Chapter 80 Blast Furnace Water Tower
Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, has worked as a tooth man for so many years, and has developed a good habit with high execution.
The construction of women's toilets is related to the epidemic, and the factory owner Zhu Shou is not afraid of spending money, and two masons can complete the work in three days, so he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire six masons and ask them to build the women's and men's toilets in one day.
In order to be completely reassured, Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, personally supervised the construction of public toilets by the six masons, and looked at the four extra masons, and felt sorry for the second brother and said: "You can't be so extravagant in the future." ”
"This time, it cost an extra four catties of grain, and according to the current grain price, these four catties of grain can be exchanged for four catties of pork."
The factory owner Zhu Shou knows what money should be spent, what money should not be spent, the money for eating meat and drinking wine, and the money for epidemic prevention should be spent.
The next day, all the public toilets were built, and Zhu Shun answered some academic questions from the two disciples, and sailed across the river with a small boat.
After the Qingming Festival, the weather finally warmed up, and the purple cloth cotton jacket on Zhu Shun's body was replaced by a cool purple cloth placket, and his body was much lighter.
Now that the weather is warm, the last two things to prevent the epidemic can be put on the agenda, and if you do these two things well, you can completely solve the epidemic problem.
Zhu Shun walked over and checked the public toilet first, confirmed that there was nothing wrong, and walked to the hydraulic plant, where the factory owner Zhu Shouchang personally sprinkled lime.
When the factory owner Zhu Shou finished his work, the uncle and nephew sat in the main hall used to receive guests in the Zhu spinning factory, and began to discuss the next step: "Third uncle, the purpose of sprinkling lime is to prevent fleas from producing fleas in the house. ”
"Public toilets are built to provide a breeding ground for pests that transmit diseases, and we need to eliminate this problem at the root."
Speaking of eradicating the epidemic from the root, Zhu Shou, the factory owner, roughly thought about what Zhu Shun was going to say, and said with a bitter face: "Shun'er, you have to think about it, the cost of this is not light." ”
Zhu Shun knew that the third uncle was complaining about bitterness, but in fact, he still agreed with this matter in his heart, otherwise he would not have been a bitter gourd face, and he would have gone to move the rescue soldiers a long time ago: "Third uncle, I also know that the cost is very large, and it is estimated that it will be at least ten taels of silver a month." ”
"But if you think about the harm of the plague, let alone ten taels of silver, it is worth spending fifteen taels of silver a month."
Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, estimated in his heart that it was almost ten taels of silver, and when he heard that fifteen taels was worth it, the bitter gourd face was even more bitter, how much wine and meat did he have to buy.
Zhu Shun took out a drawn drawing and handed it to the factory owner Zhu Shou: "Third uncle, this is an improved Shen, and the third uncle will arrange for someone to build it as soon as possible." ”
It is a kind of bathroom that has appeared since the Tang Dynasty, and the prevention of epidemic diseases is a top priority in any dynasty, and it is an indispensable building in the mansion of the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong Shivalve Group in the Tang Dynasty.
It is usually built next to the stove room, and the water source is heated by the cooking fire, and a special drainage channel is dug up to the bath.
Next to the bath dunger, there is a truss for hanging clothes, and there is a relatively large bath bed, so you can sit on the bath bed and take a bath comfortably.
The one designed by Zhu Shun is actually completely different from the one in the Tang Dynasty, and the new style is mainly composed of two parts.
The first part is the water tower, which first uses green bricks to build a blast furnace during the national steelmaking, which is about three meters high, and it is enough to exceed the roof of the river.
On top of the blast furnace is an iron water tank that stores water, and there are several iron pipes on the bottom side of the iron water tank, which extend to the roof of the house.
Next is the second part of Shen, which is also the main body of Shen, which is much simpler.
Build a special bathing room, the roof of which is made of iron showers, each with a manual valve.
When the female workers take a bath, they only need to open the valve, and hot water will spray out of the shower, after all, the tank for storing hot water is higher than the roof of the chamber, and has a strong natural water pressure.
The silver spent on the construction of the project, it is estimated that fifty taels of silver is enough, and this money is still paid, and the most reluctant thing for the factory owner Zhu Shou is the cost of boiling water every day.
Seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea.
Firewood comes first, and it is higher than the rice to be eaten every day, which shows the importance of firewood.
Zhu Shun knew what the third uncle was worried about, and when he was designing this new style, he had already considered the fuel problem: "Third uncle, there are about seventy anthracite kilns to the west of our spinning mill. ”
"The price of anthracite is relatively expensive, a penny of silver and a catty, but bituminous coal, which is associated with anthracite, is not very valuable."
"It's not that we can't use bituminous coal that produces poisonous gas to burn the fire indoors, this blast furnace that burns water is outdoors, and no matter how much we burn the fire, it won't poison people."
Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, habitually patted his thigh, and said with a smile: "Look at the third uncle's memory, how did he forget the bituminous coal." ”
"The bituminous coal that no one wants is piled up into a small mountain in the west of Beijing, and it is best to bring it to boil water."
Thinking that no one wants the bituminous coal hills, Zhu Shou, the factory owner who likes to pick up leaks, can't sit still, and is ready to negotiate the price of bituminous coal today.
The nearest anthracite coal kiln is only thirty or forty miles away, still upstream of Zhu's spinning mill.
With the help of the turbulent Yongding River to transport bituminous coal, the freight cost of bituminous coal is almost nothing.
The three steps of sprinkling lime, public toilet, and water were solved, and there was only one last step left, and Zhu Shun took out another drawing, on which a set of clothes was drawn.
The style of the clothes is the most common women's placket in the Ming Dynasty, except that the Zhu spinning mill and number are printed with dye on the chest.
Zhu Shun handed the drawings to Zhu Shou, the owner of the factory, and continued: "If you still wear the clothes that you can't wash once in a few days after taking a bath, you will still breed pests like fleas. ”
"Third uncle, you go back to Song's house to buy a batch of cotton cloth, cut a batch of work clothes according to this look, and send two sets to a female worker."
"Every day when I go to work, I have to take a shower first, and then put on new work clothes, and the old work clothes need to be washed immediately, and then put outside to dry."
"Anyway, there are numbers on it, and the third uncle arranges for someone to check it every day to prevent someone from being lazy and not taking a bath."
It's construction again, and it's the distribution of work clothes, and the factory owner Zhu Shou, who is in pain, is almost out of breath, and answers sickly: "The third uncle knows it in his heart." ”
The sprinkling of lime and the construction of public toilets have completely eliminated the external conditions for breeding pests, and the internal conditions for female workers to carry pests have been completely eliminated by the use of work clothes.
The epidemic problem has been completely solved.
After dealing with the last thing of the pre-epidemic prevention disease, Zhu Shun left Zhu's spinning factory with confidence, and he didn't go to Wang Gongju for a long time, so he went over today to see the situation.