In the early July of the 23rd year of the reign of King Qin, two major events occurred in Anlu.

The first is that more than 1,000 conscripted soldiers gathered on the outskirts of the city, and the second is that at the initiative of the county lieutenant Heifu, a roaring "public toilet movement" was launched in the county seat!

"County king, when I was in Gangneung, I heard the county guard say that agriculture is the business of the people, and the reason why the holy king guides his people is to do agriculture first. Therefore, covering the surface of the land, thorning grass and cultivating grain, and manure fertilizer fields, although it is a matter for farmers and people, the government must not ignore it, so in the "Law of Fields" and "Law of Warehouse", there are even regulations on how much corn and wheat seeds should be sown on an acre of land. ”

To Ling Yonghe of Anlu County, Heifu told him some of the things that Ye Junshou had said in a revealing tone, and the meaning was obvious:

"The county guards the agriculture, and attaches great importance to the method of composting and manure, so that the eighteen counties of Nanjun County are implemented, and whoever can make the greatest results in each county will be able to win the first place in this year's plan!"

Yonghe is a person who understands, this law is the county's Tian Zuo official heartily offered, for the heart and Heifu's advice, of course, he will pay special attention, and soon agreed to Heifu's request, in addition to the barracks outside the city, in the streets and alleys of the county, also successively built some "public toilets" of different sizes.

In the battle of Li Xin's war against Chu, those Qin Mo, who accompanied the army, in addition to assisting in building offensive and defensive equipment, every time they went to a new camp, they had to recruit craftsmen and soldiers to dig public toilets......

Heifu once asked that Qin Mo Cheng Shang, and he said that it was invented by Mozi in many battles to defend the city.

"The city has been attacked and defended for a year and a half, and if it is left to the soldiers to solve it everywhere, it will definitely be filthy, and in a short time there will be epidemics, and the city will be destroyed by itself. So Zi Mozi is convenient to set up a toilet in the city, a toilet every fifty steps, and its bottom is like a well, and the wall is around, and it is eight feet high......"

Mozi invented the public toilet for the sake of hygiene during the siege and defense of the city, but it was only a single squatting pit, and Heifu directly copied the large public toilet that could be seen everywhere in later generations.

So, under the order of the county order, the county secretary in charge of civil engineering urged a group of craftsmen and prisoners to dig out the manure pit at the designated place, build the pit, enclose the adobe, and build a simple public toilet. The public toilets next to the temple and the county are covered with tiles, while the public toilets in the lilu are cost-effective and roofed with thatch.

In order to show the importance of this matter, the three chief officials of the county have inscribed for the public toilets in various places: the county lieutenant Heifu inscribed next to the barracks, the county Cheng inscribed next to the market, and the county order inscribed next to the official temple......

Civil servants in the government, prefectural soldiers in the barracks, and soldiers are required to be in public toilets in the future!

And the people in the county town were also told door-to-door that in the future, those who defecate in the county will be regarded as the crime of abandoning ashes on the street, although they will not cut off their hands, but they will also be severely fined!

Under Heifu's orders, the guards and supervisors who belong to the lieutenant system even wore red sleeves and strictly defecated in the streets and in the lilu!

It is said that at the beginning of the Shang Dynasty's reform, in order to make the new capital Xianyang clean, a "punishment for those who abandon ashes on the street" was promulgated, and the most serious can be chopped off, for a time, no one in Xianyang dared to throw a little garbage on the street.

Like that time, the people of Anlu County have been nurtured by Qin Law for many years, and they know that the government is not farting when they speak, so from the date of the construction of the public toilet and the promulgation of the ban, the people encountered three emergencies, and they all took toilet chips and ran to the public toilet to solve it.

At first, these wild poor people were not used to it, but then they found that the public toilet not only has walls to block the view, which can make people ashamed, but also there will be rabbits, dogs, and bees that suddenly burst out of the wild to disturb them.

The reason why the government did this was naturally to facilitate the collection of manure.

In fact, it was only a matter of time, and by the Song Dynasty, many privately built toilets would spring up in China's cities, open and free. Of course, it is not for public welfare, but for the precious fertilizer of manure. The people who opened the toilets would find special people to collect the feces and sell it to farmers in the countryside to make money from it.

This kind of special management, by a special person to collect feces, and to dump in one place, appeared in Anlu County thousands of years in advance. To this end, the county order also set up a new small official in Tiancao, with some guilty prisoners, who were specially responsible for digging out the manure for the public toilets, and using rattles as a sign to encourage merchants and craftsmen's homes on the street to also take out the toilets of each house and empty them......

The manure that bothered me was there immediately.

In addition to allowing the continuous flow of manure from densely populated cities to farmland, the "public toilet movement" initiated by Heifu has the benefit of greatly improving the sanitary conditions of Anlu.

Heff knew that one of the characteristics of modern civilization was the construction of underground pipes in cities, and the consequent establishment of public health. It was on this basis that the West finally defeated the plague and other infectious diseases.

However, for thousands of years, China's population was larger than that of Western Europe, so except for some special periods of war and famine, why did the epidemic of large-scale infectious diseases cause less trouble? Some foreign scholars believe that the tea culture and manure disposal of the Chinese should make great contributions.

The former, due to the consistent use of boiling water, makes drinking water hygienic and harmless. The latter allows urban manure to enter the land circulation.

When the streets of London and Paris in the medieval cities of Western Europe were filthy and diseases were rampant, due to the construction and management of public toilets, the city of the Song Dynasty was famous for its sanitation and cleanliness, and it had the reputation of "the road full of flowers".

However, perhaps because the population was growing too violently, this good habit was greatly regressed in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Especially in the Qing Dynasty, Heifu remembers seeing it in an anecdote, saying that it was a public toilet in Beijing, and everyone had to pay for it. Therefore, people are drowning in the road, and women are also using the toilet on the street, coupled with the urine of cattle and horses, which is increasing unabated, heavy pollution and filth, and smelling everywhere it touches...... Pedestrians defecate mostly on the road, although there are powerful officials to punish, but the wind is irreversible, and some officials also defecate on the road......

The first time the British envoys came to China, they saw this scene in cities large and small, and they used to be filthy in the city, but now they boasted of civilization and despised China.

But what happened in later generations may have to be changed with the establishment of the first public toilet in Anlu by Heifu.

Every morning, at dawn, the merchants and craftsmen of Anlu and the poor people in Luzuo did not go directly to the back of the wall, the corner, or the field to go to the public toilet.

Under the supervision of the officials, the industrious excrement prisoners who walked the streets and alleys also wore sackcloth masks and pushed dung trucks to collect the sewage from the public toilets and each family, and transport it to the compost sites on the outskirts of the city, and then let the manure enter the public fields and crops in the suburbs.

Heifu looked at this scene with a lot of emotion.

"If there is no strong executive power of the Qin State government, and there is no 100% awe and obedience of the people to the government, these things will not be possible in ten years if any dynasty changes."

He turned around and exclaimed to his younger brother, "I only now understand how amazing Shang Jun's Ximu Lixin was back then!" With fifty taels of gold, you can buy the credibility of the government and buy a century-old hegemony! ”

After being nurtured by the dividends of war for a hundred years, the credibility of the government of the Qin State has reached its peak!

So Heifu also began to wonder, why did this dynasty collapse so quickly after more than ten years?

"Perhaps, only when you get to Xianyang can you solve this doubt."

That was later, and now, looking at the changes that have taken place in Anlu County because of himself, and it is a change in a good direction, Heifu has a sense of accomplishment.

Of course, what he wants is not something worthless like "2,000 years ahead of India", but wants something that has positive value for the country and the nation to appear earlier and continue to do so.

The cornerstone of civilization is built little by little.

In the middle of July, in the hall of Anluguan Temple, the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant Heifu gathered here to discuss together, and the county magistrate with the best handwriting wrote a slip.

This is a letter to inform Shou Yeteng of Nanjun about Anlu County, and propose to promote it in Nanjun County to solve the problem of insufficient manure, and at the same time change the bad custom of open defecation.

The county commander Yonghe was very much looking forward to his achievements being known by the county guard, and at the same time began to rejoice that Heifu had returned to Anlu to take up his post, and in only half a month, he took them to create a political achievement!

Yonghe is sure that when this letter arrives in the county, it will definitely be valued by the county guard!

He didn't know what Heifu, who was seriously examining Jian's words, would be thinking.

"It's a pity that a loud slogan is missing."

Looking at this one-glance official document, Heifu showed a narrow smile.

The slogan he had already thought of.

"Speak of civilization and establish a new style! Strive to create the first national health county in Qin! ”

"County lieutenant, what's wrong?" Yonghe asked.

"Nothing, nothing." Heifu hurriedly stopped making up his mind and signed his name on the slip......

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At the end of July, Ye Junshou also received a letter written by Anlu County Commander, Cheng, and Wei.

After flipping through it, his expression went from weird to appreciative, and then from admiration back to laughter.

"Why does my father have a different complexion?"

In the study, Zijin, who brought porridge and rice to Ye Teng, asked curiously.

Ye Teng was actually blaming the different titles, praising the truth of the content, laughing at the brains of the black man, and actually making an idea from the toilet that the upper class people avoided talking about.

Ye Teng looked at the porridge and rice, and suddenly his appetite was great, and by the way, he pushed Jian Mu to his daughter: "You can see it yourself...... Look at Nahefu, as soon as he returned to Anlu County, he did a good thing. ”

Zijin was also curious, and when he took a look, he saw a few big characters on the slip.

"Yannan County Public Toilet Book"?"