Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 371 Surprise from foreign friends!

At present, Daqin's main sea ports are Langya and Penglai.

In the early years, these two ports had successively undertaken the task of going to sea to find immortals. After Da Qin decided to open the sea, both ports were expanded successively, especially Penglai, which is currently the main construction and improvement base of Da Qin's ships.

It is worth mentioning that after the decision was made to open the sea, with the help of Zhao Si's suggestions and drawings, Da Qin's sea ships began to be updated and iterated.

In the past, ships were mainly responsible for sailing in inland and offshore areas, so they were mainly flat-bottomed. Now, nearly three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Da Qin's first batch of new sea-going ships have finally been put into the sea.

Large ships in the past were similar to pavilions. Because of their shallow draft, there were many buildings on the decks.

Nowadays, the buildings on the decks of seagoing ships have been greatly reduced and moved below the deck. In short, the format has changed from an open-air-based format to a basement-based format.

In this way, due to the structure with a light top and a heavy bottom and a pointed bottom, the stability of the ship in high seas has been greatly improved. The improvement of the sail has made the sailing speed faster, but the load capacity has also been reduced accordingly.

At present, Da Qin's sea-going ships are already closer to the ship design of the Great Navigation Age, and the formats of sea-going ships and inland ships are also completely different.

When Maha landed in the territory of Daqin from Penglai Port, his first feeling was that it was huge!

Penglai and Langya, as the two most important seaports in the Qin Dynasty, were quite large and could accommodate hundreds of large ships to berth at the same time. There were also grain storage and weapons warehouses near the ports.

Da Qin's buildings are not luxurious, but focus on a calm atmosphere.

However, this low-key and huge architectural art still exceeded Maha's imagination.

Maha is the earliest slave country in Indonesia. If the level of science and technology must be compared with the historical civilization of the Central Plains, it would probably be the Xia and Shang dynasties...

It has initially mastered the copper smelting process, has certain animal husbandry development capabilities, and has certain clustered production capabilities. The domestic classes from bottom to top are slaves, savages, citizens, nobles, and monarchs.

It has everything it needs, but it's quite primitive in comparison.

There is absolutely no comparison with Da Qin.

"It's really unimaginable... There is more than one port like this in Daqin!" Mahar had an incredulous look on his face, like a savage seeing a cluster of towns for the first time.

Compared with Great Qin, everything in Ye Tiaoguo seemed so primitive and lacking.

Everything here shocked him.

"The houses here are actually so huge, with such exquisite lacquerware, and such beautiful patterns..." This was Maha's emotion when he entered the room to rest in Penglai for the first time.

With the passage of time and the development of society, lacquerware has gradually begun to spread to the entire society in Daqin, but in Yediao it is still a luxury item exclusive to the nobles.

When he enjoyed the meal for the first time, he also expressed incredible emotion.

"What an exquisite bronze, what exquisite craftsmanship and what superb craftsmen. An instrument like this is absolutely priceless!" Maha sighed once again.

After a night's rest, Ye Tiaoguo's envoy officially set out for Xianyang, accompanied by more than 100 soldiers, each with a horse and armor!

"I saw more than thousands of soldiers like this when I got off the ship. I heard that there were millions of soldiers like this in the Qin State. This country is so prosperous that Ye Diao cannot match it."

"Millions of people?"

"I'm afraid there aren't even a million people in Ye Tiao Kingdom!" the accompanying officials exclaimed in the language of birds.

Putting aside the huge number of savages and slaves, the number of legal citizens in Ye Tiao Kingdom is indeed less than one million.

"There are probably less than [-] soldiers in Ye Tiao Kingdom who can be fully armed with one man and one horse like this. It is really difficult for me to think of a way to be an enemy of such a country."

Maha was originally here to explore the truth. Da Qin was very generous and did not hide anything. It was precisely because of this generous display that Maha had great fear.

If it weren't for the vast sea, Maha had reason to believe that Qin could easily destroy Ye Tiao.

No, the sea cannot bring Maha a sufficient sense of security.

Facts have proved that the naval battle that caused the entire Ye Tiao Kingdom an incomparable headache, I am afraid that for Da Qin, it just freed up a hand for a while?
"When I go back, I will persuade my brother! It is not a wise move to anger such a king who commands millions of troops."

"It's just that Da Qin has been at war with our country for a long time, and Tunamu is good at starting border provocations. Now that Ye Tiao has turned against Da Qin, I really don't know how to calm down the anger of this king." Maha rubbed his brows and felt a headache.

After Qin's ships entered Ye Tiao's waters, a feudal noble became greedy...

To be honest, it was Ye Tiaoguo who provoked the naval battle first, and Ye Tiaoguo really didn't make any sense.

Now, this is what lies before Maha.

How should he avoid the worst case scenario? It is really not a good thing for Ye Tiaoguo to anger such a powerful country.

Maha hated Tunamu who was good at provocation.

The Ye Tiao Kingdom was established in the Java Island area and was the first country in Indonesia.

Because of the landforms of the island group, Ye Tiaoguo found it difficult to defeat Beihai Kindergarten.

The geographical conditions here are quite superior, and there are no strong foreign enemies. For Ye Tiaoguo, it means constant mergers, expansions, mergers, and expansions.

In the original history, this was indeed the case. As a slave country, Ye Tiaoguo was finally destroyed by civil strife 700 years after its founding.

But now, Ye Tiaoguo has provoked a powerful opponent.

The intensity is immediately maxed out, and the pressure rises immediately.

"I hope the king of Da Qin is a magnanimous monarch and can forgive our rude offense..."

The Mahars and others were slightly melancholy, chatting in the language of birds under the protection of the soldiers, and loudly plotted how to calm the anger of the king of Qin.

In a short while, the envoy of Ye Tiaoguo arrived in front of the Penglai City Gate and was about to embark on the official road.

After leaving the city, looking back at Penglai, the tall city walls and heavy gates left an indelible impression on Maha.

It was just a relatively ordinary city, but its size, prosperity and thickness were already comparable to the capital of Ye Tiao Kingdom.

But after leaving the city, the shock did not stop.The unimaginably wide and smooth official road attracted Maha's attention.

"Oh my god, it's so wide!"

Maha opened his hands and gestured. Da Qin's official road could probably accommodate more than a dozen horses running at the same time. The most important thing was that the bricks on the ground were arranged neatly, as if the person who built this road had some obsessive-compulsive disorder. Even the bricks on the ground were arranged neatly. Each brick is nearly the same size.

Not only that, Mahar keenly discovered that even the trees on both sides of the road were exactly the same.

Even the spacing between trees of the same type is almost the same. If you look at it, it is a neat straight line, just like copying and pasting.

"incredible!"

Maha subconsciously clenched his fists...

Ye Tiao Kingdom is not a completely closed country. Thanks to the archipelago's landforms, Ye Tiao Kingdom's navigation technology tree has developed relatively quickly. Although it is temporarily unable to sail across the ocean, it has established certain exchanges with the Indian mainland. .

Historically, the Indonesian area has been a dumping ground for the culture of the Indian subcontinent.

Therefore, Maha knows the concept of a great power.

For example, the Mauryan Dynasty is a big country across the sea from Indonesia!

He had heard other people's descriptions of the Maurya Dynasty, and had personally talked with businessmen from that area, but no matter the stories passed down by mouth or the records in the classics, they were far less severe than the shock brought by the Qin Dynasty.

This is a greater country than the Mauryan Dynasty!
The Mauryan Dynasty reached its true peak under the leadership of the late King Ayu. Compared with the unification of Qin, the current Mauryan Dynasty has almost unified the entire Indian subcontinent.

The achievements of his life can be clearly divided into two parts. The first half of his life was the era of "Black Ashoka", which was mainly through struggle to secure the throne and the basic unification of India through force. When he conquered the Kalinga Kingdom in about 261 BC, 15 people were captured, 10 were killed, and hundreds of thousands were killed or injured.Subsequently, all of India was unified except for the Mysore region.It is said that King Ashoka felt deeply remorseful after witnessing the massacre when he conquered the Kalinga Kingdom, so he stopped military expansion.

The second half of his life was the era of "White Ashoka", who worked hard to promote Buddhism across the country and contributed to the prosperity of this world-wide religion.The reign of King Ashoka became an era of unprecedented prosperity in the history of ancient India.He made Buddhism the state religion and did not persecute other sects. On the contrary, he also made generous donations to Brahmanism and Jainism.Because of Ashoka's emphasis on religion, political tolerance and non-violence, he ruled India amidst popular cheers for 41 years.

Under King Ashoka's vigorous promotion, Buddhism swept the entire Indian subcontinent, and Buddhism naturally came to Indonesia.

In terms of age, King Ah Yu was older than the First Emperor. He was from 303 BC to 232 BC, while the First Emperor was from 259 BC to 210 BC.

King Ah Yu died earlier than the First Emperor. Now King Ah Yu has passed away. After his death, he was succeeded by his son Sadetafan, also known as Maurya II. This guy succeeded to the throne for eight years and the Maurya Dynasty fast forwarded to Maurya. III.

By the way, at this point in time, the ruler of the Mauryan Dynasty is King Jucha, the grandson of King Ayu.

Objectively speaking, the two heroes, King A Yu and Emperor Shi Huang, who unified the surrounding territories respectively, encountered the same problem.

Because there is no historical prerequisite for great unification, social conflicts are unprecedentedly intense, and the successors of both are not good.

After the death of King Ayu, the Maurya Dynasty fell into fragmentation. After a series of violent operations during the Maurya II period, the Maurya Dynasty's control over the internal areas of the dynasty has declined slightly.

After Maurya III succeeded to the throne, he continued to make riotous maneuvers, losing the central authority, and finally completely defeated the GG.

Now is the period of Maurya III. The Maurya Dynasty is full of internal contradictions and social conflicts are accumulating. Without external influence, the Maurya Dynasty will fall into war in 20 years and eventually fall apart, fighting each other for a long time.

Of course, for Maha, even if it has obviously weakened, the Maurya Dynasty is not something that Ye Tiaoguo can touch.

If comparison is necessary, Ye Tiaoguo's relationship to the Maurya Dynasty is probably similar to that of the collective regime in South Vietnam to Great Qin.

It has a population and farming, but it is one version behind the main civilization.

The only difference is that South Vietnam borders Daqin and needs to be beaten.

The Maurya Dynasty and the Great Qin Empire seemed to be burdened with some mission to unify their respective places, and then they encountered roughly the same fate. Social conflicts increased unprecedentedly, and in the end, one of them died in the second generation and the other died in the third generation.

But the wheel of history has taken a new path.

Because of Zhao Si, the time traveler, the First Emperor successfully extended his life and lived a second life. The fate of the Qin Dynasty took a new path, but the Maurya Dynasty still maintained its original status and fell into a state of disintegration.

Obviously, even the Mauryan Dynasty of the Heavenly Kingdom cannot be compared with the current Great Qin Empire in Maha's heart. This can be seen from the shock of Maha and his party along the way.

Every time they visited a city or passed a place, Maha and others would sigh at the greatness of the Qin Dynasty and be in awe of everything about the Qin Dynasty.

Compared with the huge Maurya Dynasty, Maha believes that everything here is more orderly, which shows that the king of Qin must be a monarch with extremely deep rule.

"This is an empire as huge as the Mauryan Dynasty!" Maha said in a deep voice with deep awe in his eyes.

"No, the Peacock Empire does not have such warships, and it will not spend so much food and entangle Ye Tiaoguo for so long!" An official shook his head.

"If Ye Tiaoguo had the logistics and sea ships of Da Qin, I am afraid that Ye Tiaoguo would have been ruled by the Maurya Dynasty during the period of King Hei'a Yu."

"The Maurya Dynasty is closer to us than the Qin Dynasty!" Maha also subconsciously agreed.

After that, I seemed to realize something keenly.

In this way, it seems that being beaten up by Da Qin and forced to establish communication with Da Qin is not a bad thing?
Just like what the official around me said, Da Qin, a country more powerful than the Mauryan Dynasty, was far away from Ye Tiao Kingdom.

It is so far away that even such a great country can only fight Ye Tiaoguo at sea. They can only compete with quality but not quantity, and they cannot even fight on land.

Maha is not an incompetent person. He is very aware of how expensive it is to raise troops for an expedition. It is precisely because of this that he understands the power of Great Qin, which can raise troops across the sea.

So, facing a country so far away that would obviously do more harm than good by using force against itself...is it profitable?
In any case, as long as there are no more active provocations, at least Da Qin will not be able to raise troops against Ye Tiaoguo.

Granted, he may not be able to take away any wealth from here.

But what about technology?What about the system?What about culture?

Maha is the king's younger brother and has received a very good education since he was a child.

For a country that is on the same page as itself, there are so many things that can be obtained.

For example, how did an empire as powerful as the Qin Dynasty rule its huge number of people.

(Come here, I caught up on a chapter in the car to briefly introduce the situation of Nagada in India. Objectively speaking, the Mauryan Empire at the same time as the Qin Dynasty was really good. It was considered one of the peak periods of India.)
(End of this chapter)