In the next few days, Xianyang entered carnival mode.

After the Shangsi Festival, the commodity trading fair officially began.

Tens of thousands of merchants from all over the country and caravans from the western regions of Liao and other countries in Liang Dynasty were attracted by this commodity trade fair. In addition, hundreds of thousands of Xianyang people and tourists from other counties who came here, the entire Cuju Commercial Plaza was bustling and bustling, and everyone lingers in front of hundreds of stalls to appreciate and observe. The exhibitors also vigorously promoted and distributed flyers among the crowd, and the exhibition sheds were crowded.

Since the trade fair officially started, large-scale transaction contracts have been signed. These order contracts with transaction value of more than 100,000 yuan will be written by the organizing committee on a long curtain of five meters long and hang down from the top floor of Cuju Field for everyone to watch.

"Congratulations to Jiangxi Porcelain for signing a porcelain purchase and sales contract worth 200,000 yuan with Liao Kingdom Dongsheng Trading Company!"

"Congratulations to Handan Taigu Axle Factory and Dongjun Chicheng Carriage Factory for signing a axle purchase and sales contract worth 300,000 yuan!"

"Congratulations to Xianyang Machinery Factory for signing a lathe contract worth 700,000 yuan with Hedong Shanglian!"

"Congratulations to Jiangxi Tea House and Liangguo Mission for signing a tea contract worth 100,000 yuan!"

"Congratulations to Dai Guo Sheepskin for signing a wool purchase and sales contract worth 450,000 yuan with Yunzhong Evergreen Wool Textile Factory!"

"Congratulations to Liaodong Sanjiu Pharmaceuticals for signing the third Pharmaceutical Factory of Daqin Health Center..."

With the sound of drums and noise, one by one, like congratulations hanging from the opening of later generations, it kept falling from the roof of Cuju Square in the midst of people's exclamations and noises, pushing the atmosphere of the trade fair to climax.

With the development of the fair, those contract banners of 100,000 and 200,000 yuan could no longer arouse people's interest. Everyone is interested in when the lathe purchase and sales contract with a transaction volume of more than 700,000 yuan was broken.

In the extremely noisy and bustle, a group of envoys and merchants from Dayuan also followed some Western Region Hu merchants who were already familiar with Xianyang, lingering in this grand and lively trade fair, carefully watching the dazzling array of exhibits in hundreds of exhibition sheds, and were also stimulating by this huge exhibition.

The population in the market, which was crowded with people, was already more than the entire Dayuan country. The Hu merchants from the Western Regions who accompanied the trade fairs disdainedly attacked the buns of local buns, and shouted: "You have no idea when you wait. The market in autumn last year was really lively. There were more than 10,000 merchants participating in the exhibition, and the stalls were arranged for more than ten miles. The entire riverside garden on the south bank was full of goods. At least one million people came to buy and play. Good guy, that was so crowded. There were not so many goods in dozens of countries in the Western Regions..."

"Then why are there only a few hundred schools of thought this time?" The envoy of Dayuan couldn't help asking.

"Qinghe Hou thought there were too many people. He didn't like it. So he changed it to a commodity fair. Seeing that there were no banners..." Hu Shang pointed to dozens of long paintings hanging down on the top floor of the five-story Cuju Shopping Mall. "Every transaction on this is more than 100,000 yuan, and transactions worth more than 200 taels of gold can only be posted!"

"There is not much gold for two hundred taels?" a Dayuan businessman couldn't help but mutter.

"Hehe, there are indeed not many ones, but you see how many merchants there are here. Even if each of the five hundred booths only sign a contract of 100,000 yuan, the total value will exceed 50 million yuan. If it is exchanged for gold, it will be 120,000 taels..."

"It's just one hour before, and the transaction amount has exceeded more than five million yuan. After ten days of exhibition, the total value of the purchase and sales contract exceeded 100 million yuan, totaling more than 250,000 taels of gold..."

"It's not a blow to you. You Dayuan don't have that much money in total. Although Dayuan horses are indeed a god-horse, how many people can really afford them? Besides, in the local area, you can clearly see how much a horse is worth. You can buy several horses with a hundred gold coins..."

A group of Dayuan people were all blown away, their faces turned pale, but they had to admit that what Hu Shang said was indeed the truth.

Compared with Daqin, Dayuan is just a scumbag.

Not only that, even compared with Daxia and other countries such as Dahu, Shindu Anxi, the Qin Dynasty was more prosperous and rich than 100 times. It was never known to be porcelain, silk, glass, wine, steel, and four-wheeled carriages. If it weren't for these Western Regions merchants, they would never have known that the Qin Dynasty in the East would be so prosperous. Compared with the country they lived in, the Qin Dynasty seemed to be in another world.

Not to mention anything else, just the huge and weird Cuju Commercial Plaza in front of you is enough to shock the world. They have never seen such a magnificent and magnificent tall building, just like a god built.

Even though this building is so grand, it seems to be just a little bit in the eyes of Xianyang and the people of Daqin. People have long been accustomed to being calm and just a place to stroll and play on weekdays. Now taller buildings are being built everywhere inside and outside the city. Legend has it that it is a magic spell that turns mud into stone. It is used to use fine iron as muscles and bones that cannot be bought in the Western Regions and the West. It can be easily built with mud and sand as raw materials...

Since arriving in Xianyang, these Dayuan people have completely stopped. Every day, they just walk through the streets and alleys of Xianyang like a group of Hahazi, eating delicious food, shopping in the Quyuan, taking buses, watching dramas, and also learning Chinese and wearing Zhongyuan clothing, striving to dress themselves like a Daqin person. Otherwise, they will be contempt when going out, and they will be scolded and not dirty when they go to eat noodles!

To be honest, as a group of businessmen and officials who are well-known in Dayuan, these Dayuan people are depressed in their hearts to be treated like this.

But I had to carefully accept the suggestions of the familiar Hu merchants in the Western Regions. The lower the key, the more humble the better, otherwise I would be beaten when I went out.

Because the people of the Qin Dynasty are very good at fighting, there are also many hooligans on the streets, they especially like to bully Hu people from other places, and it is useless to sue officials. I heard that the lieutenant and imperial guards also like to beat Hu people because they don’t understand what Hu Shang said, and they always think they are cursing.

So the Hu people in the Western Regions and Liang Kingdom of the Liao Dynasty learned their lessons, and worked hard to learn Chinese and learn the customs of the Qin Dynasty, and tried to turn themselves into a Central Plains so that they could be less bullied, because compared with the Qin Dynasty, their country was indeed too frustrated, and they were embarrassed to say the name. Even if they said it, most of the Qin people didn't know. If you explain that their country had only 30,000 to 50,000 people, they would make them laugh.

Although the people of Dayuan were a little stronger than the countries in the Western Regions, they now had to start learning and moving closer to Hu Shang.

After all, a population of 200,000 to 300,000 will still make Daqin laugh. Moreover, when he first came to Xianyang to meet the First Emperor, the First Emperor's appearance of reading the books of the country with two fingers is still fresh in their memory.

This kind of contempt has its own heritage and origins, because the First Emperor took the lead in despising, and the top and the two were united in collective despising, and the countries called barbarians were at the top of the contempt chain.

The outside of Cuju Square is lively, and the three-story shopping mall is also lively. Although the merchants in the mall do not participate in this commodity fair, they can use this event to conduct large-scale discounts and promotions. Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people, the entire mall is crowded with people and all kinds of goods are sold out.

In front of Qinghe Mall, a large group of young ladies wearing girls' college uniforms are helping to distribute colorful flyers.

The flyer is printed with advertisements for perfume, soap and sauce cream. A platform is specially placed in front of the door, with some exquisitely made soap boxes and dozens of soap of various colors, as well as more than a dozen glass bottles of various colors, with brand labels of flowery fragrance on it, and a color of snow-white cream is contained. Several young women in short skirts and sweet-looking faces are introducing the methods and effects of soap and sauce to a group of men and ladies in gorgeous clothes.

With the arrival of spring, flowers all over the mountains have bloomed one after another. Although it is coming to an end, the refining of flower essential oils is becoming more and more diverse, and the output is guaranteed sufficiently. As the refined essential oils from various places are sent back to Xianyang one after another, Chen Xu asked a group of responsible alchemists and managers in Huayu Palace to reduce the production of perfume and produce soaps on a large scale. In the process of continuous soap production, the snow cream has been developed successfully. After giving it to Chen Xu for experience, it has begun to be produced and marketed.

At present, the main raw materials of soap are vegetable oils and animal oils. Although the insufficient raw materials lead to the inefficiency of production, hundreds of soaps and hundreds of bottles of snow cream can still be made every day. The ordinary soap that was originally planned to be priced at 20 yuan has not started production, because even ordinary people can't buy it under this output. Therefore, Chen Xu made all the products become high-end soaps and took this opportunity to make more money.

In addition to the fully transparent colored soap made from vegetable oil, there are also translucent soap made from animal oils, which also come in several colors. Moreover, these soaps are added with enough floral essential oils to ensure the long-lasting fragrance after bathing. This cheap and clean soap will inevitably replace the function of perfume as a shower gel, and perfume will become a truly top luxury item. According to Chen Xu's idea, it is to use the best essential oil to make perfume, use the second-class essential oil to make high-end soap and sauce cream, and use the worst essential oil to make ordinary soaps.

Generally speaking, with the increase in the output of essential oils, after the large-scale purchase of black soap seeds by the end of the year, the production of ordinary soap will definitely be produced and put on the market. Moreover, Chen Xu has arranged for officials and students from the Academy of Sciences and the College of Agriculture to go to the southern and even Bashu counties to investigate the growth areas of black soap trees, and opened a nearby factory to purchase black soap seeds for tree wax refining, and then selected a place to build a soap factory.

Moreover, with the rapid development of the navigation industry, China's economic center will inevitably move rapidly to the coast. At that time, countless industries such as silk, textile, chemical, tea, porcelain, etc. will develop rapidly in the south and north of the Yangtze River. Central Plains cities such as Xianyang and Luoyang will soon be surpassed. The status of the political center will be more important, but the status of the economic center will be significantly reduced.

This process has begun to appear under the intentional or unintentional promotion of Chen Xu. Now a Jiangxi porcelain factory has driven the rapid development of the porcelain industry south of the Yangtze River. Seven or eight porcelain factories have appeared. A large number of porcelain merchants traveled from north to south of the Yangtze River, and boats, carriages and horses have been continuously flowing all year round, making Jingdezhen in the future as the center, and the Xiangshui River, which leads to the south of the Wuling Lake and the Yangtze River shipping trade to Wuzhong have begun to develop rapidly. The Yangtze River, which used to be mainly used as a food and salt channel, was already very prosperous. Ordinary boats and even sailboats of large and small, have been connected, and there has been a bit of the lively scene of Yellow River shipping.

In addition to porcelain, several tea merchants in Jiangnan have a lot of tea. Shuishi Tea House, Jiangdong Tea House and other tea merchants have built tea shops in many counties and counties in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to collect tea and make tea and even grow tea. The mulberry production in Jiangnan has huge output. In recent years, more than a dozen breweries have appeared one after another, turning the useless mulberry fruits into agricultural products that can be sold for money. Now, large silk factories are being built in Suzhou and Hangzhou, which will greatly promote the development of mulberry silkworm breeding and silk industry along the Yangtze River. Due to the warm and humid climate in the south, the output of grain and hemp spinning is also increasing. In a few years, a large number of hemp spinning factories will appear. Relying on the dense waterways in the Yangtze River Basin, a large number of goods can be transported easily and quickly to the coast, and then radiated to the entire southeast coast through sea ships.

This is an overall and coordinated economic development system.

From planting and breeding to factory production to shipping and logistics, all of them are indispensable and closely linked.

After so many years of layout and development, the Jingchu and Wuyue lands, which have always been regarded as barbarians by the Central Plains dynasty, will soon flourish. If Chen Xu's sugar is produced, the Minyue and the Pearl River Basin will be divided up by the merchants who flock to it. Planting sugarcane and refining sugar will become a pillar industry in the south. It will not only provide enough economic sources for the soldiers stationed in Lingnan, but will also soon integrate Baiyue.

The fastest fusion of human civilizations besides war is commercial exchanges. In ancient times, the mutual contact between tribes was also through these two ways.

And this principle applies to the entire earth civilization.
Chapter completed!