Lu Ming

Chapter 165
Beggar's follow-up plan is about shit.

Throughout history, farming peoples have attached great importance to excrement, and there are countless related records: "Human and animal excrement and stove ashes and foot mud are useless. Once they enter the field, they will be turned into cloth and millet."

The well-developed planting industry in the Jiangnan region also gave birth to the original urban and rural manure collection system.

As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou had dedicated personnel to collect and transport urban human excrement.Hangzhou has a lot of registered households, small homes in the streets and alleys, most of them have no pit toilets, only toilets, and there are people who excrete their own excrement every day, which is called "dumping their feet". There are also boats carrying garbage and dirt in groups Move away."

This is the Song Dynasty, and there were already primitive excrement dealers "dung masters" and primitive express delivery "dung boats".

By the Ming Dynasty, the collection and transportation of manure in Hangzhou City had been greatly improved. "The person who carries the dung load, emptying the toilet for other women every day, no longer has the slightest hatred, only hates the lack of goods in the toilet", and in the city, "there are cesspit (public toilet) beside the road."This kind of dung cellar is often leased to rich peasants in the countryside, who regard it as a "fundamental matter".

Lu Cheng and Zhou Tong's idea was on this.

In the current period of time, the private dung industry has evolved to the top, and later in the Qing Dynasty, there will be guilds "Golden Juice" in cities.

With guilds, there will be large dealers, and this situation will continue until the Republic of China.Yu Deshun, the famous dung factory owner at that time, owned 1500 mu of fertile land, had more than 100 properties in the capital, and had deposits in banks from various countries.
The Beiping Municipal Government wanted to ban the "shit tyrants", but was surrounded by 1500 dung men wielding dung spoons.It wasn't until the founding of New China that this group of people was crushed by the iron fist of the dictatorship.

The excrement business and the beggar gang are so compatible. Not only can they settle a large number of refugees, but they can also improve the urban environmental sanitation and provide political achievements for the government. Discuss the implementation plan.

Now that the conditions are ripe, the beggar gang began to mobilize manpower again when the "cleaning the street" operation was progressing smoothly, and began to promote the "comprehensive fertilizer utilization" project.

First of all, it is still the courtesy first.

All the "public toilets" along the street began to be forcibly purchased by the various halls of the beggar gang.Those "big pit masters" and even the "second pit masters" who were subcontracted by others were beaten violently if they disobeyed.

In fact, the ownership of these public toilets was originally owned by the government, and everyone was fighting for the original "lease contract".As for the county government?The county government only cares about whether the monthly rent is paid or not, and doesn't ask about other things.

As a result, the "pit masters" from all walks of life, who are weak and weak, can only wipe away the blood from the corners of their mouths, and sell the deed paper in their hands to the beggar gang with hatred.

Next is the "channel".

The real gentry would not take part in such a stinking business.Grain, silk, cloth and other high-end businesses are where the gentry gather. As for the excrement industry, any official and lord will be ashamed to death if he is laughed at by his colleagues.The business that the gentry class intervenes usually requires strong contacts and large amounts of liquidity. The pawn shop has a bad reputation, but the lucrative industry is already the bottom line of the gentry.

The existing "fertilizer" purchase and sales channels in Hangzhou are very scattered and unplanned.The sites were formed in the original competition over the years, and they were roughly divided by streets and alleys.And the owners of these channels are the same as those brothers who fought in the vegetable market, station, and wholesale market in later generations. In the 17th century, these people were called local ruffian bullies, street cleaners, and broken boots.

Here comes the biggest bully of all time.

The first is outside the city.At the foot of Phoenix Mountain, there is a leeward field, which has been purchased by the beggar gang at some time and transformed into a dung farm.There is a collapsed Wei Tuo temple on this wild land, so the manure field is called Wei Tuo field.

Recently, all dung boats coming out of the city have been intercepted on the moat—the cargo on the boats must be unloaded to Wei Tuochang.

The beginning is when the cargo is unloaded: these ships that hold the channel of "fertilizer to the countryside" are important resources and cannot be let go.All the ships were then registered one by one, the owners of the ships were unified and reorganized, and the vain money for the shares was also stuffed into the hands. This is called forced shareholding.

After surveying the usual activity areas of these ships, the newly established "fertilizer company" began to divide each ship into areas.From now on, these dung boats can only go to a fixed area in Hangzhou City to collect manure, and then come to Wei Tuo Yard to unload. Next, the dung boats will receive fertilizer fermented with the temperature control technology of later generations in Wei Tuo Yard, and then pull it to the designated area. village sales.

As for the gang of dung tyrants in the city, when the beggar gang released the wind, everyone was going to check the direction of the wind first.

However, within a few days, Li Xiucai died in a cesspit by the roadside.

Li Xiucai, on weekdays, arranges lawsuits, sells usury, buys and sells prostitutes, and occupies the dung road. In short, his business scope is very wide.

When rumors spread that the beggar gang wanted to "unify" the excrement roads everywhere, Li Xiucai, who was used to lawsuits on weekdays, suddenly had a brain hole, so he started running around Goulian secretly these days, planning to contact a gang of " "Dung Friends" went to the government to file a letter, rushing to set up a "dung shop" before the beggar gang, and first established a foothold in the law.

As a result, Li Xiucai died, in a cesspit not far from his house.

Li Xiucai inserted it vertically into the pit in a standard "upside-down onion" posture. After the appraisal, the foreman in Qiantang County said that it was "falling into the pit by mistake".

As for how Li Xiucai jumped up like a fish swimming in the air with the waist and abdomen strength of Guo Jingjing, and then turned around and plunged vertically into the cesspit only a few tens of centimeters away from several sides, this is unknown—maybe Li Xiucai It is unknown whether he is a fan of half-meter platform diving, or maybe he is a hidden ancient martial arts heir.

In short, Li Xiucai in the south of the city failed to fulfill his ambitions and fell into a pit. His friends in the torture room also helped him identify the case, and his family members expressed their emotional stability.

After Li Xiucai in the south of the city, hei Taisui in the north of the city.

Hei Taisui is a tyrant in the martial arts sect in the north of the city, and he has twenty or thirty strong rogues under his command. On weekdays, he gathers to gamble, set up cards to pass the water, and also does "traveling" business.

So, there are always men in the world.When the heroes from all walks of life in Beicheng died down and all the horses and horses in the rivers and lakes were silent, after Hei Taisui learned that these bastards were going to rob the dung road on his site, he gathered all the people and horses on the same day, and gathered more than 60 elites who had seen blood. Entered the small school grounds.

The small school yard is in the middle of the Baoen and Baohe workshops inside the Wulin Gate. In the early years, soldiers were stationed there, but now it has long been deserted and weeds are everywhere. It is the common entrance of the two workshops of the Beggar Clan.

In Hei Taisui's calculations, he has an advantage in terms of military strength--there are thirty or forty fighters in the mouth of the beggar gang on weekdays. It's a scum of war, and Bai Taisui doesn't regard this generation as a human being.

Then Hei Taisui died.

The war scumbags who fed animals into the water, miscellaneous grains, rice, and boiled radishes for three meals a day rushed forward with a roar and raised their bamboo poles. Hei Taisui and the others instantly fell into the vast ocean of the people's war.

How about the overall quality of the beggar gang is declining now: these refugees who are used to fighting for water and land in the countryside are not as measured as the people in the city, and their quality is too poor - when Hei Taisui was finally pulled When it came out, it was already out of shape.
Hei Taisui, the number one hero in Wulinmen, paid a heavy price for helping his neighbors empty the toilet.

The big brothers on the road can see clearly: if you don’t admit it, you’re afraid it won’t work. It’s better to sell the dung road for two dollars and pocket it.There is no way, the collusion with the government and various rogue tricks that these people usually rely on are effective in bullying ordinary people, but they cannot be used when they encounter the beggar gang.

The beggar gang is now operating as a company. The yamen in one prefecture and two counties don't talk about official business, but only talk about personal relationships. Zhou Tong was also an unprecedented top-notch filial family.How those pharmaceutical companies in the later generations dealt with the head nurses in the hospital is how Zhou Tong dealt with officials at all levels.

As for those quack tricks, there is no need to mention: Li Xiucai and Hei Taisui were killed by two soft and hard tricks without even seeing Zhou Tuantou in person.

Since then, the beggar gang's plan to acquire the city's excrement roads has been carried out smoothly, and Zhou Tong's promise to the government's performance projects has also begun to be implemented.

After unifying the feces channels in the whole city, in fact, anyone who has ever done the wholesale of instant noodles, beverages and other small commodities in the future will know how to set up the next step, divide the area, and arrange sales representatives to maintain the market.

Lu Cheng, the channel master who had sold Yun Bi and Master Geng, was naturally relaxed and happy in this regard.There is now a huge regional planning map in the main rudder of the beggar gang. Every cesspit and the number of toilets in every street are carefully marked.Whether it is the courier brother carrying the dung bucket or the district manager rowing the dung boat, they are all pawns on the picture now.

At the same time, the first batch of fifty dry toilets also went up.There are previous open-air cesspit reconstructions, and there are also new ones at selected sites—one of Zhou’s promised political achievements.

The second achievement is the garbage dump.

Public welfare undertakings, including burying corpses, disposing of urban garbage, and night shifts, were originally contracted by the beggar gang's half-dead staff; now, under the guidance of the traversers, a large number of refugees who have been raised will participate energetically. To the work of cleaning up urban garbage.

It is the 17th century now, let alone those cities in London and Paris that were built on dunghills. In fact, the cities in the north, including the capital, are not the same as those in foreign countries.

The situation in southern cities like Hangzhou is better, but it is also limited: huge amounts of garbage can be seen everywhere in the city, and the poor administrative management capabilities of the government are the main culprits that cause frequent plagues everywhere.

And these garbage are essentially fertilizers - there was no non-degradable petroleum and plastic in the 17th century, and the garbage dumps in the city, except for the soil, are some organic matter.You know, this is an era when firewood needs to be bought with money, and cloth ends are used to cover the soles of shoes. The garbage dump, in the eyes of the traversers, is more like a compost heap of decomposed soil.

In fact, the Wei Tuo field outside the city, which is equipped with temperature probes, is already hungry and thirsty.

(End of this chapter)