Chapter 15 Grandma Zhang enters the Grand View Garden (4) shower

The group walked to the hall, where there was nothing special, only a set of mahogany combination chairs, which were common in later generations. This set of chairs is also a Ming and Qing style wooden furniture, including two single sitting Taishi chairs, a three-seater bench, a large coffee table, and a corner table in the corner.

The chairs are heavily upholstered. Liu Hou of later generations was accustomed to sitting on the sofa, and he always felt uncomfortable sitting on this kind of hard mahogany chair, so he asked people to make soft cushions to deal with it.

Why didn't Liu Hou just get the sofa out? Could it be that Liu Hou's current status as a rich and handsome, rich second generation, and second generation of officials can't afford to use the sofa? The answer is, he really can't afford it. The reason is mainly due to the cowhide.

Liu Hou couldn't find any extra cowhide to make a sofa. You know, in such an era, cattle are more noble than people. At least the life of the cow is protected by the law, and no one can kill the cow at will, including the owner of the cow, otherwise it is illegal and will be sentenced.

However, in this era, human life is like a mustard, and there are countless murders. Not to mention all kinds of wars, it is easy for a noble person to kill a pariah and a master to kill a slave, as long as he spends a little money to get away with it. Therefore, in some cases, the status of cattle is even higher than that of people

Why is the status of cattle so bullish? Because animal power was the only driving force for agricultural production in ancient China, and cattle were the earliest and most commonly used cultivated animals, known as the "foundation of farming". The number and presence of cattle not only directly affect the quality of agricultural farming, labor efficiency and productivity, but also are closely related to the stability of society, the strength and weakness of dynasties, and the rise and fall of dynasties.

Tang Dynasty?? Zhang Tingyan said: "The king's trust is in the people, the people's trust is in food, the food is in farming, and the farming is in cattle." If the cattle are wasted, they will be cultivated, and if they are wasted, they will be eaten, and if they are eaten, the people will die, and if the people die, how can they be kings?"

Known as the "Memorandum of Enjoyment" of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the "Book of Rites?? The Monarchy says: "The princes do not kill cattle for no reason, the doctors do not kill sheep for no reason, the scholars do not kill dogs and pigs for no reason, and the commoners do not eat treasures for no reason."

Of course, the Son of Heaven can eat whatever he wants. However, the princes could not eat beef on weekdays, and could only taste it on the "New Year's Day" of the month, that is, on the first day of the new year.

Therefore, since the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to ensure that there is enough animal power for agricultural production, the cattle protection system with the content of "prohibiting the killing of cattle by private slaughter" has been enshrined in the laws of Chinese dynasties. Slaughtering cattle without the approval of the official authorities, whether it is the owner of the cattle (the owner of the cattle) or others, is a crime and is punishable by law.

The implementation of this system ensured the animal power needs of agricultural production in ancient China to a certain extent, and promoted the recovery and development of the social economy. During the Three Kingdoms period, warlords fought each other, and agricultural production was greatly damaged. However, people of insight attached great importance to the restoration of agricultural production in the area under the rule of Fù.

Of course, there is no shortage of people of insight in the three major military groups of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan. Now that the situation in the three-point world has been decided, the three princes are not only still conquests, but also pay attention to agriculture internally.

Needless to say, Cao Cao's implementation of the tuntian system under his rule has achieved great results, and his command is really rich in soldiers and food.

Sun Quan continued to conquer Shanyue, plunder the population, open up land, and vigorously develop agriculture under his rule.

Liu Bei is not far behind, recruiting displaced people and reclaiming wasteland, under the deployment of Zhuge Liang, the world's first domestic political expert, he has also made remarkable achievements.

One of the biggest commonalities of all the major agricultural production measures of the three princes is the protection of ploughing cattle. The three forces have all enacted laws and regulations on the protection of cattle.

Due to the war, under Liu Bei's rule, cattle are also scarce now, and there is legal protection, so now Liu Hou is not able to get cowhide lightly if he wants to.

In order to develop the hot air balloon, Liu Hou has worked hard, and most of the leather obtained is the old and sick cowhide and the old and sick dead war horse in the army, and some of the sheep, horses, and cowhides are traded back from the Qiang, Di, Nanban and other foreign races. Since these aliens are not so friendly to the Han Chinese, the volume of such transactions is still very small.

This also greatly limits the production scale of Liu Hou hot air balloons. Good steel is used on the blade, Liu Hou understands this truth very well, so he is not even willing to take out a piece of cowhide to make a sofa, but uses all the leather to support the production of hot air balloons.

If it is only because of the cowhide, Liu Hou can also make a fabric sofa to sit on, but Liu Hou does not make a sofa for another reason, which is the spring problem. Although after several years of research by the smelting research institute, the output and quality of raw and wrought iron produced by the smelting workshop have been greatly improved, Liu Hou found that they are still not suitable for making springs.

It's okay to make 100 steel, but it's still the same problem, it's too expensive and too luxurious to use 100 steel to make springs. Use them where they are more needed.

As a result, Liu Hou had to give up the sofa, thinking to himself that the revolution had not yet succeeded, and the comrades still needed to work hard. Now that the world has not been unified, it is better not to pay too much attention to enjoyment. Besides, this kind of wooden bed, as long as it is covered with soft cushions, is actually quite comfortable to sit on.

There was nothing in the hall to attract the two little Lori, Zhang Xingcai pulled Guan Yinping and walked inside, looking left and right. Liu Hou followed them closely and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

"Thatched toilet, you also have a thatched toilet on top, right?"

Liu Hou had a black line on his head and thought: Still coming?

Sure enough, after Zhang Xingcai saw the situation in a small room, he cheered and ran in. Liu Hou's watchtower is not large in area, and the interval is also very square, so Zhang Xingcai can easily find the toilet on this floor.

After Liu Hou entered the toilet, he saw Zhang Xingcai and Guan Yinping taking turns pulling the flush rope of the toilet, and their mouths were still amazed. Liu Hou was not in a hurry, and waited silently for them to have enough.

"Huh!" After a while, after pulling the rope 5 times, Zhang Xingcai finally got tired of playing, looked up and looked around, let out a soft sound again, and asked:

"Why is there a compartment in here? It's not the same as the toilet downstairs, isn't it? ”

"Inside is a shower room." Liu Hou said casually.

"What is a shower room? Does it have anything to do with this toilet flush? Zhang Xingcai asked.

Liu Hou sweated for a moment and thought: "This girl who doesn't know anything even knows about the shower room." Thinking about it, there were no showers in this era, and naturally there was no shower, so I couldn't help but laugh dumbly. So he explained:

"This shower means to take a bath, and this is actually a bath."

"Little Adou, why are you so disgusting, how are you bathing in a stinky thatched house." As he spoke, Zhang Xingcai still realized that his nose was disgusting.

"Where does my toilet stink, you smell it." Liu Hou said helplessly.

Zhang Xingcai put down her nose and made a nose pumping motion, Xiaoqiong's nose wrinkled twice, which was very cute. "Yes, there is no smell, and there is a faint fragrance. Why? Little Adou, why is your toilet fragrant and not smelly? ”

"The filth was washed away as soon as it was washed, and of course it didn't stink. As for the fragrance, it's the soap that comes out, and you usually use it, but you can't smell it? ”

In fact, Liu Houyan is exaggerating, although his toilet usually does not stink, it still stinks when the tuba is opened, mainly because there is no exhaust fan. There is no electricity, many inconveniences, and he has no good way now but to open the window for ventilation.

"Oh, I see, yes, yes, it's the smell of soap. Zuo Dao Chang is really good, he designed this kind of toilet that doesn't smell, and he will get me one when he goes back. ”

Liu Hou sweated again, this young lady, why do you want everything? The woman is really the same virtue as the dragon, and she wants to move back to her lair and collect any good things she sees.

"Let's go back to this, this thing is very complicated to build, and you have to build a new high-rise building, and you can't use it in the old house." Liu Hou could only exaggerate the difficulty of its construction, hoping that she would dispel this idea.

In fact, what he thought in his heart was that you can simply move in here, anyway, you are my future wife, and it is nothing to live together early. So you can use whatever you want.

"What is this? It looks like a lotus pod. What are you doing hanging an iron lotus canopy on it? Zhang Xingcai didn't wait for Liu Hou to explain the difficulty of building a flushing toilet at length, but raised a new question, as always, with leapfrog thinking.

Liu Hou looked in the direction of her finger and saw that she was pointing to the unkempt head of a shower. This sprinkler is made by a skilled craftsman. At the beginning, Liu Hou proposed the concept of sprinkling his head and asked him to build it, but he had never seen anything like this, and he didn't know how to fight it and what style to fight.

Liu Hou said that anyway, the middle can be hollow, leaving some small holes on one side, opening the thread at the outlet, and the caliber can just be combined with the water pipe. As for the style or something, you can fight as much as you like.

Because this craftsman heard Liu Hou call this object "unkempt", he had an idea, and he created it according to the appearance of the lotus canopy, but it was vivid, full of an inverted lotus canopy, if you look closely, there is a small hole in the middle of each lotus seed, which is the place where the water comes out, showing the superb skills of this craftsman.

"It's called a shower, it's for showering, oh, it's for bathing." Liu Hou explained.

"This is for bathing? How to use it? Is it used to rub the back? This iron guy is too hard, right? Don't rub off the layers of skin? ”

"Uh......" Liu Hou was speechless again. This unkempt is used to spray water, see these lotus seeds are not, are there some small holes in the middle, as soon as the switch is turned on, the water will be sprayed out from here, and people can take a bath when they stand here. ”

Liu Hou pointed to the unkempt head for Zhang Xingcai to see, then asked her to retreat, unscrewed the faucet, and the water sprayed down.

"It's really amazing!" Zhang Xingcai clapped his hands excitedly. "It's just like taking a bath in the rain, it's fun! Zuo Dao Chang, this mechanism is very good. ”

The excited Zhang Xingcai probably fantasized about the romantic scene of walking in the rain, and involuntarily reached into the water. But not long after, she frowned again, thought for a while, and turned to Liu Houdao:

"It's a pity, you can only use it in the summer, and now the water is so cold, you can't use this thing to bathe. You still have to boil hot water and wash it in a bathtub. ”

This little girl is not bad, at least she is not a brainless person, her heart is quite thin, and she immediately thinks of the key point as soon as her hand touches the water temperature.

"Oh, yes, there's a hot water switch here." Liu Hou pointed to a faucet with red paint in the middle next to the faucet that he had just opened.

I saw that this faucet was also connected to a water pipe, and the cold water faucet just now was attached to the wall side by side, leading to the unkempt head above the head. This unkeepton actually has two water inlets, and the hot and cold water pipes are connected to these two inlets respectively, and the hot and cold water are mixed in the unkeep and then sprayed out. There is a special design in the unkempt, so that the hot and cold water swirls in it, and it is fully mixed before it is sprayed out.

"Really? That's great! I'll give it a try. So Zhang Xingcai learned from Liu Hou to turn on the hot water switch. But as soon as he stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the water, he immediately shrank back, and said angrily:

"Little Adou is dead, deceiving people, the water is still so cold."

"Oh, that's right, this hot water should be boiled beforehand. It's not yet time to take a shower, and there is no boiling water, and of course there is no hot water. Liu Hou hurriedly explained.

"Really? You didn't lie to me, did you? Zhang Xingcai showed a very distrustful expression.

"Of course it's true, why am I lying to you? This boiler for boiling water is upstairs, and we'll see it when we go up, so if you don't believe it, we'll go up and see it later. Once the water is boiled in that boiler, it flows to the lower level through the guò pipe. ”

"Wow, can you really take a hot shower with this? Great, I really want to try it right away. Why don't I take a shower first? ”

"Uh, don't worry, don't worry, I'll boil water for you to wash at night, in broad daylight, what are you anxious about." Now let's get down to business. Liu Hou hurriedly stopped her, he was impatient to wait for a woman to take a bath, not to mention that there were two and a half women here.

"Well, well, let me take a bath here at night, it's much more fun to bathe with this thing than to wash it in a wooden barrel, I'm going to stay here for a few days, I'm going to use this bath every day."