The hot and rainless July has come to an end. Chen Sheng was sad and happy.

In the previous assassination case, Chen Sheng did not take a stern counterattack against Li Shen. However, because of this accident, Ying Huo and Han Dongqing supported Chen Sheng even more. Chen Sheng's political actions were carried out more smoothly. Especially Ying Huo, he did not raise any objections to Chen Sheng's governance plan at all, and if he needed help, Ying Huo was also very happy, so the operation efficiency of the Fujian Central Government was very high, and the decree was uploaded and issued, and the implementation was very fast.

As for those killer organizations hired by Li Shen, Chen Sheng also quietly asked Tian Peng to use the power of Heishui Pavilion to investigate. However, the power of the Heishui Pavilion in Minzhong is not very strong, and most of the members are novices who were formed after Tian Peng arrived in Minzhong. Moreover, some of them have been dispatched to various parts of Lingnan, and they have been left behind weakly, and they have not been able to investigate anything particularly useful for three years. However, Tian Peng had already mentioned this matter to his superiors, and now the Black Water Pavilion had noticed the existence of this mysterious killer organization and had taken certain actions. The news that came back from Heishui Pavilion had this one: The killer organization had issued a general order not to accept any more assassination business about the county guards of Minzhong County.

Hearing the news from the Black Water Pavilion, Chen Sheng smiled heartily. It seems that Ah Xiu is quite reputable, but he can easily get the killer organization to give up the assassination of himself, and this Ah Xiu's ability is not small.

Due to the severe drought and the fierce sun, the output of the salt field is extremely high, and in just one month, nearly one million stones of coarse salt have been sunburned. As soon as the coarse salt came out, it was snapped up by merchants from all over the country. The paper mill has also reached the level of qualified production of several types of paper and has begun to put into production. After the first batch of paper was dried, Chen Sheng took a batch of tributes from Minzhong County and returned to Xianyang. The other part was delivered to the Ling family, allowing the Ling family to promote this new type of carrying vehicle in Xianyang.

As the largest economic and cultural center in the country, Xianyang has countless wealthy businessmen and scholars, and there are countless people who can afford to consume paper. So when some of them were given away for free, a large number of orders were quickly received. The cost of making a knife of paper is only more than ten dollars, but the price is one gold. Although the price is high, buyers are rushing to it, and the production for the rest of the year is estimated to be insufficient to cope with this huge purchase. In less than a month, I received an order of nearly 100,000 gold. This sales amount shocked Chen Sheng.

But after thinking about it carefully, Chen Sheng was relieved. How many palace nobles lived in Xianyang, plus the captured sons and grandsons of the six kings, as well as high-ranking officials and nobles, and the extremely wealthy businessmen who migrated from all over the world, Xianyang can be said to be a place of gold. In addition to the fact that paper is indeed more convenient than bamboo slips, ordering paper in this way is in line with the comparison mentality of these aristocratic masters. Of course, after a while, after the promotion of paper use, this kind of sales is unlikely to appear. Chen Shengben intends to promote the use of paper on a large scale in the community. However, the production volume is far from keeping up, and the current profits are too amazing, not to mention that he is reluctant, even Ling Suyun will not agree to his large-scale production of paper. Chen Sheng decided, it is better to earn a sum of money first and then talk about other things, firstly, he really needs a large amount of money to support, and secondly, the Ling family's investment must also be seen by people to see the return, otherwise even if Ba Qing supports Ling Suyun and him again, it is impossible to burn money for a long time without seeing any return. In order to stabilize the confidence of the Ling family, Chen Sheng also had to consider the issue of income.

With the support of the income of the salt mill and the paper mill, Chen Sheng's financial pressure has suddenly decreased. The mining of silver was on the agenda. Wu Shaohai, who had a close relationship with Li Shen, sat on the cold bench for a while, and was also approached by Chen Sheng. The mining rights of the three silver mines in Minzhong County were handed over to Wu Shaohai. However, the conditions proposed by Chen Sheng were also very harsh, but Wu Shaohai, who was forced to have too deep a relationship with Li Shen before and was implicated to a certain extent, did not dare to bargain at all, and signed according to the contract drafted by Chen Sheng, which only accounted for 30% of the income from the silver mine, but had to take care of all mining matters. Chen Sheng didn't dare to be too corrupt, and used Ling Suyun's name to occupy 20% of the dry shares, and also left a little share for Ying Huo, Han Dongqing and others, so that the interests were evenly distributed. The rest was all allocated to the pockets of the imperial court, and the main part of the Shaofu was the majority. Neither the imperial court nor the emperor would have much opinion on this ratio. Anyway, silver is a lump of dirt in the land, and only mined can be exchanged for money. The imperial court has not yet thought too far ahead. In the foreseeable future, everyone's pockets will be bulging.

With the tense battle situation on the Lingnan side, Tian Peng and Yang Yan did not stay in Fujian for long, and led the members of the Heishui Pavilion into various parts of Lingnan to spy on the military situation for the Qin soldiers who were fighting increasingly hard. Since Tu Ju was killed, the resistance of the rebels in Lingnan has become stronger and stronger. Although the Qin army was brave, it had to pay a heavy price for every step it took, and the day of victory was far away. Chen Sheng had already received a notice from the county governor's mansion that if necessary, he needed to collect grain and grass from Fujian, which made Chen Sheng a little worried.

There is not much arable land in Minzhong County, coupled with the severe drought, the grain has to rely on the coarse salt from the salt field to exchange it with the salt merchants in various places, how can we collect grain from Fujian? As for the source of the soldiers, Chen Sheng is not too worried, during his tenure, there were 30,000 troops in Minzhong County, and recently because of the construction of river defenses, the strong men and men have concentrated 50,000, and they can go to the battlefield with only simple training. There is no need to force them to serve as soldiers, and many are willing to join the army in order to eat. It's just that the combat effectiveness is difficult to say.

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After a period of selection, Li Si finally sorted out the plans for the construction of the gallop collected from all over the country, and selected the five most representative plans to submit to the emperor. Among these five plans, there are rail proposals from Minzhong County and Xu Wugui.

Some time ago, the assassination of the county guard of Minzhong County was reported by Han Dongqing, and his son Li Shen was also impeached. The impeachment document was murderous, and it even implied that Li Shen was the mastermind behind the scenes. Li Si was scared and sweated coldly. Fortunately, the emperor did not express any opinion on this matter, and Li Si was not only worried, but also lucky. Then he wrote a letter and scolded Li Shen fiercely, telling Li Shen'an to keep to himself, stop making trouble, and repair the relationship with Chen Sheng. If something else happens, it will be his Li family who will be destroyed. The emperor didn't speak, maybe he just wanted Li Shen to make some more trouble, so that he could tear his face and kill people. In order to show goodwill, no matter what the plan submitted by Minzhong County, he had already selected it for the emperor to choose as soon as possible.