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The smoke in the smoke hall is full of smoke, one by one on the couch, lying on the side of the smoker who holds the big cigarette and closes his eyes to smoke, among the smokers, there are both the elderly and the young, lying on the smoking bed, swallowing the clouds and spitting fog, I don't know how many years ago, it is not only the patent of the rich family, the poor people also come to this set, the poor rely on the big smoke to paralyze their personal nerves, it seems that only lying on the couch, smoking a big cigarette can find some goals in their lives.

When the smokers are on the smoking bed, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, the shopkeeper of the tobacco house is there to calculate how many old customers and how many new customers have come today, and the owner is calculating the income of this tobacco house.

However, the business of the tobacco house is really not easy to do, this kind of business ordinary people will not touch, and can not touch, but all those who are stained with the business of the tobacco house, they are all the masters who can eat up and down the nine streams, "Fulin Pavilion" is one of them, not only in Wuchang There are three smoke houses, in Hankou, Hanyang also have smoke houses, from 30 years, in this Wuchang opened a smoke house, if the line of seniors, this Fulin Hall in Wuchang is also the ancestor of the grandfather.

When the smokers swallowed the clouds and spitted out the fog, in the backyard of the Fulin Pavilion, there were also people who swallowed the clouds and spitted the fog, but they smoked hookahs, and more than a dozen people dressed in silk jackets had a solemn look between their eyebrows.

"What, what about Lord Wang!"

Lord Wang in Luo Jin's mouth refers to the county lord of Wuchang Mansion, although the official position in Wuchang is a little unsightly, after all, there are governor's yamen, governor's yamen and political envoy Yamen in this Wuchang city, these official positions are placed, this Wuchang Mansion is really not very good, but the county officials are not as good as the current officials, no matter how high the grade of the three yamen, the things on the market are also managed by Wuchang Mansion, and naturally Luo Jin wants to know the reply of the prefect.

Cui Dongqi took a puff of cigarette silently and did not answer Luo Jin's words.

"Brother Cui!"

Li Yucai on the side hurriedly asked.

"According to Lord Wang, this is the establishment of a smoking ban bureau, which says it is a smoking ban, but in fact it is for money!"

Opening his half-squinted eyes, Cui Dongqi sneered.

"Our master of Taiwan is interested in this cigarette, so he has to use the guise of banning smoking!"

Smoking!

If the smoking ban has the greatest impact on anyone, I am afraid that they are the ones who open the tobacco house, and because of this, from the time the governor Yamen wants to ban smoking, their hearts are twisted into a small group, for fear that this smoking will really be banned, thus cutting off their financial route, after all, Zhang Zhitai presided over the smoking ban in Shanxi back then, not only shoveled the tobacco seedlings in Shanxi Province, but also the big tobacco house is naturally closed, and even copied thousands of tobacco houses, in case he wants to ban smoking, then how can it be good.

Since ancient times, there have been people who do not fight with officials, "the county order that breaks the family, the prefect who destroys the door", not to mention the governor of Huguang, just the hat is pressed down, so that they do not have the courage to resist, not to mention, originally this tobacco house to sell big cigarettes, it is not a decent job, ordinary eunuchs will not necessarily communicate with them, so as not to tarnish their reputation, even if the prefect, it is also fed with silver, even so, they are not allowed to enter from the main gate, and even the face is not allowed to them, You can only get through the master Guò to dot it.

After all, anyone who runs a tobacco house, that is, has a few taels of silver in his pocket, and most of them have no connections in the official face, but this cheap industry is not ashamed of ordinary eunuchs, even if they smoke a lot, they also disdain to get involved in it, thus tarnishing their own reputation.

"Tobacco profits, isn't it silver, just send it over, there are more than 3,000 tobacco houses in the three towns, the small one takes out dozens of taels, and the big one takes a few hundred taels, and in less than a day's effort, he can raise more than 100,000 taels of silver! When the time comes, let's repay the service, and he won't force us to go to a dead end, right! ”

As soon as he heard that it was silver, Luo Jin was indifferent, he had opened a tobacco shop for so many years, he had seen all kinds of officials, he was not afraid that officials were not greedy, but he was afraid that they would not accept money. As long as they collect the cashier, then they don't have to worry about things not being done!

"Confused, how can he be the master of the silver, he wants to use the silver to do foreign affairs and build railways, what can the tens or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver do!"

Cui Dongqi scolded on the side, among the cigarette merchants in Wuchang, he always felt that he was different from others, not because he entered this industry early, but because compared to other people, he always felt that he had read for a few years and had more knowledge than them, unlike others who were just nouveau riche.

As we all know, the new governor of Huguang, Mr. Zhang, came to Hubei to supervise the railway and foreign affairs, whether it is the railway or foreign affairs, in the final analysis, it costs money. And now that he has his eyes fixed on the smoke, it is naturally not a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that can buy peace.

"Shouldn't I be raising taxes?"

Li Yucai spit out a sentence casually.

"Yes, I think it's like, no, the anti-smoking bureau is just to donate local medicine!"

"No, isn't there another sentence called, what is it called" forbidden in the levy", it is nothing more than adding a dozen or twenty taels of silver to each load,"

As soon as he said this, everyone immediately started talking again, and this donation of soil medicine is not a matter of one or two years.

"If you add 20 taels to a load, Hubei and Hunan provinces alone can collect an extra 2 or 3 million taels a year......

"This additional donation can't be such an addition, this load of cigarettes can be donated sixty percent, plus ......"

"Add one or two more and you'll get a dollar, let's increase the price when the price increases, the price of this cigarette will rise to the sky......"

"When the time comes, it's nothing more than adding more jujube paste to the smoke!"

Luo Jin snorted on the side, maybe because the discussion time was a bit long, he was addicted to smoking, he had lost his energy, and yawned from time to time, if it was a weekday, he would be lying on the couch, so that Yahuan was waiting to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog, but this stall was entangled by this matter.

Add more jujube paste, this is the first means of making a fake in the museum, and it is also the most common method, there are at most seven or eight taels of jujube paste in a catty of sixteen taels in the tobacco hall of others, and he often adds ninety taels of jujube paste, and jokingly calls it the most nourishing "cigarette", when it comes to price increases, he instinctively thinks of adding more jujube paste in the tobacco.

"If it's a smoking ban bureau, it's really to collect a few taels more cigarette tax, it's nothing, it's nothing more than to pay a few more taels of silver, this wool is out of the sheep, and the tax is increased over there, and the price is increased here, but the problem is ......."

When the words came to his mouth, Cui Dongqi's brows were tightly locked, he always felt that this matter was not so simple, to be precise, this thing was too weird, it was a little strange from the beginning, and the yamen was either vigorous and resolute, or it was procrastinating, but this time, Mr. Zhang wanted to ban smoking, but it was different from usual, neither sent troops to smash and seize the tobacco house, nor did he send someone to confiscate the tobacco soil, and even together with the smoking ban bureau, it was just hanging a sign, and there was no news, well, there was a message, it seems that the smoking ban bureau is recruiting, And it is also the appearance of the customs to learn to recruit people. According to those scholars, Tang Ziran was crazy and wanted to imitate the foreigners, but they were all discussing in private, and they were all sharpened and their heads were sharpened and the treatment was good.

If you just add a few taels of medicine to donate, how can you prescribe such a high price, muttering so much in his heart, the louder Cui Dongqi becomes, the more strange he feels in this matter.

"Before you get it, two days ago, there were rumors that this tobacco will be under the exclusive management of the Anti-Smoking Bureau in the future?"

Cui Dongqi asked casually, although the regulations of the smoking ban have not yet come out, but all kinds of news have already flowed out of the yamen, and all the tobacco and soil will be under the exclusive management of the smoking ban bureau in the future, which is no longer news, the real headache is the big tobacco merchants like Guangjixing and Shaanxi, who have transported the local medicine all the way from Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places to Hubei.

In the past, they opened tobacco shops by buying local medicines from tobacco shops, processing mature soil and then selling it to smokers.

"Listen to the people in the government's office, if it is under the exclusive management of the anti-smoking bureau, it is between the tobacco shops and tobacco merchants, plus a non-smoking bureau, just like a tax, every load of tobacco and soil, the anti-smoking bureau will collect the money according to the burden."

"Isn't this still an additional donation!"

The muttering of others made Cui Dongqi's brows furrow even tighter, is the anti-smoking bureau really just a donation? At this stall, I saw the semicolon Shen shopkeeper wiping his sweat as he walked in.

"Big boss, something happened, something happened!"

As soon as everyone heard that something had happened, they all looked at the sweaty shopkeeper Shen who was anxious, and Cui Dongqi stood up even more anxiously, ignoring the people in the hall, and asked urgently:

"What's the matter, tell me quickly!"

Looking at the people around him, Shopkeeper Shen hurriedly said:

"East, east, there's an accident in the Fang family's house outside the city!"

"What!"

Cui Dongqi was shocked when he heard this, and he immediately stood there, the Fang family's house, that is the place where he stores cigarettes and makes cigarettes, where hundreds of loads of foreign medicine can be stored, which is worth more than 200,000 taels of silver.

"Yes, it's water, or ......"

Before he finished speaking, Cui Dongqi's whole heart was twisted into a ball, not only him, but the others would not be able to sit still, if it wasn't for the water, it would definitely be for the officers and soldiers to check, and it would be difficult for the officers and soldiers to do it.

"Brother Cui, there are still some things on the brother, say goodbye first!"

After everyone hurriedly said goodbye and left the hall, as if they had lost their souls, Cui Dongqi stared at the shopkeeper Shen and asked loudly.

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