After holding back in the office for more than half a month, arranging all the work at hand, listening to the work reports of all department heads, and going to the council for two more days, Hong Tao will become an idler again. So he began to patrol his territory like a lion king, and the first place was the tobacco fields and tobacco factories where incense was worshipped.

At the beginning, I said that I would get her an artifact that could shine at hand, and the original intention was to get a flashlight, but I didn't expect to finally get the gas lamp out. Anyway, that thing can be regarded as easy to light up, and the brightness is high, which makes Bai Xiang completely convinced. From where Hong Tao will go to the tobacco field to harm her baby again, she won't complain, who makes his man have the ability, step on a few trees.

In fact, now Bai Xiang does not personally go to the tobacco fields to weed and fertilize, since the tobacco harvest has been two seasons, the number is enough to open a small workshop, she followed Hong Tao's instructions, pulled Ciqi's daughter-in-law and several Li family women, registered a cigarette workshop called Great China, and began her career as a small owner. At home, with simple tools and diligent hands, I made handmade cigars.

How to roll cigars is taught by Hong Tao, but the discipline is not good, he rolls it himself, it is no problem to smoke, it must smoke, and the taste is still good, but it is a little cold to sell it. So Bai Xiang and the others began to improve Hong Tao's process, and every day they got together to figure out how to make these sun-dried and fermented leaves into a beautiful and shiny cigar smoke.

After pondering for half a year, through countless rolls, the good news finally came out in the Great China cigarette workshop, and the first batch of export-oriented cigars was finally successfully trial-produced. This thing is really no different from the cigar that Hong Tao saw in later generations, although it is not rubbed out of the girl's thighs, it is indeed rubbed by his daughter-in-law, and the taste is of course very good. In fact, Hong Tao is not picky about smoking. Especially in the thirteenth century, as long as there is a smoke, it is very beautiful, and the taste is put aside first. If you say that you want to smoke well, you must smoke well, and others don't have the right to speak!

The Great China cigars are packed in a delicate wooden box with a soldering iron on the top of the box with the image of the incense worship, which is the official trademark of the Great China Cigarette Factory. As for the problem that the name and the avatar are a little indistinguishable. Whatever it is, when the first thing is to have this benefit, you can get it as you want, there is no constraint from the ancients, and there is no comparison with those who come after.

The cigarettes were all shipped to the port of Mingzhou, some of which were sold by the local Global Trading Company, and some of which were loaded onto Xu Liangzhi's cargo ships and shipped to Michigan and Japan. There is not much production of this thing, only in the small farm of Baixiang. There is no hurry to quickly distribute the goods, take your time.

"My baby is sick...... "But as soon as Hong Tao walked to his farm, a flowery soprano voice came from ...... distance. Don't ask, except for Bai Xiang's throat that he has cultivated in the mountains since he was a child, no one can cry in such a high-pitched and tactful tone.

"I said, 'Who is crying this morning?' Is Geya sick? Then why don't you send her to the doctor, just sit here and cry sick? Parting the crowd, it was really Bai Xiang who sat on the ground and cried very immorally. This made Hong Tao very faceless. You say that a queen is a concubine. You can't play with the ground cannon.

"It's not Geya, it's my tobacco! Look, look, their leaves are rusty...... A few days ago, there were only a few such trees, but there are more and more of them every day, what can I do! Bai Xiang heard the voice of the flood and got up from the ground in a hurry. Holding a few tobacco leaves and holding Hong Tao's arm, he didn't let go, but he shook vigorously.

"It's really sick...... But I won't cure it. Why don't we plant something else this year, and then grow tobacco next year? Hong Tao took the leaves in Bai Xiang's hand and looked at them, although he was not an agricultural expert, he could also see the marks on the leaves. It's not an insect bite, it's more like a human skin disease, it's probably caused by some kind of mold, and as for what, who knows.

"I don't, I don't! My workshop is just getting a little better, and you don't care about me. Why can you do anything else, and you can't do anything else with me? I don't do it, no one is allowed to dig up my tobacco, I live here, and I will pull out any leaf that is sick, and you don't care about me, I get it myself!" As soon as Bai Xiang heard that Hong Tao was going to scatter a lot, he immediately became anxious. She finally found a job she liked, and she was very rich, so she gave up? That won't work. So Hong Tao became her punching bag, but fortunately she didn't catch Hong Tao, but only verbally attacked.

"Oops...... I'll say a few, it's fun to watch your emperor being scolded, isn't it? Go, go, go, don't make a mess here! When Bai Xiang made such a fuss, the new immigrants who were hired by her to farm the land next to her laughed. These guys are all family members of skilled immigrants who have only been attracted by the immigration policy in recent years, and some of them have no skills, and some of them are not even proficient in language, so they cannot enter the state-owned factories to work as workers, so they have become surplus laborers, often going to various farms to do odd jobs.

"Your Majesty, not only is Niangniang's field sick, when I went to the sugarcane field to weed two days ago, there were also these things on the leaves over there, and Minister Huang also took someone to bathe the leaves with lime water." The crowd was blasted by Hong Tao and slowly dispersed, and a chubby woman among them revealed a more important information to Hong Tao.

"Okay, I said why is my tobacco leaf sick, it turned out that you brought it, you compensate me!" Bai Xiang had already entered a state of madness, and had no place to vent her anger, and when she heard that this person had been to the sugar cane field two days ago, she immediately turned the spearhead at her, and when she stood up, she was about to pounce on her.

"Stop! What does it look like? My own Tian is sick, I feel uncomfortable, it's understandable, it's over scolding me, who gave you the right to blame others? Can you do that if you are the wife of the emperor? Who taught you! I'll ask Bozhu at night to see if she taught you and go home! Bai Xiang lost her temper with herself, Hong Tao could always accompany her with a smiling face, but if she bullied others and was unreasonable to make trouble with others, this would be beyond her bottom line. Once this thing is found, it has to be dealt with seriously, and it is resolute that you can't get used to this problem, otherwise it will be difficult to change in the future.

“…… "Hong Tao rarely gets angry with others, and he and his family are all hippie smiles, but if they are really angry, no one is not afraid."...... Because you don't know what he's going to do, you don't have a bottom line, he's lower than you, and you don't want to be shameless. Bai Xiang immediately didn't dare to make any more trouble, and cried and walked home.

"Alas...... Political marriage is harmful! If you are not married yet, you must remember. In the future, if you choose a husband, you must look pleasing to the eye, don't listen to your parents' blind arrangement, let alone try to do anything outside the body, only people and temper can live a comfortable life for a lifetime. Looking at the back of Bai Xiang, Hong Tao let out a long sigh. If you let yourself choose, you will never marry her, and the two of them have no common language at all. It's not that worship incense is bad, but her own system is not very compatible with her software. I can't change this problem myself, but I can use this as an example to warn these girls who are not yet married, so that they can take it as a warning.

"Phew...... Hurry up, don't listen, don't come to his house to work in the future, what is this talking about? It's a pity that Hong Tao's words didn't cause any resonance, but made several women anxious. Where is there an emperor who instigates other people's children not to listen to their parents, this is too unreliable.

Hong Tao didn't continue to entangle with these women, and he couldn't explain reason with them, so he just went to see the condition of the sugarcane field. Jinhewan has not had any large-scale agricultural disasters in recent years, and the monkeys, wild boars, and hares that often come to the fields to steal food have also been scared away. As for pests or whatever, that thing doesn't care, you can't prevent these little insects from farming anywhere in this era, and the amount of damage they have already been calculated into the harvest.

However, large-scale crop diseases are more troublesome, and if not controlled, it is likely to cause a large-scale reduction in yields, or even a failure of harvests. Even if Jinhe City does not focus on agricultural production, even if not a single acre of grain is grown, it will not affect everyone's quality of life. But people have not yet fully changed from the mentality of an agrarian economy, and most of the people of Jinhe City are willing to farm some land. No matter how much they receive, as long as they see the green fields, they will feel at ease.

There is also a more important problem with the other grain-producing areas of the empire, the sugar cane fields, and the corn fields, most of which are cultivated in large areas in the subject countries, and it would be really troublesome if they were also infected with diseases that spread too quickly.

At that time, although Jinhe City will not be short of food, it will seriously affect the economic development of those colonies, and if the local residents are not enough to eat, then the rule of this colony will come to an end. Rather than building a whole bunch of warships and equipping a bunch of soldiers to suppress the rebellion of the colonists, it is better to think about how to treat the diseases of these crops in advance. This cost is certainly more cost-effective than building warships and sending troops, and the effect is a hundred times better.

"Uncle Huang, I'm afraid it's not a matter to manually rub lime water on every diseased leaf. As you can see, lime water doesn't seem to work, and it's spreading a little fast, not only on the farms, but also in the Huangzhuang on the east side of the city. Let's everyone rest and rest, don't do this useless work, I'll think of other ways to see if it works. If it doesn't work, all these crops will have to be burned so that they don't interfere with the next crop, you say? ”

The situation was worse than Hong Tao expected, and the condition was even worse on the Imperial State Farm. This rust-like disease has swept the entire farm, and the old man Huang Hai is mobilizing all the farm workers and family members to carry lime water to scrub each rusty leaf, and he only has lime water as a disinfection tool at present.

(To be continued.) )