The imperial study room was filled with smoke, and several cabinet ministers coughed a few times from time to time, and their faces were flushed......

Zhu Houwei spit out a few smoke rings, skillfully flicked the cigarette ash in the newly made glass jar and said: "How familiar, and there is a little unfamiliar taste......

The tobacco leaves in the Imperial Garden were successfully picked, and the ten acres of tobacco in the Huangzhuang have also been harvested, and then after a series of processes, repeated trials and countless times, and finally under the approval of Zhu Houwei, a senior tobacco taster, began to be fried in batches.

As for the cigarette holder, it is dispensable, but Zhu Houwei is still used to cigarettes with cigarette holders, but the cigarette holders used now are not the products of natural rubber after vulcanization, after all, there are not many of them, and they have to be used as strategic materials.

The material of this cigarette holder is cotton, and after the cotton is crushed, it is compacted and rolled in the paper mouthpiece, which becomes the filter mouthpiece of the Ming version, and the effect is definitely almost good, but it is better than nothing.

Looking at the emperor's expression of enjoyment, several ministers were quite speechless, what the hell is this, choking to death......

Several important ministers were summoned by the emperor, and now they don't know what to do, so it is difficult to come to see the emperor breathing smoke, which is too......

"Do you want to have one?" Zhu Houwei pointed to the neatly stacked cigarettes in the wooden cigarette box in front of him and asked with a smile.

Yang Yiqing stiffened his head and said: "The ministers have thanked Your Majesty, but the ministers are old, but they are not blessed......"

Zhu Houwei laughed and said: "Yang Aiqing's words are wrong, this cigarette is a good thing, it can relieve people's sorrows and make people forget their troubles like fine wine, but if you drink too much wine, the hangover is even more uncomfortable, how can there be a cigarette to be happy."

Several ministers were full of disbelief, and the emperor had fun with them.

Zhu Houwei can be regarded as free, he smokes himself, and asks several ministers to smoke second-hand smoke, what is the purpose of poisoning it to death!

For promotion, of course!

The emperor's ministers took the lead in swallowing clouds and spitting out fog, and they didn't believe that it couldn't be promoted all over the world!

This is a huge snowflake silver, if the emperor's ministers don't smoke, then this cigarette will be promoted to the world, maybe it can be criticized by future generations, but even the emperor takes the lead, is it possible that the emperor wants to poison himself?

Inexistent......

"I know you don't believe it, but it's okay, you'll believe it soon." Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "I will promote tobacco to the world, and the royal family will exclusively sell it, and if the people make counterfeits, they will be severely punished!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of several important ministers suddenly became a little solemn, who didn't know that the current emperor was the reincarnation of the unprofitable and unprofitable business god, and there were many industries under his name, but there were so many emerging products, and the emperor either found a spokesperson to sell them among the people, or he was a franchise like a lottery ticket and a money bank.

The Royal Bank is not the only private bank, huh...... The bank has been renamed a bank......

Although the scale of the local wealthy gentry is not large, there are still a lot of them, but with the strong influence of the Royal Bank and the strong reputation of the royal family, those small banks have almost closed down because they have no room to live.

The rest that have not collapsed are basically struggling to support, and it is only a matter of time before they go out of business.

In other words, the emperor did not prohibit the existence of money banks, and the royal family did not ask for a franchise, just relying on influence and credibility to make money banks everywhere die......

As for the lottery......

In fact, the ministers did not have a clear understanding of how much money the bank made, because the bank belonged to the royal family, and the financial system of the government could not penetrate at all, and the people who presided over the banks in various places were all new talents trained by the emperor himself, and had an extremely complete financial and auditing system, which was more perfect than the tax department of the Ming Dynasty, and the supervisory agency was also stronger.

But the lottery,The ministers know,Now the lottery station in the north and south has reached thousands,The daily sales of lottery tickets are really a tower of sand,The silver flow of the convergence is really terrifying.

Officials of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Taxation have actually simply calculated the ratio of lottery tickets for sale and rewards, and it can be concluded that the ratio of rewards and bonuses will not exceed three or seven at most!

In other words, the emperor will earn at least seven million taels from selling one million taels of lottery tickets!

How much money does each lottery sell for now? It will not be less than 500,000 taels, it will be 1.5 million in a month, and 18 million in a year! The net profit is about 13 million taels!

This is just the north and south direct subordination, if it is issued, how many will there be in the whole territory?

It is conservatively estimated that every year the emperor will get more than 30 million taels of net profit from the lottery!

In one fell swoop, it surpassed the current emperor's maximum income, Yanzheng!

What is a profiteering, this is the real profiteering!

Four words to describe it, terrifying!

The lottery is not a royal franchise, in the face of such huge profits, it is impossible to say that the wealthy gentry outside are not tempted, they didn't think of such a business before, but now the royal family has played this business, of course they want a piece of the pie, but they soon found that two practical problems are in front of them.

One is that the reputation of the royal family is too good, after all, there is the credit of paper money as an endorsement, and people in the world can not believe in the royal family, but absolutely believe in the emperor.

There is no stock market in these years, and if there is, if Emperor Jiajing hangs up, it is estimated that the stock of the royal industry will fall below the freezing point in an instant.

The people believe in the emperor's credibility, and they are not worried that they will not be able to cash in if they win the prize......

This is definitely not a joke, but it is very likely that even if the gentry guarantees it is useless, the people believe that the small prize can be won, but the big prize can only be hehe.

That's credibility!

In addition, it is anti-counterfeiting, like paper money, lottery tickets also need a high degree of anti-counterfeiting technology, and this set of technology in the entire Ming Dynasty is only in Tongzhou and Huzhou's Yongwangfu, Yongwangfu's electroplating anti-counterfeiting and banknote printing technology is still new, the workers inside are all death row prisoners who don't want to go out in this life, and the outside is a new army of guards with loaded guns!

Want to obtain electroplating anti-counterfeiting,That's basically no different from dreaming,Of course, it's not that you can't sell lottery tickets without technology,It's just that the procedures are more cumbersome,Cumbersome procedures represent low efficiency,Plus the people's distrust,Folk lottery does not have much soil for survival at all.

Money and lottery tickets, the two profiteering industries, the emperor did not have a monopoly, tobacco actually for a monopoly?

If there is no cat in this, the ministers dare to take out their eyeballs and kick them as balls.

But they can't understand the mystery inside, because the emperor is smoking the so-called cigarettes that choke people in front of their eyes, and the emperor wants to sell this thing, will anyone else buy it?

The ministers didn't believe it, but they lost too much in the hands of the emperor, and they really didn't dare to believe it.

Yang Yiqing plans to find out, after all, he is in charge of the Ministry of Finance, and it is necessary to see if he can distribute some soup to the foreign court!

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