Chapter 189: The Opening Ceremony of the Tang Dynasty

In the next few days, Wang Ping'an began to get busy, and he had to give advice to Wu's family, help her improve the brewing method, and sort out the medicinal diet recipes, busy from morning to night every day, although it was hard, but the life was also fulfilling!

During this time, Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi also came twice, saying some interesting stories about Chang'an, although they are not very knowledgeable, but they can travel widely, only a few days of hard work, they actually met dozens of Beijing scholars, eating, drinking, and having fun every day, chanting poems against each other, and living a more fulfilling life than Wang Ping'an!

Zhao Bi specially told Wang Ping'an that in the past few days, somehow, the wind of poetry in Beijing has flourished, and when he went to the Ministry of Rites to report, he even asked him to mention a poem on the spot.

However, the wine in Zhao Dagongzi's stomach was more than ink, so he couldn't do it on the spot, so he had no choice but to urinate, and escaped from the Ministry of Rites by going to the thatched house.

Lu Xiuzhi was the same, they went to the Ministry of Rites together, escaped at the same time, and then found a down-and-out literati together, spent money to make two poems, and then dared to go to the Ministry of Rites again.

The Ministry of Rites played such a hand, and I heard that it was the prince's instructions, although I couldn't figure out the reason, but the poetry and literature club in Chang'an City suddenly increased. Zhao Lu and the others are not literati, but they are definitely, and they join in the fun, anyway, they have money, and they spend money to buy dozens of poems for backup, and every time they have a banquet, they take them out to offer treasures, which is also quite well received!

Wang Ping'an listened to it funny, and it was not easy to express any opinions, so he asked Zhao Bi about Sanqi, and Zhao Bi said that there was no news back from Xuzhou now, and it was not clear whether he had found this flavor medicine, and he could not find it in the place where it was grown, so he could not purchase it in large quantities.

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi came twice, but Qiu Tingxuan didn't come, I don't know what he was busy with, and Li Zhi in the palace didn't send anyone to summon him again, maybe he was reading the poems sent by the candidates, or he was busy with something else, Wang Ping'an couldn't ask, so he had to endure it.

It's funny to say, the two little girls saw that he was waiting anxiously, and they even began to chant the Buddha at the same time, hoping that someone in the palace would be sick, so that the young master could enter the palace to show his ability!

A few days later, although the liquor had not yet been brewed, the matter of the medicinal food workshop was almost ready.

At midnight on this day, Hamiti and Ayidin came running, together with Yin Jiucheng, and the three of them picked up Wang Ping'an, who was sleeping, and asked him to put on his clothes, and went to the East Market with them.

Wang Ping'an couldn't, so he had to get up, and called Di Renjie, Ouyang Li and others, and everyone went out of the Inspiration Temple together and rushed to Dongshi. As soon as I went out, I saw seven or eight carriages parked outside, and they were lined up.

Hamiti said with a smile: "No disease, today is the day when the medicinal food shop opens, this business is to sell medicine, in order to be lucky, I specially bought five cars of explosive rods, let's celebrate, make some big moves, so that the guests can come!" ”

Wang Ping'an was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said, "Burst rod, it's firecracker, right?" He came to a large car behind him, opened the door, and looked inside. I saw that there were a lot of bamboo tubes more than half a person high in the car, bundled one by one, neatly stacked in the car!

Hamiti said: "It's okay to call firecrackers, anyway, it's a bamboo tube, put saltpeter in it, this thing can be loud, if you light it, ping pong, and full of smoke, really happy, the guests have to run to our medicinal food shop when they hear it!" ”

Wang Ping'an sighed, thinking: "There were firecrackers in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and saltpeter was added!" ”

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, there were indeed firecrackers, but they were also called firecrackers. At first, the installation of nitrate firecrackers was not used to listen to the sound, but it was a kind of medicine to cure diseases, so understand it!

Because there was a great plague, the miasma of the mountains made people sick, so the people put saltpeter in bamboo tubes, ignited it and made it burst, making a loud noise, and thick smoke, using this method to disperse the miasma and stop the epidemic. When people saw that this kind of thing was useful, it spread, thus forming the earliest prototype of firecrackers.

It can be seen from this that the Chinese people invented gunpowder to cure diseases and save people, not to kill people like the West, and the difference between civilization and barbarism lies in this!

got into the carriage and rushed all the way to the East Market, which had not yet opened. The largest market in the world at the time was similar to a city within a city, and it was not allowed to open until the time came!

When they came to the gate of the East Market, everyone got out of the car, and Hamiti commanded the servants, took off part of the blasting rods on the car, and lined up along the street near the East Market, and discharged far away!

Wang Ping'an understood what they were going to do at a glance, and shouted: "I said, master, what are you going to do in the middle of the night, you, this is a disturbance to the people, be careful that someone arrests you!" ”

Hamiti said with a smile: "It's not wartime, there is no curfew in Chang'an City, and there is no law that says that you are not allowed to set off explosive rods in the middle of the night!" Disturbing the people, let's spend so much money to buy a blasting rod, what's it for, isn't it just to disturb the people! "Wave his hand and order the servants to light the fire!

Good guy, there are four or five hundred blasting rods that come out, and this one is really earth-shattering! Just listen to the bang, clang, this street is lively!

The soldiers guarding the door of the East City all jumped up, what's the matter, it's so dignified, but it's not a festival, who has money and no place to spend it, and they actually put a blasting rod! They all flocked to the wall and looked down! The common people were also so frightened that they jumped up from their beds, opened their own doors, and probed out to watch!

Well, the whole street is filled with smoke, and people are choking and coughing!

"Who has money and nowhere to spend, buy bamboo tubes to burn, this is the middle of the night, so that people can't sleep!" Some of the people did not want to do it, but cried out.

There were even people who were in a daze, and after being awakened by the sound of a rod, ran barefoot into the street, shouting: "Help, it's on fire!" ”

Wang Ping'an covered his ears and shouted: "Master Ha, be careful to arouse public anger, block us, and beat us up!" ”

Hamiti laughed and said, "No, no, they can't be happy!" With a wave of his hand, one servant took out a bucket of copper coins, while the other servant grabbed the copper coins and threw them out into the street!

The coins were all brand new, shining yellow, and when they were thrown into the street, the servants shouted: "No sickness will be long peace, no sickness will be long peace!" ”

The people who were awakened were stunned, they were very angry, and they were trying to reason with the person who set off the explosive rod in the middle of the night, but suddenly found that the other party actually threw money on the ground!

I've heard of pies falling from the sky, but I haven't encountered them, but copper coins are dropped on the street in the middle of the night, and this kind of good thing happened tonight!

The people were overjoyed, and they didn't care about any theories or theories, so they all ran out of the door screaming, picking up money all over the street!

But there is not a lot of money, the street is so long, and the people who pick up the money are scrambling, the lucky ones can pick up a handful, and the unlucky ones can't even pick up one or two!

There was chaos on the street, Di Renjie was dumbfounded, shook his head and said: "Ha master, you are really rich, it is the first time I have met you when you are so old, you don't treat money as money, and you throw it away like this!" ”

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "It's really temperamental, and it breaks out...... Ah, that's not how the word came from, first release the blast rod, and then issue copper coins! ”

The streets were chaotic for a long time, and the people rushed to shout, "Are you still throwing it away?" Throw it again, we'll all wait! ”

Hamiti smiled: "Listen, everyone, when the market opens in the morning, we will throw it again, everyone go back to sleep first, please be early in the morning!" ”

But who of the people will go back? All...... At the end of ten years, I can't encounter such a good thing, who is willing to go back to sleep if you can pick up money for nothing! They all waited in the streets, and no one went home again. There were more and more people, and even the people in other neighborhoods listened to the sound and came to see it, and when they heard that there was money to pick up, they refused to leave!

I waited for most of the night, the sky was getting brighter, and it was time for the gate of the East Market to open. Hamiti really asked someone to place the blasting rod again, this time it was a burst rod stacked at the gate of the East Market, and the ping-pong floor was put into a big swing, shrouded in a piece of gunpowder smoke in the gatehouse, and the smoke was billowing out, so angry that the soldiers guarding the door scolded him, but he couldn't find a reason to arrest people!

Then take out a bucket of money, throw it at the gate of the city, the people are a big robbery, come early in front of the front, they robbed a lot, but the late ones can't squeeze in, so they have to shout, ask when to throw the third time!

The gate of the East Market opened, Wang Ping'an and others drove the carriage into the market, all the way east, and soon arrived at a big restaurant, this is the industry of Hamiti, used as a restaurant for medicinal food workshops, this restaurant is bigger than the Hesitant Building, up to eight floors, formerly known as the Eight Heavens, which means that it is only one less than the Nine Heavens!

When he arrived at the open space at the entrance of the restaurant, Hamiti waved his hand and said, "Put it again!" ”

The servants unloaded a cart of blasting rods and piled them directly on the open field, and the dings were scattered again, but this time they didn't pay again!

The East Market is very large, there are two squares as big, and there are eight market gates alone, if you want to gather people together on this scale, the movement must be super loud!

The people in the other shops were far away, but they all heard the voice, and they all wondered, what happened, why was there such a big movement? I couldn't help but be curious, and I came to take a look!

Wang Ping'an and others went to the restaurant, and at this time, the huge plaque upstairs was still covered with red silk, and the name of the store was not shown to the world! They went up to the second floor and stood right on top of the plaque!

Looking down, I saw the rising sun, and countless spectators surrounded the nearby streets. Although the East Market is not as prosperous as the West Market, it cannot reach the daily flow of 80,000 people, this record has never been broken, but it can also reach about 50,000 people per day!

At this time, there were seven or eight thousand people on the street outside the restaurant, which was the highest number of customers that could attract customers when the market opened in the morning!

Hamiti smiled at Wang Ping'an and said: "No disease, you have to reveal this color, if you don't reveal the hijab of our medicinal food workshop, others will not dare to do it!" ”

A servant presented a delicate bamboo pole and handed it to Wang Ping'an!

Wang Ping'an said with a smile: "I'm a big girl on a sedan chair, it's the first time!" He took a deep breath, picked up the bamboo pole, and picked it hard, and the red silk covering the plaque fell to the pole!

Raise your head below, look at the lively people, and come out in unison!

Under the sun, I saw gold characters on a blue background on the plaque, with five big characters written on it: No illness and long peace!