Chapter 189 The opening ceremony of the Tang Dynasty

In the following days, Wang Ping'an began to get busy and asked Wu to give advice to her to improve her brewing methods and to organize her medicinal recipes. She was busy from morning to night every day. Although it was hard, her life was fulfilling!

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi have also been here twice and talked about interesting stories about Chang'an. Although they are not very knowledgeable, they have a wide range of friendship. In just a few days, they actually met dozens of scholars in Beijing. They eat, drink, have fun, recite poems and write pairs every day, and their lives are more fulfilling than Wang Ping'an!

Zhao Bi specially told Wang Ping'an that somehow the trend of writing poetry in the capital has been very popular these days. When he went to the Ministry of Rites to report, he actually asked him to bring a poem on the spot.

However, the wine in Master Zhao's belly was more than ink, so he could not do it anyway, so he had to urinate and escape from the Ministry of Rites by taking advantage of the reason for going to the cottage.

The same was true for Lu Xiuzhi. They went to the Ministry of Rites together and fled at the same time. Then they found a down-and-out literati together and spent money to write two poems. Only then did they dare to go to the Ministry of Rites again.

After playing with this, the Ministry of Rites was told that it was the prince's instruction. Although he couldn't figure out the reason, the poetry and prose classes in Chang'an City suddenly increased. Zhao and Lu were not literati, but they were definitely sensuals. They joined in the fun. Anyway, they had money and spent money to buy dozens of poems for spare use. They took them out to offer treasures at banquets, which was quite well received!

Wang Ping'an was funny and couldn't express any comments. He asked Zhao Bi about Panax notoginseng. Zhao Bi said that there has not been any news in Xuzhou yet, so it is unclear whether the medicine has been found and the growth place cannot be found, so it is impossible to purchase large quantities.

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi came twice, but Qiu Tingxuan had never been there. I don’t know what he was busy with, and Li Zhi in the palace did not send anyone to summon him again. Maybe he was watching the poems sent by the candidates or something else, so Wang Ping'an couldn’t ask, so he had to endure it.

It’s funny, when the two little girls saw that he was anxious to wait, they actually started to recite the Buddha at the same time, hoping that someone in the palace would get sick so that the young master could enter the palace to show his skills!

A few days later, although the spirits had not been brewed, the medicinal food shop was almost ready.

At midnight that day, Hamit and Aiding came, and together with Yin Jiucheng, the three of them pulled up Wang Ping'an, who was sleeping, and asked him to put on his clothes and go to Dongshi with them. Today is the day when the Medicinal Food Shop is open, so we have to prepare in advance.

Wang Ping'an couldn't get up, so he had to get up and called Di Renjie, Ouyang Li and others again. Everyone left the Inspiration Temple and rushed to the East City. As soon as they left, they saw seven or eight carriages parked outside and lined up.

Hamiti smiled and said, "No disease, today is the day when the medicinal food shop is open. This business sells medicine. In order to make good luck, I specially bought five cars of explosive rods. Let's celebrate and make some big noise so that all the guests can come!"

Wang Ping'an was stunned when he heard this and said, "The explosion rod is a firecracker, is it a firecracker?" He came to a large car behind, opened the door, and looked inside. He saw that there were many bamboo tubes more than half a person tall, packed in the car, neatly placing them in the car!

Hamiti said, "It's okay to call firecrackers. Anyway, it's just a bamboo tube, with saltpeter inside it. This thing is very loud. If it is lit, it will be full of smoke. It's really joyful. The guests will have to run to our medicinal food shop after hearing this!"

Wang Ping'an said, 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 that were equipped with sniffles, but they were also called sniffles. The firecrackers were not used to hear sounds at the beginning, but were considered a medicine for curing diseases. Let’s understand it this way!

Because there was a plague that caused people to get sick from the mountain mist, the people put saltpeter in bamboo tubes, ignited it and burst, making a huge sound, and strong smoke. This method was used to dispel the mountain mist and stop the epidemic from spreading. When people saw this thing very useful, they spread, thus forming the earliest prototype of firecrackers.

From this we can see that the Chinese people invented gunpowder to cure diseases and save people, rather than killing people like the West. This is the difference between civilization and barbarism!

After getting on the carriage, I rushed to Dongshi. At that time, Dongshi had not opened. The largest market in the world at that time was similar to a city in the city. The door was not allowed to be opened until time!

When they arrived at the entrance of Dongshi, everyone got out of the car. Hamiti commanded the servants, took off some of the explosive rods on the car, and lined up along the streets near Dongshi, and ran a long way!

Wang Ping'an understood what they were going to do at a glance and shouted, "I said, Mr. Ha, what are you going to do in the middle of the night? This is annoying the people. Be careful that someone will catch you!"

Hamiti smiled and said, "It's not during wartime. There is no curfew in Chang'an City, and there is no law that says that the explosive rods are not allowed to be launched in the middle of the night! Is it that we spend so much money to buy explosive rods? Isn't it just to disturb the people?" He waved his hand and ordered the servants to light the fire!

What a good guy, there were four or five hundred explosive rods that were put out. When I put them on, it was really shocking! I heard the bangs and slams, and the streets became lively!

All the soldiers guarding the gate of the East City jumped up. What's wrong? It's so good, but the New Year is nowhere to spend it. Who has money and no place to spend it? They even put up the detonating rod! They rushed to the wall and watched down! The people were also shocked and jumped up from the bed, opened the door of their houses, and looked out!

Okay, the whole street was filled with thick smoke, making people cough!

"Who has money and has nowhere to spend it? Buy bamboo tubes and burn it. It's midnight, so it won't make people sleep!" Some people were reluctant and shouted.

Some people who were sleeping in a daze, woke up by the sound of a blow-off, ran to the street barefoot and shouted, "Help, it's on fire!"

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

Hamiti laughed and said, "No, no, they are not 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 on the street!

The copper coins were brand new, and the yellow shining. After being thrown on the street, the servants shouted: "Peace will be safe without illness, and peace without illness!"

The people who were awakened were stunned. They were very angry and were about to argue with the person who was exploding the pole in the middle of the night, but suddenly they found that the other party actually threw money on the ground!

I have heard of the fact that a pie fell from the sky, but I have never encountered it. But I have encountered such a good thing as copper coins falling from the street in the middle of the night!

The people were overjoyed and didn't care about any theory or not. They shouted and rushed out, picking up money all over the streets!

But there is not a lot of money. The street is so long, and people who pick up money are rushing to get a handful of money. If you are lucky, you can pick up a handful of money. If you are unlucky, you can't even pick up one or two!

The street was in chaos, Di Renjie was stunned and shook his head and said, "Ha, you are so rich. I have been so old that I met you who don't regard money as money for this first time, and you actually throw it away like this!"

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "I really have temperament, an explosive household...ah, this word doesn't come from, right? First, let's use the explosive rod, and then send copper coins!"

The streets were chaotic for a long time, and the people rushed over and shouted, "Can you still throw them away? Throw them away again, we are all waiting!"

Hamiti smiled and said, "Listen to you, when the market opens tomorrow, we will throw it away again. Let's go back to bed first. Please go early at dawn!"

But who is willing to go back? Throughout a year...in the past ten years, I have never encountered such a good thing. If I can pick up money for free, who is willing to go back to sleep? I have been waiting on the street, but no one will go home again. There are more and more people, and even the people from other neighbors are heard and come to see them. They hear that they have money to pick it up, but they refuse to leave!

I waited for the middle of the night. It was getting darker and the gate of Dongshi was about to open. Hamiti really asked someone to place the explosive rod again. This time it was a explosive rod piled up at the entrance of Dongshi. It was a huge ping-pong, covering the gate tower in the smoke of gunpowder. The smoke was rolling. The soldiers guarding the gate were so angry that they cursed, but they couldn't find a reason to arrest people!

I took out another bull of money and threw it around at the gate of the city. The people snatched it again. Those who came early were surrounded by the front and naturally snatched a lot, but those who came late couldn't squeeze in, so I had to shout and ask when they would throw it away for the third time!

The gate of the East City opened, and Wang Ping'an and others drove into the market in a carriage. They walked eastward. Soon, they arrived at a large restaurant. This was Hamiti's property, which was used as a restaurant for medicinal food. This restaurant is larger than the Hesitation Building, as high as eight floors. It was originally named Eighth Heaven, which means it was only one level less than the Ninth Heaven!

When he arrived at the open space at the entrance of the restaurant, Hamitti waved his hand and said, "Let it go again!"

The servants unloaded a car of explosive rods and piled them directly on the open space. Dingbang was put in a mess again, but this time they did not send any money!

The East City is very big, with two yards as big as that of the market. There are eight market gates alone. If you want to concentrate everyone together in this size, the movement must be very loud!

People from other shops were far away, but they all heard the sound. They all wondered what happened, why was there such a big noise? They couldn't help but be curious and came to watch!

Wang Ping'an and others went to the restaurant. At this time, the huge plaque on the upper floor was still covered with red silk, and the store name was not displayed to the world! They climbed to the second floor and stood on the plaque!

Looking down, I saw the rising sun, and countless spectators surrounded the nearby streets. Although the East City is not as prosperous as the West City, it cannot reach the daily abortion of 80,000. This record has never been broken in East City, but it can reach the daily abortion of about 50,000!

At this time, there were seven or eight thousand people surrounding the street outside the restaurant. This was the highest number 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 lottery. If you don't reveal the veil of our medicinal food shop, no one dares to take action!"

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

Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "I am a big girl who has been in the sedan chair, and I've had my first encounter!" He took a deep breath, picked up the bamboo pole, and picked it up hard, and the red silk covered on the plaque fell against the pole!

The people who were watching the fun came out in unison!
Chapter completed!