Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 483 Made in Jiajing

Qin Shao asked someone to design some toilets.

The firing technology of Daming porcelain is actually quite good.

It's just that porcelain in this era is mainly used for viewing or catering.

Of course, there are also some privacy aspects that are not humane, so I won’t go into details.

A person's knowledge reserve is limited. As a person in the previous life, Qin Shao basically didn't have much contact with porcelain firing, and he couldn't understand how to fire it at all!
The knowledge he knows is only those cultural relics and treasures that he learned about watching TV in his previous life.

He was very excited when he first saw those beautiful and simple porcelains. He felt that these were very valuable things, but now that he has seen them, that's it!

Ceramics from Jingdezhen in the Ming Dynasty have spread all over the Ming Dynasty and are famous overseas.

The improvement of the bathroom requires the use of the toilet, which is something Qin Shao has long wanted to do.

It's just that since he came to power, various things have gathered together, and such things have been postponed until now.

Similar to the TV series in the previous life, of course ordinary people in Daming today have dry toilets.

The same is true for big families, but because there are servants, the toilets are cleaner.

As for the cold weather, urinals and the like are generally arranged indoors.

Pay attention to the fact that there will be servants waiting on them. If the master finishes untying his little hands, in order to avoid bad smell, he will naturally bring the urinal outside.

Especially in winter, when it is cold outside, it is even more inconvenient for children to go outside, not to mention urinating, but defecating, and it is not easy for children to go outside when they are too young.

When he was in Anlu Prefecture, including the small courtyard in the original capital, when Qin Shao asked people to build a bathroom, he set up a bucket on the other side of the pit to facilitate flushing.

It's easy for adults to say that it's inconvenient for children. Qin Shao has long wanted to install the toilet. When he is not too busy during the next year, he starts to order people to start work to set up the problem of water and sewage.

The craftsmen in the palace are basically excellent craftsmen selected in the Ming Dynasty. Qin Shao said his idea, and officials from the Ministry of Industry helped draw the blueprint, which was not far from what he thought.

It's just that when describing the toilet, those people said it was hard to understand.

For them, it was understandable that the emperor wanted an exquisite ceramic urinal, Zhao Huang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, directly asked the ceramic craftsmen in Jingdezhen to transfer to the kiln in the capital to directly help with the firing.

He also asked someone to design several exquisite patterns for Qin Shao to choose from. After a brief look at them, Qin Shao said that he would burn some of each, and that there would be more places to use them.

Zhao Huang didn't understand, the old Zhu's people were famous for their weird personalities.

The new emperor is the same, although he is indeed capable and does many unexpected things, the current Daming is indeed thriving, it's just that Zhao Huang really doesn't understand his sometimes thoughts.

You said that you need to poop and get a ceramic urinal, Zhao Huang expressed his understanding.

But this urinal still needs to sit on it, and it has a cover, and it says it can be used for water. The more he listens, the more confused he becomes. Can this thing really be made?
Anyway, according to what the emperor said, the craftsmen are basically coming to an end;
As for the so-called toilet, no one could figure out what it looked like, so the new emperor simply drew a rough outline by himself.

Not to mention that although the new emperor's painting is not so good, it can be said that the fired things are so lifelike. They are directly taken to the kiln factory for the workers to fire. In order to make it look better, people even draw patterns.

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When Qin Shao had lunch, the Ministry of Industry sent over the finished porcelain toilet.

He walked out of the room and saw a group of people discussing around the toilet.

Han Jinrong also took the children to check.

"Father! Father! Is this the toilet you were talking about?"

When the youngest daughter, Fuai, saw Qin Shao coming out, she immediately rushed forward excitedly.

"Well, this is it!"

Qin Shao smiled, stroked his daughter's little head, and dragged her to look at the toilets.

"His Majesty!"

Zhao Huang walked over to salute with a bow.

"Why are you here? There is no work?"

Qin Shao glanced at Zhao Huang, he was a servant of the Ministry of Rituals, he didn't do so many things in court, and even sent a toilet with him, isn't he too busy?Or not enough work?

"Chen... I went on a business trip to the Imperial Mausoleum to inspect the progress of the project two days ago. Today is considered a make-up vacation. The official in charge has something to do, so I can just come over and help!"

Zhao Huang hastily explained.

I didn't mention myself at all, but I was just too curious to visit.

Zhao Huang's name for the toilet is actually not surprising at all. The reason why he was sent to work in the Ministry of Industry is because he is interested in craftsmanship.

Their ancestors made furniture, and now there are still a few shops that specialize in that. He has been fascinated by this since he was a child.

As for the toilet, it existed in the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty paid attention to enjoyment. His toilet was specially made of high-quality jade. The appearance, its implication is probably to hope that the emperor will be as powerful as the tiger.

This aspect is too private, and there are naturally few records about it. After all, it is not a very elegant thing to play a big and small one, and those scholars are not willing to record it.

As for its origin, there is no record. I don't know if the emperor felt that he was very powerful when he went there!

Tang Taizong Li Er also likes to use jade, he thinks the color is so smooth, it is comfortable to look at.

It is said that when Li Er was on the account, he often admired himself for his fierceness.

However, there was an uncle of the same family named Li Hu, who always called this toilet Huzi, which was always a bit of a taboo for the elders, so he changed the name of Huzi to Beast or Mazi, and then it gradually became the name of the toilet.

Qin Shao listened to Zhao Huang's eloquent account of the situation of this toilet in other dynasties, and when he heard Ma Zi's name, he opened his mouth in surprise, grandma's, and this name.

Qin Shao had watched a lot of Hong Kong dramas in his previous life, but what he meant was...

If it can be done on horses...

"Your Majesty, I have seen many so-called toilets, but this is the first time I have seen this kind of toilet. I heard from the craftsmen that this kind of toilet can produce water, so how can the water come out?"

Seeing the strange shape of the toilet, Zhao Huang couldn't help asking in amazement.

This toilet is different from the toilets that have only a sunken urinal that I have seen before. There is a deep depression inside, and there is a lid on it. The most important thing is this strange shape.

"There is the water tank and the flushing valve. I can't explain it clearly to you. After a while, let someone push it up and fill it with water. You will understand the use!"

Qin Shao said in a low voice, beckoning the craftsmen to install the toilet.

Zhao Huang eagerly followed those people into the house to see how to install it.

Qin Shao inspected those toilets. It is true that they were fired from official kilns, using the firing method of multi-colored wares.

When Zhao Huang asked him to choose patterns, he chose relatively pure colors, such as pure blue and pure yellow. As for the others, let them let a hundred flowers bloom and develop themselves.

Anyway, he likes to clean the face, although vases or tableware, he can introduce some beautiful patterns by firing, and making a toilet that is too fancy, to be honest, it seems that it will affect his performance when urinating.

Even so, when Qin Shao inspected, he still found the seal of the official kiln: six characters of the Jiajing annual system of the Ming Dynasty!

The six characters are divided into two lines, and they are in regular script. Everything produced by the official kiln will be stamped with such a seal.

This is the case in the Ming Dynasty. Porcelain firing is divided into official kilns and private kilns. Official kilns are generally printed with "During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty". As for folk porcelain, there are many types of inscriptions.

Some will be signed "Made in Jiajing", and the year and month will be described in more detail, and some rough ones will directly be "Made in next year".

There are also some private kilns who directly write their names in order to advertise themselves, such as "Zishutang", "Dongshutang" and so on.

There are also some individuals who directly write their names in order to keep a memory, such as "Zhang Shan Self-made", "Deng Kui Self-made" and so on.

Of course, there are also some auspicious inscriptions, such as "wealth and wealth", "Fushou Kangning", "Guotai Minan" and so on.

Anyway, the non-governmental ones are more casual, as long as you do it yourself or pay someone to do it, as long as you don’t write anything reactionary, everything else is free.

However, official kilns are generally solemn and stereotyped.

Therefore, when later generations appreciate cultural relics, they can know whether it is a folk kiln or an official kiln according to its signature.

It's just on the toilet... Qin Shao was speechless.

After several years, if some descendants find this thing and say that it is the toilet used by the emperor, think about it, it will be a bit...

His grandma's, what kind of toilet he uses is estimated to be studied by future generations in a few years.

Qin Shao remembered watching treasure appraisal programs in his previous life. It seemed that a collector received a long piece of jade, which was smooth and translucent, with a beautiful color. What is the use, but it has not been researched.

The man liked the jade very much. He himself liked to drink coffee. Seeing that the jade was like a small spoon, he simply used the jade to stir coffee.

Later, I met an expert who was familiar with this jade. That person had studied this jade for many years and had seen several of them. When he saw this person stirring coffee with this thing, he almost burst out laughing on the spot.

The reason is that the thing is actually used by the ancients in the room, and it is used in many places for defecation.

As for the ridiculous things like using ancient urine pots as rice bowls, in fact, there were no such fools in previous lives.

Qin Shao thought that if his toilet was found by someone in a few years, it would not be regarded as anything else.

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This time, Qin Shao felt that introducing the technology of his previous life into today's Daming needed to transform and invent a lot of things when he transformed the toilet.

For example, plastic is one of them. This kind of thing was very common in previous lives, but it has not yet appeared in this era.

In the previous life, plastic water pipes were very common, and you can find a hardware store to solve them.

Now he can only let people fire pottery tubes. Although they can be used, they are generally bulkier and safer than plastic.

The crowd followed the craftsman and watched them place the toilet in the groove, fix it at one place, and then connect it to the water pipe.

When Qin Shao introduced the water inlet pipe, water outlet pipe, seepage pipe, water plug, float ball, water discharge knob and lever, the group of people watched without blinking.

After the installation was completed, Qin Shao pressed the water discharge knob, and the knob pulled up the water outlet plug through the lever, and the water in the water tank would be released. After the water was released, the water outlet plug dropped to block the water outlet.

The floating ball is also at the bottom of the water tank due to the decline of the water level, and the falling of the floating ball drives the lever to pull up the water inlet plug, so that water enters the water tank as the water level rises.

Ball float also can rise gradually because of buoyancy, until the water inlet plug is pressed down by lever, stops up water inlet and fills water again in the water tank like this.

"Oh! The water really came out!"

"It really sucks!"

"It's out of the water!"

The crowd immediately cheered.

"Father! Father, I will try too! I want to try too!"

The second prince saw that water came out with a light touch, and the water would continue to rise.

This is amazing!
In fact, everyone couldn't help but want to try it, but they didn't have the courage to speak out like the second prince, after all, this is the emperor's toilet.

The little guy squeezed forward eagerly, looking at his father demandingly.

"Then try it!"

Qin Shao laughed.

The second prince stretched out his fat little hand and pressed against the spring-loaded mouth.

The sound of rushing water came instantly.

"It's out of the water! Father!"

"It's out of the water!"

The little guy jumped up excitedly.

"Father, I want to try too! I want to try too!"

The youngest daughter Fu Ai also squeezed over, eager to try.

Qin Shao picked up his daughter and tried.

The little girl was not strong enough, Qin Shao helped her daughter to try, and soon succeeded.

The eldest prince Zhu Zaiyu was older than the two little fellows, and now he may have become a lot more stable because of his enlightenment reading, but he was still a child after all, and he looked at his father expectantly.

"Grandpa, let Yu'er try it too!"

Han Jinrong looked at the expectant eyes of the elder son, led him forward and said.

Qin Shao put down his daughter and asked his eldest son to try.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty! Minister...can you try?"

After the eldest prince finished his experiment, Zhao Huang stepped forward and said to Qin Shao with some anticipation.

That look is really funny.

"What? Are you planning to install one at home?"

Qin Shao stood aside and asked Zhao Huang to try.

"Your Majesty, I... I dare not..."

Zhao Huang was a little apprehensive, his face turned pale instantly.

The emperor installed a toilet in his house, and he imitated it. This kind of crime was not only in Daming, but it was a very serious crime in other dynasties. It was basically equivalent to the life of Emperor Xiao Xiang.

"What are you afraid of? Didn't you say that you have a lot of children in your family? Didn't your wife give birth to four sons and two daughters for you? Install one at home, and the children will not be punished at night!"

Zhao Huang is 34 to [-] years old, but he is already the father of six children, and it is said that his first wife lives alone.

I heard that he still has a concubine in his family who is pregnant again!

He is not yet forty now, and he already has so many children, and it is estimated that there will be many more in the future.

But Zhao Huang seems to be very good at managing the family. I heard that his wives and concubines are very harmonious, and the family relationship is relatively good.

As a modern person, to be honest, Qin Shao couldn't understand the harmonious coexistence of three wives and four concubines at the beginning. You must know that this kind of situation was basically impossible to exist in the previous life.

Even if some people have three wives and four concubines, they dare not put them under the same roof, three women in one drama, no!Two women can basically break up the family.

But after arriving in ancient times, Qin Shao realized that people of different eras and cultural environments actually live and get along very differently in many cases!
In this era, a man actually only has one wife, and the so-called concubine is just the property of the family. They can warm the bed for the man, do housework, and serve the mistress. If they are not satisfied or the family is in trouble, they can also be sold to subsidize household.

Basically, it is very difficult for a concubine to become a regular wife. Doting a wife and concubine is basically a crime in this era, and the government can imprison it!

Therefore, basically the concubines of normal people are very law-abiding. They are basically sold by their family members. In their ideology, they are servants of the master's family. Generally, there will be no thoughts of leapfrogging. Many TV dramas or novels The argument of internal fighting is just the processing of later generations.

"Your Majesty! Minister...Can I really install it at home?"

Zhao Huang asked in disbelief.

(End of this chapter)