In the lobby of the anti-smoking bureau that used to be the lobby of the Hunan military defense camp, in the morning, there were more than 100 proprietors of tobacco houses from Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, all of them sat there with sad faces, even if they met acquaintances, they just smiled bitterly, said hello, and then sat on the chair with a frown, occasionally, they would also cast their eyes to the outside of the hall, and dozens of soldiers with foreign guns could be seen outside the hall, which were sent by the governor's palace to send personal soldiers.

"Don't you want to kill people!"

Looking at the soldiers patrolling back and forth in the tobacco bureau, Cui Dongqi's heart was pinched into a small group.

"Brother Cui, you're here too!"

As soon as he entered the lobby, several acquaintances greeted Cui Dongqi.

"Can you not come!"

Cui Dongqi sighed, he didn't dare not come!

The day before yesterday, thousands of soldiers poured out of the camp and copied all the tobacco shops, but everyone was frightened and hurriedly closed the doors of the tobacco houses, and when they were about to inquire about the news, an invitation was sent to each house, which was an invitation from the anti-smoking bureau, asking them to go to the anti-smoking bureau this morning to discuss the smoking ban.

Well, since the beginning of the world, there has been a ban, and then there is a discussion of the reason for the ban, although the heart is annoyed and angry, but no one dares not to come, the people do not fight with the officials, if you don't come, in case you deduct a hat, then I don't know if there will be any trouble.

"Brother Cui, over the years, you are the only one in the world, you have a lot of connections in the yamen, do you know this, what is it?"

Cui Dongqi shook his head, but his eyes looked at the official case one by one, it's all here, then Lord Tang should come out.

"Are all the people coming?"

Tang Haoran, who was looking at the book in the back hall, asked casually.

"My lord, everyone is here!"

Song Yuxin hurriedly replied.

"What did they say?"

"I don't dare to talk nonsense, but everyone has doubts in their hearts!"

"Hmph, let them hurry a little longer!"

Again, Tang Haoran continued to shift his attention to the "University" in his hand, and the sequelae of the crossing is that his memory has changed significantly from the past, not only in the past, but he only remembered the articles and materials very clearly, and even now he has a feeling of never forgetting, which is of great help to himself who is making up for Chinese studies.

I don't know how long it took, until Song Yuxin said softly on the side.

"My lord, it's ten o'clock! It's almost time for the fire! ”

"Well, almost!"

After that, Tang Haoran stood up and walked slowly towards the lobby, and when he walked out from behind the screen, he heard some anxious words in the lobby, and listened to the faint complaints between the words, he sneered and walked out with a straight face.

Almost as soon as Tang Haoran walked out, the lobby, which was originally like a busy city, was instantly quiet, and everyone turned their attention to the young man wearing the official uniform from the third grade, he was indeed young, and he was surprisingly young.

"He's Tang Haoran, he looks like he's only twenty years old, he's really ......"

sighed in his heart, Cui Dongqi was still the same as everyone else, after Tang Haoran walked out, he left the chair and knelt down to kowtow.

"The grass people (Xia Guan) have seen adults."

After they finished saluting, Tang Haoran asked them to be exempted, and after they all sat down, they looked around, and noticed that they had waited for almost two hours, but only four or five pairs of eyes were red, and they looked like they were addicted to smoking, so he asked.

"You all run the tobacco house, since the beauty of the tobacco soil is "**", I don't know why you don't use it? ”

Lord Tang's rhetorical question made Cui Dongqi and the others immediately understand why they would hang the big guy for so long, it turned out to be waiting for people to become addicted to smoke! Everyone dared to speak and bowed their heads one after another.

"If you don't smoke tobacco, why do you do this cheap business!"

Compared with the previous flatness of his tone, Tang Haoran's tone became more severe, he stared at the cigarette merchants sitting in front of him, who did not dare to speak, and continued.

"All the gentlemen are rich in food and clothing, their families are rich, and they get a lot of silver every year by running a tobacco house, but my compatriots in the three places are suffering from tobacco poisoning, and everyone is one of the millions of living beings. In the following historical records and books of cause and effect, the rampant tobacco and poison is an unprecedented tragedy, and the problem of today's China is not in disasters, but in smoking. Tobacco and poison consume the vitality of the people, and Lake Province is particularly strict. If you want to revitalize China's poverty and weakness, you must take this as the big end, and if you want to reform the habits of the past years, you must uproot it painfully! …… Here, this official advises all the gentlemen: to ban smoking, to save tens of millions of compatriots in our lake from the poison. Then I am very fortunate in the lake, and the country is very lucky! ”

After finishing speaking, Tang Haoran respectfully hugged his fists and bowed deeply to everyone. After listening to him, the crowd was silent for a while, and then they began to talk in a whisper.

Is this the play that is sung, is it to make the big guy stop selling cigarettes?

"Great, my lord, I don't know the harm of smoking, but since the introduction of tobacco and poison, the people have been eating it more and more, and they have long been used to it.

As the head of the tobacco restaurant industry, Cui Dongqi still stood up to speak for the big guy, as soon as his voice fell, there was a burst of echo around him, between their words, it seemed that they were selling cigarettes to the people, as if they were helping the people, and doing Bodhisattva things.

"Hmm,"

Nodding his head, Tang Haoran glanced at everyone, and then stared at Cui Dongqi and said.

"What if Haoran is thinking for the people and insists on banning smoking!"

Tang Haoran's questioning suddenly made Cui Dongqi break out in a cold sweat on his back, knowing that behind this Lord Tang was Zhang Zhitai's words, he dared to speak up, and the people who were originally still echoing him still dared to speak, and they all bowed their heads again, but a few people sneered secretly, looking like they could be rampant for a while.

After everyone stopped talking, Tang Haoran continued,

"However, Haoran doesn't know that there are many reasons for the spread of tobacco and drugs, and you have been doing this cheap business for a long time, how can you take away your livelihood, and the people are also used to eating smoking, so it seems inappropriate to quit it categorically, so Haoran was ordered by the Governor to implement a gradual ban in Hubei, so as to prevent the wanton spread of tobacco and drugs,"

Tang Haoran's sentence of "gradual banning", hearing everyone's ears, only made everyone who was originally unsettled immediately come back to their senses.

One of them stood up and asked tentatively, nervously.

"I don't know what the adults say about the gradual ban, but please let me know."

Tang Haoran, who was sitting there without moving, put on an official show, raised the corners of his lips.

"From now on, there will be no increase in the number of smokers, and there will be no increase in the amount of land served by tobacco houses!"

Before he could speak, he suddenly said in a strange manner.

"This mouth is rising on other people's bodies, it's not that I want to suck and suck, can this still control people's mouths?"

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