In the restaurant, Chen Xu and Ying Shiyan, Meng Wan, Xing'er, and Yu Ji sat around a long dining table, on which were placed several pottery plates, and in the plate were steaming black pepper steaks, each holding a knife and a bamboo fork, and they were eating the steak happily like Chen Xu.

There is also a small table next to it, four little maids in spring, summer, autumn and winter are crowded together, and they are also eating a steak, this is the preferential treatment of the personal maids, what the host eats, they eat, and they are full, and the reason why they are not full at the moment is that the steak is indeed too little, not enough to distribute.

Everyone was delighted to eat because they had never eaten such delicious beef before.

Especially the two little girls, one of them ate half of the piece and was not satisfied, and the two knives and forks began to deal with the second piece, and their mouths were full of pepper sauce.

And after Chen Xu began to be excited, he began to eat the pure-tasting steak slowly and methodically, but he began to become a little interested, and even absent-minded.

Without Yu Wuya, a big foodie, the entire Hou Mansion was not lively to eat, and even Wukong didn't come back with He after returning to Xiaohe Village, and he didn't know which mountain to go to find the female monkey.

Without the gentleness of the water and the boundlessness of Yu, Chen Xu felt that his heart was empty and he couldn't lift his spirits.

"Husband, eat it quickly, you just said that the steak should be eaten while it is hot, and the meat will not taste good if it gets old after a long time!" Ying Shiyan, who was sitting next to her, put down her knife and fork and said softly.

"Well, you really have to eat it while it's hot!" Chen Xu came back to his senses and began to eat heavily.

Accompanied his family to eat the delicious steak, Chen Xu invited the housekeeper after drinking tea and resting, and instructed him to arrange for someone to go to the city early tomorrow morning to buy dozens of catties of good fresh beef, and at the same time let people take the invitation to invite Li Xin, Jiang Hu, Jiang Bu and others to eat tomorrow's luncheon, and in order to make the atmosphere more lively, he arranged for Xu Fu, Chen Ping, Yang Kun, Yingbu, Sun Shujiong, Huangfu Que, Ma Gong, Gong Sheng, Hu Kuan, and Fan Caiying and Fan Caiwei The two sisters also invited to the banquet, preparing to open a black pepper steak party.

In order to make this steak feast more high-end and elegant, Chen Xu also specially painted a metal knife and fork style for people to send to the factory, arranged for hemp rods to be built quickly, and also arranged for people to go to the glass workshop to retrieve a set of specially customized tall glasses for drinking wine.

After arranging these, Chen Xu went into the study in the afternoon, took out the globe that had been sealed for more than a year, and began to carefully recall the situation in the Western Regions and the general situation in West Asia and Europe during the Qin and Han dynasties, and marked the approximate locations of the Rest Empire, the Mauryan Empire, the Macedonian Kingdom, the Roman Republic, Egypt, and Greece.

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Xu ordered someone to find a fine linen cloth and decided that it would be better to prepare a plane map of the earth.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have believed that the sky is round.

Since Qin Shi Huang minted half a tael coin, he has already shown his ambitious ambition to unify China.

The circle of the sky, the square of the earth, the four seas of Kyushu are the land of Great Qin, and the coins of the six countries can be abolished.

Therefore, if Chen Xu rashly held a globe and told the emperor that the earth is round, the sky is not square, and human beings are just living on a small ball floating in the infinite universe, the explanation is naturally inexplicable.

Otherwise, where is the heavenly realm? Where are the immortals?

Hence this ball...... I have to think about it carefully, and wait until one day the earthlings finally discover that the earth is round, so that when you look at the globe again, you will suddenly realize that Qinghehou is really a disciple of the immortal family, and he has long known that the earth is a ball.

Since he intends to say it, Chen Xu is going to make it clear this time, and tell the pattern around Great Qin and the current situation of the earth at one time, as for Qin Shihuang's belief or disbelief, it is not too big a problem, because it is not difficult to verify, except that the American continent is more difficult to reach, Asia, Africa and Europe are basically connected together, and in history, a hundred years later, Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, not only brought back the details of the Western Regions, but also gradually began to carry out commercial activities with West Asia and Europe, opening up the famous Silk Road, Expanding the horizons of the Chinese to more than half the world, the gold coins of Rome and the black slaves of Africa began to appear in the vision of the Chinese.

After half a day of busyness, a huge world map eight feet wide and two feet long basically has a rough prototype, and it can only be a rough prototype, because in many places Chen Xu also drew it with vague memory, and even many of them are wrong, but these are not important, the important thing is to let Qin Shi Huang know that the land is vast, and the Central Plains is just a corner.

The world is so big, and there are so many places to see.

The advantage of broadening his horizons is to let Qin Shi Huang know how narrow and ignorant it is to focus on the Central Plains and compete with the bitter common people.

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Qinghe Hou invited guests, and the people who were invited were naturally honored, so early the next morning, Chen Xu had just finished breakfast and was about to hide in the study to continue to improve his world map, when the doorman suddenly came to report that Yinshan Hou Jianghu and the eldest chief Jiang Bu came to the banquet.

Chen Xu looked at the sun that had just risen speechlessly, sighed and went out to greet him.

Nima is just eating lunch, is it necessary to be so active, this is only in the morning, if it is not for the recent busyness, usually at this time I am still sleeping.

"Haha, I heard that Master Hou had a treat yesterday, and Amber didn't sleep well all night when he was excited, so he rushed to the banquet early!"

Seeing Chen Xu coming to greet him in person, Jiang Hu, who had a black beard and a white face, wore a martial crown and a brocade robe, laughed and greeted him.

"Jiang Bu meets the Marquis of Qinghe!" As Jiang Hu's deputy general, and the general who has always worn the same pants as Jiang Hu, Jiang Bu followed and hurriedly bowed.

"Haha, the two generals are exempt!" Chen Xu instantly returned the salute with a smile on his face.

Jiang Hu and Su Jiao are both military generals, so they go out more neatly, riding tall Hun horses, and the entourage does not bring much, only seven or eight personal guards, Chen Xu asked the welcoming steward to take the two guards to arrange refreshment reception, and he personally led the two newly rising generals to talk and laugh and walk to the living room.

In the living room, the guests and hosts sat down, the maid served fragrant tea and sweets and pastries, Chen Xu inquired in detail about the war last autumn, and Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu also talked about it carefully next to each other.

"Hou Ye is a clever calculation, the big lake is indeed a treasure land of feng shui, surrounded by fertile fields and thousands of miles of abundant water and grass, coupled with the Yin Mountain to block the wind and sand in the northwest, not only suitable for grazing cattle, sheep and horses, and the soil is fertile and extremely suitable for cultivating grain, now the county is set up as a county, from the border four counties to send 20,000 soldiers to Shushuo Fang County, and from the Central Plains to migrate 30,000 families of prisoners to repair the canal and reclaim the wasteland, plus there are 50,000 captured Huns, now less than half a year has passed, the day before yesterday the dynasty heard that the reclamation has reached 30,000 hectares, the end of spring sowing crops are growing gratifying...... ”

The three of them chatted while drinking tea, and after talking about the war against the Xiongnu, Jiang Hu sighed with emotion when it came to the current form of the northwest.

"Now the Xiongnu and Donghu in the northwest have all been beaten by my Great Qin, just like Hou Ye said at the beginning, there will be no war in the northwest in the next few decades, I waited for the class to return to the dynasty, but I heard that Hou Ye has married and returned to Nanyang to visit relatives and ancestors, His Majesty rewarded me with countless money, grain, real estate and real estate, Xianyang and set off thunder fireworks to celebrate three days and three nights, but because Hou Ye was not there, I waited for some gratitude but could not confide in Hou Ye, every day drinking and feasting were a little listless, until I heard that Hou Ye came back, I felt a lot more steady!" Jiang Bu smiled and helped.

Jiang Bu turned out to be a lieutenant under Jiang Hu, after the sneak attack on Hebei in the spring of last year, he killed the head Mandanyu, and his military merits were tired to the great top, and after a big war in the autumn, his military merits were promoted by two levels to reach the length of the Dashu, and the distance between the Dashu and the Guannei Hou was only one level different, it can be said that as long as there is another big war of the same kind, and an enemy of the same level can be killed, the feudal marquis must be proper.

It's a pity that the battle in the northwest is over.

As the saying goes, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, no military general doesn't want to be a marquis, once a marquis is entitled, he can be a wife and a son to pass on the marquis to his descendants, as long as Daqin does not fall, he will be the top nobles of Daqin for generations to come.

But if you can't be a marquis, the title of the eldest concubine can't be hereditary, and when Jiang Bu hangs up, the children and grandchildren can still inherit real estate and land, but if they don't have a title, they can only be a common people, and if they lose their shade, the family will inevitably begin to decline soon, and the status of the nobility will plummet.

And if Jiang Bu wants to go further, it is not enough to hug the emperor's thighs, because the emperor's two thighs are already full of people, and even every hair is full of the princes and nobles of Daqin, so it is very important to hug the thighs of the Qinghe Marquis, as long as he is favored by the Qinghe Marquis, the future will also be just around the corner.

The most important thing is that before the last war, Chen Xu alone revealed a great opportunity for Jiang Bu and Jiang Hu, that is, through the Western Regions, Jiang Bu and Jiang Hu, who were stimulated by this huge doughnut, couldn't sleep well, but they couldn't spread it everywhere with a big mouth, and both of them were about to hold back prostatitis.

Rushing to the banquet so early today in front of others, naturally it is not just to occupy a good seat to eat in advance, but to have other plans.

And Chen Xu naturally knew the plans of the two.

"My Great Qin is glorious for his military exploits, and the officials of the two generals of the two wars are already extremely prominent, and it is not difficult to go further, but as Ben Hou said last time, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run......

"Report, Master Hou, Di Daohou is coming to the banquet!" Just when Chen Xu was ready to talk to Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu about his next plans, the doorman strode in to report.

Chen Xu had no choice but to stand up, tidy up his clothes and go out to greet him.