Sure enough, it is an emperor through the ages, and the idea of destroying the country will come.

Chen Xu wiped the sweat on his forehead and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, killing is not the way of the emperor, the emperor, when you have the mind to encompass the world's eight wildernesses and surrender to all races, just like the original policy of burning books, burning poems and books can only block the meaning of poetry and books for a while, and those who believe in Buddhism are not only the Peacock Empire, many countries in the West believe in Buddhism, the world is so big, it is impossible for Buddhist disciples to kill them all, and the West is thousands of miles away from my Great Qin, it may resurge at any time, the best way is not to suppress, Instead, we will preach by word and deed, send a large number of hundreds of disciples to the West to preach, spread my Chinese culture to the West, and let the nobles and commoners there believe in my Chinese culture, there is only one faction in the Peacock Empire, and there are hundreds of schools in my Great Qin. The people of the West are naturally no different from our Chinese people, and this is the great unification. Grace and power are equally important, and etiquette and law are carried out simultaneously, so that these foreign countries respect me as orthodox in China, and submit to Your Majesty in the New Year, my Great Qin will inevitably surpass the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, and all nations will come to the dynasty just around the corner! ”

"Well, it's still Aiqing's thoughtfulness, with prestige, with moral obstacles, there are many Western countries, and by spreading my Chinese culture to break its foundation, it is really a bloodless strategy, this plan is very good, but ......" Qin Shi Huang still twisted his beard and looked at the globe seriously, "I always feel that this globe made by Aiqing has other meanings!" ”

Chen Xu laughed dryly and said, "Your Majesty, do you still have any doubts about the origin of the east, west, north and south on the globe?" ”

"Yes, although heaven and earth are out of chaos, but now heaven and earth have long been separated, since there is a distinction between east and west, north and south, there must be an end, it is rumored that the four poles are all seas, but whether it is a map or a globe drawn by Aiqing, although there is land and sea, but the distinction is not clear, the extreme north is the ice ocean, the extreme south is a glacier, and the east and west are connected together without any starting distinction, this is unreasonable......" Qin Shi Huang looked up and looked at Chen Xu seriously, hoping to get a reasonable explanation.

It was good for the emperor to confirm that Chen Xu was a disciple of the Immortal Family, but the disciple of the Immortal Family couldn't use a lame excuse to make it easy to observe the earth as a ball, because it was enough to have a map, and it looked more clear and natural, so why bother to get a globe alone?

With the emperor's understanding of Chen Xu, this ball must have another deep meaning.

Chen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, it seems that the matter of offering a globe is still a bit hasty, it should be best to donate only a world map, but Chen Xu is not without the slightest preparation for this matter.

"Your Majesty, have you ever heard of Kuafu's day-by-day?"

"Naturally, I have heard that the Book of Mountains and Seas and Liezi Tangwen are all recorded, when the Yellow Emperor said, there was a famous person who praised his father, who wanted to catch up with the sun in the sky, because he was thirsty and drank the water of Hewei, and wanted to drink the water of Beize, but he died of thirst on the road, this matter is known to everyone in the world, and there are two different records of the death of Kuafu in the Book of Mountains and Seas, one is said to die of thirst, and the other is said to be killed by Ying Long, so it cannot be believed that it has a ......"

"Your Majesty, there is no need to entangle the death of Kuafu, the same is contained in the Book of Mountains and Seas, beyond the East China Sea, there is the country of Xihe in the sweet spring, the wife of the emperor and the goddess Xihe was born for ten days, bathed in Ganyuan, so far there are ten days of shining on the earth, the weather is hot and the river is cut off, Hou Yi shot down nine days only one remains, ordering it to rise in the east and fall in the west, so that there is an alternation of day and night, and all things on the earth are slowly recovering their vitality, this legend about the sun is also known to everyone, but where is the country of Xihe? No one knows, the big day is in Ganyuan, but it falls in the valley of Yu, Ganyuan is outside the East China Sea, and the valley of Yugu is in the west, but the sun rises from the east every day, doesn't Your Majesty think it's strange? ”

Qin Shi Huang's face was sluggish.

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

It seems that no one has thought about this problem since ancient times, and even if they did, they couldn't figure out how it worked.

The sun rises in the east every day and then sets in the west, reciprocating, but there is no record of how exactly the sun returned from Yugu to Ganyuan.

Therefore, Chen Xu suddenly raised this question, and Qin Shi Huang was instantly stunned.

"Your Majesty, although the land is big, it is not endless, the sunrise and sunset seem magical, but they are not inexplicable, it's just that the scope of our activities is too small......"

Chen Xu stood up and pointed to the globe.

"Your Majesty, please see, if the sun rises in the East China Sea and sets in the Yu Valley, then the closer to the west the land should be closer to the sun, and the weather should be more arid and hot, but in fact, the situation of the foreign countries tens of thousands of miles away in the west is not much different from my Great Qin, the sun seen has never been closer and larger, and it is not difficult to verify this matter, just learn from that Kua Father day by day, keep walking west, you will find that no matter how you catch up, the sun has always risen in the east and set in the west, neither Gan Yuan nor Yu Valley...... ”

When Chen Xu spoke, his hand slowly rotated the globe, Qin Shi Huang's eyes slowly condensed with the rotation of the globe, and his face became sometimes serious, sometimes confused, sometimes strange, and his mind was like a sun hanging above the soul, so that his mouth was dry, and he involuntarily took a sip and sip of the teacup, and at the same time an extremely strange thought came out of his heart, like a ghost, and he didn't wake up until he drank the tea dry.

"Aiqing, you...... You don't speak of the earth...... Is the earth really spherical? ”

Qin Shi Huang seemed to use all his strength to ask this question that he himself could not believe.

Chen Xu was still gently rotating the globe, and Qin Shi Huang felt very dizzy when he looked at it at this time.

"Your Majesty, there is a saying that seeing is believing and hearing is false, whether the earth is round or square is said early, it does not mean much to the people's livelihood, but according to the rise and setting of the sun, the earth is spherical nine times out of ten, and this is not the theory of the minister, the minister and His Majesty last time told the story of King Alexander of the West, he led tens of thousands of troops from the west all the way to conquer countless states, all the way to attack the current Peacock Empire, King Alexander is eloquent, This is mainly due to the fact that he had a very knowledgeable teacher, this man was called Aristotle, a great wise man, he dabbled in a wide range of subjects, the most profound study was the universe and natural sciences, he proposed that the world we live in is a sphere, called the earth, and the reason why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west is because the sun is constantly revolving around the earth, like this......"

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

……

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

Once the saying that the earth is round spreads, I am afraid that the people in the Academy of Sciences will instantly turn against him, including Zhang Cang.

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

Tens of thousands of miles from the east to the west, it takes a year or two just to come and go, and you have to sail by boat, building huge ships and finding good navigators are difficult tasks to accomplish at the moment.

But since it has been decided to say this, then dig a pit in Qin Shi Huang's heart in advance and plant a seed, and it will naturally take root and sprout slowly, because the West has put forward the geocentric theory as early as more than 100 years ago, and has begun the scientific theory of materialism, mathematics, geometry and physics have made great progress.

If it weren't for the repression of religion and the chaos of the state, science in the West might have developed very quickly.

But it is a pity that the West has not developed into a huge centralized monarchy like China, but relies on the influence of religion and mythology, constantly attacking the development of science, coupled with the continuous wars of Greek, Roman and Macedonian, the countries of the Apennine Peninsula and the Mediterranean coast have not been able to stop, and the development is not as good as China, so it has been until the end of the Middle Ages more than a thousand years later, with the great impetus of the Renaissance, a large number of scientists began to doubt the theory of geocentrism, A large number of navigators then appeared, and confirmed the theory that the earth was round and sphered in their own expeditions, thus proving Aristotle's conjecture, and this time has passed for a full 1,700 years.

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

The reason for the leading position is not because of the development of science and technology, but because although China is divided and merged, it is still under a unified centralized leadership, compared with the chaos and religious suppression of the West, China still attaches great importance to cultivation and people's livelihood, and there is no dark religious system such as the Inquisition that transcends the state.

But the so-called everything has advantages and disadvantages, the centralized imperial rule of the Great Qin of the Chinese inheritance has indeed greatly maintained the steady development of China, but the Confucian theory that is respected as the state religion has also developed more and more perverted, extremely rejecting the progress of science, under the impetus of the Western Renaissance wave, when the West got rid of the influence of religion and began to vigorously develop science and technology, it was also the time when Chinese Confucianism and etiquette 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 Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and after a period of prosperity in the Kangqian Dynasty, which was touted as excessive, China was completely defeated by Western civilization.

Although the development of Chinese civilization seems to have been ahead of the West for nearly 2,000 years, it has actually laid a backward foundation since ancient Greece, and the rise of Great Qin was also the time when Greek civilization flourished. Logic, mathematics, physics, ethics, and even astronomy, as well as the study and cognition of life and soul, developed by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, have far surpassed the Eastern civilization, and the scientific theories born from the Western philosophical system have greatly surpassed the Chinese metaphysical theories and begun to enter the period of scientific development of materialism.

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

Eastern philosophical idealism.

Western philosophical materialism.

This is the biggest divergence and difference in the development of the two different civilizations, and therefore they have embarked on different paths.

The difference between Eastern and Western civilizations lies in the fact that the driving force that can support the East to continue to move forward is the humanities, while the West is religious, and China has begun to get rid of the shackles of religion since the Spring and Autumn Period.

Otherwise, they may not be able to wait for the Ming and Qing dynasties when the East will be abused by the West.

Therefore, Chen Xu crossed over and released the scientific theory in advance in the lonely era of Great Qin, there was no turmoil, no religious suppression, as long as Qin Shi Huang was convinced, the biggest boss, China would inevitably embark on the road of scientific and technological development in a few decades, and the chaotic West would no longer have any chance.

It was quiet in the Zichen Palace.

Qin Shi Huang sat in a daze, holding a teacup in one hand to act as the sun, and the other hand constantly rotating the globe...... Revolve...... Spinning, his face could not be seen to be happy or sad, but his eyebrows and beard were constantly shaking slightly, and his mind was like a pot of boiling porridge, fluttering and squirting out of the seven orifices.

He forgot when Chen Xu left.

All he had in his eyes was the spinning wooden ball now, and his eyes were spinning over and over again over and over the small piece of Da Qin that had been painted black.