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When Chen Xu and a group of people in the newspaper hall were eating and drinking and brainwashing and shouting slogans at the Qinghe Hotel, Li Si's admission of defeat in the court spread throughout Xianyang in just a few hours.

The most excited are the more than 100,000 wealthy merchants who have migrated to Xianyang, so the south of the city where the merchants gather is simply jubilant.

And when the news spread to the trading market outside the east gate of Xianyang, the market instantly burst into an uproar, countless merchants excitedly dropped the items in their hands in the market cheering and hugging each other, and more wealthy businessmen took big bags of copper coins and threw them to the people who carried the goods, which aroused the scramble and sensation of the whole market.

And the even more irrepressible Shang Jia sent his helpers and servants to go southeast along the Eastern Road directly, wanting to pass the news of Li Si's early admission of defeat back to his family and territory, and share this exciting news together.

Under Chen Xu's arrangement, Chen Ping, who was full of wine and food, rushed back to the hall to work overtime overnight, typesetting and printing Li Si's admission of defeat in advance, and at the same time, Chen Ping also personally wrote the next "New Spell Theory" based on what Chen Xu said at the wine table.

Early the next morning, the latest issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily, which was printed overnight, was put on the market, and countless carts and horses carried large bundles of newspapers were transported to newsstands inside and outside the city, and hundreds of newsboys sold them along the streets.

And countless people have been waiting for it at various newspaper outlets.

Based on past experience, a newspaper for such a major event will inevitably issue a special issue even if it is not at the time of the new newspaper's release.

Sure enough, they all waited for the new newspaper they wanted.

And it's not a special issue, but a full-fledged supplement, but it takes two pages to detail the beginning, process and ending of the bet from beginning to end, and in the center of the front page, a row of large characters is printed in oversized bold black font.

"Gambling through the ages, Qinghe Hou wins!"

If it is really in the color printing era of later generations, there will inevitably be a photo of Li Si and Chen Xu staring at each other with horizontal eyebrows and cold eyes below, and a big red VS logo with lightning tears will be added in the middle.

Although the printing house worked overtime overnight, the tens of thousands of newspapers that had been printed in a hurry were almost instantly snatched up, and more newsstands and newspaper dealers could not wait to go straight to the printing house near the Faculty of Letters, competing for the printed newspapers with vouchers and money bags.

Compared with the previous expeditions to Hun Hu and the floods, when newspapers were queued up and looted, this time the looting was even more severe.

Because whether it is for the Xiongnu or the flood, all Xianyang people have no personal feelings, the conquest of the Xiongnu is actually the task of the emperor, the expansion of the territory has nothing to do with the people, and the flood in the southeast is not painful, if it is not for the Qinghe Hou vigorously advocated disaster relief, it can be said that the people of Xianyang and many businessmen will not care at all, ordinary people can't eat enough, no one has the energy and leisure to care about natural disasters and man-made disasters, even if there are people with hearts, they can sigh a few words at most and can do nothing, Especially for businessmen, there are not too many concepts such as morality and mercy, and they are most concerned about whether they can make money or whether it will be beneficial for them to make money in the future, just like Qi Mao undertook to deliver disaster relief clothes, not because he was kind-hearted, but just came for Chen Xu's reputation, and then he seized this opportunity and succeeded.

In any era, do not expect businessmen to really care about the people and the poor, all their starting points are purposeful, just to see what the end of this purpose leads to produce.

Therefore, although the merchants are rich, they are not particularly interested in newspapers, otherwise if each of the more than 100,000 wealthy merchants in Xianyang has a copy, each issue of the newspaper in Xianyang alone will sell at least 100,000 copies.

But today, all the businessmen of this newspaper want to get a sneak peek.

Because Li Si admitted defeat and won the victory of Qinghehou, this was almost the victory of all the merchants, and it was the victory of tens of thousands of merchants who participated in the fund-raising construction of Dongfang Road with almost all their belongings.

For a time, Xianyang paper was expensive, and the price of a newspaper was quickly speculated to 20 yuan and 30 yuan was still in short supply, and the whole south of the city was full of scalpers running around, using newspapers that I don't know where to get a lot of money from merchants.

And every merchant who got the newspaper would inevitably gather around him in an instant, gather around him to read and discuss the contents of the newspaper, and began to speculate about the laws that would loosen the commercial law after the victory of the Marquis of Qinghe, and then what substantial impact it would have on future business and trading.

Businessmen are concerned about what benefits they will get in the future after giving so much.

And many others are concerned about the last recruitment ad on the front page.

"Qinghe Hou sincerely invites people with lofty ideals who are proficient in business and law to participate in the compilation and revision of the new commercial law, and also enthusiastically solicits manuscripts of the new commercial law bill, and will finally select ten manuscripts with implementation value and influence from these manuscripts, one special prize, 10,000 yuan and specially appointed as the new law promotion ambassador, and will be awarded official positions, two first prizes, 3,000 yuan, three second prizes, 2,000 yuan, four third prizes, 1,000 yuan......"

As the saying goes, money makes the devil grind.

As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the reward.

In short, with the publication of the newspaper, some people have begun to visit the newspaper to inquire about the conditions for joining the group for the compilation and revision of the new law, and there are others who think they are talented and have spread out their papers and pens and began to prepare proposals and strategies for the new commercial law.

Regardless of whether you can get a bonus or not, you are idle anyway, and you won't get pregnant if you write a submission.

Therefore, in the following days, as the circulation of the newspaper became larger and larger, and the business travelers from the south to the north spread farther and farther, almost the entire Oriental Road had begun to make a sensation, and at the same time, a large number of manuscripts began to be delivered to the newspaper.

In the past few days, Chen Xu has also successively received dozens of business representatives in Xianyang City, and Yang Kun also summoned some scribes who are proficient in business to begin to discuss various current and business-related laws one by one, to see which ones should be retained, which ones should be repealed, and which ones can be modified and continued to be used, and Chen Xu himself spent most of his time in the newspaper to watch more and more contributions, to see if he could find some manuscripts that were in line with this era and had good ideas. In order to provide more assistance for the codification of new commercial laws.

Generally speaking, the hierarchical distinction of this era is relatively obvious, although the concept of Legalist disciples is to discriminate, but in fact it is also to facilitate the interests of the ruling class to make laws, the purpose is to suppress merchants and commoners to protect the interests of the Son of Heaven and nobles, so there is no difference between Legalism and Confucianism in later generations in essence, and even more hateful.

But after all, Legalism is different from Confucianism, after all, at least theoretically, there is an equal ideological basis, that is to say, it already has an advanced concept that surpasses Confucianism, but the limitations of the times make it impossible for Legalist disciples to break through the shackles of thought, Chen Xu wants to do not abandon the magic to govern the country, but to implement a new concept of magic, and not to let Huaxia once again move towards the direction of human rule, after all, the legal system is the right direction for the future development of mankind.

In later generations, a large number of jurists began to vigorously advocate Shang Yang Han Feizi at the end of the Qing Dynasty, advocating learning Western culture and even ****, and promoting democracy and the legal system, because they felt that the rule of man based on Confucius and Mencius thought had completely failed to keep up with the development of human civilization, and if it continued, it would only make China weaker and weaker.

In fact, the period of the Republic of China was a bit like the Spring and Autumn Period, where not only thought and literature were unusually prosperous, but even art was extremely prosperous.

However, this prosperity did not last long, and it declined again because of World War II.

Later, New China re-advocated the blooming of a hundred flowers and the contention of a hundred schools, but that was only a flash in the pan and then returned to dust.

Now that Daqin has the foundation of magic governance, Chen Xu can naturally use this foundation to push Daqin forward, jump out of the limitations of the times and focus on the future, and use new magic ideas to implement new magic governance.

With the help of Chen Ping's new generation of scribes, the support of almost all the merchants in the world, and the support of ministers above the court who benefited from the convenience of commerce, coupled with the emperor's authorization, there would be almost no problems with this reform of commercial law.

Even if there will be some twists and turns, at most there may be some legal regulations that are too advanced and cause discomfort, so these are the reasons why Chen Xu needs to solicit opinions from the people.

In line with the times, in line with the current national conditions, in line with the cognitive habits of the emperor and the common people, after sorting out, a new set of business laws will be launched, which is Chen Xu's goal.

After ten or eight years, everything in Daqin will be on the right track of the legal system under his plan, and many unreasonable places will be revised again.

During this period, there were successively some people who were proficient in business and law, and were interested in Chen Xu's revision of commercial law, came to the newspaper for interviews, and even a large number of businessmen came from other counties to present their feelings, so Chen Xu also gathered more than a dozen people with broad horizons and active thoughts, and invited some business representatives, including Yang Kun and Fan Caiying, the two most powerful subordinates, to hold meetings to convey their guiding ideology, and then slowly began to review and revise the new business law according to Daqin's business law and various manuscripts received.

Chen Xu's requirements for the new commercial law are also detailed and comprehensive, and all the vague provisions in the previous commercial law are discussed separately and then compiled into a general commercial law framework, including the "Industrial and Commercial Registration Management Law", "Product Quality Law", "Tax Registration Management Law", "Contract Law", "Production Management Law", "Special Business Management Law", etc., these new laws cover all including merchants, craftsmen, manufacturing, quality, contracts, etc. Taxation and other business-related industries and behaviors that can be covered at present.

As for the guidance of these new laws and regulations listed by Chen Xu, all those involved were shocked by Chen Xu's generosity and rigorous attitude.

Once these decrees are introduced, they will have a huge impact on the business model of Daqin today, and of course, it will also make business behavior more standardized and reasonable, and it will also be more convenient for the imperial court to manage.