Dragon City.
The city lives up to its name, with a huge dragon head carved above the four main city gates in the east, south, west and north, exuding an endless desolate air!
Of course, the tall and wide new city wall is very smooth, and there are no traces of war on it, so it looks very comfortable!
In the city, the streets are clean and spacious, and the ground is paved with bluestone. The feeling of "Jiangnan Bluestone Alley" rushed into the faces of the second, third, and fifth princes, making the three of them suddenly realize that they were not in the western territory, but in the west. It’s like entering a comfortable small town in the south of the Yangtze River!
No, even in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, the ground is not so clean.
At this time, they saw a wooden box appearing on the street from time to time. Passers-by walked up with garbage in their hands and threw it into the barrel. Never throw it away!
The three princes suddenly realized!
This is why the streets are so clean!
Have these refugees been taught so well by Lao Jiu?
Walk all the way, watch all the way, and be shocked all the way!
This city is different!
When they were at Tianmen Pass, their attention was all on the "red walls and green tiles" and they didn't look at it so carefully. Now that they are looking at it carefully, they are more and more shocked the more they look at it!
The streets of this Dragon City are not only clean, there is no sewage flowing across the streets!
This is simply unbelievable to them!
Even if so many sewers were built in the Imperial Capital, the sewage from the Imperial Capital’s homes would still be splashed on both sides of the streets!
There is also sewage on the streets of the Imperial Capital!
Why doesn’t this new Dragon City have one?
Don’t people here produce sewage?
Don't wash the pot?
Not washing dishes?
Not doing laundry?
"Master Du, how did you do it?"
The third prince finally asked, expressing his shock, pointing to both sides of the busy street: "With so many people living on this street, what about the sewage produced by eating, drinking, and defecating?"
"It's all drained into the ground!"
Du Jun said proudly: "The domestic sewage in Jiaolong City is discharged into the ground inside the house!"
"How to arrange it?"
The second prince, the third prince, and the fifth prince had no idea about this, so they made a guess: "Did each family dig holes underground and lead directly to the sewers?"
"of course not!"
"I'll go to the city lord's palace to clarify the prince's doubts. Please wait for a moment!"
Waiting is the most appetizing thing, and it madly raises the curiosity in the hearts of the second, third, and fifth princes!
Not long after.
The carriage stopped in front of the city lord's palace, and two mighty stone lions appeared in the eyes of the second, third, and fifth princes. They were exactly the same as the two stone lions in front of the east palace gate of the imperial capital.
The second prince was surprised: "Third son, are these the two lions in front of the East Palace Gate?"
Seeing the pair of stone lions, the third prince felt inexplicably frightened. After carefully distinguishing them, he breathed a sigh of relief: "No!"
"The pair of stone lions in front of the East Palace Gate look more fierce and vicissitudes of life. The lines of this pair of stone lions look soft, and there are new carving marks. Brother Wang, don't be surprised!"
The second prince finally calmed down.
There was an embarrassed look on his face: "Third brother, you are mistaken. Brother Wang is not afraid of stone lions!"
At this time.
The fifth prince blinked: "Brother Wang, there is no need to forcefully explain. When you first saw these stone lions, you were obviously frightened!"
"Brother Three Princes, you read that right!"
"Brother Wang also saw the look of shock on the face of the second brother!"
"nonsense!"
The second prince is a bit unable to step down!
"Brother Wang didn't talk nonsense!"
The fifth prince firmly believed that he was right: "The stone lion in front of the East Palace Gate is indeed evil, and the king will be frightened when he sees it!"
"alright!"
The second prince was very irritable: "I said... I'm not scared!"
"Lao Wu, no one will think you are mute if you don't speak!"
The fifth prince looked aggrieved: "..."
hypocritical!
The second emperor brother cannot face the fear in his heart, and there is no hope of becoming a saint!
At this time.
I saw the third prince stepping off the carriage and looking at the red wall and yellow glazed tiles of the City Lord's Mansion. Seeing the dazzling colors reflected by the glazed tiles, he couldn't help but frown: "Master Du, why is Tianmen Pass with red walls and green tiles? The roof of the Jiaolong City Lord's Mansion is Are they yellow tiles?”
"Why doesn't the Lord's Mansion of Jiaolong City have green tiles?"
Hearing this, the people in Huangzhou Palace looked strange!
"This guy has a yellow head...can you tell me something?"
Du Jun's expression remained unchanged: "The top of his head is yellow, his aura is bright!"
"Just for good luck!"
"is that so?"
"yes!"
Du Jun turned sideways and stretched out his hand: "Princes, please come in!"
The Second Prince, the Third Prince, and the Fifth Prince strode into the City Lord's Mansion!
Not long after.
In the kitchen of the city lord's mansion!
The second prince, the third prince, and the fifth prince looked at the porcelain "sink", looked at the round bamboo water pipe under the sink, touched the "copper elbow" connecting the bamboo pipe, and watched the sewage leak into the bamboo pipe and disappear. .....Amazing!
What is an elbow?
It’s a joint that allows water pipes to bend!
Not only that!
At this moment, I saw the maid twisting the mechanism above the sink!
Suddenly.
"Crash..."
A large jet of clear water spurted out of the bamboo pipe.
The three princes were shocked!
Where does water come from?
"Master Du, how did this happen?"
How did the water get into the bamboo pipe?
Does this water have legs?
In this era, most of the water in the city came from wells, and water needed to be fetched from the wells or transported into water tanks in advance.
They have never seen or heard of this kind of automatic water spraying when the bamboo tube switch is turned on!
"Tap water!"
Du Jun explained: "This is the name chosen by His Highness himself!"
“Tap water…”
The third prince murmured: "The water I came for is really appropriate!"
"Where does the water come from?"
"There is a water tower built at the highest point of the City Lord's Mansion, and the water comes from high up!"
"Where does the water in the tower come from?"
"There is a reservoir dug at the top of Shenlong Mountain. At the highest point of the mountain, a bamboo pipe is connected to the Fuzhong Water Tower!"
"Where does the water on the top of Shenlong Mountain come from?"
"Part of it is natural rainwater, and part of it comes from higher peaks among the 100,000 mountains!"
After some explanations, the third prince suddenly became enlightened: "Is this the magical object that your Highness said?"
"yes!"
"Any other magical things?"
Du Jun took the three princes into the toilet of the city lord's palace. There was no smell inside and it was extremely clean: "Princes, this is called a toilet..."
A quarter of an hour later.
The second prince, the third prince, and the fifth prince had mixed expressions as they experienced the comfort and cleanliness of using the toilet!
They walked out of the door and fiercely ordered the housekeeper: "Buy everything in the city lord's palace back to me. Do you understand?"
"ah?"
The expressions of the managers of the three palaces changed, and they all said in unison: "Your Majesty, we don't have much money in the palace!"
"If I buy again..."
"Shut up!"
If the second prince, third prince, or fifth prince want to buy something, the housekeeper must listen, otherwise the consequences will be serious!
"purchase!"
The heads of the three royal palaces shrank!
Thinking of their nearly empty warehouse, they reported with some heartache: "Your Majesty, the young ones have asked Manager Bai just now that the things in the City Lord's Mansion are unique in the world, and everything is very expensive. You have to buy it back. At least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"
"And we have to hire craftsmen from Huangzhou. The labor costs are also very expensive..."
"I want you to please me!"
The three princes were determined: "I not only want to buy things from the city lord's palace, but also buy all the good things in Huangzhou!"
"Your Majesty..."
The three palace stewards were shaken, and their faces turned pale again!
The palace is going to be ruined!
what to do?
