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At the end of January, the capital Xianyang was already in full swing.

A few days ago, a light rain had just happened, so the blue sky was as beautiful as the mountains and rivers. The wheat seedlings on both sides of the Wei River were already lush and green, and the weeds in the fields were sprouting. The wild flowers on the river beach were blooming in the slightly cold spring breeze. The earth had already revealed the vitality of early spring.

Xianyang has been very lively these days.

In addition to the libraries and the Beijing University, the private selection of the 100 predecessors has also come to an end. With the collection of votes from all over the country, more than 60,000 votes have been received. As the spring gradually warms up and the road to thawing ice and snow gradually smoothens, the collection of votes will be completed soon. It is impossible to collect all the votes, but more than 50% exceeded Chen Xu's expectations. Therefore, the newspaper is recently publishing invitations to invite celebrities from all walks of life to form a ballot review team for ticketing inventory and registration, and sort the rankings of the 100 predecessors as soon as possible.

In addition to votes, the peak period of donations in various places has also passed. At present, the amount of donations collected by China Money Bank has exceeded 10 million. Chen Xu has asked the newspapers to stop donations in the latest issue of the newspaper, expressing his sincere gratitude to the people across the country for donations, and has handed over the task of making donations from various places to a commercial group.

One hundred statues of the philosophers and ten huge merit monuments were all made of huge stones. Quarrying alone was an extremely huge project. In addition, the carving, transportation and hoisting were in place, it was probably impossible to complete in less than two years from front to back. The most important one was the carving of the statues. Appearance, clothing, and action and image were all very problems. In this era without photos and videos, everything was entirely based on the imagination of the designer. Therefore, Chen Xu also specially convened excellent painters from the palace and folk painters to form a design studio. After painting the created images of the philosophers, he posted them in the publicity column outside the construction site for students to observe and put forward opinions.

Therefore, the most discussed folks recently are the selection and image design of the various sages. As for the ranking of these sages in the hundreds of schools, they can only wait until the vote count is over to know the results. Therefore, the entire Xianyang was bustling with hustle and bustle this spring, and they were eagerly hoping that their ancestors could be among the top 100 or even stand at the highest point of the library.

Compared with the noisy of all students, ordinary people are more concerned about another thing, that is, Zuo Xiang Qinghehou gave birth to his third daughter again.

On January 26, a news spread in Xianyang that Princess Huayu gave birth to a second legitimate daughter for Qinghehou, and ranked third at home.

Although the Marquis of Qinghe was as happy as ever, and the entire Marquis' mansion set off lights and firecrackers to invite relatives and friends to celebrate, the news came out, and the fifth princess cried sadly for the whole night, and the atmosphere in the Marquis' mansion was very depressing. Although the fifth princess accepted the fact that she gave birth to another daughter, the fifth princess was still in a low mood.

After getting the fifth princess gave birth to another daughter, the First Emperor also sighed in the palace. This time he did not go to Qinghe Marquis' Mansion to visit him. He only asked Concubine Yun to visit this extra granddaughter, and then gave him a few cars of gifts without any pain and then he did not ask about it. He was obviously dissatisfied with his daughter. The stimulating fifth princess was even more sad and extremely sad.

In order to relieve Ying Shiman, Chen Xu had to often take time to chat with his wife to relieve boredom, otherwise it would be a big trouble to suffer from postpartum depression.

"Mr. Marquis, Your Majesty summons you to the palace!"

In the early February, the wind was sunny, and it was the day of the rest of the year. Chen Xu was accompanying Ying Shiman, who was in a slightly better mood, and a group of wives, concubines and maids to enjoy the spring in the back garden. At this time, the doorman and the manager came hurriedly with a palace servant who was delivering the order.

"What's going to happen today?"

Although Chen Xu was inexplicably surprised, he quickly washed up, changed his clothes and packed up to take the car to the palace. But when he arrived at the palace, he realized that it was something that made him confused.

Meng Yi, the general who was in charge of the Western Army camp, sent a memorial, which asked the enamel factory to add another 10,000 sets of enamel tea tanks and military water bottles. It was said that the enamel equipment of the two armies guarding the Western Regions was seriously damaged and needed urgent supplements. Because they were afraid that the emperor would not believe it, Meng Yi also attached a thick stack of applications for officers at all levels of Jianghu and Li Xin to request additional equipment.

"Last year, I asked the Finance Department to allocate a full five million yuan for the manufacturing of enamel teapots and military water bottles. It was not easy to complete the equipment of the 30,000 Western Army troops in the summer last year. However, this is the third time that General Meng has requested to increase the enamel equipment. I know that the enamel products are strong and durable and will not be damaged easily, but why are the damage and loss so serious..."

In Zichen Palace, Qin Shihuang sat on a big chair, holding his slightly gray beard, his face opened with confusion.

Chen Xu was also confused. Chen Xu didn't know about Meng Tian's letters to add enamel equipment in the Western Army in the first two times, because of such trivial matters, the three provinces and six ministries, all the corresponding government officials to review and approve them, so he didn't need to worry about it at all. However, he did not expect that Meng Tian's memorial would go directly to the emperor's imperial case without passing through the Secretariat. It was obviously reported directly by the Secretariat.

This kind of thing happened before, but it was rare. After the three provinces and six ministries were reorganized, there were fixed processing procedures for official documents everywhere, and there were few such cases of going beyond the Secretariat and submitting the emperor directly.

But there are always exceptions in things. First, Meng Tian’s identity is different, and second, there is a large disagreement of opinions on handling this matter in the Shangshu Province.

After a memorial arrives in the Secretariat, it will be sent to the six ministries' different offices for disposal. Officials at all levels will write down their disposal opinions and then handed them to the supervisors of the six ministries for review. After review, it will also be selected according to the priorities of the official documents and then handed over to Feng Quji for review again.

The memorial was sent to the emperor by the Secretariat under Chen Xu. The biggest possibility is that Feng Quji and the Ministry of War had a huge difference in the handling opinions, and then Feng Quji had to send the memorial to Qin Shihuang directly for advice.

"Your Majesty, Feng Xiang and Weiwei's War Department think what should be done?" Chen Xu thought for a while and asked.

"The Ministry of War believes that since there is a lack of military equipment, it needs to be supplemented immediately and asked the enamel factory to speed up the production and transportation to the military camp for distribution. Feng Xiang thought there were other reasons behind this matter. The government treasury of the Finance Department was tight and he could not rashly allocate funds to build it. He hoped that I would arrange for the censor to go to the military camp for investigation and see why tens of thousands of sets of enamel equipment were lost in just one year. This is inconsistent with the reason. The memorial of the Marquis of Jingwu is here, please take a look..." Qin Shihuang sent the memorial in his hand to the palace servants to Chen Xu.

The content of the memorial was similar to what the First Emperor said, that is, Meng Tian received continuous requests from the army guarding the Western Regions of Li Xin and Jiang Hu, asking for an increase in the amount of enamel equipment to supplement the losses. It also included applications from Jiang Hu and Li Xin’s military camps with the army chiefs and officers at all levels, with signatures and seals, which seemed to be no different from the usual military losses and needs.

The reply from the memorial was that the Ministry of War Order Wei Liao agreed to build 10,000 sets of enamel equipment and requested the Finance Department to allocate two million yuan.

However, this reply was directly rejected by Feng Quji, believing that Meng Tian’s request and the Ministry of War’s disposal opinions were unreasonable, and requested a re-examination of the matter.

For Wei Liao, he is responsible for the equipment, military status, military orders, and the review and transfer of military titles and military positions. The Ministry of War is not responsible for war. They only ensure the stability and logistics of the army, and do not care about money. Therefore, they do not care about the memorials that the army requires to increase equipment at all. They generally respond to every request. If it is just ordinary equipment such as armor, weapons, military uniforms, bedding, and even stirrups, saddles, horseshoes, warehouses in various parts of the Qin Dynasty have reserves. Generally, Feng Quji will not investigate too carefully. He will directly hand the memorials to the Secretariat for review and order the warehouses in various places to allocate equipment to the Secretariat for review. The matter is the matter of the Secretariat, and the Secretariat is just an executive department.

But this time it was different. This time, ten thousand sets of enamel equipment had already made Feng Quji suspicious. Meng Tian asked for two thousand sets of enamel equipment after the autumn of last year. Feng Quji did not think too much and asked the Finance Department to allocate funds to be implemented. However, after the winter, Meng Tian wrote a letter to request that three thousand sets of enamel equipment be added. Although Feng Quji was a little suspicious, he thought that the Western Regions were seven or eight thousand miles away from Xianyang and the situation was complicated, so he ordered the Finance Department to allocate funds to be built. However, this time Meng Tian actually asked for a 10,000 sets of enamel equipment this time, and also asked to create a 5,000 enamel pot. This time, Feng Quji was still in trouble. The Western Regions and the Longxi Military Camp had only 30,000 pawns in total, but the replenished enamel equipment had been built one after another. The Western Regions had only 35,000 sets of replenished enamel equipment, plus the 10,000 sets of this time, which means that the Western Army's enamel equipment loss is as high as 50%.

If something goes wrong, it is a monster. Feng Quji quit this time and threw the memorial to the emperor himself to make an idea. Anyway, the army belongs to the emperor and the money in the treasury is also from the emperor. You can do whatever you say.

After being confused about this memorial, the emperor took advantage of the tradition of asking Qinghe Hou indecisively, and asked Chen Xu to discuss countermeasures.

But Chen Xu was also confused at this time. He couldn't figure out why the amount of the Western Army's enamel equipment was so huge. He still remembered that the enamel teapot and enamel washbasin at home when he was a child were said to have been used for decades. The enamel was knocked off in some places, but it was still useful. The Western Army had not fought in the past two years since conquering the Western Regions. Logically speaking, the clothes should be clean and complete.

"Your Majesty, I think Feng Xiang's judgment is not wrong. It is indeed unreasonable to reason that the enamel equipment is so huge. Marquis of Jingwu is in charge of the Longxi Army and is planning to control the two armies, but after all, it is thousands of miles apart, and it takes several months to go. I definitely cannot find out the reasons for the inner world. I think it is already spring now, and I can arrange for the censor to go to the military camp to inspect and make arrangements after it is clear!" Chen Xushen thought about it and thought that it should be better to beat Feng Quji. After all, the two have always cooperated better, and this kind of thing is indeed incredible.

Damn, even if your clothes and shoes are not damaged so quickly, can the idiots in the military camp use to knock on each other and play with each other?
Chapter completed!