Who is more beneficial to me to become the first assistant?

Some things always need to be prepared in advance, prepare in advance, it is better than being caught off guard at the moment, it is now the seventh year of Wanli, the tenth year of Wanli......

That year, how did Zhang Juzheng die?

However, all this is not important, what matters is what to do behind Zhang Juzheng.

For Edwin Shi, that's what he needs to consider.

"Zhang Siwei, Ma Ziqiang, Shen Xingshi ......"

Reading the names of these three people, Shi Yiwen sighed in his heart, sure enough, it was the same as in history, once something happened to Zhang Juzheng, it would be Zhang Siwei's turn to rank seniority.

It's not easy!

There are some things that need to be prepared in advance, but that's just it, Shi Yiwen, who knew that he was powerless to control the overall situation, finally hid all this in his heart. Then he continued his business, and on the way to the ironworks, he could clearly see the changes here.

In the past, several new cloth factories were opened by the Lugou River, and several lords in Beijing, including the British Prince, also invested in the establishment of weaving factories.

Now the bank of the Lugou River, like an industrial park, with the advantage of water power, attracts the wealthy families of the capital to set up a cloth factory here. With their intervention, the monopoly of Jiangnan cloth, which once seemed to be an iron bucket, on the supply of nine-sided cloth has also been opened.

"In a few years, it is estimated that the cloth in the south of the Yangtze River will be squeezed out of the market of the five northern provinces."

Talking to himself, Shi Yiwen came to the construction site of Xincun, which was full of craftsmen working there, and they were building houses for factory workers.

Standing between the red brick houses neatly arranged like a chessboard, Shi Yiwen suddenly felt a little stunned by time, as if he was in the northern countryside in the later generations, the same red brick houses, the same neatly arranged in front and back, left and right, but there was something missing.

Towering walls, glass windows......

The former is to save bricks and reduce costs, while the latter is because there is none.

"Perhaps, we should set up a glass factory to produce flat glass."

Shi Yiwen muttered to himself.

"It seems that there was a glass workshop in the capital."

Although glass appeared in China very early, glass has deviated in China, and there is no return on the road to imitation jade, and he has seen glass products of this era, which do not meet his needs at all.

"You can think about it later, maybe you can solve the glass mirror by the way."

Although there is a lot of glass and mirrors in the space, and as long as Edwin wants to, he can make many mirrors at any time, but until now, he has not sold the glass mirrors, the reason why he is so cautious, on the one hand, because the huge profits of the thing are enough to make anyone crazy, and on the other hand, because he can't make the royal think that the glass mirror is cheap.

If you set up a glass factory, in addition to producing transparent glass, make some palm-sized mirrors, and make a little money by the way, it is not bad, after all, those local tyrants everywhere, especially in the south, do not mind spending a lot of money to buy mirrors.

Thinking so in his heart, Shi Yiwen came to one of the houses that had been built, the house was a typical 80s northern farmhouse courtyard - in the middle is a hall house with a depth of 8 meters, and on both sides are two side rooms of the same size, which are separated into four bedrooms, plus two side rooms on the side, this house is really good.

The red brick walls, the wall joints and ditches are filled with cement, and the interior walls of the house are pasted with hemp mud, and a layer of white is painted, which is made of hydrated lime and water. Although the area of each bedroom is only a little more than 12 square meters, Shi Yiwen still looks quite proud.

"If you make a roof again, this house is just the 90s, and it is also very trendy!"

These houses were built exactly according to the standards of the 80s and 90s, can they not be trendy? In this era, I am afraid that even ordinary small landlords may not be able to live in such a good house.

"Maybe by next year, such a red brick and tile house will become the benchmark for the new home of the Ming Dynasty!"

Proud, he walked into the side room of only seven or eight square meters, and then said.

"This is the kitchen, this side shelves, this side kitchen cabinets, this side ......"

Before he finished speaking, Shi Yiwen was stunned, as if he had neglected one thing - the toilet...... It seems that there is no such plan in the drawings.

"Why don't you get another bathroom? It just so happened that even taking a shower was solved together. ”

What do you need in the bathroom?

Flush toilet needed, tile needed...... But water is needed even more! Running water is needed, and in addition to that, sewers are needed.

These are obviously outside of Eswin's plans, and even in the new rural plans in the library magazine, which are not taken into account, after all, in the eighties and nineties...... There really is no one who thinks about this.

"Come on, just like the people in the capital, just use the wooden toilet to count."

Although he said so, when he looked at the factory in the distance, Shi Yiwen naturally thought of the future, in the future, with the increase of factories, there will only be more and more people here, and factories and towns will appear on this land.

"Actually, don't you miss the toilet yourself?"

In the past year, although Ewen has been adapting to this era, he will still miss many basic living facilities in another time and space, running water, showers, flush toilets, etc., which have become a kind of luxury in this era.

Even if the family has a lot of money, all this is still unattainable, and even when he quietly brings a small table lamp into this world for his reading at night, these running water-related lifestyles are still difficult for him, and he can only occasionally miss the convenient modern lifestyle in the space.

Most of the time, my life is no different from that of the people of this era.

"Or else...... Just give it a try? ”

When looking towards the Lugou River in the distance, Shi Yiwen couldn't help but have a thought in his heart, and he even thought of the scene when he got acquainted with Wanli, at that time, wasn't it just fooling him to run a waterworks.

In fact, what's so difficult about waterworks?

It's nothing more than a water plant!

I have set up several factories, so what is the difficulty of running a water plant now? Even if it's a little difficult, it's just a simple technical problem.

Finally, Shi Yiwen made a decision in his heart - to build a waterworks!