Chapter 206 [The First Drug Dealer in History]

A few days later, Li Yuanjie, a Jinyi Wei Qianhu who was in charge of searching for opium poppies and planting them on a large scale, came to Fuzhou and reported the progress to Aobai.

Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shanxi, and other provinces and autonomous regions have already begun to grow opium poppies, and the land area for opium poppy cultivation is nearly 5,000 mu, and this is all carried out in accordance with the arrangement of Aobai, especially in Gansu, which is an arid and semi-arid region, and has little harvest from growing grain, but it is very suitable for the growth of opium poppy.

Aobai's goal is to turn the Hexi Corridor from the Silk Road into an opium road, relying on this to make huge profits and become the first drug dealer in history. These poppies were soon able to be harvested for raw pulp and used to make opium, which was sold for silver in vain.

After chatting for a while, after looking at the samples of the fruit, Ao Bai asked, "Have you made Fushou cream?" And how about processing it in European ways to make opium that can be smoked? ”

Li Yuanjie nodded and said: "Lord Hui, Fushou paste has not been made, the method you said has been tested by someone, the kind of thing called opium has been made, and those who have smoked it say that it is very good." ”

Ao Bai Zhengse said: "Who tested it?" The people of Jinyiwei didn't suck it, right? I told you before that this thing is addictive, you can't quit if you smoke it, it's a harmful thing. This should be strictly forbidden in the country, and only sold to the opponents we want to fight. ”

"My lord, please rest assured, we are looking for beggars and some people who are not doing their jobs to experiment, this kind of thing is really addictive, after smoking, if you don't smoke it the next day, your whole body will be weak. My lord, are you really going to sell this abroad? Li Yuanjie saw the effect of opium and felt that it was a little unreasonable.

The opium poppy itself is not a drug, but it is the raw material for opium products, which can be divided into raw and cooked. Raw opium is obtained by gently cutting the capsule of the opium poppy through a knife of Dobi, collecting its white milk, exposing it to the air, due to oxidation, the milk dries and condenses and turns brown, and some varieties are black and can be made into rounds, cakes or bricks. Cooked opium is raw opium that has been boiled and fermented, and then further processed before it can be used by drug addicts. made into strips, sheets or blocks; Its surface is smooth and soft, greasy, brown or golden yellow. When smoked, cooked opium can emit a strong sweet smell. Opium smokers roll it into small pellets or strips, roast them on a fire until soft, stuff them into the pot of a smoking gun, turn the pot over and aim it at the flame, and smoke the smoke from the burning. A smoker with little addiction smokes 10 to 20 times a day, while a smoker smokes more than 100 times a day. Opium is the earliest drug and a major public nuisance in society.

Ao Bai sighed: "If you want to sell it, sell it to Japan first, let them taste the freshness." In Europe, there are people who can make this kind of thing, but they haven't sold it in large quantities yet, and we have to get ahead of them. If we don't make this money, sooner or later someone will make it. ”

In his previous life, after the Japanese invasion of the Central Plains, he cultivated opium poppy in large quantities. Now his goal is to take the Japanese and turn it into a base for poppy cultivation.

After Li Yan finished practicing the golden bell jar, they also started a discussion together, and Aobai's plan made him feel shocked. Because Aobai not only wants to sell, but also wants to increase production.

"To send people to study the cultivation of opium poppy, we must have professional and technical personnel, analyze the climate, land, water quality, etc., and have professional and technical personnel in various places to provide classified guidance, and strive for better harvests and high-quality products, understand?"

Li Yuanjie said yes again and again, and said: "My lord, Ah Hibiscus is harmful, and the people in some places know it, what if they don't want to plant?" ”

Ao Bai smiled: "A lot of publicity." Posting notices and slogans. In some places, the land is barren and there is little arable land, and the peasants cannot get rid of poverty by simply growing grain, and only a variety of opium poppy can increase their income and make their lives rich. Also, it is possible to use tax reductions to grow opium poppy farmers. For example, if you can plant opium poppies per mu, you will be charged two dollars of silver for each mu of land, and the supplementary donations and miscellaneous fees will be exempted, and the more you plant, the better, and you should also tell them the benefits of planting this, and estimate that if nearly 10,000 opium poppy plants can be planted on one acre of land, the purchase price of the imperial court will be four taels of silver per acre of land. The opium poppy can produce three crops a year. That is to say, as long as the people plant one acre of opium poppy a year, they can earn twelve taels of silver, and in terms of the purchasing power of the Ming Dynasty, this can buy another two acres of land, which is undoubtedly an irresistible temptation for the villagers in poor areas. Simple, right? It's a win-win situation. ”

Li Yuanjie praised: "My lord, high, really high." ”

Harming people is secondary, and the main thing is that it can lift many people in arid and semi-arid areas out of poverty, and many people will be willing to set aside a few plots of land to grow opium poppies. In this day and age, opium poppy cultivation was legal, as was opium trafficking, so why not? If he doesn't do it, European countries and Japan in the future will do it, it's just a matter of time or time, and now he wants to turn everything upside down.

Li Yan said: "You are really painstaking, it seems that the Japanese are going to suffer." When are you going to call it? ”

Ao Bai smiled: "Hit it? Not in the short term, when their young people become addicted to cigarettes and become wasted people who can't carry a burden on their shoulders and can't carry a basket in their hands, and the shogunate starts to ban smoking, we will fight again, won't it save a lot of effort at that time? ”

"Good idea. Ruthless enough. Li Yan smiled and gave him a thumbs up.

As long as Japan banned smoking and harmed the interests of the Ming Dynasty, it would fight on the grounds that it wanted to trade, and if it was difficult to fully occupy Japan, it would occupy half of it first. After making them pay compensation, the Ming army withdrew. When they run out of money, the internal contradictions will intensify, the Dutch outside are eyeing each other, and the Ming army can turn around against the Netherlands in the name that Japan is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty. As long as Da Ming is sandwiched in the middle, it will definitely be profitable. If the Netherlands dared to start a large-scale war with the Ming Dynasty, they would not be in a hurry to destroy their colonies in Asia, and sent troops to Europe to destroy the Dutch nest and rob them of their wealth by pirates in Asia. There will definitely be other forces that take a fancy to the Dutch colonies, and when they fight in a mess, the Ming army will pick up the leaks.

The Ming is calculating Japan. Japan had to send someone like Daming to ask for help. Because the Netherlands had mobilized a fleet to Asia.

Japan's navy was wiped out in the Korean War during the Wanli period, and although the country is now stable, its maritime strength is very weak, and the navy is extremely rubbish. The Dutch sent more than two dozen warships, which was enough for them.

Ao Bai happened to stay in the coastal area and met with the Japanese envoy. His reply to Japan was that there were many things that could not be managed in the Ming Dynasty, and he had no time to help them, and he would solve the troubles he had caused by himself. The Netherlands just came with a fleet and did not attack yet. The Ming Dynasty could send envoys to negotiate with the Dutch, saying that Japan was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and hoped that any contradictions between the two sides could be resolved by peaceful means. I said this not to help Japan, but to be famous when I beat the Netherlands again in the future.

The reason why the Ming army did not send troops was that the sailors were only used to defend the country and not to fight abroad. In addition, because it wanted to control the Miaojiang uprising in the territory, the army was also of great use, and it could not support a single Japanese soldier.

This is not a lie, Miao Jiang did revolt, which is also a long-standing problem of the Ming Dynasty, and it urgently needs to be rectified.

There is also a section of the Great Wall in the south, with a total length of 200 kilometers, which was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, around the mountains and across the water, most of which are built on the steep ridges. The Great Wall of the South is also known as the border wall of Miaojiang. It is the product of the suppression of the southern ethnic minorities, mainly the southern Miao people, by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty in order to consolidate their rule. In order to continue to rule and suppress, he came up with this poisonous plan to build a wall and garrison troops and divide the rule. The north and south of Xiangxi Miao Xinjiang were isolated, and it was stipulated that "Miao does not leave the country, and Han does not enter the country"; Prohibition of trade and cultural exchanges between Miao and Han. This is a checkpoint composed of flood forts, watchtowers, tunka, sentry towers, forts, gates, and boxes, so as to isolate and conquer the Miao people.

With the intensification of national oppression, the uprisings of the Miao people in Guizhou gradually increased, and there were more than 100 struggles in the Ming Dynasty alone, some of which were very large-scale. For example, from the thirteenth year of orthodoxy to the second year of Jingtai, the people of all ethnic groups in the province revolted, and the Ming Dynasty mobilized more than 200,000 troops to suppress it, which lasted for three years. The Miao are the main force in this struggle. The Miao peasant army in the Qingshui Valley of eastern Qiandong and the areas of Guiding and Fuquan headed by Wei Tonglie held out to the end according to Xianglu Mountain. From the first year of Tianshun to the third year, the uprising led by the leader of the "thirteen" Miao tribe in Longli, Guiding, Bafan, Pingyue and other places, Gan Jiangzhu, also shook for a while. From the 17th to the 30th year of Jiajing, the Miao uprisings in northeastern Guizhou and western Hunan led by Long Xubao lasted for 14 years, and they successively resisted the 160,000 people next year.

In the fifth year of Tianshun, the army penetrated deep into Miaojiang, broke through hundreds of villages, burned 3,000 houses, and beheaded more than 3,300 people. After the failure of the uprising of the Miao people in the three years of Tianshun in Zhuzhu, 4,490 people were killed, and 5,500 women were captured to other places. Massacre is not the preserve of the Jurchens.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty never stopped oppressing foreign races, and it was not polite to the Han people. This was one of the reasons for the rebellion of the Jianzhou Jurchens. It is also the reason why many Ming soldiers have no spirit when they fight foreigners, and after becoming traitors, they have become gods of war, and they are brave and unstoppable when they kill their own people.

According to the news brought back by Jinyiwei, the border officials have severely oppressed the Miao people, and they generally take bloody repression. Ao Bai has already sent people to investigate and deal with those officials, and these people cannot be allowed to bully the Miao people anymore. caused chaos, but asked the Ming Dynasty to send troops to suppress it in the future, and spent a lot of military pay to support a group of ruffians and thugs in the south, this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed. At the same time, Ao Bai also gave Jinyiwei a task, and he must be very polite to the Miao people. Penetrate into them to understand the situation, and if it is true that the officials have gone too far, they will mobilize a large army to destroy those officials, and then use gentle means to govern the border, send them money, open the market, and help them develop.

Ao Bai will never run to Miaojiang. Some of the Miao people are said to be poisonous, causing people to die. Not afraid of 10,000, just in case, he doesn't want to take risks.

Japan, Miaojiang...... It's so much easier to get the troublesome things done together...

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