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Time flies, and it is November in a blink of an eye. The sad atmosphere of Wang Jian’s death has slowly faded from the people, and Xianyang in the cold winter has slowly returned to its former hustle and bustle.

The construction of Chengnan Library is still in full swing.

According to the progress of the project, all earth and stone projects must be completed before spring, and the foundation will be poured after the weather is warm. The buildings and halls affiliated to the Beijing University must be completed before autumn this year, the auditorium must be completed before winter, and the library must be completed before summer next year. Now it is the autumn and winter season. Shaofu officials have arranged a large number of people to go to Taiyi Mountain to log and quarry, and go to the river beach to dig sand and gravel. The cement factory is also firing a large amount of cement and making cement bricks, and preparing a large amount of building materials in advance.

In order to keep the Peking University and the library auditorium in line with the times to install supporting tap water and sewers, Zhang Cang led a group of science and the Ministry of Works, and the officials of the Shaofu were planning the whimsical huge project of Chen Xu, preparing to build a water blocking dam on the upper reaches of the Jing River or tributary, and introduce water into Xianyang through pipelines to provide enough water source and pressure for the entire Xianyang to install tap water.

This huge tap water project is more investment and more complex than building Cuju Commercial Plaza, and the requirements for earthwork and stone projects and mathematical calculations are stricter. However, compared with Cuju Plaza, the craftsmen of Daqin are obviously more skillful in this matter, because building dams and ditches has long been very mature. What we need to do now is to find a suitable dam building location, and then design reasonable water supply and drainage pipes, etc. to allow Xianyang to open tap water. This is a common vision from the emperor to the civilians.

However, although Chen Xu had already developed tap water, and even developed various supporting showers, toilets, bathtubs, sinks, faucets and other related equipment. After many years of improvement, the faucets are almost no different from those in later generations. However, due to water pressure issues, there is no household in Xianyang City that uses tap water, and there is not even an imperial palace. Currently, there are only four or five newly built villas outside the city, including the newly built villas of the princes and princes and ministers. And every day, servants need to use buckets to fill water in it, which is a very fucking tap water.

Although Zhang Cang's actions were very in line with the will of the people, and the entire Xianyang City, from the emperor to the civilians, was full of unlimited expectations, but in Chen Xu's view, if Xianyang City really had to be equipped with tap water, it would never be successful without four or five years. The pipeline alone was a huge problem. Long-distance water supply must ensure that the pressure did not decay too much, and it was necessary to require the pipeline to be sealed and not leaked. However, cement can only be used to make such pipes, and Daqin did not have such superb pipe casting technology at all. As for iron pipes, it is even more impossible to use iron pipes. First, there is no anti-rust casting method in later generations, and second, Daqin's annual steel production is too low and cannot withstand such huge consumption at all.

And another main reason is that there is no money.

Installing tap water is a huge and complex system project. According to Zhang Cang's rough estimate, it requires at least 200 million yuan of investment. This is a huge project second only to Dongfang Road. The court cannot support it. As the left prime minister, Chen Xu will not allow the Qin Dynasty to retreat to the previous state of revitalizing people's power. The commercial ones must be solved by commercial means. Before solving the source of funds, he will not agree to forcibly build tap water, because this is not necessary.

The discussions on tap water are quite lively. Even the emperors were very interested in asking some officials of the Ministry of Works’ Shaofu several times. Chen Xu was naturally asked as the initiator of tap water. However, when the emperor and the civil and military officials of the court heard that it needed at least 200 million yuan in investment, they were all frightened and decided not to care about this issue anymore.

It doesn’t matter if the tap water is not there, anyway, I’ve been used to it for so many years.

What's more, the Shaofu and the court were not enough to make ends meet, and the emperor felt that there was not enough money to spend. According to Chen Xu, it was the court that he should do to make a careful calculation of the Open Source Festival.

In early November, after a month of repeated consideration, the Shaofu Order Zhao Wei and a group of royal families were released after repeated discussions on the final list and resettlement measures for the harem, and after several deletions and revisions by the emperor, they were approved.

Within a few days after the harem was reported, there were traffic in the north gate of the palace, and more than 7,000 palace maids and concubines sent out of the palace. They were all sent to a temporary resettlement site outside the west gate of Xianyang by the imperial guards, and tens of thousands of people gathered here every day, most of which were related households with some relationships in the palace, including kings, princes, nobles, wealthy merchants, and six kings, grand nobles.

Because these women who were sent out of the palace have been living in the palace all year round, most of them can read and read, and many are proficient in various weaving, embroidery, and tailoring clothes, they are enthusiastically sought after by all classes. After all, they came from the palace, and this identity alone is different.

Therefore, every day, as long as the imperial guards are escorted, tens of thousands of people will rush forward, some will be picked up by relatives and friends, some will be bought by wealthy merchants, and some will be snatched by many princes and princes to spend money to redeem them for their noble status. The scene is filled with tears and laughter, and the sound of people roaring and horse neighing comes one after another. Some women will be in a good family and cry and cry. Some old and debilitated palace maids will be sent back to their hometown because no one needs them. If there are no relatives at home, they can only make a living. But no matter what, the lives of these people will be completely changed from then on, and they will no longer have to stay in the deep palace and die alone.

All the severed palace maids and concubines will be regained their nationality. No matter who receives the Shaofu, they will be strictly registered. Whose name is, what is the position in the palace, who is taken in, where to place it, and the specific identity will be registered one by one. The intaker will be asked to press the fingerprint to sign the name to ensure that these women are indeed properly placed and will not be sold as slaves.

Because of the particularity of these women and the scarcity of resources, Chen Xu also went to the back door to ask Zhao Wei to select more than 200 well-educated palace maids who were proficient in weaving and embroidery for him. Some were sent to work in a garment factory opened by the Women's College, some stayed at home to sew clothes and take care of their family, and some were sent to Qinghe Store for help. At that time, they could also be given to their sister Xing'er as dowry. If these women find a man to marry in the future, it will not affect their work.

The palace dismissed seven thousand palace maids and concubines, almost two-thirds of the total number, and countless eunuchs, eunuchs, eunuchs, chefs, musicians, actors and other extra men and palace slaves were also dismissed, with more than 3,000 people. At this point, Qin Shihuang's huge harem was reduced by half, and the size of tens of thousands of people was removed. Even the Shaofu Order Zhao Wei felt incredible, because according to his and a group of royal families, the number was about 5,000 men and women, but the final result was doubled.

Most of the female officials and palace servants Zhao Wei thought they could stay were eventually investigated by the emperor and asked to be removed.

As the eternal emperor who laid the foundation of China, Emperor Qin Shi was heroic and never dragged on what he had confirmed. He especially followed the essence of Chen Xu's theory of invisibility. He drew out two-thirds of his harem with a stroke. He only retained about one hundred concubines according to the Zhou system. The remaining palace maids and female officials who served daily, food and travel were only more than 2,000. So after all the personnel were cut off and placed, Zhao Wei found that the entire harem suddenly became extremely quiet. The many bedrooms and buildings and halls in the past were no longer visible to the past. Even the preserved concubines' bedrooms were much deserted. All the concubines were at a loss, fearing that they would be expelled from the palace by the emperor one day.

But the deserted palace also made Zhao Wei completely relaxed. He cut off tens of thousands of people and saved at least tens of millions of dollars a year, which was no less than supporting an elite pawn of tens of thousands of people. You should know that these palace maids and palace ladies were much better than pawns. Although not everyone could wear silk and satin, the clothes were not ordinary folk clothes. Each piece was made in the harem's special garment workshop. The female officials and palace maids of the garment workshop alone reached a scale of nearly a thousand people, and was almost the largest department in the harem. They consumed countless cloth, silk and needlework every year. Even with such huge expenses, there were still many concubines and even princesses who could only allocate one or two sets of carefully woven and embroidered seasonal dresses every year. Most of the clothes needed to be purchased from the palace with their own money or let their palace maids do it.

In mid-November, as the harem dismissed the palace maids and palace servants came to an end, the city of Xianyang, which was bustling and noisy, slowly returned to peace.

Although Wang Jian’s death was less than 100 days old, and large-scale entertainment activities such as marriage were prohibited by the people, Chen Xu still invited a group of relatives and friends to celebrate the 100-day wedding banquet for his second daughter in a small area at Qinghe Villa.

Although he was a daughter of a concubine, Chen Xu was not favored by one. The 100-day banquet was held very rich, including cattle, sheep, dog, chicken, duck, fish, sea cucumber, deer lips, fungus and mountain delicacies. In addition, vegetables in greenhouses were sown earlier this year, so cucumber, eggplant, carrot, onion, watermelon and other fruits and vegetables were also ripe. More than a dozen chefs and dozens of chefs in Houfu and Qinghe Hotel were also vigorously showing off their skills and making their best delicacies in recent years. Therefore, this wedding banquet had more than 200 dishes, filled with a huge dining table seven or eight feet long in the restaurant. With brand new porcelain and glassware, various grape wines and mulberry wines and even several other fruit wines of taste, the entire Houfu was filled with a strong fragrance that was so strong that it was almost solidified.

Chen Ping, Zhang Cang, Liu Bang, Gongshusheng, Hu Kuan and other friends in Xianyang were all here. Versace, as his uncle, naturally came to celebrate, and also received a letter from his family, Mr. Fan Yan, and bought a gift package worth more than 200,000 yuan. In addition to silk, satin, gold and jade, there was also a stack of cash redemption tickets worth 100,000 yuan, which was considered the intention of my grandfather's family. This intention also scared all the guests participating in the 100-day wedding banquet and shivered, feeling that they could not take the gift.
Chapter completed!