Fan Yan and a group of businessmen from the Central Plains counties came to Xianyang, not only giving Chen Xu great support in building the road, but also bringing dozens of car gifts.

In the past two days, Chen Xu has been very busy in order to attract investment, and he has not asked what kind of gift he sent, so after the internal fundraising meeting and the Huaxia Qianzhuang shareholders' meeting, Chen Xu went out of the city and returned to the Qinghe Courtyard to inquire, as the saying goes, it is not rude to come and go, the Chinese have paid attention to the etiquette and etiquette of coming and going since ancient times, and others have sent dozens of cars of gifts, and they must always express it sincerely.

"Master Hou, our Hou Mansion has made a fortune!"

Even the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion, who usually handles hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, has to treat money like dung at the request of the loser Hou Ye, and when he sees Chen Xu coming back, he can't help but salivate and report.

Dozens of wagons of gifts had all been moved into the storehouse, which filled three rooms, and seven or eight stewards and dozens of domestic servants including the treasurer had been used, but two days had passed, and the huge wealth that had fallen from the sky had not yet been counted.

Boxes of silk brocade, colorful jade, agate, crystal, clams, jewelry, and even a whole box of gold and silver, are scattered irregular block metal, in addition, there are large bundles of precious leather goods, bearskin, tiger skin, mink, rhino horn ivory, sea cucumber scallops, fungus, mushrooms and other mountain delicacies are also several cars, tiger bones have a full three, ginseng and deer antler velvet and other precious medicinal materials are also several cars, delicate as snow salt, all kinds of rare bacon ...... The densely opened boxes exude a dazzling luster.

Hold the grass, sure enough, they are all valuable gifts!

As soon as Chen Xu entered the warehouse, he was shocked by the situation in front of him and lost control of his soul, even if he had been earning money like flowing water for more than a year, spending money like flowing water, the emperor's rewards had never stopped, and every time it was a big cart pulled home, but he had never seen so many treasures and goods once.

"Master Hou, Master Hou, we have made a fortune~"

A group of stewards and servants all ran over excitedly to offer treasures, some held pearls the size of thumbs, some held jade the size of human heads, some held snow-white ivory several feet long, and one guy actually carried two black and half-meter-long tiger whips, like a fierce general Qin Qiong......

With so many gifts and treasures, Chen Xu naturally wants to take a good look at them, delicate and silky light silk, colorful jewelry, and crystal clear gemstones......

It took more than an hour, Chen Xu finally took a look at all the hundreds of boxes of gifts in the three warehouses, and finally had to admit that his Hou Ye was still far from these rich families who had really accumulated for hundreds of years, at least he had never seen most of these gifts, and even if he did, they were not so good.

For example, pearls, the emperor also rewarded him with hundreds, but compared with the pearls sent by these merchants, it is much more stingy, not only the number is small but also small, these merchants sent a large box of pearls at least thousands, each of which is round and jade and full of luster, and it is all first-class goods at first glance.

As for other jade, not to mention, large pieces of mutton fat Yutian Huangshi bloodstone Lantian jade, Chen Xu is a little crazy when he sees it, this random piece is put in the future generations, at least it is worth millions and tens of millions, and it is not a problem to easily exchange it for a villa.

However, these treasures were now laid out in boxes and boxes like ordinary jade, which were slightly precious, and these servants who counted the goods did not care to throw them around.

"How much is this jade worth now?" Chen Xu casually picked up a large piece of blood-red bloodstone and asked.

"Master Hou, it's hard to say, this kind of phoenix bloodstone is mixed, the more pure-blooded it is, the more valuable it is, but it is only used for some decoration and printing, so it is generally not very valuable, this piece of blood is very good, and the block is big enough, it is about worth two or three hundred dollars!" A steward next to him who was holding a small notebook hurriedly smiled.

"So cheap?" Chen Xu was stunned for a long time.

Jade has a huge market in this era, deeply loved by the nobles and wealthy businessmen and even literati, almost as long as there is a little status of people love jade, but the jade quality of Peiyu generally requires the color to be purer and moister, the better, the color is also to white, red, green, blue and yellow these pure colors are expensive, as for other such as light and pink are not welcome.

And chicken blood Tianhuang these are also considered jade, but because of the material, it is still used to make seals, and the demand is much less, and basically the current popularity is metal seals, not jade and wood, jade seals basically became popular after the Tang and Song dynasties because of the large-scale use of paper, and the real popularity of various jade seals was in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

At present, the emperor uses the dragon button jade seal, the upper secretary with the gold seal, the middle and lower secretary with the silver seal, the doctor with the copper seal, and the ordinary officials above the eighth grade with the iron seal, as for the folk seal, there is not much use, because it is not used, there is no place for the bamboo and wood slips to be stamped, and it is impossible for a seal madman like Qianlong who wants to stamp a stamp when he sees calligraphy and painting.

But even Chen Xu probably knew that bloodstone might not be very valuable, but he would never have thought that it would be so worthless, such a large piece of seven or eight catties is only two or three hundred yuan.

But it's not worth it at the moment, when Chen Xu is free, these jade will definitely start to become valuable, and now hemp pulp paper has begun to be popularized in large quantities, and calligraphy and painting will soon begin to appear and circulate among the ministers of the Shi clan.

"Put away all these jade stones that are not very valuable, and don't lose them!" Chen Xu gently put the bloodstone in his hand in the wooden box.

"Yes, Master Hou!" The steward nodded hurriedly.

"Take a good inventory of the medicinal materials, leave the good ones, and send the remaining medicinal materials to the health center together with these three pairs of tiger bones and hand them over to Imperial Doctor Xu!"

"Yes!" The butler was a little heartbroken.

"Half of these satin, pearls, and jade are selected and packed, and someone is arranged to send them to the palace! I just said that it was for the princesses and princesses. ”

"Yes!" The butler's heart bleeds.

"Ivory rhino horn jade, select some and send them to Feng Xiangfu in Shangshu Province!"

"Choose two boxes of silk, gold, silver and jewelry to send to Lord Meng's mansion, and say that they are for Wanniang!"

"By the way, I will choose two copies of exquisite silk and large pearls and jade for Mrs. and Niangniang......"

By the time Chen Xu left, the blood of the housekeeper and a group of housekeepers had already filled the three warehouses.

Hou Ye only came for half an hour, and he actually sent out more than half of it.

So a group of people began to choose to classify as if they were mourning, except for the things left to eat and send them to the kitchen first, and the remaining gold, silver, jewelry, jade, agate, silk and pearls all began to be packed, but Mrs. and Niangniang must leave the best.

It is not necessary to give gifts, but these dozens of carts of gifts came from the Central Plains counties and swaggered all the way, especially after arriving in Xianyang, seeing so many carts of gifts delivered to the other courtyard of the Marquis of Qinghe, no matter what you ignore, it will make many people full of all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred.

Especially if the emperor knew that he might have other ideas.

I am rich for the emperor, but these businessmen are like iron roosters to me, but they give you so many gifts, although I may not look down on these gifts, but where do I put my face?

Living in the world, it is impossible to be so high-profile without attracting envy, but it is not good to attract envy.

Especially if you are hated by Qin Dada, the consequences will inevitably be a little sour, and when the time comes, you can only pinch your nose and admit it if you wear a small shoe or something.

Therefore, in order to improve the relationship with the emperor, it is a wiser choice to give half of these things to the emperor, and as for giving them to Meng Yi and Feng Quji, it is just a simple expression of goodwill.

As for Li Si, Chen Xu didn't plan to give him a gift at all, now the two of them have already become a matter of fire and water, tearing their faces in the court several times, and giving him meat buns and beating dogs, besides, he is such a prosperous marquis, Li Stermo has not given a single gift, and he is so stingy that he can be called exquisite, not to mention that he also arranged a spy for himself to build the road this time.

Zhang Yu, the largest cloth merchant in the entire Xianyang, turned out to be Li Si's dogleg.

At that time, Zhang Yu was a little suspicious when he came to visit Chen Xu, so he arranged for his guards to investigate, and he was really a scum in the business world.

Although the value of this batch of gifts has not yet been counted, even the cheapest salt is a rare salt on weekdays, worth 20 yuan a bucket, so these dozens of gifts are all counted and counted, at least worth millions of dollars, which is definitely a heavy gift.

You must know that when Chang Yu's rebellion failed, Qin Shi Huang issued an edict ordering the capture and killing of Chang Yu, and only 500,000 yuan was rewarded.

In order to thank Fan Yan and other merchants from the Central Plains counties, Chen Xu decided to set up a special banquet in the Qinghe Courtyard to entertain him again to express his gratitude.

At the same time, Shui Hong is also Shui Qing's second uncle, and he is the patriarch of his wife's family, so Chen Xu is also very grandly prepared, and after coming to Xianyang, he must invite him to the mansion to be carefully entertained.

After some arrangement, the servants of the Hou Mansion went out to deliver invitations and purchase ingredients for the banquet, and for this banquet, Chen Xu also specially asked people to invite seven or eight chefs and helpers from the Qinghe Hotel.

The next day, nearly 30 businessmen from the Central Plains counties such as Fan Yan and Shui Hong arrived as scheduled, and the helpers of the annex beat gongs and encouraged the lions to set off firecrackers to welcome the group to the courtyard.

Since Chen Xu got married, Chen Jiang and Shui Hong have only met once, and when they came to Xianyang, they passed by Wancheng to visit the Shui family, so when the two parents' families met, Chen Jiang was naturally very happy to come forward in person to entertain them.

In the courtyard, a group of business buns were once again shocked by the tap water system designed by Chen Xu, and a group of people studied the faucet toilet bathtub for a long time, and finally when they saw the swimming pool in the backyard, not only their eyes fell off, but their jaws also fell.