Why did the Chinese keep silk production a secret?
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Silk became a prized export for the Chinese. Nobles and kings of foreign lands desired silk and would pay high prices for the cloth. The emperors of China wanted to keep the process for making silk a secret. Anyone caught telling the secret or taking silkworms out of China was put to death.
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So that they can be dominant ruler and most of the rulers would depend on them for silk. It would make them powerful with more money. So this is the reason they kept the silk invention as a secret.
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