Chapter 967: Lord A's First Pot of Gold
"Your Majesty's conversation this time will definitely go down in history and become an important historical material for future historians to study His Majesty's life and the new changes in the Qing Dynasty at the end of the 70s of the 18th century."
Looking at His Majesty the Emperor who was opening the skylight with Tianjin officials to say bright words, Lao Ah was not only moved but also moved, and silently took out a notebook to carefully record every word that His Majesty the Emperor said to Tianjin officials, lest he miss a word.
"Of course, I believe that this conversation of the young master will be recognized by later generations as a major turning point in the Qing Dynasty's move towards strength, well, the kind of major turning point in Waterloo."
Although he didn't smoke, he still took the big front door that Lao Ah handed him.
Daqianmen Cigarette Factory was founded last month in the Qianmen Building of Jingshi, focusing on the manufacture and sales of paper-rolled cigarettes.
This cigarette factory also obtained the first cigarette production license in the Qing Dynasty issued by the Ministry of Households, and the registered cigarette factory was called Jingshi Cigarette Factory, and the cigarette name was "Daqianmen".
When the tobacco factory was opened, many princes and ministers in Beijing went to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, not only the lion dance team in the south, but also the dragon dance team in the north, which was very lively.
I heard that there were more than 300 tables at the banquet alone.
There is no other reason, but because the big boss behind this cigarette factory is the Manchurian-born Prime Minister and Vice Minister in front of him - Sakda Asha.
However, according to the grapevine, Master Ah still specially visited the helmsman of the Jingshi Beggars Gang and gave the gang leader Zhang Jia a red envelope of 5,000 taels to ensure that the rich gang leader did not send people to make trouble.
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Lao Fu's side is busy annexing the illegal beggar gang organizations in Henan, Shandong, and Jiangsu provinces, and is bent on making a lot of money and taking a share of the great development of industry, agriculture, and commerce in the Qing Dynasty, so although he looks down on Asiha, an incompetent waste, he really didn't let people make trouble in the face of the six emperors.
Such a big matter must have reached the ears of the Six Emperors.
"Lao Ah has a better nose than a dog, you are not as good as him, but even I have to admire him, because he is at the forefront of opening up, and he has accurately grasped the rhythm of industrialization, and he deserves to make this first pot of gold."
After hearing that Lao Ah had set up a cigarette factory in Qianmen, Jia Liu was very angry at first, because Lao Ah was obviously grabbing meat from his six emperors' bowls to eat, and he knew that he was going to allocate this trillion-dollar value of industry to his own bowl.
But when I think about it, the market needs to prosper, and no industry should be dominated by one industry, on the contrary, competition can make consumers have better choices and benefits.
The consumer goods market of cigarettes is very promising, and the total number of smokers in the Qing Dynasty is probably as high as 20 or 30 million, and the flag people in Beijing are even more likely to smoke cigarettes.
From Huang Taiji and Dolgon at the beginning of the country to the current fourth devil Qianlong, they are all a bunch of old smoking guns.
It can be said that there is a big drop of votes.
It's a bit embarrassing to think that as an emperor and competing with his courtiers.
Therefore, Jia Liu didn't ask Ding Qing to go to Lao Ah for trouble, and wrote an advertising word for Lao Ah for the first time in front of the door.
The advertising slogan says - "The big man has to smoke the front door!" ”
As soon as this advertising slogan came out, good guys, all officials of the Jingshi who have a certain grade will go to the old Ajia's cigarette factory to order cigarettes, and it is said that the orders are scheduled until August next year.
The old man couldn't stop laughing.
In order to completely make his cigarette reputation known and become the first choice of smokers in Beijing and even in the Qing Dynasty, Lao A also cunningly supplied cigarettes to the cabinet, ministries, institutes, temples and other units.
The kind that is available for free.
Of course, in private, he instructed the units and subordinate agencies in his charge to use Daqianmen as the designated guest of the yamen to entertain cigarettes.
However, Lao A is very good, the cigarette tax that should be paid to the Shuntian Mansion is a lot, and the wages that should be paid to the workers are also penny, and the tobacco factory manager is instructed to receive warmly no matter which yamen comes to fight the autumn breeze, and what sanitation fees, fire prevention fees, sewer construction fees, area security fees, etc. should be collected by the Shuntianfu and the infantry army commander Yamen, there is no need to come to the door, and they will clock in advance every month.
Quite good at being a person.
Of course, in addition to the six emperors themselves, who would dare to fight the autumn wind of the big red people in the capital.
However, the latest news is that a factory is being built in a certain area in Desheng Gate, which seems to be also to produce cigarette rolls, and invited many art experts in the market to design cigarette boxes, and hired industry talents from other places to join with high salaries.
It is said that this cigarette factory is going to produce high-end cigarettes.
It is Lao A's big front door that sells for three big sons in the market, and the cigarettes in this cigarette factory are sold for as much as fifteen big sons.
Why is it so expensive?
Just look at people's advertising slogans - "The emperor smokes a cigarette, don't you always have one?" ”
In addition to the construction of Deshengmen, a high-end cigarette factory with a background in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, many well-informed officials in Beijing have begun to privately negotiate with businessmen about cooperating in the establishment of a cigarette factory.
It won't be long before the tobacco market will usher in a blowout.
At present, Jia Liu has no idea of imposing a tobacco tax, because it is necessary to develop and mature the paper cigarette market first.
When the industry matures and the taste is rich, it will inevitably be promoted abroad, and it is logical to introduce a tobacco tax at that time.
If done well, the tobacco industry will be one of the pillars of the country's fiscal revenue.
Jia Liu hopes that China's cigarettes can really go to the world, and all the goods like Sanwu, Camel, and Marlboro will be defeated.
To achieve this prospect, you need a strong army to help.
If you don't buy my cigarettes, your conscience will be greatly bad.
In front is the Taoist priest in the foundation building period, and in the back is the army in the Jindan period, and it depends on whether you can carry the beating.
If you buy my cigarettes, you will naturally be friends, Lao Tie.
Don't have the money to buy it?
It doesn't matter, you just trade it for something.
What is International Trade?
That's it.
To this end, Jia Liu privately formulated a 30-year plan for the development of the tobacco industry.
There must be at least a few hundred ironclad ships, 10,000 cannons, and more than a million powerful troops, plus a small train that "all of them" smoke.
At present, the first pot of gold in the tobacco industry is really made by Asha.
There's no way, who makes people's ideological consciousness high.
Seeing that Lao Ah took out a lighter and lit it for him, even if he didn't like to smoke it, he still put his head up, and then followed the young master's example and patted it lightly on Lao A's fire-lit hand.
I took a puff but it was a little choking, and I wasn't used to it.
"I believe that through this conversation, many cognitive problems that have long plagued and constrained the minds of our subjects in the Qing Dynasty will be solved, and Your Majesty's emphasis on economic development is based on the actual situation of the Qing Dynasty, is far-sighted, stands at the height of the times, and is scientific."
Lao Ah summed it up very well, and the papermaking of this piece of theory is gradually about to catch up with Lao Ji.
Zhu Zhu nodded: "The young master's new views on the future development of the Qing Dynasty, the new ideas he said, and the new vision he created are indeed of epoch-making significance, after today, not only Tianjin's industry and commerce will develop rapidly, but the entire Qing Dynasty will also usher in the climax of modern construction that the young master said!" ”
After hearing this, Lao Ah was solemn: "Lord Yang is worthy of being Your Majesty's confidant, and his perception of His Majesty is that Ah Mou can't beat the horse and drop it." ”
The bolt pillar was embarrassed: "Zhongtang, you are also worthy of the imperial court, I am inferior to you in many aspects." ”
"What is there to lose, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, for the sake of Your Majesty, we should continue to make progress."
After speaking, Lao Ah Chao glanced at His Majesty the Emperor, who was talking endlessly, and then quietly stuffed a dry stock book accounting for 20% of the tobacco factory into the bolt pocket.
Zhuzhu felt that this was not good, and just about to refuse, the old man said: "Lord Yang can not accept it, but I can't not send it, and it is not interesting, it is a little meaning." ”