Four wheelbarrows... Each wheelbarrow has two wooden crates on it.

Each of the wooden boxes contained 300 popsicles wrapped in oiled paper... Oil paper is the kind of paper used to make oil paper umbrellas, which existed in the Tang Dynasty, and later, oil paper umbrellas were transmitted to Japan and Korea in the Tang Dynasty, and Japan called oil paper umbrellas "Tang umbrellas" in the early days.

Of course, oil paper is not cheap, so Li Zhan told him that oil paper should be taken back.

Each popsicle sells for a penny, if you want to take away the oil paper, you have to pay an extra penny, of course, the price of oil paper is not a penny, to ask for a penny is not to want the other party to take away the oil paper, good reuse.

It's three o'clock in the morning today... The whole family got up and made 2,400 popsicles together, loaded them into a truck, and wrapped them in a duvet.

Zhang Damao, Zhang Wen a car, Li Dafu, Li Sheng a car, Zhang Hei, Zhang Liang a car, Zhang Shun, Zhang Gong a car... Four cars and eight people, carrying dry food and water, left the courtyard early, divided into four directions, and started their first road of selling popsicles to four different places.

Watching the eight people leave, Yue Niang came to her son's side and asked in a whisper, "Son... Two thousand four hundred, can you sell them? ”

Looking at his worried mother, Li Zhan smiled confidently: "Mother... You can rest assured... It must not be enough to sell. ”

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Changan... The ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties is the capital with the most dynasties, the longest and the most influential capital in Chinese history, ranking first among the four ancient capitals in China.

Chang'an, which was nine years of Zhenguan, had a million people, and some so-called big countries in Europe at that time were still small earthen cities.

Cen Shen's "Listening to the Flute on an Autumn Night": "There are millions of families in Chang'an City, and I don't know who plays the night flute. Han Yu's "Going Out": "Millions of families in Chang'an, there is nothing to go out." Yuan Zhen's "Ten Songs of Repatriation": "Millions of families in the city, grievances and miscellaneous pipes." ”

has talked about the number of people in Chang'an, but this number is not the number of people in Chang'an that is directly mentioned.

In Chang'an, the number of citizens: about 500,000. Referring to the average household of Jingzhao Prefecture of 5.4 people, the number of ordinary people in the urban area is about 486,000, and according to the average household population statistics of the Tang Dynasty, the maximum number of people per household is 6, and the number of urban citizens is about 540,000. In compromise, there are about 500,000 citizens in the urban area.

And then the nobility and their servants: 100 thousand. As the capital of the Tang Empire, Chang'an City was inhabited by a large number of heroes and nobles, and the so-called princes were as many as dogs and Hou Bo walked all over the land, and there were a large number of slaves, domestic servants and subordinates under these people. Assuming that there were 1,000 Wang An nobles in Chang'an, with an average of 100 people per household (including domestic servants and slaves), there would be 100,000 people.

Army: 100,000 people. Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, with about 100,000 troops in Gongweijing.

Others: about 100,000. religious people, 2 to 30,000; Royal Palace, 3 to 40 thousand; foreigners, imperial examination holders, Beijing offices, etc., 2 to 30,000; unemployed, 1 to 20,000 people; Summed up, 8 to 120,000, take the median value of 100,000.

There are 800,000 people here, and the million people mentioned in Tang poems also include the suburbs. In fact, there are also a large number of people in the suburbs outside Chang'an, that is to say, Li Zhan's popsicles do not need to enter Chang'an at all, and there are a huge crowd of 200,000 people in the periphery.

200,000 people consume 2,400 popsicles is not enough, which is why Li Zhan is not worried at all.

Of course, Li Zhan's self-confidence is completely correct... The first is many, the second is scarce, and the third is cheap.

Together, these factors make up Li Zhan's full self-confidence.

Li Tai Fook... Li Sheng... The two of them pushed the wheelbarrow, and they walked less than five miles... encountered a big business, and when he saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of him, Li Dafu immediately said to his second son beside him: "Ah... Flash, the army came. ”

"The army is coming?" Li Sheng was a little hindsight.

However, soon, a cavalry of about 300 people rushed over, you must know that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is very strong, so the intensity of training is also very large, and the leader of this cavalry is Cheng Zhimo, the eldest son of Cheng Yanjin.

This training was a long-distance run.

"Ahh It's really hot...! Cheng Chumo slowly slowed down the horse, wiped the sweat from his head and shouted, "Brothers, let's rest in the shade of the tree in front of us for a while." ”

In this way, Cheng Chumo's three hundred cavalry came to the place where Li Dafu and Li Sheng were standing.

Although Cheng Chumo is a military general, he is the same as his father, wilted, this wilted person, has high emotional intelligence, does not have that kind of arrogant energy, and is more kind to people.

When he came to Li Dafu and Li Sheng's side, the corners of his mouth also said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, I am the general of the Tang Left Guard, I came here to train today, the weather is too hot, so like you, take a rest in the shade of this tree, don't disturb." ”

"Ahh Don't bother... Don't bother...! Li Dafu said again and again that it doesn't matter, after all, everyone who is an official is so polite to you, so what can you say about a small person.

Just when Li Dafu saw that the three hundred cavalry had dismounted and rested, and followed Li Dafu to prepare to take his son Li Sheng to the village in front.

Suddenly.. Li Dafu heard the conversation of the soldiers.

"Oops... This hellish weather is really going to be hot, General.., the water in the kettle is hot, it's still morning. ”

"That's it, General... How far do we have to go? ”

"I'm going to get heat stroke, yes... Will there be ice when we go back today? ”

"Dream... We're going to have ice until at least July, and it's still early. ”

"Oh the hell...!"

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The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Li Dafu, who was about to leave, stopped, and then pushed the wheelbarrow to Cheng Chumo's side and asked cautiously: "General... I have a new anti-heat weapon here, do you want to buy it and eat it? ”

"A weapon to relieve the heat...?" Cheng Chumo looked at Li Dafu, and then looked at the big wooden box on Li Dafu's wheelbarrow, revealing a hint of surprise and said: "Cold wine...!" ”

"Hehe..." Li Dafu shook his head with a smile and said: "The general said that he was joking, how could we dare to make wine privately, the weapon in my wooden box is a popsicle." ”

"Popsicles?" Cheng Chumo was surprised: "What is that, why haven't I heard of it." ”

Seeing Cheng Chu's surprise, Li Dafu immediately said to Li Sheng behind him: "Shengzi... Hurry up and take one out and give it to the general to taste. ”

"Got it, Dad...!"

Li Sheng hurriedly opened the wooden box, only to see that there was a silk quilt in the wooden box first, followed by Li Sheng to open it layer by layer, took out a popsicle wrapped in oiled paper, and carefully uncovered the oiled paper.

"Ice cubes...!" The eyes of all the cavalrymen lit up.

"Oops...!" Cheng Chumo was also surprised and said, "You actually have ice cubes... It's really a good antidote to the heat. ”

followed Cheng Chumo to take the popsicle directly, took a bite with a 'goo', and then said in surprise: "It's still sweet... Not bad... What is this uncle's surname? ”

Cheng Chumo looked at Li Dafu and asked.

"Ahh General, my name is Li Dafu, you can call me Dafu. Li Dafu said respectfully.

"I'm younger than you, you're my elder, I can't call you Dafu, so let's do it... Let's be kind, let's call you Uncle Dafu! After speaking, Cheng Chumo smiled.

Li Dafu didn't even dare to say it, but accepted Cheng Chumo's title, after all, being called uncle by a general, that feeling made Li Dafu a little fluttering.

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