Chapter 419
Chen Xu walked out of the room with his hands behind his back and prepared to go back to the Academy of Sciences to arrange the newspaper office, but he met Fan Caiying in the corridor.
"Men's daughter Fan Caiying has met the Marquis!" Fan Caiying generously saluted Chen Xufu.
Looking at the beautiful woman wearing a slim-fitting skirt, with a little makeup, a cloud of hair and a slightly slight blush, Chen Xu smiled and stopped and nodded, "Miss Caiying is waiting for me?"
"Yes, when I heard that the Marquis came to Qinghe Garden, Caiying welcomed the Marquis here!"
Nearly a month has passed since Fan Caiying last time to Xianyang, and he has been arranging a special guest suite in Qinghe Hotel. It is convenient for food, accommodation, washing and washing, and hot water and dining are provided 24 hours a day. The servants and maids are also available at any time, so they can be taken care of in every possible way.
Versace, who came with him, didn't want to leave. He stayed there for half a month before leaving reluctantly. The main reason was that the atmosphere in the hotel was so good that he could not only watch dramas for free, but also had endless delicious foods. Before leaving, Chen Xu found that he had gained weight.
The same is true for this beautiful woman in front of me. When I came, I was covered in dust and frost. After eating and sleeping for a month, not only did my skin look rosy and smooth, but my temperament became much more elegant.
However, no matter how beautiful she is, how rich her family is, and how elegant her temperament is, as long as she is a merchant family, she is still a lowly person in Xianyang, full of nobles, princes and nobles, and she dare not make any mistakes or carelessness in front of Chen Xu.
However, after a month, Fan Caiying also understood Chen Xu's nature. This noble marquis is different from any nobleman. It is a bit too approachable. Whether it is a slave, a servant or a manager, he seems to treat everyone equally. As long as someone salutes, he will nod and say hello, without the marquis' airs at all.
"Miss Caiying is asking me for something?" Chen Xu asked with a gentle smile.
"Xianyang Huaxia Money House has been renovated now. Today, the head of the family sent a letter, urging the branches here to open as soon as possible. Therefore, Caiying came to inform the Marquis, "Why don't you see when the money house will open, it's auspicious day?"
"It's good to be finished with the decoration!" Chen Xu nodded and thought, "Then let's go to the first day of the second month. You have arranged everything in the money house in the past two days. I will go to the money house to unveil the plaque in the morning of the next day. I will personally arrange drum music and lion dance to be lively. By the way, you will also arrange for people to spread the flyers. Xianyang has many wealthy businessmen. Your Fan family has the reputation of a business leader in the world. At that time, there are probably many people to support you. This matter does not need to be too low-key. After all, Nanyang County is the first to build pawn equipment this time. Your Majesty is very happy. It just so happens that I can take this opportunity to talk to the emperor about the future development of the money house."
"The day after tomorrow Caiying welcomes the marquis to the money shop! The young woman takes her leave!"
Fan Caiying looked at Chen Xu with deep affection, Yingying turned around and left, her white long skirt moved with the wind, her elegant figure was light and flowing, her slim figure, her soft waist and back, and her swaying buttocks looked infinitely imaginative.
Looking at Fan Caiying's departure back, Chen Xu felt a little moved.
This woman is very extraordinary. She is both tempting and decisive. In less than a month, she has almost done everything from site selection and decoration to recruiting and arranging personnel. She also does things with great ability and speed, without any delay, and is not pretentious. She can be called the stunning beautiful president of the Qin Dynasty.
The most important thing is that this stunning beautiful president is still single and unmarried.
Could it be that the old man Fan Yong deliberately arranged the beautiful women of this family to come to Xianyang to seduce me?
It’s not for Chen Xu to think so.
First, his current status can be said that no one can underestimate the entire Qin Dynasty except the emperor.
Second, as a giant businessman, Fan's status is low. Although he is involved in Chen Xu's business contract, he is different from the past. Whether he was opening a winery or a money shop, Chen Xu was just a liquor. Although he was also an official, he was still a scumbag in the eyes of a wealthy man like Fan.
No matter how bad the status of the Fan family is, they are destined to be afraid of a Li Dian, and even the county magistrates may not be seen by them. The so-called wealth and wealth are not without power. Even Qin Shihuang had to personally receive and reward the widow Qing. If merchants from the six countries did not obey, Qin Shihuang could not kill them all. Therefore, necessary comfort should be still exist. Moreover, if there are no merchants in the world who sell goods, the consequences can be imagined, which is absolutely chaotic, such as copper and iron, grain, and salt cloth. These are almost all relied on merchants to communicate, which made the Qin Dynasty prosperous and stable.
Chen Xu is no longer the Li Dian of the past, but a third-rank official in the processing department of the Houwai Qinghe. He can almost be said to be in charge of the world's craftsmen and craftsmen. The merchants involved in the manufacturing industry in Nanyang are almost all under the control of Chen Xu. Therefore, it is inevitable that Fan will please and curry favor with Chen Xu.
Using a beautiful woman in the family to control the money house in Xianyang, whether intentionally or unintentionally, may want to completely put the money house in Chen Xu's hands, which is also a disguised refuge.
The contract signed in the past was invalid in Fan's opinion. Even if Chen Xu wanted to take the entire money house, Fan would never hesitate at all. This is the absolute suppression of power and status.
"My benefactor, this girl is good, you can be a wife!" On the way back, Yu Wuya followed the side with an iron sword in his arms and said.
Chen Xu rolled his eyes and said, "Why do you always like to pimp? Miss Caiying is really good, but there are so many good women. Do I want to meet one? And you are Miss Shui's senior brother, why do you keep turning your elbows out? Shouldn't you advise me to marry only one Miss Shui and then spoil her wholeheartedly?"
"How could it be?" Yu Wuya shook his head, "My benefactor himself said that men like to wake up and control the power of the world. It is normal for a man to wake up and control the knees of beautiful men. Besides, the more beautiful wife and concubines you are, the better. At that time, the more children are prosperous, according to the emperor's preference for you, it is possible to reward ten or eight marquises. At that time, the family of benefactors are all marquis, and their fiefs are all over the Qin counties. You can also do the power of the court without rebellion. It will be easy to wake up and control the power of the world!"
Chen Xu's face turned black in an instant, and he thrust for a few times and said unhappily: "You are thinking far, you can even think of such shameless ideas!"
"Hehe, Wuya is also the future plan for the benefactor. He is a real man without power and power. You are not like me and my junior sister who only like to live an unrestrained life. I am just afraid that you will be with your junior sister every day, and you will get tired of it after a long time!"
"You don't understand, I won't tell you!" Chen Xu shook his head speechlessly.
"Actually, I think the young lady of the Jiang family was also pretty good at the beginning, but my benefactor didn't like it!" Yu Wuya continued to pimp tirelessly.
The image of a willful girl suddenly appeared in Chen Xu's mind, and then she turned into a face with a calm and empty face holding fruit vinegar. In an instant, her heart felt a little painful, as if something had hit the heart.
Jiang Chuyue, don’t know how she is now?
That was the first impressive girl he met after traveling through time, and every move he made was still fresh in his memory.
Back at the Academy of Sciences, Chen Xu got into his studio, took out the ink ruler and compass, and quickly drew a drawing of the pancake pan and stove, and arranged for people to send it to the factory outside the city, so that Ma Gan and Gongshusheng could help create it quickly.
He promised to help Li Shun's family find a new business. Two women make this kind of pancake fruit without too much cost, nor too much place. A pancake with eggs and roll some sauce with radish and vegetables. If possible, you can add a little oil residue and other meat. It is definitely a delicious snack. If you buy two or three cents of each, it is both clean and hygienic. If you are in a place with a relatively large flow of people, it should not be a problem to earn two or three hundred cents a day, and it is enough to support the family.
Moreover, this tool is very simple and not difficult to make. Xianyang is so big, with a population of millions, and is enough to accommodate hundreds of pancakes and fruits, and to support hundreds of families, which can be regarded as finding a good livelihood for poor families.
After finishing it, Chen Xu came to a separate yard next to the Academy of Sciences, which was the newspaper he prepared.
The courtyard has an area of six or seven acres, with four houses in a row. One of them is the General Affairs Office, which is mainly used for review and distribution, the other is the editorial office, which is mainly used for receiving submissions and screening and reviewing. The largest one is the typewriting room and the last one is the printing room.
At this time, a large row of large turntables for storing characters were placed against the wall. They were densely packed with carved wooden movable characters, and the total number was at least tens of thousands. The number of these characters was different depending on the frequency of use. The number of common characters and punctuation marks was as many as hundreds, while the number of few characters was only one or two or even none. There were also wooden blocks specially polished and uncarved, which could be processed and carved at any time. It only took a few minutes for a skilled craftsman.
These wooden movable types are just transitions. Now he has arranged for the hemp rod, Gongshusheng and several craftsmen who are good at carving to design and cast copper movable types in factories outside the city. However, the casting movable type mold is difficult to develop, so it will take a few more months to succeed. At present, we can only make it first.
There is a wooden table next to each font library turntable, and a square iron plate that is one foot long and half a foot wide is placed on the table. More than a dozen civil servants who read and read are sitting in front of their respective turntables and place wooden movable characters into the iron plate according to the manuscript in their hands. After the arrangement is done, they are handed over to the supervisor of the station to carefully check the manuscript again. After the error is correct, they are taken to the printing room and placed on the stove to bake slightly. After the paraffin below melts, they are pressed flat with wooden boards and handed to the printer to test and test a sample for verification. Then, these iron plates are handed over to the editor to put together according to the designed layout and put them together in a large iron plate that is three feet long and two feet wide and formally printed.
Printing is very simple. Brush ink evenly on the pieced movable type plate, then spread the paper of the right size, and then roll it back and forth twice with a soft wool roller to make each word stick together with the paper. Then remove the paper and you will get a single-sided newspaper. After the ink on the paper is dry, turn it over and print the other side.
In order to make the newspaper beautiful and beautiful, Chen Xu also asked the craftsmen to carve some special patterns and lines of wooden blocks to fill the gaps between the pages.
This situation has been going on for several days. When Chen Xu came in, more than a dozen typesetting workers were focusing on the typesetting. Although there were a lot of people in the room, they could only hear the crackling sound of placing wooden movable types, which sounded extremely quiet.
"Marty!" Seeing Chen Xu coming in with his hands behind his back, all the clerks, craftsmen and managers in the layout room quickly stood up and salute.
"Don't worry about me, you guys continue!" Chen Xu waved his hand and walked around the room, then went to the printing room next to the door, and read it from the editor's office. There were still more than a dozen people in each room who were busy, mainly familiar with the process of newspaper printing.
The General Affairs Office placed seven or eight separate tables and chairs in the offices of later generations, but most of them were still empty, with only one person sitting in front of the table. At this time, he was burying his head in countless bamboo and wood slips and silk books to read records, and copied them on the hemp pulp paper with a pen.
"Mr. Marquis, you are here!" Chen Ping looked up from a pile of bamboo slips, and after seeing Chen Xu, he quickly put down his pen and stood up to salute.
"How is it, how do you feel?" Chen Xu asked with a smile.
"There are too many books, and you can't choose!" Chen Ping shook his head and said with a wry smile.
"Where is a matter of choice? It's just a matter of sequence. This first newspaper must be novel and interesting. Try to make the content more detailed and rich. Try to write more interesting folk news. Don't involve military and political affairs. I have found more than ten people for you and will report it tomorrow. I will leave it to you for a coordinated arrangement. You are knowledgeable and resourceful. A newspaper will naturally not be difficult for you. You also know that once this newspaper is done, it will affect the public opinion trend of the entire Qin Dynasty. Therefore, all manuscripts must be reviewed in person. Do not make any rebellion or riots!" Chen Xu said with a serious expression.
"Don't worry, Marquis, Ping naturally knows the amazing links. In the future, every issue of the newspapers he made will be reviewed before they can be printed and distributed!" Chen Ping said quickly.
Chapter completed!