Piaotianwen      After rewarding Wei Yaode with 300 taels of silver, Liu Zongmin got on the luxury four-wheeled carriage. The luxury carriage was pulled by four tall horses. The carriage was very wide, with bulletproof iron plates embedded in the upper, lower, front, back and left and right. A layer of precious red sandalwood was pasted on the outside, with exquisite carvings at the edges and corners. The paint on the surface was exquisite, showing the color and texture of red sandalwood more prominently, but it was integrated. It was truly ingenious.

This carriage is one of the five specially customized carriages commissioned by Daming. The carriage has a large space. It not only has one, two, three leather sofas, but also a large bed for rest. In this way, short-distance rides can be used to sit on the sofa and long-distance rides can be used to lie down and sleep. The shock absorption system of the carriage uses double shock absorption of plate springs and spiral springs, which is not enough. All four wheels are designed with elastic rims. The outer ring of the rim is pasted with a very elastic short horsehair. The horsehair is at an acute angle with the tangent line with the rim, and is densely arranged on the rim. The outside of the horsehair is a twine impregnated with asphalt. The twine is a twine. The horse's hair is tightly wrapped around the rim, and the horse's hair is bent under force, but it still retains a certain degree of elasticity. When a certain section of the wheel is in contact with the ground, the horse's hair is compressed and deformed, pressed and attached to the rim, and then it rebounds again after turning. Although the elasticity of the horse's hair is relatively primitive, with this, the wheel and the ground are also elastic in contact, which further releases the vibration of the carriage. If the road is not too bad, you will not feel the vibration in the carriage, and you will only feel particularly comfortable. This luxurious four-wheeled carriage feels much more comfortable than riding an eight-carriage, and I'm afraid it's not bad at all than the thirty-two-person carriage that Zhang Juzheng rides.[]

Of course, this luxury four-wheeled carriage is also expensive enough. First of all, it is heavy enough. The weight of the whole car is more than one and a half tons. As for its price, it reaches a price of 20,000 taels of silver. Li Zicheng arranged two of the five luxury carriages in the palace, equipped with six high-headed horses towing. Six horses are the emperor's travel specifications. In addition, Niu Jinxing, one Niu Prime Minister, Liu Zongmin, and the other is a public car managed by Niu Jinxing. However, this public car is always borrowed by Shaanxi generals, and Niu Jinxing is happy to do favors. Those generals borrowed this luxury carriage for wedding banquets and birthdays. After a while, the bus became a ritual carriage in the Dashun officialdom.

After Liu Zongmin's carriage arrived in Beijing, he had a decoration in the interior. The outer cover was covered with a silk embroidered car cover. The inner wall was already a soft-packed inner wall. Liu Zongmin thought it was simple and deliberately added a silk curtain. Even the leather sofa was covered with silk-carved mats. In fact, after adding these, it was not as solemn and wealthy as the original interior, but Liu Zongmin liked this complex and gorgeous tone. Liu Zongmin often brought one or two women in the car, and he would have sex in the car whenever he was happy. Regarding the carriage, it was not Liu Zongmin's first creation. It seemed that it could be traced back to Emperor Yang of Sui. However, the shock absorption of the carriage was so prominent and the interior was so wide that Liu Zongmin always thought it was interesting, so he was happy with this.

As soon as Liu Zongmin got on the bus, two charming women had already been in the bus. The two women came with Liu Zongmin. Liu Zongmin got off the bus first to handle business. The two women then got off the bus and entered the mansion from the side door. When Liu Zongmin was about to leave, the two women got on the bus first and stood respectfully in the bus. Since Liu Zongmin entered Beijing, he has long been accustomed to calling and hudding forward. After having this car, every time he took the bus, he had to wait for two women as usual.

When he got into the car and sat down, Liu Zongmin took out his slap from his arms and admired them with the two girls. One of them looked at it, laughed, and threw his eyes over and over again. Then, naturally, the car started to be in the sky and the earth.

Liu Zongmin returned to the house, changed into fancy casual clothes, and began a happy time of enjoyment. He served his own girls at a banquet, and a group of singers offered singing and dancing.

This hall has been carefully decorated and looks extraordinary. The ground in the hall is the ground of terrazzo. After being waxed, the light can be seen. What is quite strange is that there is a circular stage in the hall. The circular stage is made of hard maple wood. The light yellow logs are painted with a layer of varnish, which is particularly eye-catching. It is strange that the circular stage can also rotate slowly. The dancer dances on this stage. As the stage turns, there is an illusion of the fairy world Yaotai. The beauty of the pen and ink can be described. In fact, this is just a mechanism set up underground, and the mule in the courtyard rotates continuously like a millstone. The mechanism below is a speed reduction system. The mule pulls the wooden plate on the ground, and the wooden plate drives the sprocket under it, and then drives a small wooden gear through the sprocket transmission.

The wheel drives the big wooden gears, which are coaxial with the circular stage. In this way, the mule keeps rotating, and the circular stage also rotates, but the rotation speed is greatly slowed down, so that the dancers on the stage will not be unable to move away from the rotation of the stage under their feet. Of course, the wooden gears below are nothing more than square wood stretching out on the circumference. These extended square wood are so-called teeth. The teeth of small wooden gears twitch the teeth of large wooden gears, so this is an intermittent transmission. It is just that because the stage rotates slowly enough, no one is dissatisfied with it. After the dancers adapted to the slow rotation under their feet, they are now dealing with Yuru, and even specially made up some coordinated actions to make the effect of the rotating stage more icing on the cake.

The design and decoration of the entire hall were completed by the masters of the Ming Dynasty. There was no such rotating stage at first, but the designer sent by the prince had a little more words and said that a rotating stage was popular in Nanjing. The general's hall was grand enough and large enough, and there was no problem with installing a rotating stage. When Liu Zongmin heard this, he thought that this was a novel and fun thing. After knowing that this was the most fashionable singing and dancing stage in Nanjing, Liu Zongmin immediately made the decision and did one in his own hall.

In this way, Liu Zongmin's new house continued to increase projects, and the budget also increased. In the end, it spent 50,000 taels of silver after renovation.

At this moment, four dancers were dancing on the stage. The four women were wearing only a layer of veil as thin as a cicada's wings. It was midsummer. Although there were ice cubes in Liu Zongmin's mansion, ice cubes were placed around the hall to cool down. The temperature in the hall dropped slightly. When they danced to the bottom of their noses, they were sweating slightly. Liu Zongmin was excited and shouted:

"Okay! Good dance! Come on, the four of you come over and have a drink with me."

Liu Zongmin was already holding his arms around, and putting one cup of wine into his mouth. This wine was originally medicinal wine, which was helpful to the emotions. The top wine that Liu Zongmin drank was even more powerful. After drinking a few more cups, the belly gradually became hot. Moreover, each of them was beautiful, and each of the four women poured two glasses of wine. But when they saw the four women's faces flushed after drinking, they were on a whim and simply took the four dancers on the rotating stage and started to have sex.

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The next day was the day of the afternoon. Liu Zongmin was still sleeping soundly until noon. A concubine called for a meal at noon. Then she remembered that today was the day of the afternoon. Liu Zongmin did not attend court, and it was nothing if she could say thanks. However, Liu Zongmin had not yet forgotten his power because of his beauty, so he got up immediately. At this moment, he was very thrilling and vigorous in leading troops to fight.

After the meal, Liu Zongmin set out in a carriage, as usual, he had to stay in General Quan's mansion for a while. Liu Zongmin is most concerned about three words, one is power, the other is sex, and the other is money. This is actually similar to what later leaders paid attention to. Liu Zongmin pays attention to money, which is consistent, but in the past, he could rob it or use the name of recovering stolen money to help pay. Now he is in power, so of course he can't rob it explicitly. However, this public debt market is a place where he takes advantage of the quick news to operate in advance, and he spends money in a big way. Sometimes the speed of money is comparable to robbing. Of course, this sounds much better than that of robbing.

The government bond market is now at noon, so Wei Yaode returned to General Quan's mansion. When Liu Zongmin saw Wei Yaode, he asked with a smile:

"How about Wei joining the army? What about the public debt today?"

Wei Yaode quickly raised his smile and replied:

"If we go back to the general, if the general expected, the closing price would be five cents and two cents of silver. In the morning, we spent 2 million taels of silver, and the price of the government bond suddenly rose to seven cents and one cent. At noon, news from Liaodong spread. Everyone knew that this was due to the favorable benefits of Liaodong, and they were unanimously optimistic about the future market. Beizhi also asked Jin Renjun's opinion. He was also optimistic about the future market. I am afraid that this time it would be more than nine cents of silver."

Liu Zongmin felt particularly comfortable when he heard this, and only said that this time he had a great chance to make up for the previous two deficiencies. He laughed and instructed:

"What are you waiting for! Keep throwing money in and pushing the price of the government bonds up, at least nine cents and five cents of silver. Then we can get rid of the price of nine cents and make sure to make more than 20%. Hehe, we invest more than 20 cents, and it's not too greedy this time, stop at the right time, stop at the right time! We must also make some small retail investors make some money, right? Haha!"

Wei Yaode felt that the price of nine cents of silver that he had set was a little bit unsure, but compared with the previous highest price of one or five cents of silver, the price of nine cents of silver is really nothing. The saint's degree will be lucky. Wei Yaode is not a saint, so he naturally feels that everything is possible, and maybe it will rise by more than one or two cents of silver!

Liu Zongmin patted Wei Yaode on the shoulder and explained in a low voice;

"You can get another painting yesterday. After you get it, you will still be rewarded."

Seeing Wei Yaode nodding constantly, Liu Zongmin was proud and thought that this time the ** was really good. I don’t know if Li Zicheng has it. No matter whether he has it or not, it is always good to give him one. Good brother, how can you enjoy it alone! The plan has been decided, and a smile floated onto the eyebrows. Then he boarded the carriage and headed straight for the palace.

After arriving at the palace and seeing the ceremony, the court meeting officially began. The theme of the court meeting was not to mention the Ming Dynasty surrounded more than 20,000 Qing troops in Liaodong, so how should Dashun respond here?

Song Xiance was certainly unwilling to let go of such a good opportunity to defeat the Qing army. Song Xiance couldn't wait to offer advice:

"Report to Your Majesty, the Ming army has captured Hashan Pass and besieged Ajige's Qing army. Dorgon will definitely send troops to reinforce Ajige. Our army can take this opportunity to take back Shanhai Pass in one fell swoop."

Li Yan also agreed with Song Xiance's statement, but he felt that there was no need to rush, so he said:

"I report to Your Majesty, I think there is a chance to take advantage of it. However, it seems that it is not too late to wait for the opportunity to attack Shanhaiguan. In my humble opinion, the Qing army suffered little losses at Hashanguan and did not hurt the Qing army. I would rather wait for the Ming and Qing army to fight, and when both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties were both injured, our army took the opportunity to send troops to take down Shanhaiguan and then pursued the victory. The results of the battle would be even more brilliant. Therefore, I think that we should step up preparations for war and think that we should prepare for the attack on Shanhaiguan in the future."

Niu Jinxing was still scared of the last miserable defeat, so he didn't agree with the rash start of the war. Seeing Li Yan say this, he immediately took the lead and said:

"Report to Your Majesty, Deputy Military Advisor Li is right. Our army can let both sides fight against both sides and both sides suffer, and then we will clean up the mess. Moreover, our army is making great progress in fighting against Mongolia. It is a good deal to seize the coalfield north of Shenmu. It is transported to the seaside through the Yellow River and exchange arms with the Ming Dynasty. In addition, when Shaanxi goes west, there is news that there is a large amount of hot turbulent oil stored in Yumen. General Liu is preparing to mobilize troops to capture Yumen. I think it is urgent. In my foolish opinion, although our dynasty is still rich in financial resources now, we can't live in vain. This is my superficial insight, please give your Majesty a clear guide!"

After becoming the prime minister, he had to care about the money and food of the court. This was understandable, and Li Zicheng nodded.

Since Liu Zongmin suffered a lot of fear of the Qing army, he naturally agreed with Li Yan's plan, wishing that both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties would be disabled and then pick up a bargain. Once this man sat in the country and lived a happy life, his desperation would naturally weaken three points, and he would inevitably not be worried about gains and losses. Therefore, Liu Zongmin still acted bravely in his verbal behavior, but in fact he was completely prepared to pick up bargains:

"Report to Your Majesty, Prime Minister Niu said it makes sense. If Your Majesty is in power, he must pay attention to taxes and financial management. Our army attacks Mongolia. Now the coal fields near Shenmu produce amazing coal, and the output is all silver. The northwest will also send troops to occupy Yumen only in a short time. I think that the focus of our army is to fight against the Mongols, defeat the Mongols, and thus to make it happen once and for all. As for the attack on Shanhaiguan, when the two parties on the Ming and Qing dynasties fight, the Ming army will defeat more than 20,000 Ajige's troops. As the saying goes, killing one thousand enemies and hurting eight hundred themselves, the Ming army may have suffered heavy casualties at that time. Of course, the Qing army will be even more miserable. At that time, our army will take the opportunity to attack and will definitely win a great victory. Moreover, the evil armored vehicles created by the Ming army were stunned by the Ming army. I think I will not join in the fun again, so as not to let the Ming army take advantage of it."

Li Zicheng weighed the pros and cons of his heart, so he was naturally unwilling to attack rashly. After all, now he is in the country. The first thing he is to be cautious. Since Liu Zongmin is unwilling to go to war with the Qing army rashly, of course it is not good to not touch the Qing army for the time being. Moreover, attacking Mongolia and taking the Yumen west is also a contribution to expanding territory. If you can still produce silver immediately after the battle, why not do it!

Therefore, the consensus finally formed by Dashun's court discussion was to watch the tiger fight, on the premise that it was to determine that the Ming army had magical armored vehicles and was now suppressing the Qing army to fight. If Dashun took advantage of the Qing army's danger to attack Shanhaiguan, it would only make the Ming army take advantage, which was obviously not in line with Dashun's interests.
Chapter completed!