Generally speaking, the current Langya East China Sea has begun to show a very lively situation of going to sea.

The princes and emperors who lived in Xianyang for a long time seemed to be deaf to these things, and occasionally saw and only learned through the newspapers that on a certain day in a certain month, two sea ships returned from Yingzhou, bringing back precious sea treasures such as tortoiseshell pearl shells and corals, which caused the rich to watch and loot in Langya, etc., or some hearsay news, the huge waves in the East China Sea, a big ship capsized in a certain sea area, and so on.

These news are fragmented and unsystematic, so although it has been more than two years since the news of North Korea and Yingzhou was discovered, there is no news of Shenshan Xiancao, and there is no big news movement, and all I have heard is that Yingzhou and North Korea are wild and uninhabited desert islands.

Xianyang is in the West, and in the past two years, from the emperor to the civil and military officials, they have paid attention to the contacts with the Western Regions and other countries and the rapid development of Xianyang, and few people have taken the initiative to pay attention to overseas development such as Yingzhou.

And the news in this era is blocked, if it is not an urgent report from the imperial court, it will take at least twenty days for a piece of news to pass from Langya to Xianyang, and if it is transmitted back from Yingzhou for at least half a year, even Chen Xu, who is very concerned about navigation, is slow to react, many things are heard a few months ago, and they can only shake their heads and forget about them, no matter whether they are important or not, they have become less important after a few months, not to mention that he has so many things that he can't care about at all.

But today, Yu Wuya has returned, and all the news has been clear, and it is time for him to start the super project that he has already planned.

And according to Yu Wuya, now Gongsun Beiyan has secretly spread the establishment of the Wei State in Yingzhou near Langya, and many well-informed people in the Central Plains must have already known, and when he came back this time, he secretly heard a lot of the activities of the former six kings and nobles in Langya, and even people who were familiar with the Xiang family secretly contacted Xiang Yu, and Xiang Yu took his cousin Xiang Jing back to his hometown after returning this time, although he didn't know what the outcome was, but it must be related to these.

In other words, with the discovery of precious minerals such as gold, silver, sulfur and other precious minerals in Yingzhou, in addition to the people who stimulated the people to explore and make a fortune rushed to go to sea, there was another group of people who were also ready to move, with ulterior motives such as going overseas to build a country and restore the country.

However, in Chen Xu's opinion, these are destined not to succeed.

But these people are secretly agitating and may also affect Daqin's overseas development.

After all, the activities of these people cannot be made public, and they also have a hostile relationship with Great Qin, and while they are developing overseas, they may target those merchant ships that go to sea, and turn into a group of pirates who occupy the island and rob their homes in order to raise funds, weapons, food, and manpower for rebellion.

Therefore, Chen Xu decided to suppress this unhealthy trend as soon as possible.

In other words, it is to give these six kings and nobles who are ready to move an identity that can be put on the surface, put them under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and allow them to establish their own princely states overseas, so that they will get a great force to expand overseas.

However, this matter must be done slowly, at least with sufficient reasons to convince the emperor and the civil and military officials.

Otherwise, he may end up being labeled as a rebel.

After leaving the restaurant, Chen Xu staggered to the study a little drunk, and stuffed the more than ten books he had sorted out one after another into the cowhide satchel that he carried with him every day, and then took a bath and changed clothes under the service of Chunxiang Qiuxiang, and went to bed with one in his arms.

Early the next morning, Chen Xu got up early and arranged the kitchen to prepare all kinds of delicious food to entertain Yu Wuya and a group of musket boys who came back with him, and then took a car to the court, and after entering the city, he ordered a guard to go to the Qinghe Hotel to let Fan Hao go to the meat market to buy a fat dog, and go to the Qinghe Courtyard at noon to make his best dog meat pot.

In the early dynasties, Chen Xu had transported back the silver and sulfur from Yingzhou, and also reported the discovery of gold mines by Qi Mao and others to the emperor.

And the discovery of gold in Yingzhou also set off a huge wave in the imperial court.

"Your Majesty, Yingzhou has such treasures as gold and silver mines, and it is absolutely impossible to let these merchants and gentry of the people plunder, and they must all be under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu and the imperial court!" A young government official stood up and shouted excitedly.

"Hmm, what do you think about this?" Qin Shi Huang looked at Feng Quji.

"The whole world is not the king's land, Your Majesty, the minister thinks it should be so!" Feng Qujian stood up and spoke with a serious face.

"The right minister is reasonable, the mines and forest lands are all under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu, and the ships and goods need to pay commercial taxes, how can the gold and silver mines be occupied by these merchants at will!" Several second- and third-grade officials stood up and topped the post.

"Your Majesty, Yingzhou has not belonged to the territory of China since ancient times, and it is located thousands of miles outside the East China Sea, it is a wild and isolated island, if it is not for these merchants to invest a huge amount of money in shipbuilding and venture to the sea, even a piece of wood can not be transported back to the Central Plains, the minister thinks that it cannot be taken away from its interests just because of gold and silver goods, gold and silver mines are not only in Yingzhou, there are countless islands outside the South China Sea, and there are countless Western countries, if they have to occupy it, don't say that my Daqin is not manpower enough to develop, and the cost of transportation and development alone The imperial court and Shaofu will not be able to support it... …”

"Yesterday, the minister has asked the retainers in detail, although the gold mine is not small, but it takes at least tens of thousands of people to develop, and the Central Plains and Yingzhou are separated by more than 3,000 miles, and the coming and going all depend on the sea ships, craftsmen, helpers, miners, tools, food, clothing, medicine, etc. all need to be prepared to be transported back and forth all year round, ten taels of gold are transported back, I am afraid that in the end it will fall into the hands of the imperial court and the Shaofu less than one or two, which is really worth the loss, so the minister thinks that it is better to prepare the customs office as soon as possible and set up the customs yamen in place. If all these mines and islands are leased and sold by way of permits, the imperial court will not have to pay any price at all to get at least 10% of the development revenue, so why not do it......

After analyzing the pros and cons of this matter, Chen Xu proposed to speed up the construction of customs and bring overseas development into the management scope of the imperial court as soon as possible.

"Zuo Xiang's words are reasonable, Yingzhou is too far away to come and go, or quickly set up the customs yamen completely, and it is more convenient to issue licenses to the people to develop Yingzhou, where is the order of the ministry? Last time, the left minister recommended the customs department, why Li You has not yet entered the Beijing division to perform his duties? Qin Shi Huang quickly approved Chen Xu's proposal.

"Your Majesty, Li You's order has been issued for eight days, and it is speculated that he will report to the Ministry of Officials in the last two days!" Shen Gongyan stood up and replied.

"Don't delay this matter as soon as possible, what else do you Aiqing have to do?" One thing came to mind, and Qin Shi Huang quickly changed the subject.

"Your Majesty, in order to cooperate with the preparation of the Customs Department and the development of overseas trade, the minister proposed last time to set up seaports in the southeastern coastal counties to build wharves and warehouses and other supporting facilities, but after some consideration, the minister thought of a bigger plan, and the plan is hereby submitted to Your Majesty for reading!"

Chen Xu picked up his shoulder bag from his seat and began to dig out the plan book from the inside.

A ...... Two ...... Three ...... Four ......

As Chen Xu took out more and more books, in the Manchu Dynasty, the civil and military forces and the first emperor began to twitch their cheeks and grinned, and the voices of surprise came and went, and finally watched Chen Xu turn over and shake the leather satchel, and after confirming that there was no one in it, he carefully flipped through these planning books next to each other, and couldn't help frowning slightly and muttering softly.

"Too ...... Master, are these all recitals for me to read? The First Emperor looked at the thick stack of books in Chen Xu's hand, and couldn't help but have some tendons in his legs, and his face showed a trace of horror.

In the past, the music was made of bamboo and wood, even if it was a stone every day, but the number of words was at most more than 2,000 words, but the meaning of the words needed to be considered, so it was more energy-consuming, and now there is hemp pulp paper, and the national recital documents are transcribed on hemp pulp paper, so they are written in more detail, and it is much easier and more convenient to read, but now Chen Xu took out more than ten volumes from the bag, and the number of words is more than 100,000 words.

This is a recital, not a list of gods, every word still has to be carefully read and reviewed, so if you want to read all this thick stack of recitals, the first emperor feels that it will take at least seven or eight days of free time, and the most important thing is ...... Not necessarily intelligible.

Because Chen Xu's recitals generally have a lot of new concepts and words, and even unbelievable ideas, they cannot be inferred by common sense, and they need to be thought about repeatedly and even need to ask Chen Xu in person.

Therefore, when he thought of such a heavy amount of labor, the First Emperor directly began to shiver from the bottom of his heart.

"Your Majesty's forgiveness, there were originally a total of sixteen recitals, but there may be one that fell in the minister's study, and the minister will submit the recital tomorrow!" Chen Xu said to the First Emperor with an apologetic face.

"It's okay!" The First Emperor secretly wiped the sweat on his forehead and waved his hand to sit down, and said with a pounding heart, "Since Aiqing has prepared so many books, I can't finish reading them for a while, why don't Aiqing first tell me a rough outline of the planned things, so that I can look clearer tomorrow!" ”

"That's fine, before I speak, I ask Your Majesty to allow the minister to take the map that was placed on the carriage!"

"Come on, go to the Taishi car and get the map!" The First Emperor commanded.

"喏~" The messenger guarding the gate of the palace walked away, and after more than ten minutes, he carried a scroll of maps, Chen Xu instructed the two palace people to unfold it, and on the cloth silk that was two zhang long and eight feet wide, a geographical map of Daqin's main water system and Chidao traffic was drawn.

Several major rivers such as the Liaohe River, the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River, and the Pearl River in Zhejiang are clearly painted with blue paint, while several galloping roads connecting the world are painted with red paint, and many of them are marked with important city names in black.

This map was drawn by Chen Xu on the basis of the synthesis of the Daqin water system map and the Chidao traffic map drawn by the Academy of Sciences, although it is not comprehensive, but it is very clear in this era.