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The merchants gathered in Qinghe Park have left.

Chen Xu and Chen Ping took a bus to leave Qinghe Park and prepared to go to the newspaper office.

"Mr. Marquis, your speech today is so exciting!"

Chen Ping has not yet escaped from Chen Xu's passionate speech just now, as if Chen Xu's voice was surging in his ears, and the merchants were thrilled with red faces and roaring with their arms roaring.

Chen Xu nodded slightly without saying a word.

Today's speech can be said to be the first time he has been so shameless in two lives.

But if I don’t yell here today, another ragged guy will jump out of the rain and yell in the heavy rain: Is it better to have a king, prince, general, and minister?

In fact, that farmer is the real great orator.

And it was that sentence that Daqin fell!

Therefore, some things must be as early as possible, and Qin Shihuang is still alive to reform all the disadvantages that can hinder economic development.

Although the Roman Republic cannot implement the parliamentary system, it is necessary to change the completely unequal status of some scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and liberate a large amount of productivity. Developing economic cultivation and restoration is the first priority at present.

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One day later, the new issue of Daqin Urban Edition was released, accompanied by a special issue of Oriental Road Construction.

The special issue introduces the importance of this road to the Qin Empire in detail, and explains the necessity of construction from various aspects such as history, economy, culture, region and future development.

At the same time, the special issue also published several interviews by newspaper reporters on several business leaders. All business leaders expressed their full support for the construction of Dongfangdao, and also expressed their gratitude to Qinghehou and their happy expectations for the future development of the Qin Dynasty economy.

In addition, the special issue also used a lot of space to introduce in detail the methods of Dongfangdao's investment promotion and mortgage loan policies, and called on merchants across the country to participate in the construction of cement factories and Dongfangdao's construction.

Although Xianyang merchants snatched all their intention contracts, if they wanted to build cement factories in other counties, if there was no support from local wealthy businessmen, conflicts would arise in the future. The so-called strong dragons do not suppress local snakes. The law is not very useful to many local people, especially in this wilderness era. Therefore, through newspaper propaganda, these merchants who received the contract can share the authorization when they go to the local area. Each person needs it. If you have money, you will make the best money. Eating alone will make a death.

Moreover, newspapers also have another purpose, which is to spread this business model quickly, so that merchants around the world can recognize and accept the huge benefits brought by this financial credit method faster.

Xianyang City was like a pot of boiling water, and after the preparation meeting of Dongfang Road, it was completely burned and boiled.

When ordinary people are still immersed in the unprecedented project of investing 500,000 stones of money and grain on the Weihe Bridge, all the merchants and upper-class people have shifted their attention to a huge project with an investment of 10 million stones, which is really an unprecedented huge project.

A bus company that was once said to have invested 4 million yuan a while ago is no longer valuable in everyone's eyes.

Because of this road, a total investment of 40 million yuan was invested.

When many people mention this number, they feel that their souls are so light that they cannot stand, and they feel like they are soft and floating.

Three days later, all the merchants who received the intention contract paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan as required, and these deposits were deposited into the account of the General Administration of Oriental Road Construction in Huaxia Money House, which was in charge of Yang Kun. The total amount of funds was 5.8 million yuan.

In addition to the service stations and logistics markets on Dongfang Road, all cement factories in the total number of 36 counties in the country are intended to be subscribed.

Now Xianyang has gathered more than 100,000 wealthy merchants in the first six countries. Most of these people are also involved in the kings of the first six kings, the nobles of Sun, but their tribe members are still in the land of the first six countries, and many are still doing business, and they have close contacts and exchanges with each other.

Therefore, obtaining the authorization qualifications of these cement factories will inevitably lead to great wealth in the future.

With cement, you can basically draw a talisman to go up the mountain to pick stones and create stone bricks.

Although there were only fifty-eight intent contracts this time, the number of merchants involved exceeded 1,500. Except for a few projects that were obtained by a single family, almost all projects were a share contract system, which was completed by many people in partnership, and the largest number of investors in the cement factory reached 30.

But Chen Xu didn't care about this, he just kept selling the project and charged money.

All persons who sign the intent contract have a two-month fundraising period. Those who cannot raise enough money after the deadline will be disqualified from signing the formal contract, and the deposit will not be refunded.

Anyone who raises enough money can sign a formal contract at any time. Once the mortgage is signed, it will be issued. You can start recruiting troops and starting to build cement factories and prepare tools for grain, cement, sand and gravel and other materials for building roads and bridges. Just wait for the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Works to complete the entire road planning in sections, and after the spring begins, the construction of this cement avenue can be officially started.

The day when the construction begins, the beginning of the bet between Chen Xu and Li Si. At the end of the year, the victory or defeat of both sides will be known to everyone.

Whoever laughs the last time will get the greatest support from the emperor and control the court's voice from then on. The combination of the Legalist rule of the country and Chen Xu's method of governing the country by the hundreds of schools will start to go in different directions with this road as the dividing ridge.

The emperor has issued an edict that the three provinces and six ministries must strictly cooperate with the construction of the Eastern Road, and that anyone who dares to destroy is punished for rebellion.

With the support of the emperor, Chen Xu naturally took the chicken feathers as an arrow and sent orders from the Academy of Sciences one by one, and all the three provinces and six ministries strictly followed and implemented them.

First of all, Yang Kun, the director of the Oriental Road Preparatory Office, gathered the Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Works and Shaofu established an engineering command center, and sent a large number of craftsmen and craftsmen to form nearly 30 surveying teams along the existing Oriental Road measurement sections, marking out the route map along the way, where there are small rivers, where there are big rivers, where there are mountainous areas, where there are cliffs and steep slopes, etc., analyze the situation and formulate different construction plans, where there are diversions, where there are bridges, where there are curves and straights, etc. At the same time, the service station and logistics market location must be planned according to the distribution of counties along the way, many of which occupy private fields or even migrate private houses, all of which need to communicate with local officials to deal with them.

Secondly, in order to facilitate the rapid construction of roads, some cement plants and sand, gravel and wood must be built along the way, and these need to be planned in advance.

Finally, in order to cooperate with the construction of this road, local county officials should cooperate with the engineering teams involved in the construction to recruit prisoners and labor slaves and recruit civilians.

Of course, these recruited prison slaves and civil servants do not need any money and grain provided by the court and local county officials' warehouses. All expenses are prepared by the merchants involved in the construction of local sections. According to the Qin Dynasty's laws and regulations, the labor slaves have half a pound of coarse grain per day, and prisoners and civil servants have one pound of coarse grain per day. The road should be repaired as soon as possible. Of course, the more manpower, the better, but the less consumption, the better. However, no matter how deducted, the money and grain stipulated by the law are essential. Otherwise, the merchants will be punished in the end, and then the civil servants. The civil servants are not servants and do not belong to the corvee labor force that is forced to be recruited. Therefore, in order to collect enough personnel, you may have to pay, because most civil servants will bring their own dry food and only earn some money to work to subsidize the household.

Moreover, with such a large project, there are no so many prisoners and labor slaves calling along the county and county. Most of the participants can only be civil servants. Hiring a large number of civil servants will inevitably cost more money. Therefore, a large amount of coins will flow to the civil servants and civilians along the road construction. Therefore, a lot of funds invested in road construction will flow to the bottom of the Qin Dynasty and will stimulate local consumption.

Chen Xu stipulated that Yang Kun must complete the measurement, planning and segmentation of the road within three months.

Therefore, on the third day after the preparation of the engineering command, the thirty surveying teams led by the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Works all set off with the tags of the Oriental Road Engineering Command. Some riding horses and those who ride cars, but most of them take boats down the river and can reach the counties along the route in two or three days. The leaders are all officials from the Ministry of Works, carrying the orders and letters of the Shangshu Province. After arriving, local officials will help us to gather people to help.

Overall, before the bet officially takes effect, Chen Xu must do his best to arrange all preparations in advance, so that the participating merchants can burn enough cement, prepare enough sand, gravel and wooden boards, and gather enough people.

It is August now, and everything needs to be arranged by January next year. This time is very hasty. Especially for the cement factory, in addition to building a cement kiln, it also needs to pour a large iron mill and prepare enough coal, stone, iron ore, limestone clay. These must be carefully ground into raw materials. There is no time to build a large water truck and mill elsewhere, so it can only be handled by cattle, horse and manpower...

Just as Chen Xu racked his brains to fool merchants into building roads in Xianyang, 40,000 full of new equipment from the Northwest Military Camp had already divided into eight groups at the end of July, breaking out of the Great Wall from the eight major passes and pounced on the Huns and Donghu like tigers and wolves.

This autumn harvest battle has been planned for a long time, and all new horsemen were trained by generals who participated in the first raid of the Huns. Therefore, various horse harnesses and weapons have been trained very skillfully. In addition, there are soldiers who are familiar with raids and attacks as grassroots officers, and they are all single and two horses. The Huns are responsible for riding and fighting. The former war horses are responsible for carrying food and equipment. Later, Meng Tian also arranged nearly 100,000 soldiers and countless caravans to be responsible for the subsequent aftermath and the handling of prisoner spoils. Therefore, this raid does not require any worries such as being surrounded by the Hun and Hu army.
Chapter completed!