Okay, this is the White Lotus Sect, this is the Wenxiang Sect, for the children of the family like Pu Dehuan, who are not very valued, they are still being ordered by the ear, be careful of those cultists, but this does not mean that he does not know those who rely on religion to fool people in history, you know, I am the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, but I was killed by a few Taoist priests to the end, and Zhang Jiao, Fang La, these two goods, Δ...

On Xu Hao, they laid labels such as slackness, untidy governance, frivolity, and vulgarity.

Xingjin, that is, in the context of Chinese Chinese, describes those who are young and become officials because of luck, Xu Hao is also young, so he is naturally looked at as such.

Of course, he himself actually doesn't care about these two Korean sticks, it's just two little people passing by to do things, halfway through the banquet, he apologizes, and goes on patrol, since several millennium falcons are all busy in the pass, he has to use his own strength to preside over everything, although there is the help of the imperial capital's unlimited system, but, basically, he has a lot of activities every day.

As I said before, Park Dehuan was going to go to the imperial capital to meet him, and Park Demeng came to see Xu Hao, and the next day, he first issued a document to Park Dehuan, and then sent a small team of cavalry to escort him back to Guannei, and Park Demeng came over again, it turned out that he was discussing the so-called trade affairs.

As mentioned before, in recent years, North Korea has still shown its own "comparative advantage", that is, products with higher production efficiency, because the Age of Discovery has long come, various plant crops from the Americas have already begun to spread in the western Pacific, and even 1oo years later, created a ridiculous "potato boom", "corn boom", and in North Korea, because the cultivation of these crops is not smooth, on the contrary, tobacco is such a thing, really prosperous.

As I said before, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in Liaodong, there were only two classes in society, the Eight Banners, and the slaves were not enough to make weapons and farming, and they also needed the "blood transfusion" from the eight traitors and imperial businessmen to barely cope, and the cold winter in the Northeast and the long dark nights made the residents only hide in the fire kang in the house to live and try to go out as much as possible, so, in this era when there are no entertainment products, what is the best thing to sell?

Tobacco, that is a big tax for North Koreans.

Xu Hao frowned and said, "You mean that you want to open a smoke house in Shenyang City, is there a precedent for this?" ”

Pu Demeng's teeth have been yellowed by the tobacco, which is in stark contrast to Xu Hao's white teeth that have been polished since childhood, and that tone is really a bit excessive, "General, this tobacco is a good thing, like a fairyland, comfortable, if you are willing to let us open a store in Shenyang City, we are willing to give you twenty percent of the dry shares, and if you have any requirements, just mention it." ”

Xu Hao frowned, as the 21st century, the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau is the key source of tax payment for the IRS, you know, as a group of Chinese life habits, they really do not have the idea of eating everything dry and wiping all the ideas, how much still have to divide a few pieces of meat to the people, but the problem is that their personal habits, or want to rebuild the previous economic system, is much stronger than building their own little by little.

Xu Hao's face was embarrassed, what he didn't expect was that the North Koreans actually offered to sell tobacco, if they just wanted to sell ginseng, then he might not have so much hesitation.

Of course, what Xu Hao didn't know was that the first ban on smoking in human history was ordered by Huang Taiji more than ten years ago, and it was issued twice, but in the end, he had no choice but to give up, just asking not to import tobacco from North Korea, but to produce and sell it himself.

If you want to protect your trade, it is useless to blindly avoid and protect, and in the end of the Manchu Dynasty, it has always been impossible to control the grassroots trade, and there were originally a large number of vegetable cultivation cash crops in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Manchu Dynasty, it was basically reduced to only eating staple food, occasionally with a little pickle pimple dilemma, and the corn prosperity is not nonsense.

Of course, Xu Hao's hesitation was interpreted by Park Demeng as a lack of money, which is also normal, officials are naturally corrupt, nothing more than monopoly management, plus the price is raised and passed on.

Of course, "General, as for the imperial capital, if you need to take care of one or two, naturally it is not a problem, we are willing to take a trip, my eldest brother went to the imperial capital this time, just for official business, and this tobacco shop is a private matter for us, and if it troubles you, it is natural to have a share of profits." ”

Xu Hao squinted his eyes and said: "This kind of thing, don't say it again, this kind of thing of collecting dry shares and pulling disguises, we won't do it, we support free trade, this is nothing, but, to meet our standards, the cigarettes you can sell, without smoking, purely with a cigarette stick to smoke, it is almost very smelly, well, this year, I'm afraid that the season is already out, next year, you will definitely come to discuss it again, when the time comes, from the next planting, breeding, fumigation, all according to our requirements, I can say that I bought the tobacco that you offered. ”

In recent years, the economic system of the Ming Dynasty, crops are about to change, the south of the Yangtze River back and forth is raw silk, silk planting, not to mention the single product, but also extremely dependent on foreign markets, especially in Europe began to fight the Thirty Years War, and the American colonies during the period of sluggish consumption, exports were sluggish, resulting in a large number of raw silk production without sales, which is also one of the reasons for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

In a word, there are many places suitable for growing tobacco, but at this time there is a war, for the entire Celestial Empire, growing food is the key to survival, however, as long as the people of the Celestial Empire are given a little chance, the selection and planting of cigarettes will definitely become an extremely profitable business, not to mention anything else, the well-known Northeast Tobacco and Yunyan in later generations are all models of China's selection and breeding of foreign seeds and self-improvement.

However, before that, engaging in "processing with supplied materials", importing North Korean tobacco, and then making cigarettes, can be regarded as a good way to cultivate the domestic market, Li Xiangqian also muttered to him before, as a local official, although it is best not to engage in any small groups, local protectionist posture, but to build up the local economy, it is also a political achievement of his own.

Not to mention anything else, he has already placed an order, during the Chinese New Year, as long as someone can raise sheep, then he wants to buy at a high price, as for what feed, what medicine, are very primary products. 、

Well, let's talk slowly.

Anyway, Xu Hao doesn't care, the calculation of their property in their names has already calculated a lot of mineral deposits in South Africa, Australia, and the Americas as their own suicide, but considering that if too much gold pours into China, it may lead to inflation, which is the legend, "money is hairy", so for the mining of Australian gold, it is leisurely and hard.

Park Demeng lingered in Shenyang for many days, did not leave, and took the opportunity to observe a lot of information, but the legendary spaceship was not seen, although many people swore that they did see it, but this was firm, seeing is believing.

Park Dehuan continued to march towards the imperial capital.

From Shenyang to Shanhaiguan, it was originally a thousand miles of fertile fields, connected by Qianmo, but at this time you can feel that there are no people for thousands of miles, of course, you can see that the vitality here has begun to recover, and people on both sides of the road have begun to comb the fields.

Originally, because the land around China was basically completely opened, culturally, people were no longer encouraged to run around outside the family, and it was best for everyone to stay within a few dozen kilometers of the family from which they were born for the rest of their lives.

This is completely different from the village party secretary organization leading the villagers to work to make money, and the policy orientation is naturally due to the change in the situation.

Do you want them to shout loudly and say, folks, don't farm, that thing won't make money?

However, this kind of chicken-flying and dog-jumping situation, after entering Shanhaiguan, became chaotic in the eyes of Pu Dehuan.

As soon as he entered the boundary of the Guannai, he felt very different, now it has entered the autumn, just finished harvesting the wheat, but has not yet entered the slack time, this time, always rush to plant some seeds that can be planted in a short period of time, and at the same time turn over the rhizomes of the wheat field, so that it is convenient to accumulate fertilizer next year.

But strangely, Park Dehuan was passing by, and many local farmers were noisily gathering together, as if shouting trumpets to dig up a whole piece of land.

Park Dehuan's eyes were sharp, and he could naturally see that this was originally a good field, but now it is digging holes in the ground, and there seem to be people shouting trumpets, which is really strange.

Pu Dehuan pulled up his horse, ran over, found an old man who seemed to be looking at freshness, and asked, "Uncle, what are you busy with, I am ...... Passing by merchants, looking curious. ”

The old man seemed to be a little old, and his face was not very good, but with a little drunken pride, he said: "This is a big work, and it is to build a big boundless post station. ”

Pu Dehuan was puzzled for a while, he didn't seem to understand the things here, but he actually understood it very well, it looked like it was full of flowers, in fact, it came by quarter, the so-called autumn to Mongolia and summer to Liaodong, what he said was the difference between the goods produced in these two places, which led to the difference between the off-season and the peak season when he went there to do business, and his so-called tobacco business was the idea of producing for so many months every year.

Where is it necessary to open such a big so-called post station, Pu Dehuan was confused for a while, looked at the old man who was full of fanaticism, and said: "It has always been the beginning of the new dynasty, we should be sympathetic to the people's feelings, and will support the people's power, and abuse the people's power like this, is it true, doesn't the old man think that this is very unfair." ”

"Injustice? Where is it unfair, it's good, you don't know, now in the imperial capital, there are stars in the sky and mortal, in short, it is powerful, and it is not a problem to move mountains and reclaim the sea, it is naturally good to listen to others, not to mention, there are countless benefits. ”

Park Dehuan's heart moved, and asked, "What is the benefit?" ”

"I can't say that, in short, that day, it was really a big scene, a big scene."

No one can resist a few sycophant words, Park Dehuan said: "Uncle, you are old, tell our descendants what is going on." ”

The old man waved his hand and said, "Don't say it, don't say it, people say it, if you say it to the outside world, then you won't build a building for the county, and there will be no such discounts." ”

This old man is mysterious, it seems that he can't say anything, Park Dehuan can't get the point, although it is strange, in the end, he can only leave slowly, but this place gives him many different impressions.

In fact, along the way, there were a lot of things he couldn't understand, and it seemed that large-scale projects were being carried out everywhere, especially after crossing the Luan River, he was stopped in advance.

It was daytime, he felt the sound of the horse team running in front of him, he had been to Liaodong as an envoy, he was still familiar with the horse team and cavalry, and knew that this was the sound of the horse team's arrival, so he naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered several family members and servants who followed him to be on guard, and the captain who led the team did not seem to care, nor was he on guard, or prepared the weapons on his body, but lazily ran forward two steps.

Sure enough, a small group of people who came came to talk happily with them, and then came back and said, "This, Brother Park, can't go ahead, they have been waiting for us on the road for a long time, saying that they arranged for us to take a detour." ”

"A detour? Why the detour? ”

Pu Dehuan was a little puzzled, and suddenly felt very worried, this regime from the beginning, gave him a very strange feeling, and he knew since he was a child, the orthodox dynasty of the Celestial Empire was different, his growth period was the Manchu Qing Dynasty raging, and the lives were devastated, which gave the impression of the image of the Celestial Empire minus a lot of points, coupled with the face of some corrupt elements in the process of communication, so that Pu Dehuan's admiration for the Celestial Empire at this time has already been pulled to a very low level.

Before, he felt that Xu Hao was a god and a god, and what he said about the supernatural, and at this time, after all, this is the newly established imperial court, it is estimated that there is any unstable situation, if there is any mutiny, or even a civil war, it is not impossible, after all, according to the so-called intelligence, the power of the imperial capital, the place where it directly rules, is only a little bit around the imperial capital, plus the empty Liaodong, and it has just been established, and there is no emperor yet.

The absence of an emperor means that there is no stable political core, that is, it is likely to bring about war.