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Chapter 25 Zhao Yuanyan's Journey to Heaven 1 First Arrival

The halo appears again in the isolation room of the underground base.

"Everyone is on alert. No shots are allowed without my order." Battalion Commander Sima shouted loudly through the communication equipment.

"No need to be alert, it's me." Gao Dazhuang took the lead and walked out of the aperture, followed by other members of the special team and Zhao Yuanyan and others.

"This is really another world. What was it that passed by just now? Light? Or fog?" Zhao Yuanyan looked at the scene around him and then looked back at the aperture.

"This general? Can we go back to the Song Dynasty?" Zhao Yuanyan looked at Gao Dazhuang and asked.

"It can be turned on once a month, so you can live here first." Gao Dazhuang began to take off the camera equipment on his helmet. "Water will spray out to disinfect us in a while. Please don't panic."

"Disinfection, what is disinfection? Am I poisoned?" Zhao Yuanyan panicked.

"It's not that you're poisoned, but it's a safety measure." He Lu said, "I will spray water on you. After spraying the water, they will take you to bathe and change clothes. The same is true for us."

"You may have lice or something on your body, so I need to give you a bath." Tian Guo interjected.

"Oh, that's it." Zhao Yuanyan said that he understood everything.

"Huyan, no matter what happens in a while, don't panic." Zhao Yuanyan looked at Huyan Bixing and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will obey your orders." Huyan Bixing replied.

"Start disinfection." The loudspeaker in the isolation room gave the command, and water began to spray in the isolation room, drenching everyone.

"Female soldier, follow me." An Ran led the female soldier from the passage on the right to the female soldier's bathroom.

"King Zhou, please take your people and go with us." Gao Dazhuang said to Zhao Yuanyan.

"Is this disinfection?" Zhao Yuanyan asked Gao Dazhuang when he saw that everyone was acting like a drowned rat.

"This is the first step, there are other steps later." Shi Dafan said, "We are going to the bathroom now."

"Bathroom, do you have perfume?" Zhao Yuanyan asked.

What is a perfume shop? It is an ancient public bathroom. After Buddhism was introduced to China in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it also brought corresponding bathing customs. The "Hothouse Bathing Monks Sutra" translated by An Shigao of the Eastern Han Dynasty stated that the Buddha Sakyamuni advocated bathing.

It is believed that the method of bathing can eliminate disasters: "Seven diseases are removed and seven blessings are obtained." Offering baths to monks is also a meritorious virtue, which is said to be "a lady who lives a decent life and is respected by others. Her body is always pure, so you can wash all the monks..."

"Therefore, every temple in ancient China had a "bathhouse" for monks to bathe collectively.

It is generally believed that public bathhouses began to become real "public bathhouses" in the Northern Song Dynasty. In other words, from the Northern Song Dynasty, it became a custom for ordinary people to take baths in bathhouses in winter. The largest number of public bathhouses in the Song Dynasty was in Bianliang, the capital of the country.

It is called "Bath House".

During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was very popular to open bathhouses in the capital, commonly known as "bathhouses" and also known as "perfume shops".

That's why Zhao Yuanyan talks about bathrooms, but also the perfume business, because in the Northern Song Dynasty, bathrooms were known as "perfume shops".

"Yes." "But I need to change clothes. I can't wear these clothes anymore. They have to be destroyed." Shi Dafan didn't know what a perfume shop was, but he understood what Zhao Yuanyan meant. "But I need to change clothes.

, now these clothes can no longer be worn and will be destroyed."

Zhao Yuanyan nodded in agreement and led the men to follow the male soldier to the bathroom.

When we got to the bathroom, we had to take off our clothes.

I saw that Zhao Yuanyan, Huyan Bixing, and several of his imperial guards were all beautifully embroidered. Zhao Yuanyan was all embroidered with flower and bird patterns. From his back to his chest, there was a large area of ​​birds and flowers. Then look at the tattoos on Huyan Bixing’s face.

Killing thieves with a sincere heart, behind the ears is the image of forgetting home and country when going out, and forgetting death when facing battle. Behind the back is the dragon of Bashan emerging from the water, and on the front of the chest is the image of five ghosts capturing the dragon. And those forbidden soldiers are covered with flowers from the hips down and from the ankles up.

Embroidery.

He made a bunch of male soldiers look stupid.

Zhao Yuanyan showed off the tattoos on his body, "Everyone, what do you think of my tattoos?"

Several people from the Northern Song Dynasty saw it and couldn't stop praising him.

The male soldiers couldn't help but be stunned and amazed when they saw it. Even in modern times, those tattoos are very artistic.

"Why don't you have any tattoos on your body?" Zhao Yuanyan smelled it when he saw that the male soldiers had no tattoos.

"We soldiers are not allowed to have tattoos." Gao Dazhuang explained, "Common people can have tattoos, but soldiers cannot."

"Why are you not afraid of soldiers escaping?" Huyan Bixing asked.

"Why are you running away? Being a soldier is honorable and you can protect your family and the country." Zheng Sanpao replied, "Many people in our country want to be soldiers, but they can't."

"When we reach the age of eighteen, we must register for military service and undergo a physical examination. If we pass, we will serve as conscripts for two years." Qiang Xiaowei pointed at Zhuang Yan and said, "After two years, we can sign a labor contract from conscripts to volunteers.

, Xiaozhuang is."

Zhao Yuanyan breathed in the cold air, "This is the method of Qin and Han Dynasties."

"You also want to fight in heaven?" Zhao Yuanyan asked.

"Our place is not heaven, but in your eyes, it can still be regarded as heaven." Xiaozhuang led Zhao Yuanyan and others into the bath for a soak. "This is your world a thousand years from now. As for war, there has been no war for twenty years."

There’s a war.”

"There has been no war for twenty years." Zhao Yuanyan sighed, "How much are the soldiers' salaries? Is there any rebellion?"

"How could there be a rebellion? No, in terms of salary, I have several thousand a month, which is about the same as an ordinary person's monthly salary. Anyway, the food and accommodation for us soldiers are paid for by the state." Zhuang Yan replied.

"What's your rice price?" Zhao Yuanyan asked.

"Rice costs less than two yuan per catty." Xiaozhuang thought for a moment and replied, "I'm not sure, after all, I don't buy rice."

"How many soldiers and horses do you have? What is the population?" Zhao Yuanyan asked a few questions without looking, but in his mind he had already started to compare this world with the Song Dynasty.

First, although Zhao Yuanyan did not know how many soldiers and horses there were, he knew from Xiaozhuang that they should be in service just like the Qin and Han Dynasties. This shows that there were many soldiers and horses.

Second, how much is the salary? If you compare the price of rice, you will know how the salary here compares with that of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the price of rice was 600 to 700 yuan, and one stone of rice could be purchased. In the Song Dynasty, one pound of rice was 640 grams, and one stone was equal to 640 grams.

92.5 Song Jin (Volume 3 of Shen Kuo's Mengxi Bi Tan, "For ordinary stones, ninety-two and a half kilograms are used as the standard, but the Han scale is 341 kilograms"). Therefore, one stone of rice weighs 59,200 grams, or 59.2 kilograms.

The difference in salary can be calculated at six to seven hundred yuan per stone.

Third, whether there are wars and rebellions. In ancient times, there were wars or rebellions almost every year. It was just a difference in size. If there were none, it meant that the country was strong and domestically stable.

The last soldiers, horses and population were the cornerstone and heritage of a country in ancient times.

Xiaozhuang's words made Zhao Yuanyan jump out of the water, while Huyan Bixing sank to the bottom of the water, his feet weak with fear.
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