The vast Mediterranean, a vast sea between Europe, Africa and Asia, has given birth to a splendid civilization that the West is proud of.

Among these ancient civilizations, the Greek civilization is the most dazzling.

Numerous islands, different cultures, and dhows that traveled between the islands connected the city-state civilizations dotted around with different characteristics.

The greatest epic of the West is written here.

The Olympic flame was lit here.

Unfortunately, all this glory came to an end in the third century B.C., when the rise of Macedonia ended the history of the Greek federation of independent city-states, after which the Greeks never stood up again.

A Homeric epic, a Trojan battle, not only achieved mythological heroes such as Achilles and Hector, but also made Helen, a beautiful woman in a troubled country, a household name. No one has explored the real history, and the passionate heroes of the Odyssey who inspired the Greeks have gradually disappeared into the dust of history under the impetus of the giant hand of time.

caused this decline.

Not only the defeat of the country, but also the departure of the sages one by one.

Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, these prophets who are resounding in Western history have all gone with the wind, and their disciples, whether they are Theophrastus, or Dicar, or Gemisius, really have the appearance of being a scholar, but when it comes to talent, they are far inferior to the teachers.

In this regard, Aristotle actually had a great deal of responsibility, because his most proud disciple was none other than Alexander, the Macedonian who destroyed Greece.

February 6th.

In the evening, the setting sun leaves a long trail of afterglow on the sea.

Haifa Bay.

It was like a large storage box with a huge mouth open, receiving the vomit of merchant ships from all over the Mediterranean coast, in the winter of the previous year. The first major intention of cooperation reached by the alliance between the Jews and the Qin state was to expand the port in deep waters around Haifa Bay.

With the participation of the Qin state's advanced Jishuliliang, the construction of the dockyard in Haifa port went smoothly, and this jihua was very hidden at the beginning, the Jews deliberately concealed their alliance with the Qin state, and David struggled too much between the two robber neighbors, Macedonia and Ptolemy, so that although he had the heart to resist, he was still afraid.

The first to expose this jihua were Greek businessmen from the Bay of Beirut and Haifa Bay, and the first thing they noticed was the appearance of a group of yellow-skinned people on the coast. These Orientals, who are not tall in stature but have a formidable temperament, appear as if they appeared out of thin air, which makes people suspicious.

The emaciated camels were larger than the horses, and the Greeks, who admired industry and commerce and relied more on ships as a means of transportation, knew more about the movements of the Qin army than Macedonia, which was mostly landlocked and not close to the eastern shores of the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean.

"What are these Qin people doing here? How did they get mixed up with the Jews? ”

"Look, what's that? They are building docks, is this to build a fleet, to go on an expedition across the sea? How is this possible. Even if the Qin people had warships, it would be impossible to find enough sailors. ”

"Don't think about it, these days, as long as you have money. You can get anything, on this coast, you just have to shout, what kind of people can't find it. Captains, sail handlers, oarsmen, deck sailors, there were. ”

With deep apprehension. Merchants from different countries brought back what they had seen, but unfortunately their reminders were of little value to the Mediterranean countries that were under the threat of the Romans.

"The Phoenicians are building ports, are they crazy? That place was a two-headed war in three days, and it was occupied by someone else before the dock was built? "In the temple of Crete, one of the birthplaces of Greek civilization, the elders of the Cretan Civic Assembly were disdainful when they heard the news.

The Cretan elders used to call the Dead Sea in the Mediterranean, where the Jews lived, and the Phoenicians seemed to them to be no different.

The Cretans, as it were, had no interest in the Greek upper echelons, who were in the midst of a civil war between the Peloponnesian League and the Delian League.

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Whether the upper aristocrats were interested or not.

With the opening of the Silk Road throughout the Asian continent, the trade between the East and the West became more prosperous, not only Europeans from the West reached the East, but also the Great Qin people from the East traveled thousands of miles to the West, not only for commercial interests, but also on behalf of the interests of the Qin State.

The sixteenth year of the Great Qin calendar.

New Year's Month, Spring.

A dhow flying the flag of the Greek merchant group is sailing along the eastern coast of Cyprus, and the dhow is the most advanced jishu of its time, it can ensure that the sailor can control the speed and direction of the ship smoothly, regardless of the downwind and upwind.

It was a large merchant ship with a crew of thirty-six, and its lower cabins were filled with Western artifacts that had just been exchanged from the Apennine Peninsula and Crete.

Trade has always been a two-way street, and at the same time that oriental silk swept through the upper class of the European aristocracy, these objects from foreign lands also began to become popular in the Central Plains.

On the side of the ship.

A young man with an oriental face was pale, bent over, vomiting violently, and the upside-down waves made him like he was on a roller coaster, and the little food he had eaten before getting on the boat was all back to the sea in a moment.

"Jia Sheng, you are seasick, haha, it doesn't matter, as long as you get used to it, it was the same when I followed my teacher to sea for the first time."

Behind the young man, a fat man with a bulging body and curly hair stood firmly on the deck with his feet crossed, looking at him as if he was standing on land.

"Dikar, you are bragging again, when the teacher accepted you as a disciple, you were already over eighty years old, how could you go to sea by boat again?" On the deck of the ship, an old man with messy hair and a red nose lowered his head, while concentrating on studying a figure from the Great Qin of the East, sneered.

"Gemisius, you old fellow, don't think I'm afraid of you, if you don't believe me, let's compare again." Someone stabbed the cowhide, Dikar's old face turned red and said angrily.

"Andy, Gemi, you two, when you arrive at the port of Haifa, you will know that riding a horse is very comfortable, and it is much more refreshing than this boat." After a long time, the young man who had just recovered his strength finally had the strength to fight back, and said to the two old guys who were more than thirty years older than him.

"Jia Sheng, the Shenwu Emperor you said about inventing this map logo is really in Babylon." Gemetheus asked, staring at the parchment scroll in his hand.

"Of course, however, the city of Babylon has been renamed Sin'an, and it won't be long before you see an eastern city rising up in the area of the two rivers." Jia Sheng smiled and nodded proudly.

Lucqueon College.

The school founded by the great thinker Aristotle of ancient Greece, the works of Socrates, Plato and others, can be found here in the original version, so to speak, the essence of Western civilization is here.

Dicar and Gmmicius.

These two raunchy fellows are the two new disciples of Alexotle's disciple Theophrastus in his later years, and compared with the teachers who conscientiously guarded the Lycion Academy, what these two disciples did was really detrimental to the status of the academy professor and Western scholar.

The young man named Jia Sheng, from the Qin State, he was one of the young envoys under Lu Jia, he was born in Luoyang, he was just a little boy with a runny nose ten years ago, and ten years later, as the most famous and talented scholar in Sanchuan County, Jia Yi began to become louder and louder in the land of Guanzhong.

Over the years, speaking of the Debater.

Lu Jia, the great debater who traveled south and north and successfully lobbied South Vietnam, Wusun, and Jews, is a well-deserved first person. Later, Kuaitong and Zhaoping also occupied a place in their respective fields.

Generations of talented people have come out, each leading the way for 500 years.

More than 10 years of life.

Coupled with the huge wealth brought by the expeditions, the lives of the Qin people have been greatly improved, and the contradiction of land annexation and the lack of people and land that appeared in the bottleneck stage of social and economic development in the past is not prominent in the Qin State, thanks to the westward expedition launched by Li Yuan.

"Go to the West and pan for gold -- those who are bold enough to follow the army have made a fortune."

"Brothers, if we miss this opportunity, we can only nest in this township without interest, how about it, go out and break through, what are the risks afraid of, we are still young and can withstand the toss."

The young people in Guanzhong, Guandong, and Jiangdong said goodbye to their parents and relatives one by one and embarked on the unknown road to the west.

Jia Yi, a talented man in Luoyang.

Originally, he thought that the Qin State was so powerful, as a well-spoken debater, there was no longer room to play, and when Li Yuan led the Western Expedition to open up one battlefield after another that the Qin people could not imagine, Jia Yi found that he was wrong.

The Qin State, which has a huge territory, needs more talents to work for it, and when Lu Jia is getting old, the young Jia Yi and others finally wait for the opportunity.

Now, it depends on whether you can catch it, Jia Yi knows that among the disciples led by Lu Jia, there are many who have their eyes on this position of the first person in diplomacy, and if he competes with them in a decent manner, there is no possibility at all, so he has to be surprised.

This time, following the caravan to the Greek peninsula, and, with a three-inch tongue, as well as a miniature map and sand table that was not a secret in the East, Jia Yi was favored by two famous professors in the most famous Lycion Academy in Greece, and under his persuasion, Dikar and Gemisius even had the idea of traveling to the East. (To be continued......)

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