Mo Xiao'an had no choice but to roughly explain the water and water. The siphon principle of the flush toilet and some concepts of water sealing odor. Although the potters listened to the scientific principles of the clouds, mountains and fog, but the general meaning was also a little clear, and they couldn't help but express their sincere admiration, saying that the Australians are really the most ingenious craftsmen in the world.

Once the toilet bowl was ready to be formed, the potters began to make other sanitary ware, including bathtubs. The difficulty of the bathtub is much greater. In fact, most modern bathtubs are enamel, and the blanks are stamped or cast using metal, and then glazed on the outside. If it is purely made of porcelain, it is also necessary to ensure a certain strength, which is quite difficult.

After repeated trial production, a single bathtub was finally produced after a few weeks. After the water discharge test, the product is fully qualified, including the drain to prevent overflow.

I made a bathtub, not to mention a sink or something like that. ズイユ is a tile. It's no longer a single porcelain brick, but a tile that's the same as in modern time and space.

Mo Xiao'an thought that in this way, he would be able to build a real bathroom. If you want to put it in Daming, it's still a super luxury version. The dignitaries and nobles with fine clothes and food have to make one or two sets of use in order to reflect their worth.

"Well, don't forget to add patterns to all of these things, well, yes, patterned decorations."

This is very easy for the potters, and some of the potters recruited are specialized in this, and when they arrive in Lingao, they find that there is basically no place to display their craft - the porcelain and pottery of Australians are all plain ware. Nothing is added to it. Now that he heard that he was going to add patterns, he immediately took out his full hanging skills, so Mo Xiaoan saw a beautiful blue and white flush toilet and a glaze red sink.

"The ass sitting on this is so expensive." Mo Xiao'an was speechless, but when he saw the colorful plants, trees, flowers and birds painted on every small piece of tile, he couldn't express his feelings in words - too extravagant!

"Well, don't forget to write a trademark on it......"

"Trademarks?"

"That's the font size." Mo Xiaoan said, "Only we can do this thing, and we must let everyone know about it." ”

He casually said, "It's called 'Pierre Cardin.'" ”

"Preserved eggs?" All the kilns are puzzled, how can such a good-looking toilet be called preserved eggs?

"It's not proper," Mo Xiao'an muttered with his chin propped up, "or it's called 'Heaven and Earth'!" ”

For a while, Mo Xiao'an felt that his idea was very good, in heaven and earth, the life enjoyment products from the future time and space that we put into production were worthy of this name. He decided that all kinds of luxury consumer goods manufactured by the Ministry of Light Industry would be called this name in the future.

Mo Xiao'an hurriedly found someone to draw the LOGO, and then asked the potter to paint the pattern on the product.

The ceramic factory itself is quite heavy for the industrial supporting work, so the production of sanitary ware is in small batches. But plain white tiles were immediately put into mass production. The machinery factory also specially built an automatic brick making machine for the ceramic factory to mass produce tile blanks. Tiles are easy to clean and are the best building material for maintaining an environment of hygiene. Hospitals, pharmaceutical factories, food factories and canteens have all placed a large number of orders to improve their working conditions.

As for the first batch of sanitary ware samples, they were approved by the Executive Committee and used in the decoration of the luxury rooms of the commercial hall. In order to match these things, the shiyan installation of small water supply and drainage in the mall, including a shiyan small water tube boiler to boil water, special cast iron water and water pipes, faucets and showers are made of bronze, metal hoses are useless, and the shower is directly fixed to the wall like in the bathroom. The walls are covered with multicolored flower and bird tiles.

The worst thing is that the leather bowl seals in the toilet tank are replaced by corks, and as for the float system that automatically shuts off the water supply, it is still a little more difficult for the machined and material of the traverser. So it was not adopted at all. The toilet tank is filled directly with water from the faucet and closed when it is full. Trouble is trouble, but definitely can be を. In ancient times, the cost of labor was very cheap, and those who could afford to use the toilet estimated that it was no problem to have a maid who served in the bathroom to put water out.

After the installation of this system, not to mention the local aborigines to look shocked, even the traveler saw it and felt that it was enough to drag - even if your household toilet is Pierre Cardin, the top will not be blue and white porcelain.

Mo Xiao'an said that he was basically satisfied after the trial. After communicating with the Guangzhou station, an order for five sets was placed. Each set includes a flush toilet, bathtub and sink, plus matching hardware, tiles and floor tiles.

The patterns of each set are different, that is, there are blue and white, there are also glaze red, and there are pure white Japanese styles with small flowers. All in all, it's a lot of luxury.

Even the hardware has different requirements, some require gilding, and some require silver plating. One of Zuihou's ideas was to ask for the shower, the outer lough hose and the faucet to be made of glass - Mo Xiao'an knew what it meant to dig out his mind.

If you don't just use glass as a set of sanitary ware, you don't need a fully transparent flush toilet, but a fully transparent bathtub...... Mo Xiao'an thought of this, and hurried to the glass factory, and the answer was that there was no problem in theory, but for the time being, the glass made by the glass factory could not meet this strength requirement.

"It's okay to make a big fish tank, at most it's thick and transparent, but the bathtub can't do it." The person in charge of the glass factory refused.

The next order was much larger, dozens of toilets, sinks, matching hardware and pipes, zuihou were hundreds of boxes of colored tiles. Originally, it was said that it would be patterned, but the KAO craftsman couldn't do it by drawing the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Moon one by one. I didn't have time to shiyan with the stencil printing method, so I simply changed it all to colored tiles.

Zuihou has an order for the sixth set. The requirements are similar to the previous ones, but they require a double jacuzzi.

Mo Xiaoan found a shell-shaped pattern from the information and handed it over to the ceramic factory for trial production. The potters were nervous about the large bathtub – the size of the tub was already on par with the most difficult dragon jar, and even in Jingdezhen, the oversized porcelain could not be fired. Now the Australians have taught them a new way to drag tires with molds, but no one is sure.

The Zuihou bathtub was fired, but when they were in Shiyan, they immediately noticed a problem: the bathtub could not be massaged.

The water pressure of the high-hanging water tank mounted on the ceiling in the KAO design alone does not have the effect of a massage jet. Unless Ziming Lou plans to build a three- or four-story high water tank to supply water. Of course, Ziminglou could do the same, but the Canton station lacked the equipment to raise the water to such a height - and the installation of a steam engine in Ziminglou seemed a bit appalling.

"I have an easy way." After reading it, Wang Luobin said, "Use manpower to pressurize." ”

The so-called manpower pressurization is to add a crank pressurizer to a certain part of the water pipeline, and the crank is rotated by manpower, so that the water jet can be enhanced.

"I'm afraid that people who take a bath like this will feel very awkward." Mo Xiao'an said, "You think you have to take care of people shaking the handle outside when you are holding the chick in the bathtub, it feels very bad." ”

"What else can I do?" Wang Luobin couldn't think of a more clever way.

"It's okay. The ancients and modern people thought differently. Yu Eshui, who also came to observe the bathtub, said, "It's nothing for the maid to wait for sex outside in this time and space, and it's nothing to shake a handle outside the wall." ”

"The ancients were so happy." Mo Xiaoan sighed.

So this hand-cranked booster pump jacuzzi was finalized. The full set of things was packed and shipped to Guangzhou to be installed.

Guo Yi used this bathtub with water jets to make a model room

Zhang Xingpei's redesign of the Ziming Tower in Guangzhou retains the form of traditional Chinese architecture on the outside, but completely changes its structure – which does not mean that it will be replaced with reinforced concrete, of course. Zhang Xingpei is very familiar with wood-framed houses, and most of the houses he has presided over in the United States are wood-framed.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Zhang Xingpei changed his line, surveyed and mapped the topography of Ziming Tower on the spot, and experienced the "moving line" of the entire restaurant under the leadership of Shen Fan. He found that the area of Ziming Building was relatively limited, so the original owner built a three-story structure - by adding floors to increase the usable area. Overall, Ziming Building has at least a few shortcomings. First, the gate here is too lively along the street, and there is a lack of a special passage for dignitaries to enter and exit quietly; The second is that the land utilization rate is not high, the front painstakingly built high-rise buildings, but a large piece of land is left behind to build the traditional courtyard-style building, not only a waste of area, but also every move in the yard, the back floor can be seen by opening the window, there is no privacy at all. The smoke of cooking in the cloak room on the side of the building is so large that the guests in the ground floor hall often smell the food. Third, the structure is not very reasonable, there is only one staircase for people to go up and down, and it is easy to form congestion on the stairs when there is more passenger flow. Sometimes it is inevitable that people who don't want to meet will come together. One problem with Zuihou is the lack of parking spaces in Ziming Lou – a place for the palanquins to wait. Although there is an empty space in front of the opposite wall, you can park the sedan chair carriage and horses, but waiting in the Lou day, the sedan chair maid is miserable. In the event of a scorching sun or torrential rain, the sedan chair itself will become hot and humid.

In terms of practicality, there are three floors above and below the Ziming Building, but there is only one toilet. Zhang Xingpei thinks that the most terrible thing here is the toilet, such a luxurious restaurant, the toilet is actually located in a small tiled room next to the steaming kitchen. In terms of state, it is ten times better than the thatched latrine that Zhang Xingpei saw in Lingao County - but two large dung tanks and a row of urine tanks with mosquitoes and flies rampant, made him run out quickly after the first glance.

"Can you use this toilet too?" Zhang Xingpei asked Guo Yi.

"I don't need it anyway." Guo Yi said that there is a toilet behind Pei Lixiu's boudoir in the courtyard that meets modern standards.

"Ziming Building has to be demolished and rebuilt." Zhang Xingpei came up with his plan a few days later.

"Yes." Guo Yi nodded, "What are you going to do?" ”

The new design scheme removed the large and useless backyard, and Zhang Xingpei drew inspiration from the "Fan Tower" of the Northern Song Dynasty and prepared to build a multi-building composite building. There are three buildings before and after, ranging from three floors to four floors, staggered, between the buildings and the buildings are connected with two floors of corridors, from the plane view, roughly like a "Tian" word. Each building is equipped with multiple staircases, and there is also a dedicated staircase passage for internal personnel such as the running hall.

The first building is a restaurant with a structure of three bright and four dark. Zhang Xingpei introduced the design of the front porch eaves of the modern hotel, and guests took a sedan chair to get off in front of the gate. Enter the hall, and the sedan chair is carried to the semi-underground dark first floor. The "parking lot" of Ziming Building here is used to park sedan chairs, and there are also tethered rings, drinking troughs, and wells for customers who ride horses and cars, and the grooms and sedan chair drivers have special personnel to greet them, and serve tea and snacks. The first floor of Ming is the lobby. Zhang Xingpei is proud of the design and uses a full-floor height design. From the floor to the ceiling on the third floor, there are horse buildings on all sides. Sixty-four glass chandeliers produced by the glass factory. Bronze chains and pulleys hang high on the stout main beams at the top of the third floor.

The front and back of the hall are unobstructed, and the walls are decorated with large glass windows carved with woodcuts. It looks tall and bright, and the ground is laid with the Lu tomb mortar brick ordered from Suzhou - commonly known as the so-called gold brick, although the gold brick is not made of gold, but the preciousness is not inferior, the Ming and Qing dynasties are the imperial supplies of the palace. What Guo Yi was able to buy was the inferior products left over from the tribute, and he had already spent a lot of money.

However, this kind of high-priced floor tiles thousands of miles away can be transported to Guangzhou to sell, which shows the city's high consumption power and extravagance. It is still feasible to use Ziming Building to promote Jihua for life enjoyment by crossing the group.

In the center of the hall is an indoor pool with pebbles for goldfish. There is a mountain rockery more than one person high in the middle of the pool, and the water is diverted with a bamboo pipe to make the shape of a waterfall landscape.

The seating areas on both sides of the pool are equipped with screen tables and chairs for guests to wait and rest.

The second floor is the dining part of the restaurant, and the third floor is full of private rooms, and Zhang Xingpei has no new ideas in this part, leaving it all to the local carpenter to decorate and fiddle with - even if he wants to decorate it modernly, he has no materials or tools. The only improvement was the addition of restrooms on both the second and third floors, with high-yielding colored tiles on the walls and blue and white porcelain flush toilets. Of course, there must be someone in this toilet who is responsible for putting water in the toilet and turning off the water.

The main project of the second building of Ziming Building is the set of things in the modern bath city. Because the crossing group could not come up with particularly effective preservatives and waterproofing agents, and the bearing capacity of the floor slab could not bear dozens of cubic meters of water, Zhang Xingpei could only set up a bathhouse on the first floor. The large oval-shaped bath is recessed into the ground with wide steps. Bathers can easily enter and exit the bath by following the steps. In order to save the use of ceramic tiles, Zhang Xingpei used a large number of cut stone slabs as the outer veneer of the cement pool. Several carvings of animal heads are installed in the four corners of the bath, and water is spat into the pool from the mouth. In addition to the bath, there is also a steam room and a massage room, of course, the massage room is indispensable for the opposite sex massage and other popular content.

On the second floor, there is a lobby where guests can relax. The hall is characteristically designed in a semicircular theatrical arrangement, with a circular performance space in the middle – dedicated to the performance of various "improved" versions of songs and dances.

The third floor is where the six new plumbing fixtures are applied, including the pressurized Jacuzzi. Considering that the bearing capacity of the wooden floor slabs is very limited, Zhang Xingpei deliberately added a number of structural supports.

These six rooms with modern bathroom equipment are naturally VIP rooms, not only luxuriously decorated, comfortable living, but also have special stairs and passages, which are completely unrelated to other levels.

Baths mean a lot of water. The main source of water in the city of Guangzhou comes from two parts -- one is that the water is delivered by water trucks and burdens, and most of the water comes from the Pearl River valley, and the other is to dig wells by themselves. Guangzhou is located on the banks of the Pearl River and has a high groundwater level. Ziminglou wants to build a bathhouse, so naturally it can't send water to Kao Shuiling, so in addition to the original two wells, a number of wells have been drilled. In addition, a mechanical pressurized water device is installed on the well to increase the speed of water withdrawal.

The water from the well is injected into a new cement reservoir through a stone trough, where it is briefly sedimented and treated with alum.

But there was a big problem with this system, if there were several effective traditional jishu to solve the hot water supply, such as the ondol flue and so on, then the running water system throughout the building made it necessary to build a high water tank - it was easy to build a water tank, but how to raise the water from the ground to the height of three or four stories was a tricky problem.

Zhang Xingpei originally planned to install a boiler and steam engine to lift water using a mechanical liliang. But the jishu content of these two is really high, and if there are no knowledgeable workers to maintain them at all times, the boiler is a certain time bomb, and the vibration of the steam engine when it is running, the high heat steam when it is exhausting, and the exhaust smoke from burning coal - the black smoke is enough to completely eliminate the luxurious and elegant atmosphere that Ziminglou is trying to create.

If it weren't for the machinery, unless Zi Ming Lou was going to hire someone to carry water to the water tower by hand, the amount of work would seem frightening. thereupon

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