Please ask me to be the emperor

"My child Liu Wenxiu!"

"Baby Enengqi!"

"I have met His Highness King Shun!"

"Okay, okay, good children, you have suffered!" Zhang Shun looked at the dark and immature faces of the two people and said with a little heartache.

These two people are not as big as Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang. In future generations, they will only be junior high school students.

However, it seems really pitiful that two children of this age have to wander around with Zhang Xianzhong before they are even minors, committing murder and arson.

"Father!" In fact, these two people are not much younger than Zhang Shun. The three of them are more like brothers than father and son.

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

It turns out that these two people were also orphans who had no one to care for or love them. The only time they could enjoy mother's love and father's love was probably the short period of time when they apprenticed under Zhang Shun.

Now after listening to Zhang Shun's words, tears welled up uncontrollably.

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

"Hey, why did you make the two children cry?" Just then Li Sanniang walked in, "complaining" about Zhang Shun, and looking at Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi.

"Oh, it's dark. It looks like you've suffered a lot in recent years, right?"

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

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

Zhang Shun asked Gao Qiqian to bring a jar of good wine and entertained the two of them in the Yangxin Hall.

The food is home-cooked and the wine is home-made. Although it is not very rich, it has a warm taste.

After he was full of wine and food, Zhang Shun smiled and said: "What happened in the past is in the past. From now on, work hard and make a career while you are young."

"The military situation is urgent, and I can't stay too long. If you have any needs, just ask me and I will try my best to provide them for you."

"This..." Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi looked at each other before speaking.

"The child has been in the south for a long time and has no place to stay. He is short of bows, arrows, gunpowder and cotton-padded clothes. Please help me, Your Highness."

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

"The gunpowder for bows and arrows is simple. I will ask the Ministry of War to allocate it to you later. But I have already prepared these cotton-padded clothes. I wonder if you want to try them on?"

"Huh? Then... okay then." The two of them didn't know what medicine Zhang Shun was selling in his gourd, so they couldn't help but nodded in confusion.

Following Zhang Shun's order, Gao Qiqian walked in with two eunuchs.

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

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

"Oh?" Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi stretched out their hands to grab it in confusion, and couldn't help but say "Huh" in surprise.

"Why...why is this cotton coat so light?" The two of them couldn't help but look at Zhang Shun with puzzled faces.

The inner liner of cotton-padded clothes in this era was mainly made of cotton. If it was made thick, it would be very heavy to wear on the body.

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

"This is called a down jacket!" Zhang Shun said with a smile, "I ordered people to stuff the down of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry into it. It is very warm."

"I have one myself. It was so hot when I wore it a few days ago that I was sweating profusely. I just asked your stepmother to slim it down for me!"

"Down?" Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi doubtfully took off their old cotton clothes and put on this "down jacket". After a while, they felt that all the heat in their bodies was trapped in their clothes, and their whole bodies became warm.

"Thank you stepfather for giving me the clothes!" Only then did the two of them realize that this was a good treasure, and they couldn't help but hurriedly paid their respects.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. This time you go to Liaodong, it will be much colder than in northern Shaanxi. I specially asked the craftsmen to make this, just because I am worried that you will freeze!" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing.

But as soon as he said these words, Zhang Zhoutian and Zhu Sinu behind the screen just rolled their eyes.

Why?

It turns out that the rebel regime was newly established and everything was not yet complete.

Previously, Zhang Sanbai and Zhao Lizi asked for cotton-padded clothes, and Zhang ordered people to collect a lot of inventory. If there was any shortage, he dismantled the stored cotton-padded armor to make up for it, and finally managed to scrape together more than 10,000 cotton-padded clothes.

Now that the two new battalions of Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi have arrived, how can Zhang Shun make cotton clothes with him?

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Shun suddenly remembered the cotton-padded clothes he often wore in winter in his previous life - down jackets.

Down jacket, as the name suggests, is a cotton jacket filled with down.

Zhang Shun doesn't know much about the specific process of this type of clothing, but this does not prevent him from guessing the thermal insulation effect of down.

Just do it, Zhang Shun immediately ordered someone to collect the down.

This capital is a prosperous place, and a lot of chickens, ducks and geese are consumed every day, so some down is quickly collected.

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

So, he asked Li Sanniang and other women to pick some for him, clean them, and then steam them in a pot.

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

However, Li Sanniang and others did not realize the thermal insulation effect of this down, so they filled it with a pound of cotton according to the amount.

Good guy, wearing this down jacket filled with one pound of down makes Zhang Shun sweat profusely even in the cold winter months.

It turns out that the fluffiness of this down far exceeds that of silk and cotton. Even if it has not been processed through scientific methods, it has a better thermal insulation effect than cotton.

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

This thing is not worth much. It took more than a month of work to collect enough raw materials, and then asked a female worker to make the "down jacket".

Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi had also heard that it was freezing cold in Liaodong before, and they were quite afraid.

Now that he saw that Zhang Shun had prepared a good "treasure" for him, he was overjoyed and had no complaints.

Seeing that the two of them were very satisfied, Zhang Shun smiled and said: "These two pieces fit well, so there is no need to change them. You can just put them back on later."

"By the way, Dingguo and Kewang have both chosen two palace maids. You two can also choose two in a while."

"These women are all from wealthy families. You should treat them well. When you achieve success in the future, they may become wives or concubines. It will be a good story!"

When Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi heard this, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. They bowed their heads one after another, thanked them profusely, and then reluctantly left.

After Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi left, Zhang Shun gave the order: "Everything is ready, all we need is 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 fiercer the attack, the faster the better. Trying to attract Hou Jin's main force will be a great achievement!"