Chen Xu walked out of the room with his hands behind his back, preparing to go back to the Academy of Sciences to arrange the newspaper office, but met Fan Caiying in the corridor.

"The folk girl Fan Caiying has seen the Hou Ye!" Fan Caiying gave Chen Xufu a generous salute.

Looking at the big beauty wearing a well-fitting slim skirt, slightly powdered, her hair like a cloud, and a slight touch of blush, Chen Xu stood up with a smile and nodded, "Miss Caiying is waiting for me?" ”

"Yes, I heard that Hou Ye came to Qinghe Garden, and Cai Ying is here to welcome Hou Ye!"

Since Fan Caiying's last visit to Xianyang, nearly a month has passed, and they have all been arranged to live in a special guest suite in Qinghe Hotel, where it is convenient to eat, live and wash, provide hot water and meals 24 hours a day, and the servants and maids are also on call, so they can take care of everything.

Versace didn't want to leave when he came with him, and he dragged on for half a month before he reluctantly left, mainly because the atmosphere of the hotel was too good, not only could you watch dramas for free, but also had endless delicious food, and Chen Xu found that he had gained weight when he left.

The same is true of the beautiful woman in front of her, when she came, she was covered with wind and frost, and after a month of eating and living, not only her complexion was ruddy and smooth, but her temperament was much more elegant.

However, no matter how beautiful he looks, how rich his family is, and how elegant his temperament is, as long as he is still the identity of the Shangjia family, he is still a lowly person in Xianyang, which is full of nobles and princes, and he does not dare to have the slightest mistake and carelessness in front of Chen Xu.

However, after a month, Fan Caiying also understood Chen Xu's temperament, this noble Hou Ye is different from any nobleman, he is a bit too approachable, whether it is a slave or a servant or a steward, in his eyes, he seems to treat everyone equally, as long as someone salutes, he will smile and nod to say hello, without the slightest Hou Ye's shelf.

"Miss Caiying is looking for me?" Chen Xu asked with a warm smile.

"Xianyang Huaxia Money Village has now been renovated, and today the head of the house sent a letter, urging the branch here to open for business as soon as possible, so Cai Ying specially came to inform Hou Ye, when do you see when the money village will open is an auspicious day?"

"It's good to finish the decoration!" Chen Xu pinched his chin and nodded and thought for a while and said, "Then on the first day of the second lunar month, you will arrange everything in Qianzhuang in these two days, and I will personally go to Qianzhuang early in the morning to unveil the plaque to congratulate, and then arrange drum music and lion dance to be lively, by the way, you also arrange for people to distribute the leaflets, there are many wealthy businessmen in Xianyang, your Fan family has the reputation of a business leader in the world, and I am afraid that there will be many people who will go to support the scene, this matter does not need to be too low-key, after all, Nanyang County won the first place in this time to build horse pawn equipment, Your Majesty is very happy, I can also take this opportunity to have a good talk with the emperor about the future development of Qianzhuang. ”

"Then the day after tomorrow, Caiying will welcome the arrival of the Hou Ye in the Qian Village! The folk girl retires! ”

Fan Caiying glanced at Chen Xu affectionately, Yingying bowed down and turned to leave, her white dress moved with the wind, her elegant posture was light and elegant, her slender figure, her soft back, and her swaying jade buttocks looked infinitely reverie.

Looking at the back of Fan Caiying's departure, Chen Xu felt a little excited.

This woman is very unusual, both tempting and seducing, but also resolute, in less than a month, Huaxia Qianzhuang from the site selection and decoration to the recruitment and arrangement of manpower, almost all of them were completed by her, and she did things quickly and competently, without dragging the mud and water, and without pretentiousness, she can be called the stunning beauty president of Daqin.

The most important thing is that this stunning beauty president is still single and unmarried.

Could it be that the old man deliberately arranged the beautiful woman of this family to come to Xianyang to seduce Lao Tzu.

Don't blame Chen Xu for thinking so.

First, his current status can be said to be something that no one in the entire Great Qin can be underestimated except for the emperor.

The second is that Fan's status is low as a giant businessman, although he is involved with Chen Xu because of the business contract, but at this time it is different from the past, whether it is to open a winery or a money village, Chen Xu is still just a lidian, although he is also an official, but in the eyes of a wealthy man like Fan, it is still a scum.

No matter how bad the status of the Fan family is, it is destined not to be afraid of a lidian, and even the county order may not be seen by them, the so-called wealth is rich, and the merchants are not without power, even Qin Shi Huang has to personally meet and reward the widow Qing, if the merchants of the six countries are not obedient, Qin Shi Huang will not be able to kill them all, so the necessary appeasement is still there, not to mention that if there are no merchants in the world to sell and drive goods, the consequences can be imagined, it is definitely a mess of chaos, such as copper and iron, such as grain, such as salt cloth, Almost all of these relied on merchants to travel back and forth, which enabled Daqin to prosper and stabilize.

At present, Chen Xu is no longer the Li Dian of the past, but a high-powered third-grade member of the Qinghe Hou Foreign Processing Department, which can almost be said to control the craftsmen and craftsmen in the world, and almost all the businessmen involved in the manufacturing industry in Nanyang are under the control of Chen Xu, so it is inevitable for the Fan family to curry favor with Chen Xu.

Using a beautiful woman in the family to control Xianyang's money bank, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it may be that she wants to completely put this money bank in Chen Xu's hands, which can be regarded as a disguised refuge.

The contract signed before was invalid in Fan's opinion, even if Chen Xu wanted to take the entire money bank, Fan would never hesitate at all, this is the absolute suppression of power and status.

"Engong, this girl is good, she can be a wife!" On the way back, Yu Wuya carried an iron sword and rode a horse and said to the side.

Chen Xu rolled his eyes and said, "Why do you always like pimping, Miss Caiying is indeed good, but there are many good women, do I want to see one and ask for one?" And you're still the senior brother of the water girl, why do you keep turning your elbows out? Shouldn't you persuade me to marry only one water girl, and then spoil her with all my heart? ”

"How so?" Yu Wuya shook his head, "Engong himself said, what men like is to wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauties, it is normal for husbands and wives and concubines to be in groups, and besides, Engong is the marquis, and the more wives and beautiful relatives the better, when the time comes, the heirs will be prosperous, according to the emperor's liking for you, it is also possible to reward ten or eight marquises, and when the time comes, Engong's family will be the marquis, and the food will be all over the counties of Daqin, and the power of the government and the opposition can be tilted without rebellion, and it will be easy to wake up and take charge of the world!" ”

Chen Xu's face turned black instantly, and he switched a few times and said angrily: "You think far, you can come up with such a shameless idea!" ”

"Hehe, Wuya This is also for Engong's future plan, no power and no power, how to say a big husband, you are not like me and my sister only like to live a plain and uninhibited life, I am afraid that you will accompany your sister every day at that time, and you will get tired of it after a long time!"

"You don't understand, I won't tell you!" Chen Xu shook his head speechlessly.

"Actually, I think the little lady of the Jiang family was quite good at the beginning, but Engong didn't like it!" Yu Wuya tirelessly continued to pimp.

The image of a brutal girl instantly appeared in Chen Xu's mind, and then it turned into a face with an indifferent face and empty eyes holding fruit vinegar, and instantly felt a slight pain in his heart, as if something had stabbed his heart.

Jiang Chuyue, I don't know how she is now?

It was the first impressive girl he met after crossing over, and his every move was still fresh in his memory.

Back at the Academy of Sciences, Chen Xu went into his studio, took out an ink ruler and compass, and quickly drew a drawing of a pan and stove for spreading pancakes, and arranged for someone to send it to the factory outside the city, so that Ma Pole and Gong Shengsheng could quickly help build it.

He promised to help Li Shun's family find a new livelihood, two women don't need much cost to make this kind of pancake fruit, and it doesn't need too much place, a pancake with an egg and then roll some sauce radish and vegetables, if you can, you can also add a little oil residue and other meat, it is definitely a delicious snack, one can buy two or three dollars, both clean and hygienic, if in a place with a large flow of people, it should not be a problem to earn two or three hundred yuan a day, enough to feed a family.

And this tool is very simple, it is not difficult to manufacture, Xianyang is so big, with a population of millions of people, it is enough to accommodate hundreds of pancake fruit stalls, feed hundreds of families, and it can be regarded as finding a good livelihood for poor families.

After finishing it, Chen Xu came to a separate courtyard next to the Academy of Sciences, which was the newspaper he had prepared.

The small courtyard covers an area of six or seven acres, with a row of four houses, one of which is the general affairs room, which is mainly used for review and distribution, the other is the editor's office, which is mainly used for receiving submissions and screening and reviewing, the largest one is the typesetting room, and the last one is the printing room.

At this time, a large row of large turntables for storing words has been placed against the wall in the typesetting room, and all the wooden movable types are carved densely packed on it, all the numbers add up to at least tens of thousands, and these words are not the same according to the frequency of use, and the number of these words is also different according to the frequency of use, and the number of these common words and punctuation marks is also said to be hundreds, and some of the few words are only one or two or even no, and there are specially polished wooden blocks that are not carved next to them, which can be processed and carved out at any time. Skilled craftsmen are only a matter of minutes.

These wooden movable types are only a transition, and now he has arranged for Ma Gong, Gong Yi Sheng, and a few craftsmen who are good at carving to design and cast copper movable type in factories outside the city, but the development of cast fonts is difficult, so it will take a few more months to succeed, and now he can only settle first.

There is a wooden table next to each font turntable, there is a square iron plate with a length and a width of half a foot on the table, more than ten literate scribes are sitting in front of their respective turntables and put wooden movable type in the iron plate according to the manuscript in their hands, and after placing it, it is handed over to the supervisor of the main station to carefully check the manuscript again, and after it is correct, it is taken to the printing room and put on the stove to bake slightly, and after the paraffin wax melts below, it is flattened with a wooden board and handed over to the printer to try to print a sample out and check it again. After that, these iron plates were handed over to the editor-in-chief and put together according to the designed layout, and put together in a large iron plate three feet long and two feet wide for formal printing.

Printing is very simple, brush the ink evenly on the typed plate, then spread the paper of the right size, and then use a soft wool roller to gently roll back and forth on it twice, so that each word is attached to the paper, and then remove the paper, you will get a one-sided newspaper, and after the ink on the paper is dry, turn it over and print the other side.

In order to make the newspaper beautiful and beautiful, Chen Xu also asked craftsmen to carve some wooden blocks with special patterns and lines to fill the gaps between the pages.

This situation has been going on for several days, when Chen Xu came in, more than a dozen typesetters were engrossed in typesetting, although there were many people in the room, but only the sound of crackling wooden movable type could be heard, which sounded unusually quiet.

"Master Hou!" Seeing Chen Xu coming in with his hands behind his back, all the scribes, craftsmen and stewards in the typesetting room hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Leave me alone, you go on!" Chen Xu waved his hand and walked around the room, and then went to the printing room and the editor's office next door to look at it next door, and there were still more than a dozen people in each room who were busy nervously, mainly familiar with the process of newspaper printing.

In the general affairs room, there were seven or eight individual tables and chairs in the office modeled after the later generations, but most of them were still empty, and only one desk was occupied by a person, who was now immersed in countless bamboo and wood slips and silk books, and copied them on hemp pulp paper with a pen.

"Master Hou, you're here!" Chen Ping looked up from a pile of bamboo slips, and when he saw Chen Xu, he quickly put down his pen and stood up to salute.

"How's it going, how does it feel?" Chen Xu asked with a smile.

"There are too many books to choose!" Chen Ping shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"Where to choose, it's just a matter of priority, this first newspaper must be novel and interesting, try to be as detailed and rich as possible in terms of content, try to write more folk anecdotes, don't get involved in military and politics, I have helped you find more than ten people, tomorrow will come to report, when the time comes, I will hand over to you to make overall arrangements, you are knowledgeable and resourceful, a newspaper is naturally difficult for you, you also know that once this newspaper is done, it will affect the direction of public opinion in my entire Daqin, so all manuscripts must be reviewed personally, There must be no remarks of plotting against the country! Chen Xu said with a serious face.

"Hou Ye rest assured, Ping naturally knows the powerful joints, and every issue of the newspaper that will be done in the future will be let Hou Ye see it before it can be printed and distributed!" Chen Ping hurriedly said.

"Okay, you continue to be busy, remember to combine work and rest, and I'll come back to tell you when everyone arrives tomorrow!" Chen Xu waved his hand and walked out of the room.