Aristotle IV felt that he did not have Xiong Jing's respect from the beginning to the end, and when he first arrived in Yingdu, he asked Xiong Jing to greet him personally, but he did not greet him personally. This move made Aristotle IV very angry at the time, and the more he thought about it afterwards, the more unwilling he became.

This is a concrete manifestation of the barbarian's disrespect for talent, knowledge, and great civilization, and he has no idea what a great civilization and what a great nation he has behind him. Now that he sees King Qinni, he will not be stupid enough to go to Xianyang to ask King Qinni to greet him personally, he must King Qinni go to the border to greet him, otherwise he will not enter Qinni.

Aristotle IV himself didn't know that he was like a resentful woman, who was abused and abandoned by her former husband, and had a distrustful attitude towards every man in the future, and she wanted to vent the grievances suffered by her predecessor on the current one. Zhao Zheng, who suffered from unwarranted disasters, had to travel more than 1,000 miles west to meet him on the border. In addition, he had to undergo a series of tests, and if he failed the tests, Aristotle IV would still take someone back home.

Of course, Zhao Zheng didn't know that Lord Yidi was angry with the King of Chu, and finally wanted to vent it on himself. With the sincerity of his thirst for talent, he crossed the border the next day to welcome Aristotle IV into Qin.

His sincere actions were soon discovered by the scouts of the Chu army, who were preparing to intercept and kill the Sogdians, who rushed to the ambush site before the Qin vanguard arrived, and reported to Xiong Jingyu: "Your great king, the Di Dao Qin people have left the country to greet them. ”

"How far is it coming?" Xiong Jing looked to the south, and there were only mountains and forests in his eyes, not the Qin army.

"There were four or five thousand of them." The scout said, "It's only a dozen miles away. ”

"The Sogdians are only a dozen miles away." Li Qi shook his head repeatedly. I never thought that there would be a Qin army leaving the direction of Di Dao, according to the current situation. Before he ambushed the Sogdians, he was about to be flanked by the two Qin armies in front and behind. "The king, the minister thinks it is ......"

Li Qi's meaning is self-evident, and Yi Tong also said: "Our army has lost the opportunity, so we should leave here as soon as possible." ”

After Yi Tong finished speaking, his lips opened and closed again, and he spit out the shape of the word 'May'. May was the month when the Chu army attacked Jiuying, and an important part of the battle plan for attacking Jiuying was for Xiong Jing to lead his army upriver from the Han River and call on the local old Chu people to oppose Qin. If Xiong Jing could not arrive in time or could not arrive in time, the entire war plan would be greatly affected.

The word 'May' seems to be a tight spell, so Xiong Jing can only give up. He nodded in favor of retreat, and the more than 2,000 Chu and Zhao knights who were in ambush here all retreated to the northeast, crossed the Yellow River before the Qin people arrived, and disappeared into the vast snow forest.

"Why did the king ......" In the camp in the forest, Mi Xuan was worshipping the great priest devoutly, in order to ask the great priest to protect her man, she had just finished bowing to the god of the great priest, and Xiong Jing came back.

"The time is not good." Xiong Jing stood there, and Mi Xuan willingly helped him unarm.

"Then ......" Mi Xuan wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, she hoped that Xiong Jing would come back safely, but according to the courtesy, she should encourage him to go out to fight.

"I will return to Chu tomorrow." The armor was taken down by the maid, Xiong Jing turned around and hugged Mi Xuan into his arms, and after taking a heavy breath from behind her shoulders and neck, he praised: "It's so fragrant!" ”

"No Rouge ......" was taken out by Xiong Jingsheng in this way, and Mi Xuan didn't bring anything. However, the wife and concubine of the Qiang Dahao sent her some female red, jewelry, and clothes, and also gave her two maids, otherwise she would not even have a change of clothes.

"It's also very fragrant without rouge." Women have their own body fragrance, and what Xiong Jing smells is the body fragrance of Mi Xuan. And through the gap between the fur and the skin, he could see the white jade-like roundness in the depths of the fur. The blood began to rush to the brain again, and after only hugging Xiong Jing for a while, he let her go, and if he didn't let go, he would probably have another nosebleed.

"What?" Mi Xuan didn't know what was going on, and turned to look up at the man.

"Nothing." Xiong Jing was very calm, but somewhere in his body betrayed him, and the skin of Qi Xuan who touched it was instantly red, and he almost wanted to drip blood.

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"The widow has seen the adults. The lord entered the Qin State in person, and the few people were happy and convinced, so they greeted the ...... in person, "In the valley outside Di Dao, under the protection of more than 10,000 Qin troops, Aristotle IV finally met Zhao Zheng, and Zhao Zheng also met Lord Yidi. Although it is uncertain whether the Lord who appeared in Didao eight years later was Aristotle IV, the formal contact between Qin and the west of the Kunlun Mountains was brought forward by eight years. In the history that has not changed, that year he just swept away the six kingdoms and ruled the world.

Aristotle IV did not have much enthusiasm for Zhao Zheng, who, as he imagined, was a barbarian king of a low civilization. It turned out that he thought that the kingdom of Qin Ni was Sparta, and called it Spartan Qin, and after carefully reading the "Book of Shang Jun" and "Han Feizi", he found that he was wrong.

Sparta had citizens, a citizens' assembly, a council of elders, and an ombudsman. The power of the city-state was concentrated in the Council of Elders, and the thirty-member Council of Elders, with the exception of the two kings, the remaining twenty-eight members were all nobles. Sparta was ruled by the aristocracy (oligarchs), but Chinni was not. There were no nobles in Qinni.

Of course, this involves the question of what kind of person is a nobleman? In Aristotle IV's view, the nobility was a force that could compete with the king, not a servant who could only rely on the king's strength. The former can rebel against the king when his interests are harmed, and even go to war with the king, while the latter is nothing once he loses the king's trust.

The nobleman has a territory, an army, and a personal servant who is loyal only to himself, and he is a luminary; The latter is only a mirror, which is very dazzling when it reflects the sun's rays, and when it loses its brilliance, it becomes dull. Therefore, there were no nobles in Qinni, only Persian officials.

So was Chini the Persian Empire that had perished? It's like, but it's not.

The Persian Empire had a system of provinces, in which the king appointed governors of each province, but there were no officials below the governors. Or a governor is a petty king, and he has many tribes or city-states under his rule, and the tribes have their own chiefs, and the city-states elect their own representatives.

They paid taxes to the empire and served the emperor in the military, but there were certain limits to the amount of taxes and military service. For example, the sixteenth province of the Persian Empire, which was united by the Sogdianas, Parthians, Flowers, and Arians, stipulated that the annual tax to be paid was 300 Talientes. If this value is exceeded, it must be agreed by the Sogdianas, the Parthians, the Flowerzimos, and the Arians, and this consent will often turn into a war.

If the officials of the Qin Ni were appointed to the Pavilion according to the standard of receiving the salary of the kingdom, they would have jurisdiction over two hundred and fifty households; If it is not based on the standard of salary, the official appointment is up to the army and governs five households. This is incomparable to the Persian Empire, the provinces of the Persian Empire are just the counties of the Qin Ni Kingdom, and the emperor can only control it to the county level, while the Qin Ni can actually control the households.

The births, deaths, possessions, and family members of each household are recorded in the official Qin Ni Slip. Because of this, Qin Ni was able to recruit men from all over the country to rush to the battlefield. The kings and governors of Persia relied only on words to intimidate and induce the tribes and city-states in the province to send soldiers.

Cenny was not Sparta, not Persia, and certainly not Syracuse, and it seems that the whole known world could not find a suitable country or city-state to compare it with. In Aristotle IV's view, the closest thing to Qinni should have been Ptolemaic Egypt.

The Egyptian bureaucracy also went all the way down to the 'village', and the village chief was called Kaumak, who had his own scribe, who was responsible for social stability and public works in the 'village'. Egypt as a whole had a population of about 3 million, and there were more than 30,000 'villages', each of which had a population of about 1,000, similar to that of the 'pavilions' of the Chinni.

Outside of the bureaucracy, there were few merchants in Egypt, and almost everything ...... grain, textiles, salt, papyrus, beer, honey, fish, timber, spices, and so on was a state monopoly, much like the Chinni.

However, Ptolemaic Egypt was only close to Chinni, not identical. Egypt had its own unique religion, with temples independent of royal power, and a large priestly class, none of which the Qinni had.

The army of Ptolemaic Egypt mainly hired Greek soldiers and Macedonian soldiers to fight, but Chinni did not. However, in accordance with the practices described in the Book of Shang Jun, Aristotle IV believed that Qinni would soon use mercenaries as well, because the policy of 'weakening the common people' would eventually render the civilians ineffective.

When Zhao Zheng bowed to Aristotle IV, Aristotle IV was thinking about the similarities and differences between Ptolemaic Egypt and Qinni, so that after Zhao Zheng finished saluting, he did not react.

Li Si came with Zhao Zheng, and when he saw that the so-called Lord Yidi was so rude, he was about to reprimand, but Zhao Zheng stopped him. He may not know Li Si's intentions, but he doesn't want Li Si to ruin his image of being a talent-seeking.

"For the known world, because of the barrier between deserts and grasslands, the east where Qin Ni is located is just a wild land." Aristotle IV was slightly distracted, and then spoke. Wu Ji, who came from the state of Chu to greet him with Zhao Zheng, translated his words.

"I don't deny that there is already civilization in this wild land," Aristotle IV thought of Xiong Jing, and the corners of his mouth smiled. However, compared with the civilization of many countries and city-states in the West, due to geographical isolation and ethnicity, the civilization here is too simple and inferior, especially because there is no religion or temple.

I have brought a better civilization, and I have brought a better civilization to the gods. "Aristotle IV motioned to his retinue to tear open the thick curtain on the twelve carriages." If Your Majesty worships, worships these shrines, and prostrates to them, then a new civilization can be accepted; If Your Majesty is unwilling to do so, then I will return to Bactria. ”

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