EBE Chapter 293 All I Know
Chapter 293 All I Know
"Ah I?"
Li Mengyao, who was originally just observing the situation, heard Tang Yu steer the conversation toward her.
She was taken aback at first, then quickly stood up and said to Tang Yu.
“Young Master Tang, I do know something about this, but my father did mention it to me.”
"However, this is not exactly a secret rumor."
Instead of being disappointed, Tang Yu looked at Li Mengyao intently upon hearing this.
"Miss Li, please tell me everything you know."
"Perhaps you know that it's not a top-secret rumor for you."
"But for outsiders, this may really be difficult to see."
Tang Yu actually had a reason for saying that.
First, he felt that since Li Mengyao knew this news and was able to own such a large cloth business at such a young age.
She is definitely a capable and well-connected person; perhaps she knows some secrets.
Another reason that supports Tang Yu's conjecture is that Tang Yu had once visited Li Mengyao's fabric shop.
In her fabric shop, Tang Yu saw the exquisite and high-quality fabrics she had woven.
Although it can't compare to the glamorous mystery left at crime scenes.
However, it seems that both the texture and the imitation method are very similar.
There's a subtle difference between the low-end and high-end versions.
However, upon closer inspection, one can perceive the differences.
However, since Tang Yu entered Handan City as the Imperial Advisor, he has mobilized many cloth experts in the city.
Tang Yu personally handled all the fabrics from the entire trading company, regardless of their quality or value.
Even other fabric merchants who were comparable to Li Mengyao's family had never achieved what Li Mengyao had.
Their fabrics are probably just as exquisite, or of equally high quality, otherwise they wouldn't have made such a name for themselves.
But their fabrics also have another characteristic, which is also their most distinctive feature.
That is, their fabrics are all woven using different techniques, and each one has its own unique characteristics.
None of them bore any resemblance to the cloth left behind at the scene.
If it were just one coincidence, then the fact that there are so many cloth merchants is definitely not a coincidence!
There must be some kind of connection between them, and perhaps it is this connection that led Tang Yu to go to their family's cloth shop from the very beginning.
Tang Yu naturally turned her gaze to Li Mengyao.
Faced with Tang Yu's question, Li Mengyao was taken aback at first, and then her expression fell into a state of reminiscence.
“Young Master Tang, this story goes back to when I was a child.”
"At that time, I was only six or seven years old, and His Majesty had just unified the six kingdoms. He led his people directly to the city of Handan in the Zhao Kingdom."
"At that time, I was already living in Handan City because my father usually did a lot of good deeds and made many friends in Handan City."
"So although Handan was captured, my father and our family were not implicated."
"Therefore, I was fortunate enough to survive that incident."
"When His Majesty arrived, he naturally used ruthless methods to vent his anger by giving extremely cruel punishments to those who had bullied him."
As Tang Yu listened to Li Mengyao's words, images of Zheng Ge's conquest of Handan flashed through his mind.
Tang Yu finally nodded, signaling Li Mengyao to continue.
Li Mengyao continued speaking slowly, reminiscing about her childhood.
"I remember that it was after the Ji family, which was famous for making cloth, was destroyed."
"After a period of decline, many cloth merchants emerged in Handan."
"At the same time, some of the Ji family's skills actually spread outside."
"It seems that when His Majesty destroyed the Ji family, he did not care about their mere weaving skills."
"After all, His Majesty's heart is filled with the world; how could he possibly care about such a mere piece of cloth?"
Upon hearing this, Tang Yu already had a general idea in his mind.
Perhaps this is why Li Mengyao was able to possess fabrics of similar texture to those from the Ji family.
"After His Majesty left, I heard from my father that although the Ji family's property was confiscated, the entire clan was slaughtered."
"But the problem is that His Majesty was merely venting his anger, confiscating a significant portion of their family's assets."
"However, these officials, for their own personal gain, actually sold all the techniques they used to make the fabric."
"Some sell only a small percentage, while others sell a large percentage."
“At that time, my father was also a cloth merchant, so he naturally needed the Ji family’s technology as well.”
"So my father asked his friend to spend a lot of money to buy the textile technology of this unique fabric from the Ji family."
"From then on, our family's fabric business began to thrive and started to grow."
"Similarly, during that incident, quite a few people also purchased the Ji family's mysterious fabric-making techniques."
Listening to Li Mengyao's words, Tang Yu understood why she thought this matter was not a secret.
Because back then, it's estimated that there were indeed many people who bought Ji family craftsmanship.
But nowadays, not a single one can be seen in Handan city.
There is clearly something fishy about this.
However, what Tang Yu now felt was the more critical issue was something else entirely.
He immediately looked at Li Mengyao in front of him and said seriously.
"But if that's the case, are you aware that the officials are selling their Ji family's unique cloth weaving techniques?"
"So, is it possible for anyone to buy his complete set of technologies?"
"Or perhaps, who could have obtained the remaining technology from that incident?"
Tang Yu asked this question with unusual seriousness because he had already found the key to the problem from Li Mengyao's words.
If we can pinpoint the target through this, then the problem will be much easier to solve.
If the target cannot be located, then the problem is also easy to solve.
Upon hearing Tang Yu's words, Li Mengyao was taken aback at first, and then hurriedly began to explain to Tang Yu.
"Young Master Tang, perhaps there was something wrong with my wording."
"But what I want to tell you is about that incident, after the Ji family was raided and exterminated."
"Although the various techniques that they had always kept secret within their family have been leaked out."
"But the problem is that their technology is divided into three processes, and our family got the second process branch."
"As for the third dyeing process, the softness of the fabric has completely disappeared."
"From beginning to end, there are only the first and second processes flowing out."
"The third process has never been leaked."