The Sun Never Sets In Spain

Sure enough, when Campos and others heard that he wanted to pay for the clean up of the slums, they all expressed their full support. Who wouldn't want their city to be better?

The Madrid city government heard about this and directly stated that they could tell them what they needed. The land near the slums on the outskirts of the city should be given for which one, and no money was required.

Alfonso is very satisfied with the attitude of the government. He has not yet reformed the political system. Spain is still a dualist constitutional monarchy, but the power of the monarch is much greater than that of the parliament rebuilt after the war.

Under this political system, in theory, the property of the monarch and the government is divided, and the government has every reason to sell him a cheaper land instead of giving it to him.

But they still chose to send it, which was good and saved the trouble of Alfonso's initiative to exert pressure.

With free land, there is no loss in this renovation, and the cost can be recovered after many years of unsatisfactory land sales.

With limited funds and limited time, Alfonso decided to start with the most urgent fire prevention.

When it comes to fire prevention, the first step is naturally to deal with the wooden houses built by the poor.

Many of these poor people repaired their houses by looking for a few standing trees to support them diagonally. Even if they were built with a piece of rags on them, the entire project took no more than one day, which is really unsightly.

It is easy to dismantle, and more importantly, think about what to change for them.

It is impossible to build a house in the city. A person's living conditions must match his income. Even if Alfonso only charges the cost price, the poor cannot pay the rent.

But if you don’t collect money, Alfonso’s investment will not return. The ensuing social problems are really daunting. Maybe the residents of the city will sell their houses directly and set up a broken shed when they see it, etc. The government sent him the house.

Madrid's economy will become a mess.

Alfonso has consulted several engineers in succession, and they all said that there is no way to build low-cost houses that even the poor who work in cities can afford.

So don't think about single-family houses, Alfonso decided to build a dormitory for them!

Due to the limitations of the times, packing too many people in a room can make sanitary conditions extremely bad.

The Chase can't be built, and Alfonso plans to build a grid room with four people in each room, just like a university dormitory.

It’s not the design of a table above the bed, but a bed on each of the four corners.

No way, although it has the ability to produce double-layer iron beds and make the beds taller, the cost is too high, and an iron bed may cost the bottom laborers a year or even several years of wages.

A low wooden bed is the most suitable.

Don’t be afraid of fire. As long as the dormitory is made of stone, the fire will burn up one room at most.

Alfonso plans to divide the dormitories into two types. The first is the type mentioned before. As a single dormitory, one room sleeps four people.

The second is a family dormitory, the same house style, but there is only a large bed widened to 2 meters and a normal bed. If the number of children increases, you can continue to add extra beds. If there are enough, the next room can also be coordinated.

Obviously, the living conditions of the family dormitory are better than those of the single dormitory, and it can be regarded as his little effort for the Spanish population.

Europeans rarely have the habit of dormitory these days, but as long as the problems caused by the dormitory are solved, the habit can be changed.

One of the problems brought by the dormitory is that it is not easy to maintain the temperature. If it is on the coast of Spain, the coldest time of the year is close to ten degrees, but it is easy to solve. Unfortunately, Madrid is deep inland, and the lowest temperature of the year is close to 3 Degree.

Without air conditioning, you can only cover more quilts. Warm quilts are a little unbearable for the people, but they are nothing to Alfonso.

Spain’s wool production is very high, and the price of wool quilts has always been relatively low.

Of course, in order for the public to develop a good habit of saving, only the first quilt is free, and the rest will cost money.

Wool quilts are still very durable, as long as you care, it is not a big problem to use it for 4 or 5 years.

The second problem is how to solve the problem without a stove.

They all live in dormitories, so naturally they eat canteens.

The canteen is one of the profit points in Alfonso’s plan. It does not make a lot of money, but it wins with small profits but quick turnover.

The most important principle laid down by Alfonso is that the same food should not be more expensive than the family’s cooking.

The last issue is hygiene. If a few people live in a dormitory, a large amount of domestic waste will inevitably be generated, especially since the sewage treatment system in Madrid is quite simple these days.

When it comes to sanitation, the treatment plan of most countries in this era is to discharge domestic sewage on the spot, with the surrounding sea draining the sea but not the sea draining the river.

Not long ago, the British and the French did this. The British were in the Thames and the French were in the Seine.

As a result, cholera broke out in London from time to time, and Parisians fell ill every day by drinking sewage.

It was only ten years ago and five years ago that Paris and London built advanced drainage pipe systems.

Regardless of whether you can fight with three wars, you still have a hand in economic and stability maintenance. The Paris sewers will be regarded as a well-known sewage project until later generations.

Alfonso really wants to imitate them to build a Madrid sewer, but the conditions are not met, 1 million, even if it is fully invested, at most it will be a wave.

Moreover, the profitability of sewers is weak, and input and output are not proportional.

There is no way underground, only the way above the ground.

He decided to let the poor people discharge their excrement into buckets, and then take them to a designated place before going out to work every day, and then use a dung truck to pull them away to the dung factory.

This is the second profit point that Alfonso envisioned. The manure is processed in a centralized manner and dried into manure. It is a very high-quality fertilizer. Especially when Spain cannot obtain too much fertilizer, the manure is beneficial to the agriculture around Madrid. It is a good help.

By allowing the poor and democratic to concentrate their excrement, this link of door-to-door collection is eliminated, which is stable and efficient, and the profit is not small.

As for other domestic garbage, you can only hire someone to use a garbage truck to pull it away and put it in landfill. Alfonso doesn’t have a good way. The future generations are basically landfills, let alone him, most of them are recycled by later generations. The utilization rate should be higher.

If he said nothing, Alfonso did not rush to demolish the slums, but first began to build a large number of square dormitories on the ground next to the slums given by the government.

Even if it is completed, there is no construction difficulty with the continuous stone grid, one door, and one window.

In just over a month, there was a rough prototype.

The surrounding poor people have heard that the king is going to build a house for them here. Although it is simple, it is better than the rotten shed they built, and they are looking forward to it.