Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1147 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 73

Some people are already dealing with wool. The carpets in the Middle Eastern countries further west than the Western Regions, such as Persia, are now quite famous. However, the odor removal is not very good. The wool blankets and felts used by the Junggar nobles still have a smell that is hard to ignore.

Especially in a place like Junggar, braziers are needed for more than half a year every year. Under the heat, the smell of wool blankets and felts becomes more and more obvious. Therefore, even though Persia pays tribute to it with very exquisite wool blankets, wool felts and spiral ink every year, the only popular one is the spiral ink for drawing eyebrows.

Therefore, if wool is to be usable and easy to use, the first thing is to clean and deodorize it, because there is a layer of grease on the wool fibers, and this grease is easy to breed various unpleasant odors after being contaminated. Ordinary cleaning with hot water and wood ash is not enough.

Furthermore, wool is shorter and more difficult to spin into thread than silk, cotton and linen, so a combing process is required to make the wool neat so that it can be spun into thread.

The weaving process after spinning the yarn can be said to have precedents. After all, wool blankets are not rare items. If ordinary families in Beijing do not mind the strong smell, they can use them as door curtains in winter, which are very useful for blocking wind and insulating heat.

Although Yue Xing'a is not smart and even seems a little stupid, after experiencing the death of his father Longkodo, he understands more clearly that the decline of the Tonggiya clan is inevitable. Unless he has the talent of a military marquis, he will not be able to pull the Tonggiya clan out of the abyss.

But to put it nicely, he is just an average person, to put it bluntly, he has no other advantages except being honest. Even though his cousin Fahai from the next door is still valued, the two families had a falling out a long time ago, and their relationship is now mediocre. He can't pin all the hopes of his children and grandchildren on his cousin from the next door, with whom he has an average relationship.

So when Princess Chao Gui mentioned that the Queen had an important matter for him to do, he brought out all the young and obedient sons of the clan without thinking.

Yue Xing'a was just not smart enough, but he was not stupid. Even though he lacked the orthodox education of a child from aristocratic family when he was young, his vision was still incomparable to that of children from poor families. So Jiang Xinxin only gave him a method to wash wool and said that woolen clothes were very effective in keeping out the cold, and he saw the end of the Mongolian cavalry.

Of course, what touched him most after this was Jiang Xinxin's actions. At night, he couldn't help but sigh to Princess Chaogui: "I have only heard that the Queen is virtuous and capable of ruling her subordinates, and can easily suppress Nian Gengyao who is at the peak of his power. But I didn't expect that the Queen is more capable of long-term planning. If this woolen coat is really made, the decline of Mongolia will be just around the corner."

Princess Chaogui felt sorry for Jiang Xinxin. "If the eldest prince Honghui from the imperial sister-in-law's family was still alive, I wonder how glorious the imperial sister-in-law would be today. The prince she raised would definitely be better than the third and fourth princes."

Yue Xing'a remembered the rumors about the residence at home. After thinking for a while, he said to his wife Princess Chaogui: "There is a reason why the Queen is distant and dislikes Ulanara. Queen Chunyuan had an engagement before she married the emperor as his first wife. Later, when the Queen was pregnant with Prince Honghui, Ulanara sent Queen Chunyuan, an unmarried girl, to visit the palace. This is very suspicious in itself."

Yue Xing'a was quite sensible and stopped talking here, but the rest was known to those who understood. Princess Chao Gui suddenly realized, "No wonder the emperor's sister-in-law always seems to dislike my brother. It seems that the death of my nephew, whom I have never met, is not innocent. My brother and Ulanara must have been involved."

Yue Xing'a did not say a word. The situation in his family was similar to that of Dapangju's residence. The only difference was that Queen Chunyuan became Prince Yong's original wife and was posthumously named Queen Yuan, but his father forcibly promoted a concubine and killed his mother and his biological sister.

Even though Li Si'er and her son and daughter are gone now, Yue Xing'a would wish to grind Li Si'er and her family of four to ashes once again when he thought of the scene in which his mother was turned into a human pig and stuffed into a dark vat, barely surviving.

So he now moved directly into Princess Chaogui's mansion and had no attachment to the Tong family's house. He only took away his mother's dowry and sealed up the rest of the things along with the mansion. Now he worked hard for the queen so that one day he would have the opportunity to let her mother divorce and no longer be bound by Tong Jia.

And the glory he earned belonged only to him and had nothing to do with people like Longkodo of the Tonggiya clan.

Princess Chaogui had no idea that Yue Xing'a had so many things hidden in his heart, but seeing that during the New Year Yue Xing'a almost only mentioned his mother-in-law Hesheli and his younger sister who died young, she understood a little bit, so she never took the initiative to mention Longkodo, Tong Guowei or even Yue Xing'a's grandmother, old Hesheli.

Yue Xing'a certainly felt Princess Chaogui's respect, so he became more determined to help the Queen do the wool-making thing. This way, he could easily make a great contribution and also help Princess Chaogui to get closer to the Queen.

He knew too well what it was like to be ignored by those in power, for example himself. As the eldest son of Longkodo and the heir of the Tonggiya clan, he should have had more resources. However, because Longkodo forcefully promoted Li Si'er and her two sons, he not only had to stay away from Li Si'er and her two sons, he almost lost his life.

Purchasing wool was very easy, and Yue Xing'a began to get busy. Princess Chaogui was a little uncomfortable in the first two days without Yue Xing'a's company, but Jiang Xinxin assigned her the task of accompanying and entertaining the Mongolian princesses, and she soon became busy. Every morning at dawn, she had to think about how to help Jiang Xinxin, and she had to pay special attention to not accepting gifts from some people, and she had no time to think about Yue Xing'a.

As for Mongolia, although it is said that the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia are friendly allies for generations, they have always been wary of each other in their hearts, especially when the Qing Dynasty fought against the Dzungar Khanate again, which made Mongolia see the strength of the Qing Dynasty again. Therefore, even if some of them had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the situation, they were ultimately defeated by reality and did not dare to act rashly. They even had to send more generous gifts to the Qing Dynasty to show their loyalty.

This time, Emperor Yongzheng visited Mongolia, and Mongolia had to reconsider the way to get along with Emperor Yongzheng, so the female relatives brought along this time reaped a lot of rewards. However, Jiang Xinxin was not in a hurry to launch the wool business, as it was not easy to do business that was too demanding. What she wanted was for the Mongolians to spend a lot of money to beg her to do business with her.