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

Ma Sanbao said on the side: "Whether it is galloping on a horse, or holding a bow and shooting arrows, it will not be affected!" If you start a war in the winter, wearing a down jacket won't make a difference! ”

Li Xiuning said: "Sanbao, you reminded the palace!" ”

"What?" Ma Sanbao was stunned.

Li Xiuning said: "I didn't expect that the problem of the Northern Plague in the Central Plains for thousands of years was unintentionally solved by General Chen. ”

"Uh......"

When Ma Sanbao first started, he didn't think so far. After Li Xiuning's reminder, he also understood.

Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Xiongnu have invaded the Central Plains from time to time, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil. The Xiongnu slowly became a big problem for the Chinese people. Although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered Mobei twice with the strength of the country, and almost defeated the Xiongnu to the verge of extinction, but did not fundamentally solve this problem.

Later, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty beat the Xiongnu into two divisions, with the surrender of the Southern Xiongnu, during the Wuhu Rebellion, Ran Min led the Central Plains Han people to resist the tyranny of the Hu people, and wiped out the Xiongnu and the Xianbei people, but the Xianbei people rose again in the northern grasslands. The Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty established by the Xianbei people ruled the north for more than 300 years. As the Xianbei tribe killed each other, it gradually declined, and then the Turkic tribe began to rise again.

Of course, Li Xiuning didn't know that after the Turks were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, there would be Khitan, Jurchen, Mongol and other tribes rising up in the steppe.

This is not a problem that no one has failed to see for thousands of years. However, even if you see it, you can't solve it, but the northern border is really bitter cold, as long as you cross the Great Wall, the more north it is, the colder it is, even if the Central Plains Dynasty is strong, you can overwhelm Zhuhu militarily, and you can also beat them thousands of miles away, but because of the bad weather, the Han people have no way to survive and take root in Mobei.

If the Han people can take root in Mobei, rely on the few water sources in Mobei, reclaim the land, form a cluster, and slowly assimilate the local Hu people to form a Chinese family.

The main reason is that the weather is so bad that the Han people have no way to withstand the bitter cold here for 30 years.

However, the down jacket that Chen Ying made, although it weighs less than two catties of down, can perfectly solve the problem of keeping out the cold. In this way, as long as all the down jackets are promoted, the Han people can take root in Mobei and adapt to the local harsh climate.

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

"Sanbao, immediately match the car, the palace is going to enter the palace!"

……

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

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

Chen Ying, in line with the principle of not taking advantage of the cheap, is a bastard, almost swept away the duck feathers and goose feathers of the entire Chang'an City at a price of free delivery.

Chen Ying searched Chang'an City and obtained a total of more than 6,000 catties of various downs, although the quantity sounds like a lot, but because there is no way to puff it, it is impossible to make many pieces of down comforters and down jackets.

At this time, Chen Yingfu's mansion became a busy factory. Chen Ying temporarily recruited thirty or forty helpers from the street for ten cents a day, and these helpers were busy cleaning the down. Originally, the four cauldrons in the kitchen were no longer enough, so Chen Ying had to temporarily build twelve four-foot-diameter smashes in the yard to keep steaming the down at high temperatures. Similarly, the fire in the drying room is also day and night.

The subordinates and thirty or forty helpers in the house were also too busy to touch the ground. Of course, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of these people, Chen Ying not only gave them the starting money, but also gave them additional meals, not only the small rice can be eaten, but also each person can eat a piece of fat weighing about half a catty at every meal.

"Lang Jun, we can't go on like this!" Lan'er was very dissatisfied with Chen Ying's generosity, and pursed her lips and said unhappily: "We have to eat more than 200 catties of grain a day, and more than 30 catties of meat, even if there is a mountain of gold and silver, sooner or later it will be defeated by Lang Jun!" ”

"It's okay!" Chen Ying smiled disapprerovingly: "When our batch of down jackets is processed, we will make a fortune!" ”

Lan'er said: "Two good catkins with a width and length of eight feet can be sold for 1,200 yuan, how much do our duvets cost?" ”

The duvets and down jackets that were made first were not sold by Chen Ying, except for the two bedding and two sets of down jackets given to Princess Pingyang and Ma Sanbao, the rest were distributed by Chen Ying to the people in the house for free.

Chen Yingdao: "The catkins quilt is only for the general wealthy people, I heard that the nobles are covered with fox white blasphemy, four one-zhang fox white blasphemy will be sold for at least twenty-eight times, our four pieces of down quilts wide and one zhang long will be sold for fifty times, each set of duvets with six catties of down, plus silk and labor costs, each bed of duvets will be sold for 100 pieces!" ”

"What? A hundred? ”

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

Chen Yingdao: "Don't think that a hundred is a lot, there are many rich people in Chang'an, our duvet is lighter than the fox white, and the effect is better than the cold, if it is not for the easy imitation, I still want to sell a thousand guan a bed!" ”

At this moment, Li Chuqi panted and said, "Lang Jun, there is an old man without a beard outside the door!" ”

Chen Ying came to the door and looked at a man in a white-faced green robe with a folded face.

Behind the man was a group of Left Guards.

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

When Chen Ying heard this, he was very entangled in his heart, he was actually a eunuch.

Do you kneel, or don't you kneel?

However, before Chen Ying knelt, the eunuch said: "General Chen, our family is passing on an oracle, don't kneel and make a big salute!" ”

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

The eunuch said: "According to Your Majesty's instructions, it is rumored that Chen Ying, the general of Ningyuan, will immediately go to the Ganlu Hall to see him, and there will be no delay." ”

"Obey the order!"

Chen Yingchong arched his hand to the eunuch and said, "I didn't ask my father-in-law what to call him?" ”

"Our family can be called father-in-law!" The white-faced eunuch lowered his eyebrows and smiled lightly: "Our family name is Chen Mingqi, and we are the permanent attendants of the Ganlu Palace." ”

"It turned out that Chen Changzhi was in person, and we were still a family five hundred years ago." Chen Ying stretched out his hand to make a gesture of inviting in, and said with a smile: "Chen is too sloppy, so to go to see the driver, it is too unseemly, Chen bathes and changes clothes, and then Chen Chang enters the palace to see the driver!" Please wait a minute! ”

Chen Ying couldn't figure out Li Yuan's intention to see him at all, and if he didn't figure out Li Yuan's intention, he wouldn't dare to enter the palace. Even if he is in exile, Chen Ying will never let himself become a fish to be slaughtered.

Chen Qi smiled slightly, followed Chen Ying into the front hall of Chen's mansion, and after a while, a maid slowly entered the hall with tea.

Chen Qi also happened to feel thirsty at this time, and suddenly his eyes were straight when he held the teacup.

There was not a drop of water in the teacup, and there was no tea leaves, but a silver judgment of about ten taels was placed.

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

At the beginning, Chen Ying thought that the eunuchs in the TV series all 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: "Chen Changshi, how does Chen's tea taste?" ”

Chen Qi said with a smile on his face: "General Chen's mansion is very good at brewing tea, Chen Qi drank it this time, and he will have to come to the mansion to disturb him in the future!" ”

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

"How does this work!"

Although he said how to make it, Chen Qi put away the money bag with a swish.

Chen Ying walked out of the front hall with Chen Qi and asked in a low voice, "Chen Changshi, I don't know why Your Majesty summoned Chen?" ”

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

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