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"Your Excellency!"

This response made Li Ziyuan dumbfounded again, and he stared at Wu Zishan to see what kind of person he was. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info cheeky would be so thick!

Didn't he hear the meaning of his words?

"The talent of adults is hard to learn......

Wu Zishan still had a smile on his face, he knew that the fire had almost been lit, and it was time to talk about business.

"In the next, but as soon as I spoke, I guessed that I was coming in the next time...... It's here to tell the truth of the matter. ”

Belch!

With his eyes wide open, staring at Wu Zishan, and looking at this thin and featureless face, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but become more and more curious about this person.

He has been in contact with many people over the years, but he can be like Wu Zishan...... It's rare in the world!

I have to say that his playful words really aroused Li Ziyuan's interest.

"Telling the truth?"

Sneering, Li Ziyuan took a sip of tea to calm down.

"You are not afraid that when the official takes you to play right and wrong, he will move your head first."

Move your head?

This is a beheading.

In the face of such a threat, Wu Zishan just smiled.

"My lord, you can move my head if you want, but my head is not moved tightly, who will keep your head when the time comes?"

"Hmm!"

With a sudden raising of his eyebrows, Li Ziyuan did not speak, but picked up the teacup and flicked the tea leaves in the cup with the lid.

"Oh, could it be that someone in this Guangzhou City wants to kill this official?"

"How can those who want to kill adults be in Guangzhou?"

Putting away the smile on his face, Wu Zishan looked at the governor and continued.

"In the foreign banks in Hong Kong, how many people are eager to drink the blood of adults, eat the flesh of adults, gnaw the bones of adults, and sleep on the skin of adults."

After saying these words sharply, Wu Zishan explained again.

"After all, cutting off people's financial means is like killing parents. Those foreign merchants came to China from thousands of miles away, not just to earn those two pieces of silver. Today's adults and the Pearl River Estuary, the confiscated tobacco soil is probably not inferior to the tobacco soil that Lin Yuanfu did not have at the beginning! ”

The reason why Wu Zishan called Lin Zexu's character instead of "nickname" was because his "Wenzhong" nickname was given by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now it is naturally inappropriate to call it here, after all, it was given by the Manchu Dynasty.

"In those days, the interests of a merchant in England did not hesitate to fight, and today, although our fleet is victorious at Jiangkou, it is guilty of Britain and the United States and other countries, if Britain and the United States and other countries help the Manchu Qing because of this, what will happen then?"

Now Wu Zishan didn't say that he was worried about British interference, and he wouldn't say this kind of thing about increasing the prestige of others and destroying his own morale. Of course, I can't say it.

"My righteous army is hundreds of thousands, and I am afraid that he will be helped by foreign countries!"

said this, but Li Ziyuan's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

Wu Zishan's words have already spoken to his heart, even if the British are now subject to the war, they will no longer be open to the tobacco merchants, but because of this, the tension between the two sides will make them fall to the Manchus, what should be done?

Especially the United States, which was beaten, even if they knocked out their teeth and swallowed them in their stomachs at that time, they endured this breath due to their limited strength. But what if the Americans helped the Manchus train their troops and set up factories.

What to do then?

Seeing the adult's frowning appearance, Wu Zishan knew that he had spoken to the bottom of his heart.

"What do you think of the smoking ban in Guangdong?"

Wu Zishan did not say Guangzhou, but the whole of Guangdong.

"Guangdong's smoking ban is superficial, although the official has the intention to thoroughly ban it, but there are always things that are not satisfactory."

Li Ziyuan did not hide the facts, the fact of the ban on smoking is that the ban on tobacco has not stopped, and the ban has not ended, not because he is not decisive enough and the means are not tough enough, but because the force is too weak. According to the deployment of the governor's office, each province has deployed an independent gendarmerie regiment to maintain local rule and maintain local order, because of its different garrison areas, its strength is not equal, the city is located in the city of Xiangyi, a 100-person gendarmerie company is stationed, and a 30-40 gendarmerie platoon is stationed in the county, and each provincial gendarmerie is deployed about 5,000 people.

In this case, even if Li Ziyuan wants to ban smoking, he does not have enough manpower to ban smoking, after all, Guangdong has a population of more than 30 million, and he does not have enough strength to completely ban smoking in the whole province of Guangdong, and he does not even have enough financial resources to do this. After taking office as the governor of Guangdong, he once ordered people to carry out a plan, if you want to comprehensively ban tobacco and soil, you need to expand at least 30,000 gendarmes, and not to mention whether the government agrees, that is, these 30,000 gendarmes, a month's military salary will need 180,000 yuan, plus other various expenses, at least 300,000 yuan per month, that is, about 210,000 taels, at least 2.5 million taels a year!

Guangdong really can't get this money now!

"Do you know that since you implemented the smoking ban, the price of cigarettes in Guangdong has risen by 50 percent, and the price of cigarettes in Guangdong has not risen by 7 or 8 percent.

What Wu Zishan said is the truth, things are often like this, the stricter the ban, the higher the profit, the higher the profit, and naturally breed evildoers to defy the law.

"And if the addiction to opium is cut off, it is not humane, and it is easy to attract resistance from addicts, and the people of Guangzhou today have a bad feeling towards adults, which is mostly related to this......"

Without waiting for Wu Zishan to speak, Li Ziyuan's eyebrows raised and he said sharply.

"Is this opium forbidden and allowed the people to smoke it?"

"Although Britain and other European countries do not ban the consumption of opium, they have never seen it as widespread as China, and in order to prevent the spread of opium, this opium smoke is not only unavoidable! And it must be strictly forbidden! Otherwise, China will surely suffer greatly from the opium epidemic! ”

At this point, Wu Zishan's position is consistent with the official, of course, this is also the purpose of what he said.

"But it seems very inappropriate to be hasty only today. After all, this tobacco is not like other drugs, and it is difficult to ban opium, it is difficult to ban smoking and alcohol, and it is not easy to ban it, and it is against humanity ,......."

Li Ziyuan also encountered many difficulties when supervising the rehabilitation of opium addicts, and the opium black market in Guangzhou was still active, and it was completely impossible to ban beating, and those Western doctors also said that only drinking diluted opium water could really alleviate the drug addiction of opium addicts and relieve their pain.

"What about what you think?"

"Promote monopoly!"

After talking a long circle, Wu Zishan stated his goal.

"Push for a monopoly?"

"That's right!"

Nodding, Wu Zishan continued to say his thoughts.

"In my opinion, this tobacco matter cannot be banned, and it is better to let the government manufacture a monopoly and use its income to improve various facilities in Guangdong......

When Wu Zishan mentioned his suggestion, Li Ziyuan did not speak, but listened to him continue.

"It is said that no less than 20,000 boxes of opium are smuggled every year, and no less than 7 million yuan of silver is required, which shows that the demand for opium is so great that it is classified as a government monopoly and means that it is forbidden to pay a tax, and the price of this import tax is three times the amount of the import, and the number of users who need it will gradually decrease by selling it to those who use it in licensed pharmacies with the government's passbook, and the state treasury will increase its revenue by 21 million yuan......"

Wu Zishan, who spoke eloquently, put forward his "gradual ban theory" viewpoint.

“…… It can imitate the policy of salt, learn from Europe and the United States to achieve the monopoly system, but it is classified as a government monopoly, taking the meaning of prohibiting taxes, tobacco management, a rate of government monopoly, can set up a monopoly bureau, the purchase and sale of tobacco soil, can set up tobacco licensed pharmacies, except for medicinal tobacco soil, not allowed to buy and sell. For tobacco addicts, they are licensed by the government to buy from pharmacies...... In licensed pharmacies, if they are sold to smokers with government discounts, the number of users will gradually decrease, and the implementation of this gradual ban policy should be effective in 20 to 30 years! ”

Why does it take so long? Because opium smokers will die, and when they are finished, there will naturally be no market, which does not need to be explained by Wu Zishan, Li Ziyuan, who has not spoken a word from beginning to end, asked after thinking for a while.

"What if there are new people smoking every year?"

Li Ziyuan, who is deeply disgusted with tobacco and drugs, naturally knows the use of the "gradual ban", and also understands that perhaps compared with the current repeated bans, and the trend of flooding, he has not tried and does not know a way.

"After the registration of smokers is completed, anyone who sells or provides tobacco soil and smoking utensils to people who have not obtained a license will be guilty of a felony and will be severely punished, and there will be no mercy!"

After saying these words sharply, Wu Zishan looked at the governor again and continued.

"Of course, the implementation of monopoly is only one thing, and the other most important thing is the contractor, that is, the designated opium importer,"

"Designated Importer?"

"That's right, this designated importer can be entrusted to a foreign merchant in the form of a concession to import in exchange for keeping silent about our previous confiscation of other tobacco and accepting our investigation of smuggling!"

"Do you mean two slaps and a little sweetness, and they're willing? After all, this is a loss of hundreds, tens of millions! ”

Despite the objections in his mouth, Li Ziyuan knew that it was not impossible to do so, after all, those people were businessmen.

"My lord, they are businessmen after all, they used to smuggle opium, and now the government gives them licenses to import according to quotas, so that many risks can be reduced, and the government can use this to eliminate opium smuggling, at least to the greatest extent, through the control of imports, control the flow of opium into China from the source, and then stop its spread, second, the government can not only make a profit from smoking, but also gradually ban smoking, so that the two things can not be implemented."

Nodding his head thoughtfully, Li Ziyuan stared at Wu Zishan, although he deeply agreed with his suggestion, and it was indeed feasible, but was this person just for such a suggestion?

"Wu Qingfeng, then you tell this official, what are you doing today?"

Facing the adult's question, Wu Zishan smiled slightly and replied to Li Ziyuan's gaze.

"My lord, I am also a businessman in the next place, and I am profitable in business, so today, naturally, it is also for the benefit of tobacco! But it is also for my Guangdong fathers, for the sake of you, after all, if adults can rent this to eliminate the war, it is not only the blessing of my Guangdong, but also the blessing of adults! ”

Staring at the young man in front of him, Li Ziyuan was silent for a moment, and then said in a cold voice.

"You have some talents, since you mentioned it, I'm afraid you already have a charter, leave the charter, you can retreat."

After Wu Zishan smiled and took out a copy of the charter master from his arms, Li Ziyuan didn't look at him, but said coldly.

"If Han Du agrees to this matter, when the time comes, this official will naturally not treat your Wu family badly!" (To be continued.) )