Chapter 126: The dove quenches its thirst
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Qingyu smiled, opened the inkstone, grinded cinnabar, and asked Xianfeng to review the folds. ◢ With ◢ Dream ◢ Xiao ◢ .lā Xianfeng was upset when he saw the twist and turn, but Qingyu worked hard to add fragrance to her red sleeves, and she was embarrassed to mix up time again. He can only pick up the fold and look at it, and now he is used to taking the fold to Yongshou Palace every day to correct it, and he can discuss it with Qingyu while watching, which is much better than correcting it himself.
Qingyu polished the cinnabar, and sat down and smoked a book to read. At this time, in the Yongshou Palace, the most are books. Before, she still wanted to learn to sew flowers and flowers, but now she has no time, she manages palace affairs, thinks about the government for Xianfeng, and has to pay attention to other things, how can she have time to play needlework.
"Bastard!" Xianfeng slapped the table again.
Qingyu had long been accustomed to it, put the book down, reached out to take the fold, and the governor of Yunnan found that there were people there who cultivated opium, and he felt that the opium tax could be levied, which could be greatly alleviated......
Qingyu looked at the name and thought for a moment, "Your Majesty, this official is not bad." ”
"He said that, and you said he was good?" Xianfeng was furious.
"It should be said that the cultivation of opium in Yunnan must not be a matter of this time. He reported it and proposed a solution, which can be regarded as a capable official. However, his idea was unacceptable, so he asked the Jiangnan battalion to send 10,000 people to cut all the people who planted in Yunnan in half and burn all the things planted. does not announce the world, and whoever races will be cut in half by the nine clans in the future. Qingyu put the fold back and also had a black face.
Xianfeng looked at Qingyu, she used to be uncomfortable for a long time because of the dismissal of the palace maid, but in less than a year, she quickly calmed herself down. Xianfeng didn't feel scared, but felt sorry. If it weren't for her and herself, she would have been able to live a happy and peaceful life.
"Your Majesty, do you think the concubines are too ruthless?" Qingyu saw that Xianfeng was looking at herself, thought about it and asked.
"No, I think when you first entered the palace, you took a big knife to cut noodles for me, and then said, it's delicious. It's nice to think about back then. Xianfeng gently took her hand.
"Yes, it was so good then, we just had to think about eating every day, and now, if we take a step back, these people will have to eat us all. Opium must not be cultivated, let alone taxed. Because if it does, it means that opium is legalized. What kind of face will the emperor have to meet his ancestors and ancestors in the future?! Qingyu smiled bitterly, but didn't let him crook the building, this is very important.
"You see, they have numbers, and if they levy heavy taxes, the imperial court will be able to solve their urgent needs." Xianfeng re-watched the excerpt, and now he understands why Qingyu said that this official is good, and he did an investigation before he wrote the excerpt.
"It's a dove to quench your thirst! Now a pound of opium can only be bought for six or seven taels of silver, and those poor people can't afford to eat it. If these people are planted and the price comes down, do you still have any soldiers available? What's even more terrifying is that maybe you don't even have someone to grow food with. Qingyu was about to scream, "By the way, did the concubine tell you that some people in the family are afraid that the child will go out and cause trouble, so they will blow opium on the child when they are born, and when they grow up, they will give a smoking gun until the child is raised." Now, does it mean that they want to continue to plague the Han people? ”
"Okay, I'm joking with you, against my father's will, turn back, the sixth child will have to eat me." Xianfeng smiled, of course he knew that this was not okay, but when he saw his wife's appearance, he thought it was very cute.
This time the recruits, especially the children of the aristocracy, accounted for sixty percent of them who were addicted to smoking. was so angry that Xianfeng copied all these people. Fortunately, Daoguang's smoking ban is still in place, and Xianfeng will implement it according to the most severe.
And those people were not sent home, but were put in the camp, guarded by doctors from the Beijing Camp and Tai Hospital, and if they did not quit smoking, they were beaten to death. But no one dared to say anything about it this time. Because this is not the will of Xianfeng, but the will of the emperor of Xianfeng. If he doesn't carry it out, he will be unfilial.
By the way, there were also a lot of tobacco houses, as well as people who smuggled tobacco soil. The atmosphere in the capital is invigorated. So at this time, the governor of Yunnan had such an excerpt, and the head of Xianfeng politics had to wonder if someone wanted to test something.
"When this is brought to the court, do you think they will agree?" Qingyu felt that her temper was really getting more and more explosive. Looking at Xianfeng's face, he also thought of those people facing up, and frowned.
"Well, I'll approve it first, and if I dare to say yes when I turn around, I'll go and raid his house." Xianfeng's face was the same as a knife carving.
Qingyu smiled, looking at the way he was struggling to write, and suddenly thought that he was reading Yongzheng's Zhu Pi on the Internet, in addition to saying that he was good at writing, more importantly, he was diligent.
Now I accompany him every day to approve the folds, look at Xianfeng's words, in fact, it is also written well, these princes and phoenix grandsons, have received a strict education since childhood, but at this time his words are different from the words when he first succeeded to the throne, at this time his words are much stronger and more powerful, not like the earliest, that weak and boneless.
And what they don't know is that in the five years of Xianfeng in the official history, because of the peasant uprisings in various places such as the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, the huge military expenditure overwhelmed the imperial court treasury with a total annual income of only 10 million taels.
Persisted until Xianfeng for five years, and finally the opium tax was introduced. As a result, opium immediately blossomed everywhere, and it was "localized" in less than two years! Imported opium was squeezed out of China's territory.
But this is not something to be proud of, originally because of the high price of imported opium, when Daoguang banned smoking, about 3 million people in the country smoked opium; Five years after Xianfeng, because of the comprehensive localization, the result was that during the Republic of China, seventy percent of adult men in China smoked opium. It's about to become the popularity of cigarettes in future generations!
Xianfeng objected because he hadn't been forced to do that yet. As I just said, the Taiping Army in history has been in trouble for more than ten years, and when the Taiping Army is in trouble, the Twist Army in Jiangnan and the knife in Shanghai will ...... Anyway, it's not over here, and it's up again over there. While fighting, there is no harvest in the field. On the one hand, in order to exterminate these people, they have to constantly recruit troops, buy weapons, and ammunition. And supplies for the army, which was full of money.
At this time, the Taiping army was quickly self-extinguished, and before the Twist Army could start, it was extinguished before it even sprouted, and the bored army helped the victims repair houses and grab land. The court first gave the An family food, and if they can get by, who will have time to rebel; The predecessor of the Shanghai Xiaodao Society was the Heaven and Earth Society, and then saw that the Taiping Army was good, so it immediately revolted and served the Taiping Army as the mainstay. But this will, the Taiping army is gone, all parts of the country are busy resuming production, the Heaven and Earth Society was the first to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and now more than two hundred years have passed, even the Han people are too lazy to take care of them.
If there is no rebellion, the imperial court can do something in an orderly manner, even if it lacks money, it is not lacking enough to make opium to die early.