Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 69: Down Quilts and Down Jackets

Before she knew it, Lan'er, who was snuggling up to Chen Ying, fell asleep.Chen Ying hugged Lan'er and gently put her on the bed, and he fell asleep shortly thereafter.

At some point, the night sky was cloudy.Clouds piled up in the sky, the cold wind howled, and the biting cold woke up sleeping Chen Ying.Chen Ying looked up and found that Lan Er had shrunk into a ball.

In this day and age, the price of quilts is very high.The quilt is an important "property" of the ancients and one of the symbols of wealth.According to "Liang Shu·Pei Zhiheng Biography", Pei Zhiheng didn't learn well when he was young. In order to encourage him, his brother Pei Zhigao intentionally made a narrow quilt to cover him, and only fed him vegetables.Pei Zhiheng swore: "If a man is rich and honored, he must make a hundred quilts!" Later, Pei Zhiheng really prospered, and he really made a quilt with a hundred widths.

In ancient times, two feet and two were divided into one piece, which was about [-] centimeters into one piece. One hundred pieces is this big quilt, which can be called the "first quilt in ancient times". How to cover.

Chen Ying was so frozen that he didn't feel sleepy at all, and put the quilt on Lan'er, but Lan'er was still curled up.In the Tang Dynasty, cotton had not been popularized yet. The stuffing in the quilt was catkins, such as reed flower, willow catkins, cotton (silk scraps), and thatch can be used as catkins. Chen Ying’s quilts were filled with catkins, although the value Very high, but the warmth retention is much worse than cotton.

Chen Ying stood up gently, put on a wolf fur cloak, and went outside.Suddenly, the ground was covered with a layer of snow.

Even though he was wearing a cloak, the cloak seemed to be made of paper, unable to block the biting cold wind at all.

Looking at the falling snow in the sky, Chen Ying suddenly realized the problem. In such a cold weather, how many people would be frozen to death at night. After dawn, how many people in Chang'an City would cry.

Although Chen Ying knows that cotton is an excellent material to keep out the cold, this cotton is still a rare commodity in the Tang Dynasty. At least Chen Ying has never seen cotton. Even if cotton is popularized, it is not a day or two. Can be promoted.

However, Chen Ying knew that keeping out the cold wasn't just about quilts and cotton coats, heating stoves, and down jackets.

Suddenly, Chen Ying slapped his head, secretly thinking that he was stupid.

The city where Chen Ying lives is known as one of the eight major feather markets in China. Every summer, the entire town’s land of more than 160 square kilometers is stinky and the air is polluted. Although the human living environment is very poor, Chen Ying has seen it for free. A complete set of down processing and production technology.

Although down jackets are very common in later generations, there are not too many people who really understand the processing technology, and the down processing technology is actually not complicated. In this era, it can be done by hand.

This can not only keep out the cold, but also open up a source of income for Chen Ying.

As soon as it was dawn, the whole Chen Manor was called up by Chen Ying.The eighteen servants were all shivering from the cold, especially Li Chuqi's lips were black and purple from the cold.

Chen Yingdao: "Now I have one thing for everyone, go to the West Market to buy duck feathers!"

"Lang Jun, why do you want that thing? It can't be eaten, and it can't keep out the cold." Zhou Mancang, the youngest and youngest of Chen Ying, felt that it was necessary for him to tell Xiao Lang Jun to be diligent in housekeeping.

"Don't worry about it, go out and buy duck feathers!" Chen Ying said, "As long as it is duck feathers on the market, you can pay as much as you want, and you will be given five cents per catty."

Chen Ying felt that the price should be very fair, and in later generations the price of down would be more than 30 yuan per catty.The duck feathers used as raw materials are only over [-] catties after being converted to Wuwen, which should be cheap enough.

The six men broke up in a rush, and each carried tens of catties of money to the market to buy duck feathers.

About half an hour later, the coachman Lao Zhou was the first to come back. He went out in a carriage, and when he came back, he actually loaded a whole carriage with more than two hundred catties of duck feathers.

However, what surprised Chen Ying the most was the money that Lao Zhou brought, which was less than [-] yuan.

Seeing Chen Ying's astonished gaze, Lao Zhou immediately became elated.

Lao Zhou said: "I didn't buy duck feathers. This thing is dirty and not easy to clean up. I bought ten jugs of wine and went to a few cooked butcher shops, and each one gave away their useless duck feathers. I'm dead!"

Chen Yingdao: "Lan'er, write it down, Lao Zhou is rewarded with a hundred dollars for his work, unload the goods, and continue to buy, more is better!"

When old Zhou Yi heard that there was a reward, he laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Master, look at it, I'll bring all the duck feathers from Chang'an City!"

He Liu said: "Mr. Lang, what do we want this for?"

"Do as I said, clean the duck feathers and put them in the pot to steam for half an hour!"

He Liushi, Hongxiu, Lvzhu and other maids hurried up and down together.

Down processing process is actually very simple, basically can be divided into three steps, the first step is to clean foreign matter, the second step is high temperature disinfection, the third step puffing.

Because ducks actually have not only parasites, but also a large number of germs. Without this set of links, it is easy to cause skin diseases or other adverse effects when wearing them.Now Chen Ying does not have puffing technology, which is also the most critical high-tech thing. In fact, this does not affect the production of down jackets and duvets. At most, it is unpuffed down, which affects the appearance to some extent.

The four cauldrons in Chen's house were neatly filled with washed duck feathers, covered with lids, and heated for high-temperature disinfection.

After the duck feathers were disinfected, Chen Ying discovered a new problem.

Now that it is snowing, it is not easy to dry naturally.But the weather is too cold and time waits for no one.Chen Ying asked Liang Zan to invite some masons to transform the three miscellaneous rooms into a drying room according to Chen Ying's design.

After more than 300 kilograms of high-temperature sterilized duck feathers were dried in the drying room, Chen Ying asked Lan'er, Lvzhu, Hongxiu and other maids to start sewing duvets.

Chen Ying, who was freezing to death, had had enough of sleeping under the catkin quilt every day, and what he wanted most was to sleep under the light duvet.

Fortunately, these women's female celebrities are quite skilled, and quickly completed the unskilled quilt sewing work.

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Princess Pingyang's mansion, although Princess Pingyang has a good system, but in such freezing weather, Li Xiuning can only wait in the mansion, unable to get out.

Li Xiuning, who still insisted on exercising, practiced sword on the snow, and didn't put the sword back into the sheath until his forehead was slightly sweating.

At this moment, I saw the maid Tweety walking over with a big red package in her arms.

"Lan'er, what is this?"

"Reporting to Her Royal Highness, this is sent by General Chen!"

Upon hearing that it was a gift from Chen Ying, a warm look appeared on Li Xiuning's face.Li Xiuning nodded incredulously.

"What are you?"

"General Chen said, what kind of duvet is it?"

"Duvet?"

Li Xiuning looked curiously at the duvet, which was four widths wide and nearly ten feet long: "Will I be short of such things?"

Tweety said: "General Chen, you also specially ordered that Her Royal Highness must try it?"

(End of this chapter)