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Although he knew that the other party was only a 20-year-old young man, Sassoon still looked extremely nervous when facing him, after all, this person was a warlord who ruled tens of millions of people...... Well, or rather, the Governor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Will he grant his request?

Of course, on the other hand, Sassoon was also full of expectations for this, the reason why he went to Baghdad to buy horses was to be able to sell these horses to the rebels, so as to lay a good foundation with them, in his opinion, soldiers always like horses, and the reason why he chose horses is because there may be many people in Guangzhou who provide arms to the rebels, but who will sell horses to them?

When the ship arrived in Singapore, he received news that the concessionaire had been granted to Canton, but the real British merchants had profited from the franchisor's status and Sassoon & Co. had been completely excluded, so Sassoon had to make another choice - to give the horses to the rebels, and even to hire a breeder in Singapore.

All of this is to reopen this door. And now, the one who holds this door is the governor who is riding a horse in front of him, no, it should be the governor of Han.

"Tsk! Tut! Tut! This is a good horse......"

Zhu Yifeng, who jumped off the Arabian horse, couldn't help but praise loudly.

Arabian horses, a hundred years later, there are a few people who do not know the name of Arabian horses, this is the nobility of horses, although they do not understand horses, but Zhu Yifeng still from these long journeys to Wuchang, but not tired horses feel that it must be carefully selected good horses.

"Mr. Sassoon, you chose all of this from Baghdad?"

Looking back at Sassoon in a suit next to him, this Sassoon looked very young.

"Yes, every horse is carefully selected, the best Arabian horses!"

Whether these horses are stallions or not, it doesn't matter, but Sassoon did put a lot of thought into it.

"I've heard it's very conservative there, how did you get into Baghdad and bring these horses from there?"

seems to be a random question, but it is actually because Zhu Yifeng has other plans in his heart,

"Your Excellency, although the Sassoon family now lives in India, in fact, we have been living in Baghdad for the past few hundred years, and my grandfather, who used to be the chief financial officer of Baghdad, led the family to flee to the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr more than 20 years ago, and then to Mumbai, India, where he established the Sassoon Foreign Company, which deals in international trade, and I am afraid that the Sassoon family is still in the position of hereditary finance officer in Baghdad."

Hearing him say this, Zhu Yifeng immediately understood that he was able to smoothly purchase these horses from the Baghdad region by relying on the old relationship left by the family. In the mid-19th century, because of the closure of Ottoman Turkey, the channels for countries to buy Arabian horses have been closed, and now there is such a good channel, he will naturally not abandon it.

"Originally, your family still had this relationship!"

The chief financial officer, who has been hereditary for hundreds of years, must have a deep connection in the Baghdad area, and in this case, let alone hundreds of horses, even thousands, tens of thousands of horses, he may not be able to get them.

"If I want more Arabian horses, and the best ones, can you buy them for me?"

Throwing the reins of the horse to the soldiers on the side, Zhu Yifeng looked at Sassoon and asked.

What the?

Buying a horse?

Sassoon looked at the Han Du in front of him in surprise, who was younger than himself, he was stunned for a moment, and he realized that he had brought himself a trouble, and quickly explained.

"Your Excellency, I think you should know something about the situation in Baghdad Province, Turkey is a relatively conservative country, so ......"

"A three-year concession, 60,000 horses, and a price of 50 yuan for each horse when it arrives in Hong Kong!"

Without waiting for Sassoon to finish speaking, Zhu Yifeng offered his price, he knew that the most direct way for the Jews was to give them enough benefits. They can all sell God for the sake of profit, let alone just buy horses. Sure enough, at the beginning of his price, all Sassoon's words were swallowed back, maybe he was born in India, but he knows the situation in Baghdad province very well, after all, it is the foundation of the Sassoon family, and there are hundreds of thousands of Jews living there, they run various industries, as long as he wants, let alone 60,000 horses, that is, 600,000 can be bought, even those Bedouins who love horses like their lives will sell horses to him, of course, as long as the price is right, In fact, what can those Bedouins sell other than horses? Is it sand?

"Of course, Your Excellency Handu, I will definitely help you buy the best Arabian horses if you wish!"

A very important reason why Zhu Yifeng hopes to buy such a large number of Arabian horses is that he hopes to improve China's horse breeds by buying Arabian horses, and there are tens of millions of horses in China that need to be improved, both the military and the people need better riding horses and light and heavy horses. Light and heavy horses can be improved from Europe, but the military and civilian riding horses, through the Arabian horse to improve is undoubtedly the best choice, the Russian Don Hippo is from the Mongolian mare and the Arabian stallion after several generations of breeding and improvement, and later the introduction of British thoroughbred horses to improve the grade.

"I'm sure this business will pay you a lot off......"

As he spoke, Zhu Yifeng took out a silver palm-sized box from his pocket, opened it, took out a cigarette, and handed it to him in Sassoon's surprise.

"This ......"

Surprised to take the finger-sized "paper stick", Sassoon watched in amazement as the Han Du lit it with a match. Then he puffs out a puff of cigarette.

It's smoke!

As soon as the white smoke came to his face with a familiar smell, Sassoon immediately recognized that the smoke was the finest Turkish tobacco, the best tobacco!

"Your Excellency, this is ......"

Looking at the cigarette in his hand in surprise, Sassoon's eyes were full of doubt.

"Cigarettes!"

Spit out a puff of cigarette, Zhu Yifeng motioned for Sassoon to light it, and then said:

"This is my personal invention! How, is it not very convenient compared to pipes! ”

Taking a puff of paper cigarette and feeling the familiar taste of Turkish tobacco, Sassoon nodded, this cigarette is indeed very convenient to smoke.

"Your Excellency, this invention of yours is really wonderful, it is more convenient than a pipe, is it in an iron box like this?"

"No,"

Shaking his head, Zhu Yifeng took out a small cigarette case from another pocket.

"It's in such a cigarette box, a box of twenty, of course, this is the cheapest, and it will be distributed to my army in the future......"

Taking the cigarette case, Sassoon's eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately realized the convenience of this kind of cigarette, compared to the inconvenient pipes and tobacco, this kind of paper cigarette is more convenient to smoke, as long as you carry such a box, you can smoke twenty, obviously this is the most suitable for a profession like the army, or even a sailor.

"Indeed, this cigarette is suitable for the army!"

Just as Sassoon's words fell, a voice reached his ears.

"What do you think if you sell them to the Crimea, to the British and French troops there?"

"What!"

Looking at this Han Du in surprise, looking at the paper cigarette between his fingers, Sassoon was stunned for a while, selling to the British and French who were fighting!

The British and French soldiers who were on the front lines and were fighting were obviously not as convenient as they had been in the barracks, but with cigarettes they could smoke whenever and wherever they wanted, even between battles. And there's no trouble with losing your pipe.

"This ...... Your Excellency, I believe that this invention of yours will be welcomed by all soldiers, and for soldiers, paper cigarettes are undoubtedly the best choice,......"

In Sassoon's words, Zhu Yifeng still had a smile on his face, and only he knew very well why he wanted to sell cigarettes on the battlefield, because this kind of "warship" brand cigarettes printed with "warship" contained an additive -- heroin, because although its content was extremely slight, only one kilogram of heroin was sprayed in each ton of tobacco, but it could play many "good" effects such as calming and calming the nerves, and the only side effect was that it would become addictive.

As early as more than a month ago, Zhu Yifeng synthesized heroin with morphine in his laboratory, because the technology is not complicated, adding acetic acid to morphine to obtain this white crystalline powder, the principle is very simple, and the cost is also very low, because of the needs of the hospital, the governor has been importing morphine for pain relief and anesthesia, and the opium trading unit is calculated in boxes, while morphine is measured in pounds, and each pound does not even need 50 yuan. And the reason why Zhu Yifeng studied heroin is to launch a new "drug war" against Europe. In order to allow this new drug to spread in Europe.

Occasionally smoke a few, a small amount of heroin, because it may not be addictive, but a few packs of cigarettes will be addictive to hero. At this time, the basic copyright of the "yellow warship" will not be able to meet their needs, well, at that time, there will be "blue warship" and "red warship" waiting for them, and in the end, the heroin in the pharmacy will become their only choice.

And the reason why Zhu Yifeng chose the British and French on the Crimean battlefield as a breakthrough is because the cruel battlefield on the battlefield will make the soldiers willing to use drugs to anesthetize their nerves, just like the Vietnam War back then, it was the Vietnam War that led to the drug epidemic in the United States, before that, just like now, although opium is legal in Britain in Europe, but it has not been flooded, like Britain, the annual demand for opium is only less than dozens of tons, that is, hundreds of boxes of opium, Moreover, it is mainly used to make morphine and opium water for medical treatment, which is now used for drug rehabilitation in Guangdong.

That's the reality!

It is an inescapable reality that the so-called flood of Europe is, in fact, nothing more than someone's imagination and exaggeration. Even the so-called hero, which flooded Europe at the end of the 19th century, is nothing more than the self-righteous imagination of many people.

When Bayer invented Heroin in 1898, sales at the time were only 45 kilograms, and 10 years later, this amount "soared" to 783 kilograms, and only about 7 tons of opium were consumed. This is the so-called profiteering hero, because of the "huge" market, it took ten years to cultivate the market, and at the same time, China's demand for opium is 158,000 quintals of domestically produced, 50,000 quintals of imports, and tens of thousands of tons of huge demand a year, enough to produce thousands of tons of heroin, because, even in the twenties and thirties, China's annual demand for morphine and heroin is as high as hundreds of tons.

Drugs have been rampant in China in less than a century, and as for Europe, although the first box of opium was shipped to Britain as early as the 17th century, it has never really been overflowing, let alone a disaster, because there is no demand for a huge market like China.

Market...... It needs to be nurtured! It needs to be developed, otherwise heroin, because it will only be widely used as a medicine as in history, hundreds of millions of Europeans use hundreds of kilograms of heroin a year, because the market is only ...... Well, a market of tens of thousands of silver dollars.

And the battlefield is the best market, because in the harsh war environment, smoking heroin, or heroin, because of cigarettes, can temporarily relieve the pain caused by homesickness or loss of loved ones, can temporarily numb people's nerves, make them immerse themselves in a moment of tranquility, and most importantly, after the end of the war, they will bring their habits back to Europe, just like the American army a hundred years later. At that time, it was hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who brought the habit of taking heroin and other drugs to China, thus further contributing to the drug epidemic in the United States, and it has been out of control ever since!

It can be said that without the Vietnam War and the anti-war it spawned, there would have been no drug epidemic in the United States, and the demand for the drug market would not have been created in the air. For now, at least, there are no social factors that contribute to the spread of drugs in Europe. But now, the Crimean War is so directly in front of Zhu Yifeng as an opportunity, how could he miss this opportunity?

Originally, he wanted to do it himself, but now the arrival of Sassoon, who claims to be the biggest opium dealer in history, has given him an opportunity. Instead of getting your hands dirty, let this opium dealer sell drugs to Europe! Moreover, compared to the Chinese, the Jews are distributed throughout Europe, and as long as they are given enough benefits, they will naturally spread desperately to sell as many drugs as possible to Europeans, of course, they are willing to do this if they have cultivated a mature market before that.

And the nearly one million Anglo-French troops in Crimea are the best market, and these British and French soldiers will bring the habit of smoking "warship smoke" and heroin to the British and French countries after the war, and when the time comes, this may even be accepted by Europeans as a fashion!

Feeling proud, Zhu Yifeng took a deep puff of cigarette, this cigarette was of course an ordinary cigarette without adding "special medicine", and then he looked at Sassoon and said.

"How, are you interested in helping me sell him to the Crimea, to the British and French soldiers?" (To be continued.) )