In the next few days, Xianyang entered carnival mode.

After the festival, the commodity trade fair officially began.

Tens of thousands of merchants from all over the country and the caravans of the Liang Dynasty and the Liaoxi Regions were attracted by this commodity fair, plus hundreds of thousands of Xianyang people and tourists from other counties and counties who came to visit, the entire Keju Commercial Square was bustling and lively, everyone lingered in front of hundreds of stalls to enjoy and observe, and the exhibitors also vigorously publicized and distributed leaflets among the crowd, and the various exhibition booths were overcrowded.

Since the official beginning of the fair, there have been large-scale transaction contracts have been signed, and these order contracts with a transaction value of more than 100,000 yuan will be written by the organizing committee on a long curtain that hangs down from the top floor of Keju Field for everyone to watch.

"Congratulations to Jiangxi Porcelain for signing a porcelain purchase and sale contract worth 200,000 yuan with Liaoguo Dongsheng Commercial Bank!"

"Congratulations to Handan Taigu Axle Factory and Dongjun Galloping Carriage Factory for signing a contract for the purchase and sale of axles worth 300,000 yuan!"

"Congratulations to Xianyang Machinery Factory and Hedong Business Alliance for signing a lathe contract worth 700,000 yuan!"

"Congratulations to Jiangxi Tea House for signing a tea contract worth 100,000 yuan with the Liangguo Mission!"

"Congratulations on signing a wool purchase and sales contract worth 450,000 yuan between Daiguo Sheep Leather and Yunzhong Evergreen Woolen Mill!"

"Congratulations to Liaodong Sanjiu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. on signing a ...... with Daqin Health Center No. 3 Pharmaceutical Factory"

With the sound of drums and noisy shouts, one after another, like the congratulatory banners hanging for the opening of the later generations, they continue to fall from the roof of Keju Square in the exclamation and noise of people, and the atmosphere of the trade fair is constantly pushed to a climax.

With the development of the fair, those 100,200,000 contract banners have not aroused much interest in people, and everyone is interested in when the lathe purchase and sale contract with a turnover of more than 700,000 yuan will be broken.

In the midst of the incomparable hustle and bustle, a group of envoys and businessmen from Dawan also followed some Hu merchants from the Western Regions who had long been familiar with Xianyang, lingering in this grand and lively trade fair, carefully watching the dazzling exhibits in hundreds of exhibition booths, and at the same time being in a trance stimulated by this huge exhibition.

Just the population in the noisy bazaar in front of him is already more than the people in their entire Dawan country, and the Hu merchants of the Western Regions who accompanied the trade fair disdained to hit this group of local buns, dancing all the way and shouting: "You don't know what to do, the market in the autumn of last year is called really lively, there are more than 10,000 merchants participating in the exhibition, and the stalls stretched for more than ten miles, and the riverside garden on the entire south bank is full of goods, and the people who come to buy and play are at least more than one million, good guys, it is called a sea of people, We don't have so many goods in the dozens of countries in the Western Regions combined......"

"Then why are there only a few hundred of them this time?" Dawan's envoy couldn't help but ask.

"Qinghehou thinks that there are too many people, too noisy and noisy, he doesn't like it, so he changed it to a commodity fair, and saw that those banners were not ......" Hu Shang pointed to dozens of long banners hanging down from the top floor of the five-story Keju commercial building, "Each transaction on this is more than 100,000 yuan, and transactions worth more than 200 taels of gold can be hung out!" ”

"Two hundred taels of gold isn't much?" A Dawan merchant couldn't help but mutter.

"Hehe, one is indeed not much, but you see how many businessmen here, even if each of the five hundred booths only signs a contract of 100,000 yuan, the total value will exceed 50 million, and it is 120,000 taels in gold......"

"This has just started just an hour, the transaction amount has exceeded more than 5 million yuan, and after the ten-day exhibition, the total value of the purchase and sale contract has exceeded at least 100 million, totaling more than 250,000 taels of gold......"

"It's not to hit you and wait, you Dawan don't have so much money in total, although Dawan Ma is indeed a miracle horse, how many people can really afford it? What's more, in the local area, you can wait until you know how much a horse is worth, and you can buy several horses for a hundred gold coins......"

A group of Dawan people were all shocked, and their faces turned blue and white for a while, but they had to admit that what Hu Shang said was indeed the truth.

Compared with Daqin, Dawan is a scum.

Not only that, even if Great Qin is compared with Great Xia and the rest of the body, it is more than a hundred times more prosperous and rich, just porcelain, silk, glass, fine wine, steel utensils, four-wheeled carriages, these have never been heard of before, if it were not for these merchants in the Western Regions, they would never have known for the rest of their lives that Great Qin in the East would be rich and prosperous to such an extent, compared to the country they live in, Great Qin seems to be in another world.

If nothing else, the huge and strangely shaped Keju commercial plaza in front of them was enough to shock the world, they had never seen such a magnificent and magnificent tall building, it was almost like the gods had built it.

And even if this building is so magnificent, but in the eyes of Xianyang and Daqin people, it seems that it is not enough, people have long been accustomed to calmly, just a place to hang out and play on weekdays, now more tall buildings are being built everywhere inside and outside the city, the legend is to use a kind of heavenly god spell that turns mud into stone, with fine iron that cannot be bought in the Western Regions and the West as the bones, and the mud and sand as raw materials can be easily built up to towering buildings......

Since arriving in Xianyang, this group of Dawan people has completely died down, every day is like a group of Erha through the streets and alleys of Xianyang, eating food, visiting the Qu Garden, taking the bus, watching dramas, but also to learn Chinese, wear Central Plains costumes, and strive to dress themselves like a Da Qin people, otherwise they will be despised when they go out, and they will be scolded for eating noodles Don't dirty the seats!

To be honest, as a group of businessmen and officials who are well-known in Dawan, this group of Dawan people is aggrieved to suffer such treatment.

But I had to carefully accept the advice of the familiar Hu Shang in the Western Regions, the more low-key and humble the better, otherwise I would be beaten when I went out.

Because the Great Qin people are very good at fighting, and there are many hooligans on the street, they especially like to bully Hu people from other places, and it is useless to sue officials, I heard that the lieutenant forbidden army also likes to beat Hu people, because they don't understand what Hu Shang said, and they always think they are scolding.

So the Hu people of the Western Regions and the Liang Kingdom of the Liao Dynasty learned to be obedient, worked hard to learn Chinese and learned the customs of the Great Qin, and tried to turn themselves into a Central Plains person, so that they could be less bullied, because compared with the Great Qin, their own country is indeed too frustrated, frustrated to the point that they are embarrassed to say their names, even if they say it, most Qin people do not know, if you also explain that your country is only 350,000 people, it will make them laugh off their big teeth.

Although the Dawan people are so much stronger than the countries of the Western Regions, they now have to start learning from Hu Shang and moving closer.

After all, a population of two or three hundred thousand will still make Daqin laugh off his front teeth, and when he first came to Xianyang to meet the First Emperor, the appearance of the First Emperor flipping through the national book with two fingers of disgust also made them remember it vividly.

This kind of contempt has a heritage and origin, because the First Emperor took the lead in despising it, and the whole and bottom collectively despised it, and these countries called barbarians were at the top of the chain of contempt.

Keju Square is bustling outside, and the three-story shopping mall is also lively, although the merchants of the mall do not participate in this bulk commodity fair, but they can take advantage of this event to carry out large-scale discount promotions, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people, the entire shopping mall is crowded, and all kinds of goods are also selling hot.

In front of the Qinghe shopping mall, a large group of young ladies wearing women's college uniforms are helping to distribute colorful flyers.

The leaflets were printed with advertisements for perfumes, soaps, and alabaster creams, and there was also a platform in front of the door, on which were placed some beautifully made soap boxes and dozens of soaps of various colors, as well as more than a dozen glass vials of various colors, with the brand label of potpourri, containing a snow-white cream, and several sweet-looking young women in short skirts were introducing the use and effects of soap and alabaster to a group of men and ladies in gorgeous costumes.

With the advent of spring, the flowers all over the mountains have bloomed one after another, although it has now entered the end, but the refining of floral essential oils is more and more rich and diverse, and the output is also sufficient to guarantee, and with the refined essential oils from all over the country have been sent back to Xianyang, Chen Xu let a group of responsible priests and stewards of Huayu Palace begin to reduce the production of perfume, large-scale production of soap, and in the process of continuous production of soap, now the alabaster has also been successfully developed, and the production began to be marketed after giving it to Chen Xu to experience.

At present, the main raw materials of soap are still vegetable oil and animal fat, although the raw materials are not enough to cause the output to go up, but it can still make hundreds of soaps and hundreds of bottles of alabaster every day, the ordinary soap that was originally intended to be priced at 20 yuan has not yet started to be produced, because under this output, even ordinary people can not buy it, so Chen Xu let people make all the high-grade soap, taking this opportunity to make more money.

In addition to the fully transparent color soap made of vegetable oil, there are also translucent soaps made of animal fat, which also have several colors, and these soaps are added with enough floral essential oils to ensure the durability of the fragrance after bathing, this cheap and clean soap will inevitably replace perfume as a shower gel, and perfume will become a real top luxury item, according to Chen Xu's idea, is to use the best essential oil to make perfume, with inferior essential oil to make high-grade soap and alabaster, Use the worst essential oils to make regular soaps.

Generally speaking, with the increase in the production of essential oils, by the end of the year, after the purchase of a large number of black tree seeds, the output of ordinary soap will definitely be produced in large quantities on the market, and Chen Xu has arranged for officials and students from the Academy of Sciences and the College of Agriculture to go to the south and even the counties of Bashu to investigate the growth area of the black tree tree, and set up a nearby factory to purchase black tree seeds for tree wax refining, and then choose a place to build a soap factory.

And with the rapid development of the maritime industry, China's economic center will be rapidly transferred to the coast, when silk, textile, chemical, tea, porcelain and other countless industries will develop rapidly in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangbei, Xianyang and Luoyang, these Central Plains cities will soon be surpassed, the status of the political center will be more important, but the status of the economic center will be significantly reduced.

This process has begun to appear under the promotion of Chen Xu intentionally or unintentionally, and now a Jiangxi porcelain factory has led to the rapid development of the porcelain industry south of the Yangtze River, seven or eight porcelain factories have appeared, a large number of porcelain merchants come and go to the north and south of the Yangtze River, boats, cars, and horses are endless all year round, so that the Jingdezhen of the later generations is the center, and the Xiangshui River with Poyang Lake directly to the south of the Wuling Mountains and the Yangtze River shipping trade to Wuzhong have begun to develop rapidly, and the Yangtze River, which was mainly used as a grain and salt waterway, has been very prosperous. Ordinary boats and even large and small sailboats on the river are coming and going, and there is already a lively scene of Yellow River shipping.

In addition to opening porcelain, the Jiangnan Zhudi is rich in tea, Shui's Tea House, Jiangdong Tea House and other several tea merchants are in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in many counties and counties to build tea workshops to collect tea and make tea and even grow tea, and the output of mulberries in the south of the Yangtze River is huge, in recent years, more than ten wineries have appeared one after another, and also turned the useless mulberry fruit into agricultural products that can be sold for money, and now in Suzhou and Hangzhou to build a large-scale silk factory, in order to greatly promote the development of silkworm breeding and silk industry along the Yangtze River, and due to the warm and humid climate in the south, The output of grain and hemp spinning is also doubling, and a large number of hemp spinning factories will appear in a few years, relying on the dense waterway shipping in the Yangtze River basin, a large number of commodities can be easily and quickly transported to the coast, and then radiate to the entire southeast coast through sea ships.

This is an integrated and interconnected economic development system.

From planting and breeding to factory production to shipping logistics, all of them are indispensably closely linked.

After so many years of layout and development, the land of Jingchu and Wuyue, which has always been regarded as barbarians by the Central Plains Dynasty, will soon flourish, if Chen Xu's cane sugar is produced, Minyue and the Pearl River valley will also be divided up by the swarming merchants, and the cultivation of sugarcane and refining cane sugar will become a pillar industry in the south, which will not only provide sufficient economic resources for the soldiers stationed in Lingnan, but also will soon integrate Baiyue.

The fastest integration of human civilization, apart from war, is commercial exchanges, and in ancient times, the contact between various tribes was also through these two ways.

And this principle applies to the entire civilization of the earth.

Invasion by force and commercial expansion will be the two fists of Great Qin's conquest of the world in the future, and under these two methods, the oriental culture will also spread to every corner of the earth.