However, compared with the lottery, Zhu Houwei is more interested in tobacco!

This is the most ruthless weapon for money!

The low cost and ultra-high rate of return are like a monster, challenging Zhu Houwei's nerves all the time.

However, in the end, Zhu Houwei still decided to release tobacco, because this is an inevitable trend, not to mention that tobacco is too important for both the country and the people.

There will be a market when there is demand, there will be 400 million smokers in China in the future, how many are there in the world, those so-called experts who shout all day long that smoking is harmful to health, have they considered the social function of cigarettes, can know how many people's relationships have been brought closer by the existence of cigarettes, and how many friendships have been promoted!

Have you ever considered how much tobacco is taxed every year, how much is the country's annual finance, how much is the national defense investment, and how much is the contribution of tobacco if the land tax that has been abolished for thousands of years in later generations?

Zhu Houwei felt that he should not feel guilty about releasing tobacco, because he could stand on the moral high ground and speak, because everything was for the sake of Daming!

Smoking is harmful to health, right, Zhu Houwei decided to take the lead in smoking first, who has the emperor's gold in this world, Zhu Houwei himself is not afraid, do people in the world feel that their lives are worth more than the emperor?

What's more, there is no such thing as smoking being harmful to your health these days......

The first batch of planted tobacco has been sent to the Tongzhou Tobacco Laboratory, and will soon be copied, added, or made into cigarette holders, or formed an assembly line according to the production ideas provided by Zhu Houwei, and then it will be divided into various brands and grades......

In short, how to do it in the future, Zhu Houwei plans to use all the tricks!

According to the fastest estimates, the first batch of tobacco will be released in the middle of the fourth year of Jiajing, and it will take a few years for the large-scale market to be launched, after all, the production of tobacco has not yet kept up.

The goal is to popularize it in Daming within ten years, and let the people accept it!

There is still a long way to go!

But what is the biggest thing in the past six months?

That must be inseparable from Dalian Steel!

At the end of the third year of Jiajing, the train from Beijing to Tianjin Wei was officially opened, and at the same time, a large amount of steel was transported into Tianjin Wei from all over the country, and a large number of railroad tracks were transported out of the Great Wall!

Obviously, Emperor Jiajing had already begun to decide to build a railway to the grassland, and the ministers were very clear that if they wanted to build it, connect the ten cities of the grassland, and connect the inside and outside of the Great Wall, even if they raised tens of thousands of workers, even if they sent 20,000 or 30,000 captives as slaves, even if the output of the rails could keep up, there would be no effort of more than five or even ten years, and they didn't have to think about it.

The emperor is determined to completely solve the grassland problem, and it is a complete solution once and for all.

Building cities, building roads, engaging in trade, deterring and even intermarrying – if this series of measures does not solve the grassland problem, then the grassland problem will be unsolvable.

Maybe the only way left in the end is to keep killing, killing one by one, and killing until the grassland becomes a Jedi......

The emperor put on a posture to build a railway in the grassland, obviously planning to put down the construction of the railway in the Central Plains, to put it simply, either not to repair, or wait for the grassland to be repaired, or to repair it himself.

Who repairs? Businessmen, gentry, wealthy families, nobles, all the interests of the world to repair, do not move the finances of the Ming Dynasty!

The method of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, the Manchu Dynasty also knew the emperor's intentions, but they were helpless......

The train is really too convenient, and it was okay if it didn't have it before, but now that it has, how can those wealthy businessmen who can't endure the huge consumption of land transportation and the exploitation of transportation not be moved.

What's more, the emperor also promised to give up the right to operate the railway for fifteen years!

With his own small abacus and the government's encouragement, there are already many businessmen in the world who have moved their hearts.

However, the cost of railway construction is huge, and there are absolutely no more than two businessmen who can afford such a huge expenditure in this world, which means that there is almost no great feasibility of building a single railway.

But as long as self-interest is involved, interest groups will always have endless ways to add perseverance and unity.

asked Yang Yiqing to go to the city tower to open a lottery ticket, he chattered for a long time, and finally went to repay the boss's reluctance.

But since he knew that there was no hope for the emperor to build the railway, this guy burst out with great enthusiasm, and actually took the initiative to find a meeting with big businessmen in the north and south and Shandong, Shanxi and other places......

With the cabinet taking the lead and the commitment of the first assistant, the gentry and giants finally reached a consensus!

The Liangjing Railway is almost more than 2,000 miles, and every five companies undertake to build 100 miles, so that more than 100 gentry and giants are enough to connect the Liangjing Railway, and the rest of the merchants who are not along the Liangjing Railway are also a few joint contracts to develop iron mines and establish a large iron plant, and the emperor will send Tongzhou professionals to conduct free guidance and training!

At that time, the income of the iron factory will come from the sale of rails, and the income from the construction of railways will come from tickets and freight tickets.

As for whether the investment in the ironworks and railways will cause them a financial burden, this does not exist, because as long as the royal money bank approves that you have enough strength, then you can lend unlimitedly!

This is the undisguised humanity shown in the face of absolute interests, without prevarication or deceit.

This is the most tacit cooperation between officialdom and the people, and it is also the most helpless cooperation that was forced into a corner by the emperor.

Huaxia has fairly rich iron resources, and there are naturally not a few iron mines, Zhu Houwei invited bids for the construction of 30 iron factories again after bidding for the construction of 10 iron plants, and this time the clan is smart......

The royal family and the feudal king undertook the construction of ten iron factories and the Tianjin Wei Shipyard, and I dare not say that I made a lot of money, but the family almost earned nearly 200,000 taels!

200,000 taels, who doesn't blush? Even for the vassal king, 200,000 taels may require a whole generation of accumulation.

Who in the world can be unmoved in the face of absolute interests? That was impossible, so as soon as the news that the emperor wanted to continue bidding for the construction of the big iron factory appeared, the clan immediately heard the wind and almost blocked Zhu Houwei in the imperial study and couldn't get out.

In the end, the original eleven clans continued to build one each, after all, experience is more trustworthy, and as for the remaining nineteen, the vassal kings almost didn't fight for the head......

In front of the interests of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, everyone is a clan, and we are all one ancestor, all of which do not exist!

You are the vassal king of the Taizu branch, I am the vassal king of the Taizong branch, what's the matter, the Taizong branch should be a head lower than the Taizu branch?

Inexistent!

In the end, it was Zhu Houwei who came forward to mediate to extinguish the tense clan flames.

Zhu Houwei's method is very simple, Taizu Branch, Taizong Branch, Renzong Branch, Xuanzong and Yingzong Branch, each vassal king will build five!

As for the non-existence of the Xian lineage, these are all close branches of the current royal family, and they have long been arranged by Zhu Houwei......

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