Datang romantic little landlord

This mansion is indeed very close to the imperial city. Li Wangyou felt that in the future, if he had to participate in the imperial court, he could come to this mansion to live in the mansion one day in advance, so as not to have to get up before dawn the next day and come to Chang'an City in the dark to participate in the grand ceremony. Chaohui.

From Kaihuafang, go straight for less than 800 meters, and you will be the Suzaku Gate of the Imperial City.It's not because he thinks the ground is too dirty, in fact, he doesn't want to come here on horseback.

In front of Suzaku's gate, Li Wangyou showed his goldfish talisman, and it was naturally unimpeded.Riding horses is not allowed in the imperial city, so he left the horses to the soldiers of the imperial army for safekeeping, and walked to the Tai Chi Palace by himself as a cart.

The imperial city is full of yamen at all levels of the Great Tang Dynasty Hall. When Li Wangyou was walking towards the Chengtian Gate of the Taiji Palace, he happened to meet Dai Zhou, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

"Ziyou, are you going to the Taiji Palace to meet the saint?"

"I met Dai Gong, I have something to report to the saint." Li Wangyou and Dai Zhou hurriedly greeted each other.

Dai Zhou said with a smile: "Hehe, it happens that the old man has something to ask to see the saint, so let's go together."

"Mr. Dai, please." Li Wangyou naturally would not refuse, he and Dai Zhou walked towards Chengtian Gate with a smile, handed over their respective gold fish charms, and begged to see Li Er.

After a short while, the eunuch came to the gate of the palace, welcomed the two of them in, and brought them directly to the Lizheng Hall.

"Zi You, Dai Gong, why did you two come here hand in hand? But something happened?" Li Er was reading the memorial and couldn't help laughing when he saw the two of them coming.

Li Wangyou hurriedly saluted Li Er: "Uncle, my nephew came here to report something, and I met Duke Dai by chance in the imperial city. But what my nephew wants to say has something to do with Duke Dai."

What he said made Li Er and Dai Zhou a little confused.

"Ziyou, what's the matter? Tell me now."

"Uncle, it rained heavily today, and the city of Chang'an is flooded, do you know?"

Li Er nodded: "Baiqisi has already reported, the problem is not serious, the water receded after the rain stopped, there is no loss."

However, Li Wangyou looked distressed: "Uncle, there is no loss from the waterlogging of Chang'an City, but you didn't go to the street to see it, it is really disgusting! The streets are full of filthy things floating in the water, which is unbearable. Open your mouth! Uncle, Chang’an, my Great Tang Dynasty, is a rare majestic city in this world, and it is also the capital of all kingdoms. How can it be so filthy? It really hurts the face of my Great Tang. Those foreign countries and small countries, go back and say, I Datang is a capital soaked in feces, what kind of dignity is this?"

What he said made Li Er and Dai Zhou look a little ugly, but they also knew that Li Wangyou was telling the truth.

Li Er was actually very annoyed by this matter, he is an emperor who loves face, there are yellow and white things everywhere in the streets of Chang'an City, he also saw it with his own eyes when he was out of the palace.

"I also have a headache about this matter. The government has strictly prohibited defecation everywhere, but it is still repeated repeatedly. Hundreds of people are caught by Marquis Wu every month, but they still can't stop this matter. Hey, Ziyou, do you have a good plan? "

Li Wangyou nodded: "Yes, building a public toilet will solve all problems?"

"Public toilet? What is this thing? I have never heard of it before, so please ask Ziyou to explain in detail." Dai Zhou looked puzzled.

"Uh, it's a latrine, but it's not a private latrine, but a latrine built on the Lifang and the street for passersby to use." Li Wangyou explained.

Dai Zhou came to a sudden: "Hey, the road toilet!"

Although it is recorded in "Zhou Li", there were latrines built on the side of the road in China 3000 years ago, called road toilets, for human use.But in fact, until the Republic of China, there were no public toilets in China.

Naturally, there were no public toilets in Datang, otherwise there would not be people defecating everywhere in Chang'an City.

Li Er nodded and shook his head at Li Wangyou's words: "Road toilets can indeed solve the problem, but the big city of Chang'an can't be solved by building one or two road toilets. Hundreds of road toilets have to be arranged. It takes a lot of money to clean it up, and I'm afraid we need to discuss it with the courtiers."

Dai Zhou also nodded slightly: "Yes, it is difficult for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to come up with such a sum of money to build road toilets. Even if the cost of a road toilet is not high, even if it is a hundred copper coins, hundreds of road toilets will cost a lot. Amazing."

Li Wangyou smiled: "Uncle, Mr. Dai, how can this matter be so wasteful? Not only does it not cost money, but the Ministry of Civil Affairs can also make a lot of money."

"Oh? Why is that?"

Li Wangyou chuckled and said, "Uncle, Mr. Dai, you all forgot that this poop can be sold for money. The small amount makes a lot, and my nephew probably makes a lot of money in a year."

It was fine if he didn't say these words, but Li Er's face changed after he finished speaking, and he looked very embarrassed.

Li Wangyou didn't understand, so he cast his eyes on Dai Zhou, does that mean he said something wrong?

Dai Zhou smiled wryly, and could only explain to Li Wangyou: "Ziyou, it's not as simple as you think..."

518 It is strictly forbidden to defecate anywhere

After listening to Dai Zhou's explanation, Li Wangyou understood why Li Er showed such an embarrassing expression.

It turns out that "selling dung" has already been mentioned.

The young supervisor of the Shaojian Mansion once suggested to Li Er that the horse manure from various government offices in Chang'an City and the barracks of the Imperial Army should be collected and sold.

As the saying goes, a flower in a crop depends entirely on dung.

In the era without chemical fertilizers, the fertility of crops and land all came from various animals and human excrement.

In Nuoda's Chang'an City, the latrines are dry toilets or toilets.

The residents of Chang'an City don't grow crops, so the dirt is naturally useless.And those "shit shoveling officers" who specialize in cleaning and dumping toilets for various households earn a lot of money because of this. "Chaoye Qianzai" records that in the Tang Dynasty, "Chang'an Fumin Luohui used excrement picking as a profession."

This shit shovel officer is not something anyone can do casually. The 108 squares in Chang'an City are all divided into districts.If you "shovel shit" across regions, it will lead to fights.Just like the young and Dangerous boys in Hong Kong movies of later generations, fighting for land in order to collect protection fees, this battle for feces and urine is not lost to the young and Dangerous boys of later generations.

This is actually not surprising at all. Chile, Peru, and Bolivia once fought for guano resources, and a war broke out.

The young supervisor of the Shaojian Mansion said that after calculating the number of cattle, horses, and mules in the government, he gave a set of possible income from selling horse manure, which made Li Er very tempted.

20 million guan!

Datang only minted more than 30 coins a year, and Li Er could turn a blind eye to this because he could earn 20 coins a year just by selling horse manure.

But when Li Er summoned a group of ministers to discuss the matter, he was opposed by everyone.Especially those officials of the aristocratic family, the opposition is even more fierce.

Wang Renyou said: "Although horse dung is valuable, it has a bad reputation, and competing with the people for profit is really a small loss. Does your majesty want to be called the emperor of horse dung in the future?"

How could such a good-looking emperor like Li Er hear such words? Naturally, the matter of selling horse manure was abandoned and never mentioned again.

Li Er was unwilling to sell even horse manure, let alone human manure. Naturally, Li Er would not want to do it even if he was beaten to death.

After figuring out what happened, Li Wangyou was dumbfounded.

This Li Er can be regarded as the most famous emperor through the ages in history, who made literary achievements and martial arts, and created the rule of Zhenguan.For the sake of face, he would rather smelly streets in Chang'an City than build road toilets to make money, which really left Li Wangyou speechless.

Seeing that Li Er was unwilling to build road toilets in Chang'an City, Li Wangyou thought about it silently, and suddenly said, "Uncle, what if my nephew contributes money to build road toilets in various rifangs and streets in Chang'an City? Uncle? Yes? My nephew needs Chang'an and Wannian counties to provide land for the construction of road toilets. Uh, it doesn't need to be large. One point of land is enough for a road toilet. My nephew can share half of the revenue from this road toilet with the court. "

What he said made Li Er and Dai Zhou stunned. Li Wangyou paid for the construction of the road toilet?Want to share the benefits with the court half and half?

"Ziyou, why are you bothering? I will order Wuhou and bad people to strengthen patrols in Chang'an City and forbid defecating anywhere. The reputation of running this road toilet is not good." Li Erda shook his head. , naturally unwilling to agree.

"Uncle, this is treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Chang'an City is so big, this person has three urgencies. When there is a need, how will those passersby deal with themselves?"

Dai Zhou persuaded from the side again: "Ziyou, this road toilet may not have much profit. But the investment is not small, and even if the money is good, but the smell is not good. The old man thinks that your house is not so good now. Why bother to make a fuss if you don't have a good business?"

The reason why Li Wangyou proposed to spend money to build public toilets in Chang'an City was naturally not to make money. He really didn't want to see that yellow and white things in Chang'an City anymore.

Today's matter has disgusted him enough.

Anyway, he is not short of money, why not use the money to do something good for the people of Chang'an City?