The technical content of the tap water system is not high, it just requires the installation cost of some iron pipes. If each town uses a steam engine to pump water, the cost shared by individual inns and restaurant merchants is very low. In fact, these iron pipes do not need to be specially brought to Tianjin. Production can actually be produced in all places in Li Zhi's territory.
Li Zhi did not expect to make profits from the tap water system. Instead, he introduced the key tips of the tap water system for free in newspapers to encourage people to use it to the greatest extent.
The convenience and hygiene brought by this new thing are extremely significant. For the citizens of Tianjin and Shandong who have become affluent, this new thing appears very timely. Therefore, after the tap water system was launched in Tianjin, various cities in Tianjin and Shandong The administrative chiefs of large towns and cities stepped forward to take the lead and imitated it, which became popular for a while.
In some cities in Liaodong, there were also good people who organized merchants to install tap water. Even the officials in Tianjin stationed in North Korea also organized local projects. For a time, the blacksmiths who cast iron pipes were overwhelmed with orders.
Dongmingji Town was one of the first towns to implement a running water system. So when Li Zicheng checked into a decent inn in the town at night, what he saw in the toilet of the guest room was still the same running water system.
This time, Li Zicheng was already familiar with such facilities. Li Zicheng took the soap on the sink and took a cold shower in the bathroom. He felt a lot more energetic. It was already the end of March in the lunar calendar, and the weather was already very warm. It's not too cold to take a cold shower.
Compared to taking a bath with buckets and basins on the body at the river, it is self-evident to take a bath under the tap water shower head. Coupled with the fragrance contained in the soap, Li Zicheng's cold shower was very comfortable. It is an exaggeration. A little bit, it is truly an enjoyment that I have never experienced before.
Stepping out of the shower head, Li Zicheng sighed. If the luxurious life of the gentry made Li Zicheng despise him, the civilian, convenient and comfortable lifestyle invented by Li Zhi made Li Zicheng unable to refuse. After using this Planting a shower head to bathe, Li Zicheng began to feel that his previous life of going to the river to take a bath only once every five or six days was dirty and barbaric.
Soap is an old-fashioned thing that has been around for more than ten years, and Li Zicheng knows how to use it. However, the free toothpaste in the inn still makes Li Zicheng very confused. Standing in front of the big mirror in front of the toilet sink, Li Zicheng fiddles with the box of toothpaste, not knowing how to use it. .
However, this new thing in Shandong must be a good thing, and Li Zicheng was not willing to miss the opportunity to gain experience. In desperation, Li Zicheng called the boy at the inn again.
The boy was not surprised to hear Li Zicheng's disguised Henan accent. This is the border between Dongming County and Henan, and rustic Henan merchants often come here.
The boy took some toothpaste out of the toothpaste box with his hand, applied it on his toothbrush, and then started brushing his teeth in front of Li Zicheng.
"Businessman, the key to brushing your teeth is to brush every part of your teeth, so that you can truly protect your teeth. If your teeth don't get decayed, merchant, you will live a few more years!"
Li Zicheng followed the boy's instructions, picked up the free toothbrush on the sink and started brushing his teeth. After brushing his teeth, Li Zicheng turned on the faucet to collect water, dipped the toothbrush in well water and brushed his teeth carefully.
Then Li Zicheng took a breath in the mirror and felt that his mouth was cleaner than ever.
After the boy left, Li Zicheng was fascinated by the toothpaste on the sink.
This toothpaste is really a magical thing.
After a sleepless night, Li Zicheng took Song Xiance to the county town at dawn.
Li Zicheng naturally had a way to get the common people's waist badges issued by Li Zhi in Henan, and deceived the gatekeeper at the gate of Dongming County. However, the gatekeeper was very careful when checking the waist badges, giving Li Zicheng and Song Xiance a false alarm.
The county town is more prosperous than the towns, and the roads are busy with traffic early in the morning. Different from the cloth flag signs in the towns, in the county town there are wooden signs hanging on the shop doors, which look more classy. The restaurants on both sides of the main street in the county town
, Goulan are all three-story brick and cement buildings, splendidly decorated.
However, these luxurious buildings did not entertain gentry, but citizens wearing ordinary cotton clothes.
In the middle of the main street is a "middle school". Some middle school students wearing cotton uniforms are eating breakfast in teahouses and restaurants outside the school in twos and threes. They don't seem to care about the more than ten yuan for breakfast.
Li Zicheng looked around on the main street for a while, then walked into the factory area in the county town.
The so-called factory area is not a large-scale industrial area in later generations. It was just a relatively depressed corner of the county. Now it has gathered some local manufacturing industries. Under Li Zhi's rule, some low-tech industries that are needed everywhere have been dispersed.
Not all counties and counties are concentrated in Tianjin.
The first thing that caught Li Zicheng's eyes in the factory area were the several large chimneys of the water pipe factory. In the name of merchants from Henan, Li Zicheng and Song Xiance entered the water pipe factory and took a look around.
The water pipe factory is a newly established small factory that started producing water pipes for several nearby counties last month. Seeing Li Zicheng's impressive momentum, the owner of the water pipe factory thought he had a big customer and personally took Li Zicheng to visit the factory.
"Businessmen, although our factory is small, it was opened by a master foundry master from the Junwang Guanying Foundry Factory. The water pipe adopts one-piece casting technology, using clay sand as the mold and forming it in one go."
Looking at the tall entourage behind Li Zicheng, the owner of the water pipe factory said mysteriously: "This merchant, let me tell you that our old master has received the true inheritance from the prince. Our water pipes have been specially heat-treated to resist resistance.
The pressure capacity is greatly enhanced. Even if the temperature drops to extremely low in winter, our water pipes will not crack easily."
You can see the leopard in the pipe. Li Zicheng looked at the hot furnaces in the factory and the molten iron flowing in the pipes, and finally understood the industrial production capacity under Li Zhi's rule.
Manufacturing tens of thousands of rockets is really not a big deal for Li Zhi's industrial capabilities.
After some arrogance with the factory director, Li Zicheng left the water pipe factory and went to the cement factory to take a look inside.
When the cement factory saw business coming from Henan, it sent a technician to receive Li Zicheng.
"This merchant, although our factory is not as good as the big factories in Tianjin, it is very close to Henan. Merchant, think about it, how much does it cost to transport a bag of cement from Tianjin to Henan?"
The technician was very eloquent and talked eloquently, and said: "Furthermore, our factory purchased the latest large-scale steel ball mill from Tianjin. The cement powder ground out is very fine, and the structural strength is far higher than that of ordinary county-level factories. If you want a large quantity from the merchant,
If you want to purchase cement in Henan, You’re welcome factory is definitely your first choice.”
Li Zicheng stood under the large steel ball mill and watched the huge limestone being swallowed by the ball mill and turned into powder and spit out. Although the cement plant was not big, the output was not small. Li Zicheng watched the boxes of limestone being transported out of the factory.
Cement, I am afraid that with the cement produced by this small factory in one month, I can quickly build several small castles. I can't help but shake my head.
If Li Zhi's territory was mobilized as a whole and all these civilian factories were converted to military use, what would be the war potential?
Li Zicheng took a breath and suddenly felt that he was becoming more and more afraid of Li Zhi.
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