Chapter 81: The army discovers the port of Egypt and plans to rob the library
"Hurry up and report to Your Majesty, we are home!" A soldier on the watchtower shouted excitedly.
In the cabin, Fusu, who had finally been able to eat in his mouth for the past two days, was munching on chicken legs (sorry, seafood is allergic, Fusu's injury is not yet healed, Zhang Zhongjing didn't let him eat it): "What? So fast?", Fusu put all the chicken legs into his mouth and ran to the deck.
"-" Fusu cursed: "I know it's impossible, I have only been at sea for more than half a month, and it would be hellish if I could return to Huaxia." ”
"Huh? No, there, isn't there the lighthouse of Alexandria! Although the historical lighthouse sank completely to the bottom of the sea due to two earthquakes as early as 1428 AD, the later Egyptian government spent a lot of money to invite countless experts and scholars, and finally rebuilt the tower as it was after reading countless ancient books, and Fusu was fortunate to see it when he traveled in Egypt.
Thinking of this, an extremely evil idea was born in Fusu's mind, that's right, robbery, he wanted to implement the three-light policy in Egypt under Macedonia: that is, burn all, kill all, rob all!
Just do it, Fusu immediately went back to the cabin and asked someone to call Li You and Li Ru over, and the three of them began to discuss.
"Your Majesty, this Egypt is an important territory of Macedonia, and its governor Ptolemy is an excellent commander under Alexander, there must be a heavy army here, we must not go deep alone, otherwise once it falls into a stalemate, it will be over!" Li You analyzed that he had been in Europe for more than a year and was quite familiar with the situation in various places.
Weichen seconded. Li Ru also said.
Both of them objected, and Fusu had to think about it.
"That's it," he said, "how about sending Ran Min and Xiang Yu to lead a small elite army disguised as oriental merchants to attack the Library of Alexandria in the city, pack up all the books in it, and let Gan Ning lead people to pick them up on the way?" ”
In any case, all the books in this Library of Alexandria are going to be taken away, Fusu laughed in his heart, labor and management are going to set back your technology by twenty years, hahaha.
How awesome is the Library of Alexandria?
It contains all the manuscripts of the famous Greek poet Homer from the 9th century BC, and was copied and translated into Latin for the first time in the library;
It contains many original works by the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, including the Geometric Primitives; The theoretical work on heliocentrism by the ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus, who proposed the Copernican theory of the sun and the earth as early as 270 BC;
The original manuscripts of the three great tragic writers of ancient Greece; Many manuscripts of Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician and the founder of Western medicine; the first Greek translation of the Old Testament Pentateuch; The ancient Greek philosopher, scientist Aristotle, and scholar Archimedes, who also contributed to medicine, have written and left their handwritings.
In addition, many works of philosophy, poetry, literature, medicine, religion, ethics and other sciences of the ancient Egyptians and Ptolemaic periods were collected here. At its peak, it was said that the library had a collection of more than 500,000 volumes of manuscripts of various types (papyrus rolls).
In addition, scholars from all over the world flocked to the area, such as Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek geographer, astronomer, mathematician, and poet, and Aristarchus, the ancient Greek philologist, who served as the director of the Library of Alexandria.
Wise sages such as the philosopher Enesidmu, the mathematician and physicist Archimedes also lectured or studied here, giving the library the reputation of "the best school in the world" and spreading civilization throughout the Mediterranean world for 200 to 800 years.
Moreover, the kings of that time even ordered the search of every ship that entered the port of Alexandria, and if any books were found, regardless of nationality, they were immediately included in the Library of Alexandria. There is a legend that the manuscripts of Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, the three great tragedies of ancient Greece, were originally stored in the Athens archives. When Ptolemy III learned of this, he devised a plan to persuade Athens to make an exception with a deposit on the pretext of making a copy, but it is said that what was eventually returned to Greece was actually a copy, and the original was sent to the Library of Alexandria.
"Your Majesty, how many books of sages can there be in this barbarian land of the West?" Ran Min, who was guarding beside him, asked.
"Then you won't move, come, let me give you popular science!" Fusu began to activate the pretending skill.
"Your Majesty, what is this popular science?"
"Hold back!"
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Fusu began a tirade explaining to the trio the history of the Library of Alexandria. However, these three were not interested in the unfamiliar names in his mouth, Du Nima.
Fusu had no choice but to give the three of them an example of which great sages in Chinese history were equivalent to, and it was dark to say bluntly.
"In that case, we have to rob it!" After hearing this, Li Ru instantly became a pioneer.
"Okay, then do what I said before, Li You will go down immediately to make arrangements, and I am here waiting for your good news."
"No, Li You will go out."
"Your Majesty, there is a sentence in Confucianism that I don't know whether to say or not."
"You say," Fusu poured a cup of tea and drank it all.
"Then Weichen is courageous, Your Majesty's golden body, shouldering the heavy responsibility of the rise and fall of China, but repeatedly refusing to listen to the advice of the ministers, insisting on going his own way, fighting alone with the enemy general, or going to the front in person, resulting in danger!
Wei Chen roughly calculated, His Majesty has been seriously injured three times since he was sent by the emperor to defend Xianyang to today, and he has been seriously injured once, and he has been missing twice for a small time, which is really too capricious! What if there are three long and two short to let the ministers and the people be good?
Please Your Majesty is here for the world, and stop always acting willfully, insisting on going your own way, and risking your life! Li Ru also let go this time, for fear that Fusu would suddenly get angry and send him to see Qin Shi Huang.
"This-" Fusu was a little stunned, but indeed, he needed to reflect on it, as an emperor, his life has long been not his own but the people of the world, why should he act arbitrarily!
After a long time, Fusu spoke: "I can promise you that in the future, if there are no unexpected circumstances, I will never fight the enemy on the battlefield again, but the royal expedition will not change!" ”
There was a bit of kingly domineering in his tone, and there was no room for questioning.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Seeing that the goal was achieved, Li Ru breathed a sigh of relief, it is good to know that mistakes can be corrected, as long as you don't have nothing to do and go to fight with the enemy general when you have nothing to do, no matter what you do, the bodyguards of the Royal Forest Army are not vegetarians!
"Good. Wen You, you go and call Zheng and Zheng Sen. "Fusu asked Li Ru to call someone, while complaining about the two pit goods, Nima said let you go east, you really go directly to the east, this Nima Suez Canal will be opened! I'm glad I'm in Egypt today, otherwise I wouldn't have remembered.
"No!"