226 Chapter 226: Real Estate

The town of Melo erupted in deafening cheers after Aslan returned safely.

Aslan got off the carriage and just got into the wheelchair when he heard deafening cheers. Aslan smiled and waved to everyone.

"I'm back to make everyone worry."

The people also saluted one after another. Everyone didn't say too much, and everything was not serious.

After 100 days of injury, although the bones have been healed, they are still very fragile and may break at any time.

So during this period of time, Aslan fully enjoyed the days when he stretched out his hands to eat and opened his mouth.

Even taking a bath is accompanied by Nomiri all the way, the only drawback is that Aslan can only watch.

Nuo Mili was afraid that one action would be too violent, and it would open Aslan's newly healed wound.

After staying in Melo Town for three days, Knox decided to settle in Melo Town.

Because the population had exceeded 200,000, Essien strongly demanded that the name be changed to Merlot City, probably the only city in the entire continent without city walls.

With the help of the Ratmen, the sewer system of Mellow City has been completely dug and sealed, and the channel for the sewage to go to the sewage treatment plant more than 30 kilometers away has also been dug.

Because many houses were rebuilt from the old city, and none of them had public places, Aslan specially built many public toilets.

It's a pity that after the advent of chemical fertilizers, the public knew the function of feces, and they collected them one after another, and took them to the chemical fertilizer factory on time every week to exchange for a 5:1 ratio of fertilizer, which made Aslan depressed for a long time.

But when you think about it, you will be relieved. In the ancient capitals of Chang’an, with a huge population and countless excrement every day, why is there no feces all over the streets like in the European Middle Ages.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, the situation of farmland fertilization began to become clearer. From the "Nong Shu" and Lou Xuan's "Poetry on Farming and Weaving", Chen Yan can know that Jiangnan in the Southern Song Dynasty had used human dung as fertilizer.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, human waste became more important as the demand for fertilizers continued to increase. Therefore, the collection and processing of human excrement has also reached an unprecedented level.

In rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there have been records of collecting human feces as early as the Song Dynasty. "Chen Tannong Book" has mentioned the construction of dung houses and septic tanks to collect human excrement and urine.

But in fact, until the late Ming Dynasty, many places in the south of the Yangtze River did not do enough to collect human feces. It was not until the early Qing Dynasty that the collection of human excrement was highly valued, so that people like Mu Taigong appeared who spared no expense in building public toilets in rural areas to collect human excrement.

The collection of urban manure is another matter.

Cities and towns are densely populated, and when there are many people, there will be more manure, and if there is more manure, there will be more fertilizer, and if there is more fertilizer, the fields will be fertile, and if the fields are fertile, there will be more grain. Therefore, Xu Guangqi said: "The fields are rich and fertile, which is why there is a lot of manure. The same is true for densely populated villages."

However, urban manure sources are scattered and far away from the rice fields. Therefore, two aspects of work need to be done in order to send urban manure to the fields: one is to collect and store the manure, and the other is to transport it to the countryside.

As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou had dedicated personnel to collect and transport urban human excrement.

Most of the homes of small people in the streets and alleys have no pit toilets, but only use toilets. Every day, there are people who excrete their own excrement, which is called "dumping their feet".

These people have their own customers, each has its own territory, and they dare not cross the border, or invade, and may even cause bloodshed.

By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the collection and transportation of urban manure had been greatly improved. In terms of collection, there are not only manure pickers who empty toilets for other women every day, and they don't have the slightest hatred, only hate the lack of goods in the toilets, and there are public toilets along the roads in the city.

Even later, public toilets can be rented out to rich peasants in the countryside, and the annual cost varies. This is also the reason why China has not appeared since ancient times, and the middle ages and even the industrial revolution era. Major cities are dung cities.

Knox was also very shocked at the cleanliness of Merlo City at the beginning. After all, he has lived in a slum area like the outer city for more than 20 years, so he naturally knows how dirty the slum area is. But after coming to Merlo City, all his opinions Everything has changed.

The city is much cleaner than the DC district of Lee City. The only regret is the disorganized houses in the old town.

But when he visited a newly built large-scale five-story building in the new urban area, he immediately fell in love with the house painted with white paint on the walls. Once he entered the house, it was ventilated on all sides, sunny, and most importantly, spacious. .

"How much is this house?" Knox said confidently.

The large house of 200 square meters is still a two-story duplex. It is more than 400 square meters in total, and there are more than ten rooms. It is brighter and brighter than the castle in the city lord's mansion. The only disadvantage is that the distance between the buildings is not as high as the castle.

"This is a gift specially built by the lord for outstanding officials in the Melo area. If you must buy it, one gold coin per square meter, a total of four hundred square meters, four hundred gold coins." Osborne next to him said enviously.

"It's only 400 gold coins. I bought the whole building." Knox had already inquired clearly. This building has a floor area of ​​more than 400 square meters, and the total of the five floors is only 2,000 gold coins.

For Knox, who had 200,000 gold coins, it was raining.

Osborne rolled his eyes and said, "Mr. Knox, you misunderstood. This place is indeed sold to you. This is a special case. Generally speaking, houses in new urban areas will not be sold to the outside world for the time being."

"Except for this building, which is for senior officials, the other five buildings are all small houses, ranging from seventy to eighty square meters. The lord is going to bestow them on outstanding civil servants and soldiers."

When Knox heard this, he couldn't help showing a disappointed expression on his face.

"Will I be able to build a house like this by myself after that?"

Osborn shook his head. He didn't know about this kind of thing. Anyway, he didn't know how long it would take to earn four hundred gold coins. He is now a junior knight, and he is a member of the lord's direct army, and his monthly salary has reached thirty silver coins. , with the current level of consumption in Mellow City, it is enough to support a family of five, and now their family is living a very good life.

The family has their own fields, and with the help of the uncle's family, they bought an old house in the city of Merlo.

He understood why the lord did not agree to the people rebuilding houses in the old city. The houses were left over from the old houses, and the construction of the houses was all approved by the city lord's mansion.

To put it simply, the real estate is completely lordized, and the real estate business in the entire Merlot area is completely monopolized.

In fact, considering the population density of the old city, Aslan built dozens of small three-story buildings in a street in the old city. Each building covers an area of ​​about 300 square meters. These small buildings are not as high as the new city. The content is naturally lower, so there is no need for the Construction Corps to spend a lot of manpower, and it is entirely to hire people in the old city to build it.