Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 405 The New Ziming Building

Mo Xiao'an had no choice but to give a general explanation of the water and sewage, the siphon principle of the flush toilet and some concepts of water sealing and blocking odor.Although the kiln workers were confused about the scientific principles, they understood the general idea and couldn't help expressing their admiration, saying that Australians are really the most ingenious craftsmen in the world.

After the toilet was able to be molded, the kiln workers moved on to making other sanitary wares, including bathtubs.Bathtubs are much more difficult.Modern bathtubs are actually mostly enamel. The blank is formed by metal stamping or casting, and the outside is glazed and fired.If it is purely made of porcelain, it is quite difficult to ensure a certain strength.

After repeated trial production, a single bathtub was finally produced after a few weeks.After the water test, the product is fully qualified, including the anti-overflow drain.

After making a bathtub, things like sinks are even more of a problem.And finally the tiles.It is no longer a whole piece of porcelain tile, but the same tile as the modern time and space.

Mo Xiaoan thought that in this way, a real bathroom could be built.Wouldn't it be an ultra-luxury version if it were to be placed in Daming?The high-ranking officials and dignitaries who are well-clothed and well-fed have to use one or two sets to reflect their worth.

"Well, don't forget to add patterns to these things, um, yes, floral decorations."

This is very easy for the kiln workers. Some of the kiln workers recruited specialize in this kind of work. After arriving in Lingao, they found that there was basically no place to display their craftsmanship——Australian porcelain and pottery are all plain. Also do not add.Now that he heard that he wanted to add a pattern, he immediately took out his own handcraft, so Mo Xiao'an saw a beautiful blue and white toilet and a sink with red underglaze.

"The ass that sits on it must be so expensive." Mo Xiao was relieved, but seeing the colorful vegetation, flowers and birds drawn on each small tile with one stroke, he could no longer express himself in words The feeling of it - too extravagant!

"Well, don't forget to write a trademark in seal script on it..."

"trademark?"

"It's the name." Mo Xiao'an said, "Only we can do this, and we must let everyone know."

He said casually: "Just call it 'Pierre Cardin'."

"Preserved eggs?" All the kilns were puzzled, why is such a beautiful toilet called preserved eggs?

"It's not right," Mo Xiao'an pondered while resting his chin, "Why don't we call it 'Heaven and Earth'!"

For a moment, Mo Xiaoan felt that his idea was very good, the heaven and the earth, and the life enjoyment products we put into production from the future time and space deserved this brand name.He decided that in the future, all kinds of luxury consumer goods manufactured by the Ministry of Light Industry will be called this name.

Mo Xiaoan hurriedly found someone to draw the LOGO, and then asked the kiln workers to paint the pattern on the product.

The ceramic factory itself is quite heavy in supporting the industry, so the production of sanitary ware is in small batches.But plain white tiles were immediately put into mass production.The machinery factory also specially built an automatic brick making machine for the ceramic factory to mass produce tile blanks.Ceramic tiles are easy to clean and are the best building materials for maintaining sanitation.Hospitals, pharmaceutical factories, food factories and canteens have all placed massive orders to improve their working conditions.

As for the first batch of sanitary ware samples, they were approved by the executive committee and used in the decoration of the luxury rooms in the mall.In order to support these things, small water supply and drainage systems were installed experimentally in the mall, including an experimental small water tube boiler for boiling water, special cast iron upper and lower water pipes, faucets and showers. Made of bronze, the metal hose is useless, and the shower is directly fixed to the wall just like in the bathroom.The walls are covered with colorful flower and bird tiles.

The most difficult thing to do is the leather bowl seal in the toilet tank, which is replaced with a cork. As for the float system that automatically shuts off the water supply, it is still difficult for the traverser's machining and materials, so there is no such thing at all. use.The water tank of the toilet is filled directly by the faucet, and then closed when it is full.Trouble is trouble but infallible.In ancient times, labor costs were very cheap, and people who could afford toilets probably had no problem dedicating a servant to serve and discharge water in the bathroom.

After the installation of this system, not to mention the local aborigines looking shocking, even the traversers will find it fascinating when they see it-even if your toilet is Pierre Cardin, it will not be blue and white porcelain.

Mo Xiaoan expressed his basic satisfaction after trying it out.After communicating with Guangzhou Station, an order for five sets was placed.Each set includes water closet, bathtub and sink, plus matching hardware and tiles, floor tiles.

The patterns of each set are different, there are blue and white ones, underglaze red ones, and Japanese style ones of pure white with small flowers.All in all, it is extravagant.

Even the hardware has different requirements, some require gilt, while others require silver plating.The last idea was to make the shower, exposed water pipes and faucets all made of glass——Mo Xiaoan understood what it means to think hard.

Why don't we just use glass as a set of sanitary ware? There is no need for a fully transparent toilet, but a fully transparent bathtub... Mo Xiaoan's blood boils when he thinks of this place, so he hurried to the glass factory, and the answer he got was that there is no problem in theory. , but the glass manufactured by the glass factory can not meet this strength requirement for the time being.

"It's okay to make a big fish tank, at most it's thicker and almost transparent, but it's not good for a bathtub." The person in charge of the glass factory flatly refused.

The next order was much larger, dozens of toilets, sinks, matching hardware and pipes, and finally hundreds of boxes of colored tiles.Originally it was said to be patterned, but craftsmen could not make it by painting the year of the monkey and the month of the monkey stroke by stroke. It was too late to experiment with the mold printing method, so they were simply changed to colored tiles.

Finally came an order for a sixth set.The requirements are almost the same as the previous ones, but a double jacuzzi is required.

Mo Xiaoan found a shell-shaped pattern from the materials and handed it over to the ceramic factory for trial production.The super large bathtub made the kiln workers very nervous - the size of the bathtub is comparable to the most difficult dragon vat to fire, and this kind of super large porcelain has long been unable to be fired even in Jingdezhen.Although the Australians have taught them a new method of using molds to get rid of the bodiless body, no one is sure.

In the end, the bathtub was fired, but they immediately discovered a problem during the experiment: this bathtub cannot be massaged.

Only relying on the water pressure of the high-hanging water tank installed on the ceiling in the design can't make the spray effect of massage.Unless Ziming Building plans to build a three or four-story high water tank to supply water.Of course, Ziming Building can also do the same, but Guangzhou Station lacks equipment that can raise the water to such a height—it seems a bit outrageous to install a steam engine in Ziming Building.

"I have a simple method." Wang Luobin said after reading it, "use human pressure."

The so-called manpower pressurization is to add a crank pressurizer to a certain part of the water pipe, and the crank is turned by manpower, so that the spray force of the water flow can be enhanced.

"I'm afraid people who take a bath like this will feel very awkward." Mo Xiao'an said, "You think you have to watch someone shake the handle outside when you hug the chick to soak in the bathtub, it feels very bad."

"What else can I do?" Wang Luobin couldn't think of a better way.

"It's okay. The ancients and modern people think differently." Yu Eshui, who also came to observe the bathtub, said, "It's nothing in this time and space for a maid to wait on the house outside, and it's nothing to shake the handle outside the wall. .”

"The ancients were so happy." Mo Xiaoan sighed.

So this jacuzzi with a hand-operated booster pump is finalized in this way.The whole set of things was packed and shipped to Guangzhou for installation.

Guo Yi used this bathtub with water spray to make a model room

Zhang Xingpei's redesigned Ziming Building in Guangzhou still maintains the traditional Chinese architectural form in appearance, but completely changes its structure—of course, this does not mean changing to reinforced concrete.Zhang Xingpei is very familiar with wood-structured houses, and most of the houses he built under his supervision in the United States are made of wood.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Zhang Xingpei changed his outfit, surveyed and mapped the topography of Ziminglou, and experienced the "moving line" of the entire restaurant under the leadership of Shen Fan.He found that the Ziming Building had a relatively limited floor space, so the original owner built a three-story structure—increasing the usable area by adding floors.Overall, Ziming Building has at least a few shortcomings.One is that the gate here is too busy along the street, and there is no special passage for dignitaries to enter and exit quietly; the other is that the land utilization rate is not high. The front is painstakingly built high-rise buildings, but a large area is left behind to build traditional courtyard buildings. Not only is it a waste of space, but every move in the yard can be seen by opening the windows upstairs, without any privacy. The cooking fume in the draped room on the side of the building is so heavy that the guests in the hall on the ground floor often smell the food. .The third is that the structure is unreasonable. There is only one staircase for people to go up and down. When there is a lot of passenger flow, it is easy to form congestion on the stairs.Sometimes it is inevitable that people who do not want to meet will meet together.The last problem is the lack of parking spaces in Ziming Building—that is, places for sedan chairs to wait.Although there is an empty space in front of the screen wall opposite, where sedan chairs and horses can be parked, but waiting in the open air, the servants of the sedan chair class are miserable.When encountering scorching sun or heavy rain, the sedan chair itself will become hot and humid.

In terms of practicality, there are three floors above and below Ziming, but there is only one toilet.Zhang Xingpei thinks that the most terrifying thing here is the toilet. In such a luxurious restaurant, the toilet is actually located in a small tile-roofed room next to the kitchen that is steaming with oily smoke.In terms of condition, it was ten times better than the latrines Zhang Xingpei saw in Lingao County—but two large excrement tanks and a row of urine tanks dancing with mosquitoes and flies made him run out as soon as he saw them.

"Can you still use this toilet?" Zhang Xingpei asked Guo Yi.

"Anyway, I don't need it." Guo Yi said, there is a toilet that meets modern standards behind Pei Lixiu's boudoir in the yard.

"Ziming Building has to be demolished and rebuilt." Zhang Xingpei put forward his plan a few days later.

"Yes." Guo Yi nodded, "What are you going to do?"

In the new design plan, the large and useless backyard was removed, and Zhang Xingpei drew inspiration from the "Fan Tower" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and planned to build a complex of multi-storied buildings.There are a total of three buildings in the front and back, ranging from three floors to four floors.Each building is equipped with multiple stairs, and there is also a special stair passage for internal personnel such as the running hall to enter and exit.

The first building is a restaurant with a structure of three bright and four dark.Zhang Xingpei introduced the eaves design of the front porch of a modern hotel here. Guests take a sedan chair to the gate, get off the sedan chair, enter the lobby, and the sedan chair is carried to the semi-underground dark first floor.The "parking lot" of the Ziming Building here is used to park sedan chairs. There are also horse-riding rings, drinking troughs, and wells for customers who ride horses and cars. The grooms and bearers are greeted by special personnel, and tea and snacks are served.The first floor is the hall.Zhang Xingpei showed great pride in the design and used a full-height design.From the floor to the ceiling on the third floor, there are walking horse buildings on all sides.A glass chandelier with 64 heads produced by the glass factory.It is hung high on the thick main beam at the top of the third floor with bronze chains and pulleys.

The front and back of the hall are unobstructed. Large glass windows with wood carvings and carvings are installed on the wall, which looks tall and bright. Not inferior, the Ming and Qing dynasties were imperial supplies of the imperial palace.What Guo Yi can buy is the second-class products left over from the tribute, which has already cost a lot of money.

However, this kind of high-priced floor tiles that are thousands of miles away can be shipped to Guangzhou for sale, which shows that the city has a high consumption capacity and a flourishing luxury.It is still feasible for Time Travel Group to use Ziming Building to promote lifestyle products.

An indoor pool is set in the center of the hall, and pebbles are laid in the pool to raise goldfish.In the middle of the pool stands a rockery with a height of one person. Bamboo pipes are used to divert water to make the shape of a waterfall.

The rest area on both sides of the pool is equipped with screen tables and chairs, which are specially used for guests to wait for rest and wait.

The second floor here is the dining area of ​​the restaurant, and the third floor is full of private rooms. Zhang Xingpei didn't come up with any new ideas in this part, and all of them were handed over to the local carpenter for decoration—even if he wanted to decorate it into a modern one. Yes, no materials and tools.The only improvement is the addition of restrooms on the second and third floors, using Lingaoyi's colored tiles for the walls and flooring, and blue and white porcelain flush toilets.Of course, there must be a special person in this bathroom who is responsible for turning off the water in the toilet.

The main project of the second building of Ziming Building is the set of modern bathing city.Because the Time Travel Group could not produce particularly effective preservatives and waterproofing agents, and the bearing capacity of the floor could not bear dozens of cubic meters of water, Zhang Xingpei could only set up a bathing place on the first floor.The large oval bath is recessed into the ground and has wide steps.Bathers can easily enter and exit the bath along the steps.In order to save the use of ceramic tiles, Zhang Xingpei used a large number of cut stone slabs as the exterior surface of the cement pool.Several animal head sculptures are installed in the four corners of the bath, spitting water into the pool from its mouth.In addition to the bathing pool, there is also a steam room and a massage room. Of course, the massage room is indispensable for popular content such as heterosexual massage.

On the second floor, there is a lobby where guests can relax.The design of the hall is very distinctive, using a semi-circular theater-style arrangement, with a circular performance place in the middle-specialized in performing various "improved" songs and dances.

The third floor is where the six sets of brand new bathroom equipment are used, including the manpower pressurized jacuzzi.Considering the very limited bearing capacity of the wooden floor, Zhang Xingpei deliberately added some structural supports.

These six sets of rooms equipped with modern bathroom equipment are naturally VIP rooms. Not only are they luxuriously decorated and comfortable to live in, but they also have special stairs and passages, which are completely disconnected from other levels.

Baths mean a lot of water. The main water in Guangzhou City comes from two sources—one is water trucks and poles to deliver water, most of the water comes from the Pearl River Basin, and the other is self-dug wells.Guangzhou is on the banks of the Pearl River, and the groundwater table is very high.Ziminglou wanted to build a bathing place, so naturally it couldn't rely on the waterman to deliver the water. For this reason, in addition to the original two wells, several more wells were dug.And a mechanical water pressure device is installed on the water well to increase the water intake speed.

The water that is manually pressed from the well is poured into a newly built cement reservoir through a stone tank, and then it can be used after a short period of sedimentation and alum treatment.

But this system has a big problem. If there are several effective traditional technologies to solve the hot water supply, such as kang flue, then the running water system throughout the building makes them have to Building a high-level water tank - It is easy to build a water tank, but how to raise the water from the ground to the height of three or four floors is a thorny problem.

Zhang Xingpei originally planned to install a boiler and steam engine and use mechanical power to lift water.But the technical content of these two is really high. If there are no knowledgeable workers to maintain it all the time, the boiler is a time bomb, and the vibration of the steam engine when it is running, the high-heat steam when exhausting, and the smoke from burning coal-it is black. The thick smoke is enough to completely wipe out the luxurious and elegant atmosphere that Ziminglou tried to create.

If there is no need for machinery, unless Ziminglou plans to hire people to lift the water to the water tower by hand, the workload of this work seems to be scary.So Wang Luobin went out—his task was to find a power machine for the water-lifting equipment that didn't need a steam engine.

Steam engines cannot be used, and the efficiency of manpower is too low. Travelers generally turn to wind and water for help.Water power is not feasible in Ziming Building——As for wind power water lifting equipment, Wang Luobin thinks it is not very feasible—to effectively lift water to a water tower that is more than 10 meters above the ground, they must build a tower with a height of 12 meters. More than 5 meters, the windmill wing is a giant of [-] meters.It is hard to guarantee that such a giant standing in the city of Guangzhou will bring any gossip to Ziming Tower. After testing the wind speed and inquiring about the perennial wind direction and wind force in Guangzhou—the Guangzhou station has been collecting local meteorological data—Wang Luobin also proposed this plan. rejected.

(End of this chapter)