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Chapter 16 Uncle Dafu

Four wheelbarrows each have two wooden boxes on it.

There are three hundred popsicle paper wrapped in oil paper in each wooden box, which is the kind of paper that makes oil paper umbrellas. It was found in the Tang Dynasty. Later, oil paper umbrellas were introduced to Japan in the Tang Dynasty. In the early days, Japan called oil paper umbrellas "Tang umbrellas".

Of course, oil paper is not cheap, so Li Zhan reminded that oil paper will be taken back.

Each popsicle is sold for one cent. 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. If you want one penny, you don’t want the other party to take away the oil paper, so you can use it again.

At three o'clock this morning, the whole family got up and made 2,400 popsicles together. After that, they loaded the car and wrapped it with a velvet quilt.

Zhang Damao, Zhang Wen, Li Dafu, Li Sheng, Zhang Hei, Zhang Liang, Zhang Shun, Zhang Gong, four cars and eight people, and they took dry food and water to the courtyard early, and began their first road of selling popsicles in four different places.

Seeing the eight people leaving, Yue Niang came to her son and asked quietly, "Son, two thousand four hundred, can it be sold?"

After looking at his worried mother, Li Zhan smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry, it's not enough to sell."

The ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties of Chang'an is the capital with the most capitals, the longest time to build capital, and the most influential capital in Chinese history. It is the first of the four ancient capitals in China.

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, there were a total of one million people in Chang'an. At that time, some so-called big countries in Europe were still a small city.

Cen Shen's "Hearing the Flute at the Autumn Night": "There are millions of families in Chang'an, but I don't know who plays the night flute." Han Yu's "Going Out": "There are millions of families in Chang'an, but there is nothing to go out." Yuan Zhen's "Ten Poems of Exiting Joy": "There are millions of families in the city, and the miscellaneous wrinkles of grief."

Everyone talks about the number of people in Chang'an, but this number is not the number of people in Chang'an directly.

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

Then the nobles and their slaves: 100,000. As the capital of the Tang Empire, Chang'an City was home to a large number of heroes and nobles. The so-called kings and princes were like dogs, and the Hou Bo walked all over the ground. There were a large number of slaves, servants and tribes under these people. Assuming that there were 1,000 Wang'an nobles in Chang'an, with an average of 100 people per household (including servants and slaves), there were 100,000 people.

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

Others: about 100,000. Religious people, 20,000 to 30,000; imperial palaces, 30,000 to 40,000; foreigners, imperial examination candidates, Beijing offices, etc., 20,000 to 30,000; unemployed vagrants, 100,000 to 20,000; summarizing, 80,000 to 120,000, the median value is 100,000.

There are 800,000 people here, and the million people mentioned in Tang Shi also include the suburbs. In fact, there are also a large number of people in the suburbs outside Chang'an City. In other words, Li Zhan's popsicle does not need to enter Chang'an at all, and there is a huge crowd of 200,000 people on the periphery.

It is not enough to consume only 2,400 popsicles for 200,000 people. This is why Li Zhan is not worried at all.

Of course, Li Zhan’s confidence is completely correct. The first person is more people, the second person is less expensive, and the third person is cheap.

These factors combined together form Li Zhan's full confidence.

Li Dafu and Li Sheng pushed the wheelbarrow and encountered a big business after walking less than five miles. They saw smoke and dust rolling in front of them. Li Dafu immediately said to his second son beside him: "Ye shit, the army is here."

"The army is here?" Li Sheng realized it later.

However, soon, a cavalry with about 300 people rushed over. You should know that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was very strong, so the training intensity was also very strong. The leader of this cavalry was Cheng Chumo, the eldest son of Cheng Yaojin.

This training is a long-distance raid.

"Ah, it's really too hot!" Cheng Chumo slowly slowed down the horse, wiped the sweat from his head and shouted: "Brothers, let's take a rest under the shade of the trees ahead."

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

Although Cheng Chumo is a general, he is just like his father. This bad person has a high emotional intelligence and does not have the arrogance of being arrogant. He is also kind to others.

When he came to Li Dafu and Li Sheng, he also said with a smile on his lips: "Don't worry, I am the General of the Left Guard of the Tang Dynasty. I came here to train today. The weather is too hot, so just like you, take a break under the shade of the tree and don't disturb me."

"Ah, don't bother, don't bother!" Li Dafu said repeatedly that it doesn't matter. After all, officials are so polite to you. What else can you say, just a little citizen?

Just when Li Dafu saw that all three hundred cavalrymen were dismounted and resting, he followed Li Dafu to take his son Li Sheng to the village ahead.

Suddenly, Li Dafu heard the conversation between the soldiers.

"Oh, this ghost weather is really hot. General, the water in the kettle is hot, it's just the morning."

"That's right, how long will we have to rush forward?"

"I'm going to have heat stroke, by the way, will there be ice when we go back today?"

"Dream our ice will be at least July, it's still early."

"Oh, this ghost weather!"

The speaker was unintentional, and the listener was intentional. Li Dafu, who was originally going to leave, stopped walking, and then pushed the wheelbarrow to Cheng Chumo and asked carefully: "General, I have a new heat-relieving weapon. Do you want to buy it and eat it?"

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

"Haha." Li Dafu smiled and shook his head, "General was joking. How could we dare to make wine privately? The heat relief tool in my wooden box is popsicle."

"Popsicle?" Cheng Chumo was surprised: "What's that thing? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Seeing Cheng Chumo surprised, Li Dafu immediately said to Li Shengdao behind him: "Shengzi, take one out and give it to the general to taste."

"I understand, dad!"

Li Sheng quickly opened the wooden box, and saw a silk quilt in the wooden box first. After Li Sheng opened it layer by layer, he took out a popsicle wrapped in oil paper, and then carefully uncovered the oil paper.

"Ice!" All the cavalry's eyes lit up.

"Oh!" Cheng Chumo said in surprise: "You actually have ice cubes, which is really a heat-relieving tool."

Then Cheng Chumo took the popsicle and took a bite with a 'gulp', then said in surprise: "It's still sweet, is this uncle's surname?"

Cheng Chumo looked at Li Dafu and asked.

"Ah General, my name is Li Dafu, just call me Dafu." Li Dafu said respectfully.

"I am younger than you. You are my elder. You can't call you Dafu. Let's be more kind and call you Uncle Dafu!" After saying that, Cheng Chumo smiled.
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