Sunset, dusk.

Thunderous thunder fireworks soared into the sky over Keju Square, exploding brilliant fireworks, and crackling firecrackers lit up in Keju Square.

In the thick smell of gunpowder of fireworks and firecrackers, under the onlookers of hundreds of thousands of people, the grand spring commodity fair came to an end, and at the same time, a grand song and dance celebration performance kicked off in the square, more than a dozen lion dance teams began to shake their heads and tails at the same time. Stealing, pickpockets, and so on, are mixed in.

Chen Xu and a group of princes and princes accompanied the Great Qin Shi Huang to climb the tower at the south gate of Xianyang City, and enjoyed this carnival of all the people that was no less than the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The bustling crowd flows like a spring from the two city gates in the southeast, the crowds on both sides of the Wei River are like thunder, the horses and luxury cars on the flat cement road are endless, and the sound of noise and joy resounds for dozens of miles.

"Xianyang is getting more and more lively!" Looking at the jubilant and lively scene on both sides of the Wei River under the city, Feng Qu was amazed.

"What Feng Xiang said is that Xianyang is becoming more and more lively, and I have never seen such a prosperous world!" Some officials quickly chimed in.

"I thought that there would be fewer participating goods at this spring fair, but I didn't expect it to be more lively!"

"However, the left minister has seen far-reaching, although there are fewer businessmen participating in the exhibition, but they are more organized, and the trading volume has increased many times compared with last year!"

"That's natural, last year's Spring Market, everyone was just selling goods, but this year it was a large order, each order was at least tens of thousands of dollars, and I heard that the largest order was as high as 2.8 million yuan......"

When a group of princes and princes were watching the grand event and discussing, the First Emperor also put down his binoculars and asked the household department next to him, Ling Gao Teng: "Gao Hubu, can the data of this exhibition be counted?" ”

"Not yet, the minister will urge the statistics to be completed as soon as possible and submitted to His Majesty's Imperial Review!" Gao Teng hurriedly replied.

"Well, this matter is as soon as possible, so bustling and lively, I would like to know how much the final deal is? The First Emperor nodded.

"Your Majesty, it will take two or three days for the accurate data to come out, but based on the daily turnover, it can still be roughly inferred that a total of no less than 150 million orders will be signed at this fair!"

"Wow~" There was a commotion above the city tower, and even a group of princes and princes who were accustomed to seeing storms and large sums of money in the center of the court were all taken aback by this number.

"In just ten days, more than 150 million transactions have been made, which is simply appalling!" An official wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke.

"The annual tax revenue of Shaofu last year was only more than 50 million, and the national grain tax in the summer and autumn of the Finance Bureau, plus the industrial and commercial tax, was only one billion, even if all the county and county taxes in the country were added, the national tax revenue was only 3 billion a year, and these businessmen were all millions of giants, which should not be underestimated......

"That's true, since the relaxation of the Shang Law, the Shang Jia has become more and more active, and all of them have the capital of the enemy country, and we are envious!"

In the face of the huge number of transactions, a group of princes and princes were admiring and sighing, and some words seemed to have other intentions.

Feng Qujian twisted his beard and looked into the distance, as if he didn't hear it.

Meng Yi looked up at the fireworks rising in the sky, and his face was calm.

Chen Xu seemed to be deaf, and was still discussing with Zhao Chengmei, the snow-white bearded Changwu Marquis next to him, who was dancing with his eyebrows, which group of little ladies in the city had a convex and backward figure.

The First Emperor did not have the slightest mood swing, and his eyes slowly froze on the most congested Weihe Bridge from the lively Keju Square to the crowd flowing back and forth like a tide.

Hundreds of thousands of people travel between the banks of the Wei River, and the main and arguably only transportation hub is the Wei River Cement Bridge, built five years ago.

In the past five years, this cement bridge has been trampled by people every day, although it is still as strong as before, but it has begun to become obsolete, especially after the Keju Square and the ten-mile embankment on both sides of the river are repaired, the tall image of the Weihe Bridge in the minds of Xianyang people has also quickly fallen to the point of ordinary river bridges, and more than this year more than a year outside Xianyang City is building a five-story seven-story concrete high-rise building, with the new base of the Academy of Sciences and the dormitory of the experimental factory, the Faculty of Arts and the Metropolis Daily office building, Qinghe Hospital, There are also libraries and Kyoto Normal University in the city, which have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, dense scaffolding and cranes can be seen everywhere outside the city, and there are groups of convicts and slaves transporting building materials such as sand, cement, steel, and wood, and the entire Xianyang area is like a huge construction site.

Especially after having steel and cement and other high-rise buildings, the first emperor has ordered Shaofu to slowly reduce some of the planned palace construction and the renovation of old palaces, because it is no longer meaningful to continue to remove the cost of spending, and even he doesn't want to repair it anymore, because these magnificent high-rise buildings promoted by Chen Xu will become the most significant scenery and landmark in Xianyang.

In the past, when outsiders came to Xianyang, the first thing they saw was the dense layers of luxury palaces inside and outside Xianyang City, but now outsiders come to Xianyang, they are all coming to Keju Commercial Plaza, lingering for the dazzling commodities in the commercial buildings, and squeezing their heads to watch a Keju competition of tens of thousands of collective carnivals, and later Xianyang will not come to these palaces built by him, the goal is these high-rise buildings and the library and Chinese monument that are being built.

Thinking about the tall library and the long steps in front of the door, the hundred statues of the princes on both sides and the statues of himself and the three emperors and the five emperors, the first emperor instantly lost his mind, and even slightly longed for what kind of magnificent scene it was.

He once planned to wait for his underground palace mausoleum to be completed, and then call hundreds of thousands of prisoners who built the mausoleum to build a huge Tianxia court palace with Longshouyuan as the center, and build a corridor and a long bridge, connecting Chang'an Palace, Leyou Garden, Zhangtai Palace, Xianyang Palace, Ganquan Palace and other hundreds of palaces on both sides of the Wei River, so as to create a brilliant and magnificent palace complex, and he has already thought of the name of this palace, called Afang Palace.

A, Daya, Qin Shi Huang originally wanted to build a very large palace complex to guard his mausoleum and provide protection for his children and grandchildren, so that the Great Qin could be passed on for eternity.

However, after Keju Square was repaired, he suddenly found that no matter how he looked forward to the plan, it was not grand enough in the end, and in the past two years, as more high-rise buildings were proposed by the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry to start construction, the idea of building Afang Palace slowly faded from Qin Shi Huang's mind.

Plans never keep up with the speed of change.

He found that since Chen Xu came to Xianyang, the rapid changes in Xianyang and even the entire Great Qin had made his thinking almost unable to keep up with the rhythm, and before he had finished accepting and digesting it, there would be a succession of new things popping up one after another.

And all the changes are related to the elated young man who is standing beside him at this time and is chatting with his imperial uncle Zhao Cheng about the little lady.

At this time, the Weihe Bridge was a mess, and the black pressure on both sides of the bridge was crowded with people, if it were not for the forbidden army of the Lieutenant's Mansion to maintain law and order, it is estimated that it would have been chaotic and crowded to the point of uncontrollable.

On both sides of the Wei River between the East Gate Bridge and the South Gate, there are densely packed riverboats, most of which are new-style sailboats, so what you see are a forest of masts and sails, among which there are also many old-style paddle boats, but the proportion is less than two percent.

As the sun sets, facing the golden sunset, the Wei River is sparkling and shining with golden light, and you can see colorful flags hunting and fluttering in the evening breeze on both sides of the river, and you can also see with binoculars that there are people wearing official robes and official uniforms on the wharf directing the personnel carrying the benchmarks and measuring equipment to run around.

After the First Emperor sighed, he put down his binoculars, turned his head to look at the Inner History Mansion beside him, and asked, "Aiqing, do you know what those people on the dock are doing?" ”

Qi Tang hurriedly raised the telescope to look at the direction pointed by the First Emperor, and after a while, he put down the telescope and shook his head blankly: "Your Majesty forgive me, these people seem to be measuring the dock, but the minister has not received any report from the government recently, so the minister will arrange for someone to inquire!" ”

"Qi Fu Ling, you can ask Zuo Xiang about this matter, and you will know ......" An official standing beside Qi Tang gently tugged on Qi Tang's clothes and reminded in a low voice.

"Ask me what?" Chen Xu turned his head with a smile and asked.

"Your Majesty just asked why there are still officials and craftsmen surveying the dock, I wonder if the left minister knows?" Qi Tang hurriedly asked.

"Oh, Your Majesty forgives you, this matter was indeed arranged by the minister!" Chen Xu hurriedly explained to the emperor, "Two days ago, the minister had a banquet with a group of business leaders in the Central Plains, and learned that at the end of January this spring, a wharf that had just been repaired in Dongjun suddenly collapsed dozens of zhang, not only seven or eight cargo ships capsized and were damaged, but also many goods fell into the river and were swept away by the river. It is intended to build a new type of wharf to improve the safety of merchant ships and people and goods......"

"Hmm, the situation at the wharf is complicated, there are too many ships and goods, collision and congestion are inevitable, I have heard from time to time, I wonder if Aiqing has any way to solve this chaotic and crowded situation?" After listening to this, the First Emperor asked.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to completely solve it, but if there is a good infrastructure and more reasonable and strict control and guidance, this kind of thing will inevitably be reduced a lot, the minister's plan is to re-expand the wharf with concrete in the wide and flat place of the river between the east gate and the south gate, adopt port-style management, and separate passenger ships and cargo ships, cargo ships can only dock near the east gate, and passenger ships must go to the south gate, at present, because passenger and freight are mixed together, and there is no unified planning and management of the wharf along the river bank to cause ships to dock at will, Therefore, the confusion was incomparable, and the minister carefully asked some ship merchants two days ago, and the river wharves all over the country were almost the same......"

"Expand the wharf, adopt the diversion of people and goods, and install a gantry crane on the wharf to load and unload goods, so that there is no need to load and unload goods as now, and rely on people and boatmen to go up and down the gangway to carry goods......

"The use of registration to form a professional passenger transport company, the imperial court came forward to set up a wharf management yamen to dispatch, command and manage all ships in order to enter and exit the port, all ships can not dock at will after arriving at the port, must be in accordance with the management of the yamen assigned to dock passengers and loading and unloading, unregistered ships can only dock at the temporary wharf to wait in line, in order to emergency also need to reserve one or two emergency wharves for standby, so that there will be no disorderly crowding caused chaos collision and overboard accidents... …”

"If the pilot project in Xianyang is successful, then next year this management method and system can be extended to the national riverbank wharf, and this is actually to provide some experience for the seaport wharf that is about to be built, the seaport is high and the waves are urgent, if there is no good scheduling and management, it is more likely to have an accident, and once the ship collides and capsizes, it is more difficult to rescue on the sea, and the casualties and cargo losses are also more huge......