Upon hearing the emperor's question, Li Xing respectfully replied: "His Majesty, that is an advertising hot air balloon."
Zhu Youjian didn't understand, and asked doubtfully: "Hot air balloon?"
Li Xingzhengse said: "Your Majesty, hot air balloons use the principle of thermal expansion and contraction. The flame under the hot air balloon continuously burns hot air. The hot air is light. When it fills the entire balloon, it pushes up the balloon, thus driving the balloon into the sky."
After Zhu Youjian listened to Li Xing's words, he seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand. He just looked at the hot air balloon and was silent.
Wang Chengen pointed at the hot air balloon and asked: "Governor of Tianjin, is the 'Sanyuan Street Lion Building Opening Welcome' the advertisement you are talking about?"
Li Xing replied: "Exactly. As long as businesses have excellent products that they want to promote, they can advertise on hot air balloons. Today's advertisement is for the opening of the Lion House, a large restaurant. This restaurant is more than ten rooms long and wide, with four floors above and below.
It is a large restaurant in Fanjiazhuang. As soon as the advertisement on the hot air balloon was posted, the whole Fanjiazhuang knew that his restaurant was open."
"We charge for this advertisement, and we can earn a lot of money every year."
"Your Majesty, this thing is very useful in combat. It can observe the enemy's situation and suppress enemies without thermal weapons in the air."
Zhu Youjian listened to Li Xing's words, nodded and said nothing.
Wang Chengen sighed and said: "This is a new thing, there is no such thing in the capital." Turning around and handing over to the emperor, Wang Chengen said: "Your Majesty, when we meet with the Prince of Tianjin later, why don't we ask my slave to ask him for a hot air balloon, and let the people from the capital camp
The new army also uses this new equipment."
Zhu Youjian did not comment, shook the horse's rope, and marched on the main road of Fanjiazhuang.
Zhu Youjian's first impression of Fanjiazhuang was that it was clean and tidy, with noisy traffic and horses.
Zhu Youjian was very surprised by the streets that were so clean that there was not a piece of waste paper or a bit of horse dung. Compared with Fanjiazhuang, the capital was much filthier. The capital was known as the best place, but in fact the streets and alleys were full of adults.
There is no one to take care of the piles of garbage. Due to financial constraints, all the drains and sewers are blocked and there is no money to hire people to clean them. Not to mention the cow and horse excrement all over the street. When it rains, there are siltation pools everywhere, and pedestrians basically excrement.
Walking in water.
However, the situation here in Fanjiazhuang is completely different: the sewers on both sides of the road are clearly distinguishable. Zhu Youjian looked at the sewers that were dug deep and wide and covered with stone slabs. It is estimated that even if it rains heavily, Fanjiazhuang will not
Large areas of water accumulation appear.
There is a trash can every ten feet. Pedestrians throw garbage into the trash can. No one litters the streets to pollute the streets. There is no dirty scene like garbage and excrement floating all over the city when it rains.
In the past few years, the great plague broke out in Zhili and Beijing in northern Shanxi, but Tianjin was not affected at all. Zhu Youjian didn't understand why before, but now he understands after taking a look at Fanjiazhuang - with the sanitary conditions in Tianjin, the plague is not affected at all.
It will spread to a large area.
The roads are busy with traffic and the flow of people coming and going is very dense.
The pedestrians were all dressed very decently. Many of them were wearing silk and satin clothes. Some women were walking alone or taking their children through the streets, with gold hairpins in their heads, and they looked very respectable. Zhu Youjian was very concerned about these people.
It’s not surprising that they are richly decorated. After all, the farmers in Tianjin have a monthly income of forty taels, so the citizens in the city must also have forty taels of money. Naturally, they can afford to wear silk clothes and buy gold and silver ornaments.
The road connected to the west gate is one of the main streets of Fanjiazhuang. The shops on both sides of the street are large stores with very luxurious furnishings. The people in Fanjiazhuang are wealthy and have stronger spending power. Compared with those old shops in the capital, the income of the shops in Fanjiazhuang is much better
, the paint and decoration are all brand new. Well-made wooden signboards hang above the shops, making the whole street look more prosperous.
One thing that caught Zhu Youjian's attention was that there were a lot of children on the street. Zhu Youjian just took a casual look and saw four or five groups of children chasing and playing on the road nearby. Some children gathered around the candied haws seller to buy candies.
Eat, some children are gliding and playing on the road on scooters, making the whole city very lively.
Zhu Youjian asked Li Xing: "Why are there so many children in Fanjiazhuang?"
Li Xing cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, the people in Fanjiazhuang are wealthy, and the prince has always encouraged childbirth, so the people have a particularly large number of children. Every household has four or five children, and some have more. Now according to the city's population statistics,
Minors under the age of fourteen in Fanjiazhuang account for two-sevenths of the population, which is very impressive."
Hearing Li Xing's words, Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua looked at each other in surprise. This was the first time they heard that there were so many children in one city. Speaking of which, in ten or twenty years, the adult men under the rule of Tianjin Wang
Wouldn’t the number of Ding have to be doubled? How strong will the King of Tianjin become?
Zhu Youjian was obviously shocked by this number and took a breath.
When he arrived in Tianjin, Zhu Youjian felt that he was not in the Ming Dynasty. Everything was really different.
Without asking Li Xing any more, Zhu Youjian walked a few steps forward. He was suddenly attracted by the store decorations on both sides of the street, and asked curiously: "Why are there such big holes in the doors and windows of those stores, and they are not papered?"
?Aren’t you afraid of being robbed?”
Li Xing looked at the doors and windows on the left and right and knew that the emperor regarded the glass windows as hollow windows.
Wang Chengen's face froze when he knew that the emperor had made the same mistake as he had done before. He was afraid that Li Xing would laugh at the emperor, so he frowned at Li Xing, which seemed to intimidate Li Xing.
Li Xing cupped his hands and said, "Holy Master, that's not a hollow window, it's a glass window. The glass window is transparent, so it looks like a hollow window."
Zhu Youjian was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at the windows carefully, only to find that the sunlight was indeed reflected on the windows. It was undoubtedly glass.
Unexpectedly, glass that was regarded as a luxury product in other places was regarded as an ordinary decorative material by Tianjin people. The emperor couldn't help but take another breath and shook his head.
After walking more than a hundred steps forward, Zhu Youjian pointed his riding crop again, pointed at a water tower far away on the road and asked: "Li Xing, what is that tall jar-like thing?"
Li Xing respectfully replied: "Sage Mingjian, that is the tap water tower."
"We use water trucks to raise the well water to the water tower, and the water from the water tower flows along the official road into the building. Every household can obtain clean water without leaving home."
Li Xing looked around and found a faucet used by the cleaners in a nearby alley. He took Tianzi to the alley and turned on the faucet.
The well water flowing out suddenly made Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua's eyes widen. Zhu Youjian looked at the tap water and was a little unable to react.
After a long time, the emperor took a deep breath.
"The King of Tianjin's methods are truly miraculous." 8)
