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In Qinghe Park, the merchants gathered have left.

Chen Xu and Chen Ping left Qinghe Park by car together to prepare to go to the newspaper office.

"Master Hou, your speech today is too exciting!"

Chen Ping still hadn't gotten rid of Chen Xu's passionate speech, as if there was still Chen Xu's voice surging in his ears, and those businessmen who were stimulated and red-faced and waved their arms and roared.

Chen Xu nodded slightly and did not speak.

Today's speech can be said to be the first time in his two lives that he has been so shameless.

But if you don't roar here today, in another ten years, another ragged guy will jump out and yell in the heavy rain: Princes and generals, rather have a kind!

In fact, it was the peasant who was the real great orator.

And it was that sentence that Daqin fell!

So there are some things that must be done as soon as possible, and all the evils that can hinder economic development must be reformed while Qin Shi Huang is still alive.

Although it is not possible to adopt the parliamentary system in the manner of the Roman Republic, it is the first priority at present to change the completely unequal status of some scholars, peasants, and industrialists, liberate a large number of productive forces, and develop the economy to recuperate and recuperate.

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A day later, a new issue of the Daqin Metropolis Edition was released, along with a special issue on the construction of Dongfang Dao.

The special issue introduces in detail the importance of this road to the Great Qin Empire, and expounds the necessity of construction from various aspects such as history, economy, culture, region, and future development.

At the same time, the special issue also published several newspaper reporters interviewed several business leaders, all of whom expressed their full support for the construction of Dongfang Road, and also expressed their gratitude to the Marquis of Qinghe and their happy expectations for the future development of Daqin's economy.

In addition, the special issue also devotes a lot of space to a detailed introduction to the methods of investment and fund-raising and mortgage policies of Dongfang Road, and calls on businessmen from all over the country to participate in the construction of cement plants and the construction of Dongfang Road.

Although Xianyang businessmen snatched up all the contracts of intent, but want to build cement factories in other counties, if there is no support from local wealthy businessmen, many times there will be contradictions in the future, the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, the law is not very useful for many locals, especially in this wild era, so through the publicity of the newspaper, these businessmen who got the contract went to the local area, they can share the authorization, each has what they need, and it is best for everyone to earn money, and it is ugly to die if you eat alone.

Moreover, the newspaper has another purpose, that is, to spread this business model quickly, so that businessmen all over the world can more quickly recognize and accept the huge benefits brought by this financial credit means.

Xianyang City is like a pot of boiling water, after the Dongfang Dao Preparatory Conference, it was completely burned and boiled.

When ordinary people were still immersed in the unprecedented project of investing 500,000 stone of grain and grain in the Weihe Bridge, the eyes of all the businessmen and upper-class people had all shifted to an investment of 10 million stones, which was really an unprecedented huge project.

Some time ago, it was talked about that the bus company with an investment of 4 million is no longer worth anything in the eyes of everyone.

Because of this road, a full investment of 40,000 yuan.

As soon as many people mention this number, they feel that their souls are fluttering and untenable, and they have a feeling of floating with weakness all over their bodies.

Three days later, all the businessmen who had obtained the contract of intent paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan as required, and these deposits were deposited into the account of the Dongfang Dao Construction General Administration with Yang Kun as the supervisor in Huaxia Qianzhuang, and the total amount of funds was 5.8 million yuan.

In addition to the service stations and logistics markets on Dongfang Road, the cement factory authorizations in 36 counties across the country have all been subscribed.

Nowadays, Xianyang has gathered more than 100,000 wealthy businessmen from the former six countries, most of whom are also involved in the first six kings and nobles, but their clansmen are still in the land of the former six countries, and many are still doing business, and there are close ties and contacts with each other.

Therefore, by obtaining the license qualification of these cement plants, the family will inevitably obtain great wealth in the future.

With cement, a building weapon, the matter of going up the mountain to mine stone to make stone bricks can basically be put to rest.

Although there were only 58 contracts of intent this time, the number of businessmen involved exceeded 1,500, and except for a few projects that were won by a single family, almost all of the projects were a kind of joint-stock contract system, which was completed by many people raising funds in partnership, and the largest number of people raised funds for a cement plant reached 30.

But Chen Xu didn't care about this, he just sold the project to collect money.

All those who sign the contract of intent have a two-month fundraising period, and those who fail to make up the funds by the deadline will be disqualified from signing a formal contract and the deposit will not be refunded.

Once the mortgage is signed, the mortgage will be issued, and you can start recruiting troops and horses to start building cement factories and preparing tools, grain, cement, sand and gravel to build roads and bridges.

The day the construction started, it was the beginning of the gambling contract between Chen Xu and Li Si, and at the end of the year, the victory or defeat of both sides would be known to the world.

At that time, whoever has the last laugh will get the greatest support of the emperor, and from then on control the right to speak in the court, and the rule of the Legalists and Chen Xu's law of governing the country by integrating hundreds of schools of thought will start to go in different directions with this road as the dividing ridge.

The emperor has issued an edict that the three provinces and six ministries must strictly cooperate with the construction of the Eastern Road, and anyone who dares to sabotage it will be punished as a rebel.

With the support of the emperor, Chen Xu naturally took the chicken feathers as an arrow, and ordered one after another from the Academy of Sciences, and the three provinces and six ministries all strictly followed it.

First of all, Yang Kun, the director of the Oriental Road Preparatory Bureau, brought together the Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Industry and the Shaofu to set up a project headquarters, and sent a large number of craftsmen and craftsmen to form nearly 30 survey teams along the existing Dongfang Road to survey the road sections, draw out the route map along the way, where there are small rivers, where there are big rivers, where there are mountainous areas, where there are cliffs and steep slopes, etc., analyze the situation and formulate different construction plans, where it needs to be diverted, where it is necessary to build bridges, where it is necessary to change the bend and straighten, etc. At the same time, it is also necessary to plan the location of service stations and logistics markets according to the distribution of counties along the route, many of which will occupy civilian land or even relocated houses, which need to be dealt with in consultation with local officials.

Secondly, in order to facilitate the rapid construction of roads, it is necessary to build some cement factories and take sand, gravel and timber along the way, which also need to be planned in advance.

Finally, in order to cooperate with the construction of the road, the local county officials had to cooperate with the engineering teams involved in the construction to recruit prisoners and slaves, as well as recruit civilian husbands.

Of course, these conscripted prisoners, slaves and minfu do not need the imperial court and the local county officials to provide any money and grain, all the expenses are prepared by the merchants who participated in the construction of the local bidding section, according to the law of Daqin, the slaves and coarse grain are half a catty per day, and the convicts and the people are one catty of coarse grain per day, and to repair the road as soon as possible, of course, the more manpower, the better, but the less consumption the better, but no matter how it is deducted, the money and grain stipulated by the law are essential, otherwise the slaves and convicts are punished in the end or the merchants, and then the people, and the people are not servantsIt is not a forced conscription, so in order to recruit enough manpower, it may be necessary to pay money, because most of the people will bring their own dry food, just to work to earn some money to support the family.

Moreover, for such a large project, there are not so many prisoners and workers and slaves in the counties along the way, and most of the participants can only be people, and hiring a large number of people will inevitably cost more money, so a large amount of money will flow to the people and civilians along the road, so a lot of money invested in road construction will flow to the bottom of Daqin, and it will also stimulate local consumption.

The surveying and planning of the road and the division of the bid section, Chen Xu stipulated that Yang Kun must complete it within three months.

Therefore, on the third day after the completion of the preparation of the engineering headquarters, the 30 survey expedition teams led by the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry all set off with the tags of the Dongfang Road Engineering Headquarters, some on horseback and some by car, but most of them went down the river by boat, and they could reach the counties along the line in two or three days.

Generally speaking, before the bet officially took effect, Chen Xu had to arrange all the preparations in advance as much as possible, so that the participating businessmen could burn enough cement, prepare enough sand and wood, and gather enough manpower.

It is already August now, and everything must be arranged before January next year, which is very hasty, especially for the cement factory, in addition to the construction of cement kilns, it is necessary to pour a large iron mill, prepare enough coal, iron ore, limestone and clay, which must be carefully ground into raw meal, and there is no time to build large waterwheels and mills elsewhere, so it can only be handled by cattle, horses and manpower......

And just when Chen Xu was racking his brains in Xianyang to fool Shangjia to build roads, the 40,000 horses in the northwest military camp with full new equipment had already divided into eight routes at the end of July, and fought the Great Wall from eight major passes to pounce on the Xiongnu and Donghu like tigers and wolves.

This autumn harvest battle has been planned for a long time, and all the new horses are trained by the soldiers who participated in the first raid on the Huns, so all kinds of horse harness and weapons have already been trained very skillfully, plus there are soldiers who are familiar with the raid attack as grassroots officers, and they are all one person and two horses, the Hun horses are responsible for riding and fighting, the previous war horses are responsible for transporting grain, grass and equipment, and Meng Tian also arranged nearly 100,000 soldiers and countless caravans to be responsible for the subsequent aftermath and the disposal of captured booty, Therefore, there is no need to be wary of being surrounded by the Hun army in this raid.

With such careful preparation and planning, this war was destined to be a hearty victory from the beginning.