CHAPTER XX: The First Tobacco Industry Worker on the Continent of St. George
"Do you think he came back in time?"
"I think it's possible, otherwise how could he make black powder, and this thing......" Duon took out another cigarette and lit it. Hey, don't really say it, Barbaloa doesn't look good, but the cigarettes are very easy to smoke, except that there is no filter, which has a bit of the smell of national cigarettes.
"I think it's probably not a big surname." Justin shook his head.
"How?"
"Grand Magician Goodian has been immersed in magic all his life, and he is proficient in alchemy, so it is not a big deal to get a black powder out. Do you think, did the person who invented black powder in ancient China also cross over? It must have been invented by accident, right? And this cigarette, maybe the Great Magician Goodian roasted it by accident and thought it tasted good...... I think both of these pieces of evidence are too unconvincing, you know, there are so many coincidences in the world. ”
"That doesn't prove that he's not a traverser?"
"What do you think, he has such a high level and has lived for such a long time, if he were a traverser, it is estimated that he would have completed five hundred tasks long ago, so why didn't he go back?"
"There's a point to that." Du Ang scratched his head: "Brother Jia, did you say that the old man you met at the beginning could be the Magician Gude'an?" ”
"Probably not!" Justin said, "Although I haven't met Wizard Goodian, I've heard that he is very handsome, a handsome old man, but the old man I met is quite shabby. ”
"Worse than you?"
"Roll ......"
The two of them bit their ears and muttered for a long time, and finally their eyes fell on Barbaroa's body, and Duon asked, "What about it...... What to do with this guy? ”
"What else can I do? Let it go, people haven't broken the law, even if they break the law, it's not your turn to clean it up, besides, the teacher is Gu De'an, such a awesome character, aren't you afraid that his teacher will come to you for revenge after he knows? ”
"Revenge?"
"You've abused other students......"
"Hey, hey, you just used the tickle powder, right? What does it have to do with me? ”
", if you hadn't caught him, I would have known who he was?"
"Forget it, I won't fight with you." Du Ang waved his hand: "I have some other plans. ”
"What do you want to do with him? It won't be ......," Justin asked in a low voice. I made a motion to wipe my neck in my hand.
Although he has been with Du Ang for so long, he also knows that Du Ang is a person who crossed over from the earth like himself, but after all, Du Ang is a nobleman now, and bastards such as killing people and destroying people's lives are not uncommon in the aristocratic circle of the Bauhinia Empire.
The upper class is the most degraded, and the gentlemen and ladies are all brightly dressed, but who doesn't have a black hand hidden behind their backs? There are ten ** on it and they are all stained with blood, Justin has been in Yanjing for more than 50 years, what don't you understand?
Du Ang didn't answer Justin's question, but raised the cigarette butt in his hand and asked, "Brother Jia, how much cigarette is left in your hand?" ”
"There are more than two packs, not much, you have to save a little smoke." Justin said: "I have drawn so many prizes to draw such a jade stream. ”
"And what do you think of the smell of the smoke?"
"Ah, do you want to ......" Justin was not stupid, and immediately understood what Duang wanted to do: "Do you want to detain him and make cigarettes for us?" It's a good idea, but the question is can he agree? ”
"That's just one aspect." Duang asked, "If I take out this cigarette and sell it, will there be a market?" ”
"Damn, you're not, aren't you? Do you still want to go out and sell? Do you want to get a Chinese tobacco out here? Justin said, "You said that you are a dignified heir to an earl, and you are not short of money, what are you doing with this thing?" ”
"Pull it down, I have 10 gold coins of pocket money every month, and I'm going crazy poor." Du Ang said: "Don't talk about this first, I'll ask you, can there be a market?" Can there be a market? ”
Justin thought for a while: "It's hard to say, as far as I know, there is no such thing as tobacco in the St. George continent, and cultivating consumers is not a matter of one or two days, but I think your idea is good, you can try it." ”
"Then try it, if it's okay, let's get rich together." If you can't, just keep it for yourself, I think you're a big smoker. ”
"Okay!" Justin suddenly hesitated: "But the key is...... The technology is in the hands of that stammer, what if he doesn't cooperate? ”
"Hire with a high salary." Du Ang smiled confidently: "This thing is very miserable now, a silver coin can make him not even want to put his face in his pocket, I now give him five gold coins a month, and he can still eat and live, do you think he can agree?" ”
Speaking of this, Duang stood up, walked to Barbaroa's side and squatted down, with a big-tailed wolf-like smile: "Barbaroa, do you want to make money?" Do you want to make a lot of money? Want to buy a villa by the sea? Marry another beautiful wife? Facing the sea every day, it is said that the spring flowers are blooming? Do you want to? Do you want to? If you want, come here, young master, I'll show you a clear path......"
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Under the offensive of Duang's big stick and gold dollars, the poor and clanging Barbaroa was defeated one after another without suspense, and became the world's first full-time tobacco worker at the cost of five gold coins a month. Duon told him to stay in the dungeon for a while, and someone would come and let him out. Duon warns Barbaroa that this matter is still under wraps, and that you can't tell anyone in detail, and if anyone asks, you can say that it's part of a magical experiment that Justin Magician is doing, and don't even reveal a word about it, or else you'll itch you to death with tickle powder.
"Don't say, don't say!"
For Duang's request, Barbaroa agreed to it without saying a word. Just like Duang just said, Barbaroa is very miserable now, basically in a weaning state where his father doesn't love his mother, and even eating is a problem. Now Du Ang gives him five gold coins a month, which is basically equivalent to letting him step into a well-off step, and Barbaroa is happy to fall from the sky, this is happy. He never thought that tobacco could still be sold for money...... Whatever, it's a day to mess around!
When Duon came out of the dungeon, he first called the old butler Pepin, and told him to release Barbaloa and arrange a place for him to live. In addition, Duang also asked him to prepare a larger room to be used as Barbaroa's studio, and opened a shopping list, which included more than ten kinds of flowers and plants such as bucktooth leaves, dead leaf grass, water spirit grass, peacock flower, plague grass, and more than 20 kinds of spices such as yellow stone powder and blood durian. A lot of these things are useless, just bought for show, smoke bombs. There is no intellectual property protection law in the Bauhinia Empire, and Duang doesn't want others to know what the specific recipe of cigarettes is, so he makes a lot of copycats come out, which is purely for himself to make trouble.
Therefore, the specific formula should be kept secret, and the fewer people who know, the better.
Lao Piping was shocked when he saw that Du Ang had issued such a long shopping purchase order at once, and roughly calculated that it would take nearly a hundred gold coins to buy them all. He asked Duang what he was buying these things for, and Duang said that these things were used by Justin Magician, and he didn't know exactly what they were for, and they might be props for class. Hearing this excuse, Lao Piping was immediately relieved, and immediately went to do it without saying a word, at the banquet last night, the Countess just said that Justin Magician is a distinguished guest at home, and as long as it is what he needs in the future, no matter how high or low, he will be unconditionally satisfied, and he will immediately approve the money, and he doesn't even need to report to the top......
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