Datang romantic little landlord

By the Sui Dynasty, the old Chang'an City was no longer suitable for living.

According to the "Book of Sui", "The city of Hanying is about [-] years old, and the water is salty and brine, which is not very pleasant. The capital is full of people, and it has been blocked for a long time, and the pass is dirty and evil. Then the water will be more salty."

Therefore, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty appointed Yu Wenkai, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, to redesign Chang'an City.

Yu Wenkai is a design genius. He designed the new Chang'an City as 108 squares, with a total of 25 main streets running north and south.Among them, Suzaku Street is the main street, located between the central axis.

This is also the capital of the Tang Dynasty today, Chang'an City.

In order to learn the lessons of Han Chang'an City, Yu Wenkai designed drainage ditches with a width of more than two meters on both sides of the 25 main streets in the city, and the width of the drainage ditches on both sides of Zhuque Street was even three meters.

These ditches will discharge the sewage in the city to the outside of the city.

However, the terrain of Chang'an City is high in the south and low in the north, and the north of the city is where the imperial city and palace are located.If the normal direction of sewage discharge is followed, the sewage in the whole city will be diverted through the north of the city, which is naturally not possible.

Therefore, at the time of design, we chose to make the road surface high in the middle and low on both sides, so as to discharge the sewage outside the city from east to west.

But things backfired, because the terrain of Chang'an City, in addition to being high in the south and low in the north, also has a terrain that is high in the middle and low in the surrounding area.

This makes Chang'an City have perfect drainage facilities, but there is still a danger of waterlogging during heavy rains.

Li Wangyou and his party encountered waterlogging in the heavy rain.

The heavy rain caused the sewage in the gutters on both sides of the street to be unable to be discharged in time. After the gutters were full, the water overflowed, turning the street into a swamp.

Although the waterlogging was not serious, the overflowing water was not even up to the knees of pedestrians, and Li Wangyou and others were not affected when they were riding on horseback.

It's fine if it's just waterlogged, but the yellow and white things floating on the water at this time made Li Wangyou sick.

Especially when he noticed that the snow-white horse's hooves of the beloved "Zhao Yebai" he was riding today were actually stained with those dirt, which made Li Wangyou even more anxious to die.

Li Wangyou is in the later generations, but he has no obsession with cleanliness, he is just an ordinary person.But ever since he traveled to the Tang Dynasty, Li Wangyou felt that he had become obsessed with cleanliness.

It's unconditional not to take a bath, so forget it.

But littering everywhere, even urinating everywhere, really made Li Wangyou speechless.

In fact, Datang has learned the lessons of the previous dynasties, and the laws in this area are quite strict. There is a special regulation in "Tang Laws and Discussions": "Those who pass through the wall and emit filth will have a staff of sixty; those who emit water will not be ignored. The chief judge can't help it, and it is the same crime."

It means that those who dump sewage or garbage at will will be punished with sixty sticks if they are discovered by Marquis Wu or bad people.

But even with such strict laws, the secret dumping of garbage and sewage in Chang'an City, as well as those who defecate indiscriminately, are repeatedly prohibited.

In fact, it can't be blamed for the lack of quality of Tang people. After all, Tang Dynasty has no public toilets, and Chang'an City is huge, so we can't ask everyone to hold back and go home, right?

People have three urgencies, and when they need it, they can't find the reincarnation of the five grains. Isn't it the only way to solve it on the street?

So, after a heavy rain, the water flooded under the Jinshan Mountain, and the surface of the water became "exciting"...

In fact, Li Wangyou also knew that compared with Europe at that time, or even in the seventeenth century, China was already very hygienic.

You know, Paris in the seventeenth century didn't even have toilets.Residents of Paris at that time, when they got up every morning, they would directly dump the toilet on the road, and the smell can be imagined.

In Paris, the romantic capital of later generations, it was not the smell of perfume that wafted in the air at that time.When the American ambassador Franklin went to Paris for the first time, he was directly fainted by the stench.

Even the Palace of Versailles, the French royal palace, did not even have a toilet inside until the eighteenth century.

This topic can be said to be extremely heavy-handed... Even in comparison, in later generations of India, until Li Wangyou crossed over, the toilet problem had not been solved, and the people still defecated in the open...

Compared with this, Li Wangyou really couldn't criticize Tang people for not paying attention to hygiene.

Holding his nose and suppressing the grievance in his heart, Li Wangyou could only continue to push the horse forward in the sewage.

Fortunately, there was no stagnant water in the Kaihua workshop, which made him feel a little relieved.This is also because most of the people living in Lifang in the north of the city are dignitaries.Fangzheng in Lifang and Wuhou in Wuhoupu are both used to this kind of waterlogging after heavy rains.

In order not to affect the nobles, every time there is a heavy rain, sandbags are used to block the gate of the workshop to prevent sewage from overflowing into the workshop.

In this house in Kaihuafang, the owner has already returned to his hometown, leaving only a housekeeper and a few servants to guard the house.

Under the guidance of the butler, Li Wangyou looked around the house inside and out, and he was quite satisfied.

Sanjin's courtyard is slightly smaller than the previous Li family's house in Hu County, but it is quite good for temporary living.

Although the courtyard is a bit old, it is not a big problem to renovate and decorate it.

The location of this house is good, and the owner's asking price is [-] guan, which is considered reasonable.Li Wangyou directly made a decision, and immediately asked the housekeeper of the house to go with him to the Wannian County Government Office in Xuanyangfang to handle the paperwork for the real estate transaction.

Because the other party wanted to carry the money on their way, Li Wangyou kindly asked Niu Wu to go to the Chou's house, and asked the Chou's Mansion to advance more than 600 taels of gold, and handed it over to the housekeeper for their convenience.

Since then, the money and property have been settled, and the house in Kaihuafang has been owned by Li Wangyou.

After spending an hour before and after, Li Wangyou bought a house and spent the money very generously.

At this time, the rain has stopped, and the sky is blue after the heavy rain, which is refreshing, but don't bow your head when you go.The sewage flooding the streets is also slowly receding, but all kinds of filth are left on the streets, which people can't look directly at.

Li Wangyou heaved a long sigh, turned his head away from looking at those disgusting things, and asked the step behind him to go to the tailor shop to buy some clothes to change.He also asked Niu Wu to go to Dongshi to inform the beautiful boss who was still in the carriage shop that he had bought a suite in Chang'an...

517 Public toilet

After the beauty boss got Niu Wu Tongbing, he immediately led Niu Yong and Niu Wu to rush over.

Regarding Li Wangyou buying a house in Chang'an City without informing her, the beautiful boss has no objection.Anyway, considering the current wealth of the Li family, buying a house is not much worse than ordinary people going to the market to buy vegetables.

Naturally, she also knew why Li Wangyou bought a house in Chang'an City.For Li Wangyou's thoughtful behavior, the beautiful boss was quite moved.

Visited the house inside and out, and the beautiful boss was also very satisfied.

"Wangyou, this house is not bad, but it is quite convenient. Tomorrow, I will ask the old butler to send some people to tidy up this house, and then we can move in."

"Well, Changqing, look at the arrangement." Li Wang replied absent-mindedly, while staring at Niu Wu and the others helping him brush his horse and clean the dirt that had been contaminated on Zhao Yebai's body.

The beautiful boss also frowned: "Why is Zhao Yebai so dirty? It's so disgusting? Wangyou, why did you go?"

Hearing what the beautiful boss said, Li Wangyou felt that he was wronged: "It has nothing to do with me. You know that there was a heavy rain before? The streets in Chang'an City were flooded, full of these dirty things. I and Niu Wu and others happened to be entering the city at that time, and they couldn’t avoid it, but I was so disgusted.”

The beautiful boss had been staying in the East City before, so naturally it would not be flooded.Traveling and sitting in the carriage again, I didn't see the bad situation on the street.

"Really? Hey, it's disgusting!" The beautiful boss didn't bother to talk about this anymore, and led the maid to check the courtyard.

Li Wangyou was also very speechless, this was the worst thing that happened to him after traveling to Tang Dynasty.

He was stunned for a long time, then stomped his feet and shouted at Niu Wu: "Niu Wu, bring me another horse, I'm going to Taiji Palace."

How could he be willing to go out on Zhao Yebai again, so he could only change to another horse.

"Lang Jun, let me go with you."

"No need, please help Changqing clean up this house, I'll go by myself, it's just a few steps away." Li Wangyou refused Niu Wu's company, got on a bay red horse, and headed for the imperial city .