According to Xia Yanqing's thinking, if there must be a collaborator in the research and development of glass technology, Shao Yi's more favorable Beihe Mansion Guan family is naturally the best choice.

But Shao Yi, who succeeded in half of this, did not have the smugness on his face after the thing was done, but his face was a little strange.

The two met and sat down, and the maid served refreshments.

Xia Yanqing watched Shao Yi take a sip of hot tea before asking, "Why is Shao Gongzi's expression?" Is there anything wrong with the cooperative Guanjia? ”

Shao Yi looked a little melancholy, and said, "It's not as serious as the mistake, it's just not the same as I expected." ”

The Guan family is a wealthy merchant in Bac Ha Province, and for several generations they have been in the timber business, and they have always been decent and tepid.

The Guan family passed on to the hands of Guan Benhe, the head of this generation, and the business gradually improved greatly, and in the past few years, it has become a first-class timber shop and has become an imperial merchant specializing in timber for the palace.

Guan Benhe has three sons, and the eldest son, Guan Yunhui, has a wooden temperament and lacks flexibility, so he is not a business material.

The second son Guan Yunxi and the third son Guan Yunsheng are both good, among which Guan Yunxi is the most outstanding.

In the past few years, Guan Benhe has been getting older, and many things in the Guan family have been discussed by Guan Yunxi.

In Shao Yi's previous life, it was Guan Yunxi who took over as the head of the Guan family, and it was Guan Yunxi's son Guan Tong who did glass business with Xia Yanqing.

Shao Yi thought that the cooperation project assigned by the imperial court, the Guan family would definitely attach great importance to it when they received the imperial edict. Even if Old Man Guan didn't come in person, at least Guan Yunxi would be asked to supervise the matter.

However, no, it was the third son Guan Yunsheng who came. Guan Yunsheng is now in charge of the family business is a brick kiln business, the main focus of which is the production of glazed tiles.

The glazed tiles of the Guan family are sold in the Beihe area, and the quality is very good and very famous. The Guan family also has the intention of reaching out to the palace to purchase glazed tiles.

These are all things that Shao Yi only heard about in the past few days.

Shao Yi looked at Xia Yanqing, his expression was quite helpless, and said: "Before, I didn't pay much attention to the Guan family, and I didn't know if the Guan family operated a brick kiln in Beihe, or was a skilled hand in making glazed tiles. The new glazed tiles that Qingyunzhai is about to launch are afraid that the Guan family will completely lose hope. ”

A few days later, after the launch of Qingyunzhai's glazed tiles, I don't know how Guan Yunsheng, who has been committed to glazed tiles, will feel.

"Guan Yunsheng is very radical, Guan Ben and sent Guan Yunsheng to Beijing to take charge of the glass cooperation business, and he wants to have a big plan in the glass industry in the future." Shao Yi felt that what he did this time was very meaningful to lure the wolf into the room.

The Guan family has accumulated wealth for several generations, and has been an imperial merchant for many years, so the foundation is naturally thick.

If you get the glass technology, you will go all out to expand, with the financial resources of Qingyun Zhai, I am afraid that this situation will not be able to be determined.

Xia Yanqing felt a little sour and asked Shao Yi: "Aren't you quite optimistic about the Guan family, and think the Guan family is a very good collaborator?" ”

Shao Yi spread his hands, in the previous life, he didn't care about businessmen. The reason why he has a good impression of the Guan family is actually because Ah Can is suspicious of Liu Dafu's character and is more willing to cooperate with the Guan family.

"If you cooperate, based on the Guan family's usual comments, you shouldn't count the collaborators. It's just that although we are cooperating in this file, we are competitors after that. The Guan family is a businessman, and of course he will not be soft on seizing glass business opportunities. If you don't lead soldiers, don't be good at raising money, and think about others everywhere, what kind of business are you doing? Shao Yi explained.

Xia Yanqing was speechless.

Yes, this is normal business competition, and people participate in this cooperation on the orders of the emperor to advance funds.

In this matter, she and the Guan family have no priority, but they play different roles.

Even looking at this matter from the concept of her life, the Guan family is the investor in this research and development, and Xia Yanqing only has herself, at best, it can only be regarded as a technology shareholding. In contrast, it should be in a second-class position.

After the cooperation, the two companies got their own shares and developed separately according to the agreement. Could it be that she, Xia Yanqing, could still ask the Guan family to let her fail?

In particular, the emperor has actually found a strong opponent for himself.

Xia Yanqing looked at Shao Yi and looked at the person you found.

Although she didn't say this, Shao Yi could see it in her eyes.

He spread his hands again and said innocently: "This is already good, you can be content." The merchants who supplied the royal family used all kinds of means, and most of them had backers. The Guan family's ability to do things with their own strength is already very good. ”

Xia Yanqing pursed his lips, and Shao Yi continued to break the news: "This is nothing, this kind of competition is probably not just about the family." ”

"What? Who else? Xia Yanqing asked, wouldn't it be that the emperor didn't think the matter was complicated enough, and he would have to add a few more investors, right?

She instantly remembered what Xia Ke had told her that the emperor would not change his orders overnight. It can't be that her father also miscalculated the situation, right?

Shao Yi said: "I only learned the day before yesterday that Qingyunzhai and the Guan family are going to cooperate to jointly develop continuous feeding glass technology, which has been known by some people, and the news is spreading secretly." ”

"Spread what?" Xia Yanqing was surprised, "Is it cooperation, or continuous feeding technology?" ”

Shao Yi nodded and said responsibly: "Cooperation and continuous feeding technology." ”

Xia Yanqing immediately became irritable, "What's the matter?" I've only told Master Qu about this. I think Master Qu knows how to measure, can he still go around preaching? ”

Is this a trade secret or a technical secret? Before this was done, it was known, was the ancient sense of secrecy so poor?

This is like a powerful replication technology, as long as a certain technology or machine appears in the world, no matter how tightly it is blocked, as long as it appears in front of people, it will eventually be developed by people.

Many things, just lack an idea, lack of a kind of inspiration, and continuous feeding is this kind of inspiration.

"When I learned about this, I went to Commander Liu. On the surface, the situation found out is that a little eunuch who was serving in front of the emperor was chatting with a good palace maid, and he mentioned the conversation between Lord Qu and the emperor. This palace maid didn't take it seriously, and on an occasion with many people, she casually mentioned a few words. ”

Xia Yanqing immediately felt that things were not good, and asked, "Then these two people, what happened now?" ”

"Killed himself." Shao Yi said, very cold.

The eunuchs who serve in the imperial study, even if they are little eunuchs, know the minimum rules. The emperor and his courtiers talked, can this be casual chat?

Otherwise, the palace maid has a problem, and she has spent thought and means to set it out. Otherwise, the eunuch and the palace maid are in the same group.

Xia Yan Qingyuan was not as cold and hard as Shao Yi, and said dejectedly: "Is that really the case?" "I am even more depressed in my heart, she is a modern person who grew up in a society under the rule of law, and it is really difficult to accept that she is just doing business, and if she is good, she can make trouble.

Shao Yi said "um", he understood Xia Yanqing's mood, she has always been in awe of life, no matter whose life it is.