HLnovel Chapter 175
Chapter 175
Guo Xin glanced at Su Jin, then looked at Gao Jianren who had not yet recovered from his shock, and said calmly: "It's okay, I wonder if Jianren Gao has any writing brushes and ink, I would like to borrow them."
Su Jin is an upright and bold person, but she lacks the keen insight into people's hearts. If she were to stay in this small courtyard, I'm afraid she would not be able to reminisce about the past with Carpenter Gao.
Moreover, my eldest sister also came to this courtyard with me. Now I cannot let her know about this matter. I will just use the excuse of delivering the letter to let her leave the courtyard.
Turning around, he saw Craftsman Gao who was still in a daze, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Craftsman Gao! Please lead the way."
Craftsman Gao turned around quickly, unable to hide his joy, and said, "Hey, I'll lead the way right away."
After everyone left, Gao Jianren couldn't help but ask, "Did you also come from another world? The end of the world?"
Guo Xin nodded and said, "Is the skill you learned in the end times to make glass?"
In the past, in order to continue various cultures and technologies, everyone spontaneously learned various skills so that one day, when the end of the world came and the day of light came again, they could rebuild their homes as quickly as possible.
Craftsman Gao nodded vigorously, looking at Guo Xin as if he had seen a treasure, and said excitedly: "I just traveled through time the year before last, and during that time I met many craftsmen who also traveled through time like me, but they were of low status and did not dare to stand out too much."
Guo Xin looked at Master Gao with a smile in his eyes, but did not respond.
Although it is a happy thing to meet an old friend in a foreign land, this is no longer the end of the world and we need to be more cautious in everything.
It's fine to just be a superior-subordinate relationship with fellow townsmen, but if you want to do more with her relationship, you need to reconsider.
When Gao saw that Guo Xin didn't say anything, he understood and put away the joy on his face. "I know it's a pipe dream to expect to win your trust when I first arrived. I was rude. Do you want to develop glass technology in Dazhao now?"
"I can't say I'm going to develop it, I just want to build my own glass workshop. If possible, I hope that every corner of the Jokhang Dynasty can use high-quality and low-cost glass."
There are some truths and some falsehoods in her words. The glass workshop is real, but it is just the first step in her plan to build her own business empire. The glass workshop, hot pot restaurant, wine shop, etc. are just the prototypes of the business empire. She hopes to become the richest person in the Dazhao Dynasty.
In the previous life, everyone had a dream of getting rich, hoping to own trillions of wealth. However, it was the end of the world at that time, resources were already tight, and it was extremely difficult to survive.
But in this life, she is the granddaughter of the General of Cavalry, and possesses technology that the Zhao Dynasty did not have. The daydream of her previous life can come true.
Upon hearing this, Craftsman Gao shook his head slightly and said, "As far as I know, Dazhao does have products like glass, but due to the limitations of technology, it is difficult to develop them into high-temperature resistant vessels. This is one of the reasons why I encountered distrust when I brought glass to sell.
Only the rich and powerful can use glass in the market, and it is only used as decoration. If you want to reproduce the glass of the past life, it will cause a lot of turmoil in the Zhao Dynasty. Are you sure you can take it?"
Craftsman Gao opened a wooden cabinet in the corner, and inside was a crystal clear glass vase with a small mouth and a large belly, and diagonal patterns on the surface. It was an extremely standard and ordinary glass vase in the previous life.
Looking further inside, there is a glass bowl as big as a bowl and as deep as a fist.
Guo Xin looked at the bowl and vase, reached out and touched them, "I have taken what you said into consideration. My willingness to take on this naturally means that I am able to take the risk. You don't have to worry about this. You just need to provide the number of craftsmen like you that are available."
"Thirteen." Craftsman Gao blurted out. He looked at Guo Xin and said, "If I bring them all into this glass workshop, we need to treat them very well."
Guo Xin touched the oblique patterns on the vase, which felt uneven. He was about to agree immediately, but then he remembered the letter Zhao Liu had written to the third prince to recruit craftsmen.
Although glass craftsmen are different from blacksmiths, they both use high-temperature baking. If all of them were requisitioned by the court, how would she get the craftsmen to build her own business empire?
What's more, although my grandfather is an unshakable figure in the current dynasty, he has now formed an alliance with the prince. Logically speaking, there is no need to worry about the instability of his position.
However, if the military power and the people's hearts are in the hands of a general, it will arouse the emperor's suspicion. If he has no money, how can he smooth relations and keep his family safe?
A new monarch has new ministers; aristocratic families may remain unchanged, but emperors may come and go. If one can use money to spread a reputation that "a gentleman loves money, gets it in a proper way, and uses it for the people" and then smooth out relationships, then no matter who is the monarch, his family will be safe.
Therefore, the craftsmen could give part of it to the court, but they had to keep part of it in their hands.
"I can agree to your request, but as a craftsman, you must be able to know about the turmoil on the border through the craftsmen you know, and there must be a lot of craftsmen working for the court. Therefore, I can't take all of them."
Gao Jianren said, "I understand. We will discuss and find a suitable person to work for the court in your name."
He lowered his head and looked at his hands which had become rough and cracked due to recent contact with high temperatures, chemicals and other products, and then secretly glanced at Guo Xin who was dressed gorgeously in front of him.
I couldn't help but pinch the corner of my clothes, and sighed again that their destinies were different. They both traveled through time, but why was one a high-ranking official and the other just a "cobbler"?
Guo Xin saw through his thoughts and said, "You don't have to envy my fate. I'm not much better off than you, but I may have arrived earlier than you."
She spread out her hands, which were still covered with thin calluses from farm work and developing new dishes.
He added: "God has given us a chance to start over again. In this life, we will fulfill our common ideal at the end of the world and build our ideal home in the Jokhang Dynasty."
Craftsman Gao hesitated and said, "There is still a big gap between your status and mine. How can we talk about building a utopian world?"
He had this ideal when he first came into this world, but as time went by, the class gap had softened his bones.
“The ideal world we seek is of course hard to come by, but if we can slowly change the world bit by bit with the ideas and thoughts we have accumulated over time, it would be a beautiful thing.”
Craftsman Gao looked at Guo Xin who was becoming more and more confident as she spoke, and shook his head in his heart. He just thought that the girl was young and full of energy and was dreaming.
Change? How easy is it?
Since he came here, he met many people from his hometown by chance, but it didn't take long for everyone to lose their previous ideals and beliefs and go with the flow like the people here. The few fellow villagers who persisted also lost their initial pride.