Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 71 Liu Chengyin

Li Xiuning is very satisfied with the cold protection effect of the down jacket.She happily danced her sword in the snow.

Ma Sanbao said from the side: "It doesn't matter whether you are galloping a horse or drawing a bow and shooting an arrow! If there is a war in winter, wearing a down jacket will have no effect!"

Li Xiuning said: "Sambo, you reminded me!"

"What?" Ma Sanbao was stunned.

Li Xiuning said: "I never expected that General Chen would unintentionally solve the millennium-old problem of the Northern Hurricane and the Central Plains."

"Uh……"

When Ma Sanbao first started, he didn't think so far.After being reminded by Li Xiuning, he also understood.

Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Huns have invaded the Central Plains from time to time, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil.The Xiongnu gradually became the confidant of the Huaxia clan.Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered Mobei twice with the power of the country, almost beating the Xiongnu to the point of extermination, but it did not fundamentally solve this problem.

Later, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty split the Xiongnu into the northern and southern parts. With the surrender of the southern Huns, Ran Min led the Han people in the Central Plains to resist the tyranny of the Hu people during the Five Husbands. rise again.The Northern Wei and Northern Zhou regimes established by the Xianbei have ruled the north for more than 300 years.As the Xianbei people killed each other, they gradually declined, and then the Turkic people began to rise again.

Of course, Li Xiuning didn't know that after the Turks were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian and other tribes would rise up on the grassland one after another.

This problem has not been overlooked for thousands of years.However, even if you see it, you can’t solve it. It’s just that the northern frontier is really bitter and cold. As long as you cross the Great Wall, the more north you go, the colder it will be. , but because of the bad weather, the Han people had no way to survive and take root in Mobei.

If the Han people can take root in Mobei, relying on the few water sources in Mobei, reclaim the land, form a settlement, and gradually assimilate the local Hu people, forming a family of Huaxia.

The main reason is that the weather is so bad that the Han people have no way to resist the 30-year severe cold here.

However, the down jacket made by Chen Ying, although it only weighs less than two catties, can perfectly solve the problem of keeping out the cold.In this way, as long as all the down jackets are popularized, the Han people can take root in Mobei, which is suitable for the local harsh climate.

Thinking of this, Li Xiuning didn't dare to be careless.

"Sambo, get a car right away, I'm going to enter the palace!"

……

Chen Ying didn't know that Li Xiuning had already entered the palace with his down jacket and duvet, and that Li Xiuning had raised this "invented" thing by Chen Ying to a national strategic level.

In fact, Chen Ying's down jacket is not a down jacket, because it is not puffed, so it is not as beautiful as the later generations, but the effect of keeping out the cold is very good.

Based on the principle of not taking advantage of what is available, Chen Ying almost wiped out all the duck feathers and goose feathers in the entire Chang'an City at a free price.

Chen Ying scoured the city of Chang'an and got a total of more than [-] catties of various downs. Although the amount sounds like a lot, because there is no way to puff it, it is not possible to make many down quilts and down jackets.

At this time, Chen Yingfu's mansion seemed to be a busy factory.Chen Ying temporarily recruited [-] to [-] helpers from the street at a wage of ten yuan a day, and these helpers were busy cleaning the feathers.The original four large pots in the kitchen were no longer enough, so Chen Ying had to temporarily build twelve large pots with a diameter of four feet in the yard to continuously cook the down at high temperature.Likewise, the fire in the drying room is kept burning day and night.

The servants in the mansion and thirty or forty helpers were also busy without touching the ground.Of course, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of these people, in addition to giving them starting wages, Chen Ying also gave them extra meals. Not only the rice is delicious, but each person can eat a piece of big rice weighing about half a catty for each meal. Fat.

"Lang Jun, we can't go on like this!" Lan'er was very dissatisfied with Chen Ying's generosity, pouted her mouth and said in displeasure: "We have to eat more than 200 catties of grain and more than 30 catties of meat a day. Mountains of gold and silver will be defeated by the Lord sooner or later!"

"It's okay!" Chen Ying smiled disapprovingly: "When our batch of down jackets are processed, we will get rich!"

Lan'er said: "A good catkin quilt can be sold for [-] yuan for two pieces with a width of eight feet and a length. How much will our duvet be sold for?"

The down quilts and down jackets that were produced in a hurry were not sold by Chen Ying. Except for the two quilts and two sets of down jackets that were given to Princess Pingyang and Ma Sanbao, the rest were distributed by Chen Ying to the people in the mansion for free. servant.

Chen Yingdao: "The catkin quilts are only used by rich people. I heard that the nobles are covered with fox white quilts. Four pieces of one foot long fox white quilts need to be sold for at least 28 pieces. Our four pieces of one foot long duvet quilts sell for fifty pieces. Each set of duvet uses six catties of down, plus the cost of silk and labor, and each duvet sells for one hundred pieces!"

"What? One hundred strings?"

Lan'er stared at Chen Ying dumbfounded, she really wanted to know if Chen Ying was crazy about money.

Chen Yingdao: "Don't think that there are a lot of one hundred guan. There are a lot of rich people in Chang'an. Our duvets are lighter than fox white quilts and have a better effect on keeping out the cold. If it weren't for the fact that it is easy to imitate, I would still like to sell one thousand guan. Where's the bed!"

At this moment Li Chuqi said out of breath: "Mr. Lang, there is an old man without beard coming outside the door!"

Chen Ying came to the door and looked at a man in green robe and tunic with a white face and a broken face.

Behind the man is a group of left guard soldiers.

Seeing Chen Ying come out, the white-faced man cleared his throat, and said in a voice like an old duck: "General Ning Yuan, Chen Ying accepts the order!"

When Chen Ying heard this, he was very troubled that he was an eunuch.

Should I kneel or not kneel?

However, before Chen Ying could kneel down, the eunuch said: "General Chen, our family passed down oral instructions, don't kneel down to perform the grand ceremony!"

Chen Ying quickly bowed and stood up, bowing his head and obeying orders.

The eunuch said: "Your Majesty has ordered you to tell General Ningyuan Chen Ying to meet you at the Palace of Ganlu immediately without delay."

"The minister obeys the order!"

The eunuch Chen Yingchong cupped his hands and said, "I haven't asked you how to address your father-in-law?"

"Our family can be called father-in-law!" The white-faced eunuch said with a low eyebrow and a slight smile, "Our family name is Chen Mingqi, and Tian is the regular attendant of Ganlu Palace."

"It turned out to be Chen Changshi in person. We were still a family 500 years ago." Chen Ying stretched out his hand as if to invite him in, and said with a smile: "Chen is too sloppy, and it is too disrespectful to go to see him like this. , Chen takes a bath and changes clothes, and then Chen Changshi enters the palace to meet you! Please Chen Changshi wait a moment!"

Chen Ying couldn't figure out Li Yuan's intention to see him at all, if he didn't understand Li Yuan's intention, he would not dare to enter the palace.Even in exile, Chen Ying would never allow himself to be slaughtered.

Chen Qi smiled slightly, and followed Chen Ying into the front hall of the Chen Mansion. After a while, a maid slowly entered the hall with tea.

Chen Qi also happened to be feeling thirsty right now, and suddenly his eyes widened while holding the teacup.

There was not a drop of water or tea leaves in the teacup, but a silver ingot of about ten taels.

Chen Qi looked left and right, but found that no one was paying attention to him, so he covered it with his sleeve, and put the ingot of silver into the sleeve calmly.

At the beginning, Chen Ying thought that eunuchs in TV dramas love money, which is a lie.From Chen Qi's skillful action of collecting money, Chen Ying knew that this Chen Qi usually collected black money.

Chen Ying showed a knowing smile: "Changshi Chen, how does Chen's tea taste?"

Chen Qi said with a nonchalant smile on his face: "General Chen's mansion makes good tea. After Chen Qi drank it this time, he will come to the mansion to bother him in the future!"

"Welcome Chen Changshi at any time!" Chen Ying took out another generation of copper coins, about two hundred pieces, and handed them to Chen Qi, saying: "Brothers came here through the wind and snow, it's really hard work, take it to buy wine, warm body."

"How does this work!"

Although he was talking about how to do it, Chen Qi put the money bag away with a swish.

Chen Ying walked out of the front hall with Chen Qi, and asked in a low voice: "Chen Changshi, why does Your Majesty summon Chen?"

Chen Qi said in a low voice: "It's not our family talking too much, General Chen just needs to understand that it's a good thing!"

Hearing this, Chen Ying felt relieved and followed Chen Qi towards the Ganlu Palace.

(End of this chapter)