"It's probably no fun to sell it to Houjin, Huang Taiji started out as an anti-smoker, and later became a tobacco trade protectionist, and it's really not easy for you to sell this thing to him. ()”

Tobacco was introduced to Liaodong from the Apocalypse period, it is said that the soldiers who were transferred to Liaodong from Guangdong brought a hobby, and later either through trade, or through captivity, or through the conspiracy of the Koreans - anyway, when Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor, some people in Houjin also smoked tobacco, not only some people smoked, but it was also quite extensive, so that Huang Taiji enjoyed the title of the first official ruler on Shijie to ban smokingBecause in a few years, he issued a decree to revoke the ban on smoking, but to ask his subjects to grow their own and not to go to North Korea to buy them - typical of protectionism.

After a few more years, the Li Dynasty, which was not very good at fighting, was probably ready to use tobacco to engage in "unrestricted warfare" against the Houjin, so he gave a large amount of tobacco to the Manchu nobles and high-ranking officials. According to the records of the Li Dynasty, the son of the king of Joseon was held hostage in Shenyang at that time. The North Korean envoy smuggled 300 catties of tobacco as a gift. Huang Taiji thought that this thing was "not a native product, a consuming goods, and ordered a great ban", and after discovering it, he ordered a strict ban again.

"So it's still difficult for us to sell cigarettes to Houjin."

"It's only 1629, so let's take this opportunity to get a big ticket first!"

"Just the quality of the Holy Boat brand cigarettes, it's also a luxury. Do you really think that wild boar skin is stupid and has a lot of money? "The swallow finch that has tasted the local tobacco has sunned it, "The tobacco is always falling down, and I will burn my fingers in a few sips." ”

The traversal crowd did not buy the scarce, special offering of cross-brand cigarettes. Although the tobacco imported from Macao is haode, it is not flue-cured tobacco processed according to modern habits, coupled with inferior cigarette paper and poor rolling technology - smokers must be very careful, otherwise the loose tobacco shreds will suddenly fall down and burn out the clothes. Make cigarettes a better thing than nothing.

Cigarette paper was one of a kind in the 20th century space-time. Special paper. It is a thin-sheet paper, and the specification is not more than 25g per square meter. The whiteness of the paper reaches more than 82%, and the texture is tight, soft and delicate. Opaque. It has high longitudinal tensile strength, certain air permeability and suitable combustion rate. The main raw material is bleached hemp pulp, which is also mixed with some bleached wood pulp or straw pulp, and a small amount of accelerant is added in order to adapt to the burning rate of tobacco. Rollers are also pressed on the paper to create ribbed imprints to increase air permeability and improve appearance.

If it's simple, the student uses it. The paper of the industry is a more suitable substitute. It's a pity that the traverser can make paper, and he can't even reach this level.

Although the papermaking workshop has been running for a long time, but. The quality of the products has never been ahead of its time - the papermaking workshops are still making paper according to the papermaking techniques of the 17th century. This greatly affects the quality and yield of the paper. But papermakers are helpless – they lack two key raw materials for papermaking: caustic soda and sulphuric acid

Without caustic soda, papermaking workshops would only use a very small number of raw materials. It can make paper, including all kinds of rags recovered from the "purification" process of immigrants, fishermen's scrapped hemp nets, hemp rope, waste cotton and the bark of a few trees. The source of raw materials is greatly limited. Without sulfuric acid, it is not possible to bleach the pulp. Therefore, the paper made is not white, but also not light, except for solving the use of hand paper and wrapping paper through the group, it does not play a role. So much so that the cultural and educational department could only issue slate to students and let them write and calculate with chalk on the slate.

"It's not a big problem, and we will strive to put it into production within the next month." Ji Si retired and patted his chest. Dried meat. More than 1,000 laborers went to the construction site to erect those large structural frames and various towers by manpower and soil hoisting.

"I'm relieved to be able to produce three acids and two alkalis." Ma Qianzhuo said, "How much now. The important things are stuck here! ”

Wen Desi said: "These. It doesn't matter, with our industrialization, it is only a matter of time before we overcome the jishu difficulties. Lingao, and even the whole island of Hainan, are too small to provide all the manpower and material resources for us to engage in industrialization. Light industry planning should also be based on this aspect. ”

Lu Rong, general manager of the foreign trade company, stood up and said: "I would like to report on a comprehensive plan of the foreign trade company for future trade. This plan should be vigorously assisted by colleagues in the industrial sector. ”

"Reference can be made to the current state of international trade. We mainly import raw materials, rough processed products and light industrial products with low jishu requirements: such as raw cotton, ore, pig iron, non-ferrous metals, timber, livestock and population. In the first five years, Jihua crossed the country to reach the top of the export of light industrial products, accounting for sixty percent. High jishu industrial products account for two to three percent. Ocean trade services and financial services accounted for 10%.

"The agricultural and light industrial products that cross may include: all kinds of wine, sugar, sewing needles, silk, glass, ceramics, canned food, paper, fertilizers, pepper, tea.

"Among them, spices, tea, silk, ceramics, use entrepot trade, and we do not directly produce products ourselves, but enter the trade in the form of middlemen.

"The rest of the products are supplied by the industrial port. These are all products that we have a unique jishu or production capacity advantage.

"The relatively high industrial products were: medicines, soaps, monosodium glutamate, optical instruments, precision instruments and tools - the latter few things were only better made than the European products of the time. Not only can we get the opportunity to sell back to Europe, but we can also take this opportunity to make the European scientific system dependent on our products, eliminate its creative inventions, absorb the outstanding scientific and technological talents of the other side, and finally achieve the complete disintegration and elimination of the European scientific system.

Dr. Zhong's eyebrows fluttered when he heard this: "Now I'm going to pit Huygens!" Forget it, by the way, recruit him as my assistant. He frowned suddenly, "Damn, he was only born this year." It will take at least another 20 years for me to be my assistant. ”

"Who is Huygens?"

"The inventor of the modern clock." Zhong Lishi said, "Strictly speaking, he is the inventor of the pendulum principle. However, I have decided to give credit to me for these inventions. ”

Ma Qianzhuo said: "Clocks are very useful to us, but as a trade item can only be regarded as a luxury, I don't see that the common people of the Ming Dynasty have the need for accurate timekeeping." ”

"Europeans should have a relatively large demand, they are well-developed seafaring, and accurate timekeeping is very important for navigators to position themselves in the sea."

"In this way, it is tantamount to completely destroying the future European watch industry." Lu Rong was immersed in his theory of "trade to control the enemy".

Ma Qianzhuo nodded, suitable for him to continue.

"Then there's shipbuilding, all kinds of prints, all of which are very competitive."

Li Haiping said: "Well, in fact, I think that when a certain amount of time has reached a certain time, such as the first five years when Jihua is more than halfway through, such as instant noodle factories, canning factories, and rice noodle factories, local gentry and businessmen should be encouraged to invest." We provide cheap jishu with machines, and they invest in setting up factories to operate sales. What do we have these things for? Civilian industry, as long as it is not the core thing, will be handed over to private individuals, they know how to run and make money, we only need to teach them modern industrial production organization and enterprise management. ”

Wang Luobin said: "This is too far away. At present, it is more appropriate to engage in the jihua economy -- the jihua economy is conducive to the unified dispatch of manpower and material resources. Besides, we are training a new generation of industrial workers, and this is not something that can be achieved in a year or two. You have privatized the enterprise, and the capitalist is characterized by profit-making, so he has no interest in training industrial workers. And Lingao does not necessarily have such a capable gentleman. ”

Yu Eshui shook his head again and again: "Ladies and gentlemen, although the tone of our trade country is not a problem, have you considered a question?" ”

Everyone's eyes swept over together.

The otaku of the imperial capital's history scholar said unhurriedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, before you continue to discuss, I have to read a few paragraphs to you - I have recently read a few books about what foreigners saw and heard in China in the late Qing Dynasty, and I feel that the consumption habits of the feudal small peasant economy and the modern commodity economy are completely two different things. Here are a few excerpts and pour some cold water:"

"All Chinese housewives know how to get the most out of their fabrics...... If you can't use one place, the insurance should be used in another, and some strips of rags should be used to the fullest, for the soles of your shoes...... These items are always used to the best of their ability, and Zuihou's scraps are also used with other fabrics until they are exhausted.

“…… Three palanquin drivers carried him for five hours, a 23-mile journey, and then walked back to Guangzhou to eat the breakfast they had served. Walked 46 miles before breakfast, half of which was weight-bearing, and that was just to save 5 cents. ”

“…… Most of China's wheelbarrows rattle when pushed because of the lack of lubricating oil...... However, those who are nervously numb think that noise is cheaper than oil, and would rather rattle than a few drops of oil.

"When a Chinese mother saw her child covered in dust, she swept the soil with an old broom. A curious foreign woman said, 'Does your child bathe every day?' ''Wash every day?'' The Chinese mother replied angrily, 'He has never been washed since he was born.' For the average Chinese, even if a soap retailer plays a sign that is 'cheaper than soil', it will not have much effect.

“…… Generally, it is impossible to buy any ready-made tools, but you can buy some semi-finished products, and then process and trim them yourself. Because it is cheaper to process it yourself than to buy ready-made. Everyone wants to be cheap, so there are no ready-made goods.

These depictions may be biased and exaggerated, but they at least prove that the consumption outlook of the smallholder economy and society is very different from that of modern people. From this, we can summarize the general consumption concept of the lower class of working people in ancient times, at least in the Ming and Qing dynasties: time, physical strength, comfort, and convenience are all "free", and as long as you can save even a copper plate, you can squander these "free" elements to your heart's content. The remnants of this consumption habit can still be seen in some elderly people......

"To date, we haven't really been involved in the production of mass consumer goods. From this, we can draw a question: how to transform the consumption habits of the ancients who took the economic route to build a country through trade in this time and space? ”