Cigarettes are a type of tobacco product. The preparation method is to dry the tobacco, cut it into shreds, and then roll it in a barrel-shaped strip with a length of about 120 mm and a diameter of 10 mm. When smoking, light one end and suck the smoke with your mouth at the other end. Cigarettes were first popular in Turkey, where they liked to roll up the tobacco in newspaper and smoke it. During the Crimean War, British soldiers learned how to smoke from the Ottoman Empire, which spread to different places. Tobacco is not the only component in most cigarettes. In 1558, seafaring sailors brought tobacco seeds back to Portugal and subsequently spread throughout Europe. In 1612, John Rolfe, an English colonial official, cultivated tobacco on a large scale in Jamestown, Virginia, and began the tobacco trade. Tobacco was introduced to China in the mid-16th century. The first thing to introduce was drying tobacco, which has been cultivated for more than 200 years.

The tobacco industry of the Chinese Empire has been restricted in China, except for the large-scale production of low-tar and low-nicotine Chinese brand cigarettes (the built-in tobacco is an aloe vera leaf that is dried and added to tobacco in moderation, which can greatly reduce tar and nicotine and "taste" is closest to tobacco), other cigarettes are basically not allowed to be mass-produced in China.

However, the industrial and commercial sector of the empire actively encouraged domestic tobacco merchants to build factories abroad or in colonies, and now there are more than 200 cigarette production factories in colonies such as North America and East Africa and dependent countries such as Japan and Vietnam, and compared to the higher price cigars (historically, the Chinese name of cigars is Xu Zhimo and Tagore met at a private club in Shanghai) This cheap box of twelve cigarettes is very popular all over the world, and foreigners describe China's trade in the first few years." For every shipload of Chinese goods shipped out of the port, one-third of it was cigarettes. It can be seen that the charm of Chinese cigarettes in the world at this time.

Along with Chinese cigarettes, safety matches made in China were sold all over the world, and in 1830 small friction matches made of white phosphorus appeared in Europe. Historically, it was not until 1855 that the Swedes designed safety matches, while the safety matches designed by China occupied the European and American markets faster than cigarettes. In history, the match called foreign fire by the Chinese was called Chinese fire by the Europeans at this time, and when the Europeans marveled at the various magical inventions of the Chinese, they did not know that Chinese capital had silently poured into Europe, squeezing the European industrial market.

Since Lin Hong auctioned off a large number of factories to private capital in China, China's capitalism has developed by leaps and bounds, like retail malls suitable for small capital have blossomed all over the country, and with the huge population base in China, Chinese capitalists do not have to worry about the inability to sell goods, China's capital accumulation in the early days completely relied on the system to create something out of nothing, and now with the support of a steady stream of raw materials in the colonies of North America and East Africa, China's capital accumulation is even more crazy. According to the system (this is the most accurate) and the statistics of the government's Bureau of Industry and Commerce, by 1850 there were more than 10,000 industrial enterprises in the Chinese Empire with assets of more than 1 million Chinese yuan, and 140,000 industrial enterprises with assets of more than 1 million to 500,000 yuan, and as many as 760,000 with assets of less than 500,000 yuan and more than 50,000 yuan, which is absolutely a crazy data, by the end of 1850, China's total industrial output value had accounted for 34% of the world's total industrial output, while Britain had shrunk to 23%. The current Chinese Empire can be said to be the world's factory as Britain.

With the development of trade and the improvement of national strength, China's currency, the Chinese currency, has replaced the historical position of the British pound as a strong currency in global circulation.

Today is Christmas, and in this Western holiday, the Guimet retail store has also officially opened on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. As the second largest retail store in the Chinese Empire, the Jimei Retail Group is now controlled by the Shanxi consortium, and has been suppressed by the Datong Retail Group, the largest retailer controlled by the Zhejiang consortium, because of its late start, but when the Datong Group was still expanding its business in the central and western regions in China, the Jimet Group first went abroad and entered Europe.

Originally, France welcomed such a huge group of capital into its own country, but in 1848, when the Revolution broke out, the king was overthrown, and the Second Republic was established.

At that time, it was a big deal for Yan Zhengnan, the manager of Guimet's external affairs development department. He went to the trade bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France at that time to inquire, and the reply was that Guimet Company did not meet the French business regulations in some aspects and needed to be rectified, etc., in the face of such a distant answer, Yan Zhengnan felt angry but helpless, their company did not have any problems at all, and Yan Zhengnan, who was not a system personnel, did not realize that this was a trade barrier in France.

In recent years, due to the development of China's industry, especially after the formulation of domestic assembly lines and industrial standards, the development of China's industry has been faster than imagined, and many French factories have even begun to order Chinese industrial machines. The influx of Chinese industrial machinery crushed a large number of domestic French machine builders, and France could not prevent the entry of Chinese goods because of the earlier Sino-French trade deal. At that time, the purpose of the trade agreement signed by France was to open up the Chinese market, and now it has become a legal basis for Chinese goods to enter France. This is something that France did not expect.

However, in the end, under the negotiation of the ambassador to France, the French government finally agreed to the investment request of the Guimet Group. Guimet also successfully built his own retail store on the Champs-Élysées.

The appearance of Guimet retail stores attracted the attention of Paris residents for the first time, this store with complete goods, novel furnishings and excellent service became the object of enthusiasm from the president to the common people in France, and also officially Guimet success in France attracted large domestic companies to invest overseas, and for a time European and American capitalism found that the goods in the hands of the people became made in China, and these old capitalism shouted "China is coming!" ”。

In contrast, in the United States, the entry of Chinese capital was not so smooth, because China had occupied the west of the land-based mountain range, so the vigorous westward movement also stopped in front of the strong fortress and military line of the empire, at this time the United States had just swallowed the Republic of Texas It was time to practice internal skills behind closed doors, and China's industrial goods stopped at the United States Customs because of high trade tariffs. The only thing that could enter was agricultural goods and handicrafts, and the empire had no good way to deal with them, even if the same increase in industrial tariffs on the United States would have no effect, and the United States had only a small part of its trade with China, while agricultural products such as tobacco and wheat were the majority.

In the face of China's diplomatic representations, both the industrial factory faction in the North and the plantation owners faction in the South refused to lower tariffs because of their own interests, after all, both China's industrial and agricultural products would have an impact on the economy of both the North and the South. Eventually, in the face of increasingly severe diplomatic protests and Chinese tariffs, the U.S. government had to send the secretary of state to China for a state visit to seek a solution.

After many talks between the two sides, the two countries finally made concessions to each other, and the United States will allow Chinese capital to enter the United States to invest in North American rail transportation, minerals, food, agriculture and other fields, but still refuse to dump Chinese industrial products. In this regard, Lin Hong and the cabinet discussed and believed that the opening up of the above-mentioned areas, especially allowing China to invest in American railways, had achieved its goal, and it was no longer entangled in the issue of industrial products. The railroad in the United States is definitely a golden egg, in the history of the United States is relying on European capital, especially British capital investment gradually established, Lin Hong believes that with Chinese capital in the United States can also bite him hard.

The Chinese Empire during this period was a typical example of people who were stupid and quick to make money, waving the banknotes in their hands and smashing them madly into all corners of the world, and the whole world loved and hated him, and there was no way