Although the curtain of conquering the world has slowly opened, as the Emperor of the Eastern Empire who planned all this, Qin Shihuang leisurely took his hardcore brothers to start another imperial parade plan.

From spring to summer, the south is getting hotter, but it is also more colorful.

Departing in March, he walked along Dongfang Road through Weinan to Huayin, climbed Mount Hua and continued to travel east along the way, passing through countless counties and towns, and received officials and gentry as usual. With the admiration and praise of all kinds of praise, looking at the land of the country that was more prosperous than six years ago, the First Emperor was in a good mood and stopped all the way. It took him ten days to walk to Luoyang alone.

The group of young men who were accompanying him went out with the First Emperor for the first time, naturally they were very excited and felt fresh and exciting everywhere.

For other officials who do not go out frequently, this trip is very different from six years ago. Wang Ben died and Li Si died, and replaced by the authority of Qinghe Hou. When he passed by, he saw the prosperous scene of the folk artery and the wealth of people, he had to secretly praise Chen Xu.

Whether it is the flat oriental road under your feet, the folk changes seen and heard along the way, or even the Daqin Metropolitan Times sent by the imperial guards every few days, they were promoted and planned by this left prime minister of the Daqin who was almost inseparable from the First Emperor every day.

Compared to the feelings of the young master and the officials, Chen Xu was full of helplessness and uneasiness.

This seemingly lively parade made him feel a little difficult to judge and control.

At present, can the fate of the First Emperor still be judged according to the direction of his past history?

In mid-April, the parade arrived in Jiangling.

In this plunge plan, the largest inland river port on the Yangtze River has been completed now. The huge ports on both sides of the river, the wharfs that last for several miles, and the tall gantry cranes have shown a perfect outline. The main projects are currently carrying out supporting venue construction and roll-off ship construction. Therefore, the huge shipyards near the wharf also look large in scale. A large number of logs can be seen on the river at any time, and are salvaged from the vast river water by migrant workers and piled up on both sides like hills.

Once the Jiangling River Port is completed, it will become the main hub project connecting Bashu, Jingxiang, Nanyang and other places, in order to revitalize the abundant resources of the huge Chu land. In the future, the energy source will be continuously transported to the southeastern counties through the Yangtze River, and even to the northern and southern counties through huge sea transportation.

The huge project and scale of Jiangling Port made the First Emperor and all the accompanying personnel excited and amazed. In order to inspect the project, the First Emperor stayed in Jiangling for seven days. He was even curious and even went to the match factory and phosphating factory near Jingshan to watch. After seeing the process of making matches, he also became interested in chemistry. During the next inspection, he would occasionally ask Chen Xu for advice and discuss some issues about chemistry.

After leaving Jiangling, at the end of April, the parade arrived at Dongting Lake and took a boat to Dongting again to visit Junshan. Although it was still summer, the First Emperor did not encounter any storms this time. After eating a few big meals in Junshan, he went to inspect Changsha County.

Because it has been conquered outside the Five Ridges for several years, the Yue tribes outside the Central Plains and the Five Ridges have become closer and closer, and the Lingqu, which communicates with Xiangshui and Lishui, has now become the most convenient channel for the two sides to communicate. Therefore, in the summer, the Xiangjiang River has been continuously traveling, and some counties along the way are becoming increasingly prosperous and lively. Officials from Changsha County have also opened a huge trading market in the county town Linxiang. A large number of Lingnan specialties and metal porcelain cloth and salt from the Central Plains gather here to trade, which has formed a huge and lively trading scene. The Miao people, Yue people, Central Plains people, and even merchants from the southeast, west and northeast, such as Bashu, are all looking for their own business opportunities here.

This change in the south made the First Emperor happiest.

The Lingnan Yue tribe was not optimistic about before, but now after conquering, it has begun to slowly integrate into the rule of the Qin Dynasty. At least through the communication of Lingqu, this integration has been seen very smoothly.

In addition, the construction of three seaports in central Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and the construction of sea ship communication will be made, and the exchanges between the Central Plains and Lingnan will be closer. It is only a matter of time before the complete inclusion of Lingnan into the unified imperial governance system of the Qin Dynasty. Moreover, in this close exchange, the Yue tribe will also accept the influence of Central Plains culture like Wu Yue and Yang Yue, and accept the rule of the court, and only by taking over the four barbarians' education and criminal laws can we accept the rule of the court. Only by truly expanding territory is far from enough.

Now the four counties in Lingnan have nominally been under the jurisdiction of the Qin Dynasty, but in fact they have not contributed any taxes to the Qin Dynasty. In order to completely subjugate the four counties, the court still garrisoned more than 200,000 troops. Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo were still leading the army to fight with the Yue tribes who refused to surrender all year round in the deep mountains and forests. The court continued to migrate prisoners into Lingnan every year and integrated with the locals, investing a lot of manpower and material resources to this end.

Although Lingnan is becoming more stable now, the imperial court is still investing money, food and grass every year like a bottomless pit. But now it seems that this continuous investment is worth it. The situation in Lingnan is getting better. Commercial exchanges will make the exchanges between the Yue people in Lingnan and the Central Plains more and more closely, and a large number of books, culture, farming and other experiences in the Central Plains will be spread quickly in Lingnan, allowing the Yue people to quickly get rid of their barbaric life.

After staying in Changsha County for several days, the parade army abandoned boats, took a carriage and horse to Jiangxi County, inspected the porcelain factory in Jingdezhen, and then took a boat from Poyang Lake to the Yangtze River. They went down the road to inspect several river ports such as Jiujiang, Qingyang, Dangtu, and Jinling, and then arrived at Guangling.

Guangling Silk Factory is also one of the key inspection projects that the First Emperor is most looking forward to.

The arrival of the First Emperor's parade team also caused a sensation in this small county town. People from several surrounding counties flocked to Guangling to watch and pay homage to the First Emperor, and most of them actually wanted to pay homage to the Hou of Qinghe even more.

A year has passed, the scale of Guangling Silk Factory has become much larger. After the third phase of the project was completed, the entire factory area has covered more than 300 acres, and dozens of uniform standard factory buildings are arranged in rows, which is amazing in the order. The dense looms and thousands of weaving girls in the factory are also amazed by all those who follow the inspection. The First Emperor even inspected dozens of factory buildings without pulling each other carefully.

This is an integrated large-scale factory that has never been seen before. Compared with the craftsman model that adopted the family heritage, this large-scale factory is not only more visually impactful, but also looks more efficient.

From mulberry silkworm breeding to raw silk procurement to textile silk, everything is incomparable to the scattered scale before.

Seeing is real, hearing is empty.

Although I have known from the memorials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Revenue and the Silk Factory that this silk factory has a huge daily, monthly or even a year, but when I really stand in the factory, I look at the weaving mothers' serious and unchaotic textile process, and hear the sound of the loom cracking and shaving like a tide, the impact of this modern factory on the First Emperor is self-evident.

Now there are 1,500 looms in Guangling Textile Factory. Now it is the time for Chuncoon to be launched in large quantities. Therefore, it is also the busiest time for the silk factory to buy more than 8,000 kilograms of raw silk every day and more than 2,000 pieces of silk every day. In this way, it is 60,000 pieces per month. A few years ago, the silk production of the entire Daqin year was only more than 100,000 pieces.

After obtaining this amazing data during the inspection, everyone except Chen Xu felt their hearts trembled violently.

Chen Xu was not wrong at the beginning. According to this huge output, the restrictions on private silk trading must be relaxed as soon as possible. This will not only meet the demands of the wealthy people for high-end fabrics such as silk, but will also bring a lot of taxes to the court.

From mulberry planting, silk raising, silk reeling, textile processing and sales, the growth of the silk industry will not only solve the income and livelihood of a large number of mulberry farmers, but will also drive the development of many other related industries.

The silk factory not only has ordinary silk, but also has silk of different textures and textures such as silk, yarn, silk, satin, brocade, etc., and also classify and textile silk of different colors or woven for jacquard and woven, thus there are dozens of different products.

For different silk products, the silk factory has also established silk fabric processing factories and developed embroidered and dyed laces, brocade belts, skirt belts, round fans, folding fans, scarves, shawls, tiara scarves, facial scarves, headscarves, handkerchiefs, even calligraphy and painting products.

After seeing these dazzling array of exquisite silk crafts in the factory showroom, both the emperor and the entourage were so envious of them that they could not let go of them, and even Chen Xu was surprised.

After a few face-to-face lectures, it seems that a group of executives in Guangling Silk Factory have indeed put in a lot of effort, and at least they have made great gains in the programming application of jacquard machines. As for the development of these gadgets, it is mainly because Chen Xu wants to enrich the types of products in the Xinqinghe Garden he is decorating.

These exquisite gadgets were actually all drawn by Chen Xu in Xianyang last winter and arranged for someone to send them to the silk factory for processing.

At present, Guangling Silk Factory has good ability to learn from one example and integrate it. Almost every type has a lot of new tricks. Dozens of different products and styles are enough to create a sensation when Qinghe Park opens and attract the attention of a large number of Xianyang people.
Chapter completed!