"These two girls are coming quickly, but why are they still empty-handed?" The only old man in the village sat in front of the fire, looked up, and waved with a smile, "Go, go, go home and get a pot or bag." ”

The two girls reached out and fanned the wind vigorously, still choking on the smell of smoke and coughing.

"Uncle, this, what is this going on?" Yingzi stopped coughing and asked.

Lao Xiucai smiled and said, "It's going to be the New Year, what do you say?" Make noodles, send pork, and eat dumplings! ”

"How much?" Ah Tao's eyes widened and lit up.

Lao Xiucai raised his slap and said, "Each family has five catties of noodles and ten catties of meat." ”

"Everyone, why not everyone?" Ah Tao smiled on her face and said mischievously: "I have a lot of family, so I don't have many hairs?" ”

"There are more than five people in the family, and for each additional one, add one catty." Lao Xiucai stroked his beard and said, "Add two catties of meat." ”

Yingzi looked at Ah Tao and smiled: "If you calculate it this way, the dumplings are enough to eat." ”

"Go home and get the pot!" Ah Tao pulled Yingzi and was about to go out.

Lao Xiucai hurriedly stopped, sent a note to the two girls, made a record in the notebook, and said: "If you take the house, go directly to the back room to get noodles and meat, so you won't have to choke on this house." ”

As he spoke, Lao Xiucai took out the cigarette pouch and pot again, filled it with cigarettes, and was so frightened that the two girls hurriedly ran away.

There was not much time, Yingzi rushed back first, and when he came to the back room, he saw Zhang Zhuzi cutting meat, and then weighed it piece by piece very seriously and tied it with hemp rope.

"Here we are." Zhang Zhuzi saw Yingzi, nodded with a smile, took the basin and weighed it, and then pointed to the pork tied with hemp rope, and said: "Pick it yourself, fat and thin can't be subdivided, it's not bad to have two catties." ”

Yingzi looked at it, picked a piece of fat and thin, and said with a smile: "This kind of meat-wrapped dumplings are fragrant, and they are full of oil in one bite." ”

Zhang Zhuzi smiled and nodded, weighed the noodles, and served them to Yingzi.

Yingzi hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Zhang, it's very troublesome to chop meat alone during the Chinese New Year. My father said that if he had time, he would come to eat dumplings at home. ”

Zhang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, looked at Yingzi blinking his eyes, turned around and took a piece of meat, handed it to Yingzi, and said with a smile: "Then you take my meat first, what about the noodles, I will send it when I have time." ”

Yingzi blinked, suddenly burst out laughing, and said happily: "Brother Zhang is a pig?" We don't dare to eat your meat! ”

Zhang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, and he also understood that what he said was ambiguous, so he couldn't help scratching his head and laughing.

"I'll go first." Yingzi suppressed her laughter, put down a piece of meat, and said, "Brother Zhang, you have to send it with a piece!" ”

Zhang Zhuzi hurriedly nodded and promised to send Yingzi out of the house. When he arrived at the door, he remembered something again and said: "The supply and marketing cooperatives in Fort Arthur are open, and they sell a lot of goods. ”

Yingzi smiled and said, "I know this, I want to go and see it tomorrow!" ”

After a pause, the girl looked at Zhang Zhuzi and asked, "Brother Zhang is free tomorrow, more than ten miles away, it is safe to walk with a companion." ”

Zhang Zhuzi nodded vigorously and said, "I'll go too, and I'll pay the disability retirement pension tomorrow!" ”

Yingzi pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and walked out of the house.

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The smoke curled in the room, and the plate was close to the window, and a crack was opened, although it was a little cold, but I still felt that it was better.

Kong Youde smoked tobacco with taste, very satisfied, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect the imperial court to even send this, this year is really comfortable!" ”

As he spoke, he looked up at Zhang Pan and said with a smile: "This is a good thing, refreshing, cold, and forgetful of worries!" ”

The history of tobacco in China can be traced back to the third year of Wanli, when tobacco was introduced to Fujian and other coastal areas from Luzon.

At first, the people of the Ming Dynasty called it "Danbai Gui" according to the transliteration. Later, it was called tobacco and alcohol, because smoking will have a fluttering feeling, just like drinking, so it is also called "dry wine".

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, tobacco was cultivated on a large scale, and smoking became popular in the army. Because the climate in the south is humid, smoking can remove moisture, and there are especially many soldiers in the south who smoke.

Later, after the habit of smoking spread to Tohoku, a new function of "keeping out the cold" was developed.

And the popularity of tobacco in the army also has its reasons. Because, for soldiers who are often under labor, exhaustion, and stress, smoking can play a role in analgesic, relaxing, and refreshing.

Under the stress of war and the stress of fear, military personnel needed to smoke cigarettes to relax and comfort themselves, a phenomenon that continued into World War I and World War II.

Especially during World War II, the armies of many countries listed tobacco as an official military supply. Some soldiers even said that it doesn't matter if they eat poorly, if they don't smoke or smoke, they won't even be able to fight.

In the history of the late Ming Dynasty, there was also such a thing.

Chongzhen once issued a smoking ban, but at that time, Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the military department who was fighting hard with the Houjin in Liaodong, said that "Liaodong soldiers, love this as if they were dying", which led to the ban on smoking and ended without a problem.

The reason why Chongzhen wants to ban smoking is not because he realizes that smoking is harmful to his health. Rather, it is the increase in the area of non-governmental tobacco cultivation, which has affected the cultivation of grain and the state's fiscal revenue.

Zhu Youxiao has his own analysis and judgment on this, compared with the casualties of the brutal war and the famine that lasted for decades, the harm of tobacco to the health of the people and the reduction of life expectancy are simply negligible.

Therefore, after indiscriminately cutting down and destroying the environment, and killing whales to destroy the ecology, he is ready to do something that attracts people's revilation - tobacco monopoly.

Since it is difficult to forbid, why not let the state control it, become a source of wealth, and do some other undertakings that benefit the country and the people?

For example, we will continue to reduce agricultural taxes so that the burden on farmers who dig in the soil will be lighter; For example, we should increase investment in the military and build a world-leading and powerful armed force.

Of course, the emperor decided that there must be a warning on the cigarettes produced in the future: "Smoking is harmful to health, and minors are not allowed to smoke."

Although this did not reduce the torture of Zhang Pan and others who had to endure second-hand smoke.

Regarding Kong Youde's praise, Zhang Pan shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I can't afford it, Brother Kong is casual." ”

Kong Youde smiled, took a few more puffs, and then knocked off the cigarette ash and got up, "If Dongyu wants to launch it, it will also be around the New Year's Festival." We don't have to worry too much here, I'm afraid they won't come to give away heads. If it is the headquarters of the Dongjiang River, or the western part of Liaoning, we must be prepared to attack and contain it. ”

Zhang Pan nodded and said, "It's mainly a field battle, we must be fully prepared." The construction of the van car will continue. ”

"The weather aspect is also a consideration." Kong Youde added: "The wind and snow have a great impact on the musket. ”

Zhang Pan bowed his head slightly and said, "There will always be unfavorable weather, and the enemy will also take advantage of this." Hand-to-hand combat in close combat is unavoidable, and soldiers cannot be made into the habit of not being able to fight without muskets. ”

Kong Youde smiled and said: "The melee hand-to-hand combat of the Right Association is quite reasonable, and this is what is important for training." ”

"Brother Kong likes cavalry more, right?" Zhang Pan said with a smile: "There are rules and regulations in training, and if you have time, you can help someone to train the people of the Left Association." ”

Kong Youde waved his hand and said humbly: "You don't have to be so polite about your own affairs. As he spoke, he got up and said, "Today's salary, let's also show our faces and give a show to the overseer." ”

Zhang Pan smiled, dressed and said: "In the past, there was no place to spend money, but this time there is a place to spend money." ”

"In addition to alcohol, so-and-so buys tobacco." Kong Youde shook the small pipe in his hand and said with a smile: "This little thing is also exquisitely made, and it is worth a penny of silver." ”

Zhang Pan shook his head with a smile, walked out of the house with Kong Youde, and took his own soldiers to leave.

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