Villager of Daming

Chapter 774: Cheap and expensive, everyone needs it
The children continued to sleep and run wildly after eating.

Today there is still a general cleaning in the palace. The maids and eunuchs in the village came over to help with the cleaning all morning. There are too many houses and the villagers are busy.

Those houses were mainly for the palace people to live in, and civil and military officials could also live in them if they wanted to.

"I'm not busy in the afternoon. Let's go to Chaotian Palace in the evening. This is a good name. It will be called Chaotian Palace from now on."

Zhu Yuanzhang had lunch, ate fruit after dinner, and planned to go out to see the people's livelihood.

The original Great Yuanxing Yongshou Palace didn't sound good to him, so what is the Great Yuanxing?Only the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty went out to beat others.

As soon as he mentioned it, Zhu Wentian immediately told the mayor the name that had been changed in history, which was called Chaotian Palace.

Most of them are wholesale shops now, and they will be adjusted later.

"Your Majesty, it's cold there at night and it's also damp," the chief reminded.

"It's okay, we mainly want to know how they are doing in the hot springs. The bathhouse is inside and it takes up space. Where will it be moved in the future?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about him letting the people take a bath!The hot spring water is taken from Xuanwu Lake and transported by train to Xiaqiu Village, and then from Xiaqiu Village to Xihuamen by train.

He was transferred to a carriage and sent to a separate place behind Chaotian Palace, where baths were built one after another.

There are also small bathtubs, where those with skin diseases can go in to soak. The men are examined by the imperial doctor in the big pool, and the women are left to the brothel madams, who are rich in experience.

In this way, everyone can take a bath one after another, otherwise the temperature would hover around zero and rarely exceed ten degrees above zero. People do not have the conditions to take a bath in a large bucket, which is very expensive.

In winter, people can only boil some hot water and put it in a basin, and then wipe it with a towel, or they simply don't wash. Like the north, especially the northeast, they don't take baths in winter.

Only when the conditions are met can we become diligent and stop being cold.

In fact, if you have a yard and shelter at home, then you can use well water to flush your body every day in the summer, like Zhu Wentian, then it will be no problem to flush it in winter, when the well water feels hot.

Just like winter swimming, winter swimming is cold outside but not so cold in the water. It can be a few degrees above zero at most, and it will freeze at zero degrees.

That is suitable for special people, who usually risk their lives!If you catch a cold, you will die!
Nanjing is just as cold and humid, and no one wants to take a bath. The baths are open, and they cost a penny each time. Seniors over 60 years old and children under ten years old are free.

It takes at most an hour to wash up and come out. VIP soup is optional, just pay, and the starting point is the same. It provides soap, tea, snacks, fruits and other things.

Ordinary people actually use hot water heated by boilers. There is not so much hot spring water. There is free toothpaste and soap in it.

If it is full for twelve hours, it can receive 10 people a day. It will need to be demolished in the future. It takes up too much space. The key is that there are no ceramic tiles and they are just polished with cement.

In this way, people line up to take a bath, so they can take a bath before the Chinese New Year.

The factory in Xiaqiu Village has its own bathing area, and people who work there will not spend money to go to Chaotian Palace to bathe.

There are also areas where craftsmen and their families live, as well as migrant workers who have not returned home.

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When it was dark, the group set out and came to the place where they were eating.

The bathhouse is not far from here. They are large wooden houses with no bricks and no time to build walls, so the sound insulation effect is not good. Men and women are far apart and separated.

There were indeed people queuing up under the lights, some couples came together, some singles who were not sure if they were married, and some with children.

The older man didn't see it, probably because he was afraid that the road would be difficult to walk at night.

From the few words they spoke, one could tell that there were villages running towards them. They were relatively far away, although they were all Yingtian Mansion.The location of Shijiu Lake is still Yingtian Mansion, so they can't come here to take a bath.

"There should be several places like this in every county. People go to the county market and spend a penny to take a good bath. Women should also take a bath. Only after they are clean will they be willing to have more children."

Zhu Yuanzhang was sincerely happy when he looked at the people who sat down to eat and wait after receiving their number plates.

Huimin Pharmacy has data on which family’s daughter-in-law came over and had a baby in her belly.

Since it is free, anyone who sees that he or she is not menstruating can go to the pharmacy to check for a pulse. If it is confirmed that he has a pulse, his family can start raising chickens if they have the conditions.

Usually when the baby is born, the chickens can be killed and eggs can be laid, and there is nothing else in the house!

Or if she couldn't eat too many eggs, her mother-in-law would trade the eggs with others for fish and come back to make soup, especially crucian carp.

Life has always been like this, but now there is something different. Huimin Pharmacy provides free medical treatment, and you can just see it if you feel a little uncomfortable.

Medicines from Huimin Pharmacy cannot be given for free and must be recorded. Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that as the people became rich, the number of pregnant women increased.

One type was those who used to be afraid of not being able to feed their children, so they resorted to stupid methods of contraception, such as the kind outside the body, which can really be avoided in some cases.

Once you have money and you find that you can raise children, you don’t take any measures. If you have more children, you think you can support them in old age in the future.

The other type is those who have no money to marry a wife and become rich, or have the ability to continue to make money, such as those who join the factory in Xiaqiu Village. The woman’s family will take a look and think, OK!

When both parties get married, they have to have children. They are less than 20 years old, or even [-] years old, and they start to take on the responsibilities of the family.

"Your Majesty, do you want hot skewers?" The mayor saw that Hanhan seemed to want to eat the skewers, so he asked first.

"It's done! You can arrange what to eat. Starting next year, we will start looking for a wife for our village. I will arrange for the older daughter to be married."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his attention to the marriages in Shangxiaqiu Village. Xiaqiu Village was already working hard to have children, and this year there were a large number of babies.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty." The mayor was really worried, especially the old girl who was older than Hanhan, she had to get married and have a baby.

You don’t have to worry about money, the main thing is whether you are satisfied or not, otherwise you will have to divorce the man?Oh, called Heli.

There is a problem. Once the man gets divorced, he is likely to be imprisoned or killed directly. He knows too much.

People kept coming out of the bathhouse over there, and then people kept being called in.

People all carry a package on their back or on their shoulders, which contains clean clothes waiting to be changed. They go in and wash them before putting them on.

"Chief, can this bathhouse recover its original value?" Zhu Biao looked at it for a while, then ate a bunch of hairy tripe, and became confused.

“You can make money by buying cement and repairing it. You can also make money by building it with stones near the stone mine. It’s just a matter of heating hot water and hiring some people.

The soap inside is free for everyone to use, and it also provides pedicures, haircuts, ear cleaning, ear fumigation, bathing, cupping, scraping, back tapping, tea, and snacks.

If you want a woman, you have to go to a brothel, which is not provided here, but there is a place for mandarin duck bathing here. You need to find someone to do it yourself, which is very expensive.

In this way, some of us enter the service industry to make money, and then lecture in the lounge, isn't it beautiful? "

The head of the village said that he was envious. There was no such service in Xiaqiu Village. Sometimes Hanhan could help him press the button.

(End of this chapter)