Chapter 444: Anti-Ming Protest, Tobacco

Zhu Fugui felt that this evaluation was already very high.

After all, a century-old plan like the Three Gorges was not grasped by Sha Jingfang in this era.

The water is too deep in here.

Gotta get the teacher.

In the future, standing on the Three Gorges will have to be the Zhu Fugui Dam.

In any case, although Sha Jingfang could not grasp the Three Gorges, he could still grasp the Hoover Dam at the level of the early 20 th century, or the improved and weakened version of the Hoover Dam.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui approved his doctoral student's initiative to design a set of plans on the New Pearl River that could not only ensure the development of Xinsui and Xinxia, but also take into account the supply of water resources downstream.

Of course, after all, it is a spectacle-level masterpiece, and Zhu Fugui can't completely put the treasure on his disciples.

When Sha Jingfang's plan design draft came out, Zhu Fugui would inevitably have to spend six yuan to invite a real water conservancy expert to take a look.

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Sha Jingfang's water conservancy expedition team was still shuttling in the desert valley in the open camp, and Zhu Fugui had already completed his inspection of southern Xinjiang.

I am invincible tomorrow, and southern Xinjiang is also impregnable!

And the news of Long Live Lord bombarding the sky undoubtedly caused a sensation, and Zhu Fugui's cultural value also made a lot of money.

The only discordant voice came from Robert Lincoln, the first dutiful son in North America who killed a thousand knives.

Out of nowhere, this cargo has picked up an unnamed naturalist who claims to have completed a round-the-world voyage and is well-informed.

Through the study of news and related materials, this naturalist actually deduced the principle of artificial rainfall.

"The so-called 'artificial rainfall' should be caused by some chemical agent in the cannonball to make the water vapor in the clouds fall in advance, such a terrible weather weapon in the hands of the tyrannical monarch Zhu Fugui will cause harm to all mankind."

"In addition, based on the data on global wind currents, I can conclude that the water vapor intercepted by the Ming people would have reached the territory of the United States of America."

"In short, this mob stole the rain of the American people, and was making enemies of all the Anglo-Saxons, from the estates of the Kingdom of Saxony to the sugar cane plantations of Florida, and every warrior who inherited the Anglo-Saxon blood should bravely fight against the tyrants of the East!"

Seeing the statement of the Northern Federal Government, Zhu Fugui was confused.

Where did this come from a mad dog to bite itself for no reason.

Where your northern government is located, instead of relying on the warm currents and water vapor of the Atlantic Ocean, can you rely on this bit of water vapor blown by the Pacific Ocean to finally climb over the Rocky Mountains?

Will those clouds be able to cross the Great Desert of the Basin?

I don't know what to do!

But don't really say it, this half-truth and half-truth science popularization shows its naturalist skills, and it is indeed a bit insightful.

It is no surprise that the anti-Ming sentiment of the North American whiteskins has been stirred up again.

Fashions printed with milk jokes are cut.

The binding of the cloth with the joke of the milk method was retained, and the other parts were burned like the other goods of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Fugui didn't care about them.

The garment manufacturing industry in North America has been crushed by the dumping of ultra-low-cost industrial products by the Ming Dynasty.

These guys are burning happily now, and they will have to come and buy them obediently in the fall.

As for tariff protection plus the rebuilding of local garment factories......

When they are ready, Zhu Fugui's armored cluster will tell the Milicians that the gods and horses are called free trade.

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Zhu Fugui was not affected by the anti-Ming wave of the Lincoln Jr. government, and went to the Aztec Confederation according to the scheduled itinerary.

The Aztec Confederation was a series of small states formed through ethnic subdivisions and territorial self-determination.

Just like Malacca, Ryukyu and other countries back then, the legitimacy of their rulers came from popular support in small part and more mainly from the canonization of the Ming Dynasty.

The canonization of the Ming Dynasty is the highest political correctness of the princes of the princely states, and it is inevitable that there will be things like the civil strife in Vietnam in history, when everyone rushed to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Honglu Temple has dealt with several cases before.

If one party is not loyal enough to the Ming Dynasty, it will be vetoed with one vote.

Both sides are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but there are obvious rights and wrongs, so they will be dealt with according to the rules.

If both parties are loyal, and the matter is a bad one, and it can't be judged, that's fine.

Directly push the grace order is.

As a result, the Aztec Confederation has grown from five to 12 countries when it was first established.

As the turmoil of the early years of the founding of the country is overcome, the situation in the Greater Aztec region will gradually stabilize later.

This time, Zhu Fugui visited and stayed for a long time mainly in the two member states or princely states.

They were the Viscount of Maya, founded by former Mexican President Juárez, and the Duchy of Aztec, founded by Antonio, the former leader of the Aztec Tigers.

According to the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty, the dukes of the outer domains were not worth much, and the viscounts were even lower.

After all, Hu Yarez is also half a captive, and he only won a little bit of merit by helping Zhu Fugui pose for photos, and he was divided into three melons and two dates.

The two princely states each have an area of 80,000 or 90,000 square kilometers, and the natural conditions are similar.

The accumulated temperature is high throughout the year, the sunshine is sufficient, and the moisture is sufficient.

Therefore, needless to say, it has naturally become an important cash crop supply base in the Ming Dynasty.

Specifically, the Southern Confederacy, which was also an economic colony, mainly provided the Ming with pure natural and pollution-free handmade cotton and sugar cane according to tradition.

The Aztec and Mayan princely states produced tobacco.

Because of the climatic and soil conditions, the tobacco produced in these two places is of high quality.

The big Mexican cigars that James Bond had in mind were made from the tobacco of these two countries.

Whether it is cigarettes or cigars, it is undoubtedly harmful to health.

In a study conducted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in seven centers in Germany, Italy and Sweden, 5,621 male patients with lung cancer and 7,255 male patients with non-lung cancer found that cigar smokers were nine times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers.

The claim that smoking a cigar doesn't fit your lungs is not reliable.

As an emperor, Zhu Fugui really loves and hates tobacco.

There is no doubt that cigarettes are an important export product of the Ming Dynasty and an important source of tax revenue for the national treasury.

At the same time, in the previous two Ming and French wars, cigarettes were also an important placebo for soldiers to relieve fatigue and relieve their mood during continuous battles.

Pershing, the commander of the U.S. Expeditionary Force during World War I, once said, "What do we need to win this war?" Cigarettes, as many cigarettes as bullets! ”

It can be said that cigarettes are simply a treasure for the state.

For individuals, however, cigarettes are a terrible demon that devours life.

It was with such complicated feelings that Zhu Fugui discussed with the leaders of the two princely states the matter of doubling the area under tobacco cultivation in the Greater Aztec region this year and next.