I pretend to be a fairy in ancient times

The autumn scenery on Taiqi Mountain is beautiful, and Yan Yunkai's cooking skills are also very good, but the happy time always passes by in a hurry.

After Yan Yunkai accompanied Zhao Ji to watch the sunrise and morning glow, he went back to the other courtyard and cooked a bowl of scallion noodles for breakfast. After eating the noodles, the two went down the mountain.

After all, Yan Yunkai was a busy person with the entire court on his shoulders, and to be able to spare an afternoon and a morning to accompany Zhao Ji up the mountain to play, was already time to squeeze out of the gap.

At 09:30 in the morning, Zhao Ji and Yan Yun drove through the mist in the mountains to the foot of the mountain, retrieved the carriage from Sanqing Temple, and returned to Jian'an City at ten o'clock.

Yan Yunkai was in a hurry to enter the palace, and Zhao Ji let him drive the carriage away.Today happened to be entering the city from the west city gate. Zhao Ji wanted to see the current situation in the west city area, so he got off the car by the city gate.

Zhao Ji was the first to have someone set up a manure collection site in Xicheng District in order to improve the sanitation of the poor in Xicheng District.Because the sewage produced by excrement is a breeding ground for mosquitoes and flies, which can infect various diseases.In addition, the fly after the excrement dries may also spread disease.

Now people in Biejia Zhuangzi saw the benefits of collecting manure in the city, and they also sent people to collect manure, and even formed a market in an open space 500 meters to the right of the city gate.

This was originally a poultry market where farmers around Gyeonggi sold chickens, ducks and geese. The original smell was terrible, but since someone harvested manure, the smell has improved.

Because poultry manure will be collected by people.

Of course, Zhao Ji was not in the mood to check the situation of the excrement collection. What he wanted to see was the changes in the streets of Xicheng District, so he chose a random alley and walked in.

The alleys here are very narrow, because every household is trying to widen their territory.Illegal buildings and shacks are everywhere.

This is the second time Zhao Ji has come to this area.

When he saw this situation for the first time, it was hard for him to believe that there would be such a place in the bustling city of Jian'an, which looked like an African refugee camp, with skinny, bare-bottomed children running all over the street, and adults wearing shabby clothes.

Only later did Zhao Ji know that some coolies, porters, small traders, and their families lived here.

Of course, the roads in the west city are not paved with bluestone slabs, they are all compacted dirt roads. It has not rained in a while, and if it rains, the roads will become very muddy.

The first time Zhao Ji came here was to check the showers in the four districts. As soon as he walked to Xicheng District, he could smell the stench soaring to the sky. When he looked around, there were traces of defecation everywhere.

Now Zhao Ji is walking on the road in Xicheng District again, and the air is fresher than 01:30.Not only is there no trace of defecation, but the people who come and go also look much cleaner.

The shower and bathhouse business in Xicheng District is the best, because the regulation is a small amount of money, which can keep hot water for half an hour. Then, the whole family can take a clean hot bath.

The firewood in the city needs money to buy, and it takes at least two pennies to heat enough hot water for the whole family to take a bath. For water, generally porters and coolies can afford a small fee.

Zhao Ji stopped a child on the road and asked casually, "Do you know how to get to the bathhouse?"

That child is not too young, at the age of eight or nine, he can no longer be naked, wearing a pair of blue linen trousers.When he saw Zhao Ji, who was clean and tidy, his whole body was full of nobility, and he didn't dare to neglect him.

After all, he is a child in the capital city, much more naughty than the children in Sanjiang County. Zhao Hui's son, Zhao Jiang, is far less clever than this child.When he heard Zhao Ji asking for directions, he quickly laughed and said to Zhao Ji, "Your Excellency, please go to the newly opened Zhaoji Bathhouse, and I will take you there."

Zhao Ji asked the child to lead the way.

He is not afraid of being deceived. The law and order in the capital is very good. Even the slums are patrolled by guards. There must be petty theft. If you want to explain the blatant robbery, it is impossible.

After another 10 minutes of walking along the road going south, I arrived at the bathhouse in Xicheng District.

Zhao Ji saw that the situation along the way was very good, although it would not become clean and tidy all at once, at least it was much better than the first time he saw it.

The bathhouse is located next to the vegetable market in Xicheng District. The capital is so big that it is impossible to have only one vegetable market. Among them, the vegetable market in Nancheng City is the largest, with all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas. However, there are many people living in Dongcheng and Xicheng, so of course there will be small vegetable markets. , especially the vegetable market in Xicheng, most of them are leftovers from the Nancheng vegetable market the day before, but people in Xicheng also have to cook at home, so the vegetable market here is not small.

When they reached the ground, Zhao Ji wanted to give some money to the child who led the way, but when he touched his pocket, he found that he had no money.

Only then did he suddenly remember that yesterday he decided to go up the mountain on the spur of the moment, without a change of clothes, Yan Yunkai found the old clothes he had left on the mountain for him to wear, and put his own clothes and money bag on the carriage, and the carriage went again Let Yan Yun drive away.

This matter can only be blamed on his own carelessness. When changing clothes last night, he forgot to take out the purse.

Zhao Ji was wearing a dark blue gown. Yan Yunkai was much taller than him, so he had to lift the clothes up after fastening his belt.The toga has big sleeves, really elegant feeling.

Without any money, Zhao Ji said to the child apologetically, "Come with me to the store, and I will ask the guy to bring you candy."

The child had been to the bathhouse before, so he didn't doubt it, so he followed Zhao Ji into the bathhouse.

Zhao Ji had been here once before, and the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper knew him well.Seeing him coming, he immediately greeted him with a smile, and Zhao Ji asked if there was any food for the child who led the way.The shopkeeper really took out two pieces of sugar cakes, which were originally prepared to fill the stomach when he was too busy at noon.

The bathhouses in Xicheng District are very busy, with people fetching water from morning till night.This is not so much a bathhouse as a building where water is boiled, because people here think it is more cost-effective to fetch water to go home.And if these people are not watching, they will definitely fetch more water, so the guys here are extraordinarily busy.

The shopkeeper saw that Zhao Ji finally came, so he said to Zhao Ji with a bitter face, "Why don't we hire another person." Besides being very busy, he also had a little selfishness. He wanted his nephew to work here.But this bathhouse basically doesn't make money, so when it comes to recruiting people, you can't ask the big manager above, but Zhao Ji, the big boss, is more effective.

Zhao Ji agreed to the shopkeeper's request, and asked him to talk to the steward himself, paid another tael to the account, and left again.

Zhao Ji went out, but the child had not eaten the sugar pancakes yet. When he saw Zhao Ji coming out, he greeted Zhao Ji with a smile and said, "My lord, let me take you out. I don't want your sugar pancakes this time."

Zhao Ji already remembered the way, but did not refuse.

One big and one small were walking on the road, Zhao Ji looked at the dirt road under his feet, and thought in his heart that when the cement production increased in the future, the imperial court could pay for the repair of the road in Xicheng.

The southern city is a commercial street, the eastern city is home to rich and well-to-do families, and the northern side is the imperial palace and high-ranking families. They all use stone slabs to build roads, but there is no need to rush to build cement roads.

Repairing bridges and repairing roads is the responsibility of the imperial court. Zhao Ji knew that after the cement was produced, the biggest buyer must be the imperial court of the Jin Dynasty, and Yan Yunkai now holds a lot of power.He felt that the quality of the product must be well controlled, and people would not say that Yan Yun was using power for personal gain.

The things they produce, whether it is ink, alcohol, or cement, are good things that benefit the people.Yan Yunkai was selfless and restrained himself for the great Jin court, in order to repay the late emperor's kindness of upbringing, Zhao Ji did not want him to be criticized in any way.

Zhao Ji was lost in thought when suddenly a woman came out from the side, pulled the child in front and said, "Yang Xiaoer, go back quickly, your mother is dying."