Chapter 311: Life is in the bath
The next day, the recent accounts of the charitable foundation were announced in the newspaper, and there was a big topic: The charitable foundation donated 50,000 yuan to the arid area of Kuizhou.
This amount was personally delivered by Gan Qi to Han Qi, the prime minister of the current dynasty, and there is also a written note signed and stamped by Han Qi himself.
It's also a matter of routine, and it's accountable to the many people who donate.
Han Qi took the money, and it would be exchanged for food first, and then the Privy Council would send someone to escort it, and the yamen would be handed over along the road and sent to Kuizhou.
After doing this, Gan Qi continued his life with a cone on his head.
Disaster relief money and food, after all, is not something that can be solved by hundreds of thousands of guan, Han Qi still has to go everywhere to raise money, Han Qi can think of a way, or a yamen to run, a little bit of begging for people everywhere, even if Han Qi is the prime minister, even if Han Qi is very powerful, but in the Renzong Dynasty, the prime minister is far from reaching the point of covering the sky with one hand.
Many of the literati of the Song Dynasty were really backbone, and they would try to avoid a reputation of "flattery", and regardless of the size of their official positions, they were pursuing an attitude of neither humility nor arrogance. This is the name of the Qing Dynasty, which also leads to the fact that being a big official in the Song Dynasty is not so comfortable.
Is Wen Yanbo's official position high? Is the official position of the three envoys big? That is, in the Song Dynasty, such a high-ranking official could fall if he said that he would fall, and he didn't even need to go through any really fierce political struggle, just spraying could knock down such a high-ranking official. The Renzong Dynasty was probably the easiest period for the fall of high-ranking officials in all dynasties.
Sometimes it is customary to complain about the literati of the Song Dynasty, but in fact, it is unfair to complain too much, and the literati of the Song Dynasty still have merits, such as the Song Dynasty really produced some very capable officials and very backbone literati, such as Wen Tianxiang.
People like Wen Tianxiang are really not a few, when the Song Dynasty fell, there were as many as 100,000 martyrs in the cliff mountain. Among them, the military and civilians were the mainstay, and there was no shortage of literati, and the literati at that time were also full of tears, unbearable sorrow, and hundreds of thousands jumped into the sea. The corpses floating on the sea, layer by layer, in the words of Wen Tianxiang's poem, are called "people are dead and chaotic".
Perhaps seeing such a scene with his own eyes strengthened Wen Tianxiang's determination to die.
The backbone of the country and the nation is undoubtedly revealed at this moment.
The Great Song Dynasty still has its merits, and the main reason for the sorrow of the Great Song Dynasty is that there is a problem with its top-level design.
Han Qi begged his grandfather everywhere to tell his grandmother, it was not easy to get some money, this matter could not be done, and he was afraid that he would not be able to take the position of prime minister for a few days.
Maybe this is also the desirability of Renzong Zhao Zhen, the emperor for decades has been in the present, more than 100 Zhengfu prime ministers, like watching the flowers, who can't do it, say change it. No one wants to cover the sky with one hand, and no one wants to mess around.
Now even Fu Bi has begun to retire, and now he is a scholar of Zhaobunkan University, and his responsibility is to revise history, retire life, and still exert his residual heat in the work of repairing history.
The weather is getting colder, and winter is coming.
Ganchi's hot spring hotel, the construction period is getting tighter and tighter, and Ganba continues to recruit craftsmen on the dock to catch up with the work.
The hotel is not fully completed, but many places are already finished.
The large hot spring pools are stepped down, one by one. There are also small canals that lead to small ponds in various places.
Ganchi was probably the first to enjoy a hot spring hotel.
accompanied Gan Qi to soak in the hot springs, as well as Zhao Zonglan and Zhang Shuyuan, and a large group of warblers and Yanyan in other families, in another small elegant pool.
Gan Qi will enjoy it the most, and after running for a while, when his body is hot, he will lie on the small couch on the shore, and then let Zhang Shuyuan slowly help him rub his back with a cloth towel.
The dirt and were rubbed and rolled around, and Zhang Shuyuan complained: "Why is Gan Lang so dirty?" ”
"Dirty? Am I dirty? "Ganqi has a pursuit of hygiene, but an ancient person said that it was dirty, which Ganqi couldn't bear.
In fact, the ancient Chinese people were really not dirty, they would wash their hair frequently, brush their teeth frequently, clean their faces frequently, and even take a bath in the imperial court. Of course, this is talking about propertied families, and the real bottom toiling masses will be much worse in this regard.
The most direct embodiment of the level of medical care and sanitation lies in the population, the population of Europe, in many periods, even less than one-tenth of that of China in the same period, until the beginning of the Great Voyage, the beginning of the Renaissance, and even the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the population of Europe really exploded, but it is not comparable to the population level of China in the same period.
Moreover, there are frequent outbreaks of large-scale plagues in Europe, and some even plagues can directly take away one-third of the population of the entire European continent.
In contrast, there are frequent outbreaks of plague in China, but there has never been a large-scale outbreak of plague in China, and the plague is always small-scale and will be controlled in time.
It can be seen that the level of sanitation in ancient Europe was low, even in the era of Napoleon, the level of hygiene in Europe was still unsightly, there were no toilets in the noble castles, and Napoleon could only urinate in the stairwell of the castle when he went to the palace for a meeting. One can imagine what kind of smell wafts from the royal palaces and castles of Europe.
There is also the so-called ancient civilization of India, not to mention, the concept of family toilets has not been popularized in later generations.
Historically, what can really be compared with China in terms of health level is actually the world.
If you really want to talk about the height of history and culture, in ancient times, the world was also beating God believers. This is also the reason why everyone in Europe began to boast about ancient Greece later, and worshiped ancient Greece as the cultural ancestor of the whole of Europe. In fact, most of the European nations and countries have nothing to do with ancient Greece, but they have to blow up the relationship of a hundred dollars, and they blow themselves up as the personal disciples of ancient Greece one by one, so as to explain that they are not barbarians.
Ganqi, who enjoys the back rubbing service, is called a refreshing, hot spring, which is really a gift from God, as long as you have been in the hot spring, you will definitely remember the hot spring.
Spa hotels make money, Ganchi has no doubt about that.
Gan Qi, who was enjoying the back rubbing service, suddenly flashed in his mind, should he open a special area for officials? Officials are the group that specializes in taking a bath on vacation, in this era, the holiday is called Xiu Mu, what is Xiu Mu for? It's designed to let you go home and take a bath.
The system of rest and bath has been officially stipulated since the Western Han Dynasty, and in the Western Han Dynasty, officials had to take a bath once every five days and go home to bathe. The Great Song Dynasty is even cooler, and with the addition of statutory holidays, you can rest for more than 100 days a year. Of course, this is not how much the rest has increased, but it has been reduced to a ten-day holiday, but there are more and more statutory holidays in the Song Dynasty, and even the solar terms such as the summer solstice and the beginning of spring will be closed.
It seems that the official area is very necessary. Life is in the bath!
Ganchi soaked in the hot springs, thought about business, and then had to work hard for some of life's great causes. One two days, that can't be wasted.