Hearing this shout, Guo Ren and Guo Yi immediately knelt on the ground as if they were conditioned reflexes, trembling. After all, the two of them were just pure slaves not long ago. They were already nervous enough to suddenly enter the Qin Palace today. How could they withstand such a shock?
Guo Peng also quickly bowed. At the same time, he quietly raised his head to check the situation.
The old eunuch standing to the right of the Qin Emperor stared at the scroll in Guo Ren's hand.
He suddenly understood.
He had almost forgotten that the First Emperor had experienced the famous assassination of the Qin Dynasty by Jing Ke.
The wind is blowing, the water is cold, and the strong man will never come back.
Didn't Jing Ke use the method of hiding a knife in the map to assassinate Qin?
Thinking about it, this old eunuch should be an old man from that era. No wonder he was so nervous.
Just as he was thinking about how to break out of this situation.
Qin Emperor Ying Zheng laughed heartily.
"It's fine. You may rise."
Hearing this, the old eunuch tactfully retreated. Guo Peng also heaved a sigh of relief. As expected, the First Emperor's magnanimity was not to the extent of punishing him for these groundless matters.
"Your Majesty, the first treasure I offer is a map of the entire world. It includes the Western Regions and the foreign lands beyond the sea!"”
"Oh? Did you and your master draw this?"
This Guo still had some face and cupped his hands, saying,"This commoner doesn't dare to claim credit. This map was drawn by Master after decades of traveling the world.”
"You're honest. Open it then and let me see what the world looks like.”
"Yes!"
Guo Peng walked to Guo Ren's side and slowly unfolded the map.
This was a map of the Qin Dynasty that he had found someone to custom-make in modern times. Although it was only two meters long, the content was detailed. Even the terrain and features of various places were marked in small words.
Ying Zheng himself walked down from the dragon throne and came closer to take a look. The maids and eunuchs in the palace also looked over curiously.
"The drawing is so detailed and divine. These words are so small. How did you write them?”
"I used a special pen." Guo Peng explained.
Ying Zheng looked at it carefully for a while, then suddenly pointed at the middle of the map.
"My Great Qin is so small?"
"Great Qin is already the most powerful Kingdom in the world. It's not that Great Qin is small, but that the world is too big.”Guo Peng could only say this.
In comparison, Great Qin was indeed quite small. Not to mention the world, many places in the south had yet to be included in Great Qin's territory.
Ying Zheng sighed and said," I thought that I had unified the six states and had already ruled the entire world. I didn't expect that I was sitting in a well and looking at the sky.”
After ordering his men to move the map aside, Ying Zheng looked at Guo Peng and said,""You just said that this was the first treasure. Is there a second treasure? I'm very curious now. What's your second treasure?”
Guo Peng smiled and said,"Allow me to keep you in suspense. Your Majesty, do you know the material of this map?"”
"Oh?"
Only then did Ying Zheng notice the special material of this map.
It was obviously not cloth or animal skin.
What was this?
He looked at Guo Peng with a probing gaze.
At this moment, Guo Peng bowed and said,""This is paper. The second treasure this commoner presented to Your Majesty is the method to make this paper.”
Guo Peng took out a small stack of white paper from his bag and handed it to the Qin Emperor.
Paper?
Since ancient times, books and deeds were mostly made of bamboo slips. Those who used silk (that is, silk fabrics cut according to the needs of writing) were called paper.
However, silk was too expensive and too soft. It was not very convenient to write, and the bamboo slips were too cumbersome.
As soon as the delicate, light, and small piece of paper with the perfect hardness appeared, Ying Zheng was immediately intrigued.
He knew that this was an item specially used for writing.
Returning to the desk, Ying Zheng picked up his brush and wrote down lines of words on the paper. The more he wrote, the more excited he felt.
This paper was amazing!
The handwriting was clear and round, the ink dried easily, and it was lighter than bamboo slips.
It was simply a gift from the heavens!
Guo Peng watched this scene from the side. He was calm and composed, but he was also secretly laughing in his heart.
It was indeed the best time to take out paper in this era.
If it was during the era of the rise of the gentry, this Guo would never have dared to casually take out such a thing.
Why did Cai Lun die so miserably?
It was said to be a messy palace struggle, but in fact, it was because he invented the art of paper making, which reduced the cost of knowledge transmission.
If knowledge was worthless, how could the aristocrats monopolize knowledge?
What could he use to maintain the family's long-term prosperity?
Therefore, Cai Lun was hated by some people, and it was inevitable that he would die a miserable death.
The Qin Dynasty was a subversive era.
A thousand years of blood is no match for military merit.
This was an era where even commoners had the chance to become nobles. Chen Sheng's words about kings and generals were not something that was said out of thin air. Otherwise, why had no one said that for thousands of years before the Qin Dynasty?
Now,
The era of bloodline supremacy had just passed, but the era of knowledge supremacy had yet to begin.
In this era, the appearance of paper was the best opportunity.
……
Yesterday, after I posted an update rule, I was dumbfounded. There were a few big shots who sent over a thousand flowers alone. What kind of godly operation was this?
I was completely stunned. At first, I wrote 500 flowers and one chapter. Because, after one day, the number of flowers only increased by a few hundred. I thought that this was the speed…but the moment I saw it, I was shocked and decisively changed it to 1,000.
Then, I realized that it still didn't work…I looked at the rules of other authors, and they all seemed to be 3000 flowers and one chapter…May I ask, is it too late for me to change it to 3000 now? (Painful yet happy…)
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