The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 82 Learn to take a shower with me

If Old Man Zhao knew that Fang Yu suspected him of secretly drinking bone soup, he would definitely scream that he was wronged.

The best tonic in the world is power.

Old Zhao is getting younger and younger now because he is the manager of the Xincheng camp. As long as the young master is not around, he, Old Zhao, is the number one.

He, Old Man Zhao, really liked this feeling of being admired and fawned over by others.

For example, when he goes to a tailor's shop to iron his clothes, Liu Scissors wants to do it for him, but he insists on ironing it himself.

His original words were: It is against the regulations to delay the normal work of the tailor shop for personal matters.

It doesn't matter if Manager Zhao abides by the rules, but Liu Scissors is anxious to scratch his head and head.

One moment he came over to say nice things, the next moment he came over to remind Manager Zhao to be careful with the iron... He had no intention of cutting clothes.

There are also five half-old ladies who work as helpers in the tailor shop. They are now the "Five Golden Flowers" sought after by everyone in the camp.

They all rolled their eyes at everyone else, but they were particularly enthusiastic about him, Old Man Zhao, and the two bold ones always took the opportunity of bringing tea to rub their soft bodies against his arms.

Old Zhao didn't look fake on the surface, but he was actually very happy in his heart.

Once this person lives happily and enjoys life, won't his face look radiant?

Fang Yu didn't know about Old Man Zhao's nonsense, but he still listened to Old Man Zhao and did not go near these "beggars".

Even if you don't contract any infectious disease, bringing back a few lice is uncomfortable enough.

At this time, Lao Liu counted the number of people and ran over to report to Fang Yu.

"My boss," Old Liu bowed respectfully first, and then said: "A total of 147 people came, divided into 32 households, including 7 carpenter households, 24 blacksmith households, and 1 gunpowder grinder."

Fang Yu nodded, this ratio of carpenters and blacksmiths is the best.

Because the carpenter builds the waterwheel in the early stage and maintains the waterwheel later. In addition, he can also participate in the overall assembly of the matchlock gun (this does not require skills).

The one in greatest need is the blacksmith.

Not only do they have to make a large number of (gun) tube blanks, but after the drilled gun barrels get off the waterwheel, they also have to fine-tune and correct them one by one.

The water wheel can greatly speed up the production of guns, but the processing accuracy is so different compared to ordinary machine tools in later generations that it can make people cry.

Therefore, there is no way to save one waterwheel and two to three blacksmiths (households) to refine the barrels.

In addition, breastplates, swords and other weapons also need to be shaped by a blacksmith.

At most two hammers can be installed on the waterwheel, which can help them save the effort of forging.

There are 32 blacksmith households among the 24 official craftsmen households. It can be seen that Sun Chuanting particularly emphasized this point when allocating craftsmen households to various counties.

Lao Sun is still very reliable in his work!
Well, don't look at the fact that there are only 32 masters here, and think that the other more than 100 people are just doing it for free.

Those people are their family members, as well as their helpers and apprentices. Among these people, there are many who are good at craftsmanship. (If you have been an "apprentice" for more than ten or twenty years, can your craftsmanship be bad?)

The reason why there is only one official craftsman quota per household... is simply that the government does not want to give an extra piece of coarse grain.

So among the 147 people, except for the elderly, children, and women's families, the others are all blacksmiths and carpenters worthy of the name.

Fang Yu definitely made a lot of money this time.

If it weren't for the huge value of these people, why would he come over in a hurry?

Seeing that they had all finished the bowl of porridge, Fang Yu ordered Old Man Zhao: "Let someone prepare hot water and send them to take a bath."

This "bathing" is actually disinfection.

These people are all from other places and their living conditions are very bad.As Old Man Zhao said, they were "dirty, infested with lice, and some were even sick."

Old man Zhao went to arrange a bathhouse, while old Liu pretended to be a leader and called them up with shouts and curses.

This group of people had been traveling for two days, and they were already exhausted.

After finally finishing a bowl of rice porridge, what they wanted to do most now was to lie on the ground and rest for a while.

But after drinking the boss’s porridge, now we have to listen to the boss’s words, right?
They struggled to stand up one by one and watched the man named Liu in front of them yelling at them, but no one complained.

I heard that this old Liu used to be an official craftsman like them, but now... tsk tsk tsk, there are no such decent official craftsmen in the world anymore, right?

You see, people are full of energy now, and they look like they have enough to eat.

I just gave everyone rice porridge, but he didn't even look at it.

He was also wearing good clothes, and there wasn't even a single scorched mark on his body (from oven baking). (Old Liu stopped blacksmithing a long time ago)

Even when he just woke everyone up, many people smelled a cool fragrance on his body... (shampoo, jasmine scent)

They have lived for decades and have never seen an official craftsman live like this.

Look at Lao Liu, and then think about the life I'm living... Sigh, people are really comparing each other, it's really annoying to me, isn't it?

A group of "beggars" followed Lao Liu in a depressed mood, and soon saw a large shack, with white gas still coming out of the thatched roof.

What does this do?

They all felt quite confused. They thought they had to work after eating.

"Take off your clothes and go in to take a shower!" Old Liu shouted loudly, "Men go first, ladies and babies are waiting outside!"

The group of people were a little stunned after hearing what Old Liu said, and felt a little dry on their faces.

It turned out that the boss thought they were dirty.

"Take off all your clothes and throw them into this basket. Take out the valuables and give them to the ladies. Don't leave them inside the clothes, otherwise no one will care if they are lost." Lao Liu emphasized.

There is nothing valuable on them. If there is anything valuable, it is this tattered piece of clothing.

They were worried about leaving their clothes in the basket at the door, but they couldn't run around naked in front of everyone and give their clothes to their mother-in-law.

Just as they were hesitating, Lao Liu kicked the basket impatiently and yelled, "What are you waiting for? Don't waste time, hurry up!"

Soon the basket was filled with old clothes, emitting an unpleasant sour smell.

They walked into the bathhouse naked and found that a dozen large wooden basins had been set up inside, and the hot water inside was steaming with white mist.

There was a man in clothes inside, holding a bamboo tube in his hand and pouring a blue liquid into each wooden basin one by one.

They didn't know what it was, but everyone smelled a very special fragrance. (Medical skin disinfectant)
The boss here is too particular, they thought to themselves.

Then Lao Liu came in.

He also stripped naked, then asked each of them to get a water ladle and start taking a bath.

"You have seen everything clearly, follow me and learn." Old Liu shouted.

All the craftsmen were speechless. You guys are looking down on us. Don’t we even know how to take a bath?
Lao Liu ignored them and just scooped up a ladle of hot water and poured it over his head.

Lao Liu was wet all over, but he was not busy taking a bath. Instead, he walked to a hanging wooden barrel in the corner and turned on a small valve.

(End of this chapter)