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Fabian shuddered and shook for a moment, then fell straight backwards.

"What's wrong with you, Speaker?"

"Come on, the Speaker has fainted! Call a healer! The Senate was in a state of confusion, and Scipio looked coldly at the dying old Fabian who had fallen to the ground, and turned back to his place. Rome, which belonged to the older generation, no longer exists, and the next world is the time for Scipio to show his ambitions.

The healer came up and carried Fabian out, and the senators looked at Scipio with fear, and the young consul's ruthlessness made them dare not slack off in the slightest.

"Patriarchs, you have all seen and heard, that the enemy of the East has come to Roman soil, and if we are not united, if we are any longer suspicious of each other, one day we will all be put on a prison wagon to the Far East, and we will lose our lives in hunger, thirst, and despair day by day. Therefore, for the sake of free life, for the protection of our property, for the sake of our estate, we must concentrate all our forces and form an incomparably strong army, only in this way can we continue to exist in Great Rome, otherwise, today we are high slave owners, and tomorrow, we may be slaves as good as pigs and dogs. Scipio's words were like a punch to the senators, who were still immersed in the dream of Rome's rapid expansion.

"Archon, what you're saying can't happen, right?" A former Fabian confederate asked with suspicion.

"No way. The nobles of the kingdoms of Sabbath, Théthisi, and Ptolemy thought so too, and now, where is their kingdom? Where is their family? Scipio sneered.

Hearing Scipio say this, the elders fell silent one by one, although they still refused to believe it from the bottom of their hearts, but the examples given by Scipio were living examples, and they could not refute them.

"In the matter of rebuilding the Grand Fleet, I also ask the elders to contribute more, and in addition, I have good news to tell you here, our opponents, the seemingly powerful Qin people, are not without weaknesses. In the post house in the city of Rome, the Mauryan King from the far south has sent an emissary, and as long as we reach an alliance, then the Qin people will be in the middle of a war, and their long supply lines are being directly threatened by the Mauryan army. ”

"Archon, the envoy of the Peacock King is really in the city, why didn't you say it earlier?" Scipio's revelation of this news made the senators overjoyed.

"Say it early, the news won't leak out early. There were spies of the Orientals in the city of Rome, and the elders present also went back to check to see if any of the people around them had contact with the Orientals. Scipio said coldly.

Mauryan Empire.

Located in the South Asian subcontinent, its geographical location is equivalent to the Indian Peninsula in later generations, while the Qin State is strong, the Mauryan Empire is also in its heyday, and its birth is quite mythical.

Alexander the Great of the Macedonian Empire conquered the east and established a province and a governor in northwestern India, and then a young man named Chandragupta, one of the Kshatriya nobles of the Mahadha state, raised a banner and defeated the Macedonian army, thus establishing a new dynasty. The Mauryan Empire initially controlled the Indus Plain, the Gangetic Plain, the Bay of Bengal, the Deccan Plateau, and vast areas as far as the Arabian Sea.

Two centuries later, the new Mauryan king, Ashoka, ascended to the throne, and his talents enabled the dynasty to quickly complete the unification of the peninsula. During the reign of Emperor Ashoka, at its peak, except for the southern tip of the Indian Peninsula, it stretched from the southern foothills of the Himalayas in the north, to Mysore in the south, from the western boundary of Assam in the east, and to the Hindu Kush in the west, all of which were incorporated into the territory of the Mauryan Empire. However, by the time Li Yuan led the New Qin army to the west, the Mauryan Empire began to decline after a short period of strength.

At the time of the war between Qin and Rome, the king of the Mauryan Empire was the last king to ascend the throne, the king of the giant chariot, and the descendants of Ashoka belonged to the type of person who was very ambitious and talented but not outstanding, and at the instigation of the powerful minister Xunga, he decided to ally with Rome, a powerful country in the west, against the powerful neighbor Qin in the north.

The Giant Wheel King and Xunjia dared to take risks, looking at the huge benefits on the Silk Road, but where they were now, they could only watch the Qin State earn wealth, and now, they couldn't bear it.

Tensions began to rise in the subcontinent, which the Romans liked to see most of the time, and after a long struggle to find an ally, Scipio thought he had found the weakness of the Qin state.

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Sinanseong.

In the green shade, the arrival of the autumn fruiting season was ushered in, and the great victory of the Great Qin fleet on Kitty Island made the Qin army extremely happy.

Emperor Li Yuan was sitting quietly on the edge of the pond in the palace, holding a thin piece of yellow paper in his hand, this inconspicuous thing, Li Yuan had been studying it for a long time, but he still felt very surprised.

With the gradual expansion of the territory of the Qin State, the heavy writing materials such as bamboo slips and wooden slips are becoming more and more inconsistent with the actual situation, and the invention of a new type of material that is light and easy to carry has also become a difficult problem that Daqin urgently needs to solve. In ancient China, the four great inventions have a long history, Peng Sheng's experience of accidentally inventing black powder gave Li Yuan enlightenment, in terms of research and invention, the three major military construction of the Qin State in a collective way, co-creation, joint research, the old model of fighting alone is far behind.

In the last three or four years, the improved paper sent by the researchers of military manufacturing has a variety of forms such as silk paper, silkworm paper, mulberry paper, rattan paper, bamboo paper, etc., but in terms of practical surname, it is not as good as the composite paper in his hand now.

From the point of view of paper texture, composite paper materials include bark, linen, rope, bamboo bark and other materials, is a mixed type of plant fiber paper, from the military side to give the instructions, composite paper is characterized by light and flexible, easy to carry, and the price of raw materials is very low, and easy to find, if a wide range of production, will greatly change the living habits of Qin officials, people.

"Your Majesty, the standard for the reward of naval officers and the compassionate treatment of fallen soldiers has been determined, please take a look!" Just as Li Yuan was pondering, Zhang Shi, who was in charge of the dispatch of money and grain, reported to him.

"These things, according to the previous standards are just done, by the way, Shizhi, you write it, if this new paper is promoted, is there any practical value?" Li Yuan nodded and said to Zhang Shizhi.

"Subordinates obey orders." Zhang Shizhi responded, that is, he was ready to grind ink and write. Zhang Shizhi is Zhang Liang's son and nephew, this former Korean descendant is now one of the many young officials in Daqin, and he is already very happy to be able to show his face in front of Li Yuan from time to time.

Ink through the paper back.

Thick but not melting, this is the ideal state of paper application realm. In addition to the high price of raw materials or the difficulty of finding them, the reason why the paper was not widely used in the past was that as soon as the ink fell on the paper, it spread into a ball, and it was impossible to write in such a situation.

Zhang Shizhi's pen fell like a front.

In a moment, he saw sweat on his forehead, and the pressure of writing in front of a superior person like Li Yuan can be imagined, not to mention that the writing materials in front of him have never been used.

"Your Majesty, you see that this ink is falling and condensed very tightly, this is good paper!" After Zhang Shi finished writing a report, he looked back and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Compared with the heavy bamboo slips that need to be moved by someone, this new paper is light and fluttering, and even a scholar like Zhang Shizhi can write with ease.

Bit by bit.

It is changing the habits of the Qin people, and it is also changing this era.

Li Yuan did not expect to be able to invent all the ancient Chinese science and technology at once, but new things and new technologies such as gunpowder and paper, which were basically in line with this era, and with the current national strength of the Qin State, if they could not make a breakthrough, then the craftsmen who built the army would really have to be ashamed. (To be continued.) )