The war in the northwest is progressing smoothly, and the rescuers who have made up their minds to risk luring wolves into their homes have not yet shown up, and the Chinese army has already taught them a lesson.

The war is no longer the war it used to be, and the Dzungars are still riding and chopping.

The wheels loaded with rubber kept turning, transporting a large number of soldiers to each battlefield, and in half a month, the goal of the second phase of the war had been achieved.

The entire Dzungar region was cut into three pieces, and not only could not communicate with each other, but the Dzungar warriors on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the south had no firearms support from Tsarist Russia.

The situation became clearer day by day, Hou Xuanyan took down the huge map of Dzungaria in Nuanfang Pavilion, and said to several ministers with a smile: "I am already going to study the next opponent, and hang up the geographical map of the Rakshasa Kingdom." ”

The map of the Rakshasa country is not difficult to obtain, especially from the hands of those missionaries in the South Seas.

The inside and outside of the palace instantly became cheerful, and the war in the northwest cost countless money and food, and the resulting road and bridge construction, armor and weapons, and flag chariots were like a bottomless pit.

Only Hou Xuanyan is not distressed by this, he doesn't blink an eye, the money is spent, and the roads paved in the northwest will sooner or later drive the development of the local area, but Hou Guo's strength has increased.

If the money from the treasury is used for infrastructure construction, it is not too much, just like the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, from the Sui Dynasty to the present, I don't know how many people have benefited from Huili.

glanced at the ministers, and saw that everyone was happy between their eyebrows, and Hou Xuanyan was secretly happy. This group of ministers of the old era can finally accept their national policy of expanding their territory, this is the change,

Especially Chen Mingyu, Hou Xuanyan looked relaxed and leisurely, obviously feeling the benefits of having money in the imperial court. It was just an edict, and a large amount of grain was transported to Jinling, and the short-term food shortage crisis was easily solved.

Where do you need elegant and gentle ministers in capital plunder, it's time for everyone to rest and enjoy their wealth and prosperity.

Hou Xuanyan was thinking about it, while looking for young officials, who was worthy of promotion.

At this time, Ma Shiying suddenly got up and bent down and said, "Your Majesty, there have been a few people in Jiangnan recently, and there are often people who gather to smoke them. ”

Hou Xuanyan was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "What is Aunt Dan, and what is Wuxiang?" ”

Ma Shiying was sweating, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, Aunt Tan Po is a kind of smoking tobacco, also known as "golden silk", "acacia grass", "star anise" and so on. Wuxiang is a lot of incense paid tribute by Nanyang Fanbang, after it is burned, it makes people smell it fluttering and want to be immortal, and it is infinitely useful to suck it, but it is easy to be addicted, and Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty once issued a decree to quit. ”

Hou Xuanyan suddenly realized, isn't it opium, I didn't expect it to spread to China so early.

Tobacco, which was not produced in China, was introduced from abroad in the late Ming Dynasty. Tobacco was originally produced in the Americas, but after the Spanish colonists invaded the Philippines, they brought this poisonous substance to the Philippines and cultivated it in large quantities on the island of Luzon. In the late Ming Dynasty, many Fujianese went to the Philippines, and they brought tobacco back to their hometown to cultivate.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Shilin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, said: "The ancient demon is in wine, and the disaster today is in smoke." Some knowledgeable people advocate a ban on smoking, saying: "Foolish people compete to learn to smoke, like lamps and moths to a fire, and bring about their own destruction, and it must be strictly forbidden!" ”

So Chongzhen began to ban smoking, but he banned not only opium, but also normal smoking.

Chongzhen's ban on smoking is unprecedented, and his edict can scare the current smokers to death when he says it:

Anyone who sells a woman or an outsider, no matter how large or small, will be beheaded and shown to the public.

Smoking sentences, selling cigarettes and cutting off heads, real hardcore quitting.

Ma Shiying saw that the saint didn't know much about this, so he told this history one by one, and after Hou Xuanyan listened, he was speechless for a while. Chongzhen is too indifferent to do things, it is understandable to smoke black incense and crack down, and it is too inhumane to go to jail if you smoke.

What he didn't know was that at that time, people had a greater appetite for tobacco than they do now, and most of it was the effect of superstition. "This medicine is very strong, the fire ignites the smoke and inhales it into the throat, it is powerful to resist the cold of frost and dew, wind and rain, and avoid the evil breath of the mountain Gu ghosts.

Of course, there is another important reason for Chongzhen to quit smoking, that is, he feels that smoking is homophonic with smoking "Yan", and the capital Beijing at that time was called Yan, and he was afraid of being sucked into the country's dragon energy

Hou Xuanyan gently tapped on the armrest of the dragon chair, and a bold idea gradually took shape, you must know that tobacco is a huge profit, if it can be planted and sold on a large scale, it will be more profitable than silk and porcelain in the future. Of course, opium must be banned, and this has touched the bottom line.

I have all the land suitable for planting in the South Seas, and most of it is empty, and it is full of ports, and I can sell it casually to countries within the four seas.

"Did the people grow this thing themselves, or did it come from Fanbang?"

Ma Shiying has been checking for a while, and immediately replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it was brought to Nanyang by Fanren, and we have no race until now because of the smoking ban of the previous dynasty." ”

"It's so unbelievable!" Hou Xuanyan slapped the dragon chair, got up and said angrily.

"Your Majesty is angry, and the ministers immediately formulate a ban to admonish the people not to smoke."

Hou Xuanyan shook his head and said, "I didn't mean this, since I want to suck how can I suck Fanren, it should be that we sell it to Fan." This thing is a million profits, you can pump it when you plant grass in the ground, roll it up, plant it for me, and sell it for money! ”

Ministers: ""

Make money off of this thing? Your Majesty is wise and wise, but I didn't expect that there would be a miscalculation one day, this thing is just a pile of grass, what kind of money can be made. It is better to set up a few more kilns or salt factories with this effort. Even Ma Shiying was a little skeptical, and expressed it unprecedentedly, everyone felt that His Majesty was whimsical this time.

Hou Xuanyan was secretly happy in his heart, the cigarette factory is not profitable? That's a fantasy, and I'm really looking forward to their jaw-dropping looks.

After banning everything related to black incense (opium), Hou Xuanyan began to set up the first state-owned cigarette factory. It is better not to set up this factory inland, so that it is convenient to export when the time comes, and Luzon is a good choice.

Anyone who grows, smokes, or sells black incense is sentenced to a felony and is written into the Chinese law.

On the island of Luzon, the state-owned Dahua Cigarette Factory was officially established amid the sound of firecrackers.

In order to popularize the common sense of smoking and prevent the people from over-smoking, Hou Xuanyan stipulated that six italics must be written on the packaging sold to Chinese: Smoking is harmful to health.

The Chinese people are actually a bit conservative, and what the imperial court writes on paper is often easy to arouse everyone's trust. After all, the credibility of the imperial court is now there, so those who are willing to smoke will also weigh it.

But there is no requirement for takeaways, in fact, cigarette factories have a variety of external cigarette packaging, using all kinds of words to advertise.

A master of spring palace drawings, painting all kinds of explicit beauties, swallowing clouds and spitting fog. It is also marked with the words of various countries, and it is also six words: smoking cigarettes, racing immortals.

Later, it even developed that some Europeans did not smoke, but spent money to collect cigarette packs. It's just because these "painters" raised in Jiangnan are too good, just like their ancestor Tang Bohu

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