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"Good news, good news, Henan victory~"

Outside the north gate of Xianyang, six fast horses galloped forward, a soldier who rushed to the front held a black token and kept roaring, six fast horses went straight through the bustling city gate, and the pedestrians avoided everywhere, and the rattan basket rolled down to the ground.

"Haha, okay, General Li Xin really didn't disappoint me!"

In the Zichen Palace, after getting the latest battle report sent back by the Northwest Military Camp, Qin Shi Huang slapped the table excitedly and stood up.

It has only been a month since the Shangsi Festival issued the expedition order, and during this period, the northwest military camp has sent more than ten good news one after another, but only today is the real victory.

In a month, Li Xin led 7,000 iron cavalry to sweep Henan, captured Kunjia, beheaded Hulu, successively destroyed dozens of Xiongnu tribes, killed nearly 40,000 Xiongnu soldiers, captured nearly 100,000 Xiongnu men, women and children, seized countless cattle, sheep and horses, selected 30,000 good horses, and the leather goods were piled up into mountains that could not be counted.

And today's good news declares that the land of Henan officially belongs to Daqin, except for the prisoners, there is no place for the Huns to gather in the entire land of Henan for hundreds of thousands of miles.

This is the unprecedentedly meritorious work of the Chinese king, so far the territory of China has expanded thousands of miles to the northwest, completely rejecting Hun Hu from the great river.

And this big victory also completely made Qin Shi Huang breathe a long sigh of relief, and his grand plan to conquer the south and the north but the Xiongnu has been half completed.

According to his concept, the recovery of Henan is the end point of the Northern Expedition, so as to defend the river, with the Great Wall behind it as a reliance, so that it will always occupy the Hetao This grassland with abundant water and grass, as long as Daqin obtains a steady stream of good horses, he will no longer be afraid of repeated harassment by the Xiongnu and Donghu.

But now, judging from this battle report, it seems that the vision of this plan can be more long-term, aiming at Hebei, where there are more vast grasslands......

"Someone, copy a copy of this good news and send it to the newspaper as soon as possible, let it be printed in the fourth issue of Daqin Metropolis Daily, and tell Chen Ping that within half a month, this newspaper must be printed in at least 50,000 copies and spread to the world, I want the people of the world to see, let the nobles of the six countries see, let the disciples of the princes see, I am not an emperor who does nothing, I have the world in my mind, and I must be the emperor of the ages!"

Watching the messenger send away the copied good news, Qin Shi Huang slowly calmed down from his excitement, and then a person suddenly popped up in his mind, a person who laid the foundation for this great victory.

"Has the Marquis of Qinghe ever returned?" Qin Shi Huang asked his attendants.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Qinghe has not returned to Xianyang, or a letter came from Wancheng half a month ago, the Marquis of Qinghe is preparing for the wedding, and according to the time, he should be enjoying the joy of the newlywed in the past few days!" A gray-haired waiter hastened to answer.

"Why hasn't there been any news from Nanyang for so long?" The Emperor was slightly annoyed.

Since Chen Xu left Xianyang, the emperor has a feeling of emptiness in his heart every day, and he can't eat and sleep well, so he has been paying attention to Chen Xu's news, but with the recent period of time, the northwest military camp has been coming every day with various good news and recitals, and he has temporarily forgotten Chen Xu, a great hero, but today Henan is recovered, Chen Xu lifted the quilt from his mind as if he woke up, and got up and began to ask for credit.

"Your Majesty is angry, Nanyang is the hometown of the Marquis of Qinghe, I think it is the officials of Wancheng who are helping Zhang Luo Qinghehou to marry, not to mention that with the Marquis of Qinghe, nothing will happen in Nanyang, Your Majesty just rest assured!"

"That's it!" The emperor was slightly disappointed, thinking about what Chen Xu said when he left, so he nodded and said, "The joy of Qinghehou's newlywed, I am busy with government affairs and did not arrange someone to congratulate him, and when he comes back, he must make up for it, arrange someone to inquire at all times, as soon as Qinghe Hou comes back, he will report to me immediately, and recover the land of Henan, Qinghe Hou should be the first to take the lead, I really want to share this joy with him!" ”

"Huh~" Just when the waiter turned to leave, a few fast horses galloped from the south gate of Xianyang, and the soldiers on horseback also held tokens and shouted Nanyang emergency all the way, and then rode directly into the city and went straight to the palace.

"Bang~~" Qin Shi Huang, who was still immersed in the joy of Henan's victory just now, slapped his palm on the table again.

But this time it wasn't joy, but anger.

Nanyang 400 miles of urgent report, five days ago the bandit leader Ran Feng secretly entangled hundreds of bandits to set fire to the newly repaired Nanyang warehouse, a total of 300,000 stones of grain, and also kidnapped the bride Shui at the wedding of the Qinghe Hou, forced the Qinghe Hou to be alone in danger, and then captured the Qinghe Hou and the Shui family into the Funiu Mountain, but fortunately, the Qinghe Hou was not afraid of proper arrangements, and waited in the ambush in the bandits' lair in Funiu Mountain in advance, and captured the bandit leader Ran Feng and more than 30 fierce bandits in one fell swoop, and killed more than 70 people, after overnight interrogation, The bandit leader Ran Feng and some of the main bandits had already escorted Qixing on his way to Xianyang, and Qinghe Hou also set off with him and returned to Xianyang with his family.

The emergency report was jointly written by Nanyang County Shoujiang Beiting and County Lieutenant Gao Yan, and after the emergency report, there was also a letter of request for guilt, which was stern and earnestly fearful.

"I first stabbed me, and now I have captured my closest Aiqing...... Ran Feng ......, I will definitely fry you in a kettle this time, otherwise it will be difficult to vent the hatred in my heart......" Qin Shi Huang slammed the emergency report into a ball and smashed it on the desk with a heavy fist, and the shocked teacups were overturned and shattered.

At this time, several soldiers who had sent the emergency report to the palace went to the palace doctor Meng Yi and the CRRC Mansion to send a letter respectively.

Meng Yi, who received the report from the servant, hurriedly returned from the provincial government, and after reading the letter, his face twitched fiercely for a long time, and then he wrote a few letters and arranged for someone to send them out.

On Jiang Heng's house, Jiang Heng, who was sitting in the study, also finished reading the letter, then sighed with a disillusioned face, secretly called his wife and housekeeper, and ordered him to start packing up the gold, silver, soft and valuable things.

The letter to Meng Yi was written by Chen Xu, which naturally gave him a briefing on what happened in Nanyang, and told him in detail about Zhao Gao's collusion with Ran Feng and others.

This time the incident was extremely thrilling, Chen Xu didn't want it to happen a second time, so he had to take this opportunity to completely trample Zhao Gao to death, and Chen Xu believed that Meng Yi would definitely be fully prepared when he received this letter, all he had to do was to be a spectator in the court at that time.

As for the letter to Jiang Heng, it was written by Jiang Beiting, and naturally he wrote everything that happened in Wancheng clearly, telling his brother that this time it would inevitably be the end of dismissal and disappointment, so let him prepare in advance, this matter was poked out in the court, and Jiang Heng, who knew the end of the matter, was inevitably implicated.

At the end of the letter, Jiang Beiting also asked Jiang Heng not to panic too much, saying that this matter would be secretly arranged by the Marquis of Qinghe, as long as Zhao Gao was completely overthrown, he would have a chance to make a comeback in the future.

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"Haha, Henan's great victory, thousands of miles away, this is an unprecedented victory, hurry up and convene a well-written scribe, sort out this good news and write a few press releases, this time the front page will all be lined up with the news of the conquest of Henan......"

In the newspaper hall, after receiving the transcription of the good news sent by the palace, Chen Ping jumped up excitedly after reading it, and quickly gathered the editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief, and the scribe who was responsible for writing the transcription manuscript, and prepared to publicize it in this great victory in Henan.

Moreover, the emperor also ordered that the newspaper that published the news of the great victory must print at least 50,000 copies within half a month, and this pressure alone was enough to overwhelm everyone in the newspaper office.

But today's newspaper is no longer the newspaper when it was founded a month ago, in addition to Chen Ping and Fu An, these important figures, the following editor has recruited more than 50 people, these are all hundreds of celebrities who are attracted by the newspaper's high salary or content, and more as a scribe and editor, there are more than 100 people, plus typesetting, printing, distribution helpers and sales of newsboys, the number of the entire newspaper has now exceeded 400 people, covering an area of only seven or eight acres of newspaper has long been overcrowded, four office rooms are simply not enough, Therefore, after Chen Ping asked Zhao Qing to help inform the emperor half a month ago, the Inner History Mansion allocated a building covering an area of 20 acres nearby, and the office environment was much more relaxed.

In addition to the reporters who come in and out every day to cover and submit articles, and the carriages that constantly transport ink, paper, and newspapers, there are also a large number of disciples who are surrounded outside the newspaper every day, and most of them want to enter the newspaper office as editors and reporters.

Writing, reviewing, typesetting, and printing are all familiar to all the people of the newspaper, and there are strict regulations and procedures, so in just three hours, the fourth Daqin Metropolis Daily, which published the news of Henan's great victory on the entire front page, has been placed on Chen Ping's desk.

In fact, in addition to the opening page, the rest of the pages have already been typeset and proofread, and even the content has been scheduled for two months later, because in addition to the current affairs news on the opening page, the other pages of the newspaper are some anecdotes, farming, stories, daily life and other content, and there is no timeliness, more practicality and interest, even the articles of hundreds of opinions have already been reviewed dozens of articles, mainly to discuss and compare the advantages and disadvantages of various governing strategies, At the same time, through this comparison, the people who watch the newspaper can get a comprehensive judgment, so as to leave a deep image in their hearts.

To break the situation of monopolizing the Legalists, it is necessary for the emperor and the ministers of civil and military affairs to accept more appropriate strategies for governing the country, adopt more Confucianism and Huang Lao school of governance concepts under the framework of the law, and then slowly abandon some laws that are too harsh, so as to slowly promote the reform of the country.

After reading the whole newspaper side by side again, and finding that there were no mistakes, Chen Ping arranged for the newspaper to be sent to the palace, and at the same time ordered the printing workshop to start printing with all its might.

The current printing workshop is no longer the four printing workbenches that Chen Xu originally purchased, but more than ten printing tables lined up in a huge room.

After getting Chen Ping's order, with the order of the steward of the printing workshop, the printers who had already prepared began to work quickly, brushing ink, laying paper, waving wool rollers, and soon uncovering the hemp pulp paper printed with dense handwriting, and then hanging it on the bamboo pole to dry by the helper.

These steps have long been familiar to the helpers of the printing workshop as eating and drinking, because the busiest newspaper is now the printing workshop, since the opening of the twelve hours a day has never stopped, day and night three shifts, eating and drinking are all replaced, even so, the printed newspaper is not enough to sell, because in addition to meeting the needs of Xianyang City, but also to meet the needs of merchants.

The emperor had already issued a special edict to the newspaper office that at least half of the newspaper printed in each issue should be handed over to merchants from all over the country to be transported to other counties and counties for sale, which also gave rise to a number of special newspaper merchants.

These newspaper dealers all contacted the newspaper distribution room, carrying large bags of coins all day long at the door of the circulation room, a bundle of 100 copies, 500 copies for a single order, 5,000 yuan without bargaining, one hand to pay the money and the other hand to deliver, but in order to seize the opportunity, there are a large number of merchants willing to buy at a higher price, but the newspaper does not accept, so the businessmen can only honestly wait in line, sometimes a newspaper has to wait for several days to get it, and once it is in hand, immediately arrange for horses and riders to be sent to their own territory for sale as quickly as possible, The selling price will generally be at least doubled, the counties near Xianyang are generally 20 yuan, and the distant ones are 30 or even 50 yuan, and the first newspaper is spread to Yuyang, Jiaodong, Huiji and other distant places, and the price soars to 100 yuan a piece, which is completely a huge profit, but even if the price is so high, it is still in short supply.

"General Affairs Chen, as soon as this issue of the newspaper comes out tomorrow, I'm afraid Xianyang will make a sensation again, this big victory came too quickly and suddenly, and I was completely caught off guard!" The editor-in-chief, Fu An, finally calmed down from his busy situation at this time, and came to the general affairs room with a teacup to chat with Chen Ping.

And Chen Ping said with a little regret: "This is inevitable, it's a pity that Li Shun doesn't know where he went, and a whole month of a manuscript praising the heroic killing of the enemy by the soldiers of Great Qin has not been sent back, I wonder if Hou Ye will be angry when he comes back?" ”

Fu An pursed his lips and said: "There is no hair on the mouth, Li Shun is still too young, it is said that the post guards who came back to report the news a few times ago said that Li Shun was patrolling near the big river with General Jiang Hu, and I heard that there was no decent battle there." ”

"Yes, although the victory is good, but there is no article that makes people's blood boil, I always feel that this issue of the newspaper is still missing some content, and it does not meet the requirements of Lord Hou, I always feel a little worried!" Chen Ping said with a slight sigh.

"It's been more than a month since Master Hou went back to marry, do you know when he'll return?" Fu An asked while drinking tea.

Chen Ping shook his head: "At the beginning, the Hou Ye said that it would be less than one month and more than two months, so I want to come back soon, but I heard that the history museum and bookstore that are being prepared outside the city already have eyebrows, once these two mansions begin to recruit manpower, it is estimated that the whole world will be shaken, and countless celebrities will come like carp crossing the river, and Xianyang may become more and more lively at that time!" ”

"Hehe, it's good to be lively, the more lively the better, Hou Ye's trick will completely dissolve those beings and monks who jump up and down all day long and have nothing to do!"

Chen Ping said with a wry smile helplessly: "You and I didn't know Hou Ye before, I wasn't like these people, I talked about the past and the present all day long, and even ate the last meal without the next meal, and now I have defected to Hou Ye for just a few months, I feel that the first 20 years have been in vain, not only short-sighted, but even the ideas are so ridiculous, any idea of the Hou Ye can make people have to be amazed." ”

"Master Hou is a pedantic celestial, I can't wait for the dust!" When it came to Chen Xu, Fu An's eyes were more enthusiastic than Chen Xu's, and his face was full of admiration.