Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

The rain came in anxious and heavy rain. Due to obstructed vision, even if it was only a few miles away, the entire group was caught in the rain for one hour before finally entering Mingdemen.

Li Wangyou showed his goldfish charm, asked the pawn at Mingdemen gate, and borrowed some clothes to wear. But this rain is not as heavy as before. The heavy rain has turned into moderate rain. Anyway, it has already been dripping into a soup chicken before. Li Wangyou simply continued to push the horse forward and headed to Kaihuafang.

But it didn’t take long for Li Wangyou to regret it…

Now Chang’an City in Great Tang is not where Chang’an City in the Han Dynasty is located.

In the heyday of Han Ch_ng’n, it also had a population of several hundred thousand. Various sewage and garbage were difficult to dispose of, so they were buried at will or discharged through waste wells. Even the powerful and powerful, they were specially excavated by people. To dump the sewage from the deep well.

Over time, domestic sewage seeps into the ground, seriously polluting the original underground water quality of Chang’an City.

By the time of the Great Sui Dynasty, the old Chang’an City was no longer suitable for living.

According to the “Book of Sui”, “The city of Hanying is now 800 years old, and the water is salty and bitter, which is not very pleasant. Evil, gathering but not letting go, the water will be more salty. So Emperor Wen of Sui appointed Ministry of Works High Official Yu Wenkai to redesign Chang’an City.

Yuwenkai is a design genius. He designed the new Chang’an City into 108 squares, with 25 main streets running north and south. Among them, Vermilion Bird Street is the main street, located between the central axis.

This is also the Capital City of Great Tang today, Chang’an City.

In order to learn from the lessons of Han Chang’an City, Yuwenkai designed drainage ditches more than two meters wide on both sides of the 25 main streets in the city. The drainage ditches on both sides of Vermilion Bird Street are even wide. Up to three meters.

These drains will discharge sewage from the city to the outside.

But the topography of Chang’an City is high in the south and low in the north, and the Northern Part of City is where the imperial city and the Imperial Palace are located. If you follow the normal direction of sewage discharge, the sewage in the whole city will be diverted through the Northern Part of City, which will naturally not work.

So when designing, they chose to make the pavement high in the middle and low on both sides to drain the sewage out of the city from east to west.

But things are counterproductive, because the topography of Chang’an City, in addition to high in the south and low in the north, there are all around high, middle and low terrain.

Although Chang’an City has complete drainage facilities, there is still a risk of waterlogging during heavy rains.

Li Wangyou entire group encountered waterlogging during the heavy rain.

The heavy rain caused the sewage in the drainage ditches on both sides of the street to be unable to be discharged in time. When the water in the ditches was full, it overflowed, turning the street into a swamp land.

Although the waterlogging is not serious, the overflowing water is not even as high as the knees of pedestrians, and Li Wangyou and the others are not affected by horseback.

It’s all if it is only waterlogged, but the yellow and white things floating on the water at this time made Li Wangyou disgusting.

Especially when he noticed that on the beloved “Zhaoyebai” he was riding today, the snow-white horseshoes were also stained with dirt, which made Li Wangyou die. It’s all there.

Li Wangyou is an ordinary person in his later life, but he has no cleanliness. But since crossing to Great Tang, Li Wangyou feels as if he has become a habit of cleanliness, and can’t understand the sloppyness of the Tang people.

If you dont take a bath, its no condition, just forget it.

Littering everywhere, even urinating and defecate everywhere, it really makes Li Wangyou speechless.

In fact, Great Tang has learned the lessons of the previous dynasty, and the laws in this area are quite strict. There is a special stipulation in “Tang Law Commentary”: “Those who pierce through the wall and get dirty, stick 60; those who get out of water, don’t talk about it. The chief executive can not help but the same crime.”

It means dumping sewage at will. Or the rubbish person, found by Wuhou or bad people, will be punished with a cane for 60 strokes.

But even with such strict laws, the secretly dumping of garbage and sewage in Chang’an City, as well as those who urinate and defecate, are repeatedly prohibited.

Actually, this is not to blame for the lack of quality of the Tang people. After all, Great Tang does not have public toilets, and Chang’an City is also an incomparable gigantic. Can’t you ask everyone to hold back home?

People have three urgency, and when they need it, they cant find the place of reincarnation. Isnt it just the street?

So, after a torrential rain, under the Water Inundating Golden Mountain, the water surface became “exciting”…

In fact, Li Wangyou also knew that at that time, even seventeen Compared with Europe in the 21st century, China has become very hygienic.

Be aware that in Paris in the seventeenth century, there was not even a toilet. The residents of Paris at that time woke up every morning and dumped the toilet directly on the road. The taste can be imagined.

Paris, the romantic capital of later generations, was not perfumed in the air at that time. When the American ambassador Franklin went to Paris for the first time, he was fainted by the smell.

Even the Imperial Palace of Versailles in France did not even have a toilet inside until the 18th century.

This topic can be described as an extremely heavy taste… Even in comparison, later generations of India, until Li Wangyou crossed, had not solved the toilet problem, and people still urinate in the open…

In this comparison, Li Wangyou really can’t criticize the Tang people for not paying attention to hygiene.

Pinching his nose and forcibly enduring the suffocation in his heart, Li Wangyou can only continue to push his horse forward in the sewage.

Fortunately, there is no stagnant water in Kaihuafang, which made him feel a little relieved. This is also because the Lifang of the Northern Part of City is mostly dignitaries. Fangzheng in Lifang and Wuhou in Wuhoupu are accustomed to this kind of waterlogging after heavy rains.

In order not to affect the nobles, sandbags are used to block the memorial archway gate every time there is a heavy rain to prevent sewage from flooding into the workshop.

In this house in Kaihuafang, the owner’s family has returned to his hometown and his ancestral home, leaving only a steward leading a few servants to guard the house.

Under steward’s guidance, Li Wangyou looked inside and out of the house, which was quite satisfactory.

Sanjins courtyard is slightly smaller than Li Familys previous residence in Hu County, but it is also quite good for temporary residence.

Although the courtyard is a bit old, it is not a big problem to renovate and decorate it.

The Geography of this house is in a good location. The owner’s price is 4,000, which is reasonable. Li Wangyou made the decision directly, and immediately asked Steward from this mansion to go to the Wannian County County Official of Xuanyang Fang to go through the real estate transaction documents.

Because the other party wants to carry money on the way, Li Wangyou also very intimately let Niu Wu go to the enemy, and asked the enemy to advance more than 600 tael of gold, and gave it to the steward for them to carry .

Since the money has been cleared, the house of Kaihuafang has been owned by Li Wangyou.

It took an hour before and after, Li Wangyou bought a house, spending money very generously.

At this time, the rain has stopped. After the heavy rain, the sky is blue, which is relaxed and joyful, but don’t bow your head. The sewage that flooded the streets is slowly receding, but it leaves all kinds of filth on the streets, making it impossible to look directly at it.

Li Wangyou sighed then said, turned his head to avoid looking at the disgusting things, and asked the guards behind him to go to the garment shop to buy some clothes to change. Let Niu Wu go to the East Market again to inform the beautiful boss who is still in the Carriage line that he bought a suite in Ch_ng’n…