Although in today's era of chemical synthetic fiber products, silk is still a treasure sought after by many nobles. The appeal of silk products to women, like classics, has not faded with time, but has become more cherished.

For silk products, An Xiaoyu knows a little bit, she has seen it in books, she has seen it in ancient documentaries, and she has also looked up relevant information on the Internet.

The process of making cloth from silk was produced in ancient times, and the history has been about 15,000 years ago. The first real silkworm reeling workshop in history was established in the court of a vast kingdom to provide silk products for the royal family.

The process of silk reeling, as the first manual step in the production of silk, did not change from manual operation to mechanical production through 15,000 years of development.

In the Three Thousand Empires, there were still many silk workshops, relying on a craft passed down from generation to generation, turning silkworm cocoons into silk and weaving silk into cloth. Unlike in ancient times, today's silk products are not cheaper because of the operation of handicrafts, but they are more precious.

But the handicraft was not preserved because of the skyrocketing prices.

In the documentary that An Xiaoyu once watched, she thought that the old silk reeling craftsman once said to the camera: "The reason why silk reeling needs to be operated by hand is not only because the silk produced by manual operation is closer to nature, nor because the handicraft is more accurate than the machine process, but because every silk reeling worker needs to use his own hands to feel and experience, every life that passes from our hands, the final pain." ”

The introduction of silk reeling in the 3000 encyclopedia is as follows: "One of the traditional handicrafts of the empire, the process of turning silkworm cocoons into silk." ”

The specific process of silk reeling, first of all, needs to put the silkworm chrysalis wrapped with countless lives into a special boiling soup with a temperature of nearly 100 degrees, so that the silk threads in the silkworm cocoon are separated, and then the silk threads on the surface of the silkworm cocoon are separated by hand.

This process can be said to be the most mind-consuming step in the entire silk reeling process. Every silk reeling worker needs to take the cocoon out of the hot pot with his hands, feel the high temperature of the cocoon, and treat the cocoon before the silk is re-bonded.

When processing, it is necessary to rely on the naked eye to distinguish the fine silk, remove the floating thread on the surface, retain the neat and intact silk in the inner layer of the cocoon, extract the silk, and then use tools to do the next step of processing.

Therefore, later generations have long used the term "peeling off the cocoon" to describe the extremely meticulous behavior of analyzing things.

It is a job that requires both physical and spiritual trials. However, the old silk reeling worker said: "Many young people, including many workers who are doing silk reeling work, do not understand why we still have to bear such high temperatures with our hands and suffer such torture with our eyes." But when they reach my age, they will understand that only in this way can they wait for their end without guilt. ”

Since that time, An Xiaoyu has had due respect for every silk reeling worker.

Although An Xiaoyu doesn't like silk products, the girls who grew up in the Eastern Wilderness prefer cotton and linen products with a slightly rough texture, just like the wind and sand in the Eastern Wilderness, rubbing her skin and letting her find the warmth of her hometown.

But this did not affect An Xiaoyu to remember the content of silk reeling that she saw in her heart.

And what An Xiaoyu is doing now is such a process of peeling off the cocoon.

She was puzzled, in such a situation, the Three Thousand Empire had just finished purging the imperial capital, why would the gray rope create such a big thing?

An Xiaoyu sat at her desk, the light of the lamp illuminating her face. A thick book of information was placed in front of her, and her slender fingers pinched the corner of a page of information. It didn't take long for my fingers to move slightly and turn the next page.

She was looking at the investigation materials handed to her by Baume & Mercier, about the gray industry under the Third Liao Family and their business dealings with the underground forces.

Although Grey Rope is one of the four major underground forces in the imperial capital, it is clear that it does not have the ability to clean up the other small forces around and within them. To achieve such an effect, it is obvious that it will cause a lot of unrest, and I am afraid that the empire will intervene at that time.

As a result, many small organizations coexist with the four underground forces of the imperial capital in the huge city of the imperial capital.

Abbreviated on the information, the connection between the third Liao family and the underground forces is not only limited to the gray rope, but in fact, it is more of a small force around the gray rope.

Maybe Gray Rope is not too jealous and trusting of the third order family like the Third Liao Family, so the relationship between them is more like a business partner than an ally.

But even if it is a business partner, An Xiaoyu can still see from these materials that the third Liao family is really keen on underground forces.

has been a commercial family in the imperial capital for so many years, in fact, all third-order commercial families, including the third royal family, are very clear. The empire did not allow the merchant family to be promoted to the second and first sequence, so the third Wang family found another way, and Wang Zhenyan developed into military power.

Some of the other business families still maintain their own business industries, some try to develop in other directions, and some even want to escape into the dark side, seeking a higher starting point and a more ambitious future in another world.

The third Liao family is obviously a typical example of the third type of business family.

As for why the empire does not allow the business family to continue to be promoted, the approximate reason An Xiaoyu can guess a little, it is nothing more than that the empire wants to control politics, military, science and technology, and the economy, and only needs to control one of them.

The various fields of the empire are closely related, and only one of these four major projects needs to be controlled, so that the overall situation can be controlled and the overall situation of the three thousand empires can be completely controlled. Of course, this kind of control requires an absolute control.

As the political center, the imperial cabinet is mostly composed of ordinary people and family talents, and the members are chaotic and complicated, not to mention that it is still in the center of the country's sight, and it is obviously able to play a better role by relying on legislation and self-development, and cooperating with the supervision of the Ministry of Supervision.

The military side is relatively independent, but has a simpler and more rigorous set of rules of conduct. Moreover, the power of the military, as a weapon of the country, should not be held too tightly, and it is not easy to provoke if the strength is strong, so put them in a transcendent position, and the mission of the military will drive them to become the shield of the empire.

In terms of science and technology, the Three Thousand Academy is the leader, and it can be said that almost one-third of the top talents in the empire are spread over various fields, and they all belong to the subordinate factions of the Three Thousand Academy. These graduating students don't seem to have any factions, but if something happens to the Three Thousand Academy, they will become the most powerful civil society in the empire.

I can't afford to mess with it, I can't afford to mess with

Therefore, at the top of the empire, they chose to control the economic power that was easy to bully in their hands, which could not only enrich the treasury, but also contain the other three major forces, and the price they needed to pay was also the smallest, so why not?

An Xiaoyu understands that it is not the people at the top of the empire who are ruthless and playing with the world, but that any force needs such a mechanism to integrate forces in all directions, so that it can ensure the stability of the general environment and the correctness of the general direction at the cost of forming a class level.

Although the emergence of this level will inevitably lead to the emergence of class contradictions.

The third Liao family is obviously one of the families facing the contradictions between the merchant family and other first- and second-order families, and it is one of the first families to bear the brunt.

Because the Liao family, as one of the families that have become a commercial family in recent years, they made their fortune from the commercial industry of the imperial capital, and most of their assets are gathered in the imperial capital. I wanted to go to the local area, but I found that the local forces had been roughly formed.

Their strength is not enough to compete with the various forces in the imperial capital, and they are not satisfied with going to the local area to disperse and develop. This kind of situation is really head-scratching.

Third, the head of the Liao family is still in the hands of the old man back then, and I don't know how many life-sustaining means have been used, so he has survived to this day.

It's not because Old Man Liao really has such a big addiction to controlling Daquan, but because the children under the third Liao family really don't grow up.

Old man Liao finally waited for his sons to grow up, but found that they were all mud and couldn't support the wall. For the sake of the development of the Liao family, he decided to continue to be in power on his own and wait for the growth of the third generation. However, no matter how much it cost and hard work, when his grandchildren grow up, they are still the same bear.

Is this what is called a nest of bears?

Old man Liao really had no choice, and finally survived until his great-grandson grew up, and the result was still like that. But the difference is that among the great-grandchildren, there is a person with high talent.

It's a pity that his talent is not in business, but in the dark.

Old man Liao really had no choice, so together with this great-grandson, he planned to gradually turn the family's industry into a black industry and join a large underground force.

Relying on the economic industry and wealth accumulated by the family for many years, Old Man Liao is confident that he will be tempted by those underground forces, even if he can't be called the mainstay of the big forces, if he removes the mainstay, even if he is the middle stream, he can wait for death with peace of mind.

The big force they chose to join was obviously the Gray Rope.

Third, over the years, the Liao family has consciously or unintentionally begun to develop into the gray business, and has continued to show favor to the gray rope. But the gray rope seems to look down on the third Liao family, or simply wants to delay and test the bottom line of the Liao family, so they are all waiting.

And the third Liao family, in order to ensure their status after joining the gray rope, did not show such an urgent will, but continued to trade with the small forces around the gray rope, telling the gray rope, if you don't want me, I can find survival value in a random place.

Gray Rope: "Hehe! ”

So the situation of the third Liao family is just like what An Xiaoyu saw in the information, an embarrassing batch.

An Xiaoyu looked at the information in his hand and roughly understood the relationship between the third Liao family and the gray rope, which can be regarded as a relatively clear investigation result so far. It's a pity that it doesn't help things now, and she is more concerned about two issues now.

Why did the gray rope appear at this time? What are they going to do to kill Lu Yuqi again?

The express box delivered by death was obviously given to Lu Yuqi, and according to Zhang Shitong's style of acting, it was obvious that Lu Yuqi was going to be assassinated.

Baume & Mercier had previously denied the possibility that Lu Yuqi could be the next victim of the serial violent death case in the girl's apartment, because Lu Yuqi's home is in Jingxi Province, and there is no connection with other victims, and there are no conditions required to steal the body.

An Xiaoyu rubbed her eyebrows, why is this?

Thinking about it, she suddenly thought of another thing.

Lu Yuqi had obviously quit drinking before, and Wei Qingxuan's brand alcohol quitting pills had an outstanding effect, but why did Lu Yuqi go to the bar and get drunk again yesterday?

Did something upset her? And he also took a bite of other people's experiences.

Wait a minute......

That manager, is his surname Liao?

The sound of flipping through the materials sounded again in the light of the lamp.