Chapter 101: The Steam Age of Public Health

Now the Blood Qi Army is undergoing a new round of camp construction, and a large number of brick and stone houses are now thick and framed. The whole construction site is a busy scene.

There was a lot of dust on the construction site, and on the training ground on the side, individual training was being carried out, which was also dusty. Tan Weiying had no choice but to cover her mouth and nose with her sleeves and followed Ye Tao into a huge room. The large pillars in the middle of the room were covered with cement, and the floor was also paved with cement, and at one end of the large room, a pool-like thing was built.

"What is this for?" Tan Wei asked. She'd never seen a room with such a strange internal structure.

"Bathhouse," Ye Tao said with a smile, "here when the cement is dry, apply a layer of waterproof oil sludge, and then put tiles and mosaics on the surface." ”

"You...... You...... You actually brought me to a man's bathhouse?! "Tan Weiying is ashamed and angry." When I went back, I told my sister to go. ”

"It's not built yet, and no one will come to bathe here now, what are you afraid of?" Ye Tao said with a smile.

However, following Tan Weiying, Yang Xiping, the head of the guards of Her Royal Highness Princess Xiu, asked with some confusion: "Didn't the soldiers take a bath with water on the edge of the well?" How can it accommodate many soldiers bathing here? ”

Yang Xiping had just been transferred from the forbidden army to Tan Weiying's side. By the side of the embroidered princess, there is no pressure to do things. Tan Weiying doesn't have a fight against people at all. This is also one of the reasons why Yang Xiping would interject to ask such a question at this moment.

Ye Tao led them to the next door of the bathhouse, where a large coal-fired stove was installed, on which a sizable brass stove was fixed, and there were many long pottery pipes piled up in the room, and a group of apprentices from Ye's workshop were connecting the pipes one by one, as if to connect them into an extremely complex network.

At this moment, even Tan Weiying understood, and she asked, "Ye Tao." You mean, so many soldiers can take a hot bath at the same time? ”

Ye Tao nodded and said, "Yes, otherwise why would you make such a complicated bathroom?" Just so many tiles and porcelain, the price is not cheap. ”

Tan Weiying listened to Ye Tao's explanation for a long time, but still didn't understand how to let the hot water flow out and let many people in the other room take a bath together. She also couldn't know, in fact, this bathroom now. It has become the construction project that the entire Blood Qi Army pays the most attention to.

Due to the good food and systematic training, the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Blood Qi Army is quite good, but the cold rate has always been very high. Everyone is sweating after training every day, and the officers still have the conditions to boil water for bathing, but most of the soldiers are just like Yang Xiping said just now, and it is over with some well water for flushing. It's okay in the summer, but in the winter, colds are almost inevitable.

Ye Tao thought about it for a long time. After planning for a long time, I finally told everyone that it should be possible for everyone to take a hot shower every day. He then pulled out a drawing of the bathroom. and, most critically, the blueprint of the cryogenic steam engine. Ye Tao has little interest in launching the industrial revolution in this era, and the current technical conditions are temporarily unable to produce qualified steam engines, there is no advanced pipeline processing technology, and there is no reliable sealing technology. The efficiency of the steam engine is really hard to say. However, it is still easy to get one for boiling water, with limited use of steam to provide pressure. In terms of current technical conditions, the pottery pipe may be the best pipe material, and in the absence of rubber, the use of plaster and linoleum cloth wrapping, although it is inevitable that there will still be leakage. But it's barely usable. The boiler is divided into two parts, one that continuously heats the water flowing through the pipes, and the other that generates steam to pressurize the hot water pipes and ensure that the hot water ground pressure is enough to flow the water to each of the nozzles. Speaking of sprinklers, there are no ceramic ball valves or anything like that, and metal valves are also difficult to process, so it's time to boil water at the beginning. All the sprinklers spray water together. The temperature of the hot water sprayed by all the nozzles is the same and cannot be adjusted. And it varies with the pipeline division. The farther away from the boiler, the lower the water pressure. After all, such a large-scale supply of hot water is a headache, and being able to take a hot bath every day is already a high enjoyment, and the soldiers are not too picky.

In contrast, the set of things that are being installed in Zhengyuan is much more elaborate, because it only needs to provide two pipes to produce hot water, the structure is less complicated, and the requirements for steam pressure are also very low. The boiler system installed in Zhengyuan has all the pipes made of copper, the nozzle has two ways of mixing cold and hot water, and a regulating valve made of the same copper is installed, and the adjusting handle is wrapped with ivory. Even the sprinkler has a device that rotates to adjust the pressure of the water flow. Everything is very similar to a modern bathroom, probably the only thing that makes Ye Tao feel less satisfied is that it is still difficult to take a bath now. After all, the bath decorated with mosaics on the surface is not as comfortable as the white porcelain bath, and after thinking about how low the yield of large things is in this era, even if it is simply white porcelain, Ye Tao understands that it will take a while to soak in a comfortable bathtub. He is vigorously developing enamel technology and is preparing to make cast iron bathtubs. In the subsequent development direction, although the use of a part of the steam pressure to make the bathtub have a massage effect puts forward relatively high requirements for the design of the pipe, it is not impossible for Ye Tao. The boiler in Zhengyuan even has a hopper that automatically feeds coal, so there is no need for a person to stay by the boiler all the time to shovel coal.

After about ten days, the bathroom in the Blood Qi Army barracks was finally completed. When the boiler has been running for a while and has entered a normal cycle, the windmill lifts the well water up and pours it into the boiler, and some of the water turns into steam, pushing a simple reciprocating pump to pressurize the pipes where the hot water is constantly flowing. In the bathroom, all the showerheads started to spray hot water, and the whole bathroom was filled with heat in an instant. Another stream of hot water slowly flowed into the huge bath at the end of the room.

The soldiers watching from outside the bathroom door looked at each other, they had never seen anything like it before. Finally, there was a burst of cheers, and a large group of soldiers rushed into the bathroom with their clothes on.

"Every day there is a hot bath, and the water comes out of the pipe......"

"A room of hundreds of people take a bath together, and tens of thousands of old men can take a bath in two hours......"

“…… What's there, have you heard of the Ye family's Zhengyuan? The people in the garden said that in their place, if the water is hot, it can be hot, and if it wants the water to be cold, it can be cold. ”

In the absence of deliberate advertising, this simple technology, which seemed to Ye Tao to be regarded as a stopgap measure, gained great popularity in a short period of time. The military department actually sent someone to the camp of the Blood Qi Army to see what was going on in the bathroom in the wind in a few days. Within a few days, the people of the Ye Workshop brought a large number of pipes and other things into the princess's mansion, which was some kind of corroboration. Everyone knows that if the Ye family has any good things, the princess's mansion must be the first to be used.

Ye Tao was depressed, the bathroom and boiler are not convenient for those who are interested in visiting, but so many qualified families in Danyang are somewhat interested when they hear about such a thing. In the end, Ye Tao had no choice but to find a now vacant factory in Ye's workshop, install a set of boilers, and conduct a simple product briefing. It shows what the collective showers in the barracks and the more elaborate ones installed in the home are.

Subsequently, Ye's Workshop began to receive a large number of headache orders, and Tan Weiying, who was still worried about the sales of mosaics and tiles, suddenly found that the goods in his hand were cleared almost instantly. If the porcelain kiln in the satellite town cannot start construction soon, I am afraid that it will be out of stock soon, and the "pirated" goods are already quietly brewing......

The largest batch of orders came from the military. The bathroom of the same size as the one in the camp of the Blood Qi Army, the military is ready to build ten in one go. Both the Janitor and the City Guard had a need for this.

The boiler and bathroom piping system used in the home, in addition to the orders from the big family, there are actually a considerable number of Qinglou from Danyang. When Ye Tao knew about this situation, it was inevitable that a picture of impurity would appear in his mind, but speaking of which, this was also a "specialty" service.

"Our public health is about to enter the age of steam, but our road transport system is still stuck in the age of animal power." After calculating the amount of coal used in Danyang if the existing ordered boiler runs for an hour every day, Ye Tao said with emotion.

"Whatever your heart is, someone must have been aware of this. Believe it or not, when you install all these things, the price of coal will not only not rise, but will fall back a little. Tan Weixin said with a smile.

Ye Tao has always believed in Tan Weixin's judgment in business. With a wry smile on his face, he said, "I never thought that this thing could make money, and it would soon become a big industry." Originally, I was just trying to satisfy the idea of taking a shower, and it was so unpleasant to always take a bath in a wooden tub. ”

"Well, I believe." Tan Weixin nodded and said, "It's not easy to take a bath and wash it into an industry." ”

Ye Tao said: "Seeing that your eyes are rolling so fast, what are you thinking?" ”

"I'm wondering, what the hell are you tossing around, what kind of name is it appropriate to come out, Rinnai? Electrolux? Sapphire? Cherry blossom? These names are too ...... Nonsensical. You didn't make up Kohler, American Standard, Drag and the like...... It's really hard to calculate. Tan Weixin's words made Ye Tao weak for a while.

After pondering for a while, Ye Tao said slowly: "I really don't know, but now that we are engaged in a big wave of sand, the ends of the earth or something, the conditions are probably ripe, right?" ”