Chapter 690 Toilet Paper
Zhao Rui looked proud, and said in his heart: Sample, still posing in front of a certain person, isn't it the Wujun Zhu family? There are many good things in the Wufeng Islands, and there are you outsiders who can know about them.
"This kind of pencil is not produced here, and if Zhu Lang is interested, he can find a Yip's stationery store in the commercial area, where there are all kinds of writing utensils ......."
Zhu Yan smacked his tongue when he listened, there are indeed a lot of novelties in the Wufeng Islands, it can be said that he completely subverted his cognition, making the Wufeng Islands look like the Tang Dynasty, if you look carefully, there are differences everywhere, is this the legendary country of Huaxu?
It is said that the Yellow Emperor has been on the throne for more than 30 years, because he thinks about the great governance of the world, he has no intention of governing political affairs for three months, and suddenly sleepwalks to the country of Huaxu one day, and sees that there is no monarch in his country, and there is no distinction between noble and low, foolish and virtuous, and the people have no hobbies, neither love life nor fear death; There is no separation between relatives and relatives, nor love and hatred, it is a wonderful paradise without human interests and losses.
When mankind entered the era of civilization, he began to conceive his own future in various ways, and in the legendary Huaxu Kingdom, there was no distinction between ruling and being ruled, and the people did not have more than necessary desires, and they also faced life and death indifferently. Treat people and things with one treat, without partiality. He does not cherish anything, nor fears anything. Everything goes with the flow. This ideal country is a world of great harmony where the world is public and there is no hierarchy of dignity and inferiority.
In the "Tao Te Ching", it is a "small country and widow" who "hears the voice of chickens and dogs, and does not get along with each other in old age and death"; In "Liezi", it is the "Huaxu Kingdom" in "The Yellow Emperor"; In "Zhuangzi", it is "the world of virtue"; In Tao Yuanming's pen, it is the "Peach Blossom Spring" of "I don't know whether there is a Han Dynasty, regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties"; In "The Impotent Son", it is an ancient world with "no heart to take harm, no hidden things".
The sudden appearance of the Wufeng Islands made Zhu Yan already suspicious, seeing the countless differences here, from the daily food, clothing, housing and transportation, to the women walking on the street, although they spoke the same Tang dialect in their mouths, it made people feel strange.
The ancients believed in all kinds of legends of gods and ghosts, especially Zhu Yan, who was doing business at sea all the year round, and often heard many legends about the sea, the legend that there are four dragon palaces under the sea, each dragon palace is repaired with crystal, and there are countless treasures inside, as for what Penglai fairy island is legendary for tens of millions of years, even the fishermen who live by the sea can still see the legendary fairy island, but when they go to explore by boat, they always disappear mysteriously, which makes the ancients even more convinced that there is indeed something on the sea that they do not know the magic.
In private, Lu Ming and the others have identified the Wufeng Islands as the country of Huaxu, even if it is not the real country of Huaxu, it is also a part of the country of Huaxu, otherwise how can there be so many magic.
It's just that the people on the Wufeng Islands prefer to call this place a merchant country, and this "Shang" doesn't know whether it is the Shang of Xia Shang Zhou or the Shang of Shangjia, because there is a "Shang" word on the banknotes used for exchange on the island.
When designing banknotes, he argued for a long time about the pattern, but in Zhen Qian's view, banknotes are a medium for commercial transactions and exchanges, and they are a kind of vouchers, which are not interesting in themselves, so he designed a seal in the middle of the banknotes with the word "Shang", which did not expect to attract many speculations from others.
If the word "Hua" had been designed at the beginning, would it have been mistaken for the country of Huaxu?
But Zhen Qian is really thinking about such a question?
Zhu Yan was thinking about things in his heart, and saw Zhao Rui take out a roll of paper that was a little yellowed, and his first feeling was that it was a defective product in the papermaking workshop, and he dared to put it on the display shelf, could it be that Zhao Rui was confused, or stupid!
"It's ......!"
"This is toilet paper?"
"Toilet paper? What a knock, I haven't heard of it! ”
Zhu Yan has long been nervous by all kinds of strange things in the Wufeng Islands, not to mention any toilet paper, even if there is a person who can fly, I am afraid he will not be surprised.
"Toilet paper? What is it used for? ”
"This ......", this time it was Zhao Rui's turn to look constipated, and he opened his mouth, as if his words were blocked, and there were still people asking such questions, toilet paper is toilet paper, and he held it for a long time before he said: "That's it...... That one...... This ......, instead of toilet chips, understand? ”
"Got your head!" Zhu Yan is a little angry, what are you doing! Is there anything to say? Why use the toilet to disgust people. What is a toilet chip, also known as toilet chips and stirring sticks, refers to wooden or bamboo sticks used to wipe filth after defecation, even thinking about it can make people sick for a day.
Today's people go to the toilet is "convenient", the ancients called it "changing clothes", the rich people have a big show, to change clothes, the richest man in the Southern Dynasty Shi Chong's toilet repaired like a palace, when he "entered the palace", more than 10 brightly dressed maids prepared a decoction powder, agarwood juice, new clothes, etc., lined up to stand at the door to wait, pull a than the current bath sauna is much more luxurious.
Wang Dun, the general of the Western Jin Dynasty, was recruited as a concubine, on the wedding night, the first time to use the princess's magnificent toilet, he saw that there was a lacquer box containing dried dates, only as a "pit food", grab it and eat, while eating and pulling, after the event, the maid brought a plate of water, and a glass bowl with "bath beans". Wang Dun poured these "bath beans" into the water and drank them all, causing "the group of maids to cover their mouths and laugh". It turns out that dried dates are used to plug the nose to prevent odor when "climbing the pit", while "bath beans" are equivalent to the current soap, which is used to wash hands.
In fact, no matter whether the emperor's "jade pot", the folk "toilet", or Cixi Lafayette's "Ruyi bucket", when the matter is over, it is inevitable to face the problem of wiping the buttocks.
In the Han Dynasty, there was the first of the four famous inventions "papermaking", but this thing that changed the course of human civilization was not used by the Chinese people to wipe their buttocks until the Yuan Dynasty.
The yellowed paper in Zhao Rui's hand is straw paper, which could have been bleached with lime water, but thinking that the Chinese people can't even use the paper for writing, if you wipe your butt with snow-white paper at this time, not to mention whether you can sell it, even if you take it out and sell it, there will be countless Taoists who will immediately put the Zhao family into the eighteenth layer of hell, and they will immediately go online, rising to the height of morality, national righteousness, and cultural inheritance...... And so on, isn't this insulting to the literati, saying that the paper used by the literati is all to wipe their butts?
In fact, Zhen Qian's wiping of his buttocks with paper has already been regarded as Sven scum by the surroundings, and he is about to be equated with the brutal and lewd businessman Xia Ji, and some people are even scolding Zhen Qian behind his back for being a lose......r.
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