Shu Danian's 20,000 catties of tobacco were successfully confiscated by the inner factory and transported to Gu Hengbo that night.

According to the plan, the confiscated income and the tobacco purchased by the imperial court will arrive at Gu Hengbo by various means, and then be transported to Fusang by the steamship China Merchants Bureau, where it will be processed into Meisheng tobacco and then returned to China, and sold abroad from Ningbo, Guangzhou, Macao and other places.

In this regard, Gu Hengbo's Meisheng Company is responsible for the sale of state-owned tobacco in the Ming Dynasty just like the Dutch East India Company, and because the market of Meisheng Company is abroad, Zhu Youxiao specially allows it to have armed forces, and the armed forces are in charge of Heiwa, the fierce general of the South China Sea Fleet.

Wang Duo, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, did not know that the 20,000 catties of tobacco and soil hidden by his son-in-law Shu Danian would also flow to Meisheng Company, but the arrest of his son-in-law also gave him a strong sense of crisis.

As an old bureaucrat who has been up and down for decades, he didn't know how powerful Wei Zhongxian was, so he could guess that after the people in the inner factory arrested his son-in-law, he was afraid that he would soon be caught by the vine.

Although he has managed to avoid a temporary crisis through deliberate righteousness, it does not mean that he will always be safe.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Duo returned to the mansion, he didn't have time to rest for a moment before he called out his most trusted housekeeper Zhou: "Take out the five thousand catties of tobacco and soil at home and transport it to Miss Gu immediately, hurry up!" No matter how late it is, the old man will be killed by these 5,000 catties of tobacco soil! ”

Steward Zhou saw that his master was in a hurry, so he hurriedly agreed, just when Wang Duo took the pair of cards and keys here and rushed to shout to move tobacco and soil into the car, there was a dinging sound outside.

"What's going on?" Wang Duo hurriedly walked out, and he saw a small guy running over: "Back to the master, the people from the inner factory are here, and the little ones can't stop them, as soon as they come, they shoot directly, saying that they want to arrest you, master." ”

Wang Duo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, secretly thinking to himself how could these people from the inner factory move so quickly, just arrested their son-in-law, and then moved on to him, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so quickly?

Could it be that his son-in-law has confessed that he and he are in charge of tobacco farming with him?

Wang Duo quickly denied this conjecture, because his cooperation with his son-in-law never left any contract, and it was always a verbal order, as long as he did not admit it, the people in the inner factory could not be charged with himself, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and his son-in-law did not know that he was secretly operating tobacco alone.

Thinking of this, Wang Duo couldn't help but recover a little bit of courage, and the person calmed down a lot, and hurriedly said: "Don't panic! He walked out directly, and at this time, Li Dingguo also came to him with someone.

Li Dingguo waved his hand, and several officials of the inner factory surrounded Wang Duo with muskets.

"What is Lord Li going to do, how can this official provoke you, in broad daylight, you dare to trespass on this official's mansion like this, but you know that there is no king law in the world, if you don't say it today, don't blame the old man for not participating in you in front of His Majesty!"

Wang Duo was sure that the people in the inner factory did not know that they still had tobacco and soil, so they were very confident in what they said.

And Li Dingguo replied very indifferently: "Lord Wang is a dignified scholar, it stands to reason that the lower officials should not have broken in so recklessly, but because of the report, your Lord Wang not only connived at his family to sell tobacco but also hid tobacco soil himself, and the evidence is conclusive, so he has to come to arrest you on the strict order of Gonggong Wei." ”

"Hidden in the smoke?" Wang Duo couldn't help but smile, and asked Li Dingguo with a very annoyed look: "Lord Li, if you people in the inner factory want to make a big deal and win the favor of Your Majesty, there is no need to bite people so indiscriminately, this trumped-up charge cannot be imposed, since there is evidence, it is better to take out the evidence and do things again." ”

"Here's the proof!"

After Li Dingguo took out a deed, he said: "You traded a batch of tobacco with Meisheng Company, a total of 15,000 catties, although your actions are quite secretive, but they are still detected by us, which is also due to your housekeeper Zhou, and you are not careful enough." ”

Saying that, Li Dingguo directly ordered his subordinates to search strictly.

Because Steward Zhou had already been secretly controlled by the inner factory, he easily turned out the five thousand catties of tobacco and soil, and placed them in front of Wang Duo one by one.

Wang Duo couldn't help but turn pale with fright, and was about to kick Steward Zhou angrily: "You dare to harm me, see if I don't kill you!" ”

Seeing this, Li Dingguo grabbed Wang Duo and smiled at Wang Duo: "This person can't blame him, if you want to blame yourself, you are too greedy, and you are lucky, you said how good it is for you to hand over all 20,000 catties to Meisheng Company, but you still have to leave 5,000 catties, is it possible that you still want to wait for the rumors to pass, and then sell it for a good price?" ”

As he spoke, Li Dingguo ordered someone to take Wang Duo and the 5,000 catties of tobacco and soil he had privately hidden.

Wang Duo also seemed to understand the key to it, and realized that this may be a bureau set up by the inner factory and Gu Meisheng from beginning to end, whether he handed over the tobacco to the imperial court or to the Meisheng company, it was the same, although he handed it over to the Meisheng company, although he recovered some money, he would also be raided because of the hidden tobacco and soil, and he would lose more money.

However, despite the example of Wang Duo, there are still many gentry and bureaucrats or wealthy businessmen who secretly possess tobacco and land because they are so greedy and unwilling to give it to the imperial court for nothing and rush to find the Meisheng company, in order to make some money, but in fact they are still cheated by the imperial court.

But if you want the country to control the huge profits, you must be so cruel, and you must make many businessmen understand that they can't afford to play with the imperial court.

In this way, almost the entire existing tobacco of Daming has entered the Meisheng company, and it has also laid the foundation for the rapid expansion of the overseas tobacco market of the Meisheng company.

And here, there is another problem that must also be solved, that is, the Ming mainland, which is involved in the entire tobacco industry, is not only the upper class rulers but also the lower class of the Li people, because of the higher purchase price and lower cost of planting, especially in some places where the land is barren and more conducive to the cultivation of poppy and other crops, many farmers have become full-time tobacco farmers.

Therefore, once the imperial court prohibits the private sale of tobacco soil, then a large number of tobacco farmers will go bankrupt, which will also affect the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered Huangzhuang to be responsible for purchasing these tobacco raw materials from tobacco farmers from all over the country, and then handed them over to Meisheng Company for processing and sales.

In short, from the collection of raw materials to processing to sales, the entire industrial chain of the opium trade was controlled by the imperial court, and no private person was allowed to touch it, and the most critical company in this was to sell these opiums only outside the Ming Dynasty.

In order to better sell opium in Europa, the Ottoman and Rakshasa countries in the more developed regions of the world except for the Ming Dynasty, and thus earn more wealth by high-cost means of non-war, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao specially ordered the military department to delay the military strategic development plan, and to temporarily let the whole world enter a period of peace, so as to achieve a more stable international environment for the opium trade before the countries in these regions realized the harm of drugs.

Therefore, with the tacit consent of Zhu Youxiao, local officials such as the Governor of Liangguang and the Governor of Nanyang successively negotiated with the Dutch and the colonists such as Franc Ji who retreated to India, and signed a series of peace agreements aimed at resuming bilateral trade.

In this way, Daming Meisheng Company was able to carry Meisheng cigarettes into the Indian Ocean and even to the Mediterranean.

Countless residents in the current control area of Xiyangfan or the Europa area began to come into contact with the Meishan tobacco produced in the Ming Dynasty, which was extracted and processed by the Daming Royal Engineering Institute with a special solvent The drug has a higher addiction rate and stronger nerve stimulation, so many of the Western fans of Europa will not be able to get rid of this smoke for a lifetime, until the family is bankrupt.

It is a pity that the current countries of Europa, especially Franco, Dutch, Britain, etc., are busy competing for the position of Europa supremacy, and after their combined fleet was defeated by the Ming Dynasty, their internal contradictions have further intensified, and their arms race has become more intense, and the need for intercommunication trade with the Ming Dynasty is also greater, so that their rulers have to remain silent about the sale of opium in the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

However, as a result, the citizens of many Western countries began to become addicts on a large scale, so that later on, there was a situation in which the country had no soldiers to fight and no people to raise soldiers.

Of course, the Western countries, which are now busy competing for interests and the Ming Dynasty is in the honeymoon period, do not realize this.

Even the Ottoman Empire at this time did not realize this, as a large empire that was hostile to the Western countries, the Ottomans were happy to maintain good relations with a super empire like the Ming Dynasty, and they were willing to join hands with the Ming Dynasty to resist the Western Ocean.

Of course, the Ming were more interested in the wealth of the Ottoman Empire, the enormous wealth that could be earned from the opium trade.

Even in order to earn more wealth, the Daming Meisheng Company bought the right to operate the area where the Suez Canal is located and immediately dug the canal.

Because the Ming promised to dig the canal and operate it for fifteen years without repayment to the Ottomans, the Ottoman Empire also agreed to the Ming to dig the canal, after all, in this way, they did not have to spend a penny to get a transportation hub, and let them dig their own technology for more than fifteen years.

Of course, these are all later words, when the Ming Dynasty vigorously engaged in the anti-smoking campaign and prepared to sell opium to China like the British Empire and other countries in the history of the original later generations, and dumped countless opium into their land, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao also left Shenyang City and entered the Shanhaiguan, and his second inspection was officially over.

Theoretically speaking, he is the Ming Emperor with the longest walking route, in the course of the two inspections, he has basically been to Jiangnan, Huguang, Southwest, Nanyang, Fusang, Liaodong, in addition to Mobei and Siberia and the northwest, the Ming has almost been completed by him.

He admired his thousands of miles of rivers and mountains like a painter, and when he arrived in Gyeonggi and looked at the autumn leaves in late autumn, he felt a sense of satisfaction that he had never felt before.

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When Zhu Youxiao arrived in Gyeonggi and was about to return to Beijing, Bumu Butai had also been shaving his hair at Longquan Temple for almost two years.

The days of the rules and disciplines were extremely torturous for Bumu Butai, and she had worried more than once that her delicate face would wither in the deep old forest.

Every day when she sweeps the courtyard, she will look at the acquaintances among the pilgrims at the bottom of the mountain, she looks forward to the day when she can return to the world again, she no longer wants to be a queen and concubine, she wants to be a master, she just wants to escape from this uninhabited world now.

Although he hated loneliness in his heart and felt emptiness day by day, Bumu Butai still insisted on kneeling in front of the Buddha every day and chanting and meditating.

As a person with desires, she could not settle her heart in front of the Buddha, and the only thing she could do was to silently make a wish, asking for many bodhi of great compassion to give her a new life.

Bu Mu Butai didn't know when he raised his eyebrows, and a trace of melancholy had condensed in front of him, less cunning and more melancholy than before.

In the blink of an eye, it has entered autumn, the cold air has made the sound of cicadas have long been silenced in the mountains and forests, and the fallen leaves under his broom are sweeping more and more, Bumu Butai does not know how many autumns he has to live, and he does not know how much time he has to spend next to this green lantern ancient Buddha.

The north wind suddenly blew the door of the temple squeaked, and the candlelight in front of the Buddha also shook non-stop, although the light and shadow gradually dimmed like Bumu Butai's state of mind at the moment, but it has not been blown out.

And just when Bumu Butai was silently reciting scriptures in this dim light and shadow, he had already returned to Beijing and passed by Longquan Temple to see that Zhu Youxiao, who had once enjoyed the bliss of the world, quietly appeared behind her, and suddenly hugged Bumu Butai.

Bu Mu Butai only felt a pair of strong hands hugging her very tightly, but as soon as she saw the bright yellow sleeves and hem of her clothes, she immediately guessed that it was His Majesty, so she hurriedly shouted in surprise: "Your Majesty! ”

"Shh Zhu Youxiao made a silent move, he entered Longquan Temple secretly this time, only the abbot of the temple knew about it, he didn't want to alarm the entire temple.

And Bu Mu Butai nodded knowingly, and naturally closed his eyes, leaned into Zhu Youxiao's arms, and Zhu Youxiao also took advantage of the situation to hug her tighter, and directly hugged Bu Mu Butai and fell on the futon in front of the Buddha, the whole body arched on Bu Mu Butai's soft body, kneading Bu Mu Butai's pair of jade rabbits burst out of the clothes, and for a while it became more intense, and there was a burst of coquettish moans in the sound of lamp oil.

Bumu Butai tried her best to serve Zhu Youxiao, she knew that this moment was very short, so she cherished the joy of this moment very much, she couldn't help but glance at the Buddha statue when she was humming, and she couldn't help but smile when she saw the warm and compassionate smile of the Buddha statue.

Zhu Youxiao himself didn't know how many times he had fought fiercely with this extremely charming Bumu Butai in this place that should have been quiet and inactive, he only knew that at this moment he was completely immersed in the absurd life of an ancient emperor, Daming because he was more and more prosperous, and he himself was more and more arrogant and lascivious because of Daming's prosperity.