Mo Xiaoan had no choice but to briefly explain the water supply and drainage, the siphon principle of the toilet and some concepts of water sealing and odor. Although the kiln workers were confused by the scientific principles, they still understood the general meaning.
I couldn't help but express my sincere admiration, 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. Bathtubs were much more difficult. Most modern bathtubs are actually made of enamel, and the blanks are stamped or cast with metal, and the outside is made of enamel.
Glaze firing. If it is purely made into porcelain, it would be quite difficult to ensure a certain strength.
After repeated trial production, the single-person bathtub was finally produced a few weeks later. After water discharge testing, the product was fully qualified, including a drain outlet to prevent overflow.
After making a bathtub, let alone the sink and the like. Finally, there are ceramic tiles. They are no longer whole porcelain tiles, but ceramic tiles that are the same as in modern time and space.
Mo Xiao'an thought that he could build a real bathroom in this way. If it were to be placed in the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be a super luxurious version? No matter how well-dressed and well-fed dignitaries, they would have to use one or two to reflect their worth.
"Well, 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 found that there was basically no place to display their skills - Australian porcelain and pottery are all plain, and there is nothing on them.
I didn't add it either. Now that I heard that patterns were going to be added, I immediately took out my own hanging skills, so Mo Xiao'an saw a beautiful blue and white toilet and a red underglaze wash basin.
"How expensive is the butt sitting on this?" Mo Xiaoan said at first, but when he saw the colorful plants, flowers and birds drawn one by one 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 we want everyone to 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, 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 name. He decided that in the future, all kinds of luxury consumer goods produced by the Ministry of Light Industry would be called this name.
Mo Xiaoan quickly found someone to draw the logo, and then asked the kiln workers to paint the pattern on the product.
The ceramic factory itself has a heavy workload to support the industry, so the production of sanitary ware was in small batches. However, plain white ceramic tiles were immediately put into large-scale manufacturing. The machinery factory also specially built an automatic brick-making machine for the ceramic factory.
Come to mass produce ceramic tile blanks. Ceramic tiles are easy to clean and are the best building materials to maintain environmental hygiene. Hospitals, pharmaceutical factories, food factories and canteens have all placed large orders to improve their working environment.
As for the first batch of sanitary ware samples produced, with the approval of the executive committee, they were used in the decoration of luxury rooms in the shopping mall. In order to match these items, a small water supply and drainage system was experimentally installed in the shopping mall, including a test
A small water tube boiler is used to boil water. The upper and lower water pipes are made of special cast iron. The faucets and shower heads are made of bronze. There is no use for metal hoses. The shower head is directly fixed on 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 shuts off the water supply, it is still a bit difficult for the time traveler's machining and materials, so there is no one at all.
Used. The water tank of the flush toilet is filled directly from the faucet, and then closed when it is full. It is troublesome but absolutely reliable. The labor cost in ancient times was very cheap. People who can afford the toilet probably have no problem dedicating a servant to serve in the bathroom.
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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 expressed that he was basically satisfied. After communicating with the Guangzhou station, he placed an order for five sets. Each set includes a toilet, bathtub and sink, plus matching hardware, 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. In short, they are extremely luxurious.
Even the hardware has different requirements, some require gilding, and some require silver plating. The last idea is to make the shower head, exposed water pipes and faucets all made of glass - Mo Xiao'an understands what it means to go out of his way.
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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 best, but it's not good for a bathtub." The person in charge of the glass factory refused.
The next order was much larger, including dozens of toilets, wash basins, matching hardware and pipes, and finally hundreds of boxes of colored ceramic tiles. Originally it was said that they would have patterns, but the craftsmen were responsible for completing them one by one.
I couldn't draw the Monkey, Year, Horse and Moon on it, and I didn't have time to experiment with the stenciling method, so I simply changed everything into colored tiles.
Finally, the order for the sixth set came. The requirements were similar to the previous one, but I asked for a double jacuzzi.
Mo Xiaoan found a shell-shaped pattern from the information and handed it to the ceramics factory for trial production. This super large bathtub made the kiln workers very nervous - the size of the bathtub was no longer comparable to the most difficult dragon vat to bake.
Up and down, this kind of super large porcelain cannot be fired even in Jingdezhen. Now, although the Australians have taught them a new method of using molds, no one is sure.
Finally, the bathtub was fired, but during the test they immediately discovered a problem: this bathtub cannot be massaged.
Just relying on the water pressure of the high-hanging water tank installed on the ceiling cannot produce the massage spray effect. Unless Ziminglou plans to build a three or four-story high water tank to provide water supply. Of course Ziminglou can also
This is done, 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 human pressure."
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 outside for sex is nothing in this time and space, and shaking a handle outside the wall is nothing.
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"The ancients were so happy." Mo Xiao'an sighed.
So the massage bathtub with a hand-operated booster pump was finalized. The entire set was packed and shipped to Guangzhou for installation.
Guo Yi used this bathtub 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 it has completely changed its structure - 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 were of wooden structure.
After arriving in Guangzhou, Zhang Xingpei changed his outfit, surveyed and mapped the terrain of Ziming Tower, and experienced the "moving lines" of the entire restaurant under the leadership of Shen Fan. He found that the area of Ziming Tower was relatively limited, so the original
The three-story structure built by the owner increased the usable area by adding floors. Overall, Ziming Building has at least a few shortcomings. First, the main entrance along the street is too busy and lacks a special passage for dignitaries to enter and exit quietly.
Second, the land utilization rate is not high. We have painstakingly built high-rise buildings in the front, but left a large area of land in the back to build traditional courtyard-style buildings. This not only wastes area, but also every move in the yard can be seen by opening the windows on the back floor.
There is no privacy at all. The cooking smoke in the dining room on the side of the building is 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 passengers,
It is easy to cause congestion on the stairs. Sometimes people who do not want to meet will inevitably bump into each other. The last problem is the lack of parking spaces in Ziming Building-that is, a place for sedan chairs to wait. Although there is an open space in front of the screen wall opposite,
You can park sedans and horses, but waiting in the open air will make the servants miserable. In the scorching sun or heavy rain, the sedan itself will become hot and humid.
In terms of practicality, Ziming Building has three floors, but there is only one toilet. Zhang Xingpei thinks the most terrifying thing here is the toilet. For 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 cesspools 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 in the yard behind Pei Lixiu's boudoir that meets modern standards.
"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 total, ranging from three to four floors.
etc., well-proportioned, and the buildings are connected to each other by two-story corridors. From a plan view, they roughly resemble a "field". Each building has multiple stairs, and there are also dedicated entrances for waiting staff and other internal staff.
Dedicated stairway.
The first building is a restaurant with three open and four dark structures. Zhang Xingpei introduced the front porch eaves design of a modern hotel here. Guests take sedans to the front door, get off the sedans, enter the lobby, and the sedans are carried to the semi-underground dark first floor.
Go to the "parking lot" of Ziming Building here, which 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 of the Ming Dynasty is the lobby. Zhang Xingpei was very arrogant in the design and used a full-height design. From the floor to the ceiling of the third floor, it is surrounded by walking buildings. The sixty-four-head glass chandelier produced by the glass factory is made of bronze chains.
The pulley is hung high on the thick main beam at the top of the third floor.
The front and back of the hall are unobstructed, and large glass windows with carved wood carvings are installed on the walls, making it appear tall and bright. The floor is paved with Lu Tomb mortar bricks ordered from Suzhou - commonly known as gold bricks. Although gold bricks are not made of gold, they are so precious.
No less, they were royal items of the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. What Guo Yi was able to buy were second-rate items left over from the tributes, and he had already spent a lot of money on them.
However, such high-priced floor tiles that are thousands of miles away can be transported to Guangzhou for sale, which shows the city's high consumption power and the prevalence of luxury. Chuanchuan Group's plan to use Ziming Tower to promote daily necessities is still feasible
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There is an indoor pool in the center of the hall. The pool is paved with pebbles to raise goldfish. In the middle of the pool, there is a rockery as tall as a person. 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 to add restrooms on the second and third floors, with colored ceramic tiles from Lingao on the walls and floors, and a blue and white porcelain toilet. Of course, there must be a dedicated person in the bathroom to fill the toilet.
Close the water.
The main project of the second building of Ziming Building is the modern bathing city. Because the Chuanchuan Group has not yet come up with particularly effective preservatives and waterproofing agents, the bearing capacity of the floor cannot bear tens of cubic meters.
In order to save water, Zhang Xingpei can only set up a bath 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 lot of cutting
The slate is used as the outer veneer of the cement pool. Several animal head sculptures are installed in the four corners of the bath, and water is spitted into the pool from the mouth. In addition to the bath, there is also a steam room and a massage room. Of course, the massage room is indispensable.
Content that the public likes to see, such as heterosexual massage.
On the second floor, there is a lobby for guests to rest. The lobby is very distinctive in design, using a semicircular theater-style arrangement, with a circular performance venue in the middle - dedicated to performing various "improved versions" of songs and dances.
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The third floor is where the six sets of brand new bathroom equipment are suitable, including the manually pressurized massage bathtub. Considering that the load-bearing capacity of the wooden floor is very limited, Zhang Xingpei deliberately added some structural supports.
These six 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 unrelated to other levels.
Bathing means a lot of water. The main water in Guangzhou city comes from two parts - one is water delivered by watermen, water trucks and burdens, most of which come from the Pearl River Basin, and the other is digging wells by oneself. Guangzhou is right on the Pearl River, and the groundwater level is very high.
When Ziming Tower wanted to build a bathhouse, it naturally could not rely on watermen to deliver water. Therefore, in addition to the original two wells, several more wells were drilled. A mechanical water pressure device was installed on the water wells to increase the speed of water extraction.
The water that is manually pressed from the well is poured into a newly built cement reservoir through a stone trough, and 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 fire pit flues, then the tap water system throughout the building requires them to
Building a high-level water tank - It is easy to build a water tank, 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 a 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 of the steam engine during operation will cause
The high-heat steam during exhaust, coupled with the exhaust smoke from burning coal - the thick black smoke is enough to completely eliminate the luxurious and elegant atmosphere Ziminglou attempts to create.
If there is no need for machinery, unless Ziminglou plans to hire people to lift water to the water tower manually, the workload seems to be terrifying. So Wang Luobin took action - his task was to find an inconvenient method for water lifting equipment.
Powered machinery requiring a steam engine.
Steam engines cannot be used, and manpower is too inefficient, so travelers generally turn to wind and water power. Water power is not feasible in Ziming Tower - as for wind-powered water lifting equipment, Wang Luobin believes that it is not feasible -
―To effectively lift water to a water tower more than 10 meters above the ground, they must build a behemoth with a height of more than 12 meters and a windmill wing of 5 meters. It is difficult to predict what such a behemoth will bring to Ziming Tower if it stands in Guangzhou City.
Gossip, after testing the wind speed and checking the year-round wind direction and strength in Guangzhou - the Guangzhou station has been collecting local meteorological data - Wang Luobin also rejected this plan.