Chapter 705 (1/2)

The more you go to the center of the city, the higher level of the United fleet will find that the city is different. There are a lot of buildings that they don't even know what they are doing. They only know the function of these buildings after asking, which also makes these bumpkins marvel.

For example, they see that there is always a building with a large area on both sides of the main road at a certain distance from the intersection of another auxiliary road. This kind of building is painted with white lime, and has two doors and several windows. The most curious thing is that there is a blue mark on the door frames of the two doors of this building. The blue mark on one door is a villain, and the mark on the other door seems to be a villain in a skirt

Of course, they don't know this is a public toilet, because in this era, there is no such thing as a public toilet in Europe

Public toilets have appeared in China for a long time, but they did not appear in major European cities or even in the capital, even at the end of the 18th century.

In fact, in ancient Rome, there were so-called public toilets in Europe. In those days, the ancient Greeks, who loved beauty by nature, invented the decorative chamber pot. They loved to take it with them at banquets and travel.

But the ancient Romans were different. They paid attention to reality, so they invented sewers. However, sewers were not available to everyone. The use of sewers required a license, and the license was expensive. Therefore, only a few rich families could have this sanitation, and ordinary Roman families could only use public toilets.

However, the sanitary facilities of this so-called public toilet are very poor. People have to endure the feces coming back from the upstream. This kind of public toilet is even worse than the dry toilet in China. Therefore, this kind of public toilet is not really a public toilet in the true sense.

This situation could not be changed, so the Romans did not use public toilets much. When they were at home, they would use a simple earthen pot as a night pot, and then pour the excrement out of the window.

For more than a thousand years, people didn't feel that it was wrong to follow this move. Instead, they formed the habit of gentlemen walking on the left side of women, because they could block the ”dirty rain” from flying in the air at any time

The more common phenomenon is that people urinate and defecate on the streets. It is a very common phenomenon in almost all European cities, including London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and other capital cities at this time

This poor sanitation led to the outbreak of the black death in the middle ages, which killed a third of the people in Europe in just a few years. Therefore, it was not until the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century that the European view of toilets changed significantly. The excretion phenomenon, which used to be regarded as inevitable, became a hidden function. Although the phenomenon of overcrowding and stinking was increasing, fortunately, people finally learned to find a hiding place for potties!

Although the outbreak of the industrial revolution led to a population explosion, public toilets still did not appear at this time, and the streets of many European cities were still full of garbage and feces. But now in some countries, the location of the dunghill will be marked on the city map. This is the opportunity for the emergence of public toilets in the real sense

In a word, if you haven't seen London or Paris in this era, you can't imagine how messy these famous cities are. It's no exaggeration to say that the slums of ah San are much better than those of London or Paris in this era!

So, when these bumpkins saw that this kind of public toilet is specially prepared for the common people, and it's still so neat, these guys are all in a mess.