please make me king

Chapter 1643 The Return
"Baby Liu Wenxiu!"

"Baby Ainengqi!"

"I have seen His Royal Highness King Shun!"

"Okay, okay, good children, you have suffered!" Zhang Shun looked at the dark and immature faces of the two, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

These two are not as old as Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, and they are just junior high school students in future generations.

However, it seems really pitiful that the two children who are so old have to wander around with Zhang Xianzhong, kill people and set fires.

"Ye Yifu!" In fact, these two people are not too young and Zhang Shun is too young. The three of them are not so much father and son, but brothers.

It's just that when these two people heard Zhang Shun's words, their eyes turned red immediately.

It turns out that these two are also orphans who are loved by no one. The only time they can enjoy the love of mother and father is probably the short period of time when they are apprentices to Zhang Shun.

Now after hearing Zhang Shun's words, tears poured out uncontrollably.

"Hey, don't cry, don't cry!" Zhang Shun was in a hurry when he saw the two crying, and he didn't know how to comfort him.

"Hey, why did you make the two children cry?" Li Sanniang walked in at this moment, "complaining" to Zhang Shun, while looking at Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi.

"Oh, it's dark, it seems that you have suffered a lot these years, right?"

"No, it's nothing!" The two couldn't help but smile awkwardly, a little embarrassed.

Li Sanniang didn't ask any more questions, but after a few polite words, she turned and went to the kitchen to cook some side dishes for them.

Zhang Shun asked Gao Qiqian to bring another jar of good wine, and entertained the two of them in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The dishes are home-cooked dishes, and the wine is home-brewed. Although it is not very rich, it has a warm taste.

When he was full of wine and food, Zhang Shun smiled and said: "The past is over, from now on, work hard and make a career out of it while you are young."

"The military situation is urgent, and I can't stay for too long, but if you need anything, just ask me, and I will try my best to provide it to you."

"This..." Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi looked at each other after hearing the words, and then they spoke.

"My child has been in the south for a long time, but I have no place to stand. I lack bows, arrows, gunpowder and cotton clothes. Please help me, Your Highness."

"Oh? No problem!" Zhang Shun nodded upon hearing this, and couldn't help laughing.

"The gunpowder for bows and arrows is simple. I'll ask the Ministry of War to allocate it to you later. But I've already prepared the padded clothes. Would you like to try them on?"

"Huh? Then... that's fine." The two of them didn't know what kind of medicine Zhang Shun sold in the gourd, so they nodded in doubt.

Following Zhang Shun's order, Gao Qiqian walked in with two eunuchs not long after.

The two little eunuchs each held a tray, and on the tray were neatly placed two cotton-padded clothes, the color of which was the blue color common in the Ming army.

"Try it and see if it fits!" Zhang Shun said with a smile.

"Oh?" Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi stretched out their hands in doubt, and couldn't help but let out a "huh" in surprise.

"This...why is this padded coat so light?" The two looked at Zhang Shun suspiciously.

The inner liners of cotton-padded clothes in this era are mainly made of cotton. If they are made thick, they will be very heavy to wear on the body.

However, these two cotton coats are so soft and light.

"This is called a down jacket!" Zhang Shun laughed, "I ordered someone to stuff it with chicken, duck, geese and other poultry down. It's very warm."

"I have one myself. I was sweating profusely when I wore it out a few days ago. I just asked your stepmother to cut down the fleece for me!"

"Down?" Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi dubiously took off their old cotton coats, and put on the "down jacket". After a while, they felt that the heat was completely trapped in the clothes, and the whole body became hot.

"Thank you Yifu for giving me the clothes!" Only then did the two realize that this is a good treasure, they couldn't help but bowed quickly.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, this time you go to Liaodong, it's not as cold as northern Shaanxi, it's much colder. I specially asked the craftsman to do this, just because I was worried that you would be frozen!" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing.

It's just that as soon as he said this, Zhang Zhoutian and Zhu Sinu behind the screen could only roll their eyes.

Do you know why?

It turned out that the rebel regime was newly established, and everything was not complete.

Before Zhang Sanbai and Zhao Lizi asked for cotton-padded clothes, Zhang Shun ordered someone to collect the stock. If there was not enough, he removed the stored cotton clothes to make up for it. Only then did he barely make up more than 1 cotton-padded clothes.

Now that Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi are two new battalions coming, how can Zhang Shun make cotton clothes with him?
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Shun suddenly remembered the cotton coat he often wore in winter in his previous life—the down jacket.

Down jackets, down jackets, as the name suggests, are cotton clothes filled with down.

Zhang Shun didn't know much about the specific process of this kind of clothes, but this didn't prevent him from guessing the warming effect of down.

As soon as he said it, Zhang Shun immediately ordered people to collect the down.

This capital is a prosperous place, and there are not a few chickens, ducks and geese consumed every day, so some down was quickly collected.

Zhang Shun looked at it and saw that the down was dirty and big, and it was difficult to stuff it into the interlayer.

So, he asked Li Sanniang and other women to pick out some for him, cleaned them, and steamed them in the upper pot.

After drying, cut it into pieces with scissors, stuff it into the cotton-padded jacket, and then fix it inside with warp and weft threads, so a simplified version of the down jacket is made.

However, Li Sanniang and the others didn't know the warming effect of this down, so they stuffed a catty of it according to the amount of cotton.

Good guy, wearing this down jacket filled with a catty of down, even in the cold winter months, Zhang Shun was sweating profusely.

It turns out that the fluffiness of this down is far higher than that of silk and cotton, even if it has not been scientifically sorted, it is better than cotton in terms of warmth.

Zhang Shun couldn't help being overjoyed, and quickly ordered his soldiers to collect down in Beijing and nearby cities.

This thing is not worth much, and it took more than a month of hard work to collect enough raw materials, and then hired female workers to make "down jackets".

Then Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi also heard that it was freezing in Liaodong earlier, and they were quite afraid.

Now that Zhang Shun has prepared a good "baby" for him, he is immediately overjoyed, and there is no complaint.

Seeing that the two were very satisfied, Zhang Shun smiled and said, "Both of these fit well, so there is no need to change them. You can put them back on in a while."

"By the way, both Dingguo and Kewang picked two court ladies, and you two will pick two later."

"These women are all from rich families. Treat them well. After you make contributions in the future, you may be a regular wife or a concubine. It will be a good talk!"

Then Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi couldn't help being overjoyed when they heard the words, they all bowed their heads and bowed, thanked them a lot, and then left reluctantly.

After Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi left, Zhang Shun gave the order: "Everything is ready, we only owe Dongfeng. It seems that we can tell Li Dingguo to immediately command the Dongjiang and North Korean troops to attack Phoenix City!"

"This time, the harder the fight, the better the attack, and the faster the better. Trying to attract Houjin's main force is a great achievement!"

(End of this chapter)