In the middle of January, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, after several consecutive spring rains, the mountains and fields have begun to turn green, the peach, plum and apricot blossoms have also begun to bloom, the ditches and fields that have been silent for a winter have been full of spring, and the large farmland on both sides of the Xiaoqing River also has farmers driving cattle and horses to start spring plowing and sowing.

It is the most beneficial spring of the year, and it is absolutely better than the smoke and willows in the imperial capital.

Xianyang, which is thousands of miles away, due to the barrier of Taiyi Mountain, although the spring breeze is still with the cold, but the whole winter has never been silent and stopped, although the Qinghe Marquis has left in the winter, but his reputation is better than one day, every day people talk about the Qinghe Marquis and the Oriental Road that is now in full swing.

Outside the east gate of Xianyang City, a newly built cement road leads directly to the Weihe Bridge, five miles downstream of the Wei River.

And on the opposite side of the bridge, a wide and flat cement road is speeding up the construction, although it is only half a month, this road has been repaired to a hundred miles away from the Leyouyuan, where there is a Bahe Bridge is also in full swing construction, and across the Bahe River, along the previous Oriental Chi Road all the way to the east, through Weinan, Huayin, Lingbao, through Hangu Pass to Luoyang, across the Luohe Bridge continue to the east, through Xinzheng, the beam through the East China Sea, this road is full of hot road construction scenes, Officials and craftsmen who came and went on horseback and in cars, countless ragged prisoners and Hun slaves, and tens of thousands of civilian farmers were all thrown into this most lively and prosperous area of the entire Great Qin under the command of countless engineering teams, building this cement road that traverses the entire central hinterland of Great Qin.

In the General Administration of Dongfang Road Engineering in Xianyang City, countless officials are busy, and since the official start of construction in January, there are snowflakes of news from Dongfang Road every day.

Due to the impact of road construction, cement factories and steel factories were completed and put into operation one after another in the counties along the way, and these factories needed to be carefully guided by craftsmen and craftsmen from experimental factories, so everyone was busy.

And as the process of the construction of the Oriental Road was revealed by the newspapers one after another, not only the people of Xianyang, but even the emperor and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were stimulated by the spontaneous enthusiasm of the merchants, and some of them could not eat or sleep well.

Because the speed of construction is indeed too fast, a large amount of money and wealth of merchants are smashed down, and the sections of the lot are changing every day, like trees and vines.

A migrant worker is subsidized by three dollars of grain per day, if you don't want food, you will directly pay four dollars, the current grain is forty dollars a stone, one stone and one hundred and twenty pounds, so in addition to the prisoners and slaves have no choice, almost all the people have chosen to ask for money, and some businessmen in order to reduce the trouble are directly five dollars a day for the people, four dollars a day for the women, you can arrange accommodation on the construction site, but do not include food, and solve the problem of eating by yourself, so many fellow villagers come together spontaneously to organize together and arrange for women, children and children to cook, Adult men and women all help on the construction site, and the local government organizes grain merchants to transport grain to the construction site to sell, and there are even people who specialize in baking cakes and cooking porridge.

No matter what kind of way it is, anyway, the result is just like what Chen Xu said at the beginning, to build this road in a purely commercial mode, then businessmen will naturally have businessmen's solutions, in the eyes of all businessmen, anything that can be solved with money is not a problem, as long as money is spent, there will naturally be a large number of people to help solve all the problems encountered.

The first emperor drove out of the city in a six-wheel drive four-wheeled luxury Tianzi car.

This is the third time in half a month that he has gone out of the city to inspect Dongfang Dao.

Under the protection of thousands of forbidden troops and Xuanwu guards, the black flags were densely rolled in the steep spring breeze, and the long guard of honor crossed the Weihe Bridge and went straight to the Le Youyuan.

The 100-mile cement road has been paved, but it is currently in the maintenance stage, covered with weeds, and it has to be sprinkled with water every day for maintenance.

Dozens of princely and princely four-wheeled carriages followed the chariot of the Son of Heaven, looking out along the way through the narrow glass windows that were more than a foot square.

This kind of transparent and pure glass is a new product of the factory outside the city, the output is not large, and it can only be given priority to the use of nobles such as the royal family and princes, and because of the process problems, it cannot be done too big, and it is not safe, and it is easy to break in the bumps, but even so, all the nobles and rich people still rush to ask to make this kind of carriage with transparent glass windows, the price does not matter, the important thing is not to lose face, the commoners compare income and clothes, and the nobles compare luxury and luxury.

Of course, the initiator of these things is Qinghehou, because the glass was developed and manufactured by him in the Academy of Sciences, and it was Qinghehou who first used it.

Looking at the cement road outside the window, all the princes and princes already have a definite idea in their hearts, that is, in this gambling contract, the Marquis of Qinghe will undoubtedly win, because in just half a month, three times to follow the emperor out to inspect, this road is different every day, now from Xianyang City to Bahe has been fully repaired, and then wait for more than ten days This road can be officially passed, so that you will no longer have to turn your body upside down on this dirt road to fall apart when you go out in the future.

It is not uncommon for the emperor to travel to Xianyang, and the construction of this road has countless people and idlers riding horses and donkeys every day to go out to watch, so seeing the emperor's car coming again, a large number of people knelt down along the way to greet, and after the emperor's guard of honor passed, they got up one by one and patted the dust on their bodies to continue to play.

A small and delicate four-wheeled carriage came out of the east gate of Xianyang City under the traction of a healthy horse, and was escorted by more than a dozen tall guards in leather armor.

The carriage came to a stop near the Weihe Bridge, the door opened, and two women got out of the car.

A person about 20 years old, with a beautiful appearance, wearing a simple but very well-fitting white dress, with a thin pink cheek and red face, a picturesque face and a smile with the ultimate charm, is Fan Caiying, the director of Huaxia Qianzhuang.

The other is a girl about sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a colorful skirt, she looks equally beautiful, and her face looks a little similar to Fan Caiying, but she looks a little more youthful and lively.

After the two girls got out of the car, they first picked a few blooming wildflowers in the grass by the Wei River, laughed and played for a while, and then slowly walked to the center of the Wei River Bridge hand in hand.

"Sister, you bring me here every day to see, you miss your brother-in-law so much?" The girl quipped.

"Yes, it's been more than two months since Master Hou went back, and there is no news at all, and now it's spring, and I think it's time to turn around!" Fan Caiying retracted her eyes with a little disappointment, turned around and leaned on the railing to look at the rushing lake under the bridge several feet deep and sighed.

"I have long heard of the name of the Marquis of Qinghe, but I haven't seen my brother-in-law's appearance, sister, tell me, is my brother-in-law very beautiful, tall and handsome, and has a chivalrous style!" The girl stood next to her and said with interest.

"He's ......" Fan Caiying shook his head silently for a long time and said, "Master Hou is not tall and strong, nor handsome, let alone a chivalrous man, he is a person who no one can see through, if he comes back, you must not look like you are with me, be a little more stable, so as not to be hated by him!" ”

"Why, didn't you say that my sister and lady are very kind?" The girl asked puzzled.

"Because you and I are not the same, we are all arranged by the head of the family to take charge of the money village for the Hou Ye, the requirements must be steady and careful, Xianyang is the core of the Huaxia Money Village, there is no room for the slightest sloppiness, you and I will die for a mistake, if you are frivolous and impetuous, it will inevitably make the Hou Ye worry ......"

"I didn't expect the head of the family to arrange you over, Xianyang's money bank is too important, let you control it, even I don't feel at ease!" Fan Caiying frowned slightly worriedly and said.

"Sister, although you are three years older than me, but I have also been learning business with the elders of the family since I was a child, I have been in charge of the money village in Shangqiu for more than a year, and the money village there has been run by me from scratch, and now there are hundreds of thousands of dollars per month, and there has never been any mistakes, sister, don't underestimate me!" The girl said with a little dissatisfaction.

"Hundreds of thousands of dollars a month may be a lot for you, but do you know how much money runs every day in Xianyang?" Fan Caiying's face was even more worried

"How much?"

"When it first opened last year, it was about more than 100,000 yuan a day, and now the daily turnover is more than 1 million yuan, which is definitely not comparable to Shangqiu Qianzhuang, although you and I are sisters, but I want to remind you that if there is the slightest problem with Qianzhuang to make Hou Ye angry, I will drive you back to Dingtao, and once the head of the family knows that you made a mistake and angered Hou Ye, you know the consequences!" Fan Caiying said coldly.

"Sister, you and I grew up together since childhood, how can you marry someone and your elbow is always turned out, no wonder you say that the married girl spilled the water, you are no longer surnamed Fan!" The girl pouted.

"That's right, I'm Chen Fan now, my surname is Chen and not Fan!" Fan Caiying said lightly.

"Hmph, it's not that I want to come, it's the head of the family who arranged for me to come, and I also know what the head of the family means, just to give me to Qinghehou as a concubine like you to befriend him, all say that Qinghehou is a disciple of the immortal family, how to spread his reputation to the world, but I don't like it, where does the world come from? It must be a trickster...... the girl turned angrily and walked towards the bridge.

"Stop!" Fan Caiying's face was pale, she glanced left and right at the pedestrians and cars passing by the bridge, chased after her, grabbed the girl's arm and whispered, "You don't want to live anymore, if this word spreads, the head of the family will definitely kill you!" ”

"If you don't say it, you won't say it, but don't think that I will go to Qinghehou, let alone expect me to go to bed and serve him, the man I Fan Caiwei likes must be a tall and handsome knight, and he can only spoil me one, since Qinghehou has an original wife, he actually married the daughter of the princess and Lord Meng, and he also wants you to eat and sleep with you, I hate this kind of flowery man the most, let me go, I want to go back!"

The girl got rid of Fan Caiying, and then ran down the Weihe Bridge with her skirt and got into the carriage, Fan Caiying had to follow the carriage, and soon the carriage turned around flexibly in place, escorted by a group of guards back to the city.