Xia Li might have vouched for Chen Qing, but Xia Li was completely unreachable.
The news revealed by the Babalu Family indicated that Xia Li and other School Mechanics of the Mechanical Association had gone to deal with a troublesome matter, with an indefinite return date.
Chen Qing could only start with the competitors of the commerce guilds and the Red Snake Family.
However, all the major guilds were in cahoots with the Mechanical Association, and unless Chen Qing could pay several times the original price, they would consider selling her the goods.
But whether they had what she needed was uncertain.
As for the competitors of the Red Snake Family... people do not wake early if there is no profit to be made.
To influence them, Chen Qing would inevitably have to offer something beyond money.
In short, acquiring the military factory core was going to be difficult.
Unless Chen Qing decided to steal it.
That was not necessarily out of the question...