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Naturally, Chen Shenwu, who didn't know that Qingyunpu had escaped by luck, left his contact information and hurried back to Guangdong, and on the way he got the news that Zheng Jun had attacked Qiongzhou again. (Like this book, please collect biquge.info) In this regard, Chen Shenwu is also very helpless, Dongning needs a population, but in this way, the contact with Dongning is bound to be interrupted again, and Xinhanliu has to lurk again to get the opportunity to come again. However, fortunately, more than 10,000 taels of silver had been shipped into the mainland before, so that Xinhan would not lose the lubricant to continue its operation.

Back in Shaoguan, Chen Shenwu, who had just entered the city, quickly found the contact point of Hanliu, and after a section of "The World Heroes Fengyun Society, the first establishment of Jintai Mountain Hall, the oath of benevolence and righteousness in the army, and the concerted efforts to keep Hanliu", they were introduced into the inner courtyard.

"Mountain master," the sixth master of Shaoguan's flower official hurriedly ran to meet the dragon head master when he heard the news, and at the same time he sent a message. "Shang Zhixin's remnants want to join forces with us," Chen Shenwu raised his eyebrows, and listened to the sixth master of Huaguan add. "They can instigate the old Shang army to rise up in Yuegui to contain the Qing army in Yuegui, on the condition that we first transport Shang Zhixin's family out."

Shang Zhixin's relatives? Chen Shenwu's eyes narrowed slightly, and his heart was open. That's right, Shang Zhixin's relatives suddenly disappeared before Shang Zhixin's surrender, this matter was very big at the time, the Qing court even sent a Qin mission from Beijing to visit, and more than a dozen Manchu and Han officials below the deputy capital of Guangzhou were convicted, and once threatened the development of Han Liu, so he remembered it vividly. But although the matter is true, it can be extremely abrupt, not to mention that the whereabouts of Shang Zhixin's family were not found out when Yuegui was purged, and now how to find Han Liu's head when the army is in chaos and better hidden, is there another mystery or is this matter itself a trap? In this regard, Chen Shenwu cannot but be cautious.

"How did Shang Zhixin's people get in touch?" Detective Chen asked. "Didn't we show our bottoms?"

"Actually, they didn't come straight to the door." The sixth master of the flower official reported. "Shang Zhixin's people are looking for Qiankun to make a move, and the result is transferred to us, so the matter is big, and the big guy doesn't dare to decide, so all the halls have been notified, and when the mountain lord returns from Jiangxi Province, he must let the mountain master know as soon as possible."

"And how many of these family members are there?" Chen Shenwu asked again, if there were only three or five, maybe it could be arranged, but if it was ten, twenty, or even more, he would have to think about the risks if he wanted to arrange it. "What kind of person is it?"

"The other party refuses to say what specific characters are, but there is a guarantee in the number of people, it should not exceed ten." The sixth master of Huaguan didn't know the reason for this matter very well, but he parroted it. "It is said that if it weren't for Li Shizhen's strict ban on the sea, the board would not have been allowed to go into the water, and they wouldn't have needed to find us."

"If it's only ten, you can try it." Across the Qiankun Meeting, Han Liu may not necessarily be exposed, so Chen Shenwu, who has made a lot of determination, has a different idea, you know, this matter obviously has more advantages than disadvantages, for the possible rebellion in Yuegui, Chen Shenwu said that he would fight anything. "But if you want to tell the other party, I'm afraid that you won't be able to leave once, and besides, if the first batch leaves, they have to make a noise, otherwise, this second batch doesn't have to leave."

Although the four-wheeled carriage is very popular in Japan, the Japanese market is small, and the only people who really have the ability to enjoy it and need to enjoy it are only more than 100 famous people, so to open the Japanese market, Zheng Kezhang also needs to find another stepping stone, so he thought of the opium that used to make China and the dire situation.

Opium is made by drying the juice of poppy fruits. Originally found in southern Europe and Asia Minor, archaeologists have found the remains of the seeds and fruits of the poppy in the Neolithic housing ruins excavated in Switzerland in 4000 BC, and belong to the varieties of artificial cross-cultivation, by 3400 BC, the people of the two river basins had cultivated this crop on a large scale, and gave it the reputation of "happy plant", at least in 2160 BC, hibiscus has become a veterinary and gynecological medicine.

In 139 BC, when Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions, the poppy spread to China through the ancient Silk Road. During the Three Kingdoms, Hua Tuo, a famous doctor, used hemp seeds and poppy seeds to make zuò hemp boiling powder; In the second year of Tang Qianfeng (667 AD), there was a record of the import of finished opium, and this kind of opium produced in Arabia was called "Afurong" at that time; In the "Kaibao Materia Medica" published in the Northern Song Dynasty in 973 AD, opium was named poppy.

The 17th-century English physician and founder of clinical medicine, Thomas Thomas. Thomas Sydenham sang the praises of opium and said, "I cannot help singing aloud to the great God, the Maker of all things, who has brought comfort to the afflictions of mankind, whether in terms of the number of diseases it can control, or in terms of the efficiency with which it can eliminate them, there is no medicine of such value as opium, and without opium, medicine would be but a cripple." Of course, this master of medicine also received the nickname of "opium philosopher", which shows that opium was still stored as medicine until this time, and in the Ming Dynasty, opium was listed as a tribute to Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries.

Of course, the opium imported by the Ming Dynasty was obtained directly from the drying of poppy juice and milk—which was also the main form of opium before the 17th century—raw opium was dark and brown in color, bitter in taste, and had a stale smell of urine, so basically no one would think of using it for smoking, and Zheng Kezhang was also a precedent in East Asia.

The reason why Britain and the United States sold opium to China instead of Japan was because China had a large number of goods to export but did not need foreign goods to flow in, thus forming a "silver black hole", while Japan, on the contrary, lacked sufficient commodities and only had gold and silver to exchange for foreign goods, thus creating a different future for the two countries. But now, on the one hand, Zheng Kezhang does not have enough goods to open the Japanese market in exchange for the gold and silver he needs, and on the other hand, he is also trying to correct the trajectory of history and ensure that the fate of China in this era is not tragic.

So, on May 17, the 39th year of the Erei calendar, Nagasaki "Health Hall" began to open, and on the afternoon of this day, Tagawa Jiro Saemon specially invited more than 40 people, including the Nagasaki Commissioner, Tang Xing Nianji, and some daimyo and merchants in Kyushu, to attend, and the trained young women served these bigwigs hand-in-hand to smoke opium named "Fukushou Ointment".

"Tian Chuan-kun, I am very optimistic about the prospects of this Fushou ointment." After enjoying a dreamlike feeling, several wealthy businessmen began to sit down and divide the big cake. "I immediately established Nakama, specializing in the business of Fushou cream, I don't know if the Tagawa family is willing to give up this part of the benefits."

"Isn't it impossible to give up benefits?" Tian Chuan looked at the several big businessmen in front of him, their power was not something that his Tian Chuan family could resist, but he had a supply of goods in hand, and he was not very frightened by this, and he always asked for the benefits he deserved. "But I want to ask a few people, how should this family give up?"

"Although this thing is called Fushou ointment, it is actually opium." The businessmen are well-informed, so they immediately clicked through the hole cards of the Tagawa family. "Opium is of course a good medicinal herb, but personally, I did not enjoy the feeling of being fluttering like Tagawa-kun, but nausea and vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, drowsiness and blurred vision, of course, this is a normal phenomenon, I believe that it will be fine if I smoke it a few more times. However, there are not many people in Japan who have the ability to smoke opium, usually they are city lords or quasi-city lords, even ordinary samurai under 300 koku may not be able to enjoy it for a long time, Tagawa-kun, this requires the royal merchants of each family to come forward, I believe you don't have this ability. ”

"The Tagawa family can open branches of the health hall in towns and cities all over Japan, but how much money will it cost in the meantime? Where does this money come from is a big question. Another wealthy businessman continued. How many people will accept it after it starts, how much time will it take to obtain benefits, and whether the same time and money can be exchanged for greater benefits in other aspects, have these Tagawa families carefully considered? ”

"I understand all of this, so I sit down calmly and discuss with a few people, and I don't necessarily want to give up my interests in vain, right?" Tagawa Jiro Saemon responded very sincerely. "It's one thing to earn more and earn less, and it's another thing not to make money, so I'll ask a few to give a clear answer."

"I don't think the Tian Chuan family has to directly run the health hall." So said a representative of the wealthy Kansai businessmen based in Nagasaki. "I still concentrate on the import of opium, and of course there will be a place for the Tagawa family after the establishment of Nakama."

"I'm afraid this is not good." Tagawa frowned. "After all, most of the interests are on the part of Dongning."

"Naturally, you can't let Tagawa Isahiro do it." The representatives of the wealthy merchants of the Kanto region knew that the price was not enough to tempt the Tagawa family. "In this way, whoever builds a health hall or a commercial house with a similar purpose will pay a one-time payment of 1,500 Zhu to the Tian Chuan family."

At that time, one tael of gold (15 grams) in Japan was 16 zhu, so 1,500 zhu gold was about equal to 375 taels of silver in the Ming system, although this amount was not large, but it could not hold a large amount, but Tian Chuan was still not satisfied, so he proposed a construction: "There are 66 countries under heaven, how many towns and cities, and how many towns and cities can open health halls, how can Tian Chuan's family know, it is better to do this, all the merchant houses that join the opium industry pay an additional 800 taels of silver (1 匁 weighs 0.625 yuan) in addition to the price of opium every year." ”

This turned a one-time gain into a long-term gain, but the initial investment was much reduced, so several merchants looked at each other and responded, "Yes, but you must first ask for the consent of the shogunate and the family." ”

"That's nature." Tagawa Jiro Saemon nodded with a smile, and the matter was settled, and soon the phenomenon that Zheng Kezhang expected appeared, and silver and gold began to pour into Dongning

The good news from Japan did not make Zheng Kezhang naturally hope to underestimate the possibility of the return of the drug tide, so he immediately banned the officials and people of Dongning from smoking opium on the grounds of implementing a monopoly: "All officials and citizens who smoke opium for the first time are all involved in the theory of circulation, and those who carry and hide opium at home will be punished with ten years of hard labor, and those who repeat offenders will be punished."

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