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At the beginning of March, Xianyang is full of spring and lush vegetation, and it has faintly had a bit of early summer.

As the weather gets warmer day by day, the streets and alleys in Xianyang City, the riverbanks and riverside parks outside the city, and the Keju Commercial Plaza on the south bank of the Wei River, you can see little women and little ladies with flowers and branches flying everywhere.

This spring is the same as in previous years, but it is obviously different, that is, this huge city looks more and more lively and lively, the endless flow of people on the streets, wearing all kinds of different costumes, travelers and merchants from all over the country and the vassal states of the princes and vassals have come out countless times more than usual, and the logistics warehouses on both sides of the Wei River and the wharves outside the two city gates in the south and east of the city have long been piled up with all kinds of goods.

There are seven days left to be the Shangsi Festival, and after the Shangsi Festival, the first commodity fair in Daqin is about to kick off, and these merchants and tourists are coming for the fair.

In view of this commodity trading conference, the imperial court, which has held several large gatherings in a row, has already been able to easily deal with it, and began to prepare a month in advance, and everything is in order under the arrangement of the organizing committee, and more than 500 simple wooden sheds have been built in Keju Square in advance, providing a place for all the merchants who have signed up to participate in the exhibition to place exhibits and rest, and they will not fall into chaos when it rains as before.

The organizing committee made a thoughtful arrangement that all the businessmen who came to sign up for the exhibition were very grateful, and these booths were quickly booked.

Different from last year's spring market, because this year's exhibitors are all powerful businessmen in the country, and the goods are mainly exhibitions and not directly sold, so this year Chen Xu also arranged to set up a exhibition hall in Keju Field, and put some high-end boutique goods in Keju Field for exhibition, and still built two rows of exhibition booths, with a total of 20 places, mainly for porcelain, glass, enamel, silk, tea, wine, weapons, blankets, high-end leather goods, high-end horse harness, gems and jade and other industry leading enterprises. And Chen Xu also won the largest platform for Qinghe shopping mall, this year's main products are perfume and soap, and in order to increase popularity, Chen Xu has printed 3,000 copies of three-color overprinted leaflets with pictures in the printing house in advance, which will be distributed inside and outside the trade hall at that time.

In fact, at the end of February, all preparations for the spring trade fair were ready.

In addition to this business event that attracted the attention of the imperial court and businessmen across the country, there was actually another thing that attracted more attention, but the people who paid attention to it were different, all of them were literate students and hundreds of disciples.

After the results of the selection of 100 sages, the results have been counted by a review team composed of more than 200 celebrities, and the results have come out, with a total of 100,000 votes issued and more than 70,000 recovered, which far exceeds Chen Xu's prediction, which shows that people from all walks of life and hundreds of disciples in Daqin are indeed very serious and enthusiastic about this selection, and their participation is very high.

Chen Xu did not participate in the whole process of counting votes, because he was not interested, the purpose of selecting a hundred great sages to build a statue in the name of the sons and put it in front of the library for the world to pay homage to is to gather the hearts of the world's scholars.

Although the ranking was meaningless to Chen Xu, when he was studying the box of burned three tombs of Gu Yi in the study, Chen Pingxing rushed to show him the statistical results, and when he saw the name of the sect and the name of the great sage who ranked first, Chen Xu's mouth opened wide, and the magnifying glass in his hand fell on the cement floor with a bang and shattered.

"Make no mistake!" After Chen Xu repeatedly confirmed that he was not mistaken, he lifted his chin up and asked with a sluggish face.

"Master Hou, that's absolutely right, this is the final result of the vote count, more than 200 celebrities from various factions participated, and the ten respected sages of the court on the jury personally checked the summarized votes, and unanimously admitted that this is an absolutely valid result!" Chen Ping nodded categorically and said that there was no problem.

"No, this is absolutely not good, I am against it, how can this be the result......" Chen Xu instantly shook his head like a rattle.

"Master Hou, you came up with this selection method, the judging committee also recognized it, and the votes are all real and valid, you have to admit this result, if you don't admit it, this selection that took half a year will be completely meaningless, and if you change the order, not only will the judging committee not admit it, but also the hundreds of disciples and scholars who participated in the voting in the world will not admit it, then this activity will be all in vain......" Chen Ping shouted excitedly.

"No, no, no, how can you rank me first, and make a scientific school, when did I form this school, and there are more than 8,000 votes, I don't know so many people, not a single disciple, it's obviously fake......" Chen Xu interrupted Chen Ping's words.

"Master Hou, don't shirk, how can the vote be fake, each vote has the name and address of the voter, you can find the person who voted if you take one out, if you can fake it, Ping will eat this statistical table......" Chen Ping was also anxious, and grabbed Chen Xu's arm incoherently.

"Then you can eat it!" Chen Xu rolled his eyes.

"Master Hou!" Chen Ping sat down with a smile and laughter, "There is absolutely no problem with this vote and statistics, you don't know, since you started preparing for the Royal Academy of Sciences, there are now thousands of officials and craftsmen in the Academy of Sciences system, not counting those helpers and apprentices, if you add the students and teachers of the College of Engineering, the College of Agriculture and the Health Center, your most direct believers are tens of thousands, more than 40 counties and more than 1,000 counties in the country, almost all the agricultural craftsmen and doctors in the world worship and worship you, and the scientific school you created is the first university school in the world, Even all the celebrities and judges who counted the votes decided that you deserved to be the first ......"

"I don't care, I can't be the first anyway, I'm not dead, and I'm afraid of heights, I will get dizzy when I stand on the first floor......"

Chen Xu glanced at the statistical table again, and looked at the figure who ranked first among the hundred great sages, and it was written that Chen Xu, the founder of the Scientology School and a disciple of Taiyi Immortal Venerable, was followed by a number of 8,327 votes, and his cheeks twitched in an instant and he couldn't stop.

This selection result, he didn't expect to be killed.

So when I saw it for the first time, I thought Chen Ping was joking with him.

"Master Hou, don't mess around! It's just a statue, and it's not putting you on the top floor, how can you get dizzy! When Chen Ping spoke, his face was varied, and he looked very festive

"Anyway, it just doesn't work, and even if it's a statue, is there a name to be engraved on the pedestal called me Chen Zi!"

"Yes!" Chen Ping nodded.

But your uncle, Chen Xu shook his head off, "No, absolutely not, the name Chen Zi is too ugly, I don't like it!" ”

Chen Ping was stunned for a few seconds and opened his mouth to persuade: "There is nothing wrong with Chen Zi, I always dreamed that others would call me Chen Zi in the future, but unfortunately Ping is shallow in his knowledge and cannot start a sect......

"Since you like it so much, why don't you put your statue on the top!" Chen Xu opened his mouth depressedly.

"Master Hou......" Chen Ping almost cried, after being silent for half a minute, he stood up and tidied up his clothes and tiara, and then picked up the statistical table and said with a serious face: "It's useless for you to refuse, this is the national vote, you said at the beginning that this is the most democratic and fair way, not only can you block the world's mouths, but also calm the quarrels and fights between the disciples of hundreds of schools, this result even the emperor can't refute, not to mention that this matter has nothing to do with you, this is a matter of the newspaper and the Academy of Letters, Ping came today just to tell Hou Ye about the statistics and selection results, you just know, Ping said goodbye! ”

"Huh, wait, wait......" Chen Xu grabbed Chen Ping's arm.

Chen Ping's face was calm and stubborn, and the two stared at each other with big eyes for ten seconds.

"Come on, you've won!" Chen Xu had to compromise in the end, because he could see that Chen Ping would definitely not give in on this matter.

That is, at the top of the library in the future, the first statue is him, the founder of the Scientology school, and will be admired by the world, affectionately called Chen Zi.

Chen Zi...... Orange...... Why don't you call it grapefruit!

For the first time, Chen Xu felt that his surname was too low-grade and not high-grade, not catchy at all, you see how awesome Lao Tzu's name is.

After Chen Ping left, Chen Xu sat alone on the chair in the study, looking at the broken magnifying glass and muttering.

But...... There is still room for turning around in this matter, putting his own statue at the top, and suppressing Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mozi and other Chinese sages is obviously too forced, and it conflicts with the low-key life that he has always sought, although the current reputation has long been as low-key as possible, but this kind of thing is better to be as low-key as possible, so as not to be struck by lightning.

In order to ensure the tranquility of the disciples of the hundred schools, but also for the sake of absolute fairness, Chen Xu told that the results of the statistics were not allowed to be disclosed in advance, and Chen Ping and others also strictly followed the implementation, and the selection team was closed and busy for more than a month, and finally the review committee checked the ballots several times before finally determining the list without the slightest error.

And the selection of the hundred sages, naturally to be announced, this is the constitution that has been set before, so after Chen Ping showed the statistical voting results to Chen Xu, Daqin Metropolis Daily typeset and printed a special issue overnight, announcing this cultural event that the scribes and hundreds of disciples of the world participated in and looked forward to for half a year.

The results of the selection will not only be published in the special issue of the newspaper, but also on the street in front of the newspaper building, and the names of the 100 selected people will be posted on the street in front of the newspaper for people to see.