Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Emperor's Enjoyment - Flush Toilet

After breakfast, Li Xiang only felt that his stomach was full for a while, so he hurriedly ran to the toilet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info came to his own toilet, but Li Xiang couldn't pull it out for a long time, it turned out that he had been lying in bed for a long time these days, and he was a little constipated, squatting in the stinky latrine, and it took almost half an hour to pull the stool out.

Li Xiang feels that it is not easy to go to the toilet in this era! If only there were toilets, why not use your expertise to make a flush toilet! In this way, it is not only convenient for himself, but also allows his father to report it to the court, well, the emperor must like it, and the concubines in the palace who love beauty and cleanliness must also like it! Of course, it would be better if it could be promoted to thousands of households.

It's just that the flush toilet seems to have not been popularized in every household in later generations, and only more advanced places will use it! But this is indeed a good idea, so that the flush toilet can be introduced in advance, not only can the father be rewarded for it, but even the promotion should be possible, and at the same time it can deepen the impression of the father in the eyes of the official family. That's it! Tell my father today, then draw a picture, and let the workers of the official kiln go to fire, which can make sanitary ceramics born in the world hundreds of years in advance.

As soon as I thought of the flush toilet, the super 3D printer in Li Xiang's body popped up, prompting again: Is it necessary to print a high-grade flush toilet?

Li Xiang also thinks that this super 3D printer is too amazing, what do you think it will print? But now there is no need to print, Li Xiang has to design and produce it himself!

The super 3D printer gives a three-dimensional structure diagram of a high-end flush toilet in a very humane way, and at the same time, there are historical documents of the toilet, which is really unexpected!

Li Xiang hurriedly read it, but after reading it, he found that there was already a toilet in this era, but the toilet was made of wood or stone, and there was no automatic water discharge and pumping function, wooden toilets and stone toilets were not easy to clean, and wooden toilets were easy to break. Well, it seems that it's still a ceramic toilet!

According to the information of the super 3D printer, "Zhou Li? "Heavenly Official" recorded: "The palace people, the cultivation of the king's six bedrooms, are their wells, and they are not stinking." "Jingkuo" is the ancient name of the toilet, also known as "Yan". According to the "Zuo Biography", in 581 BC, the princess of Jin Jing "ate, rose, went to the toilet, and died." The short eight characters vividly describe the bizarre situation of Jin Jinggong. The tragedy of Jin Jinggong was due to the fact that the toilets were too simple in the pre-Qin period.

Li Xiang went on to see that the earliest water-flushing sit-down toilet in the ancient West can be traced back to the Minoan kingdom around 2000 BC, in the Knossos palace in Crete, people built wooden toilet seats on the drainage canal, and the servants carried the water and poured it into the ditch. Since the facilities were quite expensive at the time, they were only available to the royal family. Before the invention of the flush toilet, outdoor thatched huts, night pots and closed toilets were the three major excretion places of ancient Westerners.

Until the Middle Ages, night pots or simple earthen pots were still the preferred sanitary equipment for ordinary people. Even in French palaces, only kings and queens have commodes, and others, including ministers, use stairwells as toilets. Later, Henry IV ordered that it was necessary to go to the specific balcony of the palace to go to the toilet. According to the book "The Toilet God", before the 19th century, the phenomenon of spilling feces directly from the windows in Paris was cured for a long time, and early Europeans poured the contents of the night pot directly out of the window; London Bridge was originally used as a public toilet, and the filth fell directly into the River Thames below, causing pedestrians and boats in the lower places to suffer from the "scattered flowers"; Louis XIV had a habit of sitting on the toilet to receive guests; The cities of Enlightenment Europe were still filthy......

This did not change until 1596. John, an Englishman at the time? Sir Harrington invented the epoch-making flush toilet. Pull the wrench on this thing, and the water rushes out to sweep away all the excrement, flush the toilet, and the clean water gushes up to cover the stench. Like the flushing facilities of the Minoan Palace, the flush toilet was originally a plaything of the aristocracy. Due to the lack of water valves, designs to block the smell of water, and no matching pipelines, the earliest flush toilets were not promoted, and everyone from the royal family to the common people still preferred the traditional bedpan and closed toilet.

It turns out that the flush toilet has such a history, and Li Xiang couldn't help but laugh secretly, at this time, Europeans are still in such an ignorant era! It seems that by inventing the flush toilet in advance, he can change the history of toilets in the world.

China's mobile toilets have a simple and loud name - "toilet". Wu Zimu, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, recorded the urban style of Lin'an City in "Menglianglu": "The houses of small people in the streets and alleys have no pit toilets, and only use toilets ......" Of course, this kind of toilet is not a toilet in the real sense.

During the Song Dynasty, the public toilets in Bianliang, Lin'an and other metropolises adopted the method of being managed, collected and dumped by special personnel, which had the nature of an industry. At that time, rickshaws or ox carts that specialized in collecting manure were regularly collected from house to house along the streets and alleys and resold to farmers who needed it. Many of these toilets are charged, and the income from manure combined with toilet tickets makes investing in urban public toilets a lucrative business.

It turns out that at this time there are already public toilets and excrement workers! Li Xiang laughed and got out of the toilet. At this time, Li Kang saw Li Xiang's smirk, and thought that his son was confused again, so he was so anxious that he hurriedly grabbed Li Xiang's shoulders and said with concern: "Xiang'er, what's wrong with you?" ”

Li Xiang was taken aback by his father, and when he saw his father's concerned expression, he hurriedly said: "Father, I'm fine, it's just that I thought of a particularly good invention just now, so I couldn't help laughing." Don't worry! ”

Li Kang said: "Invention? What is an invention? ”

Li Xiang smiled and said, "Father, invention is to make something that no one else has ever done." This time the child thought of a toilet tool, I believe you also know, we have a toilet in Lin'an City, right? ”

Li Kang nodded and said, "Yes, some people are using wooden toilets, what's wrong?" ”

Li Xiang smiled: "Father, I designed a thing that can automatically pump and flush the toilet, called a flush toilet!" This kind of toilet is made of ceramic and consists of an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, a seepage pipe, a water plug, a float, a water discharge knob and a lever. Among them, the composition of the water tank can be regarded as a system alone, its principle of action is very simple, mainly rely on the float and the water plug to control the filling and discharging of water, when the water is released according to the boiling water plug, the float descends, the water outlet begins to fill with water, when the water is filled to a certain height, the float can block the water outlet to prevent it from continuing to fill water. In this way, when you are done using the toilet, the water flow will automatically flush the toilet bowl with a light press, and the surface of the ceramic is smooth, so it is also easy to flush with water and there is no odor. ”