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Chapter 1019 kicks off

At the end of noon, Chen Xu and Xiyue Hou Kangqi entered the Qinghe Theater together with a smile. At this time, the theater was already crowded. Countless Central Plains merchants in gorgeous clothes and Western Regions Hu merchants with different outfits had been waiting for a long time. When they saw Qinghe Hou arrive, a warm cheer sounded in the theater, and many Hu merchants knelt on the ground and kowtowed to greet them.

These two are their parents who are about to make a fortune. Whether they can buy the goods they have always dreamed of Daqin, the arrangements of these two people.

Amid the cheers, Chen Xu, Xiyuehou and several important business leaders invited and several Western kings climbed to the private room on the second floor. The maids brought snacks and wines. The curtains on the stage began to shake and quickly opened. With the sound of powerful gongs, drums and horns, a song and dance drama that had already performed countless times to serve the country loyally began to take place.

The songs and dances of Qinghe Theater are already familiar with the Great Qin merchants who came to the Qinghe Theater today, and the song is loyal to the country, and the ears are already calloused after listening to it. Therefore, the Great Qin merchants invited are holding tea and eating snacks and chatting with each other. Naturally, what they said is how much money they have made in the past few days and how many wives they have fucked.

However, this song was carefully arranged by Chen Xu and started a war song and dance in Xianyang, coupled with the skillful cooperation of music and dancers, and the flowing performance still shocked a group of Hu people from the Western Regions, and their eyes were all stunned and their chins could not be closed.

Not to mention that they have never heard of this kind of dance and music, they can't even imagine it.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, but the actions of the Daqin soldiers wearing leather armor on the stage killing the foreign costumes clearly show that this is a battle of conquest of the Qin Dynasty against the foreign races. In the sonorous singing and dancing, the sharp long sword and sharp long spear killed the foreign races one by one. Seeing these Hu people trembled and sweated on their foreheads, they couldn't help but continue watching without blinking.

After the song and dance, polite applause sounded in the theater. In the private room on the second floor, Chen Xu took the lead in standing up and applauding, and a group of people also stood up and applauded.

After serving the country with loyalty, the old mythological drama The Legend of the White Snake.

The Legend of White Snake is the first long drama that Qinghe Theater started in Wancheng. Almost six years have passed, and this drama has long been well-known, especially when the popular thousand years waits for it. With the sometimes soothing and sometimes bright music, it has triggered memories of viewers in the entire Qinghe Theater, and many people can't help but sing it together.

This is a song and dance worth collecting and recalling. It is the originator of the birth of the Great Qin Opera and the deepest nostalgia for White Snake.

The Hu people couldn't understand this song and dance, but when thunder, fire, lightning and rolling smoke suddenly burst out on the stage, it caused the terror of these Hu Shang envoys and even kings to scream, which also caused the Qin merchants to burst into laughter like monkeys.

After the White Snake Legend ended, Chen Xu brought a group of people to the stage. He first introduced the identity and official position of Xiyuehou, and then explained in detail the role of the Department of Commerce, and finally talked about the purpose of inviting everyone to come today.

All the Hu and Daqin merchants already knew about this, so they did not cause much reaction. After the explanation, Chen Xu asked these Hu merchant envoys to negotiate the types and quantity of goods that needed to be purchased with the king himself and Daqin merchants. The translation was naturally a group of translators from the Dianke Administration. Finally, the two parties signed a credit purchase contract, which clearly stated the time and quantity of payment for return, and the contract was in triplicate, and the signed contract would be reviewed by Xiyuehou himself and signed and archived for future inspection.

The Bureau of Commerce has just announced its establishment today. There are not even office spaces, and there is only Xiyuehou, a commander. However, as the emperor has clearly established the office, everyone naturally recognized the identity of Xiyuehou. After nearly an hour of noise, after careful negotiation and discussion, dozens of credit purchase contracts were completed. Qinghe Store, Fan's Winery, Shuishi Tea House, Gao's silk, Weinan cloth shop, Nanshan glass, Hongxing enamel, as well as pottery, mahjong, sweet and sour, clothing, leather goods, etc. As long as you dare to credit, these Hu merchants dare to ask for anything, and they wish that the more you can get.

Of course, in order to ensure the interests of Daqin merchants, the contract amount is still limited, especially luxury items such as porcelain, silk, red wine and glass. Each one is not cheap, and it is easy to collect money on credit. This is almost an inevitable crux of business operations. Although Chen Xu has elevated this behavior to the national level with his identity and the current preparations of the Commerce Department, he still cannot guarantee that some of them will be liable, and it is more likely that these merchants will be on the road to business, and eventually become a bad debt that cannot be collected.

But no matter what, this is an unprecedented commercial transaction activity. After these contracts have been reviewed and signed by Chen Xu and Xiyuehou, these commercial contracts will be considered officially effective. At that time, these Hu merchants can directly go to the merchants of Daqin to transport goods, and after careful inspection by the Bureau of Commerce, they can be transported back to the Western Regions.

Three days later, a huge market ended.

Thousands of Qin merchants and Hu merchants who participated began to pack up their belongings and leave Cuju Square. In order to open their horizons, Chen Xu asked Liu Bang to organize a Cuju invitational tournament at Cuju Field, where Meng Yun and other groups of playboys took lots and came out to participate in the competition. In addition to selling tickets to the outside world, the game also distributed a ticket to all the Hu people who came to Xianyang regardless of their status, and arranged to watch a unique Cuju competition in a stand.

During the game, this kind of sports activity purely for entertainment shocked these Hu people to an extreme level. Tens of thousands of people cheered like tsunamis in the stadium, and even made waves of people to push up the atmosphere of the game. Just as the game was about to be at the halftime, Meng Yun and other groups of playboys took off from the river beach outside the south gate of Xianyang on gliders, crossed the Wei River and flew over the Cuju field one after another, and immediately scared all Hu people to kneel all over the stands, kowtowing to such huge birds in the sky, and terrifying shouts resounded throughout the Cuju field, which caused tens of thousands of Xianyang people to laugh and cheer loudly on the stadium.

"Mr. Marquis, I'm afraid that doing this will scare these Hu people into peeing their pants!"

Standing at the highest point of Cuju Field, watching a group of playboys wearing sunglasses, masks, and leather jackets, driving on a glider in the sky, Liu Bang, who was standing next to Chen Xu, and a group of managers in Cuju Field were laughing and discussing.

"What I want is this effect. The Western Regions are thousands of miles away from our Great Qin. It is difficult to travel far away. My Great Qin caravan is not willing to go to the Western Regions to do business. Therefore, these Hu merchants need to obey and sell goods. At the same time, spread the strength of our Great Qin to Western countries. The glider is now the most powerful symbol of our Great Qin. This is a completely irresistible pressure, which is stronger than the army giving them oppression and visual impact..."

Chen Xu looked down at the stadium below and looked at the tens of thousands of Hu people kneeling in the stands and said calmly.

A few days later, after a careful inspection by the officials of the Commerce Department who were hurrying to prepare, the Hu caravan of tens of thousands of people composed of dozens of tribes and states in the Western Regions set off one after another to return to the Western Regions. The emperor once again summoned the envoys and kings of the Western Regions tribes in the court, issued reward edicts and rewarded some silk, porcelain, tea and red wine. This unprecedented commercial event that lasted for nearly a month slowly came to an end.

In a few months, the strength and prosperity of the Qin Dynasty will inevitably be spread to the Western countries by the Hu people in the Western Regions. A trade channel between the East and the West will be completely opened, and the integration of the two civilizations will gradually begin.

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In early March, the Qin Dynasty entered the turn of spring and summer, and the road to the Western Regions also accumulated snow and melted the lush vegetation. The Qin Dynasty once again organized tens of thousands of slaves and prisoners to send stirrups, horseshoes, weapons, bows and crossbows, compressed military rations, clothing and medicines to Li Xin and Jiang Hu's two armies. At the same time, they brought a large number of enamel tea tanks and some military water bottles. They also sent a large number of Qin missions with Li Shun as the chief official to begin contacting Dayuan and Kangju Daxia and other countries to explore the attitudes of Central Asian countries towards Daqin.

Almost at the same time, 100,000 civilian craftsmen and prisoners outside the Lingnan and Yuechengling participated in the construction of artificial rivers and canals connecting Xiangshui and Lishui. Wang Ben, the Marquis of Tongwu, sent messengers back to Xianyang to seek military orders, hoping to officially start attacking Lingnan and conquering Baiyue.

The Emperor of Tongwu Hou had almost no hesitation when he asked for the war, and soon issued a war order. After nearly a year of preparation, the Wuling Pass had already transported mountains of food and weapons, and the 200,000 soldiers and generals stationed in Wuling were all rubbed their fists and prepared to give Baiyue the most violent blow, and while gaining merit for himself, he also completed the arduous task of expanding territory for the emperor.

In fact, the Wuling defenders were not in a hurry, because four years have passed since the beginning of the policy of encroachment. Several bandits, generally composed of prisoners and rangers, have caused trouble to many Yue tribes outside the Wuling River, and almost all of the entire Fujian and Yue tribes. The army guarding Wuling could only watch the snatched Yue tribes carts transported the Yue tribes they had seized to the Wuling Pass through the Wuling Passage to Kuaiji Changsha Jiujiang and other counties. The sound of making money made them all lick their mouths and stare at their red eyes and envy them.

If this process lasts for another two or three years, it is estimated that the conquest of the Lingnan areas will not have any of their 200,000 troops.

I worked hard to garrison Lingnan for ten years and didn’t make any contributions in the end, so that I was really frustrated.

Therefore, since Wang Ben arrived in Lingnan, all the five ridge guards complained in front of Wang Ben every day, and Wang Ben naturally knew the envy and jealousy of the soldiers. He also wanted to deal with the various places in Lingnan early and then return to Xianyang to enjoy happiness. He heard that Cuju Commercial Plaza had been repaired for almost a year. The postmen, messengers and officials who sent imperial edicts in the court had already described Cuju Square as a scattered, but he, the largest shareholder, had not seen anything. He was also worried that the tens of millions of families that his father and son had earned for more than ten years, would be invested in this Cuju Field. In order to support Chen Xu in building the Cuju Field, he almost sold his Tongwu Hou Mansion.

Now it is the harvest season. If the business in Cuju Square is not good, wouldn’t it end up losing money and dying of vomiting blood?
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