Chapter 101 The Steam Era of Public Health

The carriage of His Highness Princess Xiu rarely appears in the Blood Qi Army's camp. The Blood Qi Army is now carrying out a new round of camp construction, and a large number of brick and stone houses have now become thick and framed. The entire construction site is in a busy scene.

There was a lot of dust on the construction site. On the training ground next to it, there were individual training, and dust was flying. Tan Weishi had to cover his mouth and nose with his sleeves and followed Ye Tao into a huge room. The outside of the large pillar in the middle of the room was covered with cement, and the ground was also paved with cement. At one end of the big room, a one-meter-square-shaped pool was built.

"What is this for?" Tan Weishi asked. She had never seen a room with such a strange internal structure.

"Bathhouse," Ye Tao said with a smile, "When the cement is dry here, apply a layer of waterproof sludge, and then apply ceramic tiles and mosaics on the surface."

"You...you...you actually brought me to a man's bathhouse?!" Tan Weishi was both ashamed and angry. "I'll tell my sister to go back."

"It's not built yet. There will be no one here to take a bath now. What are you afraid of?" Ye Tao said with a chuckle.

Following Tan Weishi, Yang Xiping, the guard general of Princess Empress, asked in confusion: "Don't the soldiers take a bath by the well? How can many soldiers take a bath here? "

Yang Xiping was just transferred from the imperial guard to Tan Weishi. With Princess Xiu, there was no pressure to do things. Tan Weishi didn't make any airs to people. This is one of the reasons why Yang Xiping interrupted and asked such questions at this moment.

Ye Tao turned to lead them to the next door of the bathhouse, where a very large coal-fired stove was installed, with a considerable brass stove fixed on it, and there were many long pottery pipes piled up in the room. A group of apprentices from Ye's workshop were connecting pipes, as if they were to connect them into an extremely complex network.

Then even Tan Weishi understood it, and she asked, "Ye Tao. What do you mean is that so many soldiers can take a hot bath at the same time?"

Ye Tao nodded and said, "Yes, otherwise why do you have to build such a complicated bathroom? Just so many tiles and porcelain are not cheap to calculate the price."

Tan Weishi listened to Ye Tao's explanation for a long time, but still couldn't understand how to let the hot water flow out and let many people in the other room take a shower together. She couldn't know that in fact, this bathroom has now become the construction project that the entire Blood Qi Army is most concerned about.

Due to the good food and systematic training of the Blood Qi Army, the soldiers' physical fitness is quite good, but the cold rate has always been very high. Everyone is sweating after training every day, and the officers still have the conditions to boil water and take a bath. Most of the soldiers are like Yang Xiping said just now, just picking up some well water will be done. It's okay in summer, but in winter, colds are almost inevitable.

Ye Tao thought for a long time and planned it for a long time before finally telling everyone that it should be possible to make everyone take a hot bath every day. Then, he took out the bathroom drawings and the most critical design drawings of the low-temperature steam engine. Ye Tao was not interested in launching the industrial revolution in this era. The current technical conditions are currently unable to produce qualified steam engines, without advanced pipeline processing technology, and without reliable sealing technology. The efficiency of the steam engine is really hard to say. However, it is still easy to get a one to boil water and use steam to provide pressure to a limited extent. As for the current technical conditions, ceramic pipes may be the best pipe material, and in the absence of rubber, use plaster and linoleum cloth bags.

Although there is still leakage, it can barely be used. The boiler is divided into two parts. One is to continuously heat the water flowing through the pipe, and the other is to generate steam to pressurize the hot water pipe to ensure that the hot water pressure is enough to send the water to each spray port. Speaking of the spray port, there is no ceramic ball valve or something, and metal valves are difficult to process. Now, water is boiling at the beginning. All spray heads spray water together. The temperature of the hot water sprayed by all spray heads is the same and cannot be adjusted. However, depending on the pipe division, the further away from the boiler, the smaller the water pressure. After all, such a large-scale supply of hot water is very troublesome, and being able to take a hot bath every day is already a high enjoyment, and the soldiers are not very picky.

In contrast, the thing being installed in Zhengyuan is much more exquisite, because it only uses two channels to provide hot water, the structure is not so complicated, and the requirements for steam pressure are also very low. The boiler system installed in Zhengyuan all uses copper pipes, and the spray port has two channels of cold water and hot water for mixing. A control valve, which is also made of copper, is installed, and the control handle is wrapped with ivory. Even the spray port has a device that can rotate and adjust the water flow pressure. Everything looks like a modern bathroom. Perhaps the only thing that makes Ye Tao feel less satisfied is that it is still difficult to take a bath now. The bath decorated with mosaics on the surface

After all, the pool is not as comfortable as the white porcelain bath. After thinking about how low the yield rate of such large items is in this era, Ye Tao realized that it will take some time to take a bath in a comfortable bathtub. He is vigorously developing enamel technology and preparing to make a cast iron bathtub. In the subsequent development direction, using part of the steam pressure to make the bathtub massage function. Although it puts higher requirements on the design of the pipeline, Ye Tao is not unsolvable. The boiler in Zhengyuan even has a hopper that automatically feeds coal, so there is no need to let a person stay by the boiler to shovel coal.

About ten days later, the bathroom in the Blood Qi Army barracks was finally completed. When the boiler was running for a period of time and entered a normal circulation, the windmill raised the well water and poured it into the boiler. Some of the water turned into steam, pushing a simple reciprocating pump to pressurize the pipes that were constantly flowing. In the bathroom, all the spray heads began to spray hot water, and the whole bathroom instantly filled with heat. Another hot water slowly flowed into the huge bathhouse at one end of the room.

The soldiers watching outside the bathroom door looked at each other, they had never seen such a scene before. Finally, everyone burst into cheers, and a large group of soldiers rushed into the bathroom in their clothes.

"When there is a hot bath every day, the water will come out of the tube..."

"Hundreds of people in the room take a bath together, and tens of thousands of men can take a bath in two hours..."

"...what is there? Have you heard of the Zheng Garden of the Ye family? The servants in the Zheng Garden said that if you want water to be hot, you can be hot, and if you want water to be cool, you can be cool."

Without deliberate advertising, this simple technique that seemed to be a stopgap measure for Ye Tao won a huge reputation in a short period of time. The Ministry of War sent someone to the camp of the Blood Qi Army to see what the Feng Chuan bathroom was going on. In a few days, the people from the Ye Family Workshop entered the Princess' Mansion with a large number of pipes and other things, which was a kind of evidence. Everyone knows that whenever the Ye Family has something good, the Princess' Mansion must be the first to use.

Ye Tao was depressed. The bathroom and boiler were not something that those interested could visit. However, there were so many families with conditions in Danyang, and after hearing about such things, he was somewhat interested. In the end, Ye Tao had to find an empty factory in the Ye family workshop, install a set of boilers, and conduct a simple product description. It explained what the collective showers in the military camp and the more exquisitely installed goods at home were.

Then, Ye's workshop began to receive orders that were too numerous to be very troublesome. Tan Weishi, who was originally worried about the sales of mosaics and ceramic tiles, suddenly found that the goods in his hand were cleared almost instantly. If the porcelain kilns in the satellite town could not start construction soon, they would probably be out of stock soon, and the "pirated" goods were already quietly brewing...

The largest batch of orders came from the military. The bathrooms of the Blood Ki army camp were similar in size. The military prepared to build ten in one breath. The imperial guards and the city guards had this need.

In addition to orders from Dashijia, there are quite a large number of brothels from Danyang. When Ye Tao knew about this situation, it was inevitable that a poorly pure scene appeared in his mind, but speaking of it, this is also a kind of "special" service.

"Our public health is about to enter the steam era, but our road transportation system is still in the animal power era." After calculating the amount of coal used in Danyang when the existing order boilers are activated for one hour a day, Ye Tao said with emotion.

"What are you worried about? Someone must have noticed this. Believe it or not, when you install all these things, the price of coal will not only not increase, but will also fall a little." Tan Weixin said with a smile.

Ye Tao has always believed in Tan Weixin's judgment in business. He smiled bitterly and said, "I never thought that this thing could make money and it would almost become a big industry. Originally, I just wanted to satisfy the idea of ​​taking a shower, and it was really unpleasant to take a bath in a wooden basin."

"Well, I believe." Tan Weixin nodded in a narrow voice and said, "It's not easy to take a bath and wash it into an industry."

Ye Tao said: "What are you thinking when you look at your eyes rolling so fast?"

"I'm wondering, what name is suitable for you to do with this? Linne? Electrolux? Sapphire? Sakura? These names are so... nonsensical. You haven't made Kohler, American Standard, drag and other things... it's really hard to calculate." Tan Weixin's words made Ye Tao feel powerless.
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