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Spring is over and summer is coming, and the vegetation is lush, and April is coming in a blink of an eye.

The debate caused by the ten evils of spells began to fade slowly.

Chen Xu gave in to Li Si in the court, and Xianyang Metropolis Daily was also warned by the emperor that all submissions in the Hundred Schools Forum must be sent to the palace for review by the emperor to publish them. The sequelae caused by this gradually began to appear, and the enthusiasm for public submissions also faded a lot.

Li Si even went to the palace several times to request the emperor to issue an order. In the future, students were not allowed to issue arbitrarily attacking magic and governing the country. Violators were equivalent to the crime of chaoticism. After hesitating for a long time, the emperor agreed to Li Si's request, and this order had been spread throughout the world with the Great Qin Metropolis Daily.

The disciples of the Hundred Schools were worried.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, almost all the disciples of the Hundred Schools spoke freely and promoted their thoughts on governing the country everywhere. However, the Qin Dynasty was speechless and could not be an official based on knowledge or speak freely. This kind of frustration that could not speak, and was powerful and useless made students gather in the Quyuan Teahouse to deny Li Si's behavior of banning the remarks of the Hundred Schools.

Chen Xu naturally understood the changes of the students, but he had no choice but to do anything about it. Although the conspiracy planned by Li Si did not succeed and completely closed the Hundred Schools Forums and newspapers, it still had a great impact. Therefore, he took the time to go to the newspapers and the School of Literature to hold two heart-to-heart talks, requiring newspapers to remain quiet, arrange more reporters to go to all parts of the country to understand the people's conditions, try to target newspaper propaganda targets at the bottom, report on the sufferings of the people, and also report on the construction projects of cement factories and Dongfang Road in large quantities, so as to disperse the attention of the people as much as possible, and understand the trends of the people and the development of business through newspapers.

In the School of Literature, Chen Xu asked all editors and clerks to try not to make too radical remarks, and to discuss some practical and feasible strategies for governing the country as a gentle topic. He also specifically used the ten ills of magic as the topic. Some of the arguments put forward in this policy theory require people with aspirations to come up with solutions to the mutual dependence of etiquette and law, rather than anger and condemnation. He also asked everyone to complete their work as much as possible, sort out the historical books, organize and proofread the materials collected by the ancestors and the people as soon as possible, and organize and proofread these books as soon as possible.

Therefore, Chen Xu also specially set up a commercial book printing company through a loan of 200,000 yuan through Huaxia Money Bank, which was managed by the publishing house, and specially published a large number of proofread books as soon as possible to divert the attention of the students among the people.

During this period, An Yuliang came to Chen Xu to apologize and requested to resign as vice dean of the School of Literature and editor-in-chief of Baijia Forum Journals several times, but Chen Xu did not accept it.

It can be said that An Yuliang is under the greatest pressure in this matter.

He originally wanted to use the huge impact of this theory of the Ten Bad Stories to enhance the reputation of the Baijia Forum, but it backfired. He suddenly made the Baijia Forum a little disappointed. Recently, there have been fewer and fewer contributors. In the past, there were occasionally some famous celebrities who had a lot of contributions, but now they are becoming more cautious.

Because it is said that Sun Pi, who published the ten evil spells, was almost asked to be arrested and imprisoned by Li Si in the court. How could a civil servant be the opponent of the Shangqing of the current court? Once he is really arrested and imprisoned, the consequences will inevitably be extremely miserable.

Although the incident did not happen because of Qinghe Hou's stopping, the consequences were very serious. In less than a month, this incident had spread to almost everyone in the world with the business traveling from south to north, which made the hundreds of famous scholars who were determined to publish a theory of governing the country in the six countries also hiding and depressing.

Although Chen Xuming knew that Sun Pi was a chess piece launched by Li Si and a mouse shit, he still had to come forward to protect him.

After all, he sponsored the Baijia Forum. If Sun Pi is arrested for the crime of chaos in the country, it can be said that the Baijia Forum will not be banned and will become a scrap journal and will completely lose its effect.

This is also the attack that Li Si only launched after he learned about Chen Xu's purpose of hosting the Hundred Schools Forum. Even if Chen Xu knew Sun Pi's identity, he would definitely not arrest Sun Pi. Instead, he would protect it to maintain the reputation of the Hundred Schools Forum.

In short, Li Si succeeded and used his spear to attack his shield, which forced Chen Xu to swallow this bitter taste.

Experts fight, and one move shows the outcome.

The battle for three hundred rounds is the way of the folk world. The highest group of rulers standing above the court of the Qin Empire will never take action easily without the inevitable determination.

Recently, the disciples of the Legal family have been more arrogant.

But Chen Xu fell silent again.

This is also a good thing for Chen Xu, which made him know a lot more about Li Si. At the same time, he also saw that the emperor still relies heavily on Li Si, and he has not yet reached the opportunity to move him down.

The construction of Dongfang Road is still in full swing, and cement plants across the country are also emerging like mushrooms after a rain.

Even in the largest cement factory in Sanchuan County, a dam has been built on a small river and is preparing to build a large water wheel mill. Hu Kuan brought Shi Lu and a large group of craftsmen from the affiliated factory of the Academy of Sciences to supervise the construction. It has been three months since the beginning of spring and now it has basically been completed. The large iron mill and water wheel have been installed in place. This time the water wheel gear is designed more precisely, and the rotation process is more stable, without the feeling of stuttering one by one.

"Very good!" Chen Xu, who was observing the pepper seedlings in his farm, received the notice sent. After reading it, he was very happy.

It is not his strength to wrestle with Li Si, but Li Si can't catch up with him even if he opens up land and develops technology.

At this point, it is impossible for the emperor to not support him in completing the construction of the Oriental Road. This is a major artery of the prosperity of the Qin Dynasty. There was a consensus in the court that no one could stop it, including Li Si.

Therefore, Li Si had to secretly trip Chen Xu.

As long as the Dongfang Road is successfully built, the law that suppresses commerce will inevitably loosen. Chen Xu can be said to have taken a big step forward in the reform of the Qin Dynasty's law, revitalizing commerce and promoting the development of industry and agriculture through commerce. The reform of the Qin Dynasty will inevitably be unstoppable.

This eternal bet has long been spread throughout the Qin world. The emperor personally promised that all civil and military officials should be witnesses, Feng Quji and Meng Yi, two Shangqings who were used to watching the fun, would also be enthusiastic about it. By then, Li Si would not have any strength to stop the turnaround.

The pace in the past was too fast and too impatient, but as long as we continue to continue in a steady manner, the status between Li Si and Chen Xu will gradually change irreversibly.

The construction of the Sanchuan County Water Wheel Mill has increased the cement production capacity of Sanchuan County by nearly ten times. It can not only meet the cement supply in Sanchuan County, but also several other small cement factories, the cement production can even begin to be transported to the counties and counties on both sides, which will greatly alleviate the current tight cement situation.

This change will also speed up the construction progress of Dongfang Road again.

If two or three more water wheel mills appear on Dongfang Road, then maybe until the end of the year, Dongfang Road will be completed in advance and Chen Xu's bet will be won in advance.

"When you go back, tell the supervisor Yang Kun and ask him to inform all cement factories along Dongfang Road that places with conditions can start preparing to build a water wheel mill. At that time, the investment in the water wheel mill can be discounted by half of the loan!"

"Yes, Marquis!" After the manager who sent the letter, he took his two subordinates to leave quickly, and passed the orders of the Qinghe Marquis back to the Oriental Road Preparatory Administration and the Engineering Command.

Dongfang Road's demand for cement is currently like a bottomless pit. No matter how much the cement plants along the way are fired, it is not enough to allocate. A large number of engineering teams gather in cement factories everywhere every day, waving a lot of tickets to buy cement. However, even if all cement factories of all sizes are constantly spinning day and night, relying on the use of stone mortars and stone mills for the original livestock and manpower, the grinding speed is far from keeping up with the demand of the construction site. Therefore, many engineering teams often fight and fight in cement factories.

Almost all engineering teams have proposed huge rewards for the teams responsible for purchasing and transporting cement. Each time, ten stones are transported back and they are rewarded with fifty coins. Each time, they are transported early to one day, and an additional one hundred coins are rewarded. Under the stimulation of money, the teams buying cement are like chicken blood. Workers and workers hold sticks to grab cement in the cement factory. Often, several different teams will be beaten to death, but they still cannot prevent this situation from happening.

One day after the project section is completed, it can save thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. A large number of migrant workers need to spend money to support them. There is a complete set of sand, gravel and wood. However, the project is short of cement. If the cement is not enough, the project can only be closed. However, the civil servants and workers still have to spend money to support them. The daily expenses are a lot of money. This money flows out every day. The merchants who contracted the project naturally felt distressed and couldn't eat or sleep. They could only urge and use money to stimulate, but the effect was not obvious.

Therefore, to speed up the construction of Dongfang Road, cement is the biggest bottleneck. If this problem is not solved, the project will not be quickly improved.

But to solve this problem, the only way to solve the problem is to speed up the construction of cement plants and increase the speed of cement production. However, the cement plants along the way have almost begun to saturate. According to the general statistics of the Oriental Road Preparatory Administration, the number of labor slaves and civil servants purchased by the cement plants along the Oriental Road has exceeded 100,000. With the number of people recruited by all engineering teams of Oriental Road, the number of people participating in the construction of the entire Oriental Road has long exceeded 500,000, and there are more than 50,000 cattle and horses used, and there are nearly 10,000 cattle and horses. This is an astonishing number, which is no less than a battle to destroy the country. However, these have nothing to do with the court, and all of them are completed by merchants with money.

On the premise that cement plants can no longer increase, the only way to improve the production efficiency of cement plants is to improve the production efficiency.

The best way to build a water wheel mill is.

There are dozens of rivers of all sizes along the Oriental Road. It is difficult to build dams in a big river, but there are still many small rivers to use, and it is not difficult. The technology of Daqin to build dams and ditches is very mature. In addition, with the construction tools such as cement, it can be completed in one or two months. Moreover, with the cooperation of two construction craftsmen, Hu Kuan and Shi Lu, it is no problem to quickly build a batch of water wheel mills to speed up the grinding speed of cement. The only thing to consider is the problem of river water rising after the arrival of summer, but these can only be overcome by the engineering team.

Chen Xu had no way to solve it.

What's more, many things are forced out.

The Great Wall, which stands above the mountains and ridges, can be completed, but it will still remain strong after two thousand years. It can be seen that the infrastructure level of the Qin Dynasty cannot be judged by common sense, and it is very domineering.

Earlier, more than 2,900 BC, the Egyptians had already begun to build large dams on the Nile River to supply water to the capital and irrigate farmland, and the water volume of the Nile River was larger than that of the Yangtze River.
Chapter completed!