It is indeed the emperor of the ages, and the idea of ​​destroying a country comes as soon as possible.

Chen Xu wiped his forehead and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, killing is not the way of emperors. Emperors should have the heart to cover all the worlds and deserts and surrender to all races. Just like the strategy of burning books, burning poetry, books and scriptures can only be blocked for a while but not for a lifetime. Those who believe in Buddhist doctrines are not just the Peacock Empire. Many Western countries believe in Buddhism. The world is so big that Buddhist disciples cannot be killed. Moreover, the West is thousands of miles away from our Great Qin, and may be revived at any time. The best way is not to suppress it, but to preach with one's own words, sending a large number of disciples from the West to preach, spreading the culture of China to the West.

, Let the nobles and civilians there believe in my Chinese culture. There is only one school in the Peacock Empire, and there are hundreds of schools of thought in my Great Qin. As one goes up and down, Buddhism will naturally decline slowly. Let the Western people learn my Chinese writing, read my Chinese poetry and books, practice my Chinese etiquette, and respect my Chinese laws. Not only do we need to conquer them in martial arts, but also culturally. It has been a long time since the Western people are naturally the same as my China. This is a great ruling. With both kindness and power, and etiquette and law, let these foreign countries respect my Chinese as orthodox, and submit to your Majesty for the New Year. My Great Qin will definitely surpass the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and all nations are just around the corner!"

"Well, I am still thinking carefully, using my might and obey my virtues. There are many Western countries. By spreading my Chinese culture, it is a strategy that is not bloody. This plan is very good, but..." Qin Shihuang still looked at the globe seriously, "I always feel that the globe made by my beloved has other meanings!"

Chen Xu laughed dryly and said, "Your Majesty, are you still wondering what the globe starts from east, west, south and north? "

"Yes, although the world is out of chaos, the world has long been separated now. Since there is a distinction between east, west, south, and north, there must be an end. It is rumored that the four poles are all seas. However, whether it is a map or a globe painted by Aiqing, although there are land and seas, the distinction is not clear. The extreme north is an ice ocean, the extreme south is a glacier, and there is no starting distinction between the east and the west, which is inconsistent..." Qin Shihuang looked up at Chen Xu seriously, hoping to get a reasonable explanation.

The emperor confirmed that Chen Xu was a disciple of the Immortal Family, but the disciples of the Immortal Family could not use this bad excuse to make the earth a ball, because having a map is enough, and it looks clearer and more natural. Why bother to get a globe out alone?

Based on the emperor's understanding of Chen Xu, this ball must have a deeper meaning.

Chen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. It seemed that the matter of offering a globe was still a bit hasty. It would be best to just present a map of the world. However, Chen Xu was not without any preparation for this matter.

"Your Majesty, have you heard of Kuafu chasing the sun?"

"Of course I heard that there are records of Shanhai Jing and Liezi Tang. During the Huangdi Emperor, a famous Kuafu wanted to catch up with the sun in the sky. Because of his thirst, he drank all the water from the river and Wei, and wanted to drink the water from Beize. As a result, he died of thirst on the road. This is known to everyone in the world. Moreover, there are two different records of Kuafu's death in Shanhai Jing. One is death from thirst, and the other is being killed by Yinglong, so he cannot believe that he has..."

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about Kuafu's death. It is also recorded in the Mountains and Seas. Outside the East Sea, there is the Kingdom of Xihe in Ganquan. The wife of Emperor Jun, the goddess Xihe, was born on ten days and bathed in Ganyuan. At this point, there were ten days to shine on the earth. The weather was hot and the river was cut off. Houyi shot down the nine suns and ordered it to rise east and set west. Only then did the day and night alternate, and all things on the earth slowly recover their vitality. This legend about the sun is also known to everyone, but where is the Kingdom of Xihe? No one knows it. The sun rises in Ganyuan, but it falls in Yugu. Ganyuan is outside the East Sea. Yugu is in the West, but the sun rises from the east every day. Doesn't Your Majesty find it strange?"

Qin Shihuang's face was dull.

The sun rises and sets in the east every day, which is common sense and common sense.

It seems that no one has thought about this issue in detail since ancient times, and even if he thinks about it, he cannot figure out the principle.

The sun rises from the east every day, then sets in the west, circulating again and again, but there has never been any record of how the sun returns to Ganyuan from Yugu.

Therefore, Chen Xu suddenly raised this question, and Qin Shihuang was stunned in an instant.

"Your Majesty, although the land is large, it is not without an end. The rising and setting sun seem magical, but it is not unexplainable. It's just that the scope of our activities is too small..."

Chen Xu stood up and pointed at the globe.

"Your Majesty, please see, if the sun starts in the East China Sea and sets in Yugu, the closer it gets to the west, the closer it is to the sun, and the more drier and hot the weather should be. But in fact, the situation of the foreign countries tens of thousands of miles away in the West is not much different from that of our Great Qin. The sun you see is not closer and larger, and it is not difficult to verify this. Just learn from Kuafu and keep walking westward, and you will find that no matter how you chase, the sun has always risen and set in the east, neither Ganyuan nor Yugu..."

When Chen Xu spoke, his hand slowly turned the globe. Qin Shihuang's eyes slowly condensed with the rotation of the globe. His face became sometimes serious, sometimes confused, sometimes strange. It seemed like a sun hanging above his soul in his mind, making his mouth dry and he couldn't help but take a teacup and drink sip after sip. At the same time, an extremely strange thought emerged in his heart, which was like a ghost, and he didn't wake up until he drank the tea.

"My dear, you...you won't say that the earth...the earth is really a spherical shape, right?"

Qin Shihuang seemed to have used all his strength to ask this question that he could not believe.

Chen Xu was still spinning the globe gently, but Qin Shihuang felt very dizzy when he looked at it.

"Your Majesty, there is a saying that seeing is real and hearing is empty. Whether the earth is round or square is too early is not of great significance to people's livelihood. However, according to the rise and fall of the sun, the earth is mostly spherical, and this is not my theory. Last time, I told Your Majesty the story of King Alexander of the West. He led tens of thousands of troops from the West to conquer countless countries and attacked the Peacock Empire. King Alexander is talented and has great strategies. This is mainly due to his knowledgeable teacher, Aristotle, a great wise man. He has extensive knowledge and researched the most profoundly in the universe and natural disciplines. He proposed that the world we live in is a sphere, called the earth. The reason why the sun rises and sets in the east is because the sun keeps rotating around the earth, just like this..."

Chen Xu held a teacup as the sun, and then slowly turned the globe.

...

Chen Xu is gone, and today's unprecedented palace music was the biggest test for him.

Once the statement that the earth is round is spread, I am afraid that people from the Academy of Sciences will turn against him instantly, including Zhang Cang.

And to verify the correctness of this theory, it is actually not as simple as Chen Xu said.

Tens of thousands of miles from the East to the West, it takes one or two years to go back and forth, and it also takes a boat to sail. Building huge sea boats and finding excellent navigators are difficult tasks at present.

But since we have decided to tell this, then dig a hole in Qin Shihuang's mind in advance and plant a seed, it will naturally take root and sprout slowly, because the West had already proposed the geocentric theory more than a hundred years ago and began the scientific theory of materialism, and mathematics, geometric and physics have made great progress.

If it weren't for religious repression and national chaos, Western science might have developed very quickly.

But unfortunately, the West has not developed into a huge centralized monarchy like China. Instead, relying on the influence of religion and myths to continuously crack down on the development of science. In addition, the continuous wars of Greece, Rome, Macedonia and other countries, the Apennine Peninsula and the Mediterranean coast were unable to calm down, and their development was not as good as China. Therefore, it was not until the end of the Middle Ages more than a thousand years later, with the help of the huge promotion of the Renaissance, that a large number of scientists began to doubt the theory of geocentric theory. Then a large number of navigators appeared one after another, using their respective exploration processes to confirm the theory of a sphere on the earth. Only then did Aristotle's conjecture prove Aristotle's conjecture, and this time had passed a thousand seven hundred years.

And for these 1,700 years, China has always been ahead of the West.

The reason for the leading is not because of the development of science and technology, but because although China is broken and merged, it is still under a unified centralized leadership. Compared with the chaos and religious suppression in the West, China still pays great attention to cultivation and people's livelihood cultivation, and there is no dark religious system like the Inquisition that surpasses the country.

But the so-called everything has its pros and cons. The centralized imperial rule of the Qin Dynasty, inherited by China, has indeed greatly maintained the stable development of China. However, the Confucian theory respected as the state religion has also developed more and more abnormally, and it has extremely rejected the progress of science. Driven by the wave of the Western Renaissance, when the West broke away from the influence of religion and began to vigorously develop science and technology, it was also the time when Chinese Confucian ethics were the most rampant and strict.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the West rose rapidly, but the East became more conservative after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass. After a period of over-promotion in Kangxi and Qianlong, China was completely defeated by Western civilization.

Although the development of Chinese civilization seems to have been ahead of the West for nearly two thousand years, in fact, it has laid a backward foundation since ancient Greece. The rise of the Qin Dynasty was also the time when Greek civilization flourished. Logic, mathematics, physics, ethics, and even astronomy and the study and cognition of life and soul developed by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, three closely inherited masters and apprentices, developed far beyond Eastern civilization, and the scientific theories born from the Western philosophical system have greatly surpassed the metaphysical theory of China and began to enter the scientific development period of materialism.

Although it is impossible to judge which one of science or metaphysics can truly dominate the future of mankind, when metaphysics can no longer push mankind forward, scientific theory is the best way to understand the world.

Oriental philosophy is idealistic.

Western philosophy materialism.

This is the biggest difference and difference in the development of two different civilizations, and it has also embarked on different paths.

The difference between Eastern and Western civilizations is that the driving force behind the continued progress of humanities, while the West is religion. China has begun to break free from the shackles of religion since the Spring and Autumn Period. The prosperity and rise of hundreds of schools of thought completely marginalize ghosts and gods. Sacrifice to heaven and gods gradually became a ritual, with very little impact on the country, while the West has been shrouded under the influence of religious culture, and religion is more repulsive to science, which has not developed in the West.

Otherwise, they might not have been able to wait until the Eastern Convenience will be tortured by the West during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, Chen Xu traveled through time and released scientific theories in advance in the desolate era of the Qin Dynasty. There was no turmoil or religious suppression. As long as he persuaded Qin Shihuang, the biggest boss, China would inevitably embark on the road of technological development in decades, and the chaotic West would no longer have any chance.

The Zichen Palace is quiet.

Qin Shihuang sat blankly on the chair, holding a teacup in one hand as the sun, and constantly tugging the globe with the other hand... Rotate... Rotate, his face could not tell the joy, anger, sorrow, but his eyebrows and beard kept shaking slightly, and it seemed like a pot of boiled porridge was about to spit out of his seven orifices.

He forgot when Chen Xu left.
Chapter completed!