"Will you do business?"

"Can you find out how many silver dollars are circulating in the entire tobacco industry within half a year?"

"Is it possible to find out the details of the dignitaries who are engaged in the tobacco industry or who serve as an umbrella for the tobacco industry?"

"Give you a sum of money to become a big merchant in tobacco sales in the shortest possible time, and control the entire tobacco industry?"

……

After Gu Hengbo put on his dress, Zhu Youxiao also got up directly, sat back at the Bafang table, poured a glass of wine, and asked Gu Hengbo very seriously.

Gu Hengbo looked stunned, she didn't expect that His Majesty didn't ask her where her home was, and she didn't ask herself how old she was, but she suddenly asked about this after taking possession of her body for two days, forgive her for being extremely smart, and she couldn't guess what His Majesty was thinking.

However, Your Majesty is Your Majesty after all, although she is a clear man, she can sell her art outside without selling herself, and sell at a price, but in front of the king, she can only let him conquer, and now since she asks about this, she can only answer truthfully: "I don't know if the pavilion opened by the slave family in the past is considered a business, although it can't make a lot of money, but it can also feed more than a dozen maids. ”

"This is very good", Zhu Youxiao put the wine glass down, pulled Gu Hengbo's sleeve, and then took it into his arms, picked up his chin, and said with a smile: "I want to give you a piece of wealth, and go back to bed with me, and I will talk to you in detail." ”

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Early the next morning, there was a news circulating in the whole Huajian City, Gu Meisheng, a celebrity who came from the south of the Yangtze River, suddenly returned to Nanjing on the official ship of the steamship China Merchants after mysteriously disappearing from Huajian City for half a month.

A group of dignitaries, eunuchs and gentlemen who came to Huajian City when they heard his name couldn't help but sigh.

And as everyone knows, Gu Hengbo didn't want to leave Huajian City at this time, she originally came to Huajian City to be the first in Fusang with her own fame, after all, the competition pressure in Qinhuai River is too great, and she may be able to earn more when she comes here, and I heard that Yang Tinglin, the current governor of Fusang, is a great talent himself, and he is one of the few young and ambitious young officials in the Ming Dynasty, so she came here and successfully met Yang Tinglin, the governor of Fusang.

But she didn't expect that this Fusang governor would raise her in the deep boudoir, and let her be ready to serve His Majesty, she naturally did not dare to disobey, it was an honor to be able to get the grace of the emperor Yulu, maybe she could also hope to get one or two places, although she could not show up in the future, it could be regarded as changing the status that is now despised, and being the second concubine.

But she didn't expect that she would get such a result.

Holding a secret decree in her hand and a seal and wooden plaque of "100 Households in the East Investigation Factory", Gu Hengbo couldn't help but smile dumbly, she never expected that she would get such an official position out of thin air two days after sleeping with His Majesty, an official position that although the grade is not large, it can scare people to death.

"Find out the status quo of the entire Ming tobacco industry within half a year, if it succeeds, you can get five million silver dollars to replace the royal capital to become the largest tobacco dealer in the Ming Dynasty, if you don't bring your own poisonous wine, there will be experienced Dongchang fans to listen to your dispatch and help you succeed."

This is Zhu Youxiao's original words, Gu Hengbo couldn't help but tremble when she didn't expect this, she never thought that she would become a member of the East Factory.

But it is difficult to disobey the emperor's order, not to mention that she has now been taken by the emperor as her own, so naturally she must obey the emperor's order.

Because of this, she hurried back to Nanjing Qinhuai River, and prepared to meet Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, with a secret decree, Xu Hongji had to maintain a good relationship with her Gu Hengbo on the bright side, so as to help Gu Hengbo get to know more upper-class people.

On the same day, Zhu Youxiao also boarded a warship to prepare to go to Miaotun, and then from Miaotun to Shenyang via Hetuala, and then return to Beijing.

Looking at the face of the country and the city in the state-class cabin on the civil passenger liner of the steamship China Merchants not far away, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile slightly, he asked Gu Hengbo, a person who could make friends with many high-ranking officials and eunuchs but was not easy to expose the intentions of the imperial court, to evaluate and investigate the tobacco industry of the Ming Dynasty was not his whim, but the result of his careful consideration.

In the past two days, he has been with this peerless beauty for almost twenty-four hours, and in the eyes of outsiders, he is greedy for her beauty just like after Emperor Tang Ming met Yang Guifei, but in fact, Zhu Youxiao also took advantage of this to have an in-depth exchange with Gu Hengbo, and reviewed his ability, and finally decided to let her enter the tobacco industry on his behalf.

Arms, oil, poison 0 products are the three most profitable trades in today's society, and the same is true in the Ming Dynasty, because of the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty's productive forces, so that the historical process is hundreds of years in advance, some Western fans have been unable to obtain profits from the Ming Dynasty through advanced technology can only take risks and rely on the sale of tobacco, and many domestic private businessmen are the same, not everyone can become the monopoly of the Royal Industrial Company, so many Ming merchants who pursue huge profits also operate this tobacco industry, and also sell a large number of them to the Ming mainland, The phenomenon of Daming tobacco trade is very serious.

However, Zhu Youxiao adopted a very strict ban on the sale of tobacco and soil from foreign countries, but he was not so strict with domestic merchants, which made these domestic merchants even more unscrupulous.

But this does endanger the health of the people of the Ming Dynasty and the stability of society, so Zhu Youxiao decided not only to prohibit the sale of tobacco by foreign Yi but also to prohibit the sale of tobacco by private merchants in the Ming Dynasty to the domestic people, so he wanted Gu Hengbo to find out for himself whether the water behind the tobacco and soil was not deep, and then he could make a decision on whether to completely ban the sale of tobacco and take the strictest punishment.

Zhu Youxiao was not sure whether the bigwigs of the DPRK and China like Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen also benefited from these tobacco merchants, or were directly their beneficiaries, so he did not give this task to the two people, but handed it over to Gu Hengbo.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao did not really want to give up the violence of the tobacco industry, he would severely punish the domestic trafficking and encourage the sale of these tobacco to Europa, that is, the raw materials of poppies purchased from Western fans were processed into tobacco opium and then sold to Europa.

Therefore, he also asked Gu Hengbo to represent himself in the tobacco industry when he understood the details of this industry.

Zhu Youxiao is now also counting on this tobacco industry to help him make huge profits in Europa under the leadership of Gu Hengbo, in the original history, more than 100 years later, China should have been because of the Qing government's ignorance and incompetence to make opium trafficking very serious, and more than 100 years ago in this time and space, Zhu Youxiao felt that his Ming Dynasty could also give Europa an opium to sell, in order to destroy its will, numb its nerves, and earn its money for the purpose.

Although a naval battle in the past ended in a fiasco for the Western countries, because the Ming Dynasty was not in a hurry to enter the Indian Ocean, the two sides did not deteriorate to the point of cutting off economic exchanges, so it also gave Zhu Youxiao the possibility of using tobacco to earn the first huge sum of money in these Western countries.