The three men of Mr. Qing just wanted to wake up these Eight Banners dudes who talk nonsense and daydream every day, but unexpectedly, this explanation turned out to be an extremely huge smuggling business!
Absinthe is hallucinogenic and not easily addictive. Isn't this the best substitute for opium?
Why did so many people smoke cigarettes in the late Qing Dynasty? It cannot just be attributed to foreigners selling in the market, the deeper reason is because the society at that time was completely rigid!
People have no opportunity or method to change their own destiny, all channels are closed!
Not to mention the Han people, hundreds of millions of Han people only compete for hundreds of places in the imperial examinations every year. You can imagine the cruelty of this competition!
The Manchus naturally did not trust the Han people as soldiers. In the later period, when the Han people were forced to take control of the military, there were restrictions everywhere. Except for a few people such as Zeng Guofan who were able to rise to prominence, the rest were just cannon fodder in the eyes of the court!
The Han people were miserable, but the Manchus were actually not that much better!
Xiao Letian once said that the Manchus are a big racial concept, and the Eight Banners are just a military group within the Manchu race!
I think before the Manchus entered the customs, although it was said that all the people were soldiers, no regime could have no logistics and no productive people!
Like Baishan and Heishui, there are many Manchu tribes that did not fight in those days and did not take human lives in their hands. These people were called wild Jurchens in history!
What is wild? In fact, they were just ordinary Manchu tribes like Nurhachi's tribes at first. Their bloodline has been passed down for thousands of years, and no one is more noble than the other!
It was just a war that changed the fate of both parties. The group that robbed entered the border and turned into a military group called the Eight Banners!
Those who did not participate stayed in their hometown and became a huge group of wild Jurchens. Now under the command of King Xiang Shaolong of the Far East, these wild Jurchens also accounted for a large proportion of the population!
These wild girls really have no chance of promotion. The Eight Banners Group will not accept them to eat meat together, and they will not even share a sip of the soup!
And is the Eight Banners necessarily monolithic? Not really!
In the first few years after the Manchus entered the customs, the Central Plains was desolate and sparsely populated. In addition, it was necessary to put down the San Francisco Rebellion, so the Eight Banners military group was still very prosperous!
Because there are battles to be fought, lives are lost, soldiers at the bottom also have room for promotion, and by accumulating military exploits, they can also be granted wives and wives!
But from the late Kangxi period to the Qianlong period, the world was peaceful without too many wars, and the population grew and the Eight Banners became larger and larger!
At this time, the imperial court's attitude towards the Eight Banners also changed. At first, they thought it was a reliance on running the country, but now it feels like a burden!
Eat so much, give birth to so many children, and then something happens every day! In order to solve the stubborn problem of the Eight Banners, the bannermen were evacuated from the capital to foreign enemies in the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong!
There were even some groups who were rewarded with money and land and then moved back to resettle outside the customs. That might be the buyout of seniority during the Qing Dynasty!
Of course, the vast majority of bannermen will not be fooled. They just live in the capital and in Mancheng all over the country, and they will not leave no matter how you drive them away!
Even if you cut off my hardcore crops, I won’t leave or go back to my hometown!
These bannermen who have been bought out of their seniority will naturally from now on break away from the Eight Banners, a group that promotes military promotion, and they can only live their lives as fate dictates!
Finally, let’s take a look at these people who die in the Eight Banners Group and never come out. Are they really doing well? Of course, it is definitely better than the Han people who face the loess and turn their backs to the sky, sweat dripping and falling into pieces!
But there are people there who will be content, and idle people will cause trouble!
The imperial court has rules. Bannermen can only serve as soldiers or study as officials. They are not allowed to do business, nor are they allowed to be doctors, craftsmen, etc.!
Such a ban can be said to have locked up the lives of most bannermen. Not so many people are born to be officials or generals.
Many Eight Banners disciples spend their whole lives doing nothing!
And even if you are a promising young man, there are many pitfalls in the court. There are too few official positions and too many people waiting to become officials. You still want to be an official even if you don’t have money?
Is Mr. Qing very capable? Known as Xiao Li Guang, didn't he also serve as the guard leader of the Qingxi Mausoleum for several years?
If Xiao Letian hadn't opened the door for him, even if he was a descendant of Fukang'an, he would never be able to become a powerful official!
Depressed, the entire Qing Dynasty, from the Han people to the Manchus and even the bannermen, were under high pressure, and faced with this kind of depression that could not be vented.
Some people started a revolution because they wanted to rebel, while others were addicted to drinking, sex and wealth and waiting to die. What about the more people who couldn't even enjoy drinking, sex and wealth?
He didn't dare to rebel, and he didn't have much money to enjoy himself. In the end, he couldn't vent the pressure... so he naturally became a guest at the opium den!
There is no inner ghost in my heart, and no matter how outside you try to seduce me, you won’t fall for it!
Opium was rampant in the late Qing Dynasty. There were deep social reasons, and it was not simply attributed to foreign dumping!
But the common people in the late Qing Dynasty were not stupid either. They were addicted to opium and there were many examples of people who were prodigal. This is something that we really have to guard against!
But today, the absinthe incident that Cai Bixia inadvertently caused suddenly opened up a huge market gap!
Too many addicts need this kind of soft drug that is not harmful but can also be addictive and hallucinogenic. This market is unprecedentedly huge. Too many people in the late Qing Dynasty need this stuff to relieve stress!
From this moment on, many foreign and Chinese import houses suddenly had some mysterious people coming to inquire about the details of this absinthe, and many people even expressed their intention to buy it!
Cai Bixia really didn't lie. The Cai family also has a business that does import and export trade. Some foreign goods from Europe are sold in Asia through their family!
Seeing that there was a market for this absinthe, several foreign companies, led by the Cai family, began smuggling absinthe!
It was not just smuggling. When the absinthe market opened in the Qing Dynasty, these people began to set up factories on Chinese territory to brew absinthe themselves!
It is not a high-tech product that needs to be kept secret. With the ingenuity of Chinese winemakers and the recruitment of a group of European winemakers, the entire process was quickly learned!
A hangover among four Manchu princes led to a huge absinthe market in the future. This is really a huge joke!
"It's hopeless. These bannermen are really hopeless..."
Shi Shan, Shi Shui and Cheng Huai looked at the bannermen asking questions and put on their hats angrily and left the teahouse!
"Let's go! Go to the Yamen to see the third master...I feel sick when I see these people!"
