The water system is not very technical, but it requires some iron pipe installation costs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf each municipality uses a steam engine to pump water, the cost shared by a single inn and restaurant merchant is very low. In fact, these iron pipes do not need to be produced in Tianjin, and can actually be produced in all parts of Li Zhi's territory.

Li Zhi didn't think of relying on the tap water system to make a profit, but introduced the key tips of the tap water system in the newspaper for free to encourage the people to use it to the greatest extent.

The convenience and hygiene that this new thing brings is remarkable. For the wealthy citizens of Tianjin and Shandong, this new thing appeared very timely. Therefore, after the water supply system was introduced in Tianjin, the chief executives of major cities and towns in Tianjin and Shandong stood up to take the lead and followed suit, which became all the rage.

In some cities in eastern Liaodong, good deeds also organized merchants to put running water, and even Tianjin officials stationed in North Korea also organized local enterprises. For a time, the blacksmith who cast the iron pipe was too busy to receive orders.

Dongmingji Town was one of the earliest towns with a horse water system. So when Li Zicheng stayed in a decent inn in the town at night, he still saw the same running water system in the toilet of the guest room.

This time, Li Zicheng is already familiar with such a facility. Li Zicheng took the soap on the sink and took a cold shower in the bathhouse, feeling that his whole person was a lot more energetic - it was already the end of the third lunar month, and the weather was already very warm, and it was not cold to take a cold shower.

Compared to bathing in a bucket basin by the river, the convenience of bathing under the head of the tap water shower is self-evident. Coupled with the little fragrance contained in the soap, Li Zicheng took a cold shower very comfortably. To put it mildly, it's really a pleasure that I've never enjoyed before.

Walking out of the lotus showerhead, Li Zicheng sighed. If the extravagant life of the gentry made Li Zicheng spurn and despised, Li Zhi's invention of these civilian, convenient and comfortable lifestyles made Li Zicheng unable to refuse. After bathing with this kind of showerhead, Li Zicheng began to feel that his previous life of only going to the river to take a bath once in five or six days was dirty and barbaric.

Soap is an old-fashioned thing that has been around for more than ten years, and Li Zicheng knows how to use it. However, the free toothpaste in the inn still made Li Zicheng very confused, standing in front of the big mirror in front of the toilet sink, Li Zicheng fiddled with the box of toothpaste, not knowing how to use it.

However, this new thing in Shandong must be a good thing, and Li Zicheng is unwilling to miss the opportunity to gain knowledge. In desperation, Li Zicheng called the innkeeper again.

It was not strange for that little guy to hear Li Zicheng's disguised Henan accent. At the junction of Dongming County and Henan, there are often rustic Henan merchants who come here.

Xiao Wu picked out some toothpaste from the toothpaste box with his hand, applied it to his toothbrush, and then brushed his teeth in front of Li Zicheng.

"Merchants, the key to brushing your teeth is to brush every part of your teeth, so that you can really protect your teeth. If your teeth don't decay, you'll have to live a few more years! ”

Li Zicheng followed the instructions of the little servant, lifted the free toothbrush on the sink and began to brush his teeth. After brushing his teeth, Li Zicheng turned on the faucet to receive water, and carefully brushed his teeth with a toothbrush dipped in well water.

Then Li Zicheng sighed in the mirror, feeling that his mouth was cleaner than ever.

After the little guy left, Li Zicheng was distracted by the toothpaste on the sink.

This toothpaste is really magical.

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After a sleepless night, Li Zicheng took Song Xiance to the county seat as soon as it was dawn.

Li Zicheng naturally had a way to get the people's waist cards issued by Li Zhi in Henan, and deceived the doorman at the gate of Dongming County. However, the doorman was quite careful when he checked the waist card, which made Li Zicheng and Song Xiance have a false alarm.

The county town is more prosperous than the township, and the roads are full of traffic early in the morning. Different from the banner signboards in the township, the wooden signboards in the county town are hung on the door of the store, which looks more classy. The restaurants and goulan on both sides of the main street of the county town are three-storey brick and cement buildings, which are richly decorated.

However, these luxurious buildings did not entertain the gentry and gentlemen, but the citizens in ordinary cotton clothes.

In the middle of the main street is a "middle school", and some middle school students wearing cotton uniforms eat breakfast in teahouses and restaurants outside the school, and they don't seem to care about the breakfast money.

Li Zicheng took a look on the main street and walked into the factory area in the county seat.

The so-called factory area was not a large industrial area in later generations, but a relatively depressed corner of the county town, and now there are some local manufacturing industries - under Li Zhi's rule, some low-tech industries that were needed everywhere were scattered to various counties, not all of which were concentrated in Tianjin.

The first thing that caught Li Zicheng's eye in the factory area were several large chimneys of the water pipe factory. In the name of Henan merchants, Li Zicheng and Song Xiance entered the water pipe factory and went around.

The plumbing plant is a small factory that has been making water pipes for several nearby counties since last month. The owner of the water pipe factory saw that Li Zicheng was extraordinary, thought that he had come to a big customer, and personally took Li Zicheng into the factory to visit.

"Merchants, although our factory is small, it is also opened by the casting master of the Junwang official foundry factory. The water pipe adopts an integrated casting technology, using clay sand as a mold and forming it at one time. ”

Looking at the tall entourage behind Li Zicheng, the owner of the water pipe factory said mysteriously: "This merchant, let me tell you that our old master has been passed on by the king of the county. Our water pipes have a special heat treatment, which greatly enhances the pressure resistance. Even if the temperature drops to very low in winter, our water pipes will not crack easily. ”

A leopard can be seen in the tube. Li Zicheng looked at the scorching furnace in the factory and the molten iron flowing in the pipes, and understood the industrial production capacity under Li Zhi's rule.

Making tens of thousands of rockets is really not a big deal for Li Zhi's industrial capacity.

After a conversation with the factory director, Li Zicheng left the water pipe factory and went to the cement factory to take a look.

The cement factory saw that there was a business from Henan and sent a technician to receive Li Zicheng.

"This businessman, although our factory is not as good as Tianjin's big factory, but it is very close to Henan. Merchant, think about it, how much does it cost to transport a bag of cement from Tianjin to Henan? ”

The technician was very eloquent, and he said: "And our factory has purchased the latest large-scale steel ball mill from Tianjin, and the cement powder is very delicate, and the structural strength is far more than that of ordinary county-level factories." If you want to buy a large amount of cement to Henan, to put it mildly, our factory is definitely the first choice. ”

Li Zicheng stood underneath the large steel ball mill and watched as the huge limestone was swallowed by the ball mill and turned into powder and spit out. Although the cement plant is not large, the output is not small. Li Zicheng looked at the boxes of cement shipped to the factory, and secretly said that he was afraid that he could quickly build a few small castles with the cement produced by this small factory in a month, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

If Li Zhi's territory is mobilized as a whole and all these civilian factories are converted to military use, how much war potential will there be?

Li Zicheng took a breath, and suddenly felt that he was more and more afraid of Li Zhi.