Chapter 246: Spies

At the parting banquet, all the adults expressed their reluctance to the emperor with tears, and the emperor comforted these pretending ministers softly.

The friendship between the monarch and the minister was rumored to be a beautiful talk for a while, but these had nothing to do with Mu Rou.

She just looked at Mu Yunqian's family unwillingly, and really wanted to get the support of Muyunqian's family, but now she had no chance at all.

At this moment, her heart was full of remorse and unwillingness.

But no matter how unwilling and uncomfortable she was, there was no way out, because she was about to leave here.

On the occasion of parting, all the officials who had relatives in Jiangnan had someone to see them off, but only Song Chen and Mu Rou were empty here, which made countless people feel funny.

However, all of this has nothing to do with Mu Yunqian.

At this moment, Mu Yunqian has already figured out what links there are in the competition of the imperial merchants.

There are three kinds of tryouts for the emperor.

The first item is cloth, the second item is rouge gouache, gold and silver jewelry, and the third and most important item is all kinds of precious medicinal herbs.

The first two of these three seem to be simple, but in fact they are extremely difficult, because after the competition for the emperor and merchant starts.

None of them will sell their best goods to their opponents, so what Mu Yunqian has to do now is not to collect and buy, but to develop.

With the background of Mu Yunqian's family, it is not difficult to get a good cloth workshop.

However, the dyeing of the cloth is the focus next.

The recipe for dyeing has always been the most important secret of all families, except for a few masters in charge of dyeing and the family, no one else will know the material of dyeing and how to dye it.

It is because of such secrecy that after the master of Mu Yunqian's family was rebelled, he lost the cloth market so quickly.

The people who can dye at home are gone, and they have no advantage, so they can only give up the market for cloth.

Thinking of this, Mu Yunqian had a little headache, cloth dyeing has never been a simple matter.

However, since Mu Yunqian dared to get the cloth first in the first place, he naturally had his own reliance.

Now Mu Yunqian took a few materials in his hand and began to prepare to mix a color - purple.

The Zhen family relied on the fine purple in their hands to get the opportunity to enter the palace to pay tribute to the purple cloth.

Therefore, if Mu Yunqian wants to defeat them, he does not need to make other more perfect dyed fabrics, but directly blocks them from the most fundamental source.

As long as the Zhen family is the best at and the most valued by the royal family, then their family's advantage will be reduced by half.

Therefore, Mu Yunqian will now solemnly prepare all the tools and start making purple.

It was the first time for Mu Yunqian to mix this color, and she had only memorized it in her mind before, but she never thought that she would use this color one day.

Therefore, in the case of only knowing the formula, but the proportion is not clear, the only thing that can be done is to test it over and over again.

This was undoubtedly a boring and tedious part, but the hard work paid off, and after three full days of experimentation, Mu Yunqian successfully blended a beautiful purple color.

Looking at the dreamlike color of the purple cloth that was mixed by himself, a trace of confusion flashed in Mu Yunqian's eyes.

Such a beautiful color is many times more beautiful than the purple that appeared in the Zhen family's house. ok essay network

If the purple of their house is a purple with a strong inky taste, then the purple that Mu Yunqian blended at this moment is a very pure and bright purple.

After Mu Zheng knew that the purple was blended, he took the lead in bringing people to check it, and when he saw the beautiful and perfect purple, he instantly understood what this purple represented.

He decisively ordered the steward to lead five hundred families to surround this place firmly, and not allow any news to leak out, and all the craftsmen's masters, together with their families, were taken to the Zhuangzi next door.

It is necessary to ensure that the purple color will not be leaked, and at the same time, it also prevents this group of masters from defecting from the family when they are tempted by heavy financial interests.

But where in the world is there an impermeable wall?

What's more, the other three major families in Jiangnan have always been wary of the Mu family.

When Mu Yunqian led the craftsmen who dyed the cloth to stay in Zhuangzi for three days, this matter could not be hidden from the eyes and ears of the other three families.

Although they didn't know why Mu Yunqian was with the workers who dyed the cloth, it did not prevent them from starting to infiltrate and excavate the cloth village.

Among them, the Zhen family was the most interested in Mu Yunqian's matter of not pretending to be a person, and they were also the most eager to know the answer.

In the end, they are still not right, afraid of the shadow, they deceived the craftsmen of color mixing and dyeing from the Mu family, although the family has become bigger and bigger over the years, but the weakness of the heart can not be erased, after all, the things in their hands are snatched from others.

Although the Mu family has not moved over the years, the Zhen family has never relaxed their vigilance.

Even though they have been dyeing cloth for decades, who knows if there is any secret recipe in the family that can help their family soar in the dyeing business.

In the past, the Mu family had never been too defensive about these technologies, so the previous Zhen family easily stole the Mu family's technology.

But now Mu Zheng has already taken precautions, causing the Zhen family to try their best but they have not been able to find the person who leaked the Mu family's recipe.

This made the Zhen family feel more and more that the Mu family was preparing to make some big conspiracy this time to completely attack their Zhen family.

But after all, this is Jiangnan, and because the emperor has just left, Jiangnan's crackdown on thieves is still very high at this time.

They didn't have a way to steal it directly, so they used a compromise method.

Mujia's cloth village is twenty miles away on the outskirts, surrounded by mountains, and there is a stream with good water quality.

In the past, all the water used by the Mu family to eat and prepare dyeing materials was taken from here.

Today, as usual, the servants of the Mu family went to the creek to fetch water.

Just as the two of them were chatting, they suddenly felt faint in front of them, and both of them fainted.

After the two of them fell unconscious, someone immediately put on their clothes and walked towards the Mu family's Zhuangzi with a bucket.

The two of them cautiously walked towards the door where the servant had just come out of fetching water, where there were two guards, but they were now idle and bored, bragging and farting.

After seeing the two of them walking back, they didn't check at all and let them go directly.

The spies who had thought they were going to knock out the two more people were stunned, but they quickly accelerated into the area with the bucket.

But what they didn't expect was that when the two of them walked in, the two guards immediately nodded to each other, and then one of them pulled a small raised point in the corner of the wall.

Mu Yunqian was studying dyes of other colors at the moment, and suddenly a bell sounded in his ears.

Hearing the ringing of this bell, Mu Yun sighed lightly.

"Sure enough, it's time to come."