After the Chinese New Year, my younger brothers, who had work to do, left Kyoto one after another.

And the major issues that Yinreng was concerned about also had a solution.

More than ten years ago, a caravan brought back two long-wool sheep from abroad. Yinreng thought that the two sheep could be shaved and their wool extracted, and perhaps spinning cashmere yarn would become a reality.

However, since the amount of wool that could be shaved off the two sheep was not enough to be used as spinning material, Yinreng asked the man to feed the two sheep carefully and shave their wool every summer.

Later, the two sheep gave birth to several pairs of lambs. Now the flock has become very large, and the cashmere collected over the years is also very considerable.

Last year, Yinreng found a few craftsmen who were good at making leather materials. They first cleaned the grease on the cashmere and made it clean without any odor. Then they found experienced spinners to spin the cashmere into yarn.

Yinreng knew that such thick thread was not suitable for weaving into cloth, so he racked his brains to dig out his ancient memories and knitted a scarf himself.

Although it was a bit ugly, the group of women who often dealt with textiles soon got inspiration from it.

In addition, they had the sweater pattern drawn by Yinreng as a guide. After a group of people worked intensively for more than three months, the first sweater of the Qing Dynasty was officially released.

It was still summer at the time, and Yinreng happily tried it out himself, and generously rewarded the women who participated with a lot of gold and silver.

Then he called Yinzhen into the palace.

Yinzhen had a neutral opinion of the sweater because it was a pullover and Yinzhen thought the way he put it on was a bit indecent.

Yinreng did not explain too much to him, but just asked him to promote cashmere spinning and go to the Northeast to investigate whether the local long-wool sheep were suitable for cashmere spinning.

Even though Yinzhen didn't understand, he still obediently accepted the task.

He has never suffered any loss in doing business by following his second brother's ideas. No matter what his second brother wants him to do, he will do it without question.

After investigation, Yinzhen concluded that the local long-wool sheep could also be used to produce wool, so this year his silk shop added a new business - selling cashmere yarn.

There are also people dedicated to promoting the technology of knitting sweaters, so a revolution in the clothing industry is quietly taking place.

In addition to this incident, the first middle school in the capital was successfully opened after the New Year.

The first batch of students was selected from ten primary schools, and they had to wait another three years to go to university.

Today, primary schools have opened in cities near the capital and are radiating to even more distant places.

Some adults have also begun to learn literacy under the influence of the factory's recruitment policy, and everything is moving in a good direction.

In April of the tenth year of Xiangyi, Yinreng received a letter from the West, which was sent by Yinzhen.

Also delivered at the same time were two ships of gold and silver ore, as well as various kinds of gems.

After reading the letter, Yinreng realized that his elder brother and his men had successfully occupied a piece of land there and had obtained the mining rights to most of the local iron and coal mines. They were now instigating their neighbors to go to war with the empire.

The money sent back to the capital was the deposit for the weapons.

The reason why Yinzhen sent the letter back was to ask for talents.

Professional mining and smelting talents.

Yinreng was not a stingy person. He immediately selected thirty craftsmen from various places and set off for the West.

As for the orders for firearms, there is no rush for these things. Just make them within a year and send them over.

Now, the one with technology is the boss.

Even if they openly embezzled the deposit, I believe the local natives would not dare to confront them.

After seeing them off, Yinreng heard that Chengfeng had found a small toy from the public and wanted to give it to Yuanbao, so he went to Yuanbao's residence to take a look in person.

This one look made him discover something extraordinary - the toy was actually the prototype of a motor.

Whoever invented this gadget must be a genius in electromagnetism!

Thinking of the neon-lit city streets of later generations, Yinreng could no longer sit still.

Let Chengfeng bring the toy maker to him.

He waited anxiously in the palace for three days before Chengfeng brought a trembling young man to him.

Looking at the young man in front of him who was obviously suffering from social anxiety, Yinreng smiled warmly.

After careful questioning, I learned that this young man came from a farming and reading family in Shandong, and had passed the child examination and became a scholar several years ago.

In fact, he had been particularly interested in studying things since he was a child, but his family did not support him. After he passed the imperial examination and got married, his family relaxed their control over him, so he had more time to study the things he was interested in.

In recent years, the imperial court has highly praised all kinds of inventions. Someone near their home invented a farm tool that was useful for threshing wheat. After submitting it to the patent office, he received a large sum of money.

After his family understood this, they no longer opposed his study of things.

The toy that Chengfeng gave to Yuanbao was a bamboo windmill that could be turned by the proximity of a magnet. He had spent a lot of time and effort to make it.

After asking about these things, Yinreng promised on the spot to allocate a laboratory for him so that he could study the principles behind it and how to store that energy and use it in other places.

He would also bring his wife, children and parents to the capital and give them an additional salary of twenty taels of silver every month.

The young man was surprised and grateful, and he knelt down on the spot and kowtowed several times to express his gratitude to Yinreng.

In July of the tenth year of Xiangyi, the people who served Kangxi in Changchun Garden brought news that Kangxi was ill, and asked Yinreng to recall all the princes who had been released to Kyoto and take turns to go to Changchun Garden to serve him.

No one except Yinreng and Kangxi himself knew that this was a signal that Kangxi's end was approaching.

He also understood that Kangxi wanted to see his sons one last time before he died, so he wrote several letters that night and had them delivered as quickly as possible.

Watching the messenger walk away, Yinreng felt a little uncertain.

It’s easy for the princes in the Qing Dynasty, but the eldest brother and the other three are far away in the Middle East, and it’s not known whether they can catch up.

After sitting there for a while, Yinreng got up to look for Yuanbao, and then took a carriage to Changchun Garden.

Past and present lives were constantly intertwined in his mind. Yinreng felt that he should only have hatred for Kangxi and no other feelings. But when Kangxi really came to the end of his life, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Although the emotion was not as strong as when he saw the third brother die in front of him, it still made him look gloomy and lose interest in everything.

Yuanbao also noticed that something was wrong with his father, but he didn't know how to comfort Yinreng, so he could only sit obediently beside Yinreng and accompany him quietly.

During the one-hour journey, the father and son did not even exchange a single word with each other.