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Spring and summer are coming, the grass and trees are verdant, and it has entered April in a blink of an eye.

The controversy over the ten evils of sorcery began to fade away.

Chen Xu gave in to Li Si above the court, and Xianyang Metropolis Daily was also warned by the emperor that all contributions to the Hundred Forums must be sent to the palace to be reviewed by the emperor himself before they can be published, and the sequelae caused by this have slowly begun to appear, and the enthusiasm of private contributions has also faded a lot.

Li Si even entered the palace several times to ask the emperor to issue an edict, and in the future, all beings are not allowed to issue attack spells to govern the country at will, and the violator is equivalent to the crime of disturbing the country, and the emperor still agreed to Li Si's request after considering and hesitating for a long time, and this edict has also been spread all over the world with the Daqin Metropolis Daily.

The disciples of the hundred schools were worried.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, almost all the disciples of the hundred schools of thought spoke freely and preached their ideas of governing the country everywhere, but the Great Qin Yan was blocked, and he could not become an official by virtue of his knowledge, nor could he speak freely.

Although the conspiracy planned by Li Si did not succeed, and completely closed the hundred forums and newspapers, it still had a great impact, so he took the time to go to the newspaper and the Faculty of Arts to hold two heart-to-heart talks, asking the newspaper to keep quiet, arrange more reporters to go to all parts of the country to observe the people's situation, try to target the newspaper's propaganda target at the lowest level, report on the people's suffering, and at the same time report a lot of cement factory and Dongfang Road construction projects, We should spread the attention of the people as much as possible, and learn about the trends of the people and the development of business through newspapers.

In the Faculty of Letters, Chen Xu asked all the editors and scribes to try not to make too radical remarks, and to discuss some practical statecraft strategies as gently as possible, and also specifically took the title of the Ten Evils of Magic, and some of the arguments put forward in response to this policy asked people with lofty ideals to come up with solutions that depend on each other and the law, instead of anger and condemnation, and asked everyone to complete the work at hand as much as possible, sort out the historical books, sort out the classics of the sages and the materials collected by the people, and sort out and proofread these books as soon as possible.

Therefore, Chen Xu also specially borrowed 200,000 yuan through Huaxia Qianzhuang to set up a commercial printing bureau, which was managed by a subordinate publishing house, and specially printed a large number of proofread books as soon as possible, so as to divert the attention of the people.

During this period, An Yuliang came to apologize to Chen Xu, and asked for resignation as the vice president of the Faculty of Arts and the editor-in-chief of 100 forum journals several times, but Chen Xu did not accept it.

It can be said that in this matter, An Yuliang is under the most pressure.

He originally wanted to use the huge impact of this Spell Ten Drawbacks Theory to enhance the reputation and status of the Hundred Schools, but it backfired, and the Hundred Forums were a little silent, and there were fewer and fewer contributors in recent times, and there were occasionally some famous celebrities who contributed in the past, but now they are all starting to become cautious.

Because it is said that Sun Pi, who published the theory of the ten evils of spells, was almost asked by Li Si to be arrested and imprisoned above the court, how can a folk idler be the opponent of the court, once he is really arrested and imprisoned, the consequences will be extremely miserable.

Although this matter did not happen because of the prevention of the Marquis of Qinghe, the consequences were very serious, and in less than a month, this matter had spread to almost the whole world with the business travel from the south to the north, so that the hundreds of celebrities in the land of the Six Kingdoms who were interested in publishing their statecraft theories were also hidden and depressed.

Although Chen Xuming knew that Sun Pi was a chess piece pushed out by Li Si and a rat, he still had to come forward to protect him.

After all, the Hundred Forums were hosted by him, and if Sun Pi was arrested for the crime of disrupting the country, it can be said that the Hundred Forums would collapse without being banned, and they would become a scrapped journal and completely lose their role.

And this is also the attack launched by Li Si after he understood Chen Xu's purpose of hosting the Hundred Schools' Forum, even if Chen Xu knew Sun Pi's identity, he would definitely not arrest Sun Pi, but would protect it to maintain the reputation of the Hundred Forum.

In short, Li Si succeeded, attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son, so that Chen Xu had to swallow this bitter water.

Masters fight, one move to win or lose.

The three hundred rounds of the Great War are the way of the people, and the highest group of rulers who stand above the court of the Great Qin Empire will never make an easy move without inevitable certainty.

Recently, the arrogance of the Legalist disciples has been more arrogant.

But Chen Xu fell silent again.

This is also a good thing for Chen Xu, which makes him know a lot more about Li Si, and at the same time, he can see that the emperor's dependence on Li Si is still very heavy, and he is far from reaching the time when he can be brought down.

The construction of Dongfang Road is still in full swing, and cement factories have sprung up all over the country.

Even in one of the largest cement factories in Sanchuan County, a dam has been built on a small river, preparing to build a large waterwheel mill, Hu Kuo and Shi Lu and a large group of craftsmen and craftsmen from the affiliated factory of the Academy of Sciences are responsible for supervising the construction, from the beginning of spring to the present three months have passed, and now it has basically been completed, the big iron mill and the water wheel have been installed in place, and this time the waterwheel gear design is more precise, the rotation process is more stable, and there is no such kind of jamming feeling.

"Good!" Chen Xu, who was observing the pepper seedlings in his farm, received the report and was very happy after reading it.

Shaking his wrists with Li Si is not his forte, but Li Si can't catch up with him when he opens up wasteland, farming and developing technology.

At this point, it is impossible for the emperor not to support him to complete the construction of the Eastern Road, which is a major artery of prosperity in Great Qin, and there is a consensus above the court, and no one can stop it, including Li Si.

Therefore, Li Sicai had to secretly stumble on Chen Xu.

As long as the construction of the Dongfang Road is successful, the law that suppresses commerce will inevitably be loosened, and Chen Xu's reform of the law of Daqin can be said to have taken a big step forward, revitalizing commerce, and promoting the development of industry and agriculture with commerce, and the reform of Daqin will inevitably be unstoppable.

And this eternal gambling contract has already spread all over the world of Great Qin, the emperor personally promised, the civil and military officials as witnesses, Feng Quji and Meng Yi, the two Shangqing who are used to watching the excitement, are also enthusiastically involved, and Li Si does not have any power to stop the turnaround.

The previous pace was too fast and impatient, but as long as this steady and steady continuation continues, the status between Li Si and Chen Xu will slowly and irreversibly change.

The successful construction of the waterwheel mill in Sanchuan County will increase the cement production capacity of Sanchuan County by nearly ten times, which can not only meet the cement supply in Sanchuan County, but also the output of cement can even start to be transported to the counties on both sides, which will greatly alleviate the current cement shortage situation.

And this change will also speed up the construction progress of the Eastern Road again.

If there are two or three more waterwheel mills on the Oriental Road, then maybe the Oriental Road will be completed ahead of schedule before the end of the year, and Chen Xu's bet will be won ahead of schedule.

"Go back and tell the supervisor Yang Kun, and let him inform all the cement factories along Dongfang Road that where conditions permit, they can start preparing for the construction of a waterwheel mill, and then the investment in the waterwheel mill can be discounted by half to deduct the loan!"

"Yes, Master Hou!" The steward who delivered the letter saluted and rode away with two of his subordinates quickly, and passed the order of the Marquis of Qinghe back to the Dongfang Provincial Preparatory Bureau and the Engineering Headquarters.

Dongfang Road's demand for cement is currently like a bottomless pit, no matter how much the cement factories along the way are not enough to distribute, a large number of engineering teams have an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages gathered in the cement factories around the country every day, waving a lot of redemption tickets to buy cement, but even if all the large and small cement factories are constantly rotating day and night, with primitive livestock and manpower using stone mortars and stone mills, the grinding speed is far from keeping up with the needs of the construction site, so many engineering teams often fight in the cement factory.

Almost all the engineering teams put forward huge incentives for the team responsible for buying and transporting cement, each time an extra ten stones were transported back with a reward of fifty dollars, and each time an extra hundred dollars were rewarded for each morning delivery to the day, under the stimulus of money, the team that bought cement was like a chicken blood, and the slaves and helpers were armed with sticks to snatch cement in the cement factory, and often several different teams would break their heads and bleed but still could not prevent this from happening.

The project bid section is completed one day early, you can save thousands or even tens of thousands of money, a large number of migrant workers need to spend money to feed, sand and gravel and timber are complete, only the lack of cement, cement is not enough to work on the project, but the people and workers still have to spend money to raise, the daily expenses are a lot of money, these money flow out every day, the businessmen who contract the project are naturally distressed one by one can not eat and sleep, can only urge and use money to stimulate, but the effect is not obvious.

Therefore, to speed up the construction of the Eastern Road, cement is the biggest bottleneck, and if this problem is not solved, the project will not be able to be quickly improved.

However, to solve this problem, the only way to solve this problem is to speed up the construction of cement plants and increase the speed of cement production, but at present, the cement factories along the road have almost begun to be saturated, according to the general statistics of the Oriental Road Preparatory Bureau, the number of workers and slaves purchased and the number of people recruited by the cement factories along the entire Oriental Road has exceeded 100,000, plus the number of people recruited by all the engineering teams of the Oriental Road, the number of people participating in the construction of the entire Oriental Road has already exceeded 500,000, and more than 50,000 cattle and horses are used, and there are nearly 10,000 ox carts and carriages. This is a staggering number, no less than a war to destroy the country, but these have nothing to do with the court, all of them are done by merchants with money.

Under the premise that the cement plant can no longer be increased, the only way to improve the production efficiency of the cement plant is to improve the production efficiency of the cement plant.

And building a waterwheel mill is the best way to go.

There are dozens of rivers along the Eastern Road, large and small, it is more difficult to build dams on large rivers, but there are still many small rivers that can be used, and the difficulty is not great, the technology of building dams and ditches in Daqin has been very mature, plus there is a building weapon like cement, it can be completed in one or two months, and there are Hu Kuan and Shi Lu, two construction masters, to quickly build a batch of waterwheel mills to speed up the grinding speed of cement is not a problem at all, the only thing to consider is the problem of the river rising after the summer comes, But these can only be overcome by the engineering team itself.

Chen Xu had no way to solve it.

Moreover, many things are forced.

The Great Wall standing on top of the mountains can be completed, and it is still majestic after two thousand years, which shows that the infrastructure level of Daqin can no longer be measured by common sense, and it is very domineering.

Earlier, more than 2,900 years B.C., the Egyptians had begun to build large dams on the Nile River to supply water to the capital and irrigate farmland, and the Nile River could contain more water than the Yangtze River.

It can be seen that the construction of dams has little to do with rising water, and nothing can stop human confidence and ability to conquer nature due to the situation and scientific design. (https:)

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