Chapter 247: Sighing
As soon as he said this, Ding Bochang's spirit immediately rose, and as soon as he came up, he burst into foul language, "Isn't it, those turtle grandsons ......?"
Cheng Youting interjected and reminded: "Quality, pay attention to quality." ”
Ding Bochang glanced at him, and he was as kind as a stream: "...... Those bastards, it is estimated that they are grouped, if it is a family or a state or county, there will not be such a large range of power at all. As long as it is a glass product from Binh Duong County, you can't go any way...... "I poured a glass of water and continued to talk.
Cheng Youting, Zhan Qi and others listened to it, and they couldn't stop being angry, and from time to time they would burst out with a very unqualified foul mouth.
Shao Yi touched his chin and was secretly speechless.
The Cai family's power is really big enough, probably in the last life, there was no glass, an emerging item that was destined to be extremely versatile, and there was no competition for the profiteering industry.
As a result, the power center of the Great Liang Dynasty failed to feel that the six southeastern counties were about to change hands.
In this world, there are many industrial and commercial goods that are widely used. However, because these things have been around for countless years, there are many businesses that operate them.
Similar to cloth, silk, pots and pans, all kinds of furniture and wood products, etc., are indispensable things in the lives of all ordinary people and eunuchs.
But there are also countless merchants who deal in these items. In addition to the royal silk shops and imperial merchants who specialized in supplying the imperial palace and the imperial court.
Other non-governmental ones, from handmade to sold, are mostly shared by different merchants or craftsmen, and share this part of the benefits together.
However, the glass trade that suddenly appeared was so versatile that it could compete with any of the most versatile items in the world.
Glass is different, glass has just appeared, and it has not yet been fully rolled out. It can be said that whoever seizes this opportunity will occupy an absolute profiteering advantage.
It can even be said that in terms of interests, as long as the glass business is mastered, its interests can override any big businessman in the world.
It was this sudden situation that made King Chengjun lose his sense of proportion, and he was not afraid of committing a royal taboo and would control the traffic roads of a state and county on such a large scale.
If the emperor didn't know that there was a problem with King Chengjun, he might really think that it was just a commercial dispute between the squires and the big merchants.
However, the emperor has now become wary, even if it is really just a battle between merchants, he will easily control the transportation of a state and county, which is enough to make the imperial power have a sense of crisis.
With Ding Bochang's narration, the gentlemen in the room had long forgotten what quality and demeanor were, and they were already scolded.
That is, when the restaurant guy knocked on the door to serve the food, Ding Bochang stopped, and everyone was indignant and drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat.
When the wine and food came up, several people gave way to each other and started, sipping wine and eating food, and opened the conversation again.
Zhang Xiaowu had stayed in Pingyang County and had a lot of contact with the people in the workshop, so he was very worried about the situation there, and asked: "There is news in the capital that your chief official, Lord Wei, asked his subordinates to carry a box of broken glass and talk to the prefect of Jianyang County. It's not that the roads are controlled, where does all that broken glass come from? Are there any casualties among the people transported? ”
Ding Bochang took a chopstick to stir-fry lamb, chewed and swallowed it with enjoyment, and said very proudly: "This matter is still Guangyuan's kid's flexible mind." Sent him a message before, asking him to find a way to take out some glass products for Lord Wei, so that he could compare them with the glass in the outside world.
But Guangyuan's kid didn't plan to ship goods out at all, he just spent some spare money, hired some poor villagers, and picked up some robbed broken glass along the road from different road sections. Then they came out separately and gathered such a box. ”
"This guy, he can figure it out?" Everyone nodded in unison.
Zhan Qi exclaimed: "Guangyuan's family is in business, and we really can't compare in this regard." By doing this, he didn't consume his own goods, and he didn't have to take risks. ”
Ding Bochang said with a smile: "Compared with the capital, the things in Pingyang County are not bad at all, not only can they compare with the glass quality of Jianyang County, but also so many exquisite glass products, they are all broken, which makes people extremely annoyed." I'll give it to you, and when you take out the broken glass and put it on the bookcase, it's an out-and-out tyrannical thing. ”
Shao Yi asked: "Listening to your words, it seems that Guangyuan sent you a lot of broken glass?" ”
"But no, those things, even I didn't expect them," Ding Bochang said, "If you want to say that the girl of the Xia family is really powerful, I don't know who sent them out, basically, the glass products that the head office of the Beijing Glass Store has, except for glass and embossed glassware, other items are available." ”
When he sent someone to Guangyuan halfway through, he just thought that Pingyang County was a semicolon sent out by the capital after all, and the number and variety of glass products must not be able to keep up.
Who knew that the broken glass sent by Guangyuan almost included all the glass varieties in the capital.
Ding Bochang said with a smile: "You haven't seen it, Lord Wei took out a few fragments of the glass interstitial, and then compared the transparent and colorless flat glass with the hidden green glass used in the prefect's room, the quality is ...... The high and low are immediate. ”
Shao Yi nodded and said, "Bochang and Guangyuan have done a good job, broken glass is actually better and more convincing." If the advantages and disadvantages of the two glasses are so obvious, the suppression of the glass shop in Pingyang County by the southeastern states and counties has indeed affected the tax revenue of the imperial court, and officials from all over the country can hardly escape the blame. ”
It depends on the emperor's plan to observe for a while longer, and completely take all the forces of the Chengjun Palace. Or take advantage of this opportunity to purge the officials of the southeastern counties first.
Ding Bochang exclaimed: "I don't know who Miss Xia sent to Pingyang County? It is so powerful, no matter the type or quality of glass products, it is the same as that of the capital. ”
Shao Yi is proud in his heart, all along, people who have mastered rare and exquisite crafts in the world, for fear of being learned, have hidden their skills, and passed on to men but not women, resulting in skills getting worse and worse in the process of inheritance, or even lost.
But Xia Yanqing didn't have this concern at all, her Mr. Bai had mastered her glass and glass skills.
The rest, like He Zhongzheng and Qiao Chensheng, as well as the craftsmen who are still working in the Xia family's workshop, have the opportunity to come into contact with the art of making glass.
With the participation of many people and the concerted efforts, the production volume of the glass workshop is getting larger and larger, and the variety of finished products is also increasing.
This is the guarantee that the handicraft technology can continue to be passed on, and it is also the key to the more and more exquisite glass skills.
Cheng Youting touched him and asked, "I heard that it was Miss Xia's husband who went to Pingyang County to preside over affairs, could it be that Miss Xia taught all the glass skills to that lady?" ”
Shao Yi said: "Yes, the first to try to make glass and glass is Miss Xia and Mr. Bai Xinbai. When Bai Xin led people to Pingyang County, she and a steward should have brought all the techniques of glass making. ”
A few people sighed when they heard it, how big of mind and trust does this have to be, so reassuring that people can bring glass and glass technology to such a far place in Pingyang County?
The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, isn't this Xia family girl afraid of being swept up by others and escaping, and going to other places to make her own money? Or sell the technology at a high price?