If the 'clan bank' is engaged in the financial industry of the Qing Dynasty, then the 'Feng'en Fund' under the Seven Divisions Yamen is focused on industry.

This fund is to borrow the capital from the clan bank, and then send a messenger to the banner people, so that their coats can run the industry - and the prince repeatedly emphasized that they must abide by the rules of the ancestors. But the result...... Anyway, among the salt merchants in Lianghuai, more than half of the industries in the thirteen lines in Guangzhou have become industries under the jurisdiction of the 'Feng'en Fund'.

So far, the 'Bong'en Fund' has issued several issues on time and on time, and each issue is a little more than the previous one, which makes people feel that the situation is very good and the future is bright.

Among the several businesses operated under the 'Feng'en Fund', the most dazzling is probably the industry of the Eight Banners Fushou Cream.

What is Fushou Balm? This is my special name for a certain medicinal item in the Qing Dynasty. The original Fushou paste is an annual herbaceous plant, the immature capsule of poppy/poppy, which is dried and solidified by the white milk that exudes after cutting the peel of the fruit. That's right, it's the legendary opium/feat, also called opium or hibiscus in China. Later, I didn't know which emperor sucked this thing and thought it was good, so I gave it the name of Fushou ointment.

However, some people have to put this pot on the head of a long-lived big fat emperor, saying that Wanli did not go to court for 30 years to hide behind and smoke opium/tablets, and what "Ming Huidian" recorded that the Asian vassal states paid tribute to the Ming royal family opium/tablets. The "black incense" paid by the kings of Siam, Java, Bengal and other places is hard to say that it is opium/flakes.

Of course, according to Zhao Kun's investigation, the opium/slice at this time was named A Hibiscus Anointing, and there was no name for Fushou Ointment. Therefore, while asking for this transaction to be taken over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he gave the hibiscus paste he produced a nice name - Eight Banners Fushou Paste, to show that this paste is exclusive to the people of the national flag of the Qing Dynasty, and the Han minions rolled aside.

This ointment is indeed different from the hibiscus ointment.

There are two types of hibiscus paste, raw and cooked, the raw one is brown, and some varieties are black. It can be made into round blocks, cakes or bricks; The surface is generally dry and brittle, while the inside remains soft and sticky, with a pungent odor – stale urine and a bitter taste.

while cooked is raw, after being boiled and fermented, it is made into strips, plates, or blocks; Its surface is smooth, soft, greasy, brown or golden yellow, and is usually packaged in a thin cloth or plastic sheet. When smoked by drug addicts, cooked opium/tablets can emit a strong sweet smell.

It is said that this Eight Banners Fushou Paste is just a familiar Hibiscus Cream, but who calls the reincarnation of talents in it? There are unlucky people who were shot for smuggling drugs/products, and there are also capable people who can extract vinegar/acid/anhydride by soil method, and even use a cauldron to prepare ephedra/yellow/alkali. Therefore, the seven divisions of the yamen are not only divided into five grades of the Eight Banners Fushou Cream, but also the legendary Fushou Yangrong Pill.

The difference between these fifth-class Eight Banners Fushou paste is naturally separated by the number of times it is processed on the basis of cooked hibiscus paste. The more times it is processed, the more material is added, and the higher the content of morph/brown, the main alkaloid in it, and the higher the grade. The special Eight Banners Fushou Paste is only used as a tribute, and the first-class non-clan cannot be purchased, and the purchase must be restricted. And so on, even if it is the most inferior, it can only be bought by a person with a meritorious name, and when you buy it, you have to register, and you can buy a limit of twelve boxes per month.

As for this Fushou Yangrong Pill, the external saying is that the ginseng in the Ginseng Rongyang Pill was replaced with Eight Banners Fushou Ointment. In fact, it is a di/ethyl/acyl/morphomorph/brown (sea/loin/cause) synthesized from vinegar/acid/anhydride prepared by the ace/acid/anhydride method by the hibiscus paste and soil method.

In the original history, in 1874, the chemist Waite first synthesized the sea / Luo / Ine, at first only used as a surgical anesthetic, and then in the 90s, the German Bayer company, found that this thing has a strong relieving effect on almost any physical pain and discomfort, so it will be introduced to the market as a cure-all, and make a fortune.

Fushou Yangrong Pill has a very excellent cough suppressant effect on cough, and has no obvious side effects, absolutely harmless, and is the safest and best of all cough medicines; Not only cough, it has a miraculous effect on the pain caused by almost all diseases, and it is simply a miracle given to the banner people by the ancestors of the Great Qing Dynasty. Even for healthy people, this medicine can be very useful, for example, before exercising, taking a little can also make breathing easier.

Therefore, once this medicine was developed, it was classified as a banned drug, and it was only allowed to be used by upper-class banner people (mainly the clan and important ministers of the court).

This effect of Fushou Yangrong Pill is also very much in line with the needs of those imperial doctors to treat the nobles - it is a pity that the time for this thing to come out is too short, and the cautious Tai Hospital does not intend to list it as a commonly used medicine like ginseng, which is a pity for Zhao Kun.

In order to maintain the legitimacy of the Eight Banners Fushou Paste and Fushou Yangrong Pill, Zhao Kun also worked hard.

In the original history, because Yongzheng banned smoking (the ban was tobacco), the ban on tobacco led to the proliferation of pure opium/tablets. So in the seventh year of Yongzheng, the emperor had to issue an edict to ban opium/tablets, but when Yongzheng died, this ban existed in name only.

When it came to the Jiaqing Daoguang period, it was everyone in the upper class who took it, and all three of Jiadaoxian had a record of smoking. For example, the Daoguang Emperor Min Ning, who later implemented the ban on smoking and triggered the Opium War, was an opium ghost when he was a prince, and there were some high-ranking nobles such as Baylor who liked opium as much as he did. Min Ning wrote an essay in praise of opium, proudly showing off the feeling of being smart and refreshed after smoking opium, saying that opium was a real source of happiness, and even wrote a poem to describe his experience.

Emperors, princes, bailes, empresses, princesses, eunuchs, high-ranking bureaucrats, high-ranking literati all tirelessly smoked opium/tablets, and opium/tablets became the fashion of high society. In fact, opium is the most characteristic of what Veblen called a luxury for conspicuous consumption. It was a royal item in the palace, and even the emperor used it, so it was a symbol of nobility; It is extremely expensive, it has traveled far and wide, and is therefore a symbol of wealth; Smoking it requires plenty of leisure effort, and only the leisure class who are not busy for their livelihood can lie down and smoke it leisurely, so it is a symbol of a leisurely and high-quality life; The high-ranking bureaucrats and literati are good at supporting the actors and high-ranking prostitutes/women, and under their service, they swallow the clouds and smoke together, which is a symbol of romance, a symbol of sexuality/ability, and sexuality/charm. As a result, opium smoking became a popular practice for the upper class.

However, the elegance of the upper class was gradually imitated and copied by the middle and lower classes who were subordinate to elegance and fashion, and spread to the whole society. Generally speaking, the things used by the emperor in history could not be encroached upon by others, and the upper class and lower classes had no right to enjoy them. It's just that the Qing Dynasty, except for the reign of Yongzheng, was in a state of ruin of the legal system for most of the time, especially for such profitable projects.

The message of the domestic opium fashion was captured by profit-seeking international opium dealers, who smuggled opium in large quantities, so that the price continued to fall, so that the low-level peddlers and pawns could take two puffs and experience the taste of wealth and wealth that the upper class coveted. It is obvious that the domestic ****ism, which emphasizes the exclusive enjoyment of good things by the royal family, has been difficult to resist the surging momentum of international capitalism in pursuit of profit maximization. By the time the noble opium can be sucked by the pulp sellers, it has long since lost its former aura of elegance and wealth. At this time, the upper class in turn cursed the hooligans of the lower class for smoking opium/tablets, which corrupted the simple social atmosphere and infected the upper class, advocating a ban on smoking. Opium finally became a street rat that everyone shouted and beaten, and the Opium War broke out in this context.

In order to avoid this situation, on the one hand, the prince and the prince forcefully collected opium trafficking and other transactions through the Yamen of the Seventh Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and on the other hand, he made great efforts.

The special Eight Flags Fushou Paste has been repeatedly concocted nine times on the basis of cooked opium/tablets, and the morphos/brown content in it is far higher than that of cooked Hibiscus Cream, and it is also sweet and delicious with the help of professionals (reincarnations), from appearance to use. Even the most inferior Eight Banners Fushou Paste is several times better than ordinary cooked opium/tablets, so to protect this precious Eight Banners Fushou Paste through technical means can only be enjoyed by my Eight Banners disciples and gentry.

Of course, if there are those turtles who are really rich, it is not that they can't eat this Eight Banners Fushou Cream.

According to the tone set by the prince to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Eight Banners Fushou Paste is a controlled product, even if it is the most inferior, it must be purchased by identity, or it is restricted. And not every banner person can afford to eat this Fushou ointment, so the rich turtle can pay for someone to buy it on his behalf - this is a business.

Those who raise gentry or officials often respect their status, and those with high status disdain these two money, and those with low status cannot buy two or three boxes a month according to the regulations. However, in many of their families, only the eldest son is an upright banner soldier, shouldering the heavy responsibility of defending the imperial city, but he only receives three taels of silver every month, and he still carries two small pieces of fake money every time, what do you take to eat, drink and have fun?

As soon as this Eight Banners Fushou Paste came out, the adult men under it were eligible to buy it, regardless of whether they ate hardcore crops or not. So after coming and going, the poorest banner people in Beijing can be regarded as having a new income. Therefore, no matter up or down, there is also a voice of praise for this Eight Flags Fushou Ointment.

- As for those who are too expensive or have a lot of complaints about the purchase restrictions, the prince has always turned a deaf ear. Productivity is here, and purchase restrictions are a must. And the flag people are all good-looking, and they won't say it openly if they are too expensive.