Datang romantic little landlord

A public toilet may not be worth a hundred copper coins.The construction of [-] toilets in Chang'an City is less than [-] toilets, which is nothing.

And this matter is not without income at all. Since selling horse manure can earn 20 yuan a year, these [-] public toilets must not be bad, right?

Li Wangyou suddenly remembered that he had seen a joke in "Xiao Lin Guang Ji" in later generations.

It is said that the family has accumulated a pit of dung, and recruits people to sell it, asking for a price of [-] copper coins, but the person who buys the dung is unwilling, so he counter-offers five hundred cash.The dung seller was anxious: "How can there be such cheap dung? Could it be a dog's shit!" The farmer comforted: "I have never eaten yours, why are you so anxious!"

Although it is a joke, it also shows that in ancient times, this matter was possible.

Moreover, Li Wangyou had another idea in his heart. If this matter worked well, his reputation might not be bad, and he might even get a good reputation.

"Uncle, Dai Gong, my nephew has already thought about this matter. My Great Tang should never be like that barbarian land and defecate everywhere. Not to mention let those Hu merchants and foreign envoys laugh at my majestic Great Tang, which is so stinky. My nephew still has a little money now, and I am willing to use it to share my uncle's worries! My nephew is obliged to do this, and I ask my uncle to do it."

What he said was just and righteous, but it was hard for Li Er to persuade him any longer. After hesitating again and again, Li Er could only nod slightly.

"Well, since Ziyou has made up his mind, I won't persuade you. I can issue an imperial edict to Chang'an and Wannian counties to cooperate with you in building road toilets. The land is all owned by Chang'an and Wannian counties. Provided, the court will not collect the proceeds, and it will all belong to you, Ziyou."

Li Er couldn't persuade Li Wangyou, but he didn't intend to take the proceeds from selling dung.He didn't want to get a reputation as a "dung selling emperor" because of this small amount of money.

"Thank you, Uncle." Li Wangyou hurriedly bowed to thank him, and after thinking for a while, he said to Li Er: "Hey, Uncle, it is strictly forbidden to defecate anywhere, and Chang'an and Wannian counties have to strictly arrest it. Otherwise, my nephew will The toilets on the road have been built, and it won’t be beautiful if no one goes there.”

Li Er glared at him, he was really too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he waved him away.

After returning to Kaihuafang, Li Wangyou pulled the beautiful boss aside, and whispered about the matter of going to Taiji Palace just now, which made the beautiful boss frown again and again.

"Ziyou, you are so disgusting! You actually want to do this business! Stay away from me in the future, and don't disturb me." The beautiful boss said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Li Wangyou was speechless, rolled his eyes, and said what he planned, which made the beautiful boss nod repeatedly.

"It's possible. Thirty thousand guan is not much. If this matter is successful, it will be of great benefit to our Li family."

Li Wangyou was overjoyed by the beautiful boss' affirmation, and what was even more surprising was the phrase "our Li family" that the beautiful boss said, which she had never said before.

Excited, Li Wangyou leaned close to the cheek of the beautiful boss, pecked heavily, laughed, turned around and ran away...

519 Men's and women's toilets

Li Wangyou, the founder of Huxian County, wanted to build [-] road toilets in Chang'an City, and naturally, word spread quickly throughout Chang'an's middle and small workshops.

To this, people reacted differently.

Some people are now accustomed to the generous and prodigal behavior of the founding county uncle.

Compared with spending a huge amount of money to build a polo field and making wild claims to support the people of a county, building [-] road toilets for Chang'an City is really not a big deal.

There were also people who admired Li Wangyou's move, thinking that he was just trying to save money.With so much filth on the streets in Chang'an City, no one would want to see it, but there was no way to do it before.

Now Huxian Bo has invested in the construction of road toilets, and everyone will have a place to defecate in the future, of course they are happy.

There were also people who sneered at Li Wangyou's move, thinking that he was just grandstanding again, and even the aristocratic family began to laugh at Li Wangyou as "the county uncle of the road toilet" in private.

Li Er's imperial decree soon went down to the two counties of Wannianhu County. Li Wangyou went to the county government, studied with the two county magistrates Cui Zhuo and Lu Dejing, and outlined [-] use cases on the map. At the location where road toilets are to be constructed.

Cui Zhuo and Lu Dejing, the two magistrates of Chang'an and Wannian counties, naturally welcomed Li Wangyou's move with both hands.

Anyway, this road toilet does not require the two of them to pay for it, but it can solve the problem of defecation and defecation that has been a headache for the two counties, why not do it.

Ordinary people in Chang'an are nothing more than ordinary people, but these two are also fifth-rank officials of the imperial court.

Especially in midsummer, the mosquitoes flying around and the stench in the corners of the streets and streets in the south of the city really gave them both a headache.But apart from ordering the yamen servants to strengthen street patrols, there is no better way, which makes Cui Zhuo and Lu Dejing very annoyed.

Although this road toilet is seen in ancient books, it is really a novelty for Datang.

Cui Zhuo and Lu Dejing simply invited Li Wangyou for a field trip.It would be good to ask Li Wangyou about the road toilet in person, how he plans to build it, and how Chang'an and Wannian counties need to cooperate.

There are [-] road toilets, [-] squares. Excluding the second square that has been converted into a polo field, there are still [-] squares left.Li Wangyou planned to build one road toilet in each square, and four road toilets were built in each of the eastern and western cities due to the huge flow of people.

This is more than 100 road toilets, and the rest of the road toilets are all built on the 25 main streets of Chang'an City.

"Uncle Huxian, how do you plan to build this toilet? The officials don't know yet, so I ask Uncle Huxian to enlighten me." Cui Zhuo asked with a bow.

Now he and Lu Dejing are really convinced by the young man in front of him.Think about it when I went to Dingzhou Village, when I saw Li Wangyou, this son was only white, and his status as a fifth-rank court official was as different as cloud and mud.

But in just half a year, this young man is like riding a rocket. He has been promoted three times, and now he is the fourth rank of the founding county uncle.

Cui Zhuo could only secretly rejoice that he didn't completely offend this son at the beginning, and he lowered his head and lowered his head quickly, otherwise he really didn't know how to deal with himself.

He sighed in his heart, so why was it not Lu Dejing, the county magistrate of Wannian County, who was beside him.

Li Wangyou recruited Niu Wu, and took a stack of papers from him: "Cui Mingfu, Lu Mingfu, please take a look, this is my sketch of the road toilet. The construction of this road toilet is very simple. The latrine needs to be dug out, and then solidified with mirage mud to prevent the sewage from seeping into the ground. The road toilets on the ground are piled up with blue bricks, which is very simple in a square shape."

He spoke very lightly, but in the ears of Cui Zhuo and Lu Dejing, it made people smack their tongues secretly.

Use such a precious thing as mirage mud to build road toilets?This Huxian uncle is indeed the rumored prodigal son.

"Uncle Huxian, mirage mud is a good thing, but it's expensive. And the output is low. Isn't it a bit wasteful to use it to build road toilets?"

Li Wangyou said with a smile: "It's okay, I have already discussed this matter with the sage. This mirage mud was originally the formula I contributed, and now it is not a big deal to allocate some. As for the waste, it is not a problem, it is just left and right." Tens of thousands of things."

Cui Zhuo and Lu Dejing have nothing to say, well, being rich is self-willed.

Lu Dejing didn't understand, so he pointed to the blueprint and asked, "May I ask Uncle Hu, why are there two toilets on this road? What's the purpose?"

What he said made Li Wangyou very strange when he asked him, and he replied naturally: "Of course there are men's and women's toilets."

Li Wangyou said this easily, but Cui Zhuo, who was twirling his beard at the side, shook his hand and almost pulled out a few of his beard.

"Uncle Huxian, don't be kidding. How did you fix this women's toilet? What's the matter with this?"

Nani?Why can't the women's toilet be repaired?

Li Wangyou was a little confused, so he turned his questioning eyes to Cui and Lu, hoping to get an explanation.

Cui Zhuo sighed and said: "There is a difference between men and women. How can a woman go to the toilet outdoors? It's really indecent! Even if the old man has searched through the ancient books, although there is a road toilet, women can't use it. Mr. Hu County, this women's toilet is absolutely indecent. It can't be built."

Lu Dejing also had the same attitude, and echoed: "Uncle Huxian, how can a woman go out to use the toilet? How is this proper? This is not allowed."

What the two said made Li Wangyou extremely anxious.He didn't expect that it would be so difficult to build a women's toilet in Datang, known for its openness in history.

In fact, Li Wangyou didn't know that there had been no women's toilets in China since ancient times.Even in the Republic of China, many women's schools could not find toilets in the dormitories.When you need convenience, you have to move the toilet from under the bed.

Even in order to build women's toilets, in 1935, the Guangzhou Health Bureau published a newspaper specifically for this purpose, stating that two women's toilets would be built in a certain place, which were only for women's use, and reminded men not to break in. If there is any intentional violation, they will be arrested immediately. If you don't want to borrow money, you can rely on the citizens and others to inform you. This is the announcement.

At that time, the Guangzhou Health Bureau published it in the newspaper so solemnly because before that, all public toilets were men's toilets.After women's toilets were built in many cities, it often happened that men took it for granted and entered by mistake without knowing that there were women's toilets, causing a lot of embarrassment.

This was the case in the Republic of China, let alone the Tang Dynasty 400 years ago.

Li Wangyou's desire to build a women's toilet was completely incomprehensible to the people of Tang, and even apostate.