The emperor looked below, kowtowed like garlic to the six officials, threw Shao Yi's defense and the attached evidence in front of the six people, and asked, "This is the evidence that Shao Yi presented for his defense, what about the evidence of your impeachment of Shao Yi and the woman of the Xia family?" ”

These few people don't even dare to shout injustice, how can they have evidence? Aren't all officials who have heard about something and can be impeached in a book?

Why is it different here when I meet them this time?

"Wait, wait, wait, just heard."

"Listen to whom? Do you listen to your lord's house? The emperor's tone was not harsh, but it frightened several people into begging for mercy again and again.

The risk of doing things for others this time is too great.

I thought that impeachment would be such a big risk for a small matter related to business. I thought that Li Zhiyuan was already very unlucky yesterday, but how did he know that the crime waiting for them today was even greater?

The emperor coldly glanced at the silent courtiers and said, "Before, although I didn't think much of you forming a gang, but when I thought about life, there must always be a few close friends, so I didn't ask too much.

After reading Shao Yi's defense today, I realized that what you can get together is not necessarily close friends, but also the exchange of interests, and you can even get together to deceive the court and deceive me, and use it to obtain your interests. ”

"The first emperor has mentioned many times that when the court is an official, the emphasis is on sharing worries for the court and seeking benefits for the people, and it is necessary to do not be a group or a party. What about you? ”

The emperor stood up, flicked his sleeves, threw down the phrase "do it for yourself", and turned to leave.

Leave behind a group of important ministers of the country who are at a loss.

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Mr. Bai and He Zhongzheng each took half of the capable craftsmen and went out of the west gate and the north gate of the capital twice, and after passing through the two county seats, they turned to the south.

The kiln took advantage of this opportunity to build a large number of annealing kilns.

When these annealing kilns were put into operation one after another, the time had come to May, and the mirror glass had also begun to enter the Beijing market.

Mr. Bai took people away and took away nearly two-thirds of the skilled hands in the glass industry, and the glass workshop in Beijing urgently needed to replenish manpower.

During this time, Xia Yanqing listened to Xia Ke's persuasion and bought more than 20 young and middle-aged domestic slaves from the market, a few of whom were not even young people, only thirteen or fourteen years old.

In this society where the law is not healthy, it is clear that it is more insured to use domestic slaves than to hire outsiders.

If these 20 or so domestic slaves can be successfully trained to become skilled in making glass products, and even stewards, it will be much more convenient to expand the glass business in the future, and there will be no need to worry about the leakage of trade secrets.

These people are not of much use now, but it is okay to fight and be an assistant.

In this way, the glaze workshop was unhurried, building annealing kilns and open-air workshops, while using existing workshops and annealing kilns, accumulating mirrored glass inventory.

By mid-May, when the weather was getting hotter, the mirrored glass of Qingyun Zhai was finally launched.

Speaking of which, this is not the best time to sell glass.

The weather is hot, and everyone's doors and windows are open every day, and lighting is not a very important thing. Also, there is no question of keeping warm.

But for the fledgling glass manufacturing, this season is very good, everyone's enthusiasm for buying glass is not very high, and the supply and demand of glass has eased a little. The glass that can accommodate the glass workshop is put into the market in batches.

And this kind of purchase is not high, and it is also relative. Although the people who bought the glass did not have a large number of customers, they did not see a few pieces of glass in the backlog.

It is still a conscience price of twenty yuan a piece, so that the rest of the commercial houses have no hope at all.

The glass of the Xia family's old mansion was personally sent by Xia Ke with his two sons, a total of thirty-two pieces of glass.

Although glass is still rare today, the price of twenty taels of silver is not very expensive.

Therefore, when I came to the backyard to meet Mrs. Lu, the glass was not brought into the backyard of the old house.

Xia Ke took his two sons to give Xia Bin and Mrs. Lu luggage, and then sat down separately.

There are scholars Xia and Mrs. Lu, and then Xia Chen and Xia Rong, and none of the juniors are there.

Xia Zixi and Xia Zitang looked at each other, their cousins and cousins were not here, and it was very likely that they would go to see what the glass looked like.

These people, but they didn't have a chance to enter the palace, they had seen this kind of thing in other mansions. It's just that they can't show their cowardice elsewhere, so naturally they can't come forward and take a closer look.

Now, it's hard to put the glass in front of you, where can you bear not to look at it?

Mrs. Lu, who was seated, snorted and said, "Since the workshop of the four girls made glass, there are many people who have used it before us. Your father and daughter only now remember that there are still two of us who are immortal in the old mansion. ”

When Senior Scholar Xia saw that Mrs. Lu said this kind of unpleasant thing again, he was displeased, and said to Xia Ke with a soothing voice, "Your mother is just talking. It's not easy to make glass, and the workshop of Yanqing is not big, everyone actually knows this, you don't have to mind. ”

"Thank you father for your understanding." Xia Ke owes himself.

Xia Zixi and Xia Zitang beside him also bowed together and paid their respects.

The eldest man sitting on Xia Ke's head said, "Yanqing, a young woman, has she done business?" Glass is a rarity, and a huge piece of glass sells for twenty taels of silver. The glass in those places of the North and South Currency Stores is small and corrugated, and it sells for a hundred taels, so don't lose money in your business. ”

Such a rare craft, only to buy twenty taels to make things, let people say what is good about them?

"Yes, I'll go back and remind Yanqing." Xia Ke said perfunctorily.

Mrs. Li, who was accompanying her on the other side, interjected with a smile, "Second brother, I heard that Yanqing ran to several markets some time ago, and wanted to buy slaves to work in the glass workshop, is there really such a thing?" ”

Xia Ke lowered his eyebrows and replied, "I really don't know this, the business is all done by Yanqing." And as a court official, it is not good to participate in the affairs of the merchants. So, I didn't ask much about the business. ”

Mrs. Li still tried hard, "I guess, this thing should be true." In the future, you can't buy people outside, the skills of the glass workshop were leaked last time, if you don't happen to make a new product, I'm afraid that the glass workshop will be squeezed by other families. ”。

When Xia Ke and his son heard these words, they already roughly understood what Mrs. Li meant, this is to let the glass workshop use the slaves of the old mansion, right?

Xia Zixi smiled on the side, "What the eldest aunt said is very right, my nephew knows about this, the little sister has bought dozens of slaves from the human market, and they all have deeds of sale, and I am not afraid of the craftsman leaking the workshop in the future." ”

Old Madam Lu had long known that this would be the result, and after listening to Xia Zixi's words, she said in a cold voice, "When glass is rare in winter, you are in a hurry to give away and sell silver, but now that the weather is hot, who still has such a heavy and bright thing." Aren't you afraid of the summer sun shining in and dazzling? ”

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