General Qin

As the body poison messenger finished speaking, the entire Qin Palace fell silent for an instant, and only the rapid breathing of everyone could be heard.

Shock!

Speechless!

incredible!

Wang Wu kept swallowing his saliva, wondering if he had heard wrongly.

He had just asked this question because he wanted to use Qin's million-strong army to suppress the arrogance of this ignorant envoy from a small country and give these barbarians a Qin shock. However, he did not expect to be backhanded by the opponent with a poisonous shock.

This poisonous messenger just said how many troops their country has?

"Two hundred and ninety-eight million."

The corners of Wang Wu's mouth twitched slightly.

He is the governor of Su Neishi, responsible for the country's financial revenue and expenditure, and is very sensitive to numbers.

The word "billion" was generally used to refer to a huge number in the pre-Qin and Qin-Han dynasties, and its meaning was different from that of later generations.

"Poetry" says: There are also high mountains, trillions and Zi.

Another example is what "Guo Qin Lun" says: "Acquire a city of hundreds of millions of feet."

Anyway, this is a super big number, much larger than ten thousand. It is rarely used in life and is mostly used as an exaggeration in articles.

Now, the body poison messengers use the awkward Qin language to directly refer to their country's military strength as billions, which is simply incredible.

Leaving aside hundreds of millions of words, just the fraction behind it is far beyond the imagination of the people of Qin.

If the Qin State mobilizes all the power of the world, how many troops can it send at the same time?

According to Wang Wu's estimate, it is probably around 7 to 8 million. It would be an exaggeration to call it a million-strong army.

But a fraction of the country's military strength is 98 million people. This is more than the total population of the Qin Dynasty. Do you think it's scary or not?

Except for Wang Wu, the other ministers in the court looked at each other with different expressions.

The Prime Minister on the right, Wei Xiang, coughed several times, the Prime Minister on the left, Wang Wan, had his eyes wide open, the Tingwei Li Si frowned, and even the Crown Prince Fusu looked horrified.

Regardless of whether they believed it or not, everyone's first reaction was shock.

Even the disdain on the Emperor's face, who was sitting on the imperial couch, instantly faded away, and he squinted his eyes to look at the envoy from the poisonous country.

Seeing that he had frightened all the kings and ministers of the Qin State with just one word from him, the envoy Singer raised his head proudly, really showing the demeanor of an envoy from a great power.

At this moment, a "poof" sound of laughter sounded in the court hall, which was particularly harsh and eye-catching.

Singer looked for fame and saw that the person laughing turned out to be a man from Qin in his twenties. Judging from his appearance and dress, he was quite famous in Qin.

"I don't know why you are laughing?"

Singer asked in the Qin language he had just learned.

Seeing that the body poison messenger was startled by laughter, he asked himself why he was laughing.

The corners of Zhao Tuo's mouth were twitching, he was so happy.

So funny.

Zhao Tuo knew that this country was always different. It was a country where a motorcycle could carry dozens of people.

Even in terms of quantitative units, Body Poison Man has made various innovations, such as Ganges Sand, Asamkhya, Nayuta and other units.

It is said that one Nayuta unit is equivalent to 10 to the power of 108, which is extremely terrifying.

The ministers of the Qin State were restricted by the times and did not understand the entire world structure. Naturally, they were shocked by the words of this poisonous messenger.

Zhao Tuo knew clearly that there were still an army of 1.298 million. At this time, there were probably not so many people on the entire earth.

We are still in the classical era of human civilization, and various technologies and productivity are still in a relatively primitive period. If a country has tens of millions of people, it is already a top power. It is enough to dominate a country. It is simply unimaginable to think of hundreds of millions of people.

But this envoy from the poisonous country not only dares to think, but can also say it casually. With this courage and shame alone, he can be invincible in the world.

Zhao Tuo shook his head and smiled: "The envoy just said that Shendu has an army of hundreds of millions. How big is the country of Shendu?"

Singer was startled. He didn't know how big the country of Shendu was, but it didn't bother him.

The Shendu envoy said loudly on the spot: "I, Shendu, are the most powerful country in the world. In the words of you Qin people, our land is 500 billion hectares."

Five hundred billion hectares!

As soon as these words came out, a lot of people were shocked again.

Zhao Tuo twitched the corner of his mouth and secretly praised: "Awesome."

Soon, Wang Wu and other ministers shouted: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Nonsense, nonsense! How can there be such a big country in the world!"

"Exaggerated and pretentious, absolutely fake!"

No one who can stand in this court will be a fool. The ministers have never seen such a battle. When they first met, they were shocked by the huge numbers in the mouth of the body poison messenger.

But as long as you think about it for a moment and look at the other party's appearance, you will know that there is something wrong with this matter.

Bragging.

In the past, when the seven kingdoms were fighting for hegemony, the strategists and lobbyists were also talking big words, similar to the appearance and posture of this poisonous messenger.

It's just that those lobbyists and strategists are bragging to the limit when they say that the armor is worth millions at most. Who dares to use hundreds of millions as a unit?

Faced with the accusations from the Qin ministers, Singer was not afraid.

He even said with a smile: "The State of Qin is only a country in the north. I don't know how big the powerful country in the south is. This is normal. Now we are doing business with your State of Qin, exchanging and buying and selling goods with each other. This is a good thing. You Just don’t refuse.”

On the imperial couch, the First Emperor's face became increasingly gloomy, and anger burned in his chest.

"Your Majesty, please hand over this poisonous messenger to me. It only takes three moments for me to let him know how to speak."

Li Si observed the words, stood up immediately, and asked for orders.

"Well, pull it down."

The First Emperor spoke expressionlessly.

Seeing Li Si, a court lieutenant, requesting orders and the First Emperor agreeing, Zhao Tuo looked at the poisonous envoy with a hint of sympathy in his eyes.

Let you brag, now it's over.

What Zhao Tuo didn't expect was that when Lang Wei went up to the palace to drag Singer down, the body-poison messenger actually struggled and screamed.

"Emperor of the Qin people, if you dare to hurt me, the 1.2 billion troops of my poisonous country will crush your Qin country."

"An army of 1.2 billion!"

The ministers were in an uproar. This envoy dared to threaten the Emperor of Qin. This was really the first time in the world.

Prince Fusu was filled with righteous indignation and asked for orders: "Father, this barbarian envoy speaks arrogant words and must be severely punished."

The First Emperor's face was expressionless, except for the bulging veins on his forehead.

Zhao Tuo was speechless. Today, he really cut his butt with a knife and opened his eyes.

He muttered: "Looking at Li Si's appearance, I'm afraid he's about to be waterboarded. I hope you can hold on."

…

The envoy from the Shendu Kingdom, including the time it took for him to be taken out and brought back in again, lasted a total of fifteen minutes.

Then he was completely defeated by Da Qin's water torture. When his face was covered with water stains and he was dragged into the hall again by Lang Wei, his face was already pale and full of fear. He looked at the Qin people around him with eyes that were filled with confusion. It's like looking at an evil ghost.

"Tell me, what kind of country are you in?"

Tingwei Li Si sat back down and spoke coldly.

This time, Singer was no longer as arrogant as he was before, and wanted to use an army of 1.2 billion to flatten Qin.

He lowered his head, and in a voice that was about to cry, he explained to the Qin monarchs and ministers the situation of their poisonous country.

"Our country of Shendu still has two thousand war elephants and about one hundred thousand troops..."

Zhao Tuo listened carefully and quickly understood the general situation of the other party.

The country of Shendu, to be precise, is the Mauryan Dynasty in India, so named because its founder came from a family that raised peacocks.

This dynasty once had a generation of heroic king Ashoka. He conquered all directions with force, making the Maurya Dynasty continue to expand and rule almost all of the Indian subcontinent. Its national power was very powerful. At its most powerful, the entire country probably had five or five soldiers. As many as 600,000 people.

Although this body poison envoy had previously boasted that they had an army of 1.2 billion, it was an exaggeration, but an army of several hundred thousand should not be underestimated, and it was enough to be called a great nation in the world.

When the First Emperor heard that King Ashoka unified the land of poison through conquests and made the Mauryan Dynasty extremely glorious and powerful, he couldn't help but praise him: "This Ashoka is like me."

However, according to Messenger Singer's account, the greatest Saint King Ashoka in the history of their country had died more than ten years ago.

Soon after Ashoka's death, the vast empire under his rule began to break up.

In today's land of body poisoning, although the royal family of the Maurya Dynasty still has their status, in fact the royal power has long declined, and the princes in various places are divided.

There are many countries, large and small, at war with each other, and the situation is chaotic.

"A fertile land divided among the feudal lords."

The First Emperor's eyes shone.