"It's really punishable!" , Feng Shen Yinde listened, and said angrily. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info in the Qing Dynasty, and he did see those princes and nobles who smoked opium and swallowed clouds and smoked fog. I just didn't know that opium would be so harmful.

Fortunately, he was on an errand in front of the Emperor Taishang before, so his actions were not so convenient. In addition, Ama and Shen and Gulun and Princess Xiao have always restrained him, so they didn't smoke opium. Otherwise, you can't say it, and you will become the addict who describes the witheredness.

Listening to Lewis now, I suddenly feel that I am very lucky.

Gu Lun and Princess Xiao also had blue faces, and their faces were very ugly. After all, in her subconscious, Yiren should be a coarse and short-sighted person. Where did you think that the Yi people would have such flowery intestines.

So much so that the Western envoys in the hall with very white skin were a little hostile.

Lewis smiled and persuaded very kindly: "Don't be angry! Don't be angry! Hasn't the harm of opium been resolved by our Ming Dynasty? Moreover, in our Ming Dynasty, in addition to the death penalty for black-hearted merchants who resell opium. There is another killing move, so that opium will completely disappear and become invisible in Daming. ”。 As he spoke, he took out a cardboard box with a beautiful woman pattern from his pocket.

The gesture of scratching, first playing, and posture made the princess's face show a little embarrassment. scolded angrily: "This woman is so shameless." ”

Lewis showed a bit of a man's evil smile, and said to Feng Shen Yinde: "Have you ever seen this thing?" ”。

After staring at it for a few seconds, Feng Shen Yinde hesitated: "This-isn't it a foreign fire?" Because of the method of making matches, it is not difficult. So in the second year of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, matches were made. This was several years before the lighter.

Later, with the development of commerce and trade in the Ming Dynasty, matches also spread to all over the world. And because it has changed the traditional way of making fire, it has made people's lives easier. It is very popular all over the world.

It's just that after it was introduced to the Qing Kingdom, it was unexpectedly coldly received.

The first of these is limited by the basic national policy of the Qing Dynasty to close the country, which makes the customs duty of matches extremely high. As a result, the purchasing power of ordinary people is basically negligible.

The second is the closed psychology caused by the small-scale peasant economy of the Qing Dynasty. Because of the situation of self-sufficiency, the ordinary people of the Qing State have a very low degree of acceptance of new things. Although the methods of flint and flint for fire are extremely backward.

But for thousands of years, the people have become accustomed to it.

It is these two important reasons that make it difficult for many new things to enter the Qing market.

So until now, among the exporting countries of the Ming Dynasty, the proportion of the Qing State is still very low.

This is also one of the important reasons why the Ming Dynasty can't wait to clean up the Qing Kingdom.

However, the upper-class people of the Qing Kingdom have a taste of foreign things. So matches in the upper class of society, turned into a luxury. And the liquidity is not low. Like the imperial relatives and eunuchs of the Beijing Division, they all use this thing to show their identity.

Even if lighters were later introduced to the Qing Dynasty, the appreciative packaging of matches was still the object of favor of the upper class.

However, because matches are imported products, the Qing people conventionally call them foreign fires.

This is exactly the same as what Chinese people called foreign things in the twentieth century.

After he said this, the princess seemed to see that something was wrong, and immediately vetoed: "No! This is not a foreign fire. When I entered the palace, I saw Concubine Ru Niangniang in front of the emperor and used this thing. ”。 With that, she looked at the ceiling again. After pondering for a few seconds, it suddenly dawned on me: "I remember!" This is foreign smoke. ”。

"Like a concubine? Emperor? Lewis heard the key words. The princess realized that she had made a mistake and immediately kept silent. Feng Shen Yinde's face tightened, and he quickly explained: "My inner man was originally on an errand in the palace, and he only asked someone to come out of the palace at the beginning of the year. ”。

Although Lewis had doubts, after seeing that there were two more big men beside him who obviously looked at him wrongly, he immediately changed his words: "Not bad, not bad!" Mrs. Lu, she really has good eyesight! ”。 As he spoke, he took out one and handed it to Feng Shen Yinde.

Although at the legal level, the Ming Dynasty was able to greatly curb the circulation of opium. However, due to the existence of huge profits, it is still impossible to stop some businessmen who are hungry for profit, bend the law for personal gain, and secretly smuggle.

It is also in this era that the scientific and technological conditions are too backward. made the Ming Dynasty unable to do the same as later generations, and strictly controlled the various entry channels. Conduct all-round monitoring of opium on the market.

In the end, the geographical area of the Ming Dynasty is too vast, and there are many outlets to the sea. The manpower and material resources consumed to monitor are too great.

So Da Ming came up with a trick to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle!

The specific way to do this is to use cigarettes instead of opium. As a result, people lose their biological and psychological needs for opium.

Despite the spiritual aspect of cigarettes, cigarettes are not as significant as opium. Addictive, also relatively low. But the taste is not much worse than opium. And most importantly, cigarettes are hundreds of times weaker than opium.

This makes cigarettes the best substitute for opium.

In fact, as early as 95 years, Daming's cigarettes were manufactured. And for the administrative level, the army, a certain amount of rationing. Just considering that in modern society, cigarettes are too harmful to people's lungs. Therefore, the high-level of the Ming Dynasty is not allowed to be open to the people.

As a result, in the Ming Dynasty, the circulation of cigarettes is very low.

Until recent years, with the emergence of several major opium smuggling cases. made the Ming high-level lift, and lifted the ban on cigarettes.

And in order to improve the competitive advantage of cigarettes, Daming's tobacco manufacturing company also deliberately produces special cigarettes with different flavors and different prices. The most expensive can reach tens or even hundreds of Chinese dollars. The cheapest ones cost only a dime or even five or six cents.

Therefore, people who want to satisfy their cravings can afford it. In this way, the tragedy of smoking leading to bankruptcy, family ruin, and death is avoided.

This effectively forced opium to withdraw from the Ming market from the economic level.

With such a good thing, Daming naturally can't hide it. So thanks to the footsteps of Ming merchants, cigarettes have also been brought to the corners of the world. The surrounding countries such as Siam, Burma, India, and Persia have basically become the overseas markets of the Ming Dynasty.

The Qing Kingdom, Korea, and Japan in the north also slowly became potential importers of cigarettes with the efforts of the Jinsha Pirate Regiment.

Even Europe, which is far away, has not let go.

And during the flu, there are jokes that cigarettes can cure the flu. With whiteness, cigarettes have a good reputation for healing.

It's just that due to the current shortage of materials, the supply of non-essential goods such as cigarettes has been greatly reduced. Cigarettes circulating in the market are also extremely rare. As a result, the Ming Dynasty is basically hard to find.

Lewis can still buy cigarettes, and he has done it a lot.