Mo Xiaoan had no choice but to give a general explanation of the water. The siphon principle of flush toilets and some concepts of water blocking and odor. Although the kiln workers were confused about the scientific principles involved, they understood the general meaning and could not help but express their admiration sincerely, saying that Australians are truly the most ingenious craftsmen in the world.
After the toilet bowl could be formed, the kiln workers began to make other sanitary ware, including bathtubs. The bathtub is much more difficult. Most modern bathtubs are actually made of enamel. The blank is stamped or cast from metal, and then glazed on the outside and fired. If it were made purely into porcelain, it would be quite difficult to ensure a certain strength.
After repeated trials, the single bathtub was finally launched a few weeks later. After the water discharge test, the product was fully qualified, including the overflow-proof drain outlet.
After making a bathtub, things like a sink are not a problem. Finally there are tiles. It is no longer a whole piece of porcelain tiles, but the same tiles as in modern time and space.
Mo Xiaoan thought that in this way, he could build a real bathroom. Should it be placed in the Ming Dynasty or the deluxe version? The dignitaries who are well-dressed and well-educated have to use one or two routines to reflect their worth.
"Here, don't forget to add patterns to these things, um, yes, pattern decorations."
This is very easy for the kiln workers. Among the kiln workers recruited, there are those who specialize in this. After arriving in Lingao, they felt that there was basically no place to display their skills - Australian porcelain and pottery are all plain. Add nothing to it. Now that I heard that patterns were going to be added, I immediately took out my own hanging skills, so Mo Xiaoan saw a beautiful blue and white toilet and a red underglaze wash basin.
"How precious is the ass sitting on this?" Mo Xiao said, but when he saw the colorful plants, flowers and birds painted on each small piece of tile, he could no longer express himself in words. It feels so luxurious - so luxurious!
"Well, don't forget to write a trademark in seal script on it..."
"trademark?"
"It's just the font size." Mo Xiao'an said, "Only we can do this and let everyone know about it."
He said casually: "Just call it 'Pierre Cardin'."
"Preserved egg?" All the kilns were puzzled. Why should such a beautiful toilet be called preserved egg?
"No, no," Mo Xiaoan held her chin and muttered, "Why don't we call it 'Heaven and Earth'!"
For a moment, Mo Xiaoan felt that his idea was brilliant. In heaven and on earth, the daily necessities we put into production from the future time and space deserved this brand name. He decided that all kinds of luxury consumer goods manufactured by the Ministry of Light Industry would be named after this.
Mo Xiaoan quickly found someone to draw the lg, and then asked the kiln worker to paint the pattern on the product.
The ceramic factory itself has a very heavy workload in supporting the industry, so the production of sanitary ware is in small batches. But plain white ceramic tiles were immediately put into large-scale production. The machinery factory also specially built an automatic brick-making machine for the ceramics factory to mass-produce ceramic tiles. Ceramic tiles are easy to clean and are the best building materials to maintain environmental hygiene. Hospitals, pharmaceutical factories, food factories and canteens have placed large orders to improve their working environment.
As for the first batch of sanitary ware samples produced, after approval by the executive committee, they were used in the decoration of luxury rooms in the commercial building. In order to support these things, a small water supply and drainage system was experimentally installed in the store, including a small experimental water tube boiler for boiling water, special cast iron upper and lower water pipes, faucets and showers. Made of bronze, metal hoses are useless, and the shower head is fixed directly 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 to replace the leather bowl seal in the toilet tank with a cork. As for the float system that automatically closes the water supply, it is still a bit difficult for the machining and materials of the time traveler. So it was not adopted at all. The water tank of the toilet bowl is filled directly from the faucet, and then closed when it is full. Trouble is trouble but absolutely ok. Labor costs in ancient times were very cheap. People who could afford to use a toilet would probably have no problem dedicating a servant to fill the toilet.
The installed system is not only shocking to the locals, but also to the travelers who have seen it. Even if your toilet is made of Pierre Cardin, it will not be made of blue and white porcelain.
After trying it out, Mo Xiaoan was basically satisfied. After communicating with Guangzhou Station, an order for five sets was placed. Each set includes a toilet, bathtub and sink, plus matching hardware and ceramic tiles and floor tiles.
The patterns of each set are different, including blue and white ones, underglaze red ones, and pure white with small flowers in Japanese style. All in all, it is extremely extravagant.
Even the hardware has different requirements, some require gold plating, and some require silver plating. The last idea was to make the shower head, external water pipes and faucets all made of glass - Mo Xiaoan finally understood what it meant to go out of his way.
How about simply using 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 boiled when he thought of this, and he hurried to the glass factory. The answer he got was that in theory it is fine. , but for the time being, the glass produced by glass factories cannot meet this strength requirement.
"It's okay to make a big fish tank. It can be thicker and less transparent at most, but it's not good for a bathtub." The person in charge of the glass factory refused.
The next order was much larger, with dozens of toilets, sinks, matching hardware and plumbing, and finally hundreds of boxes of colorful ceramic tiles. It was originally said to have a pattern, but the craftsman couldn't make it even by painting the Year of the Monkey, Horse and Moon one stroke at a time. I used the stenciling method and didn't have time to experiment, so I simply changed everything to colored ceramic tiles.
Finally, the order for the sixth set came. The requirements are basically the same as before, but I ask for a double jacuzzi.
Mo Xiao'an found a shell-shaped pattern from the information and handed it to the ceramics factory for trial production. This large bathtub makes the kiln workers very nervous - the size of the bathtub is already comparable to the most difficult to fire dragon vat. Such large porcelain can no longer be fired even in Jingdezhen. Now, although the Australians have taught them a new method of dragging tires using molds, no one is sure.
In the end, the bathtub was fired, but during the test they immediately discovered a problem: this bathtub cannot be massaged.
Just the water pressure of the high-hanging water tank installed on the ceiling cannot produce the massage jet effect. Unless Ziminglou plans to build a three or four-story high water tank for water supply. Of course Ziming Tower can do the same, but Guangzhou Station lacks the equipment to raise the water to such a height - installing a steam engine in Ziming Tower seems a bit appalling.
"I have a simple method." Wang Luobin said after reading it, "Use manpower to pressurize."
The so-called manual pressurization is to add a crank pressurizer to a certain part of the water pipe, and turn the crank manually, so as to enhance the jet force of the water flow.
"I'm afraid people who take a bath like this will feel very awkward." Mo Xiao'an said, "When you hold your little girl in the bathtub, you have to ask someone to shake the handle outside. It feels very bad."
"What else can we do?" Wang Luobin couldn't think of a better way.
"It doesn't matter. The ancients and modern people have different ideas." Yu Eshui, who also came to observe the bathtub, said, "A maid waiting for sex outside is nothing in this time and space, and shaking a handle outside the wall is nothing. .”
"The ancients were so happy." Mo Xiaoan sighed.
So this hand-operated booster pump massage bathtub was finalized. The complete set of equipment was packed and shipped to Guangzhou for installation.
Guo Yi used this set of bathtubs with water jets to build a model room
The Ziming Building redesigned and built by Zhang Xingpei in Guangzhou still maintains the form of traditional Chinese architecture in appearance, but its structure has completely changed. Of course, this does not mean that it will be changed to reinforced concrete. Zhang Xingpei is very familiar with wooden structure houses. Most of the houses he built in the United States are of wooden structure.
After arriving in Guangzhou, Zhang Xingpei changed his outfit, surveyed and mapped the topography of Ziming Tower, and experienced the "moving lines" of the entire restaurant under the leadership of Shen Fan. He felt that the area of Ziming Building was relatively limited, so the original owner built a three-story structure to increase the usable area by adding floors. Overall, Ziming Tower has at least a few shortcomings. First, the main gate here is too busy along the street, and there is a lack of a special passage for dignitaries to enter and exit quietly; second, the land utilization rate is not high. High-rise buildings are painstakingly built in the front, but a large area of land is left behind to build traditional courtyard-style buildings. Not only is it a waste of area, but every move in the yard can be seen by opening the windows on the back floor, leaving no privacy at all. The cooking fumes in the kitchen on the side of the building are so loud that guests in the lobby on the ground floor often smell the food. Third, the structure is not very reasonable. There is only one staircase for people to go up and down. When there is a lot of passenger flow, it is easy to cause congestion on the stairs. Sometimes it is inevitable that people who don't want to meet will bump into each other. The final problem is the lack of parking spaces in Ziming Building - where sedan chairs are waiting. Although there is an open space in front of the screen wall opposite where sedans, carriages and horses can be parked, the wait for one day makes the sedan servants miserable. In the scorching sun or heavy rain, the sedan itself will also become hot and humid.
In terms of practicality, Ziming Tower has three floors, but only one toilet. Zhang Xingpei thinks the most terrifying thing here is the toilet. In such a luxurious restaurant, the toilet is actually located in a small tiled house next to the kitchen where the fumes are steaming. In terms of condition, it was ten times better than the toilets Zhang Xingpei saw in Lingao County - but the two large excrement tanks and a row of urinals with mosquitoes and flies making him run out immediately after the first sight.
"Can you use this toilet?" Zhang Xingpei asked Guo Yi.
"I don't need it anyway." Guo Yi said. There is a toilet that meets modern standards behind Pei Lixiu's boudoir in the yard.
"Ziming Tower must be demolished and rebuilt." Zhang Xingpei put forward his plan a few days later.
"Okay." Guo Yi nodded, "What are you going to do?"
The new design plan removed the large and useless backyard. Zhang Xingpei drew inspiration from the "Fan Tower" in the Northern Song Dynasty and planned to build a multi-building complex. There are three buildings in front and back, ranging from three to four floors, and they are well arranged. The buildings are connected to each other by two-story corridors. From the plan, they look like a "field". Each building has multiple stairs, and a dedicated stairway for entry and exit of internal staff such as the waiting room.
The first building is a restaurant with three light and four dark structures. Zhang Xingpei introduced the front porch eaves design of a modern hotel here. Guests take sedans and get off in front of the gate. Enter the hall, and the sedan chair is carried to the dark first floor of the semi-underground building. The "parking lot" of Ziming Building here is used to park sedan chairs. Horse rings, drinking troughs, and wells are also prepared for customers who ride horses and cars. There are dedicated personnel to greet the grooms and sedan bearers and provide tea and snacks. The first floor is the lobby. Zhang Xingpei was very ambitious in his design and used a full-height design. From the floor to the ceiling of the third floor, it is surrounded by walking buildings on all sides. Sixty-four-head glass chandelier 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 open, and the walls are equipped with large glass windows with wood carvings. It looks tall and bright, and the floor is paved with 6 tomb mortar bricks ordered from Suzhou - commonly known as gold bricks. Although gold bricks are not made of gold, they are no less precious. They were imperial supplies of the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. What Guo Yi could buy was the second-rate products left over from the tributes, and he had already spent a lot of money.
However, such high-priced floor tiles that are thousands of miles away can be transported to Guangzhou for sale, which shows that this city's consumption power is high and its luxury is flourishing. It is still feasible for Chuanchuan Group to use Ziming Tower to promote lifestyle products.
There is an indoor pool in the center of the hall, with pebbles laid in the pool to raise goldfish. There is a landscape rockery as tall as a person in the middle of the pool. Bamboo pipes are used to divert water to create the shape of a waterfall.
The rest areas on both sides of the pool are equipped with screen tables and chairs for guests to rest and wait.
The second floor here is the dining area of the restaurant, and the third floor is all private rooms. Zhang Xingpei didn't come up with any new ideas in this part, leaving it all to the local carpenters to decorate it - even if he wanted to decorate it into a modern style Yes, there are no materials or tools. The only improvement is the addition of restrooms on the second and third floors, with colored tiles from Lingaoyi covering the walls and floors, and a blue and white porcelain toilet. Of course, there must be someone in the bathroom who is responsible for filling and turning off the water in the toilet.
The main project of the second building of Ziming Building is the modern bathing city. Because Chuanhuan Group has not come up with particularly effective preservatives and waterproofing agents, and the bearing capacity of the floor cannot bear dozens of cubic meters of water, Zhang Xingpei can only set up a bathhouse 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 veneer of the cement pool. There are several animal head sculptures installed in the four corners of the bath, and they spit water into the pool from their mouths. In addition to the bathhouse, there is also a steam room and massage room. Of course, the massage room also includes heterosexual massage and other popular content.
On the second floor, there is a lobby for guests to relax. The design of the hall is very distinctive, using a semi-circular theater-style arrangement, with a circular performance venue in the middle - dedicated to performing various "improved versions" of songs and dances.
The third floor is where six sets of brand-new bathroom equipment are used, including the manually pressurized massage bathtub. Considering that the load-bearing capacity of the wooden floor is very limited, Zhang Xingpei deliberately added several structural supports.
These six sets of rooms equipped with modern bathroom equipment are naturally VIP rooms. Not only are they luxuriously decorated and comfortable, but they also have special stairs and passages that are completely disconnected from other levels.
Baths mean lots of water. The main water supply in Guangzhou city comes from two parts - first, watermen deliver water with water trucks and burdens. Most of the water sources come from the Pearl River Basin; second, they dig their own wells. Guangzhou is right on the Pearl River and has a high groundwater level. Ziminglou wanted to build a bathhouse, so watermen could not deliver water. Therefore, in addition to the original two wells, several more wells were drilled. And a mechanical water pressure device was installed on the water well to improve water extraction.
The water manually pressed from the well is poured into a newly built cement reservoir through a stone trough, and then can be used after a short period of sedimentation and alum treatment.
But there is a big problem with this system. If the supply of hot water can be solved by several effective traditional technologies, such as hot kang flues, then the tap water system throughout the building requires them to Building a high-level water tank - Building a water tank is easy, but how to raise the water from the ground to a height of three or four stories is a thorny problem.
Zhang Xingpei originally planned to install a boiler and steam engine and use mechanical power to lift water. However, the technical content of these two is really high. If there are no knowledgeable workers to maintain it at all times, the boiler will be a time bomb, and the vibration when the steam engine is running, the high-heat steam when exhausting, and the exhaust smoke from burning coal--black The thick smoke was enough to completely wipe out the luxurious and elegant atmosphere Ziminglou tried to create.
Without machinery, unless Ziminglou plans to hire people to lift water to the water tower by hand, the workload seems daunting. then! ~!
