After Li Shun walked out of the palace, he still felt that his back was cold, and he wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve and hurried back to the hotel where he was staying.

"Master Li, after drinking tea, I should have taught the king to play mahjong, right?" After returning to the hotel, an official remembered that there was still an important task of cultural dissemination that had not been completed today.

"You're blind, you didn't see that Master Li was unwell!" Another official carefully helped Li Shun sit on the carpet and reminded, "Lord Li, your face is not very good, do you want the resting official to find a doctor to diagnose it!" ”

"It's okay, it's just that I'm suddenly a little dizzy, just take a rest, go to the city later, write down all the situations that should be remembered, and inquire about those who should be inquired by the way, and we will leave for Daqin in a few days!" Li Shun sat on the carpet and wiped the sweat on his forehead and said.

"Go back so soon?" A group of officials of the mission looked at each other.

"Well, we have been on the mission for more than two years, Your Majesty and the Marquis of Qinghe must still be looking forward to us bringing back the news of the Western countries, if it drags on for too long, I am afraid that they will think that we have encountered an accident, and it will inevitably affect Your Majesty and the Hou Ye to formulate the next national policy, this matter is more urgent, not to mention that the emperor of the Rest Empire has made it clear that he will send envoys to Daqin, our mission is also a success, and His Majesty will definitely reward him after going back, don't you want to go back early to eat delicious food, drink wine, visit Quyuan and sleep with a little lady......"

"Master Li said that his subordinates can't hold it anymore!"

A group of people immediately began to drool, and they all said that they really wanted to return to Daqin earlier.

In the following time, a group of people from the mission began to wander around the city to experience the customs and customs as they usually did when they arrived in other countries, and observed the living conditions of the country's soldiers, weapons, horses, and civilians, and visited some nobles and officials by the way.

When the envoy is out, he must observe carefully, be bold and careful, and be shameless, so that he can find out the information that Daqin needs most, this is Chen Xu's advice before leaving, and Li Shun and others keep it in mind.

And gathering intelligence is not very popular or convenient for the current earth civilization.

The Persian War, the Roman Crusade, the Middle East War, Alexander's Crusades, these wars of all sizes that affect human civilization, the role of military intelligence is very small, most of the wars are between the armies, just to see who has the big fist, to see who has the support of the gods, these wars between empires do not even use much strategy, for Westerners, they are full of muscles, never rely on brains to fight, what is on the military strategy, what Sun Tzu's art of war, what 36 strategies do not exist.

But for today's Great Qin, if you want to bulldoze all the civilizations on the earth, you want to plant the dragon flag of Great Qin all over the five continents and all over the world, which is more than ten times more difficult than conquering the six countries to unify China, whether it is population, weapons, transportation, logistics supplies, national strength, etc., it is not enough to support this kind of war that transcends the times, the farther away from its own territory, the more difficult it is to conquer, and the more difficult it is to manage.

Therefore, to assist Qin Shi Huang in attacking the world, war is not the only way, and even Chen Xu put it as the last means to consider.

In the face of this kind of strategy plan that transcends the times, then it is impossible to personally lead a muscular man like Alexander the Great to sweep the Mediterranean coast from the Balkan Peninsula to the Mediterranean coast, and then sweep Asia, Africa and Europe to conquer the world by force.

Military conquest is the easiest to fall apart in any era, but Europeans are happy to repeat the same process, from Alexander the Great to Napoleon, these emperors who are famous in the history of the development of civilization on earth, except for a moment of prominence, the final unified kingdom has fallen apart, even including Hitler's Third German Reich.

But China is different, since Qin Shi Huang's Great Qin really unified the centralized power of China, for most of the thousands of years has maintained a situation of unity and unity, and what maintains this unified situation is cultural identity, the same track and the same system, as well as the unity of thought, in which Taoist and Confucian culture have played an important role.

Of course, the situation in Europe is much more complicated than the situation of the disputes of the Chinese princes, the most important thing is the issue of religious belief, Egyptian civilization, Persian civilization, Greek civilization, Ganges civilization are on an interconnected continent, but different religions and beliefs have been produced, all kinds of chaotic gods do not belong to each other, resulting in endless battles between civilizations, although the Chinese Ming is also up and down in the constant struggle and continuous integration and development, although Europe, Africa, Central Asia, West Asia, including India have also been Hellenized, However, this process was very short-lived, and as a result, cultural and religious beliefs fell apart before they could be unified, and eventually did not develop into a unified whole like China.

There are many schools of thought in China, but there is a recognized origin, that is, the two emperors of Yan and Huang, and the disciples of any sect in China will inevitably be recognized and accepted by everyone, but if you read the Bible to the *** believers in the chaotic Eurasian junction, you are afraid that you will be beaten to death.

At this time, if you want to kill a completely different I Ching civilization in the already chaotic civilization of West Asia and Europe, and hold high the magic weapons of the Five Elements Bagua and Yin and Yang Taiji to attack everywhere, I am afraid that it will bring even more chaos.

The best conquest is the cultural conquest.

An important reason for the longevity of China is the inclusiveness of civilization, which will unconsciously absorb a large number of foreign civilizations and become part of its own civilization, rather than being strongly xenophobic like other religions and civilizations.

Just like Buddhism, since Buddhism was introduced into China, in fact, Buddhism has changed beyond recognition after local development, and Indian Buddhism has little to do with it, and with the rise of Chinese Buddhism, Indian Buddhism, as the origin of Buddhism, has been declining day by day, and has developed to its peak and extreme in the Tang Dynasty, and the world's Buddhist center has also shifted from India to China, and then spread to Japan, Tibet, Nanyang and other parts of the world.

And Taoism is also constantly integrated in the development of Buddhism, Taoism developed to the end of the three religions in one, the Quanzhen school will Confucianism, interpretation, Taoism into one, weekdays "Tao Te Ching", "Filial Piety Sutra", "Like the Heart Sutra" together to read and practice, this absorption and integration of different sects of religious development of the whole earth has no semicolon, only the Chinese are so generous and awesome, others want to learn can not learn, because their ancestors did not tell them that the threesome must have my teacher, choose the good one and follow it, then its bad and change the truth, Western civilization, never changed what they considered to be arrogant and barbaric, and as a result, the whole of Europe was never truly united.

In the face of such a chaotic situation of the entire earth's civilization, although Chen Xu knew some general situations outside of China, he also had to admit that Great Qin did not have enough strength to unify the world by force.

However, China can use another method to conquer the whole world.

That is to convince and win with virtue, and then play the cards again with the book, the car with the track, and the degree with the system.

Cultural expansion and commercial expansion went hand in hand, adopting the Western cultural invasion model of later generations, backing up the strong industrial manufacturing capacity after the Industrial Revolution, maintaining strong military pressure, and using colonization and feudal vassals to achieve the goal of conquering the whole earth.

Chen Xu's thoughts Li Shun and others are unknown, and no one in the entire Great Qin knows, but this does not prevent him from being able to borrow the identity and status of the Zuo Xiang and the prestige of the First Emperor to promote the continuous development of this process, so almost the entire Great Qin is working hard for his goal in the open and in the dark, including Li Shun and others, which is an important gear in this process, and under the promotion of Chen Xu, the machine of Great Qin to unify the earth has already started, and after several years of accumulation, it is finally time to show the cards.

Chen Xu must use the king of culture and economy to blow up the Western world, and will not give them the opportunity to invade China again.

Decades later, be sure to let them take the Chinese exam.

This resentment Chen Xu is very deep, deep.

……

In the next few days, Li Shun and the others, in addition to accepting some banquets from the rest of the nobles and the emperor, spent most of their time experiencing the customs of the rest of the imperial city and collecting various intelligence materials.

In the past few days, Antiochus III also inquired about the movements of Li Shun's mission through the accompanying officials, and the results he got made him very confused.

Unlike the missions from other countries, the envoys from Great Qin did not buy the various colors of gemstone agate that were abundant in Persia in the city, nor did they choose exquisite blankets, but instead searched for seeds of fruits and vegetables everywhere in the city, and were not very interested in anything else.

Although Antiochus was puzzled by the bizarre and strange behavior of the Great Qin Mission, he did not interfere too much, but instead asked the officials in charge of agriculture of the empire to help collect a lot of seeds and pack them and send them to the hotel, and at the same time, Antiochus III also constantly convened the ministers and nobles to repeatedly discuss how to establish friendly relations with Great Qin.

Five days later, the matter was basically roughly arranged.

Li Shun was summoned to the palace as the chief officer of the mission, and Antiochus III announced the decision that the Anxi Empire would send envoys to Daqin, and at the same time would gather a large caravan to Daqin for exchanges, and Li Shun also said that he would lead the envoy to return to Xianyang as soon as possible to bring the good news back to Daqin.

Coming out of the palace, Li Shun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

So far, the mission to the Western countries has finally successfully completed its mission.

"Master Li, someone wants to see you!" At dusk, Li Shun was discussing the path back to Daqin with a group of officials and the leader of the forbidden army in the hotel, when a forbidden army came in to report it.

"Who? Please come to my bedroom! Li Shun stood up and ordered.

"My lord, it was a masked woman who came to pass the word, saying that it was a noble person in the palace who was visiting, because it was inconvenient to enter the hotel, and she was waiting for you at the next music house!"

"The nobles of the palace?" Li Shun tugged at his beard inexplicably and thought for a while, and then a pair of beautiful sapphire eyes suddenly appeared in his mind, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly in an instant.

After a few busy days, he almost forgot about the woman, but at this time, he suddenly remembered, he found that he had an urge to see each other at the end of the day, and those big eyes were as clear and bright as sapphires, full of soul temptation, which made him a little reluctant.