Chapter 361
"What?" Fan Yong excitedly snatched the excitement from the servant's hand. Seeing that the sealed paint and seals were still intact, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around and entered an office, roasted it on the stove for a while, and then opened the excitement, and took out a piece of snow-white paper.
"Mr. Fan, I feel like I've been away from Wancheng for several months. I wrote to you this time that there is a big thing that you need to do immediately. First, prepare a lot of money, which will be used soon. Second, quickly purchase several copper and iron workshops, prepare craftsmen and labor slaves, and purchase slaves; Third, arrange people to go to Wuyang County and Luyang County immediately, and choose places near the coal mines and iron mines you found last time to prepare for the construction of large-scale smelting and casting workshops. Fourth, contact the powerful copper and iron workshop owners, fur merchants, and wood makers in Wancheng to prepare in advance to start preparing a large amount of leather and materials for making swords, guns and sword hilts. This matter is quite secret. At most, the imperial list will be issued to the Wancheng County Magistrate's Office. Your Majesty is preparing to prepare 10,000 sets three months ago. Steel weapons and new horse harnesses will be prepared and built by merchants themselves, and then local counties arrange for supervisors to inspect and acquire them. At that time, there will be a three-part contract. You can tell at a glance that this is an excellent opportunity for merchants to change their current status. As the leader of the business world in the Qin Dynasty, you must take the lead in doing this and set an example for merchants all over the world. Only when this matter is successful can I fight for sufficient benefits for merchants all over the world in the court, and from then on, the current pattern of merchants focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce will be completely changed. The success or failure of merchants will be here. If you succeed, you will be proud of yourself. If you fail, you will never recover from it and be bullied. You will be treated with great hope. Finally, there is one thing, send someone to Xianyang to open a Chinese money house."
Looking at the letter with a strong tone but vague tone, Fan Yong pondered a little and then put away the letter and drove back home. He quickly wrote several invitations in the study.
"I'll send these invitations out and say that I'll invite you to a banquet at Qinghe Inn tonight at You and remind all the heads of the family to arrive on time!"
"Yes, lord!" A manager took the letter and quickly arranged seven or eight servants to scatter the invitations to several merchants in Wancheng who were selling copper, iron, wood and leather products.
The letter to Fan Yong was sent to Wancheng as early as the day when Chen Xu proposed the three rules in the court that day.
Two days before the letter arrived in Wancheng, several generals of Xianyang had already led soldiers to escort the envoys and craftsmen who were sending the orders for 400 miles to Hanzhong, Sanchuan, Nanyang, Hanoi, Shangdang, and Hedong counties. They held the imperial list and the emperor's orders, and prepared to pass them on to the counties in boxes of printed albums and instructions, starting the first political and business cooperation in the history of the Qin Dynasty, and this incident would inevitably cause great uproar among the people.
Just eight days after Fan Yong received Chen Xu's letter, dozens of fast horses galloped along the Wuguan Chi Road and rushed out of the mountains and ridges. Many horses were carrying wooden boxes and vine baskets on their backs. The group continued to whip straight to Wancheng, Nanyang County Mansion, two hundred miles away.
"Jia~Jia~" The soldiers on the horse's back and the escort in official uniforms, General Lang waved his whip and beat the seated war horse. Although the cold wind was howling, snowflakes were flying in the sky, and a layer of silver white had fallen on the ground, everyone's forehead was beads of sweat rolling down, and the war horse was breathing heavily, and a violent white mist sprayed out from his mouth and nose.
"Your Majesty's order, four hundred miles to speed up, and those who block will be killed~"
Near the west gate of Wancheng, the leader of the Lang General showed off the bronze waist card in his hand, and then a group of people rushed into the city gate with iron hooves flying and trampling on the ice and snow, rushing straight towards the county magistrate's mansion.
An hour later, at the east of Wancheng, at the entrance of the Taiyi Temple built, a group of soldiers from the Wancheng County Magistrate came and kicked and stomped in hand. Soon, a silk emperor list was hung on the wall at the door, with dense decrees written on it, and the bright red emperor's jade seal was covered on the end.
"It's the emperor's list~~"
As the sound of gongs sounded and the shouts of soldiers, the alarmed people came from all directions, and soon the entire street was surrounded and the people inside were reading the contents of the imperial list aloud, and the people around him also cheered various surprises from time to time, of course, they were more surprised, confused and uneasy, and asked each other about the contents of the imperial list.
Almost at the same time, carriages followed at the entrance of the Wancheng County Magistrate's Mansion. All the merchants from Wancheng, including merchants with strong iron, wood and leather goods. After getting off the car, they all walked into the county magistrate's government office with a serious expression. In the lobby, the county magistrate Jiangbeiting had been dressed neatly for a long time. Next to Jiangbeiting, there were also a voyeur holding an imperial edict and a general wearing leather armor and a big sword.
"The Caomin has met the county magistrate!" The merchants who came in were nervous and hurriedly saluted Jiangbeiting.
"Don't give me a gift, wait a moment, and after everyone arrives, the envoy has a majesty's order to read it in public." Jiang Beiting nodded and stopped talking.
In fact, he was prepared in his heart, because just a few days ago, he had received a letter from his brother Jiang Heng who rushed to send from Xianyang. The content was that the emperor accepted Chen Xu's suggestion and prepared the merchants to prepare 10,000 sets of new pawn equipment. Of course, because the matter was not clear, he was also a little vague. However, in the end, he was closely reminded that this matter was very important and asked him to closely cooperate with this matter. Because Jiang and Chen Xu are now at stake. When Meng Yi asked Jiang Heng to jointly open a porcelain factory, he had already said that Chen Xu mentioned that he could cooperate with Jiang. Therefore, as long as the porcelain factory was opened, Chen Xu, Meng and Jiang were a community of interests in the future, and naturally Chen Xu's position in the court is as stable as possible.
Moreover, Chen Xu is also the person Jiang Beiting valued the most. He used to take good care of himself. Although he failed to successfully give up his willful daughter to Chen Xu, this did not affect the relationship between the two. After all, women are dispensable in this era. Chen Xu's current identity is probably not worthy of Jiang Chuyue, who was dismissed by others, no matter what, so Jiang Beiting was completely dead.
The last time the emperor toured Nanyang, he had a secret conversation with Chen Xu alone at the Qinghe Theater in Wancheng. Now the entire Wancheng is almost well-known. Chen Xu also personally accompanied Qin Shihuang to worship the Taiyi Divine Monument. It can be seen that the emperor valued him more than ordinary. Therefore, when the summer grain was harvested, Jiang Beiting took his daughter to meet Chen Xu at the end, and repeatedly told him not to be willful and willful as before, because now, Jiang Xu can't afford to offend him and dare not to provoke him, so he could only flatter him. That meeting could completely fulfill his daughter's last wish, and the two of them had no chance of getting involved.
Later, in late autumn, the eldest prince Fusu personally went to Xiaohe Village, Qinghe Town to welcome Chen Xu to Xianyang. This incident was so popular that everyone knows.
Then, the news from Xianyang shocked the world. When Chen Xu arrived in Xianyang, the First Emperor actually went out of the city to greet him. He held a banquet in the palace that night. The next morning court, the Grand Tutor Qinghehou, a series of rewards, which completely confirmed that Chen Xu was the legendary disciple of the immortal family in Funiu Mountain, otherwise the emperor would not have made such an outrageous reward.
Twenty days ago, the envoy went to Nanyang to issue an order that Chen Xu had a fief of Qinghe Town, with 600 households, but a few days ago another envoy came, and the marquis of Qinghe Town and another thousand households were fed. With this continuous reward, Jiangbeiting also went to Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village several times, bringing a lot of money, grain, silk and silk to comfort Chen Xu's mother, Chen Jiang and her younger sister Chen Xing'er. Because of the fief, the people of Qinghe Town were jubilant for half a month and had not calmed down.
A disciple of the Immortal Family!
When he thought of Chen Xu's evil behavior, Jiang Beiting completely lost his calmness as before. While smiling bitterly, he was also glad that he had a good vision and met such a magical boy. The dozens of Ma Boyuan's family of bad eyes have been demoted to Yanmen County to reclaim land. They will be completely ruined in this life. Moreover, Jiang Beiting can still think that Ma Boyuan, who was dismissed from his official position and demoted to a commoner, would definitely end up miserably. Zhao Gao would definitely take the opportunity to step on it a few times. Perhaps now, Ma Boyuan's family may have no bones left.
Amid Jiangbeiting's random thoughts, more than 30 merchants arrived at the county magistrate's office, and Fan Yan of the Fan family was among them.
"All people are here, please read the orders of Your Majesty!" Jiang Beiting shook his head and dispelled his thoughts, bowed his hands to salute the envoy and said.
"His Majesty the First Emperor ordered the Nanyang County Governor Jiangbeiting to quickly summon Nanyang merchants to discuss the construction of new steel weapons and horse harnesses. Time is urgent, and things are urgently followed. Everything is implemented in accordance with the three rules and regulations of the Emperor's Bang. The three rules and regulations are as follows..."
As the envoy finished reading the content of the three chapters of the Constitution and distributed a large stack of printed relevant details to everyone's hands, more than 30 merchants in the lobby quickly became restless, and all kinds of exclamations came one after another. Some people who had learned some news from Fan Yan in advance were even more excited and their faces turned red and their bodies began to tremble slightly.
The construction of an iron smelting workshop and the creation of weapons and harnesses are all second, especially the two in the last ones are simply giving them status and money.
Article 2: According to the quantity and quality of completion, some people can get a job and enjoy the official rank distributed annually. Although not many, there are three hundred stones in the doctor, four hundred stones in the assistant minister, and six hundred stones in the middle of the doctor. This little money and grain is completely drizzling in the eyes of these wealthy merchants, but they can't stand this status. The most lowly merchant can still be an official. Although it is just a title, it is still an official recognized by the Qin Dynasty and a gentry.
It is an official, even if he sees a county magistrate in the future, he will not have to bow to him. The common people will greet him, and even treat him equally when he sees a noble. This identity is enough to make all merchants excited, and those who get the position of a man will also receive a commendation imperial edict issued by the First Emperor himself. This can simply make all merchants in the world compete for him. With this imperial edict, as long as they do not rebel, they will be a talisman for death in the local area, and no one dares to move.
Chapter completed!