"What?" Fan Yan excitedly snatched the excitement from the servant's hand, saw that the sealed fire paint and seal on it were still intact, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and entered an office, opened the excitement after roasting it on the stove, and took out a snow-white paper inside.

"Fan Lao, seeing the letter, Wancheng has been farewell for several months, this time I am writing to you, there is a major matter for you to do immediately, first, prepare a large amount of money, which will be used in the near future, second, hurry up to buy several copper and iron workshops, prepare craftsmen and labor slaves, and buy slaves; Third, immediately arrange for people to go to Wuyang County and Luyang County, and choose a place near the coal mine and iron mine that you found last time to prepare for the construction of a large-scale smelting and casting workshop, and fourth, contact Wancheng's powerful copper and iron mill owners, leather merchants, and carpentry merchants to prepare in advance to prepare a large number of leather and materials for making knives, guns, and hilts, this matter is quite secret, and at most a few days there will be an imperial list sent to Wancheng County Shoufu, and His Majesty is ready to prepare 10,000 sets of steel weapons and new horse harness before March, all of which will be prepared by the merchants themselves. Then the county government will arrange for supervisors to inspect and acquire, and then there will be a contract with three chapters of the law, the content of which you will know at a glance, this is a great opportunity for businessmen to change their current status, you as the leader of the business community of Daqin, you must take the lead in doing this well, and set an example for the world's businessmen, and only if this thing is successful, I can also strive for enough interests for the world's businessmen above the court, and completely change the pattern of Daqin's current heavy agriculture and suppression of business. Defeat will be sluggish from then on, even more bullied, Wanwang is very serious, and finally there is one thing, quickly send someone to Xianyang to open Huaxia Bank. ”

Looking at this letter with a very strong tone but vague language, Fan Yan pondered slightly, then put away the letter and drove home, and quickly wrote several invitations in the study.

"Come, send these invitations out, and say that the old man will have a banquet at the Qinghe Inn tonight, and tell the heads of the family to arrive on time!"

"Yes, sir!" A steward took the letter and soon arranged for seven or eight servants to scatter and send the invitations to several merchants' mansions in Wancheng dealing in copper, iron, wood, and leather products.

This letter to Fan Yan was sent to Wancheng as early as the day when Chen Xu proposed the three chapters of the covenant in the court.

And two days before the letter arrived in Wancheng, Xianyang already had a number of Zhonglang generals leading the soldiers to escort the messengers and craftsmen who delivered the decree for 400 miles to Hanzhong, Sanchuan, Nanyang, Hanoi, Shangdang, and Hedong counties, holding the imperial list and the emperor's edict, with boxes and boxes of printed atlases and manuals ready to pass on to the counties, opening the first political and business cooperation in the history of Daqin, and this matter will inevitably cause huge waves among the people.

Eight days after Fan Yan received Chen Xu's letter, dozens of fast horses galloped all the way out of the mountains and mountains along the Wuguan gallop, many horses were still carrying wooden boxes and rattan baskets on their backs, and the group did not stop whipping straight to Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang County, two hundred miles away.

"Driving~driving~" The soldiers on horseback and the confessors and generals in official uniforms whipped the horses that sat down, although the cold wind was howling, there were snowflakes flying in the sky, and a layer of silver had fallen on the ground, but everyone was rolling down with beads of sweat on their foreheads, and the horses were also snorting heavily, and fierce white mist erupted from their mouths and noses.

"Your Majesty's decree, four hundred miles to expedit, the blocker is beheaded~"

Approaching the west gate of Wancheng, the leader of the Lang general showed the bronze waist card in his hand, and then a group of people rushed into the city gate with a roar, and the iron hooves flew and smashed the ice and snow and rushed straight to the county guard's mansion.

An hour later, in the east of Wancheng, the gate of the Taiyi Temple was built. A team of soldiers from the Wancheng County Governor's Mansion came with a long halberd kicking and stomping, and soon hung a silk silk emperor list on the wall at the door, with dense edicts written on it, and the back was covered with a bright red emperor's jade seal.

"Hair Emperor Bang~~"

And with the sound of gongs and the shouts of the soldiers, the alarmed people came from all directions, and soon the whole street was surrounded by water, and someone in the innermost part was reading aloud the content of the imperial list, and the people around the audience also made all kinds of surprise cheers from time to time, of course, more were surprised and confused, and asked each other about the content of the imperial list.

And almost at the same time, at the gate of Wancheng County Guard's Mansion, one after another carriages came, all the carriages came down and down were Wancheng merchants with heads and faces, copper, iron, wood, and leather merchants, after getting off the car, they all walked into the county guard mansion with serious faces, above the lobby, the county guard Jiangbei Pavilion had already been dressed neatly and waited for a long time, next to the Jiangbei Pavilion, there was also a person holding a holy decree and a Zhonglang general wearing leather armor and a big sword.

"The grass people have seen the county guard!" The businessmen who came in hurriedly saluted Jiangbei Pavilion one by one.

"Excuse me, wait a little, and when everyone arrives, the envoy has His Majesty's edict to read in public." Jiang Beiting nodded and stopped talking.

In fact, he was already prepared in his heart, because just a few days ago, he had also received a letter from his brother Jiang Heng from Xianyang, which said that the emperor accepted Chen Xu's suggestion and was ready to let the businessman prepare 10,000 sets of new horse equipment, of course, because the matter was not clear, so he also said something vague, but in the end, he told him closely that this matter was very important, so that he could closely cooperate with this matter, because the Jiang family and Chen Xu are now also at stake. When Meng Yi asked Jiang Heng to partner in preparing to open a porcelain factory, he had already said that Chen Xu mentioned that he could cooperate with Jiang, so as long as the porcelain factory was opened, Chen Xu, Mengshi and Jiang would be considered a community of interests in the future, and naturally Chen Xu's position above the court would be as stable as possible.

And Chen Xu is also the most important person in Jiangbei Pavilion, he used to take care of him quite thoughtfully, although he failed to leave his brutal and willful daughter to Chen Xu, but this does not affect the relationship between the two, after all, women are dispensable in this era, Chen Xu's current identity, I am afraid that Jiang Chuyue, a woman who was divorced by others, is not worthy of it no matter what, so Jiangbei Pavilion is also completely dead.

The last time the emperor traveled to Nanyang, he talked to Chen Xu alone for a long time in the Qinghe Theater in Wancheng, and now the entire Wancheng is almost a household name, and Chen Xu also personally accompanied Qin Shi Huang to worship the Taiyi Divine Monument, which shows that the emperor attaches more than ordinary importance to him, so when the summer grain was harvested, Jiangbei Pavilion took his daughter to see Chen Xu for the last time, and told him not to be as rude and willful as in the past, because Chen Xu can't afford to provoke the Jiang family now and dare not provoke, so he can only stammer, and that meeting can be regarded as a complete completion of his daughter's last wish. The two have never had any chance of having anything to do with each other since then.

Later, in late autumn, the eldest prince Fusu Gongzi personally went to Xiaohe Village, Qinghe Town to welcome Chen Xu to Xianyang, and this matter has been spread all over the world.

Then, the news from Xianyang shook the world, Chen Xu went to Xianyang, the first emperor actually went out of the city to greet him, and set up a banquet in the palace that night, and the next morning was a series of rewards from the Taishi State Minister Qinghe Hou, and it was completely confirmed that Chen Xu was the identity of the immortal disciple in the legendary Funiu Mountain, otherwise the emperor would never have made such an outrageous reward.

Twenty days ago, the envoy went to Nanyang to pass the edict, Chen Xu sealed Qinghe Town, eating 600 households, but a few days ago there was a messenger coming, Qinghe Hou Fengyi added 1,000 households, this continuous reward, Jiangbei Pavilion also went to Qinghe Town and Xiaohe Village several times, brought a large amount of money and grain silk silk to comfort Chen Xu's wife Chen Jiang and little sister Chen Xing'er, and because of the matter of the Fengyi, the people of the entire Qinghe Town were jubilant for half a month and did not calm down.

Immortal disciple!

Thinking of Chen Xu's demonic performance, Jiangbei Pavilion completely lost his former calmness, and at the same time smiled bitterly, he was glad that he had a good enough vision and met such a magical young man, and dozens of Ma Boyuan's family with bad vision have been demoted to Yanmen County for reclamation, and this life is completely finished, and Jiangbei Pavilion can still think that because of Zhao Zhe's incident at the beginning, Ma Boyuan, who was dismissed from his official position and demoted to a common man, will definitely end up miserable, and Zhao Gao will definitely take the opportunity to step on a few feet, maybe now, Ma Boyuan's family may have no bones left.

In the cranky thoughts of Jiangbei Pavilion, the number of merchants who arrived at the county guard office exceeded thirty, and Fan Yan of the Fan family was also among them.

"Everyone has arrived, please read His Majesty's edict to the messenger!" Jiang Beiting shook his head to dispel the thoughts in his head, and bowed to the confessor.

"His Majesty the First Emperor decreed that Nanyang County Shoujiang Beiting quickly convened Nanyang merchants to discuss the creation of new steel weapons and horse harnesses, time is urgent, and everything is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the three chapters of the Emperor's Covenant, which are as follows......"

As the confessor finished reading out the contents of the three chapters of the covenant, and when a large stack of printed relevant rules was distributed to everyone, more than 30 merchants in the hall quickly became agitated, and all kinds of exclamations came one after another, and some of the people who had learned some news from Fan Yan in advance turned red with excitement, and their whole bodies began to tremble slightly.

Preparing for the construction of an iron-making workshop and building weapons and horse harnesses are still secondary, especially the latter two are simply giving them status and money.

Second, according to the quantity and quality of the completion of the evaluation, someone can get the Lang position, but also can enjoy the annual quota distribution of the official rank, although not much, Lang Zhong 300 stones, Lang Lang 400 stones, Lang 600 stones, this little money and grain in the eyes of these big businessmen with thousands of dollars is completely drizzle, but can't bear this status, even the most lowly businessmen can still be officials, although it is just a title, but it is still an official recognized by Daqin, it is a scholar, not an official, even if you see the county order in the future, you don't have to salute, The common people have to greet each other, and even see the nobles can treat each other equally, this identity is enough to make all the businessmen enthusiastic, and the person who gets the Lang position will also get a commendation decree issued by the first emperor himself, which can simply make all the businessmen in the world break their brains and fight for it, with this holy decree, as long as there is no rebellion, it is completely a death-free talisman in the local area, and no one dares to move.

Third, the captured slaves, captured cattle, sheep, horses, and leather goods were used to compensate for the construction of equipment, and a Xiongnu horse worth 10,000 gold in the Central Plains was only 3,000 yuan, a slave proficient in horse raising and animal husbandry only needed 300 yuan, and a sheep only cost 80 yuan.