The town of Melo erupted in deafening cheers after Aslan returned safely.
Aslan got off the carriage and had just sat in the wheelchair when he heard deafening cheers. Aslan smiled and waved to everyone.
"I came back and made everyone worried."
The people also saluted one after another. No one said too much, and everything was not serious.
After breaking the bones for a hundred days, although the bones have been connected, they are still very fragile and may break at any time.
So during this period of time, Aslan completely enjoyed the days when he had clothes to wear, food to eat and mouth to open.
Even taking a shower, Nomeli accompanied her throughout the whole process. The only drawback was that Aslan could only watch.
Nomeli was afraid that one move would be too drastic and might crack Aslan's newly healed wound.
After staying in Merlo Town for three days, Knox decided to settle in Merlo Town.
Because the population has exceeded 200,000, Essien strongly requested that it be renamed Mero City. It is probably the only city in the entire continent without city walls.
With the help of the rat people, the sewer system of Merlo City has been completely dug and sealed, and the channels for sewage to go to the sewage treatment plant more than 30 kilometers away have also been dug.
Because many houses were renovated from old cities and there are no public places in them, Aslan deliberately built many public toilets.
Unfortunately, after the advent of chemical fertilizers, people became aware of the role of feces and collected it one after another. They took it to the fertilizer factory on time every week in exchange for a five-to-one ratio of fertilizer, which made Aslan depressed for a long time.
But if you think about it carefully, you will be relieved. In ancient capitals such as Chang'an, with a huge population and countless excrement every day, why are there not as many excrements in the streets as in the European Middle Ages?
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the situation of farmland fertilization began to become clearer. From Chen Min's "Nongshu" and Lou Xuan's "Farming and Weaving Picture Poems", we can know that human excrement was used as fertilizer in Jiangnan in the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as the demand for fertilizers continued to increase, human feces became more important. Therefore, the collection and processing of human feces reached an unprecedented level.
In rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there are records of collecting human excrement as early as the Song Dynasty. "Chen Chang Nong Shu" has mentioned the construction of dung houses and cesspools to collect human excrement and urine.
But in fact, until the late Ming Dynasty, the collection of human feces in many places in the south of the Yangtze River was not enough. It was not until the early Qing Dynasty that the collection of human feces was highly valued, so much so that there were people like Mu Taigong who were willing to pay huge sums of money to collect human feces.
Public toilets are built in rural areas to collect human waste.
The collection of human waste in cities and towns is another story.
The urban population is densely populated, and the more people there are, the more dung will be. The more dung will be fertile, the more fertile fields will be fertile, and the fertile fields will be more valleys. Therefore, Xu Guangqi said: "The fields are more fertile because there are more dung. In villages, there are densely populated places.
Same thing."
However, urban fertilizer sources are scattered and far away from rice fields. Therefore, to send urban manure to the fields, two aspects of work need to be done: one is to collect and preserve it, and the other is to transport it to the countryside.
As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou had dedicated personnel to collect and transport urban human feces.
Most of the homes of ordinary people in the streets do not have pit latrines and only use toilets. Every day, people excrement comes out of the toilet, which is called "tilting one's toes".
These people each have their own customers and territory, and they dare not cross the border, or may invade, or even cause bloodshed.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the collection and transportation of manure in cities and towns was greatly improved. In terms of collection, there were not only men who carried manure loads, but also emptied toilets for other women every day. They no longer felt the slightest resentment, but only hated the lack of stuff in the toilets.
There are also public toilets along the roads in the city.
Even later, public toilets could be rented out to rich farmers in the countryside for varying amounts of money per year. This is why from ancient times to the present, China did not have dung cities like those in the Middle Ages or even during the Industrial Revolution.
Knox was also very shocked at the cleanliness of Merlo City at first. After all, he had lived in a slum like the outer city for more than 20 years, so he naturally knew how dirty the slum was. But after coming to Merlo City, all his views
Everything has changed.
The city is cleaner than the Dongcheng District of Bicheng. The only regret is the messy houses in the old city.
But when he visited a newly built large five-story building in the new city, he immediately fell in love with that kind of house with white paint on the walls. As soon as he entered the house, it was ventilated on all sides, sunny, and most importantly, spacious.
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"How much does this house cost?" Knox said confidently.
It is a large apartment of 200 square meters, and it is a duplex with two floors. The total area is more than 400 square meters, and there are more than ten rooms. It is more spacious and bright than the castle of the city lord's palace. The only disadvantage is that the distance between the floors is not as high as the castle.
"This place was specially built by the lord as a gift to the outstanding officials in the Melo area. If you must buy it, it will be one gold coin per square meter, a total of four hundred square meters and four hundred gold coins." Osborne said with an envious look on his face.
"It's only 400 gold coins. I bought the whole building." Knox had already found out clearly that the first floor of this building is more than 400 square meters, and the five floors together only cost 2,000 gold coins.
For Knox, who had 200,000 gold coins, it was a drizzle.
Osborne rolled his eyes and said, "Mr. Knox, you misunderstood. This is indeed for sale to you. This is a special case. Generally speaking, houses in the new city will not be sold to the outside world for the time being."
"Except for this building, which is for senior officials, the other five buildings are all small apartments, ranging from 70 to 80 square meters. The lord plans to give them to outstanding civil servants and soldiers."
When Knox heard this, he couldn't help showing a disappointed expression on his face.
"Then can I build a house like this by myself in the future?"
Osborne shook his head. He didn't know about this kind of thing. Anyway, he didn't know how long it would take to earn four hundred gold coins. He is now also a junior knight, and with the troops directly under the lord, his monthly salary has reached thirty silver coins.
, with the current consumption level in Merlo City, it is enough to support a family of five, and their family is now living a very good life.
The family has a farmland that belongs to them, and with the help of the uncle's family, they bought an old house in the city of Mero.
He understood very well why the lord did not agree with the people to rebuild houses in the old city. The houses were all left over from the old houses, and the construction of the houses could only be approved by the city lord's palace.
To put it simply, it means that the real estate industry has become a complete lord and has completely monopolized the real estate business in the entire Melo area.
In fact, considering the population density of the old city, Aslan built dozens of three-story buildings on a street in the old city. Each building covers an area of about 300 square meters. These small buildings are not as high-tech as the new city.
The content is naturally lower, so there is no need for the construction corps to spend a lot of manpower. It is just hiring people from the old city to build it.