Sure enough, Campos and the others expressed their full support when they heard that he was going to clean up the slums at his own expense, and who wouldn't want the city they lived in to be better?

When the city government of Madrid heard about this, it directly said that if there is any need, you can tell them that the land on the outskirts of the slum is given to which piece of land is given, and no money is needed.

Alfonso was pleased with the government's attitude, he had not yet reformed the form of government, and Spain was still a dual constitutional monarchy, although the power of the monarchy was much greater than that of the parliament that had been rebuilt after the war.

Under this form of government, the property of the monarch and the government is theoretically divided, and the government has every reason to sell the land to him cheaper rather than give it to him.

But they still chose to send it, which is very good, saving Alfonso the trouble of actively applying pressure.

With free land, this renovation is a loss, and the worst thing is that the cost of selling land after many years can be recovered.

With limited funds and limited time, Alfonso decided to start with the most urgent fire prevention first.

When it comes to fire prevention, the first step is to deal with the wooden houses that the poor themselves have built haphazardly.

Many of these poor people built their houses with a few standing logs to support them diagonally, and even if they were built with a rag on top, the whole project took no more than one day, which was really unsightly.

It's easy to dismantle, and it's more important to think about what to replace them with.

It is impossible to build a house in the city, and a person's living conditions must match his income, and even if Alfonso only charges the cost price, the poor cannot afford to pay the rent.

But if he doesn't collect money, Alfonso's investment will be lost, and the ensuing social problems will be a big problem, maybe the residents of the city will directly sell their houses when they see this, come out and set up a broken shed, and wait for the government to send him a house.

Madrid's economy is going to be a mess.

Alfonso consulted several engineers in succession, but they all said that it was impossible to build a low-cost house that could be affordable even for the poor who went to work in the city.

Then don't think about the single-family house, Alfonso decided to build them a dormitory!

Due to the constraints of the times, cramming too many people into one room can make the hygiene conditions extremely poor.

Unable to build a chase shop, Alfonso planned to build cubicles with four people in each room, like a university dormitory.

But it's not the design of a bed on the top and a table on the bottom, but a bed on each of the four corners.

There is no way, although there is the ability to produce double iron beds and make them high, but the cost is too high, and an iron bed may cost the wages of low-level workers for a year or even years.

Or a low wooden bed is the most suitable.

There is no fear of starting a fire, as long as the dormitory is made of stone, the fire will burn down at most one room.

Alfonso is going to divide the dormitory into two types, the first is the type mentioned earlier, as a single dormitory, sleeping four people in one room.

The second is the family dormitory, the same style of the house, but there is only a large bed with a width of 2 meters and an ordinary bed, and the number of children can continue to add extra beds, and if there are enough, the next room can also be coordinated.

Obviously, the living conditions in the family dormitory were better than those in the single dormitory, and it was a small effort on his part for the Spanish population.

In these days, Europeans rarely have the habit of living in dormitories, but as long as the problems caused by dormitories are solved, the habits can be changed.

One of the problems posed by the dormitory is that it is difficult to maintain the temperature, if you are on the coast of Spain, the coldest time of the year is close to 10 degrees, which is easy to solve, but unfortunately Madrid is deep inland, and the lowest temperature of the year is close to 3 degrees.

Without air conditioning, you have to cover more quilts, and warm quilts are a little unbearable for the people, but not for Alfonso.

Spain has a high wool production, and the price of wool quilt has always been relatively low, so it is good to send it directly, and it does not cost too much money.

Of course, in order to let the people develop a good habit of saving, only the first quilt is free, and the rest will cost money.

The wool quilt is still quite durable, as long as you take care of it, it is not a big problem to use it for 4 or 5 years.

The second problem is how to solve the problem of diet without a stove.

They all live in the dormitory, so naturally they eat in the cafeteria.

The canteen is one of the profit points in Alfonso's plan, which does not make a lot of money, but it is better than small profits and quick turnover.

Alfonso's most important principle is that the same food, the canteen meal should not be more expensive than the family's own cooking.

The last issue is hygiene, several people living in a dormitory will inevitably produce a lot of domestic waste, especially in these days Madrid's sewage system is still quite simple.

When it comes to sanitation, the treatment plan in most countries in this era was to discharge domestic sewage on site, with the surrounding sea draining into the sea and no sea draining into the river.

Not so long ago, the British and the French did the same, the British in the Thames and the French in the Seine.

As a result, there were occasional outbreaks of cholera in London, and Parisians fell ill every day drinking sewage.

It was only a decade ago and five years ago that advanced drainage systems were built in Paris and London.

Don't look at the three wars, there is still a hand in economic and stability maintenance, and the Paris sewers are also a very famous sewage project until later generations.

Alfonso really wanted to imitate them to build a Madrid sewer, but the conditions were not yet available, 1 million, even if it was all thrown in, there would be a wave at most.

Moreover, the profitability of sewers is weak, and the input and output are not proportional.

There is no way to go underground, so you can only take the way above ground.

He decided to have the poor put their excrement in buckets, and then take it to a designated place before going out to work every day, and then haul it away in a manure truck and take it to the manure factory.

This is the second profit point that Alfonso expected, the manure is processed centrally and dried into manure, which is a very high-quality fertilizer, especially when Spain does not have access to too much fertilizer, and the manure is a good help for agriculture around Madrid.

Let the poor take the initiative to concentrate the excrement, and there is only the link of door-to-door collection, which is stable and efficient, and the profit is not small.

As for other household waste, you can only hire someone to use a garbage truck to pull it to a distant place to landfill, Alfonso does not have a very good way, the future generations are basically landfilled, let alone him, at most the recycling rate of the future generations is a little higher.

Instead of demolishing the slums, Alfonso began to build a large number of square dormitories on the land next to the slums given by the government.

A grid of stones, a door, and a window are built without any difficulty in construction.

In just over a month, there was a rough prototype.

Most of the poor people in the surrounding area have heard that the government is going to build them houses here, although it is very simple, but it is better than the rotten shacks they have built, and they are full of expectations for this.

Alfonso, however, felt more and more strange the more he looked at these box rooms.

Collective dormitories, high-intensity labor, centralized management, how does it feel a bit like a prison......