With the official opening of Huaxia Qian Zhuang in Xianyang, Chen Xu has taken a big step forward to change the layout of Daqin's business.

Because of Chen Xu taking the lead, coupled with Chen Xu's reputation and status in the political and business circles, for the next half a month, Huaxia Qianzhuang is a city every day, and many businessmen come to Qianzhuang with a large amount of money every day to make deposits, of course, there are also businessmen from Daliang, Luoyang, Wancheng and other parts of the country who come to withdraw money to buy and sell goods with receipts of deposits elsewhere.

Therefore, since the opening of Huaxia Qianzhuang, the money handled every day is millions of dollars, and the new thing of Huaxia Qianzhuang has finally aroused the curiosity and uneasiness of the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty.

In the newspaper hall, under the guidance of Chen Xu, under the preparation and planning of hundreds of editors-in-chief, editors-in-charge, stewards, typesetters, and school officials, including Chen Ping, Qiu Cheng, Liu An, and Ji Tong, the first newspaper in Daqin was finally completed today.

In the printing room at this time, four printing tables were lined up, and a large iron plate three feet long and two feet wide was placed on it, which was densely packed with movable type manuscripts that had been typeset and proofread, and several printers were also ready.

The ink is still the ink brought from Hukuanqinghe Town, but the new ink-making workshop has been built at the foot of Zongshan Mountain, a hundred miles away from Xianyang, and the ink is already being cut and burned.

The paper is a super-large hemp pulp paper that Chen Xu asked Meng Yun to customize in the paper mill, three feet long and two feet wide, about the same size as the urban tabloids of later generations, but this is already the largest paper that can be made today.

In the newspaper hall, from the secretary and editor-in-chief, down to the proofreader and helper, all excitedly and nervously crowded at the door of the printing room.

"Start printing!" Chen Xu saw that everything was ready, so he issued an order to print.

To be honest, he was also very excited at this time.

Because of the advent of newspapers, human civilization, spanning more than 2,000 years of time and space, will finally use a special method to show the special charm and power of words.

Four printers who have already prepared wool rollers are covered with ink in the ink barrel, and after a little draining, they gently roll back and forth on the movable type plate several times to make the ink evenly stained, and the two helpers next to them will pull a large piece of paper and spread it on the movable type plate, and the other helper will hold a clean wool roller and gently roll it back and forth on the paper a few times, and one helper will lift the paper, and the back has been densely printed with neat and clear black handwriting.

"Show me!" Chen Xu couldn't wait to take the one-sided printed newspaper, gently spread it on the table and began to watch it.

In the center of the newspaper's headhead, there are five big characters written in a font that looks like a seal: Daqin Metropolis Daily.

In addition to the headline of the newspaper using a slightly larger bold small seal, the rest of the content is all in a unified standard font that Chen Xu called the second word of the newspaper, five minutes long and five minutes wide, and the size of each word is about one centimeter in size, and punctuation marks are used for sentence breaks, so it is very comfortable and smooth to read.

The handwriting is inky black, with a faint scent of ink.

Chen Xu quickly swept through the content of the two editions at a glance and found that there was not much difference from the proofread sample, so he let out a long breath.

"You go on!" Chen Xu turned around and ordered, and the helpers who had stopped were also relieved and began to continue printing in an orderly manner.

The one-sided newspaper is taken to the side and hung on a bamboo pole to dry briefly, and the ink made from tung oil dries quickly, and it only takes less than a minute to turn it over and print the other side.

Because this newspaper is only a sample, Chen Xu only plans to print about 200 copies, and Chen Ping, Qiu Cheng and other participants in the newspaper hall have been waiting anxiously, all of them crowded at the door of the printing room and tiptoe in, all of them stretched out their arms and shouted loudly, all wanting to be the first to get the results that they had put into half a month of painstaking efforts.

A few minutes later, two newspapers printed on both sides were stacked on top of each other and placed in front of Chen Xu.

The newspaper has a total of two sheets and eight layouts, using movable type printing, traditional vertical version, small seal font, each word is neatly arranged and the size is the same, so the whole newspaper looks clear and pleasing to the eye, and the content is also informative and interesting.

Although it is still only a sample, it is a completely epoch-making civilizational progress.

Chen Xu looked at it a few times, smiled and walked to the door with the newspaper and handed it to Chen Ping, who had been waiting for a long time with red eyes, "Secretary Chen, congratulations, after half a month of hard work, it is finally printed!" ”

"Master Hou, I, give me a copy~" The editors and a group of reporters gathered at the door shouted excitedly.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share, speed up the printing speed, and take out the printed ones!"

"Hou Ye, Hou Ye!"

Half an hour later, when Chen Xu was holding a printed newspaper and Chen Pingqiu and others gathered in the general affairs room to watch and discuss, Sun Shujiong came in a hurry with a palace person.

"What?" Chen Xu put down the newspaper.

"Master Hou, Your Majesty has summoned you to the palace!" The palace man saluted respectfully and said.

"Let's go!" Chen Xu stood up, folded the newspaper on the table and took it out in his hand, then returned to the Academy of Sciences and took a book from his office, and then followed the palace people to the palace in a car.

Chen Xu went to the court for three days to fish and dry the nets for two days, basically there was something important Qin Shi Huang would call him to the court, otherwise he would not take the initiative to go to the court, because he had to get a newspaper, he had not been to the court for almost half a month.

An awesome official like Chen Xu is a lone seedling in the Thousand Tilts of the Great Qin Empire, and there is no other semicolon for this family.

And because he was going to deploy the war to sweep away Henan and recover the Hetao, Qin Shi Huang has been very busy recently, and he has not been summoned to the palace to chat during this time.

Although Chen Xu didn't know what the emperor was summoning him for, since the sample of the newspaper came out, he could just show the newspaper to the emperor and strive to publish the Daqin Metropolis Daily as soon as possible.

The palace was as quiet as ever.

Along the way, whether it was the palace maid or the chamberlain, they all maintained enough respect for this young marquis, and everyone stood on the side of the road and saluted respectfully.

In the Zichen Palace, Qin Shi Huang was sitting behind the desk reviewing the chapters, and there was a pot of tea and a plate of snacks next to him, and he looked very relaxed while eating and drinking.

Chen Xu stood outside the door and waited for the palace people to report before tidying up his clothes and hair and then walking into the main hall.

"Your Majesty!"

"Qinghe Hou don't use more courtesy, please sit down and serve tea!" Qin Shi Huang stood up to greet him and warmly invited Chen Xu to take a seat.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Xu saluted, and then sat down on a large chair covered with bearskin.

And the palace maid who was waiting in the room hurriedly poured a cup of hot fragrant tea, and couldn't help but sneak a glance at this different Hou Ye.

There are hundreds of civil and military officials in Xianyang, only Chen Xu can play with His Majesty so easily, even if Li Sifeng and the two prime ministers came, they all showed respect and seriousness, and only the Marquis of Qinghe was so relaxed.

"I don't know what Your Majesty has to call your ministers into the palace?" Chen Xu took the teacup and put it away, and then asked the reason.

"I heard that half a month ago, a merchant opened a Huaxia money village in the east of the city, I found someone to inquire, this Huaxia money village is now in Luoyang Daliang and other big cities have opened a semicolon, specializing in depositing and exchanging money, in recent days, there are many ministers in the court to participate in the joint performance, hoping to be able to restrain and rectify the merchant Jia's private deposit and exchange of money institutions, I know that this Huaxia money village and Qinghe Hou have a lot to do, so I specially summoned Qinghe Hou to discuss how to deal with it!"

Qin Shi Huang's expression was still very relaxed when he spoke, maintaining a tone of discussion, in fact, he had already heard about Huaxia Qianzhuang, after all, there were many rich businessmen in Xianyang, and the caravans coming and going to these big cities in Luoyang Wancheng were almost endless every day, and Huaxia Qianzhuang was not an underground black market, it was a blatant business opening, and almost all the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew about it, and the emperor naturally heard about it a long time ago, but no one mentioned it, and no one cared.

But now that the Huaxia Money Village has opened in Xianyang, and there is news that the amount of money deposited and redeemed every day exceeds one million, and it only needs to leak a little between the fingers to eat a lot of money, so many ministers can't sit still.

The Manchu Dynasty civil and military ministers, behind everyone there was a large group of wealthy businessmen to take refuge, otherwise it would be impossible to feed dozens of people and hundreds or even thousands of slaves by relying on land and land alone, and no one would be willing to take refuge without money and food.

The purpose of the business is not only to obtain a stable backer, but also to make the business bigger and make more money.

And Huaxia Qianzhuang's money-making business of empty gloves and white wolves is naturally popular.

Not only do some people want to make money, but in fact, there are many ministers who see the hidden dangers, and if one day the money bank does not redeem the money, it will inevitably cause huge turmoil among the merchants.

For the Manchu relics, who were accustomed to despising merchants, the function of the money village to allow merchants to do business easily and quickly was largely ignored.

Therefore, half a month after the opening of the Qian Zhuang, the situation that should be understood and inquired about was almost clarified, so in the past two days, many ministers in the court began to play and ask the emperor to take an idea to see how to deal with the Qian Zhuang.

"Your Majesty, the matter of Qian Zhuang is actually an idea that the minister came up with in Wancheng last spring, when the minister opened a Qinghe store in Wancheng, because of the daily income and expenditure of a large amount of money, the copper money is expensive and inconvenient to carry, and the trade of grain and cloth is more labor-intensive and material, just met Nanyang Fan's head of the family Fan Yan, this Fan Fan is the descendant of Tao Zhugong Fan Li, and is also a celebrity in my Daqin business community, when the minister discussed this matter with him, he said that the situation encountered by the minister is also a very distressing thing for my Daqin businessman Jia to drive goods and do business, In order to buy and sell goods, it is very unsafe to carry hundreds or even thousands of catties of gold and copper money around, and it also consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, so the minister thought that he could open a money bank in different cities as an intermediary......

Chen Xu took out a set of theories that he had said to Fan Yan in Wancheng and explained them carefully to Qin Shi Huang.