Starting from the Western Han Dynasty

Chapter 175 Anyang County opens a new chapter

The story about the monarch and the businesswoman Wenjun, in just one night, has become an interesting gossip for the people in Anyang County after dinner...

This is the second major event since the Marquis of Anyang loves to eat fish. For the people of Anyang County who lack spiritual enjoyment in their spare time, it swept across the country at such a speed that at least five different versions of Feng Yue appeared overnight. story……

Wenjun, a businesswoman who was one of the parties involved, seemed completely unaffected. She went to the market outside Anyang City and sat at the table with a group of wealthy merchants, discussing various order issues in detail, which involved All the things that are now available in Anyang County.

Among them, porcelain and cement were the main ones. To Zhuo Wenjun's surprise, paper was not as popular as expected. None of these merchants seemed to value this kind of thing too much.

Originally, many people had contempt for this little woman who was expelled from the Zhuo family in Shu County. However, after hearing about her affair with Marquis Anyang, seriousness and awe were rarely revealed on their faces. look.

Even some people who were very willing to spend money became generous at a certain moment and did not dare to compare prices with Zhuo Nu too much.

However, what shocked everyone was that after they were clearly mentally prepared to give up large profits, they found that Marquis Anyang had no intention of suppressing anyone, and even gave a large amount of profit margins.

In just half a month, this matter swept away like the wind, and those merchants who were still waiting and watching immediately rushed to Anyang County like the wind.

After they crossed the muddy and uneven dirt road full of potholes, everyone looked at the smooth and flat road in front of them in amazement.

For almost a moment, many people felt like it was a dream.

The smoothest roads in this era are nothing more than roads paved with stone slabs, but roads paved with stone slabs are still not very smooth, and there is no way to eliminate the bumpy feeling.

However, walking on such a road feels completely smooth.

"Toll? How much is the toll?"

When a small official who just woke up and dozed off under the tree yawned and stood up holding the ring-shouldered knife, all the merchants who arrived after him looked nervous.

However, when faced with this problem, the clerk responsible for collecting tolls yawned, picked up the herbal tea on the table, took a sip, and then turned around and sat down.

Many merchants who had traveled far and wide and had seen the world immediately understood what this meant.

This means asking them to take their own money and throw it into the basket next to the table. How much should they throw away?After the imp in front of him was satisfied, he naturally let him go.

"Crash..."

The sound of coins being thrown into the basket suddenly startled the sleeping clerk. He stood up quickly, glanced at the smiling merchant in front of him, and reached out to grab the merchant's linen clothes.

"Didn't you see? Why did you lose so much money? Do you want to bribe me? Then go and accuse me in front of the prince?"

"Huh? One cent?" At this time, not only the merchant was confused, but also the people behind him. Everyone was not afraid of asking for more tolls, but they were afraid of asking for less tolls and causing stumbling blocks on the way. Then this Business can no longer be done!
"Look here, look here, don't you look up at the road?" The clerk picked up the ring-headed knife in his arms and pointed to a high place.

Only then did everyone notice that there was a medium-sized wooden board hanging on the big willow tree, with a few lines of text written on it. Upon closer inspection, they read: "One person has one dollar, and one car has four dollars."

After "four big bucks for a car", there is a supplementary explanation: "four big bucks for a two-wheeled car, and free for a four-wheeled car."

The merchant asked curiously: "Master, is it really a big fortune?"

The little official who was disturbed from his sleep glared angrily: "What are you scared of? This is an order personally given by the Marquis of Anyang... Your carriages are all two-wheeled, and each carriage costs four big bucks. How dare you miss it?" Officer, I will make you peel off your skin with every word I say!"

When everyone heard this, they all trembled with fear.

They are businessmen who are accustomed to cheating and cheating, but they never dare to be clever in front of these petty officials. Once the other party thinks that there is something wrong with them, they will really die or lose their skin.

If the other party records something in the book, they will be ruthlessly captured and taken away to repair the next time they fight or build the Great Wall.

If you don't want to go, you have to pay a huge sum of money...

The big businessmen don't care about this, but it's completely impossible for small businessmen like them to get it...

Everyone was looking at each other, but the little official was already leaning back on the chair leisurely, holding the ring-shou knife in his arms, and began to doze off again...

I really don’t know if it was because I worked hard for so long last night that I felt so listless when I went on duty during the day.

The coins were thrown into the basket one by one. The merchants were cautious, and some even deliberately threw a few more coins. In the end, it angered the clerk, who took the knife and spanked it several times with the scabbard, saying who dared Lost too much, that is a humiliation to him who is incorruptible...

Walking on the spacious road, facing the breeze, the merchants suddenly felt in a good mood.

A beautiful environment can give people an extremely pleasant mood.

What’s even weirder is that they even saw people carrying large brooms and pushing strange four-wheeled wooden carts cleaning livestock excrement.

Everyone who cleans livestock excrement in this way will tell the merchants who arrive here that every five miles, there will be something called a public toilet. People must go to the toilet here. If they are caught urinating in the open, , you will be fined a thousand yuan, because going to the public toilet is free, and livestock does not matter.

Honest businessmen... maybe this honesty is just defined as compared to those more treacherous businessmen. After walking five miles, I really saw the so-called public toilet.

Because there is a tall sign with the word "Public Toilet" written on it, people who can do business are more or less literate.

Next to the public toilet, there is a straw hut shop with clearly marked prices, and people are already sitting in it, drinking water, resting and eating.

There were also people going in and out of the public toilet.

The public toilet was so big that it was even divided into two different toilets for men and women. After entering, the merchants discovered that the public toilet looked like this?
Moreover, some businessmen even saw people carrying water to flush feces and feces in public toilets.

What shocked them the most was that the urine was in a urinal. Careful people had noticed that the urine flowed along a strange pipe into a pool specially used to store urine.

It seems like someone specially took away the urine.

A businessman with sharp eyes discovered that the pipe-like thing turned out to be pottery!

Suddenly, a loud and noisy sound came from the front. After people gathered around, they were surprised to find that they were four strong men with a wooden sign hanging around their necks. On it was written: "Those who defecate in public" , with the words "heavy fine of one thousand yuan".

The clerks pushed the four strong men manically, as if they were paraded through the streets, beating gongs and drums, and shouting, warning all the merchants and passers-by.

Seeing this scene, many merchants groaned in their hearts, fortunately they listened to people's persuasion...

Similarly, there are quite a few people who urinated in secret and were not caught. They were afraid for a while. If luck was not so good, then the person who was dragged into the street and fined [-] yuan now was himself...

Many experienced businessmen have noticed a problem: a head fee of one dollar is almost free; because according to their experience in other places, if you can embark on such a path, ten dollars a person is a small amount; But Anyang Marquis made such rules, obviously to make Anyang County an extremely clean place...

It would be really great if the official governance in Anyang County was really like what they saw.

At this moment, many people have such thoughts in their minds...

At this moment, Anyang Hou was looking at the results of these days with a look of surprise on his face...the bathroom!

Li Huan didn't know why he did this. Usually when he went to the toilet, someone would always greet him with a smile, and one of the words they always said was "Have you eaten, Lord Marquis?"

……

After watching the ceramic pipes being mass-produced, Li Huan immediately came up with the idea of ​​a bathroom.

Originally, the bathroom plan could not be fully realized until all the problems in the water supply system were completely overcome.

However, when Gillian was playing mahjong, she suddenly heard Li Huan mention it, and she could no longer hold back and asked Li Huan to modify the government office first. She was very interested in this person who could solve personal problems without leaving home. The novel method is extremely curious.

Li Huan was shocked after hearing this, because people like Gillian really don’t have to go out to go to the toilet...

Moreover, there is even a dedicated person to serve you, so you don’t have to wipe it by yourself after using the toilet... A Marquis like Li Huan can arrange this, but he really can’t bear the need to do it after going to the toilet. When someone else helps you wipe, especially when you urinate, you still need help to support you. After you finish peeing, how many times do you have to help yourself shake it off?
Who can bear this?

Li Huan couldn't stand it anyway, and only people like Gillian, who had lived like this since childhood, wouldn't feel any difference.

Li Huan knew the ancient traditions very well. Before he came to this world, he had heard that the way in ancient Europe to judge whether a woman was a noble lady was to ask her to take off her clothes in front of a group of maids. If she could look calmly and talk and laugh calmly, , that is Miss Noble. If you feel shy and embarrassed, then this person is not Miss Noble.

He had regarded it as strange knowledge before, and never thought that it could be compared to Gillian...

Therefore, Li Huan designed a high platform, built a pool with cement on it, and then arranged clay pots to transport water, leading to the rebuilt small house at the lower air outlet on the side of Gillian's house. The interior was entirely made of cement red bricks, and Underground pottery pipes were arranged to transport all the waste away.

As for the water...it can't be pumped, but Gillian asked people to carry water to fill the pool...

From Gillian's point of view, such a luxurious and wasteful waste of manpower has no feeling at all, and she even finds it interesting.

As for the water switch…

After listening to Li Huan's description, Gillian felt that this thing was very magical. After killing 21 craftsmen one after another, but still unable to create the water switch Li Huan described, Gillian decided to continue killing.

Because Li Huan's two cheap uncles and his cheap grandmother Princess Dachang sent two thousand craftsmen here one after another.

In Gillian's eyes, these people are talking animals.

But for Li Huan, those are top-notch beings who can easily suppress the strong men of Nine Nine Six.

They don’t need wages, don’t need holidays, they just concentrate on researching various things, and they work hard... They are really bulls and horses that the capitalists cry when they see it... Well, in the final analysis, these people are the creators of value. Li Huan felt very distressed. A few days later, Zhuo Wenjun's old servant actually forged a water switch...

Although there are some differences from what Li Huan used before, and there is still some water leakage problem, it is not a big problem.

Gillian likes this novel thing very much.

Li Huan looked at Gillian who was excitedly playing with the water, and felt very strange. Shouldn't all otakus and otakus like figurines?

"My dear son, do you have any other novelty gadgets? Can you get me some more for my mother?"

Gillian approached Li Huan excitedly.

After hearing this, the craftsmen on the side began to tremble, and some of the people standing in the back row were so frightened that they fainted on the spot.

Li Huan shook his head continuously: "Queen Mother, there are none now, but there are many interesting things in the market. Why don't you, Queen Mother, dress incognito and let me take you to relax?"

"Forget it, let's go out for a walk. I've always heard you say that the market is very lively, but I've never been out there."

Li Huan breathed a sigh of relief, and the craftsmen, whose hearts jumped to their throats, also breathed a sigh of relief, secretly wiping their sweat...

The changes in Anyang City really made Gillian's eyes shine. However, pipeline construction is still being buried in some places, and the ground in the entire Anyang City has been raised a lot. This is mainly to allow all the dirty water to drain away. Drain out.

However, the spacious, clean and bright avenue really made Gillian's eyes shine.

Moreover, Li Huan has a big idea. After he gets the first income from Anyang County, he wants to persuade Liu Che to rebuild the city wall of Anyang City. Although the city wall in this place can only be built as high as one or two feet, but It can also give the entire Anyang City a new look.

The current feeling is full of awkwardness.

Except for the old and dilapidated towers and walls, everything else is brand new.

In the market, the same concrete floor road, A-Jiao sat in the carriage, and after walking around for a few times, she felt that it was not interesting, and wanted to go back, but at this moment, a singing sound came from nowhere, which made A-Jiao stand upright. He opened his ears and listened carefully to a few words.

She opened the car curtain, looked at Li Huan who was driving, and asked curiously: "Where did the singing come from? Why has my mother never heard it?"

Li Huan also heard the words "The rain is falling, the vegetation is deep in my old hometown, I heard that you are always alone, the mottled city gate is entangled with the roots of old trees, and the words echoing on the stone slabs are "wait a little longer..."

"Uh..." Li Huan smiled sheepishly.

A-Jiao was a little surprised: "Uh, what, what is it? Although it sounds like Liba, it's still inexplicably good... Well, it's quite sentimental. What's the story of this song? It's very interesting... Driving over, for my mother You should listen carefully!"

"Mother, this is what I teach people to sing." Li Huan smiled awkwardly: "Over there are the musicians in my house. I don't like listening to them playing the chimes, so I made up the tune and asked them to learn to sing. I play in my own restaurant in the market to attract more people.”

Li Huan originally believed that the people in his mansion were top-level existences who could suppress the [-] powerhouses with a flick of a finger. Anyway, they would do whatever he asked them to do.

To be able to get through to the point where Emperor Liu Che granted him the honor of being a musician, he was considered to be the top group of musicians in the Han Empire.

Therefore, as long as he sang his songs once, these people could sing along. Li Huan did not waste any of this amazing musical talent and used it all to make money for himself.

"You actually have such talent?" Gillian was surprised and urged: "Drive over there quickly, I want to listen carefully!"

"Mother, there are so many people in this place, why don't you follow my son and go home first, and play alone there, which is much better than such a noisy environment!"

Gillian's eyebrows furrowed slightly: "Gui Zi, didn't you ask my mother to go out for a walk? Now that my mother wants to leave, you are asking my mother to go back?"

Li Huan smiled bitterly: "Come on! Get rid of the disease! You go over first and let people clean up the house. My mother and I will be there soon!"

"Here!" Huo Qubing started trotting on his horse.

Gillian then smiled with satisfaction and lowered the car curtain. Then she heard the singer change the tune. In the noisy market, one could vaguely hear the words "horse hooves go south, people look north, people look north..." accompanied by the majestic The mighty drums rumbled.

"It's such a majestic and majestic voice, and it seems to have the passion to join the army and defend the country!"

Gillian couldn't help but sigh.

"The buildings here are so strange..." After getting out of the car, Gillian looked up and saw the strange eye-catching symbols, and turned to look at Li Huan.

Li Huan chuckled: "My son named this place Goulan. All the entertainers and jugglers are here."

He would never tell Gillian that those three strange huge symbols were called "KTV"...

"Oh! No wonder I often hear Zhang Qian say that he has nothing to do and listens to music? Is this what he means?"

Zhang Qian, who had dismounted next to him, almost couldn't get up. How did his words reach Empress Chen's ears?
"Why are you hesitating? Doctor Zhang is leading the way." Gillian snorted softly, as if she wanted to say that there was such a fun thing, but she was not called...

Gillian is sometimes majestic, sometimes very steady, sometimes like a little girl... She is a versatile queen.

Huo Qubing had already walked out from the front, followed by a woman with heavy makeup, who hurriedly came to help Gillian, but before the woman could get close to Gillian, she was already blocked by the palace maids beside Gillian, who were also in uniform. The Habayashi soldiers who pretended to be domestic servants almost pulled out the swords hidden under their cloaks.

Frightened by this scene, Li Huan hurried forward, grabbed the wrist of the woman with heavy make-up, and whispered in a low voice: "Nonsense, why are you running forward?"

The woman's beautiful eyes looked at Li Huan in fear, her lips were trembling with fear, and she seemed to want to speak, but she was already so frightened that she couldn't even utter a word.

Li Huan had no choice but to hold the woman half-supported and lead the way for Gillian.

However, Gillian's voice soon came from behind, speaking to Huo Qubing: "Qubing'er, you have another concubine."

"I'm used to it." Huo Qubing's voice was calm and normal, as casual and natural as when Li Huan heard the guards asking him "have you eaten" when he was relieving himself in the toilet...

Li Huan staggered and almost fell directly on top of the beautiful singer. Then he heard Gillian's disgusted voice: "You let your mother talk about it. I am a great man. If you do this in the daytime, there is no way." Indecent, the impact is really bad!"

　Thank you all for catching bugs. I love your seven-dimensional space.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)