When Jingwen heard what this eunuch said, he was speechless for a while, and remembered an allusion in history. During the Ming Dynasty, foreign missionaries came to China and offered the world map to the emperor. However, at that time, the Manchu civil and military protested that China was not the east of the world. As a result, the foreign missionary was forced to place China in the center of the world, and as a result, it became a laughing stock in history. And now Jingwen didn't expect that he would encounter this kind of thing, what should be the reason for this kind of unknowing? Is it arrogance, or is national confidence too heavy? But even national pride can't change the reality, Datang is not at the center of the world, this is indisputable.

"Your Majesty, this lord's words remind me of an allusion. When the envoys of the Qin Dynasty came to Yelang Kingdom, Yelang Kingdom once asked the envoys of the Qin Dynasty whether Yelang Kingdom was the largest country in the world. However, the envoy of the Qin Dynasty replied that the smallest county of the Qin Dynasty was much larger than Yelang. Jingwen said.

Li Shimin's face darkened and said, "Are you sarcastic about my arrogance in the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"No, no, no! Your Majesty, in fact, my Datang is still very huge in the world. However, many of us now don't know anything about the Western Regions, and we blindly think that we are the largest country in the world. Jingwen said.

Jingwen used this Yelang as an analogy, in fact, the situation of Datang and Yelang is very similar now. Because Yelang was located in the south, it was still barren during the Qin Dynasty, and transportation and communication were inconvenient. In that era when transportation and communication were very inconvenient, many people had very little knowledge. Perhaps, at that time, Yerou's perception of the world was around them. And they were nearby, that is, the largest country, so he naturally thought that he was the largest country. This is actually the idea of the difference in relative space, so it was created. If you want to say a certain state in Datang, it must be very small for Datang. But if you compare Datang with the whole earth. That's also very small. Even, if you compare the earth to the entire universe, then the earth is nothing.

This is because of the difference caused by the results of human exploration of the unknown world, perhaps when Chinese New Year's Eve did not think that the world was so vast, so he was "been" arrogant. And the current situation of Datang is not like this, that is, an enlarged version of Yelang. Because Datang doesn't know about the unknown world, he thinks he is the largest country. Although, in fact, it is also the largest country, but what is the difference between this mentality and Yelang back then. Even though he has become the most powerful country in the world, he still has a Yelang mentality. Because they simply can't compare the outside world side-by-side.

Li Shimin also understood what Jingwen meant, in this situation without comparison, no matter how much he bragged about his strength, but there was no horizontal comparison, maybe these were meaningless. The Tang Dynasty does not own the Western Regions now, and has only just defeated the Eastern Turks, and the Eastern Turks have not been able to be completely naturalized. Moreover, Goguryeo in the northeast has not been able to annex it, so the current territory of the Tang Dynasty is not at its peak, and Jingwen is probably estimated to be only four or five million square kilometers at most. It's about the same as Alexander's empire in the West.

"Jingwen, since you understand the Western Regions, then you can talk about the situation in the Western Regions. What we know, let's not say. Tell me about Europa! Why is Europa bigger than my Datang? What country is Europa? Li Shimin said.

And Jingwen immediately explained: "Europa is not a country, but a synonym for a very large place. For example, I Datang said that the Lingnan area and the Guanzhong area are actually synonymous with a very large place. Not absolutely somewhere. Europa, although it is very large, is not a single country, it is made up of many small countries. And these small countries. Not as big as my Datang, and even some of them are not as big as my Datang, or even a county seat. ”

And Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, he still thought that this Europa was a country, then I am afraid he would be speechless. Now I heard that it is just a synonym for a big place, and that qiē is not a problem, which means that Datang is still very powerful.

"Then you can introduce, what powerful countries used to be in the Europa, I also want to know if they can be as strong as my Tang Dynasty." Li Shimin said.

"If we talk about the most powerful empires in Western history, we must also mention a country called the Macedonian Empire, whose territory at its most powerful was equivalent to our two Qin dynasties. And the time of their existence belongs to the era of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty during our Warring States Period. And at that time in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the territory was obviously not as large as theirs. And their emperor at the height of his glory was called Alexander the Great. Jingwen said.

Jingwen began to introduce the information about Alexander the Great known from later generations, from the time Alexander the Great was poisoned to death when his father was a young man, and then he inherited the throne and swept away the opposition. Then began the crusade, all the way to Asia. Asia then went to India again, and almost fought with China's Warring States powers. If it weren't for the mistake on the map, I'm afraid we would have to go to war with China.

And when those merchants heard that Alexander the Great actually wanted to conquer China with tens of thousands of troops, they immediately burst out laughing. This is too ridiculous, none of the Warring States powers back then had hundreds of thousands of troops, if that Alexander dared to come, they would definitely be able to trample them to death. If in terms of military strength, Alexander really went to war with China, I am afraid that he would not be the opponent of the Warring States powers of China. Even if a country is not an opponent, then those "Chinese people" who are fighting each other will definitely carry forward the spirit of unity, first drive away these big-nosed and yellow-haired "monsters", and then decide their own internal victory or defeat again. Because no matter how much those Central Plains countries fought during the Warring States Period, it was also a period within the brothers. But it would be unacceptable to let those yellow-haired and green-eyed guys take over, so they will most likely unite to defeat Alexander. Alexander should also be glad that he did not directly attack China, so he kept the Eurasian "golden body" of the conqueror.

Unlike those merchants' contempt, Emperor Li Shimin heard this story of Alexander, his eyes were full of brilliance, and he obviously felt some empathy. (To be continued......)