The reason why Qin Dong did not want money but only the technology and shipbuilders who built sea ships was because in this era, I am afraid that no country or nation could reach the level of the Roman Empire except for the naval warships of the Roman Empire, which was founded in 260 BC.

In 510 BC, the Romans in the Italian peninsula won a revolt against the ruler Etruscan Huppebus. After gaining independence, Rome immediately embarked on the road of foreign aggression and expansion. After the crushing defeat of Gaul Brenus at the capture of Rome in 387 BC, Rome carried out heavy military reforms and established a standing army. Growing militarily, Rome began to expand into the southern part of the Italian peninsula. After the victory at Beniwinton with Pilos of Macedonia in 275 BCE, Rome unified Italy proper. After completing the War of Territorial Unification, Rome began to expand overseas. This left Rome facing Carthage, the most formidable rival in the Mediterranean.

In 264 BC, the war between Rome and Carthage officially began. During the war, the mighty Roman army repeatedly defeated the Carthaginian army. However, in a decisive maritime battle, Rome was always at a disadvantage. As a descendant of the Phoenicians, a world-famous seafaring people, Carthage had a fine seafaring tradition and had a first-class naval fleet in the Mediterranean at the time. And the Romans were not good at naval warfare. Therefore, for some time at the beginning of the war, Rome was always suppressed by Carthage and could not hold its head up.

By 260 BC, the Romans decided to concentrate on building a powerful navy to reverse their naval inferiority. Rome concentrated its forces on the construction of more than 120 large warships. These ships were all large ships with 5 layers of oars, which were stronger than the 3-layer ships of the Carthaginian navy. Meantime. In response to the fact that the soldiers were not good at naval warfare but were good at land combat, the Roman military installed a kind of drawbridge with an iron hook at the front and railings on both sides of the warship. Because the shape of the suspension bridge resembles a crow's beak, it is called the "crow suspension bridge". And the battleships equipped with such broadside drawbridges were called "raven warships" by the Roman navy. At the same time, Rome also trained more than 30,000 oarsmen, since each battleship required 150 oarsmen. When the Romans thought they were ready, in 260 BC the Roman consul Duilius led a Roman fleet across the sea to Sicily, an important overseas colony of Carthage.

260 BC. The Roman consul Duilius led a Roman fleet with a Carthaginian fleet of 130 ships near the Cape of Mira in Sicily. The first large-scale war between the Roman and Carthaginian navies began. During the battle, the Carthaginians relied on the speed, maneuverability, and well-trained personnel of their Greek ships to attempt ramming tactics. Ram the Roman battleship with the bow angle of attack. And what the Carthaginians didn't expect was. This is exactly what the Romans wanted. The Roman ships did not dodge as the Carthaginians had imagined. Instead, the bow turned around and approached the Carthaginian battleship. As soon as the two ships approached, the Romans lowered the "Raven Drawbridge" in the bow and hooked the Carthaginian battleship. At the same time, the hoplites of the Roman army, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately rushed to the Carthaginian battleship through the "crow drawbridge". The Carthaginian ships were filled with sailors and oarsmen, who had long been accustomed to ramming and naval warfare with long-range weapons such as bows and arrows from a distance. Not to mention the fact that the Carthaginians were no match for the tough Roman hoplites in the first place. Time. The Carthaginian battleship was full of swords and swords, and blood splattered. The screams of Carthaginian sailors resounded throughout the battlefield. As a result of the battle, the Carthaginian navy lost 50 warships. The remaining Carthaginian ships fled. Rome's new navy won its first naval battle.

The news of the victory at the Battle of Cape Mira reached Rome, and the city rejoiced. The Romans erected a marble column in the Roman Forum with the bow of a captured Carthaginian warship. To commemorate the glorious victory of this naval battle.

In 256 BC, Rome sent a powerful fleet of 330 warships, 40,000 infantry and 100,000 oarsmen on an expedition to the Carthaginian lands of North Africa. Defeated the Carthaginian navy again at the Battle of Cape Eknos. In the same year, the Roman expeditionary force landed in Africa and besieged the city of Carthage. But it was not captured. In 255 BC, the Roman army encountered a rare storm on its way back to the mainland. 280 warships, 25,000 soldiers and 70,000 oarsmen were destroyed.

241 BC. With 200 new ships, the reorganized Roman navy wiped out 120 Carthaginian naval ships in a decisive naval battle near the Egadi Islands in the west of Sicily. Carthage was thus in a state of collapse. Completely lose the right to control the sea in the Mediterranean. At this time, a civil war broke out in Carthage. Carthage, beleaguered both internally and externally, was forced to sue for peace with Rome. An indemnity of 32,000 talants was paid, and the whole of Sicily was ceded to Rome. In 238 BC, Rome took advantage of the Carthaginian mercenary rebellion to conquer Sardinia and Corsica. In 227 B.C., the two islands were made a province.

The three naval battles between Rome and Carthage in the Mediterranean decided the fate of both countries. Sicily became the first province of Rome. The subsequent conquest of Sardinia and Corsica drove Carthage out of Italy. From then on, Rome turned to a strategic offensive against Carthage. On top of that, Rome thus gained the most important naval dominance in the Mediterranean, which directly influenced the outcome of the two subsequent wars.

In 218 B.C., the Carthaginian army, led by Hannibal, the most outstanding commander in the country's history, set out from Spanish territory, crossed the Alps, and broke into Rome and Italy, and the Roman side rushed to battle. The two sides fought a decisive battle at Cannae. Hannibal commanded the Carthaginian army, taking advantage of the Mediterranean monsoon and using the tactics of luring the enemy into depth, and achieved an unprecedented victory in the Battle of Cannae, which completely annihilated the Roman army of 80,000. Hannibal's army then approached Rome.

However, it was precisely because Carthage had lost its control of the sea that Hannibal, who was far from his homeland, could not be supplied in Rome and Italy. The Romans, on the other hand, adopted the tactic of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and at the same time recruited all 17-year-old men into the army. and freed 8,000 slaves into the army. At the same time, the navy was used to tightly block the shipping lines in the Mediterranean. While blocking the attack on the road, Rome sent an army to land in Marseille with naval support, completely cutting off the Carthaginian army under Hannibal's command from the Spanish base.

Hannibal has a Roman fortified city in front of it. Behind them are the pursuers. There is no logistical supplement. Caught in isolation. In 209 BC, Rome began a counterattack and occupied New Carthage. 207 BC. The Roman army, under the command of the famous general Scipus the Great, completely annihilated the Carthaginian reinforcements from Spain led by the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal in northern Italy and conquered Spain. In the same year, the Roman commander Scipus the Great took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal was in Italy and the Carthaginian territory was empty, and in 204 BC he led an expedition to the Carthaginian territory in North Africa to besiege the city of Carthage. The Carthaginian ruling group urgently recruited Hannibal back to his division.

In 202 BCE, a decisive battle broke out between the Carthaginian army under Hannibal and the Roman expeditionary force under the command of the Roman commander Zeppi the Great at Zama, southwest of the city of Carthage. Hannibal was defeated. In 201 BC, Carthage concluded a humiliating peace treaty with Rome.

Under the treaty, Carthage was forced to give up a Qiē possession outside North Africa. Surrender the Navy fleet and the Army's most elite war elephant units, and only 10 patrol ships will be retained. An indemnity of 100,000 talants was paid over 50 years, and it was also stipulated that no war could be made with other nations without the permission of Rome. Carthage completely lost its military and diplomatic autonomy. Reduced to a prisoner of Rome. But Rome still didn't let Carthage go.

In 149 BC, Rome's North African allies invaded Carthage, and Carthage was forced to defend itself and fight back, and the Roman ruling group immediately used Carthage to break the peace treaty and fought without Rome's permission. Declared war on Carthage for the third time in 149 BC. Roman troops landed in North Africa, and Carthage sued for peace again. Promised to hand over the hostages and all weapons. But Rome put forward extremely harsh conditions: it demanded the demolition of the city of Carthage. All Carthaginians moved inward to the interior, 15 kilometers from the coast. The Carthaginians indignantly rejected such harsh conditions, and the whole population resisted. The Roman army began to lay siege to the city of Carthage. However, under the desperate resistance of the whole city of Carthage, the Roman army was able to capture a lonely city in two years. By the spring of 146 B.C., the city of Carthage was running out of ammunition and food, and at the same time a large-scale epidemic broke out. The Roman army finally broke through the city with great force. The Carthaginians fought to the death. The unprecedentedly fierce street fighting lasted for 6 days and 6 nights. The city of Carthage falls. The Romans carried out a brutal massacre of the Carthaginians, and all 50,000 people were sold into slavery. The history of the world famous city of Carthage in the 9th century BC was robbed by Rome. It was razed to the ground after burning for 6 days and nights. Carthage became the Roman province of Africa.

Naval warfare, which ran throughout the war, became the decisive factor in the entire war. It was precisely because Rome seized and controlled the sea control in the Mediterranean that Rome always maintained an advantage throughout the war. And it was precisely because of the loss of sea control that Carthage lost the right to control the war. Directly guided the defeat of Hannibal's expedition. This is a classic example of relying on sea supremacy to achieve complete victory in the war after the Battle of Salamis in the Greco-Persian War. Rome, on the other hand, expanded rapidly after the war, eventually turning the Mediterranean Sea into its own inland lake. Rome became the most powerful empire in Europe, Asia and Africa!

Although the Roman Empire has long been divided into two empires, the East and the West, and although these two empires have been at sunset by this time, it is undeniable that they ruled O'Baro for a long time, and they have all the technologies that are far ahead of the rest of the world, especially the navigation technology, after all, the earth is still its inner lake!

Although in this era, the technology of sea ship construction is still very backward, but it is technology after all, and it requires a certain technical reserve, and the Xiongnu do not have this kind of technical reserve from beginning to end, although Qin Dong comes from and later generations, but he does not know how to build ships, this is not a simple technology.

In the face of Qin Dong's request, the chief envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, Priests, was a little at a loss, Qin Dong's request was too peculiar, he had heard of asking for money, grain, and cities, but he had never heard of shipbuilding technology and shipbuilders, in the face of Qin Dong's hot gaze, Priests was uncomfortable, and he was worried that Qin Dong would be annoyed and angry because of his refusal, so he made a decision that was unfavorable to the Eastern Roman Empire, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, this small request of yours should not be a big problem, It's just that 3,000 craftsmen who understand shipbuilding technology are probably not easy to find, and it may take a lot of time to find them all, if Your Highness is not in a hurry, please give your subordinates a while? ”

Of course, Qin Dong is not in a hurry, the country has not yet stabilized, and it is not yet the time to expand outward, but even if he is not in a hurry, he must pretend to be in a hurry, otherwise how can he bring shipbuilding technology and shipbuilding craftsmen over?

"A month's time, Your Excellency, this king can only give you a month, because this king can only hold the Persians for a month, after this month, this king may not be able to suppress the temptation of the 10,000 pounds of gold to his subordinate generals, when the time comes, they will collectively ask this king to send troops to your country, even this king cannot forcibly refuse, otherwise this king's rule will not be stable, do you understand what this king means? This king also has difficulties, it is not that this king ignores the friendly relations between the two countries, but the price offered by the Persians is too high, and your Excellency must make this matter clear to His Majesty the Emperor of your country, this is all a ghost made by the Persians, and it has nothing to do with this king."

It's simply red. Bare. Naked blackmail, but Qin Dong said that he was extremely noble, and his face was thicker than the city wall, Priests kept cursing in his heart, but his body was covered in cold sweat, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, the subordinate will report this matter to the emperor and empress of our country as soon as possible, and the subordinate believes that our country will definitely gather and send three thousand shipbuilders to Cedika within a month!" (To be continued......)