The drug factory is under construction, and the knife hands are also training, and now it is Yang Meng's turn to contribute, everything he does is for one purpose, to make and sell drugs, and to sell this drug to the Eight-Nation Alliance, to realize his dream of luxury.

The Eight-Nation Alliance's sale of opium to the Great Qing Dynasty would definitely prevent the return of these things, so Yang Meng wanted to create a new type of drug that could be accepted by foreigners.

On the first day of coming to the Qing Dynasty, Yang Meng asked Ding Baojun that the snuff he said had become Yang Meng's best means of concealment.

It's just that this snuff, Yang Meng has only heard it before, but he has not really seen it, and if he wants to make something new, he must see and taste what snuff is.

Ding Ding Baojun also said that he would let the Ma Gang bring some back, but the Ma Gang did not come back, when he left, when he came back with snuff, this is far away, his time is urgent, it is better to go to Kunming City to get some, as long as he knows the taste, and then add conch to the snuff.

In that place in Kunming, he didn't wait to see himself, and he didn't plan to go there to show his eyes, so Cen Yuying became an errand boy.

Yang Meng asked him to buy a bottle of all the snuff in Kunming City, if he could find out how to make snuff, it would be the best.

Cen Yuying's little cub is also very good, and it took more than an hour to get things done, but there are not many types of snuff in Kunming, only two categories of Indian snuff and Sichuan snuff, and several flavors are in stock.

Yang Meng tried to smell it, the taste is not bad, you can use your nose to inhale it, this thing is a little choking, the taste is a little sour and bitter, this thing can be used, then your own things will not be sold.

"Yuying, have you heard how to make snuff?"

If you have something, you can grab the medicine according to the prescription, prepare the snuff, and then add the conch because you are done, and you can do business.

"Third master, this snuff production is quite difficult, to choose the best tobacco leaves, remove the sediment and grind into fine powder, and then with a variety of precious medicinal materials, cellar for more than ten months, years, the best snuff has been cellared for decades, the price of this thing is also surprisingly high, this two snuff, it costs a few taels of silver, these are still not into the flow of snuff, the real good thing, to hundreds of taels of silver a pot."

As soon as he heard this, Yang Meng was stunned, a few taels of silver is a few hundred catties of grain! Not to mention the cost of conch, this snuff alone will make its new drug a luxury.

Although luxury goods can also make money, the most lucrative business is still the popular thing, which is so expensive that it must not be used as an adjunct to dilute drugs.

In the past, most of the diluted drugs used milk powder, talcum powder, cocoa powder and other things, but the white stuff was terrible to look at, and once people were suspicious, they would destroy their fortune plans.

"Yuying, you find Lao Jiang to come over, let's think of an idea together."

Afraid that Cen Yuying's experience was too low and she couldn't come up with any good ideas, Yang Meng asked him to bring Jiang Shu first, and the three of them thought about it together, what could replace snuff.

"Lao Jiang, is there talcum powder in Yunnan?"

"Yes, this is a flavor of medicinal materials, sweet and light, cold, non-toxic, also called liquid stone or co-stone, in the mountains near Kunming, there is white talc, grinding powder, is the top grade of talcum powder."

This Jiangshu is not small in use, not to mention the valley, just because of his familiarity with Yunnan minerals, it is worth those silvers.

"How much does talcum powder cost?"

"Indiscriminate stuff, because white talc is desirable everywhere, it just takes some effort, and a big man can sell half a bag."

With talcum powder, the next thing is some fragrance, which can replace the powder of snuff.

"Lao Jiang, Yuying, think about it, this Yunnan can have aromatic powdered medicines, which are the best for people's health, the finer they can be grinded, the better, and the less valuable the better."

Now it's hard for the two of them, there are a lot of medicinal materials in Yunnan, but most of them are expensive, there are many medicinal materials that can be ground into powder, and there are fewer that can nourish the body, plus a worthless one, where to find such a good object?

"The third master doesn't know what to do with this medicinal material?"

Cen Yuying is not as rigid as Jiang Shuxian, if something is easy to find, the third master will not ask, if he knows what the third master wants to do, it may be easier to find something.

"Imitation snuff, no tobacco leaves, but let others like to smoke."

Cen Yuying had never seen snuff before, so it was not easy for him to come up with a substitute, but Lao Jiang was well-informed, he picked up the snuff and looked at it, smelled it, and hesitated to speak, but he was afraid that the third master would blame.

"If you have something to say, Lao Tzu is not an official, can he still beat you?"

As soon as Yang Meng saw Lao Jiang's appearance, he knew that he had something to say, it was very troublesome to communicate with these Qing people, and he had to drag the text from time to time.

"Tea leaves!"

Jiang Shu first said the answer with some apprehension, the snuff is not a few yellow, the white talcum powder plus some dark green tea powder, but the color is almost the same, plus there is a tea fragrance, it can also be sold as fake snuff.

"Is there a lot of tea leaves? Our tea still has to make money, wouldn't it be a pity to grind it. ”

Under the influence of Ding Baojun, Yang Meng is becoming more and more stingy, tea is the main business of the Yang family, and it is a pity to grind it as an auxiliary material.

"Third master, you don't know the way, the local tea in Yunnan, in order to carry good luck, most of them are made of Tuocha, this Tuo tea is the same shape as the bowl of tea bricks, the production of Tuo tea often has some waste residues, these things are combined with the tea stalks, and then made into another Tuo tea. The good Tuo tea was sold to Sichuan and other places, and this time some of the Tuo tea was sold to Tibet.

The bitter cold on the Tibetan side, there are no seasonal vegetables, and the Tibetans like to eat beef and mutton.

And to make tea bricks, the tea leaves can not be added too much, and it is not easy to form if you add more, and some of these broken pieces can be sold, but most of them are discarded. The old man's house is down, and when he wants to drink tea, he uses tea leaves. ”

Jiang Shu's first sentence also made Yang Meng's eyebrows dance, the fragrance of tea is the taste of China, isn't this the best selling point? Tea-flavored snuff, but I don't know if it can be made.

"Yuying, you go and inform Uncle Ding and ask him to get some tea leaves from our tea factory. Lao Jiang, you are responsible for talcum powder! By the way, I got some tools for grinding powder, and the silver was withdrawn from Uncle Ding. ”

If the thinner asks if he can get by, then he will almost succeed, just wait for some opium to be snatched and the conch will be added.

The orders of the third master of the Yang family, who dares to be a deaf ear, will be ready in just one or two hours. Yang Meng supported Lao Jiang and Cen Yuying, grinded the tea powder and talcum powder again, and then used the finest sieve to sieve again, and the remaining powder was extremely smooth, and now it depends on how it tastes.

Find the bookkeeper and ask him to take the gold and silver with a stick, talcum powder and tea powder, according to the proportion, into more than a dozen piles of samples, Yang Meng, Cen Yuying, Lao Jiang, after the three of them tried one by one, the three of them agreed.

The sample of three-point talcum powder and seven-point tea powder is the best, gently and softly with a long tea aroma, and the fly in the ointment is that in the aroma, it is a little worse, and it is difficult to taste its taste without inhaling it in the nasal cavity.

"Lao Jiang, after we cut the tobacco paste here, what will we do with the remaining opium grass?"

Lack of aroma, this poppy after cutting the tobacco cream, the remaining fruit and straw, the most fragrant, although the smell can be worse, but inhalation of the nasal cavity is definitely a strange fragrance.

"Most of them are burned for firewood, and some people use those straws as tobacco, which is also good."

Jiang Shuxian is very familiar with the local area of Yunnan, and he knows some things in the market best.

After getting poppy fruits and straw, grinding them into powder, and sifting them carefully, Yang Meng began to try to mix the recipe again, these things contained a small amount of drugs, and after adding them, the taste was really more fragrant.

Write down the recipe one by one, Lao Jiang became a purchaser, Yang Meng was afraid that this old man would be corrupt, so he gave him a guarantee that things must be collected at the lowest price, and for every thousand catties of powder that can be made, he will give Lao Jiang some water heads, and if he is greedy for ink, he will be killed directly.

In the choice between money and life, Lao Jiang chose to continue to make money, why Yang Meng said this, Lao Jiang can also understand, the officials of the imperial court from top to bottom, the most proficient in playing is corruption and deduction, if Yang Meng does not remind him, Lao Jiang will also act according to the old way.

With the Yang family's financial resources and manpower, it is very easy to do these, the tea powder accumulated over the years, there must be tens of thousands of catties, some of them are moldy, Yang Meng can not care about these orders are all received, dried, ground and sieved, in order to preserve for a long time, these tea leaves are all packed into the porcelain jar, and the top is sealed with a tarpaulin.

In the cave, Yang Meng also asked people to find a lot of leftover residues of burnt lime to prevent moisture, which was originally okay with quicklime, but Lao Jiang, who was used to living a hard life, used a few silver dollars to wrap up a few ash kiln residues, and they had to be responsible for packing them in straw bags.

Yang Meng also ordered a batch of rod scales for weighing large things, porcelain bottles and copper cans for final products, and now the auxiliary materials are basically ready, and the raw materials for local poisoning are lacking opium.

Opium is also a thing that is strictly forbidden by the imperial court, but whether this ban is good or not, only those big smokers know it. Yang Meng didn't know much about the local situation in Yunnan, and he didn't know much about the caravans transporting opium.

Cen Yuying and Lao Jiang also gave it for nothing, they didn't touch opium, let alone understand the origin of these opiums.

You have to go to the old man for this thing, and if you look for Uncle Ding, you should find the old man, so it is better to explain to the old man that he is going to grab a batch of opium for research.

Regarding the situation in Yunnan, the old man must know that whoever takes opium should not be able to hide it from him, and it is not impossible to let Yang Meng do it himself, for fear of getting into trouble with a family that is not easy to handle, which will cause chaos for the Yang family.

I am just starting out now, I still have to be safe, I can only ask the old man for this matter, and when my products come out, the old man will also know the way, it is better to go to the showdown now.

found the father who was closing his eyes in the lobby, Yang Meng also got straight to the point, and directly handed over the conversation.

"Daddy! I'm going to rob opium, do you know which one is doing this? ”

"Yo! The third master is here! I'm busy these days, what are you tinkering with! ”

The old man Yang Shiqin, who spoke like this, looked like a traitor, it seems that what he made, this old man is eighty percent clear.