Like other lifangs in Chang'an, the West City is also closed. The east is precious and the west is rich. Zhuque Street is the central axis of Chang'an. The east of Zhuque Street belongs to Wannian County, and the west is Chang'an County. The north of the East City is home to the mansions of nobles and bureaucrats. The west city, especially on the edge of the West City, is mostly where wealthy businessmen live.

In the southern area of ​​the east and west cities of the outer city, there are mostly ordinary people in the city.

Although the West City is not as crowded with honors in the East City, it is worse than the bustling.

Zhang Chao followed his father around the Chang'an city wall, from east to south city to west city, and entered the city through the south gate of Yanping Gate, the three gates of the Xicheng. There was a team of guard soldiers standing at the gate, and these soldiers were also soldiers of the foreigners. They were not very strict with the people entering the city. Most of them were directly allowed, and only some of the eye would be called to the side to question. And those vendors with goods would also be called to the side to check and pay taxes.

Zhang Chao and his father each carried a willow basket, which was not a lot of goods. But his father was carrying a horizontal knife, and Zhang Chao's hair could not cover his short hair.

"Where are people? What are you doing when you go into the city? What is in the basket on your back?"

A very young officer, who was wearing a mountain armor, called out to the two.

“Have you ever had a place?”

Passing the Way is equivalent to the road guide of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a kind of pass. Generally, you have to pass the Way a hundred miles away from home.

"I am the soldier of the Bailu Cheqi Mansion in the Banner Army, and the deputy of the team Zhang Tieqi. This is my son, Zhang Chao." My father reported his identity without being humble or arrogant.

As he spoke, the father took out his official seal.

The bronze official seal is not big, but it contains the official position and name of the father on it.

The young officer took it and checked it carefully, then handed it back, and smiled, "It turns out that we are our comrades-in-law participating in the flag army, good brother."

"I am also a member of the flag army, the ten thousand years old soldier of the Cavalry Mansion. I am currently the brigade commander. My name is Cui Yan. My brother can be called me Wulang."

"Hello, sir." Dad saluted.

The flag army was the Wanniandao army among the twelve roads in Guanzhong, the Tang Dynasty, and each of the twelve roads in Guanzhong, one army. The Wanniandao army was the flag army.

The current military system of the Tang Dynasty was actually a bit chaotic, and the military system was nominally the Twelve Guards. But in fact, the name of the Twelve Guards was restored from the founding of the Tang Dynasty and was also appointed as officers of the Twelve Guards. But in fact, the Twelve Guards and Four Prefectures of the Tang Dynasty are now just short names.

The real army of the Tang Dynasty was actually divided into several pieces, the first piece was the twelve twelve armies. These twelve armies were equivalent to dividing the Guanzhong area into twelve military subdivisions. Each military region had an army, each leading about 100 to 20 cavalry palaces and cheqi palaces.

The biggest difference between the Twelve Dao and the Twelve Dao is that the Twelve Dao of the Sui Dynasty was mixed with each guard. There may be twenty military prefectures in the same area, but these twenty prefectures do not only belong to one guard, but many guards, and each guard may have one or two guards. This approach greatly prevents local generals from gaining self-respecting troops and forming separatist forces, and can effectively supervise each other.

But now it is the early Tang Dynasty, and we want to fight for the world. Guanzhong is the core of the Tang Dynasty, and the surrounding areas were not peaceful at the beginning. Therefore, Guanzhong was divided into twelve roads and twelve armies. This way, we can concentrate our forces to defend, which is more effective.

The Twelve Arms are an important force of the Tang Dynasty's prefecture soldiers, with more than 200 guards and more than 100,000 guards in name.

But in addition to these 12 armies, the Tang Dynasty also had several important military forces, which were the army of Li Yuan and his son. After Li Yuan became emperor, he selected 30,000 elite troops to station in the capital from the army he had started with. This army was also called Yuan Cong Imperial Guard.

The prince Li Jiancheng also had his own soldiers and horses in the East Palace, called the Sixth Direction of the East Palace, and the Three Defenses and Five Prefectures of the East Palace. The Sixth Direction of the East Palace and the Wei Prefectures have a large number of soldiers, and they are also an elite force.

In addition, Qin King Li Shimin and Qi Min Li Jiancheng also each have their own royal palaces, called the Six Left Guardians, as well as the Martial Palace and the Inner Palace, which are also tens of thousands.

Of course, the Li family members also held more or less troops in their hands, such as Li Xiaogong who was in the southern expedition, Li Shentong and others, and Chai Shao, the son-in-law of Princess Changping, also held an army in his hands.

In addition, many of the rebel kings who surrendered to the Li Tang Dynasty still had troops on the side, such as King Yan Li Yi, King Wu Du Fuwei, etc.

Nominally, all the troops of the Tang Dynasty belong to the Twelve Guards, but in particular, they belong to several hills. The Twelve Army is considered an army nominally under the jurisdiction of the court, and is more neutral than the army of the crown prince and the two kings.

The Banner Army is under the Wannian Daoxia. In Guanzhong, several counties such as Bashang belong to the Wannian Dao, and all the prefectures are under the Banner Army. My father’s Bailu Mansion is also under the Banner Army, and Cui Yan is obviously also from the Banner Army.

However, my father is in his 50s and he is a team deputy, but he looks less than 30s, but he is already a coach. However, when Zhang Chao heard that the other party’s surname was Cui, he felt that this was nothing.

The Cui family is one of the top wealthy families in the Sui and Tang dynasties. The Cui family, known as the Five Clans and Seven High Schools, occupied two sects. The Cui family of Boling and the Cui family of Qinghe, are all amazing, no matter which Cui family it is.

Among the seven sects, there are two Li clans, Longxi Li clans, Zhaojun Li clans, and the Tang Dynasty royal clans are one of the Li clans in Longxi.

Cui Yan did not have the arrogance of those second generations, and was very polite to his father who was just a team deputy, so he even talked a few more words.

"So you are the iron spear general who rushed into the Hebei army with an iron spear to win the vanguard merit in the last battle of Huzhu. He has been famous for a long time." Cui Yan seemed to be a young man who admired warriors. After knowing that his father was the one who made merit last time in the army, he became even more enthusiastic.

"I'm just an old soldier, I dare not call him a general." The father said politely.

"Brother is too humble. What are you doing in Chang'an?"

"It's nothing, do some business." Dad didn't say much in front of his admirers.

However, Zhang Chao saw that Cui Lushuai was a tall, rich and handsome man, young and rich, and had a very pleasant personality. He said at the moment, "We two made some yellow buns to sell in Chang'an. The buns are delicious, not sour and sweet, and they can satisfy your hunger. Brother Wulang is hungry when he is on duty here, so why not eat them."

While talking, Zhang Chao had already lifted the willow basket and took out two still steaming yellow buns from it.

"Oh, it smells so good."

Cui Yan couldn't help but praise, "Isn't this steamed cake? Why is it called yellow steamed bun?"

"Brother Wulang, this is not an ordinary steamed cake. Look at our yellow buns, and when you take them out, you will have a fragrance from a distance. And look, is this bun so big? Look at the cracked hole, the red bean and date sand inside is exposed. And if you hold it in your hand, you will know how soft the bun is."

Cui Yan originally saw that it was made of yellow steamed cakes, so he had no appetite. Usually, he ate steamed cakes with white flour, and the filling inside was made of mutton.

However, the yellow bun was stuffed into his hand. When he pressed his hand, he found that it was indeed very soft and unreasonable.

"Brother Wulang, try to eat one. If you give me one, I want to eat two. If it doesn't taste delicious, please scold me."

"I want to try if it's so delicious." Cui Yan couldn't refuse after hearing what Zhang Chao said, so he picked up one and took a bite.

He originally thought that if it was not delicious, he would stop eating it immediately.

You can take a bite.

Wow, it's so soft, and why isn't this steamed cake sour?

It is loose and soft, not only not sour, but also seems to have a sweet taste. Take another bite and bite the red bean paste inside. The sand filling made of steamed red beans and jujubes are both bean-flavored and sweet, which brings a rare taste to the yellow steamed cake.

"tasty."

After saying that it was delicious, Cui Yan couldn't help but eat it again. A yellow bun was only over 100 grams, which looked like a little over 2 taels of Tang Dynasty.

Tang people generally had a large appetite, and men could eat almost ten.

Cui Yan ate the yellow steamed buns that were more than two taels in a few bites. He couldn't help but eat the second one. When he found that both of them had their stomachs, he smiled at Zhang Chao and his son with some embarrassment.

"I laughed at you. I was really hungry today. But this yellow bun is really delicious. I have never eaten such a delicious steamed bun."

"Brother Cui, eat more if you are hungry."

Cui Yan smiled, "Did you make this bun yourself? How many did you bring to sell it?"

"Five hundred."

"Let me do this, I'll cover all five hundred. I just happened to ask my brothers on duty to fill their stomachs and ask them to compensate for such delicious steamed cakes."

"It's yellow buns." Zhang Chao corrected.

"Yes, yellow buns, so delicious, it's much better than those steamed cakes, and it's better than mutton white flour steamed cakes. How much does one cost?"

"Five quotations per." Zhang Chao did not bid farewell to the price.

"Ah, it's only sold for five cents every so delicious? Ordinary steamed cakes are sold for five cents every now, and those with white noodles with meat fillings are sold for ten cents every now."

Zhang Chao smiled and reiterated that one more time. Steamed rice cakes of the same size are also sold for five times, but the yellow buns are very soft and lighter than ordinary ones, so the ingredients are much saved. Moreover, there are many cheaper red bean paste in this yellow bun.

Ordinary steamed cakes sell for five cents per person, and meat-filled steamed cakes sell for ten cents per person, and the profit is far less than that of yellow buns per person.

One five-word one, five hundred is two thousand five hundred.

Although Cui Yan is tall, rich and handsome, he cannot carry more than ten kilograms of copper coins with him. However, the tall, rich and handsome family naturally does not bring copper coins, and he pays for silver.

A small silver bar is exactly two taels.

One tael of silver is used as one thousand six coins, and two taels is three thousand two.

My father was about to cut a little with a knife and find it to Cui Yan, but Cui Yan waved his hand and said, "Brother, this steamed cake..."

"Yellow buns."

Zhang Chao corrected it again. So Cui Yan smiled and continued, "Yes, my brother, these yellow buns are so delicious, five-cent one is really cheap. Don't look for these two taels of silver sticks, so why are you doing polite?"

My father insisted on looking for him, but Zhang Chao only looked at him and didn't say anything. In the end, my father still couldn't find him. He was rich and willful, so my father had to accept him.

Cui Yan took two baskets of yellow steamed buns and immediately called two team members to ask them to come and divide the steamed buns. Although there were a lot of 500 steamed buns, Cui Yan's brigade had two teams of 100 people, one with five people, and they were all just half full.

They are all soldiers of the Qingzheng Mansion, both of whom are big and thick, and no one can use a basin when eating.

While eating, the soldiers praised the delicious food, which attracted the attention of pedestrians entering and leaving the city gate.

"This steamed cake is so delicious?"

"Brother, are there any steamed cakes left? I'll give me two too."

"Give me two."

Finally, some lucky passers-by got some compensation from the gate-guarding flag sergeant, and after eating, they all cheered loudly.

"I'm sorry, everyone, the yellow buns sold out today are sold out, there are only so many, I'm really sorry. If you think they are delicious, come back to help us promote them. We are yellow buns. Zhang Tieqinjia, Zhangjia, Zhangjia, Bailu Township, Bashang. It is unique, not sour but sweet, and the most delicious yellow buns are only 5 cents each, which is the same as ordinary steamed cakes, but they are better than meat-filled white flour steamed cakes."

"Is this guy still going to be tomorrow? I'll pass by here every morning, and leave some for me tomorrow? I want fifty."

"I want fifty ones, too."
Chapter completed!