Fushou ointment is opium.

Unlike what ordinary people imagine, it did not enter China until after the Opium War, in fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Arabia began to import it into China.

However, it did not catch on.

In the Ming Dynasty, some feudal states paid opium tribute to the royal family, and the price was higher than gold, so that the rich could try it.

It is worth mentioning that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of Chinese people smoking ordinary tobacco began to be serious, and large-scale tobacco fields began to rise.

For this reason, in 1639, Chongzhen even decreed that smoking would be banned throughout the country.

But in the Qing Dynasty, everything was in chaos.

During the Yongzheng period, opium was banned.

But the punishment is not high, it is not as severe as the punishment for selling illicit salt, and the exile is over, and because of its huge profits, the more it is banned, the more it is banned.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the import of opium was even more serious, in 1837, it had reached more than 27,000 boxes, and before the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty imported 40,000 boxes of opium every year.

After the Opium War, it entered the Qing Dynasty and became more ferocious.

The information in the history books makes people feel that the Qing Dynasty seems to hate opium, after all, it is something that is forced into it after being beaten down, which seems very humiliating.

But in fact, starting from Xianfeng, the emperor at the end of the Qing Dynasty did not know how to import opium and how good it was.

The initiator originated from Xianfeng.

After signing the "Treaty of Nanjing", Xianfeng saw that he could not stop the opium trade, so he began to impose a "foreign medicine tax" on it.

In addition to collecting 30 taels of silver for every 100 catties of opium, after entering various parts of the country, it is also necessary to levy a different amount of "cents of gold".

Later, in 1885, in order to facilitate management, the Qing court stipulated that for every 100 catties of imported opium, a total of 110 taels of silver had to be paid.

After the Taiping Rebellion, taxes in the south were cut off, and the Qing Dynasty's court income fell by more than half, but the military expenditure increased sharply.

Moreover, in the two Opium Wars, the military expenditure was basically 40 million taels each time, and the indemnity was 19.6 million and 16 million taels respectively, which was a huge pressure.

At this time, the import of opium, the imposition of tariffs and gold, opened up a source of wealth for the Qing court, and even made a fortune.

By 1908, the year when Guangxu and Cixi died, the Qing court relied on opium taxes alone to reach 33.02 million taels, and the total tax revenue reached 292 million silver.

It is not unreasonable for Lafayette to pay compensation for the land and not care about the small amount of money paid by the treaty.

With the huge tariffs brought by opium, the Qing court suddenly had money, and soon settled the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The British beat the Qing Dynasty twice and forced the Qing Dynasty to import opium.

Unexpectedly, Xianfeng made his court more stable with a casual note, and the history was sometimes so weird that it was impossible to tell.

Moreover, Xianfeng has an even more powerful trick: planting opium!

Imports, after all, are bought, and the British take up the bulk of the head.

If you grow it yourself, you can earn a lot!

As for the harm that opium does to the country and the people?

What does it matter, anyway, my court is stable, and the Qing Dynasty has been unified for 10,000 years, who cares if your people suffer and the nation sinks?

Since 1850 in Xianfeng, Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest have been "planted all over the countryside".

By 1894, opium had been planted on 13.333 million mu of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's 866 million mu of land, accounting for 1.5%.

From south to north, the whole country has been planted with opium!

This is the Qing Dynasty!

Defeat the war, quell the rebellion, sign a treaty and pay reparations.

At every turn, it is tens of millions of taels, hundreds of millions of taels, measuring China's material resources and forming the hearts of other countries, how to tie it up?

What knot to take?

Impose heavy taxes on the common people?

That's for sure, taxes are being raised all the time.

But there are enough harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people can't live anymore, and they have long been squeezed to the extreme, and how many drops of oil can be squeezed out?

But the Qing court relied on opium cultivation to maintain its finances!

And the common people are going to smoke big cigarettes, so naturally they don't have the strength to resist the imperial court, which is really a big deal!

After learning about this history, Ye Shu could only say with admiration:

Cow B!

What's even better is that domestic products beat imports!

The imported ones are called "foreign medicines", and the domestic ones are called "local medicines".

Under the special species of Xianfeng, by 1879, the self-sufficiency rate of "local medicine" in the Qing Empire had reached more than 80%.

The "foreign medicine" planted by Ah Sange's family has basically been driven out of the Chinese market.

New China, how many years of struggle, before it became self-sufficient in industry and became an industrial power.

The Qing Dynasty, as early as more than a century ago, had already set sail to the world, and its home-grown "local medicine" was exported to foreign countries in reverse, defeating the world's first power!

The English people regretted that their bowels were green!

I wanted to open up a market.

Who thought that he would provoke the Qing Dynasty, but robbed his own business!

This is a terrible meow, two wars have been fought in vain!

The British, that is really the father of the Qing Dynasty, sent opium to the Qing Dynasty, and extended the life of the Qing Dynasty.

The conquest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Westernization Movement, the purchase of warships, and the construction of cannons were mostly money earned from selling "local medicines".

Even, even education, such as the "Jingshi University Hall", has the opium tax of Sichuan and Shu, and allocates special funds to support the Jingshi University Hall.

From Beijing University to many educational undertakings in modern times, and behind the development of military industry, there is a shadow of opium tax.

This embarrassing history naturally can't be put on the table, so that later generations of historians will cover up their scalps.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty, after the Gengzi Rebellion, although it was burdened with a total of 970 million principal and interest compensation, the Qing Dynasty was still very arrogant.

In 1909, the Minister of the Navy traveled to Europe and thought about reorganizing the navy, preparing to purchase 8 battleships and 20 cruisers in the next seven years.

In the course of his travels, Zaixun placed orders in the arsenals of Italy and Austria-Hungary on the way, and when he arrived in Germany, he was even more coaxed and coaxed him as a big benefactor.

Qianlong is known as a prosperous age, and his income is only 30 million taels a year, and he is not worthy of Xianfeng and Guangxu shoes!

In 1939, Lin Zexu was ordered by the imperial court to sell cigarettes in Humen.

If the emperor of the late Qing Dynasty had known that opium could continue the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty, how could there be anything to do with Lin Zexu?

It can be said that in the two opium wars, although the people suffered crimes, the Qing court lived a better life.

From the original poverty, all of a sudden he was relieved, and the reparations, the Westernization movement, and the armaments all began to be not bad for money.

As for the "Ding Wuqi Famine" in 1877 and 1878, because the best fields were planted with "soil medicine", which led to a decrease in grain production, 10 million people starved to death, 20 million people fled the famine, and people ate people, which is not a problem at all......

Sweet potatoes have become popular at this time, and the yield is extremely high, relying on it, the Qing Dynasty has not appeared in such a tragic situation for more than 200 years.

However, in the face of the great benefits that can bring to one's own rule......

These dead people......

Who cares?