Cao Cao lasted eight months, captured seven and captured seven longitudinal Meng, and finally made Nanzhong tend to be stable and pleasing to the people. New Pen Fun Δ Δ Pavilion%." Cao Cao sent a letter to Zhuge Liang, asking him to re-dispatch officials, set up official offices, and govern the localities. At the same time, he asked Zhuge Liang to let his son Cao Ang be in charge of the barbarian education in Nanzhong. At the age of fifty, Cao Cao worked tirelessly and traveled in the hot summer place, and his credit was naturally huge. Zhuge Liang did not refute Lao Cao's face, and happily appointed Cao Ang as the instructor of Nanzhong.

Fortunately, the preparations in advance were sufficient, the losses of the Han army were not large, Cao Cao wrote to Liu Ze, detailing the battle in Nanzhong, Liu Ze was overjoyed, and let Cao Cao be a teacher.

In the first year of Guanhai's cultivation of opium poppy, the harvest was quite abundant, and the juice of the poppy husk was collected in tens of thousands of catties. Liu Ze got the news, overjoyed, and considered how to sell these things, if you want to make money quickly, you still have to go the way of officials and businessmen, but the aroma of wine must also be able to shout, in terms of packaging, we must pursue tall, in line with the aesthetic needs of exotic people to sell. The smoking of opium, on the films and television of later generations, is a person with a big smoking gun, facing the big smoke lamp, lit it, spewing clouds and spitting fog, and enjoying it infinitely.

According to his memory, Liu Ze drew the appearance of the big smoking gun, lamp, and cigarette pick up in later generations, and asked the Ministry of Industry to send people to make dozens of sets. After finishing it, Liu Ze tried it with leaves, and the effect was good, and it could spray clouds and mist. immediately wrote two secret decrees, one for Guan Hai and one for Liu Ye.

Guan Hai received the secret order and personally led the team to send tens of thousands of catties of poppy juice to Liu Ye in the Western Regions. The poppy husks were also filled with more than 100 carts.

When Liu Ye received the secret order, he also came with dozens of sets of smoking guns. Liu Ze elaborated on the importance of packaging, how to pack things well, how to sell, how to expand the influence, and put forward a lot of opinions.

The Western Regions brought together talents from all walks of life, and Liu Ye, as the chief of the Western Regions, summoned foreign businessmen who traveled to and from the Western Regions. These merchants from Persia, Kushan, Kangju, and Dayue heard the summons of the Western Regions Changshi and came to the temporary residence of Liu Ye in Shule.

Opium, when I first started smoking, I didn't feel good, I smoked a little too much, dizzy, dizzy, and palpitated, and only after the initial stage, I gradually became addicted, and the wonderful feeling could be reflected. Liu Ze repeatedly warned Liu Ye that if he treated this thing as a drug, it would sell much smoother.

Liu Ye saw that the invited businessmen had arrived, coughed, and said, "I invite you to come today, I have something to discuss." Did any of you know? My emperor is proficient in medicine and is a master of Xinglin. ”

These businessmen, who chase profit first, know that the emperor of the Han Dynasty is still a doctor, but people want to save face, and they can't seem to be lonely and unheard, so many people nodded and agreed as soon as Liu Ye's voice fell.

Liu Ye didn't break it, and continued: "My emperor gathered my famous Han doctors to jointly develop a pill called Qianjin Dragon Tiger Pill. This elixir treats all kinds of abdominal pain, miraculous, if you want to take it for a long time, you can race the gods day by day. ”

A businessman from Kangju said, "I don't know how to take the pill? ”

Liu Ye took a cigarette gun, lit the lamp, picked out some opium paste with a stick, put it in the cigarette pouch pot, and roasted it on the lamp, the opium paste emitted a faint green smoke, Liu Ye inhaled it hard, and then slowly spit it out. When the merchant saw it, he took it, and he also tried to suck it, and said with a smile: "Taking the pill like this, it is really wonderful." ”

It just so happened that a businessman estimated that he had eaten too much, his stomach was uncomfortable, and he felt a faint pain, so he volunteered to be a guinea pig and informed Liu Ye through an interpreter. Liu Ye said with a smile: "There is pain in the abdomen, and after sucking, the pain stops immediately." Please give this businessman a try. ”

This merchant came from the Roman Empire on the Mediterranean side, listened to the interpreter's words, took the cigarette gun, picked a large piece with a skelet, and inhaled a few times against the lamp, which was strange to say, and the pain in his stomach immediately stopped. The merchant was overjoyed and said to Liu Ye: "Your country's golden dragon and tiger pill is really magical, I don't know where to sell it?" ”

Liu Ye said: "This Dan was developed by the emperor, so it was sold by the Changshi Mansion. Since it is known as the Thousand Golden Dragon and Tiger Pill, the price is naturally expensive. ”

The merchant in Rome said with a grin: "Of course, the price of the medicine developed by the emperor of your country cannot be low, I don't know how much a pill costs?" ”

Liu Ye smiled and said: "It's easy to say in terms of price. Today, I invite you to come, I am here to say a minimum price, you are all big experts, naturally know the value of the pill, you can take turns to increase the price, the last price is higher. ”

A Persian merchant exclaimed, "Changshi, tell me the reserve price quickly." ”

Liu Ye stretched out a finger, "One pill is one or two silver." ”

There were about fifty businessmen who came, and when they heard this, they couldn't help but talk to each other and discuss with acquaintances in low voices. The Roman merchant had a lot of money and said loudly, "I'll give you a tael." ”

Kangju and the Western Regions were approaching, and the merchant from Kangju said, "I am willing to pay one or two dollars." ”

The Persian Empire is currently in a period of rising national power, attacking Rome in the west and Guishan in the east, and even bringing Persian merchants with them are arrogant. The Persian merchant exclaimed, "Changshi, I am willing to give one or two or four cents." ”

The Persian merchants raised the price by two pennies at once, and the rest of the merchants did not dare to raise the price any more. A thing that is less than the size of an egg is sold for one or two or four dollars of silver, which can be said to have reached a sky-high price.

Seeing that the merchants were silent, Liu Ye asked the Persian merchants, "I wonder how many pills this big merchant needs?" ”

The Persian merchant said, "As much as you want." ”

Liu Ye said: "At present, there are 300,000 pieces in stock. ”

Unexpectedly, the Persian merchant frowned, and said loudly: "Tomorrow I will bring people and cash to withdraw it." ”

As soon as these words came out, the shocked room was full of people who were speechless, more than 400,000 taels of silver, and the shot was really generous.

The room full of merchants was struck by the domineering spirit of the Persian merchants, and when they saw that the sale had been completed, they all took their leave. The Roman merchant was reluctant to give up, walked up to Liu Ye and said, "Liu Changshi, I don't know when the next batch of pills will be made?" ”

Liu Ye originally thought that 300,000 pills could allow these merchants to get some, but he didn't think of killing a dark horse in the air and wrapping all the goods, so he had to say to the Roman merchants: "I will write to the emperor as soon as possible to speed up the development of the pill, and once it arrives in the Western Regions, I will inform you as soon as possible." ”

The Roman merchant gave Liu Ye a big salute and left unhappy.

After processing the opium paste, there are more than 100 carts of poppy husks, which are ordinary goods, and naturally they can't be sold at a high price, but the emperor has a way. Liu Ye ordered people to mix poppy shells with more than a dozen spices, grind them into powder with stone grinding, name them Dahan Thirteen Incense, put them in exquisite sheepskin bags, and threw them on the market.

Liu Ye wrote to the emperor, described the process of selling, and suggested that the emperor increase the cultivation of opium poppies and make more golden dragon and tiger pills.

Liu Ze didn't expect that he would be so sought-after to get a name for opium paste in a whim, and the harvest in one season reached 600,000 taels of silver. Since the market demand is so large, Lao Tzu will expand the scale.

In the autumn of the sixth year of Qianyou, a series of secret decrees flew out of the capital, and a large number of troops and laborers appeared in Yizhou, Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, and the Western Regions, in remote and sparsely populated places. Laborers, under the watchful eye of the army, reclaimed wasteland and accumulated manure.

Guan Hai was taken aback by Liu Ze's reward, he nested in the ravine for a year, and the emperor rewarded 200,000 taels of silver, and each soldier could get ten taels of silver, ten taels of silver, enough for the family to enjoy a well-off life. Later, Liu Ze also had a will, ordering Guan Hai to select 3,000 people and send them to various places to guide the cultivation of opium poppies. The specific address has been explained, and as for who to send, that's a matter of control.

With the guidance of mature experience, poppy is grown in large quantities. Liu Ze looked at the notes reported everywhere, and his heart was full of sorrow.

The wealthy Persian merchants, with 300,000 gold dragon and tiger pills, returned to their hometowns, and couldn't wait to start putting the goods in their own shops, and then walked on the upper route, with the help of the power of the upper class, to sell the dragon and tiger pills.

At that time, the Persians were fond of eating raw and cold, so there were a lot of stomach troubles, of course, ordinary people could not afford to use the Dragon Tiger Pill. Persian merchants gave officials of all levels a free gift of beautifully packaged dragon and tiger pills, boasting of their infinite usefulness. A person tried it and said yes, and there were naturally many people following the trend, and slowly the Persian merchants' Dragon and Tiger Pill became more and more famous, and more and more people came to buy the pill. Persian merchants quickly opened the market at the price of one gold coin and one dragon tiger pill, and the dragon tiger pill began to be popular in the upper echelons of Persia.

After smoking the Dragon Tiger Pill for a long time, he gradually became addicted, and he did not smoke a few mouthfuls every day, and he felt uncomfortable, and the Persian officials and children of large families began to frequently go in and out of the shops of Persian merchants. Seeing that he was making money every day, the Persian merchant smiled crookedly, looked at the inventory, the Persian merchant brought enough silver money, and killed the Western Regions.

Liu Ye is in trouble, the Persian merchant sits in the Changshi Mansion, urging him to ask for a thousand gold dragon and tiger pills every day, and if the season is not enough, Liu Ye can't make it for him out of thin air. Fortunately, when the Persian merchants arrived, it was already March of the seventh year of Qianyou, and although everything in the north had just recovered, the south had already entered the summer heat, and the poppy had already borne fruit, and the poppy juice should have accumulated partially. Liu Ye used the fastest means of communication and used the harrier eagle to inform Liu Ze.

Liu Ze secretly regretted that there was too little poppy cultivation last year, and when he received Liu Ye's letter, he also informed the various poppy planting bases by the fastest means, ordering them to ride fast horses and send all the collected poppy juice to the Governor's Mansion in the Western Regions.

For a time, there were countless fast horses entering and exiting Yumen Pass every day. Liu Ye received the poppy juice and immediately ordered the craftsmen to start work and make the Qianjin Dragon and Tiger Pill overnight.

The Persian merchant waited for a month, threw down the silver, and hurried to his hometown, where the door of his shop had already been smashed by the angry crowd.