After a year of various planning and promotion, everything in Xianyang is basically on the right track according to Chen Xu's vision.

This year is not long, but it is not short.

The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year.

For people in many other parts of Daqin, it is just another simple alternation of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

But this year is definitely a year of earth-shaking events for the people of Xianyang and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, thousands of years of inheritance in China, in this seemingly short year, the life of Xianyang people began to be rich and colorful, and began to make many people have a feeling of dreaming.

The emergence of the Academy of Sciences, changed the method of steelmaking and ironmaking, the emergence of new horse equipment and steel weapons, so that Daqin has the super force to crush the Huns, this year, Daqin twice attacked and swept the Xiongnu, in one fell swoop to level the two great enemies of the Central Plains princes in the northwest, beheaded the Hun king, beheaded the Donghu king, killed more than 200,000 Hun Hu tribes, a total of more than 400,000 prisoners, and also captured millions of cattle, sheep and horses, this victory not only made the people of Xianyang celebrate, but also let Daqin show the thick muscles to the surrounding Hu, At the same time, it also deterred the misdeeds of the Six Nations who were about to move.

These two wars, with the hype of the newspapers, have been known to the world, even the people of the land of the Six Kingdoms have to admit the powerful force of Qin Shi Huang, and at the same time feel inexplicable pride, after all, this is the victory of the Central Plains against the barbarians, and everyone feels and honored.

Not to mention the advent of newspapers, which completely and completely changed the entertainment life of the literate class.

Then there are the Agricultural College, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the Waterwheel Mill, the Weihe Bridge, the bus, and the Women's College.

Tens of thousands of people are working on this road, and when the construction officially starts after the spring of next year, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of people will be put into this unprecedented construction, and then a flat and straight cement road will go straight from Xianyang to the East China Sea, and it will no longer be just a matter of talking.

Flowing fire in July, Weiyang in August, clothing in September, and New Year's festival in October.

But the grand festivals of previous years seem so understated in Xianyang this year, because everyone almost didn't pay much attention to it.

Their eyes were completely seduced by the Weihe Bridge, waterwheel mills, buses, and other emerging new things, and at present, except for Xianyang, the whole world is talking about the New Oriental Road and the gamble between the Marquis of Qinghe and the Zuo Prime Minister Li Si.

Ordinary farmers and peddlers have nothing to do with this, they are concerned about whether they can find a job on the construction site of Dongfang Road after the beginning of spring, and if they are lucky, they can earn a few hundred dollars this winter, which can definitely greatly improve the living conditions of their families.

In November, it was already winter.

There was a snowfall the other day, and although it had melted, a layer of ice condensed on the muddy ground under the howling cold wind.

The distant mountains are like daisies, the trees near are withered, and the withered grass is swaying in the cold wind.

Two hundred black-armored guards and forbidden troops armed with long crossbows and black banners for hunting, rode horses and escorted more than a dozen carriages along the Dongfang Road out of Xianyang to the Central Plains.

After marrying the fifth princess and Meng Wan, the Marquis of Qinghe returned to his hometown to visit relatives and worship his ancestors, and there were more than 300 guards and domestic servants, and they pulled out a team more than a mile long along the Dongfang Road that was paving the roadbed.

Dongfang Road has existed since ancient times, and it will reach Sanchuan County after passing through Weinan Hanguguan, which originally belonged to the border of Korea.

Hangu Pass has belonged to the Central Plains boundary that was called before, and the Qin State can only be regarded as the border of Xirong, belongs to the bitter cold barbaric land, the Central Plains princes have not been very eye-catching, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places of Han Wei Qilu are the orthodox center in the eyes of the Chinese princes, and it is also the earliest birthplace of Chinese agricultural civilization, and it is the most prosperous and rich place in China since the Shang and Zhou Dynasty, so the towns and villages here are endless, and the Oriental Road is also constantly traveling and traveling.

And now the Oriental Road, is everywhere the voices of the people, along the way a large number of people are in full swing to transport mud, sand, wood and stone, every few miles is a huge construction site, all kinds of road repair materials piled up into a mountain, the construction of the shed is dense, these construction sites are also planted with flags of various colors, on which is written the Oriental Road XX bid section of the engineering headquarters, and along the way there are also many wooden signs, written on the name of the XX engineering team, these recruited prisoners, slaves and people are under the command of the supervisors of the various engineering teams, In the cold wind, wearing thin and tattered winter clothes, he was sweating profusely shouting that the cart was carrying wood, and the cart of sand and gravel was dumped and piled up, and the big logs were sawn into planks.

Along the road, many officials wearing felt hats and rattan hats with the nameplates of the Oriental Road Engineering Administration rode back and forth.

From Xianyang to Luoyang, the thousand-mile-long construction site is full of this busy scene.

The original Oriental Road is the main road leading to the Central Plains of the Qin State, there are no big rivers and mountains blocking along the way, so all the way is built very flat and straight, and they are all built in strict accordance with the standard of fifty steps wide, the center of the road is paved with wooden rails, there are nearly 20 zhang wide on both sides, and a tree is planted every three zhang, but many of them have long died, and the rails are also under the pressure of the carriages that come and go, many have long been damaged, so the whole road ground is muddy, and the ruts are also crooked.

According to the plan, the new Dongfang Road cement road is only two zhang wide, so compared to the road surface of 50 steps close to 30 zhang wide, it only accounts for less than one-tenth, in order to repair the road without affecting the passage of business travel, the roadbed of the cement road only occupies a part of the right side of the road, and the original wooden track and most of the roadbed have not been changed in any way.

Chen Xu took his family and servants along the potholed Dongfang Road all the way up and down, whether it was the convicts, slaves, and farmers who built the road or the commanders of the merchant engineering team who participated in the bidding and construction, they all stopped their work and cheered warmly and even knelt down in the middle of the road to worship when they saw the team with the banner of the Marquis of Qinghe.

When they saw that Qinghehou's convoy was stuck on the muddy road and walked slowly, many of the supervisors of the engineering team instructed the farmers and prisoners to help push the carts, and the oncoming caravans on the road would also take the initiative to park their carriages and horses on the side of the road and wait for the carriages of Qinghe Houfu to pass.

Every time he went to a large construction site, Chen Xu had to get out of the car to observe, and meet with the officials of the local engineering headquarters and the representatives of the businessmen who contracted the bidding section to inquire and talk enthusiastically.

And every time he goes to a county seat, the county magistrate and officials of all sizes will stand on the side of the road in advance to greet Chen Xu for a banquet, and local celebrities have also come to visit, and the most enthusiastic are businessmen from all over the country.

Nowadays, almost all of the richest merchants in Daqin are concentrated along the Oriental Road, all of whom are extremely wealthy families with tens of millions of dollars, and once this new Oriental Road is built, all the merchants involved in it will rely on this road to make a fortune.

Even if you can't get the bid, just get a place to participate in the service station or logistics market, and you will make a fortune in the next 20 years.

These service stations need a large number of commercial houses, post houses, restaurants, etc. to provide services for the past business travel, and the merchants who bid to get the service station cannot undertake all the services, which involves a problem of skill specialization, many things are interlaced such as the mountains will not be at all, will not do, Chen Xu gave them clear guidance in the investment promotion prospectus, that is, the service station as a service platform for the second investment fundraising, and subcontract the various service projects.

In this way, repairing cars, feeding horses, cooking, selling goods, and sleeping have their own duties, and even the same items of many service stations can be contracted along the way to open chain stores, so that past business travelers can enjoy the same services at all service stations.

As a result, with these opportunities for secondary investment, more small bids and construction teams will be formed on the construction site, and the participating businessmen will become small contract foremen.

Originally, there were only about 20 large bids in the new Dongfang Road, and there were only more than 20 businessmen or partnership firms involved, but at present, there are at least 300 small contractors in the Dongfang Road, and more than 2,000 miles of roads have been allocated, and each small bid section is less than 10 miles away.

Merchants of all sizes chased and intercepted Chen Xu's convoy along the way, and sent boxes and cars of gifts, Chen Xu couldn't refuse, because they all said that they were wedding gifts for the Marquis of Qinghe and the five princesses and Meng Wan, so they walked from Xianyang to Luoyang, and the road stopped and walked to inspect and delayed, and walked for ten days, and when they arrived in Luoyang, the accompanying carriages had become more than 30 cars, and many of the cars were all gifts from merchants along the way. (https:)

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