Chapter 16: Rectify environmental sanitation

It took almost a month for Marin to get the family to get used to taking a bath. This is July, the hottest time of the year. If everyone does not take a bath, God knows what kind of smell it will emit.
According to Marin's estimation, Charles VIII will not enter Italy until the end of August, and the news reached Vienna, it will be September. Then, the Imperial Parliament quarreled for a while, and then agreed to increase the tax with impermissibility, or it was completely fruitless. And when the first batch of taxes was collected, at least until November. At that time, with the money of Maximilian I, he had the confidence to recruit mercenaries again.
However, Marin, who has read history, is more optimistic that the emperor can receive taxes in Austria and Burgundy under his control. In other regions, it is too difficult to receive taxes. But even receiving taxes in these two places was enough for the emperor to expand his army on a small scale.
So, while these months, Marin plans to reorganize the Huffman estate. Because once the emperor began to recruit mercenaries, he would definitely go to Vienna to "make a name for himself", and there would be no time for the affairs of the Huffman estate.
Time is limited, so Marin hastened his time and carried out drastic reforms in the manor. The reason for his reform was that his non-existent Daxian teacher, Einstein, learned advanced knowledge from a very developed Eastern Empire.
Because of the previous success, although Marin can not be completely trusted, the Huffmans and the Marvels have learned a lot of knowledge about Marin. Therefore, they held a trial and error, and let Marin let go to carry out reform experiments in the manor.
After promoting the bathing problem, naturally there must be a matching change of clothes. So, what Marin promoted next was washing clothes and changing clothes frequently.
The reason given by Marin is also very powerful-taking baths and changing clothes frequently can largely prevent the breeding of diseases. This theory is actually a modern health theory. However, the reason for eliminating disease has greatly deterred others. So the family was extremely supportive. Anyway, for the Huffman family, they would not do the laundry themselves, and just hire a serf woman in the manor. They do n’t have to spend money and eat. Prior to this, Mrs. Mary actually changed clothes frequently. Only the old masters such as Huffman and Adler did not change clothes often. Therefore, there is no resistance in promoting this plan.
Then, Marin asked the whole family to wash their hands before and after meals, so as not to eat dirty things into their mouths and bring them on their bodies. In this regard, Mrs. Mary, who loves cleanliness, expressed her support. So the plan was approved.
In the past, bathing, changing clothes, and washing your hands were actually personal hygiene. After addressing personal hygiene, Marin began to address environmental health issues. The main problems of environmental sanitation are actually the concentration of feces, the accumulation of garbage, and the cleaning of residential areas.
Medieval Europeans are very 邋遢. Don't look at the dog-like look of Europeans in later generations. But in the Middle Ages, the Europeans called it a puppet.
Medieval Europeans, with the exception of educated aristocrats, most ordinary people had a bad habit of urinating. This also made the smell of faeces everywhere in medieval European cities. The main road is okay, and local officials will organize cleaning. And there are many people who urinate in those small streets and alleys. Therefore, as long as you leave the main street and enter the remote area of ​​the city, you can smell the smell. And these faeces everywhere can breed flies and mosquitoes and bring terrible infectious diseases.
Marlin couldn't control the city, but when he was wandering in the manor the day before yesterday, he accidentally stepped on a bubble of dung, which made him sick for a long time. Therefore, concentrated use of toilets and prohibition of urination are a big problem that Marin urgently needs to solve.
马 When Marin proposed a plan to concentrate on using the toilet and prohibiting urination, no one in the family objected. Men don't matter, they go to the toilet anyway, and Mrs. Mary is more welcome. After all, she also hated those dung everywhere.
It was simple to promote this in the Huffman family, but when Marin called the serfs in the manor to announce the promotion, he was met with a lot of serfs' protests:
"Master, Marin, why are you so serious about such a small thing? Everyone is like this ..."
"Yeah, yeah, this is true of other manors, and the people in the city are solving it everywhere ..."
Uh ...
Marin is so hot that it makes sense to co-author your toilet? So he issued coercive measures-
"In the future, if you find that you are urinating anywhere in the estate's residential area, grab it once, hit a board, and fine a Finney!"
This measure made the accustomed serfs lament the sky. The punishment for playing a board is nothing to them. After all, serfs were submissive and used to being oppressed. But fine a Finney, that would be awesome. At this time in the German area, ordinary helpers worked in the city, and there were only 2 Finneys a day. The serfs in the countryside can only earn one Finney a day. Therefore, a fine for Finney is basically to let them work for a day!
Despite their dissatisfaction, they couldn't resist. After all, this is an era of nobility. The status of the serfs was slightly better than the slaves. They basically had no right to speak and could only passively accept rule.
If it is a free citizen with a relatively high status (most of the European uprising revolution was brought up by the citizens), it may be fiercely resisted, but the serfs have no confidence to resist. As a result, this plan was successfully implemented.
配合 In order to support this plan, Marin organized manpower to build several public toilets in the serf quarters, which were divided between men and women. As for home, it's not necessary. Although the knight is the lowest-level aristocrat, his lifestyle is still close to the aristocracy. There is a toilet in the house, so there is no need to repair it.
After a while, Marin planned a garbage dump area and arranged for people to clean the Huffman family's main house every day and concentrate the garbage in the garbage dump area. Then, he also set up a garbage storage area in the serf quarters, asking the serfs to stack the garbage instead of dumping it everywhere.
Also, Marin requested that the manpower who manages the barn should remove the cow dung and horse dung every day, put them together and put them together in the pit.
As for why this is the problem of gunpowder that Marin suddenly thought of. Gunpowder requires saltpeter, and saltpeter is the main component of gunpowder.
But there is no saltpeter mine in Europe. Europeans want saltpeter. In this era, they must either import from the Middle East or collect soil nitrate from pits ...
But with the rise of Ottoman Turkey, the land trade channel with the East was blocked, so from this moment, Europeans had to go to the pit to find soil nitrate to cook saltpeter.
Xi Ma Lin has heard of boiled soil nitrate and knows the principle, but the specific process is not clear. But this is not a problem. Because there are more people in Europe who know how to boil soil. Probably, no one in the countryside like Huffman Manor understands it, but some people in some big cities certainly do. When the pit was finished, Marin planned to pay the city's artisans for instructions on how to boil the soil. UU Reading Books www.uukanshu.com
硝 Saltpeter is not cheap now. According to Marin, a pound of gunpowder costs as much as 10 fennies. The saltpeter price has reached 11 Finneys per pound. And saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal required for gunpowder, the most expensive is saltpeter. Because Europeans look for saltpeter from that pit, the quantity is really limited, so the price is very high.
Huffman Manor has more than one hundred people, plus dozens of animals, and the amount of feces is very large every day. Marin dug a number of long septic pits at one breath in the remote downwind of the manor to collect nitrate soil. The feces produced by so many people are used to produce nitrate, and it is estimated that it is not a small income ...
After solving the problem of hygiene, and by the way, an industry producing saltpeter came out, Marin reformed the farm tools in the manor. First, wooden farm tools were eliminated. Later, Marin introduced the Oriental shovel to facilitate farmers to manually dig soil and loosen soil.
Not only that, Marin also vigorously promoted seeding and hole-planting techniques. Europeans are currently popular for sowing, shallow seeding, and uneven seed distribution. In some places, the seeds are not scattered, and the seeds are sparsely distributed. In some places, too many seeds are scattered, and the seeds are too dense. When seeds germinate, it is easy to cause multiple plants to be too close to compete to absorb soil nutrients. Then, each plant did not grow well. The artificially controlled drilling and acupoint sowing solve this problem well. Originally, Marin was planning to introduce a shuttle car that was invented in the Han Dynasty. However, Marin had never seen a car, and he didn't know how to mess with it. Therefore, for the time being, he can only promote artificial seeding and point broadcasting. If he had the opportunity to send someone to the East, he would definitely bring in a cart. Because, the efficiency of sowing car is much higher than artificial on-demand ...
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