The officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion easily found Cheng Miao. When Cheng Miao, who was wearing a prison robe with geyi tattoos on his face and heavy shackles, was brought to Meng Zhao by the officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Meng Zhao was overjoyed and found a treasure.

Cheng Miao wrote a neat and simple square-shaped official script with a Meng Tian pen and a quill pen on the spot and handed it to Meng Zhao. Meng Zhao finally determined that the person he had been looking for for all year was Cheng Miao. At that moment, he took Cheng Miao and the words he wrote into the palace to see the King of Qin.

King Qin immediately summoned the two of them, and saw that the words written by Cheng Miao were not only concise and beautiful, but also more convenient to write, and the king was very happy. Pardon Cheng Miao's sins on the spot, and let him cooperate with Meng Zhao to complete the great feat of Shu Tongwen as an ordinary scribe.

On September 15, a grand court meeting was held. Montenegro wore the high crown of the eldest lord early in the morning, and wore a Shu brocade official robe with an embroidered red collar, and the position was arranged next to the seat of the teacher Meng Zhao. Only then did he find out that he was the fifth chief of the Qin Dynasty canonized. and Prime Minister Wang Juan, National Lieutenant Wei Yu, Wang Qian, Wang Ben and his son are the same as the same lord.

At the meeting, the first thing to do was to announce the assessment results of each county in the past year. Tao County undoubtedly won the first place, because under the same tax rate, Tao County has brought more wealth and income to the empire by relying on paper mills, printing houses, and cotton mills than the traditional top of the list.

Another county that stands out is the far-flung county of Ille. Illeg County is now the political, economic, cultural, and trade center of the Western Regions. This year, in addition to the government personnel, there was also a huge trading caravan from Ille, and there were more than 500 camel peaks alone. Merchants wore a variety of accents, skin tones, and clothing. This year, there are more than a dozen truckloads of jewelry, jade, and spices that have been directly handed over to Xianyang by Yile County.

The official sent back by Yile County was none other than Qin Feng, who was now a ninth-level Fifth Doctor. Qin Feng stood up and said to everyone: "Your Majesty, there is a once very powerful Macedonian Empire thousands of miles west of Ilek, and when Macedonia was at its strongest more than a hundred years ago, it far surpassed Great Qin in terms of land, population, and scientific and technological civilization. Now the Macedonian Empire is declining, and the new Roman Empire is growing stronger. There was a merchant named Faisal in the caravan, who was well-informed, and had learned Qin Yan in the three years of Irejun County, and General Qin Zhong hoped that the king would summon him and learn more from Faisal! ”

The king of Qin was overjoyed and immediately summoned Faisal. Montenegro saw Faisal with deep eye sockets and high nose bridge, dressed in white clothes and white hats, typical of the Arab race.

Faisal was neither humble nor arrogant, came to the palace, learned the habits of the Qin people to salute the Qin king and ministers, and said in a special accent: "Your Majesty the Great King of Qin, Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman pays you high respect!" ”

Faisal's self-introduction, the name was too long, King Qin couldn't understand it for a while, and looked at Qin Feng. Qin Feng said: "That's Faisal's full name, and after the name is the name of his ancestor. The king only had to call him Faisal. ”

When King Qin heard this, he smiled and said, "Faisal, I heard that you are well-informed, and you have been here in Great Qin for more than half a month, right?" What do you think of Great Qin compared to the Macedonian Empire? ”

"Your Majesty King Qin, Great Qin is indeed very prosperous and beautiful. But compared to the Macedonian Empire, there is still a big gap. Faisal said.

"The barbarians are arrogant! Dare to despise me Daqin! Suddenly, he shouted angrily, and immediately many ministers scolded as soon as they left, and someone had already asked to kill this arrogant alien.

Faisal, calm and composed, saw that King Qin was smiling and not angry, so he took out a large parchment, handed it to King Qin, and said, "Dear Your Majesty King Qin, this is the building I have drawn from all over the world. Your Majesty, please take a look. ”

Zhao Gao quickly took the book and handed it to King Qin. The king of Qin put the book on the king's case, typed the big book and looked at it carefully, his face was full of curiosity, but he couldn't understand the words inside, so he said: "Faisal, you go forward and explain these buildings to the widow." ”

Faisal stepped forward a few steps, knelt down opposite the king's case, and explained seriously: "This is the lighthouse of Alexandria, sixty feet high. This is an Egyptian pyramid with a square pyramid, seventy zhang high. This is the statue of the sun god, about fifteen zhang high......"

Faisal traveled the world at the age of seventeen, and he had indeed visited many places in the past 20 years, and when he introduced the great buildings of the West to the King of Qin, he was foaming at the mouth, and the King of Qin also listened to it with relish. After speaking, he suddenly asked playfully, "I heard that Great Qin is full of talents, I don't know if anyone knows the use of these buildings?" ”

The main hall suddenly fell silent, not to mention that they had seen it, and they had not even heard of it. Everyone looked at Prime Minister Wang Juan and Meng Zhao at the university's sacrifice.

Montenegro hurriedly took a step forward and said, "Faisal, I'll come and see what is so strange about the buildings you painted. ”

Faisal moved to the side, and Montenegro also sat in front of the king's case, and when he saw that the first one was an Egyptian pyramid, he said: "This cone-shaped building is the tomb of the king built by the ancient Egyptians five thousand years ago, and the whole tower is made of huge stones, and the building in front should be a human-faced beast." ”

Montenegro turned another page, it was the Alexandria Lighthouse in Egypt, and said: "The Alexandria Lighthouse was built about sixty years ago to guide ships in the vicinity of Alexandria. He was named after Alexander the Great, the conqueror of the Macedonian Empire more than two hundred years ago! ”

Montenegro saw that the third page was the Colossus of the Sun God of Rhodes, and introduced: "This is the Colossus of the Sun God, built in the port of Rhodes Harbor, the whole body is cast in bronze, it was just built 60 years ago, and the local ground shook the year before last, and it has collapsed!" There is nothing unusual about what you have brought, I have already seen it in the Great Qin Kingdom! I Daqin just don't like to build this kind of labor, waste of money, and have no practical things! ”

These buildings were copied and introduced in detail in the window of the world of a special zone in Guangdong Province in later generations. Montenegro visited many times, and the introduction was easy, and Faisal and everyone were dumbfounded.

Faisal saw that he was so proud of something, and even the young man in front of him knew everything about it, and suddenly he lost his arrogance, and his face turned much paler.

Seeing that Faisal was speechless, King Qin laughed and said: "It is not easy for Faisal to come from tens of thousands of miles away, your book is very popular with widows, you make a price, how about the widows buy it?" ”

Faisal's face was flushed, his eyes rolled, and he had another plan, and he stroked his beard and said: "I plan to stay in Xianyang for two months, as long as His Majesty King Qin gives me one grain of rice on the first day, two on the second day, four on the third day, and so on, every day is double the rice of the previous day, and after sixty days, this book will be Your Majesty's!" ”

When Montenegro heard it, this foreign ghost was playing a math game with King Qin, and he understood that there was no one in Qin! I was about to make King Qin refuse, but I didn't expect King Qin to know what the plan was, so he immediately agreed: "Faisal is so strange that he made such a request!" The widow has promised you! ”

Faisal listened, and with a smug smile on his face, he took his leave.

After Faisal left, Montenegro hurriedly said to the King of Qin: "Your Majesty, we have fallen for this Hu man, and with his calculation method, I am afraid that all the grain produced by Great Qin in a hundred years will not be enough for him." He's despising me, and there is no one in Daqin! ”

"What? Want so much food? King Qin asked in surprise.

The military officials above the hall were all suspicious of Montenegro's statement and looked at each other.

"Zhang Cang, you immediately calculate how much food you will give to this Hu man in sixty days." King Qin said.

Zhao Gao immediately asked someone to bring the abacus and hand it to Zhang Cang. Zhang Cangfei quickly pulled out the abacus, and after a while, wiped the cold sweat and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has calculated, a total of 2 million stone of grain will be paid, and the total grain output of Daqin this year is 70 million stone, and the total output of 300 years will be paid in full." ”

This figure was unexpected by everyone, and everyone scolded Hu Shang for being cunning.

Qin Feng said angrily: "The king forgives the sin, and the last general will go and kill Faisal now!" ”

"Kill this arrogant Hu Shang!" The ministers shouted one after another.

King Qin, who has always been decisive in killing, didn't know what to do, and was hesitating, and Montenegro said: "The king doesn't have to be angry, leave this matter to the ministers, I promise that Faisal will obediently come to the king to make amends within half a month!" ”

"Montenegro, do you have any good ideas, tell the widow about it!" King Qin asked happily.

"Your Majesty, from this day onwards we will give him bread every day, as he has said. All we have to do is order the inn to stop paying more for food, and then order that the whole city is not allowed to sell grain or food to them, and within ten days, they will have to come and apologize to our king if they don't want to starve to death!" Montenegro said.

"Hahaha, brilliant plan! Just do what Montenegro says! King Qin sneered.

Faisal was very proud that his cleverness had not been recognized. As soon as he returned to the post house, a black-clothed Qin official immediately sent a grain of rice. A complacent Faisal wanted to take a few of his right-hand men to the tavern outside to celebrate, but found that no one was willing to sell them food. I had to come back from the bout to eat the dry food that I didn't finish on the way. Four days later, the dry food was exhausted, and Faisal understood that someone in Daqin had already seen through his little tricks. If you don't plead guilty, the whole caravan will starve to death. I had no choice but to apply to Qin Feng, willing to give the book to King Qin for free, and apologize to King Qin.

The king of Qin did not bother with Faisal, and made him a doctor, and worshiped him as a guest, and rewarded Faisal with a mansion and many treasures, among which were several Macedonian gold coins that were snatched back from the Xiongnu. When Faisal saw the gold coin, he believed that someone from Great Qin had already visited the Macedonian Empire, which was tens of thousands of miles away. At this time, the Macedonian Empire was at war and the emerging Roman Empire was on the rise. Faisal never left, and since then he has settled in Xianyang with peace of mind, occasionally entering the palace to tell the King of Qin about the Macedonian Empire's Fengshi and scientific and technological civilization. Faisal thus became the ancestor of the first Hui tribe in Great Qin.

Meng Fuzi's Shutongwen team has been preparing for almost a year, and has sorted out all the seven languages. With Cheng Miao joining, more than 3,000 commonly used words were quickly created. The new Liti character absorbs the essence of pictographs and huiyi characters, and the font is set as square, and the strokes are also unified and standardized into points, horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, pinch, and so on.

Montenegro was very excited to see these new fonts as if they were relatives in later generations. On this day, he and Meng Fuzi came to the office of the Shutongwen Project and met Cheng Miao and many scholars. Montenegro suddenly thought: "If the punctuation marks that only appeared in later generations are also written into the same text of the book, not to mention the great achievement, at least it will be a great feat." After making up his mind, he picked up the brush and wrote two sentences on the paper: "Raising pigs is as big as a mountain and the head of a mouse is dead, and the wine tank is good for vinegar and jar sour." And hang them on the wall.

Montenegro called Cheng Miao and the others to come to see his masterpiece and asked, "Which of you will read the meaning of these two sentences!" ”

"It is worthy of being the proud protégé of the dignified Mengfuzi, this character is written in a very stylish way!" Everyone first ridiculed the word Montenegro.

Fortunately, Montenegro has a black face and does not show redness.

"Pigs are as big as mountains, and rats are dead. The wine tank is good, and the vinegar jar is sour. It is a good blessing. One of the men said.

Immediately, another scholar read: "Pigs are as big as mountain rats, and their heads are dead." The wine vat is good for vinegar, and the jar is sour. This is clearly a curse! ”

Immediately the crowd argued.

Montenegro said: "The same language, different readings, but two different meanings. I'll write it again, and everybody read it again. After Montenegro finished speaking, he immediately picked up his pen and added commas and full stops to the two sentences. When you read it again, it all means the same thing. Everyone said that these two little symbols were magical.

Montenegro simply wrote out all the punctuation marks in later generations and explained them in detail to everyone one by one. And take out a newly written article, after dotting the punctuation, everyone reads it more easily, and the author's meaning is more clear at a glance. In the end, it was agreed that punctuation should also be included in the outline as part of the book.

Just after discussing punctuation with everyone, King Qin suddenly summoned Montenegro into the palace. Montenegro hurriedly returned to his house, changed into a big chief's uniform and came to King Qin's study. There are also Wei Yu, Meng Tian, Wang Jian and Wang Ben in the study. As soon as Montenegro saw it, he knew that he was going to discuss the plan to destroy Chu again today.

"I have summoned you here today to discuss the destruction of Chu again. The widow wants to send troops after the autumn of next year, and he will choose one of the four of you to be the main general, what do you think? King Qin spoke first.

"Wang Ben is willing to lead the army to destroy Chu and avenge the more than 100,000 soldiers who died in battle!"

"Meng Tian is willing to lead the army to attack Chu again, vowing to capture the King of Chu and Xiang Yan alive, and atone for his sins!"

Wang Ben and Meng Tian immediately expressed their position, and Montenegro and the veteran Wang Jian were silent.

"What does General Wang think?" King Qin turned his head and asked Wang Qian.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have often been thinking about who will attack Chu these days. Dog Wang Ben, Meng Tian, and Montenegro are all handsome. The minister is old, and his energy is not as good as before. Rongchen can only decide if there are three people who take the school exam. Wang Jian stepped forward and saluted.

King Qin waved his right hand and signaled that Wang Jian could start.

"The three of you, let's talk about this year's battle against Chu, the strategies and tactics of both sides, and the main reasons for the defeat of our army." Wang Jian asked.

Both Meng Tian and Wang Ben carefully analyzed the situation of the two sides, and attributed the main reason for the defeat to the rebellion of Changping Jun. After the two analyzed, they were affirmed by everyone.

"General Montenegro, tell me what you think!" Wei Yu said.

Montenegro was confident and said: "I will look back on the whole war later, I think that even if Changping Jun does not rebel, our army has no chance of victory!" From the very beginning, Xiang Yan firmly grasped all the initiative. ”

As soon as Montenegro's words came out, everyone was surprised, and Wang Jian said: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”

"At the beginning of the war, the morale of our army was at its peak, and Xiang Yan gave up the main cities of Chen County and Hengshan County, and the walls were clear. However, it took advantage of the dense water network of Chudi, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and it firmly controls the vast mountainous areas. The large army was reduced to pieces, lurking in the rear of our army, gathering and scattering from time to time, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to attack our rear with heavy grain and grass, and gathering small victories into big victories. I call Xiang Yan's method of warfare guerrilla warfare. In the first stage, on the surface, we occupied many cities, but in fact, Xiang Yan's losses were very limited, but we suffered heavy losses. In the second stage of the war, after our army captured Juyang Pass, the battle line was lengthened again, but Xiang Yan could easily gather the main force, defend Yingshou and Pengcheng, and then use the water division to cut off the supply line of our army, so there was no need to fight this battle, wait for our army to run out of food, and then fight a decisive battle, Li Xin's army will be defeated. Even if our army captures Pengcheng, as long as Xiang Yan's 200,000 army holds on for another three or five days, Li Xin's army will be wiped out. Therefore, at that time, the general used the threat of relocating all the people of Pengcheng and burning Pengcheng to force Xiang Yan to let Li Xin's army live. If the State of Chu and Great Qin were as united, Xiang Yan would not have to worry about losing Pengcheng and losing his foundation. He could have held out for another five days, destroyed Li Xin's army, and then led his army northward to recapture Pengcheng with superior forces, and our army would be completely defeated. Changping Jun's surrender to the enemy is just to make Xiang Yan's plan smoother and make our army lose more grain, grass and materials! "Montenegro's analysis, everyone listened to it like an enlightenment.