More than three years of travel, extremely hard. After arriving in Wei three years ago, Suo Lu Shen came forward to find a few old friends who had rebelled against Mo, and they introduced Qin Gongzi Lian, who also used his connections in Qin State, and Suo Lu Shen set out from Yunyangyi, where he found a guide who was proficient in Yiqu.

Through the Yiqu, and then to the tribe of the Yuzhi people, that is, the "Yueshi" mentioned in the atlas, all the way to the west.

When we set out from Yunyang-eup, the team consisted of more than 300 people. Among them, there are more than 80 ink scholars, 102 travelers, 100 armor soldiers from Song, Wei, Han, Zhao, Qin and other countries, and more than 400 horses.

In addition to the stirrups, the Mo family also prepared a chariot for them, and when they camped at night, they used the chariot as a ring for defense, and the musketeers carried two small bronze cannons for defense.

There were a lot of risks along the way, but you can see a lot of scenery, and you know the vastness of the world.

In addition to gold, which can be used in civilized places, the goods they carry are also iron pots that can be traded with these nomadic tribes.

And when they finally arrived near a big country called Persia, the silk they prepared in advance, the purple dye of Qi, the dragonfly eye glass beads of Zhao, and the copper and jade handicrafts of Yue could be exchanged for a large amount of money.

Many people felt that if they were traders, they could make a lot of money by trading in silk alone.

Solusham had already met with Artaxerxes II, the great king of Persia, and presented a pair of bronze muskets, gaining the power to pass through Persia.

In the capital of Persia, it attracted tens of thousands of onlookers, and at that time, the three-year period had arrived, but it was easy for Solushen to hear the news about the Western Queen Mother Kingdom in the "Biography of Mu Tianzi" and the Greek states in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

After staying for half a year, Solushen also used the history he was familiar with to understand what happened in Persia.

He had come at the perfect time to hear the names of the kingdoms in those two books.

Eight years earlier, Artaxerxes II and his younger brother Cyrus had come into what Solushen called a "battle of princes."

Nacyrus was leading a group of mercenaries from the Greek states called Sparta to occupy Babylon, and finally annihilated them in a place called Kunaxa.

After becoming familiar with the local language, Suo Lushen also inquired about the details of that battle, and after understanding it a little, he felt that it was somewhat similar to the battle of Zhushui before he left Zhuxia and headed west.

Most of the righteous divisions in the Battle of the Water are at the level of those Spartan mercenaries, and they are very fast in changing formations in formations.

The difference was that the Spartans acted as the right flank of Cyrus the Younger, and after choosing to pursue, the weak brigades on the left flank did not follow, because they were a bit of a pawn, and the ranks were loose and sluggish, so that there was a disconnect.

In August of last year, the Athenian Conon became a mercenary again, leading the Persian boat division to defeat the Spartan sailors.

These messages were all important events in Persia at this time, and since Solushen knew that his target was close at hand, he decided not to return to Middle-earth, but to stay here for a while and continue to move forward.

At this time, Persia still had common enemies with Athens and other Greek city-states, and Solushen was a "sophistry" person, with a clear mind, and he had books such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" as his vision, and he quickly got the consent of the Persian king, who also proposed to send some people to follow him when he returned.

In addition to this, the Persian king also found several guides for Solushen. A few of them were Spartan slaves captured in the battle of the princes eight years ago, and one of them happened to be a person who happened to want to return to Greece on the way.

The man's name was a bit long, Hippoglaucus, and after Solushen asked for some vocabulary, it became clear that it was no different from the name of Middle-earth.

Hibo, meaning horse. Glauces, blue, by extension, the sea. According to Solushen's understanding, this person's name is actually a blue horse, or a water horse, or a sea horse.

If you think about it this way, Solu Shen thought to himself, it turns out that the world is so big, and the way of choosing a name is almost the same.

I heard that this was also a Greek "disciple of the princes", their husband was named Socrates, who had been executed six years earlier on some charges, and his disciples fled to escape the limelight, first to Egypt and then to Persia.

According to the hippodia, there was another man in Greece at this time, who was very skilled in medicine, and his name was Hippocrates. According to Solushen's understanding, this person should be counted as the king of the Greek states, but the meaning of the name is just that...... It can be translated as "a person who is good at driving", and more concisely as "royal".

Among the disciples of Socrates, the master of the seahorse, the most famous is Plato, which is comparable to the fowl slippery to the giant son and the Yan Hui to Zhongni, which is actually the meaning of "two fat", "broad-shouldered" and "strong", which is similar to the name of Jin Chenggong's "black buttocks".

And one of the leaders of the Spartan mercenaries who heard about the battle of the princes eight years ago, and one of the disciples of Socrates, was called Xenophon.

Soluzan thought to himself, this Socrates, should be a figure like the Greek states of Zhongni and the giant, with many disciples, can actually participate in the disputes of various countries, but it is a pity that he came six years late, and he is on the same side.

It's just that this Greek script is a bit difficult to learn, and what kind of yin and yang are different, and it is very different from Persian. The Persian script was probably written on clay tablets before, like a wooden wedge, and it was not easy to write on the paper he carried.

Speaking of which, the first exchange with the seahorse was also quite interesting. At the beginning of the intersection, there were nine numbers and geometry in the team, and they drew a diagram of three strands and four on the paper, and used geometry to analyze this thing, and the person actually saw that although the words were inconvenient, but the nine numbers of geometry were actually the same.

According to Suo Lushen's understanding, this strengthened his loyalty and understanding of the Mohist beliefs.

In his opinion, from Yiqu to Yueshi to Persia and even Greece, people are of different races, peculiar appearances, and different cultures, but there are a few things that are indeed eternal.

Fighting, or fighting like that, is in line with the will of heaven, and fighting more and less.

Nine numbers, or that number, are in line with the will of heaven, spanning tens of thousands of miles from east to west, and they are still universal.

The class, or that class, the nobles and commoners are divided, or there are national fields, or there are self-cultivation, and there are slaves.

Machinery, still the same reason, the chariots here also rely on the wheels to move forward.

Crops, which are similar, do not have rice, but have wheat, such as composting oxen and ploughing the ridges, which will not work in the East but will not work in the West.

The gods, ghosts, systems, bloodlines, rituals, clothing, and languages are very different, but even so, I am afraid that some things are not eternal, and only the will of heaven can be universal and applicable to things within tens of thousands of miles.

Solu participated in the Blue Horse and the others on the way to Babylon on their westward journey, and listened to the Blue Horse tell a lot of Greek stories, some of which Solu had read in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", such as the question of "how much is the hypotenuse of a rectangular triangle with one side length", and what is the battle of Hot Springs, etc.

The more he listened, the more strange he felt, thinking to himself that the two suitable masters, who sounded pedantic and heavenly beings, if they came here in person, how could they be lifeless? If you hadn't been there in person, how could you have known so clearly about what was going on thousands of miles away?

During this period, he also discussed concepts such as "heaven and earth" with Blue Horse, and found that in the Greek states, there were also conceptual differences similar to the "Confucian-Mo Dispute" in Middle-earth.

There is a person named Democritus, who believes that everything is made of atoms. This person has traveled to the east and west, and has been here, and has also been to the country of the Queen Mother of the West to learn stargazing, geometry, nine numbers, and predicting solar eclipses.

A deeper understanding, Solu did not know that this person was still there, and he was no less than Socrates, the master of the Blue Horse, and the ideas of the two sides on "the world", "origin", "universe", and "cognition" were very opposed, no less than the differences between Confucianism and Mo.

After hearing all these philosophical exchanges, Solushin's mind was thrown into confusion when he arrived in Babylon.

Originally, he had accepted a lot of suitable doctrines in Middle-earth, and along the way from the Yiqu Yue clan, he saw many strange "gods".

As for the arrival in Persia, the people of this place worship fire and light. The king of Napers claimed that "the power was given by Ahuramazda", but the creator god did not know that there was Middle-earth in the far east, which was unthinkable...... How can a person who has the power of creation not know? If the world is one, not planeal, then is this creator God really God?

The ideas of the Mohists, the ideas of Confucianism, the ideas of the sages of the Spring and Autumn Period, the teachings of Zoroastrianism, the ideas of the Greeks...... All of this exploded in Solushen's mind.

If there is God, then does God have a personality? If not, how can you decide to like and dislike? If not, what should be the standard of human morality? But along the way, there have been no less than three or five gods who have heard of gods and gods who can create the world, and they must be false.

Thinking so, when they arrived in Babylon, Solusan, who was as strong as a horse, fell ill, and they stayed in Babylon to rest for a month.

For the past month, in addition to eating, Solu Shen has been shutting himself in the house to think, describing himself as haggard.

However, just yesterday, he finally figured out everything, was self-consistent internally, took the essence of what he had seen and heard along the way, and actually integrated some things from the Mo family and Shi Shi after he arrived.

He was born in the aristocracy and received a good education since he was a child, and he naturally read "Zuo Chuan", so in this confusion, he thought of something.

"The Sixth Year of Duke Huan" once contained the words of the doctor Ji Liang.

The people, the Lord of God...... The people are God's rulers, not God's rulers over people. Even if God has a personality, it is a human personality.

And he said, "It is the Holy King who first becomes a people and then devotes himself to God." Therefore, the sacrifice is said to be 'Bo Shuo fat belly', which is said to be the universal survival of the people's power, the huge and large fertility of its animals, the non-disease and the salty belly. Fengsheng said that "clean and abundant", saying that it will not harm the people and the year will be abundant. The wine liquor is said to be 'Jiali Liquor', saying that there is Jiade above and below without violating the heart. The so-called fragrant fragrance is not slanderous. ”

If so, what is the meaning of the existence of ghosts and gods? After walking this way, I heard too many ghosts and gods, and it was completely different from that of Middle-earth, and such doubts, along with the words of the sages in the "Zuo Biography" and some ideas after the emergence of Mo Jiashi, finally made Suo Lushen start to think spontaneously.