"What's it like on the sea?" The next day, after leaving the inn, Meng Yi took the initiative to ask.
"Water, there is water everywhere." Zhao Si replied boredly.
"Is it like the Great Nine Provinces? Surrounded by vast oceans?" Meng Yi asked again.
"Well, there are storms from time to time, and capsizing on the sea will basically lead to death." Zhao Si nodded, but he became interested in the theory of Great Nine Provinces mentioned by Meng Yi.
Is there already some research on overseas studies in this era?
"What is the Dajiuzhou theory?" Zhao Si asked.
Meng Yi smiled and sent someone to deliver books such as "Zou Zi", "Zou Zi Beginning" and "The Great Sage".
"After reading this, if you have any doubts, you can ask me." Meng Yi said with a smile. His impression of Xu Fu was not very good. Correspondingly, his impression of Zhao Si, a young man who took the ship and went to sea to live up to the king's destiny, was better.
Zhao Si looked at the bamboo tube in his hand and fell into deep thought. Faced with Meng Yi's sudden kindness, Zhao Si did not refuse, but asked Meng Yi a question seriously.
"Can I ask about words I don't know?" Zhao Si looked a little embarrassed.
After all, he is a modern man, and he completely lost his memory when he went to sea.
During the days when the fleet was docked in Fusang, Zhao Si worked hard to learn contemporary characters and languages. However, speaking is easy to learn, but literacy is not that easy.
Because everyone can speak, but not everyone can read.
It is also worth mentioning that the small seal script of this era was really complicated and difficult to write. Except for some common characters, Zhao Si simply could not correspond to the Chinese characters in memory.
At the moment, Zhao Si doesn't know many words, and his reading ability is very poor. Even if he wants to finish reading "Zou Zi", it is a problem. Meng Yi really overestimates himself.
Meng Yi paused for a moment and then nodded and said: "Yes!"
Zhao Si had a smile on his face. As a modern person, there was no need to explain the importance of reading and literacy.
In the next few days, Zhao Si showed the momentum of hanging his head and stabbing his buttocks.
After all, there is a gentleman who comes for nothing. Zhao Si doesn't know whether Meng Yi's cultural level is high or not, but he is definitely higher than his own.
Zhao Si emphasized the importance of reading more, asking more questions, and keeping your own opinions.
While reading, asking, and learning, it took me a long time to read through these books.
By the time I finished reading, the frame had already arrived in Xianyang.
Meng Yi and Zhao Si are about to part ways.
"Your Majesty values you very much! Work hard!" Meng Yi patted Zhao Si on the shoulder.
After roughly understanding Zou Zi's thoughts and way of perceiving the world, Zhao Si probably had a certain understanding.
Zhao Si had never heard of Zou Zi in his previous life. As a modern person in his previous life, who would delve into such things?
The most familiar figures in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods are Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Confucius and others. Zou Zi, who was born in the Yin and Yang family, seems a bit unknown to modern people.
After actually reading Zou Zi's masterpiece, Zhao Si could roughly understand why Meng Yi gave him Zou Zi's book.
Because the First Emperor valued Zou Zi's knowledge very much.
First of all, the theory of the Five Virtues proposed by Zou Zizhongshili provided a theoretical basis for Qin Shihuang to replace Zhou Dynasty.
That is to say, Zou Yan said, "The five virtues are invincible: Yu earth, Xia wood, Yin metal, and Zhou fire." Wood overcomes earth, metal overcomes wood, fire overcomes metal, water overcomes fire, and earth overcomes water.
The people of Qin are still black, and black belongs to water, which corresponds to the virtue of water. It is reasonable to stand on behalf of Zhou.
Not to mention the Great Kyushu theory, Zhao Si is certain that after unification, as long as he wants to continue to expand externally, he must use the Great Kyushu theory as a theoretical basis.
Zou Zi, who lives in Qidi and grew up next to the sea, has longed for and speculated about the outside world from a very early age.
And this guess is more accurate than the Kyushu theory. It is also more in line with the national conditions of Da Qin.
If Da Qin wanted to expand, it could not promote the theory of Kyushu.
Otherwise, the doubters will use the theory of Kyushu as the basis to talk about the unification of the world, and the rest will be barren land, which will bring strong ideological obstacles to expansion.
In a sense, ever since the world was unified, Kyushu theory should have been swept away into the dust of the previous era.
After unification, no matter from any aspect, the Kyushu Theory has only archaeological value. Objectively speaking, the arrogant and arrogant ideas of the Celestial Kingdom formed by the later Xia Dynasties have a certain relationship with the Kyushu Theory.
"Meng Yi!" Zhao Si held the scripture annotated by Meng Yi in his hand and looked at Meng Yi's leaving figure with a hint of gratitude.
Meng Yi's selfless help not only allowed Zhao Si to learn a lot of knowledge.
There are also valuable tips.
If you understand Zou Zi and understand the national conditions of the Qin Dynasty, you will know why the First Emperor valued the return of Zhao Si and his party from the sea so much.
"Hiss! In that case, isn't it really possible for Great Qin to carry out colonial expansion?" Zhao Si took a breath as he looked at Zou Zi's masterpiece in his hand, and contributed to global warming.
Different from the national conditions of other eras, Da Qin's basic national policy determines that it must continue to expand outwards and constantly transfer pressure outwards.
If the pressure is too great or continues to fail to be transferred outward, then the country will inevitably collapse.
Zhao Si felt that he had some clues, but he was a little confused. After all, he didn't know the specific laws of this era, and he didn't understand the fundamental structure of the Qin Dynasty's farming and warfare system.
But he could vaguely feel that transferring pressure outwards was a good method. The American emperors in the previous life often did this. Although it was shameless, it was not easy to use.
As long as you can keep winning, no, you don’t need to keep winning, as long as you have enough gains!
But this time, he brought a world map, more than 400 crew members with mature navigation experience, and the first ocean chart of this era.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Si completed the most difficult breakthrough, from zero to one.
As it happens, Great Qin possesses the top shipbuilding technology of this era and is the only country capable of cross-sea navigation and strikes.
The combination of the two made Zhao Si blink.
He is really not sure whether Great Qin will embark on the road of external plunder because of this. After all, the national conditions are different, and Great Qin's internal pressure is too great, and the pressure must be transferred.
The gains in the north and south directions were obviously insufficient, so Da Qin needed a direction with greater gains.
But can the sea of this era really bring enough gains to Great Qin? Zhao Si didn't know. After all, in this era, except for some countries such as Daqin and Liaoliao, it is not an exaggeration to say that all other places are full of primitive people.
Thinking of the more than 400 crew members' birthplaces in separate books, and thinking of Meng Yi's gift of books, Zhao Si was certain that perhaps the first emperor of the world had already had the idea of conquest and expansion when he presented the world map.
It is impossible for the First Emperor to believe in the Kyushu theory. As the emperor of Qin, he must believe in the Great Kyushu theory!
