After the empress transmigrated, she became the judge of the entertainment industry.

Chapter 289 Is this her good fortune?

Sheng Hanyu added a few more sentences, but they were mostly information that could be found publicly online.

“Okay,” he said after thinking for a moment, “I’ll contact my sister now, and we’ll have a meeting.”

Ye Sanqing nodded, also thinking it would be better to directly include Gong Yao in the conversation.

The Ye family didn't use the Fu family's shipping routes, but since the Gong family did, it's good for them to get involved now, so they don't have to repeat themselves later.

Sheng Hanyu made a video call, and Gong Yao answered quickly.

She seemed to be at home, and immediately asked, "Brother? Aren't you in training camp? What's wrong?"

Gong Yao has a house near the school, and she usually stays at her own home.

Although there are beds in the dormitory, she rarely stays there unless there is an early morning shift, because her major has a lot of design assignments, some of which require physical objects and some require drawings.

Once you get into this kind of thing, it's normal to stay up late often, so many students choose to rent apartments off-campus to avoid interfering with each other.

"Yaoyao, Master Ye and I have something to discuss with you. Is now a convenient time?" Sheng Hanyu turned her phone around, and Ye Sanqing waved at the camera.

Gong Yao: !!!

She's been doing homework all afternoon and most of the night, is this her good fortune?

They just had dinner together, and now it's evening. Have they been together for that long?

Gong Yao thought to herself, "This is really... If it weren't for the need to keep it a secret, she would have rushed to the super topic to post about it right now."

"I'll make you a cup of coffee, you tell me."

Gong Yao got up to make coffee.

Although she has a housekeeper who takes care of her daily life, she doesn't like anyone else to be nearby when she does her homework, so she usually just asks the housekeeper to prepare dinner and then leaves.

She listened to Sheng Hanyu explain the Fu family's affairs while she made coffee.

"By the way, the Lu family is actually also somewhat involved in this matter. I think I told you about it last time, the Lu family..."

Sheng Hanyu, recalling her previous collaboration with Ye Yifan which had caused some harm to the Lu family, also mentioned it.

"Haha, the Lu family has produced such a greasy man, no wonder you all want to attack them." Gong Yao laughed for no reason, "They produce so much oil, it's hard not to attack them."

When Ye Sanqing heard this analogy, she didn't quite understand it at first, but then she thought that oil must also be an important resource here, and she understood it.

Areas with abundant resources are also easy targets for attack!

But is Lu Wang's potential considered a resource...? So this must be a joke.

Sheng Hanyu also laughed and said, "Yes, and we've already attacked part of it."

He explained that it had only caused some damage to the Lu family's peripheral businesses, and that the businesses had changed hands several times, so no one should have realized that it was their doing yet.

Moreover, Lu Wangqian will not go to Africa to mine until after the wedding, and they will intensify their efforts while he is away from the country.

Ye Sanqing checked the date and realized the wedding was still about two weeks away. In that case, it would be difficult not to attend…

Gong Yao clearly knew about the wedding and asked, "Can I attend? Although they sent an invitation to our family... they're really overestimating themselves..."

Sheng Hanyu hadn't expected her to make such a request, but then she thought that Gong Yao also loved watching the excitement, so she turned her attention to Ye Sanqing.

"I was planning to go take a look. You... if you don't have class, you should be able to go, right?"

Ye Sanqing thought for a moment and said that she remembered that Gong Yao's courses were quite demanding and he had a lot of homework, so he was not much less relaxed than Ye Siqing.

Fortunately, she doesn't need to go to university!

"Great!" Ye Sanqing suddenly felt very fortunate. If she had transmigrated before the college entrance examination, it would have been a nightmare.

Of course, there were similar educational exams in the interstellar era, but as the emperor, she had received special education since she was a crown prince, so she had never participated in them. In fact, she even had to participate in setting the questions.

“I can spare a day or two. I want to see how big a show Ye Wanyin is going to make this time.”

"And look at the interaction between you and my brother..." Gong Yao kept these words to himself.

“Then I’ll go too,” Sheng Hanyu said after thinking it over.

Gong Yao went, and he had better be there too, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble the Lu family might cause.

Although Ye Sanqing was gone, and Gong Yao should be generally safe, it wasn't Ye Sanqing's obligation, so Sheng Hanyu felt it was still necessary for her to be present.

"Okay, let's continue talking about the Fu family," Ye Sanqing concluded.

Sheng Hanyu finished adding what she wanted to say, and Ye Sanqing also mentioned the Ye family's plans to purchase the dock and abandoned cargo ship, as well as the subsequent plans for the lighthouse island and inland river warehouses. Gong Yao seemed to be thinking and remained silent for a while.

Sheng Hanyu also got up and poured two cups of tea, handing one to Ye Sanqing.

Since we're getting down to business, let's not drink for now.

"So where's the entry point? These assets must be useful after being acquired, right? I feel like I'm also providing them with funds."

Gong Yao asked in confusion, "This can't be considered a business attack at all. In fact, it even helped the other party deal with their bad assets."

“That’s what we’ll be discussing next,” Sheng Hanyu said.

He also knew that there were no obvious benefits to buying these assets in the short term, but based on his understanding of Ye Yifan, it was very reasonable for the Ye family to take this as a first step if they wanted to get involved in the shipping industry.

"Let me tell you what I know first. They have a golden shipping route, mainly connecting East Asia to Northern Europe. This route is monopolized by the Fu family, and there are no other shipping companies. Our family has a series of furniture that relies on importing wood from this route. So we have a partnership with them."

"But... there's a problem here. I discovered it a long time ago, but I couldn't deal with it because I didn't have an alternative route."

Gong Yao frowned and said, "After being transported by them, the wood's testing indicators will fluctuate, and they will be different from those tested in Northern Europe. According to the Fu family, some natural chemical reactions will occur during transportation, so the difference in data is normal."

"However, the indicators for these timbers show no pattern. To make it easier to understand, let me put it this way: suppose one box has one element exceeding the standard, the second box has another element, and the third box has both..."

“Even if you take the location of the containers into account, this kind of fluctuation wouldn’t occur. I generally believe that each of their containers has different problems, such as substandard paint, etc.”

"But we can't change the shipping route, so we have to process the timber ourselves after we receive it, which has increased costs significantly and extended the processing time. Right now, the profits are still enough to cover the costs, but if this continues, we might as well cut this series off."

Gong Yao explained it in a way they could understand: Sheng Hanyu was fine, but Ye Sanqing wasn't an industry insider, so it was better to explain it clearly.

“We are also looking for alternative timber sources, but we haven’t found any yet. To be honest, this series used to be one of our flagship series, with considerable sales every year. Even with a thin profit margin, it could still help maintain the brand value. But if this continues, it will turn into a loss.”

"The Nordic route..." Sheng Hanyu also fell into deep thought.