Shang Cheng didn't believe that Chang Xiu would take any dead end. Because half a month ago, for the sake of glass, Chang Xiu once brought Tian Xiu and Yang Heng to find him. He remembered that when Chang Xiu was leaving, he said very seriously that no matter what difficulties and obstacles he encountered, he would burn the glass out, even if he couldn't be a waiter in the Ministry of Works, he would definitely stick to it, and he would pay for it out of his own pocket if it was a big deal! Shang Cheng thought, since Chang Wenshi had such ambitions, how could he easily die and take a desperate path. Obviously, this is Zhenqian worrying about the ancients, and the helper department is distressed about money and food, so he deliberately came to be alarmist, hoping to impress him and let him come forward to persuade Chang Xiu.

Thinking of this, his heart was steady, and he was about to say a few words that were thoughtful, when he suddenly thought of another possibility: Could it be that something happened to the Ministry of Industry workshop over there in Xiaoluoyi and put Chang Xiu in?

This terrible thought that suddenly came out of nowhere made him shudder. If Xiaoluofang is in a hurry to rush to catch up with the schedule, the accident of the collapse of the kiln is very likely to occur...... He didn't care about responding to Zhenqian's accusations, and first cared about Chang Xiu's situation. He asked anxiously, "Chang Wenshi has an accident?" "If he teaches Chang Wen to do a good job in order to burn a broken glass, he will really die! And Tian Xiu and Yang Heng, what about them? Could something happen to them too?

It was probably because of Shang Cheng's true feelings in the panic that Zhen Xiang's face softened a little. But he still had a cold face and took out an official document from his sleeve.

Shang Cheng ignored the tea soup stains splashed on the sleeves of his hands, and almost snatched the official document in a half-grabbed. At a glance, I skipped the official document and looked up "Cheng Prime Minister's Office", and then I saw the title of the official document "Begging for Patent Money and Huo's Shu in Yanshan Yi County", and then glanced at the payment is "Chang Xiu of the Ministry of Industry", one by one, this is Chang Xiu's sparse Chen? Does this mean that Chang Wenshi is actually fine? He immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Although it seemed that Chang Xiu had most of the accident, he still carefully skimmed through the official documents.

There is nothing else in the official document, but it is to explain the fact that the skill of making liquor is the exclusive initiative of the Huo family in Yixian County, which is indisputable. Huo's had signed a contract with the Ministry of Industry last year to hand over the rights and interests of liquor brewing and sales in other regions other than Yanshan to the Ministry of Industry at a discount, but now there are many liquor workshops in various places that steal Huo's skills, and the liquor produced is sold everywhere. These workshops sell liquor, which infringes on the interests of the Ministry of Industry, and steals teachers and arts, which hurts the Huo family; Therefore, Huo now plans to file a complaint with the government, and the Ministry of Industry also plans to jointly attach it to the pleadings. The facts of this lawsuit are clear and the evidence is conclusive, and there is no doubt that Huo's and the Ministry of Industry won the lawsuit, but in order to start the lawsuit to be more geographically straightforward, so the scholar Chang Xiu wrote such a sparse statement, hoping that the imperial court could support the Ministry of Industry and issue an official document to prove that Huo's had the right to collect "patent money" from other workshops.

After reading it, Shang Cheng felt that the sparse presentation was clear and well-organized, well-structured, reasonable, well-founded and restrained, and it was a rare masterpiece of official documents; It's just that it can't be tied to "self-defeating" at all.

When Rouge quietly came in and cleaned up the teacups and teapots that had been dumped on the table, and replaced Shang Cheng with new tea soup, Zhen Qian said, "You don't see the problem in this article?" ”

Shang Cheng shook his head.

Zhen Qian was a little incredulous: "Did you really not see it, or did you deliberately not say it?" ”

"I really don't see it." Shang Cheng confessed frankly.

But Zhenqian didn't think there was anything difficult about this article. Chang Xiu is playing the signboard of the Ministry of Maintenance, but in fact, he is competing with the people for profit; The Ministry of Industry stood on Huo's side to help Huo's speak, and whether he could win the lawsuit or not would be accused of "colluding with officials and businessmen", and even if he won the lawsuit, he would have a bad reputation; Not to mention those imperial historians who have to kick their feet when they have nothing to do, they will never spare Chang Xiu and the Ministry of Works.

Shang Cheng laughed and said: "The Ministry of Industry protects its own interests is to 'compete with the people for profit', what are those workshops that have stolen wine-making skills? Are they competing with the Ministry of Works? They didn't even say hello and secretly learned the skills of the Huo family, is this considered 'competing with Huo'? ”

Zhen Qian was speechless.

"I'm not done yet." Shang Cheng "When the Ministry of Industry chose the wine-making workshop, it deliberately chose in various grain-producing areas, which was also to help the imperial court solve the problem of cheap grain and hurt farmers, the Ministry of Industry started the wine-making workshop in the autumn of last year, which is the season when the autumn tax was levied in various places, relying on the grain prices of nearly one million stone bought by the workshops from the government and the market, and the grain prices in several places are relatively stable, which is actually helping the local grain prices to stabilize and protect grain households. ”

Zhen Qian was silent for a while, and said, "You're arguing with reason. The workshops of the Ministry of Industry need to buy grain to make wine, and the private workshops also need to buy grain, so it may not be that these folk workshops can not play a role in stabilizing grain prices? ”

"That's different." Shang Cheng said without hesitation, "The workshop of the Ministry of Industry is a state-owned unit, and it is a workshop run by the imperial court, and there is no need to match shares...... They do not need to be responsible for the owner's capital, so their first consideration is not the economic benefits of the workshop, but the performance of the workshop. What is the performance of the sake brewery? It is reflected in the scale of the workshop. Whoever can occupy a larger space, hire more labor, and brew more wine is a good official in the eyes of his superiors. Therefore, as soon as these workshops make a move, they buy grain for tens of thousands of stones and hundreds of thousands of stones, unlike those private workshops, which must take into account the output of their own workshops, the storage of grain, and the price of grain at that time...... So, we can't expect these workshops to help when we need them to stand up and calm food prices, but we can only rely on ourselves, on the local officials, on the workshops of the Ministry of Works. He said three "rely on" in succession to strengthen his tone, and finally even waved his fist vigorously, finally ending a large number of strong words.

But there are always big benefits to the truth of the big article, at least Zhen Qian didn't seriously think about the difference between the court workshop and the folk workshop, so he couldn't refute Shang Cheng in a hurry. He needed to seriously consider the specious truths that Shang Chengfang had just said.

But Shang Cheng won't give him time to think. He asked Zhen Qian, "Where did this Shu Chen come from?" He didn't see the synopsis or instructions on the official documents, and was obviously intercepted by Zhenqian halfway before he was sent to the prime minister's office.

The corners of Zhen Qian's mouth tugged for a moment, and he drooped his eyelids and said: "I went to the Prime Minister's Mansion in the morning, and I met Chang Wenshi halfway, and he showed me the ......"

The words are vague, but the meaning is clear. Maybe Chang Xiu took the initiative to ask Zhenqian to help with it, maybe Zhenqian was curious so he asked and inquired, no matter what the reason, in short, this official document was intercepted by Zhenqian in the end. After that, it was easy to speculate, Zhen Qian took the official document and came to Shang Cheng with an excuse. He thought, although Chang Xiu is a literati, he is by no means a brainless person, if no one comes up with ideas behind his back, it is impossible to be this rafter. And this person hiding behind Chang Wenshi, nineteen is Shang Yanshan. Shang Yanshan said the east, Chang Wenshi would not say the west; Shang Yanshan said that he could burn glass, so Chang Wenshi threw money into the kiln......

Zhenqian said that it is such an image, and even Shang Chengdu is not only Waner. But he still doesn't admit that he is pandering Chang Xiu. This matter has nothing to do with him in the first place, why should he admit it? He can only tell Zhen Qian that this "Begging for Patent Money and Huo's Shu in Yanshan Yi County" is actually a pathfinder thrown by the Ministry of Industry, if the imperial court passes, then the Ministry of Industry will make glass or other new things in the future, and you can confidently ask the imperial court to "follow the old practice of Huo's liquor".

Zhenqian thought about it for a long time, and didn't know how to refute Shang Cheng's truth about the "state-owned workshop", so he simply got off the donkey and changed the focus of the topic according to Shang Cheng's words. He admitted that it should be very possible for the Ministry of Industry to throw stones at Huo's liquor and ask for directions. However, he was still not optimistic about the prospects of glass, and at the same time "very kindly" inquired about whether Shang Cheng had made progress in navigation technology.

Shang Cheng didn't answer this, but asked him: "There is a Japanese monk named Qiansan, do you know him?" ”

"I've heard of it, but I don't know it. Two days ago, someone mentioned him, saying that he was coming to Beijing again. Zhen Qian nodded and said. He immediately became alert and asked, "What are you asking him for?" ”

"Something." Shang Cheng replied simply.