my steam dam

Chapter 6 Where's My Horse? !

"Although twisted melons are not sweet, they are better than quenching thirst. The noble daughter of a rich family, I wish it!"

Peng Ke changed his look of distaste for the blind date before, and even asked Peng Polu about the other party's details with great interest.

Anyway, he made up his mind.

As long as this Miss Mu is not missing an arm or a leg, can take care of herself, has normal intelligence, knows how to hide from the rain when it rains, doesn't pick up things on the ground to eat, and doesn't have a family history of genetic diseases, then he can accept it!
love?

Is this thing important to Peng Ke, the son of the Marquis Mansion, the commander of Jin Yiwei, who may face the battle of Jing Nan in three years?
How to preserve the Marquis of Huaining's Mansion, how not to be "frictioned" in the upcoming small friction between King Yan and Taisun, or even reverse operation, and go further, is what Peng Ke is considering now.

And this Miss Mu, the eldest daughter of Jiangnan Mu's weaving family, will be of great benefit to his future plans and plans!

that's enough!
However, before Peng Ke had time to learn more about the blind date from Peng Polu, a servant in the mansion hastily interrupted the conversation between the father and son.

"Lord Hou, son, an imperial edict came from the palace. His Majesty learned that the eunuch is returning to Beijing, so he ordered the eunuch to enter the palace to face the saint!"

As soon as he returned home, he was about to enter the palace again before his buttocks had time to sit down, which made Peng Ke very helpless.

The sky and the earth are big, not as big as the emperor.

The emperor has an edict, even if the old Peng family has a big matter, it has to be put on hold for the time being.

"Go, go back to the house to change clothes, and go to the palace to meet the saint." Peng Ke flicked his sleeves, and hurried back to his room with a few maids and subordinates in the mansion.

As a third-rank military officer of the Ming Dynasty, Peng Ke naturally had a set of official uniforms that belonged exclusively to him.

Although Jinyiwei has only been established for more than ten years now, there are not so many systems and etiquette, and there is no standard for dressing, but the embryonic form has already appeared.

As the commander of Jinyiwei, Peng Ke naturally had an official uniform bestowed by Emperor Hongwu, and it was also a flying fish uniform.

There are three special official uniforms in the Ming Dynasty, which are the python suit, the flying fish suit and the bullfighting suit. Because the decorations on the costumes are similar to the dragon uniform worn by the emperor, they are not included in the official uniform system.

However, these three kinds of official uniforms will be worn by eunuchs, trusted military officers, and ministers as special rewards.

According to common sense, it should be python clothes for the first rank, flying fish suits for the second rank, and bullfighting suits for the third rank.

However, because Peng Ke is the commander of Jinyiwei, he is in charge of Jinyiwei's affairs.

Seriously speaking, he is the leader of the emperor's internal army. He is not only responsible for driving guards, arrests, and prisons, but also responsible for managing the guard of honor, repairing the streets of the capital, dredging ditches in the city, and arresting criminals.

As the emperor's most trusted military officer, Peng Ke would naturally be able to obtain a rank higher than his own.

So even though he is a third-rank military officer, he can wear the flying fish suit.

Although this flying fish suit is called "Flying Fish", it is not the kind of fish that swims very fast in the sea.

It is a fictitious image similar to a dragon head, a fish body, and wings.

From a distance, it looks like a Jiaolong.

This flying fish suit is a dragging suit that shows flying fish. It has a large placket, a slanted collar, and very loose sleeves. The top and bottom are connected.

Yesafu is a kind of military uniform, which is convenient for riding and shooting, and has a skirt, so it can be worn casually to run, and it is also convenient to ride up and down. It is very popular with the army, and later became the standard military uniform of the Ming Dynasty.

And on this Yesa suit, the chest, back, the upper end of the shoulder sleeves and the lower part of the waist are all embroidered with flying fish patterns.

After wearing it, Peng Ke looked very handsome. With the help of several maids, he put on a tightened belt, put on boots, and wore a black gauze crown on his head. Handsome military officer!
It's a pity that Peng Ke himself didn't have any smug admiration for his own appearance. After changing his clothes in a hurry, he took Ahu and rushed out of the house.

The carriage had already been prepared when people came from the palace, and it was just waiting for Penke to set off.

However, when the well-dressed and heroic Peng Ke hurried out of the mansion, he was completely dazed when he faced the "front-drive carriage" with three wheels, a "steam engine" installed in the front, and a water irrigation pipe in the back. up.

"Is this a carriage? Where's my horse?"

"Where are my two tall white horses from Xiliang?"

In the past, the family used a luxurious shock-absorbing carriage pulled by double white horses imported from the Western Regions!
Why did you change into such a steampunk car after only three months?
Peng Ke looked at his groom, whose annual salary was a full 40 taels of silver, with an expression of giving me a reasonable explanation.

"Your Majesty, this is a new type of carriage newly developed by Mo Academy. His Majesty asks all the princes and uncles in Beijing to try it out first. If it works well, it will be promoted to the governments of the whole country."

"In the future, officials' official vehicles may be changed to this new type of carriage instead of using animal-drawn carriages. People from the Mo family said that this is more convenient!"

"You don't need to feed or drink, and you don't have to worry about the horse getting sick or getting old. You only need coal to start it."

"And if it breaks, you can continue to use it after repairing it!"

"One catty of coal can drive ten miles!"

Good guy, 10 kg of coal is consumed per [-] kilometers, and this car must weigh a ton!

This is all on top of the utilization rate of gasoline, is this reasonable?
The high fuel utilization rate is too scary!

Penke twitched the corner of his mouth, sighing in his heart for the world's crooked technology tree.

But he had no other choice, so he had to bend down and sit in this "new steam carriage" that looked very much like the diesel tricycle in the previous life together with Ah Hu.

Fortunately, this car has a compartment, and it doesn't really sit in the open air behind it like a tricycle.

Well, it should be more like the courier car used by the courier in the previous life to deliver the courier, but it is an extended and enlarged version.

"There are no horses here, so why call it a carriage? It's just a steam tricycle." Peng Ke sat on the soft tiger leather seat in the car and complained.

Not to mention, the interior is really good, with leather cushions, rosewood armrests and door handles, and jade backrests, plus a roof cover made of all-fine iron, and glass windows. is a luxury!
It can be seen that it is indeed a special version for nobles to enjoy.

The coachman, who was adding coal to the front of the car, smiled: "Your Majesty is right. When the Moyuan sent the car, it said that if this car can be mass-produced, it should be renamed as a steam locomotive."

Peng Ke was really powerless to complain about this simple naming method, reached out and patted his forehead, sighed and said: "Hurry up and drive, enter the palace to face the saint."

"okay!"

It just so happened that the scalding hot water had already reached a very high temperature in the steam engine that had been preheated in advance.

The coachman pressed the start button, and a whistle on the front of the car blew sharply, and the steam car started slowly and gradually began to accelerate.

"This shock absorber is well done, it's very smooth, without any bumps or frustrations." Peng Ke raised his eyebrows and said with some surprise.

This steam car is much better than he imagined.

Although the appearance is somewhat ugly, not as refined and streamlined as the car in the previous life, the feeling after sitting on it is actually not much different from that of a car.

In just a few minutes, he had already forgotten about his luxury suspension carriage, which was built with huge sums of money.

"Not bad! When this car is mass-produced, let Moyuan customize one for our Huaining Hou Mansion!"

(End of this chapter)