Qin Shihuang could not lead all civil and military officials to worship the Nine Tripods.

In other words, Qin Shihuang really had never seen the Nine Dings, nor did he know the whereabouts of the Nine Dings.

Later generations many archaeologists speculated that the Nine Cauldrons were buried in the Mausoleum of Mount Li by Qin Shihuang, but this speculation could not stand scrutiny at all.

First of all, the Nine Cauldrons are the symbol of the orthodox Chinese emperors. All the princes all came to the Central Plains to take over the Zhou Dynasty. Qin Shihuang was also preparing to pass on the Qin Dynasty for generations. How could he bury the Nine Cauldrons in his tomb without seeing the sun? Because the Nine Cauldrons should be enshrined in the ancestral temple of the Qin royal family is the only reason.

Moreover, according to Qin Shihuang's personality that likes to promote his own achievements, if there are really Nine Cauldrons, they must be widely publicized in a conspicuous place to make everyone in the world know that the Qin royal family was granted the royal power of heaven, and it is more legitimate to take Zhou and dynasties, which is more convincing than the illusory theory of promoting the Five Virtues and Reincarnation with water instead of fire.

Secondly, when Qin was destroyed, Qin Prince Ziying only handed over the jade seal but did not have the Nine Cauldrons. It can be seen that the Nine Cauldrons were not under the control of the Qin royal family, and neither Xiang Yu nor Liu Bang studied the whereabouts of the Nine Cauldrons. It can be seen that the people should have long believed that the Nine Cauldrons were not obtained by Qin, otherwise, even if Xiang Yu and Liu Bang dig three feet into the ground, they would have to find the Nine Cauldrons.

"Your Majesty, I have never obtained the record of the Nine Cauldrons from the Heavenly Book, but I just said that the Nine Cauldrons held by the Zhou Dynasty should not be the Nine Cauldrons forged by Emperor Yu back then. The real Nine Cauldrons may have been taken away by the Heavenly Emperor after the Battle of the Gods. At this point, the immortals and mortals were cut off. The Zhou royal family was just a copy to make the princes respectfully admire him!" Chen Xu could only sacrifice the Battle of the Gods again to cover up his ignorance.

"Well, my dear words are reasonable. Jiang Ziya was named a god and went down the mountain. In order to ask him to come out to assist the Zhou royal family, King Wen of Zhou pulled a cart for Jiang Ziya for 808 steps. So Jiang Ziya said that he would protect the Great Zhou for 800 years. I found someone to calculate that the entire Zhou royal family went from prosperity to decline until King He of Zhou died. It was exactly eight hundred years. It can be seen that whether there are nine tripods or not is important. Once the time comes, the Great Zhou will inevitably perish... My dear, do you... know how many years can I pass on my great Qin?"

After hesitating, Qin Shihuang suddenly asked this question that he had been struggling with for a long time.

He wanted the Qin Dynasty to pass on its heritage for generations, but he understood that all destiny belongs to the destiny is fake. If it is really destiny belongs to the destiny, he would still suppress and beware of the nobles of the six countries. The destiny belongs to the five virtues of reincarnation is just an excuse. If the Qin State does not change the law and is powerful, the destiny of heaven will not come to him.

He believed in gods and believed that there must be gods and immortals in the world, but he also knew that all strength was based on his own strength. Gods and immortals would not choose a cowardly person to be the king of the world. Their own strength is the hard truth. The strong only believed in their own fists. If they defeated all those who were disobedient, the world would belong to them.

Qin State succeeded, but it could not guarantee that its descendants would not be successful.

Regarding Qin Shihuang's problem, Chen Xu could only turn on his own charlatan mode again, and bowed seriously and said: "Your Majesty, the records of the Heavenly Book are not real and illusory, and the secrets of heaven are unpredictable. I dare not speak nonsense. But the so-called natural way of heaven is natural, and everything has its own development laws. Develop people's livelihood, expand territory, let the people live and work in peace, and let the people in the world have enough food and clothing. This is what Your Majesty should do!"

After hearing this, Qin Shihuang nodded after a long time of silence: "Your beloved is reasonable, because I am too persistent. You just said that there is another vast world outside the Western Regions. It seems that I am like everyone in the Qin world, like a frog in a well watching the sky, which is really ignorant. Today, I have just returned and the carriages along the way are exhausted, so I will not leave you to talk for a long time. After a few days, I will come to the palace to talk to me about the Macedonian Kingdom and Alexander thousands of miles away from the Western Regions. Since there is a heaven outside the heaven, I cannot let myself continue to be ignorant..."

"Your Majesty wants to hear it, so I will naturally know everything. After I go home and make arrangements, I will come to the palace to discuss this matter in detail with Your Majesty. I will leave!" Chen Xu stood up and said goodbye.

"Okay, okay, come here, send the Marquis of Jingyang to Yunfei's bedroom to greet him, and then escort the Marquis of Jingyang out of the palace!"

Qin Shihuang stood up and sent Chen Xu to the gate of the yard. He watched several Xuanwu Guards and palace servants escorting Chen Xu to the harem. Then he turned around and sat down again. He began to stare at the green trees, flowers and plants all over the yard in a daze.

In the past, all the princes of the Central Plains focused on the central plains, thinking that the Central Plains was the center of the world, and that the prosperous and wealthy people in the world were the Central Plains, and all the barbarians lived in all directions. But today Chen Xu suddenly heard a piece of news that made him at a loss, that is, the world is not only the Central Plains, but also a wider world beyond the west, and a powerful country no less than the Great Qin. Even a hundred years ago, the kings of the West almost led the army to attack the territory of the Great Qin.

Although this statement cannot prove its authenticity, Chen Xu will definitely not speak nonsense, because it is not difficult for Qin Shihuang to verify this matter. If he organizes an army to kill along the Western Regions, he will naturally know the authenticity of the matter.

In the eyes of Qin Shihuang and the civil and military officials of the dynasty, the Huhu in the Western Regions were all slags. Under the current strong bows and hard crossbows and new pawn equipment and steel weapons, they would definitely be crushed to pieces.

But once he encountered the powerful Macedonian Empire mentioned by Chen Xu, Qin Shihuang felt worried.

The Qin Dynasty is indeed strong at present, but the people's livelihood is difficult in the country. If there is a fierce conflict with Macedonia, thousands of miles away, and the distance is long, the supply of weapons and food cannot be achieved, the consequences of the Qin army's labor force on the expedition are not predictable. Once the Macedonian Kingdom fails, the Macedonian Kingdom will chase and approach the Central Plains, and a fierce battle will inevitably be inevitable. If the nobles of the six countries in China take the opportunity to rebel, the Qin Dynasty's country may be subverted...

As the emperor of the ages, Qin Shihuang was conceited, but he was well aware of the dangers.

It took ten years to conquer the six countries alone, and they consumed countless money and food, millions of soldiers died, and even Zhao and Chu almost dragged down Qin State in two wars.
Chapter completed!