When Xia Ke and his children were talking about the future of glass manufacturing, the Chengjun Royal Mansion was also discussing the same thing.

In the council hall in the outer courtyard of the Chengjun Palace, although the night was approaching, the many candles lit in the room did not make people feel the slightest darkness.

King Chengjun frowned tightly and said, "I didn't expect the Xia Lady to be so insidious, and she would use inferior glass technology to lure/lure so many people to make a move. Today, the Tangzhou glass workshop has been built, and there will be glass production in the near future. If it is seen that Liu Dafu's glass making method comes from the capital, I am afraid that someone will trace the connection between Liu Dafu and Beijing. ”

In the future, Liu Dafu will enter Beijing as a new and rich man, maybe someone will fortify him, and many things will not be easy to do.

In addition to King Chengjun and his chief staff Jiang Hanwen, there were two other scribes who looked very good in the council room.

King Chengjun continued, "As the court said this morning, even if glass does not make huge profits, as long as it is widely used, this is a very profitable business. Liu Dafu's side must not let go, just see how this matter is solved. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Hanwen and the others.

Jiang Hanwen is a middle-aged man in his forties, with a clear appearance, a fair complexion, and an extremely refreshing beard, which is very in line with the image of a literati around King Chengjun.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Tangzhou is located in the south, Liu Dafu's glass business has just started, and it will take some time for the news to reach the capital." During this time, Liu Dafu can gather people to do glass firing experiments.

According to the Xia family's glass house, we can select more mineral deposits and fire them together with the existing glass raw materials. As long as you can burn slightly different glass, regardless of the quality, you can give up the glass-making method you got from the Xia family. ”

In this way, the relationship with the capital and the Xia family was also cleared.

King Chengjun and the other two nodded contemplatively, and most of the main materials and auxiliary materials of the glass bought from the craftsmen of the Xia family were ores and ores.

Find some other ore varieties and try a few more times, maybe you can really burn a glass that is different from the Xia family. At that time, who will doubt the origin of Liu Dafu's glass-making method?

Jiang Hanwen continued, "Since the prince has a long-term plan for glass, this department of testing glass can continue to maintain. Everything in the world is afraid of hard work, as long as the effort is there, the mind is there, and there is strong financial support. His subordinates believe that Liu Dafu will be able to develop high-quality glass. ”

If Xia Yanqing is here, I am afraid that I will have to applaud this Mr. Jiang, this kind of modern thinking is really rare.

Not to mention that this is in ancient times, even in modern times, many enterprises are mostly copying existing technologies and products, and they are reluctant to spend financial resources and manpower to set up R&D departments.

King Chengjun and the other two scribes dressed as people, although they didn't realize the cleverness of Jiang Hanwen's proposal, they all nodded and agreed when there was no other way.

Another scribe named Zhang Chenru added, "You can also ask Liu Dafu to send someone out to search, since ancient times, glass has also been a frequent thing." It would be even better if you could find the practice of glass from elsewhere. ”

King Chengjun agreed with this idea and said, "This method is also feasible, isn't there an old lady in the Tao family who is alchemist?" You can send someone to take a trip to see what materials he uses for alchemy and how he refines it. As long as he can find a way, Liu Dafu can completely get rid of the shadow of the Xia family's glass practice. ”

King Chengjun thought of the seven craftsmen who were disposed of by the Xia family, and asked, "The glass craftsmen of the Xia family who have suffered lawsuits, I don't know how injured they are, can they still work?" ”

"The prince is going to use them?" Jiang Hanwenwen asked.

Zhang Chenru shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this matter won't happen." I heard that the Xiangjun Mansion had sent people to find them, and those people had signed a confidentiality agreement, but now that the matter has been revealed, they have been frightened and dare not accept anything. ”

King Chengjun was surprised and said, "They have already told everything they know, and the Xia family has better glass, where is there any need for secrecy?" ”

Zhang Jincheng explained, "It is said that the confidentiality agreement not only restricts the craftsmen from divulging anything in the workshop, but also has a clause that their glass skills were learned in the Xia family, and no matter what the reason for leaving the Xia family, they are not allowed to participate in glass-related industries for ten years." Otherwise, you will have to go to court as well. ”

King Chengjun pondered for a moment, and said with a smile: "This king really underestimated the daughter of the Xia family before, with such a strict document agreement, how could he allow his own business secrets to be leaked?" If we had known the content of the confidentiality agreement signed by the craftsman earlier, I am afraid that we would not have been able to do this for her. ”

I have to say that King Chengjun has a big plan, and his thinking is high enough.

Junwangfu has been working on the development of new products, in order to make further progress in the quality and variety of glass, and completely get rid of the shadow of Xiajia glass.

And the other three, in the face of the new glass visited by the Xia family glass and the emperor's attitude, are now at a loss, and there is no way at all.

Before the difficult matter here has been resolved, there will be disturbances in the court again.

The day before, the three of them tangled up with related officials and impeached Shao Yi and Xia Ke.

The next day, Shao Yi's fold was handed to the emperor.

After the ministers of the early dynasty finished talking about the things that needed to be reported, the commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division handed over a copy of the excerpt, "Your Majesty, Weichen went to the court yesterday to question Shao Yi." This is Shao Yi's defense. ”

Sun Congshan glanced at the emperor, then walked down the steps, took the strip Chen from Lan Yu's hand, turned it back, and handed it to the emperor.

The emperor picked it up, looked through it quickly, handed it back to Sun Congshan, and instructed, "Read it to all Aiqing." ”

Sun Congshan opened his mouth and read Shao Yi's defense all the way.

The more everyone in the court listened, the more unsightly their faces became, especially the officials who impeached Shao Yi yesterday, and this morning in the court, there was no longer that Li Zhiyuan, and there were only six left.

These six people, before Sun Congshan finished reading the strip, they were already trembling out of the queue and prostrate on the ground.

As soon as Sun Congshan finished reading the excerpt, before the emperor could speak, the six people kept kowtowing and shouting that they were wronged.

Shao Yi has been a veteran in the court for 20 years, and this excerpt first affirms his innocence, and also attaches an approximate time of all his contacts with Qingyunzhai, as well as human and physical evidence, as well as a record of his errand in the Soldiers and Horses.

explained that he had no private contact with the daughter of the Xia family, and he was wronged.

As soon as the conversation changed, Shao Yi, as an official of the imperial court, impeached the seven officials yesterday who were suspicious and even disloyal to the emperor, and were suspected of starting a new business.

It is clear that as an official of the court and a minister of the Son of Heaven, he is not loyal to the emperor, but is attached to other forces, which shows that he has a bad heart and is far more loyal to his master than the emperor.

Shao Yi's last sentence was so rebellious that ten thousand deaths were not enough to forgive his sins.

Although the emperor knew that Shao Yi was messing around, the small group that these people colluded with really made the emperor uncomfortable.

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