Chapter 111: Guest House

The copper coin that was knocked away arrived in Cen Min's hand after a few tosses, and the farthest sniping distance in the old time and space was more than 2,400 meters, and the elders were not surprised by this kind of shooting within 100 meters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhat's more, there is a lot of silver in the Senate now, and there are many senators with more than a dozen silver coins on their bodies, not to mention these copper coins in a dime, naturally no one wants to keep this copper coin, so Cen Min carefully asked the example to see the coin that was knocked away, and the example agreed without thinking about it.

Cen Min held the copper coin sent by the example in his hand, and his heart was surging, although these people behaved strangely, but the power of the weapons in their hands was so strong, it made him think a lot, if Dawu could have an army equipped with such weapons, let alone deal with the chaotic people, even if the southern barbarians and the northern captives were not a problem.

What's more, thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the guest house room he had been arranged. Before he became a hundred households, he often went on business trips in other places, and lived in post stations and inns all over the country, whether they were government or private, but there has never been such a comfortable guest house in this guest house.

There are very few furnishings in the room, nothing more than a large bed, a table, and two chairs, but the bed is cushioned with thick cotton cushions, and it feels very comfortable whether you sit or lie down. He couldn't help but think back to the hard bed he slept on in the inn he was most satisfied with, with straw on it, and he had to pay extra money to add a mattress to sleep comfortably. However, in the guest house of these people, even the chairs are cushioned with thick cotton cushions, although the winter in Annam is far less cold than in the north, but these cotton cushions still make people feel a lot more comfortable after all.

However, what surprised him was that there was a huge window in the guest house, although the patriarchs looked at this wooden-framed glass window that was only two meters high and three meters wide, it was nothing at all, but at the moment glass was very valuable in this time and space, it was a precious treasure. He was amazed by the transparent ice-like glass, and although he could occasionally see some small bubbles in the middle of the glass, the clarity was far greater than the Yaning glass and the glass made of crystal he had ever seen, and he really didn't know how the man made these delicate things.

There was also a strange little room in the guest house room, with a large wooden basin and a hole under the basin, which was led directly into the ground by a thick lead pipe. He heard the example that this is a sewer, this basin is used to wash his face, and there is a pull rope on the top of the basin, and after pulling it, another thin water pipe on the side of the basin will bubble water out, and if you pull it again, the water will stop bubbling. This is the water supply switch provided by the Senate hardware factory, since the machines used to produce fine parts are used to produce weapons, there is not even the equipment to produce faucets at this time, and now the water flow can only be switched on and off by this primitive method.

There was a mirror inlaid on the wall in front of the basin, and seeing this mirror made Cen Min suddenly feel a lot taller, because he had seen the mirror. In the capital, an overseas mirror small powder box can be sold for two hundred taels of silver, most of the time it is still priceless, and in the capital where ordinary people can live for a year with ten taels of silver, this is no less than the sky-high price. But compared to this mirror, the small compact is less than one-twentieth the size of this mirror. Isn't this mirror priceless? He suddenly had an idea, if the price is right, he bought a few mirrors from the people and shipped them to the capital, wouldn't he become a rich man immediately?

What shocked him even more than the mirror was the small room - the people told him that it was a toilet, and that it could not only be used to wash his hands and face, but also a toilet...... This bedpan in front of you is. The bedpan, which clearly looked like porcelain, was embedded in the ground, with a round hole at one end downward, and it seemed that there was water in it at a glance. This toilet refreshed his worldview, and in his impression, whether it was the common people or the royal nobles, everyone was equal in front of the toilet, or it was a dry toilet where maggots and maggots rolled everywhere and people couldn't get their foot, or it was a wooden board covered with feces and urine, and it was a dung pit that was crumbling when stepped on and could drown people if it fell down. Even if it is a toilet used by a wealthy family, it does not smell good. But the bedpan in front of him is extremely clean, just like the soup pot, how did this man's grain reincarnation place be so clean? Not even a hint of stink.

Speaking of cleanliness, he had to take a shower at the strong request of the example, in the past, he was served by the small maid in the house to soak in the large bathtub, and after soaking, the small maid rubbed it aside, and after rubbing it into the water, you could see the putty covered with putty, which made me feel very disgusting. However, these people have a completely different bathing method, just stand on the ground, pull the switch on their heads, and water will spray out of the lotus showerhead. And I don't know how these people do it, these water is not cold water, but warm water, even if you take a bath in this winter, you don't feel cold at all. What amazed him even more was that although the water from the bath would flow in the room, it would eventually flow into the bedpan on the floor, or into a small hole in the floor, and when he was done, there was almost no standing water left on the ground, and the mirror was covered with a layer of mist.

The most interesting thing is the "soap" that is now placed next to the basin, this yellow-white thing like a piece of lard is an example for himself, use soap to apply to the body that has been flushed with water, and then wash it with his hands to lather, and after a while of rinsing with water, he can feel the sludge on his body is cleaned, which makes him feel that he has never been so refreshing. After taking a shower, the clothes he changed were sent to the laundry room by the guest house to be washed, and the example sent him a set of naturalized civilian clothes.

This so-called naturalized civilian uniform is an ordinary work uniform, which appeared in large quantities as work clothes on the body of Chinese workers in the fifties and sixties of the old time and space, and at this time, it once again showed its heroic appearance in the new time and space.

Cen Min couldn't help but carefully look at the naturalized civilian clothes on his body, which was different from the robe he wore when he came, this kind of thicker cotton clothing was extremely well made. He had carefully examined the stitches and wondered what kind of craftsman could make them so fine. However, when he walked to the window and saw the "naturalized people" walking by from time to time outside, wearing the same naturalized civilian clothes as himself, he felt quite strange.

As far as he knew, there were only one or two thousand "naturalized people" in this eastern port who were qualified to wear naturalized civilian uniforms, and it had not been more than four months since these people began to build the city after landing, how did these people make so many clothes in such a short period of time? And it looks like the clothes they wear are the same as the clothes they wear. He couldn't help but start thinking again, if Dawu could also produce military uniforms in this way, let alone change them every five years, even if they could be changed every three years or two years.

You must know that at this time, the Wu Dynasty was by requisitioning the labor of the common people to sew mandarin duck war jackets, because the subsidies given by the government were originally small, and they could not be used against taxes, the common people were not willing to do this kind of thankless thing at all. As far as he knew, the mandarin duck battle jackets in the guards of Beihaiwei had not changed for at least ten years, and the tattered patches of mandarin duck battle jackets he saw on the military households were like flower children, and there was no military appearance at all.

Thinking of this, he touched the buttons on his clothes again, which felt very peculiar, not wooden or stone, light and hard, and with patterns on them. Listen to the example that the above thing that looks like a cross is called the North Star, which means that the Senate will always guide the way in the hearts of the people like the North Star. He was not at all interested in what the Senate was like in the hearts of the people, but he was able to make even a button so elaborately crafted, and the people who worked in the workshop of the Oriental Port really had time to spare.

Contrary to what he thought, these buttons are made from bakelite powder and cast in molds, and the existing equipment can produce 100,000 buttons a day at full capacity. If it weren't for the fact that the output of bakelite has not risen now, it is estimated that the buckle would have been one of the export products long ago.

However, at this time, in the conference room of the Executive Committee Building, the elders of several departments were discussing Cen Min's handling plan, and the example first expressed his opinion, "As the head of the counter-espionage department, I should have been facing a great enemy when this Jinyi Guard arrived, but I think this Qianhu is different from other officials in this time and space, he seems to be able to accept our culture, and he also has a great interest in our products. ”

"Yes, you're still very interested in our armaments, if you leak our information, wait until the Wu Dynasty army comes to our door, and then you can talk about your interest." Shen Bin objected on the side.

Yang Minghuan paused and said: "We don't have to fight each other with the Wu Dynasty, the Wu Dynasty has a huge market, we have invincible productivity in this time and space, if we can have channels to contact the officials of the Wu Dynasty and whitewash our identity, then we will be able to develop and grow here justifiably, and when that time comes, we will even be able to peacefully evolve the entire continent into the sphere of influence of the Senate." ”

"Yes," Gu Qingqian is very interested in this kind of thing, and her greatest pleasure is to develop one new market after another, and watch the industry of the Senate flourish in her own hands. "With our current industrial products, even if they are inconspicuous needles and threads, they are rare products in front of the common people of the Wu Dynasty or Annam, and our price is a great advantage. If the mainland market can be developed, then the wealth will not roll in? ”

"Wealth is rolling in, and the officials of the Wu Dynasty will also be rolling in, you must know that the officials now are directly asking for bribes, and more often they don't do anything after receiving money. If we don't let Wu Chao know how sharp our teeth are, people will treat us as a big piece of fat and cut us as much as they want. Li Jieqi held the teacup with both hands and said indifferently.