"Because there are so many smokers on the market now, this imported product is really magical! Once you smoke this product, you will become addicted easily. After becoming addicted, if you don't smoke for a period of time, you will feel itchy all over your body, irritable, and if you feel depressed , let alone smoke this thing!"
"Moreover, the masters of our machinery factory have also developed a new cigarette rolling machine, which can make an extremely exquisite cigarette. We call it rolling cigarettes."
As he spoke, Bi Ziyan took out a box of cigarettes and placed it in front of Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, please take a look, this is it! Is it more elegant?"
Zhu Youxiao took a look at the cigarettes, which were already compared to later cigarettes, but did not have filters, and said: "Wrapping them in white paper and printing some patterns will indeed make them more beautiful, but after all, they are addictive."
With that said, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "I have long issued a decree to strictly prohibit Wuxiang. You will not mix Wuxiang into it. Once you smoke it, it will be very harmful and difficult to quit. It will harm the future of our country." .”
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, this is just tobacco, and we don't dare to ban it. Moreover, I have tested it and found that if you want to quit it, you can still quit it. In addition, Wuxiang can be banned now, and this tobacco is widely cultivated. It has indeed been widely used by the people, and it cannot be banned. It is better to use it for national benefit."
Bi Ziyan said.
At this time, Gong Yonggu couldn't help but stretched his hand into the box and picked up a cigarette.
Bi Ziyan suddenly glared.
Gong Yonggu hurriedly threw away the cigarette and smiled: "Your Majesty, Mr. Bi is right. It would be a pity if this is not used as an official benefit!"
Zhu Youxiao also saw it. After nodding, he asked Gong Yonggu: "Are you addicted?"
"I had already smoked enough before the meeting, but now that I saw it, I subconsciously wanted to pick one up. Your Majesty, would you like to try it? Can I light it for you?"
As he spoke, Gong Yonggu took out a matchbox that had been produced in Ming Dynasty and said, "I would like you to smell it."
Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "No need!"
Then, Colonel Zhu You said to Bi Ziyan: "Let's talk about oil."
"Yes! Our R&D Institute of Datong Machinery Factory is trying to use the oil mentioned in Shen Kuo's "Meng Xi Bi Tan" as automobile fuel, and has come to some conclusions. Therefore, I feel that this oil may be like coal in the future, which is what our Ming Dynasty needs most. Resources should be controlled for official gain!"
Bi Ziyan replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said to Lu Xiangsheng and Wen Tiren: "Write it down as well. After returning to Beijing, we will prepare to handle this matter. When the time comes, Bi Aiqing and relevant personnel will go to Beijing again to discuss this matter together."
"According to the order!"
Then, Zhu Youxiao took Bi Ziyan to the factory outside and started walking around. While walking around, he talked to Bi Ziyan about the past and exchanged greetings:
“This time I came to Jiangnan for the second time and found that the people of Ming Dynasty still don’t have the idea of expanding outwards. They still only focus on the homeland and want to gain wealth by freely exploiting the people of this country.
The behavior of some Jiangnan scholars made this point clear to me. Therefore, in the future, the court will have to take action to make profits from foreign countries and enrich the country! We can’t count on the people! "
"The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, a prosperous population, and is extremely wealthy. The consumption of the powerful and bureaucrats alone is unmatched by overseas countries. Naturally, wealthy private businessmen are more willing to make money domestically than to seek far away places. In addition, the geographical environment has caused the people of our country to Thousands of years of habit, resettlement and overseas expansion are things that are done only when forced. Such a situation cannot be changed overnight. It does have to be organized by the court. It is difficult for the people to expand externally in a spontaneous and organized manner. "
Bi Ziyan replied.
"Well! It seems that only when the outside world becomes our homeland and the local people become our Han people's territory, will they be willing to be aggressive!"
Zhu Youxiao nodded solemnly and said.
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"Kill them all! Leave no one alive! If you don't accept Chinese culture, you don't deserve to live in this world!"
In the Mengmi area of Myanmar, Ma Xianglin, who was appointed chieftain because of his meritorious service, suppressed bandits for the imperial court and promoted the sinicization policy, was ordering the execution of all the local stubborn who refused to sinicize and resisted and went into the mountains to become bandits.
The Ming Dynasty was overpopulated. In the Mengmi area ruled by Ma Xianglin, there were many Han, Miao and Dai people who came here from the southwest to work in mining.
What's more, there are many natives in the local area who have accepted Chineseization, so the labor force is very abundant, and naturally there is no need to retain those who refuse Chineseization.
In doing so, Ma Xianglin was also fulfilling the emperor's request from Zhu Youxiao, which was to promote Sinicization in the newly occupied areas to complete the unification of civilization.
The Ming Dynasty is still led by the state and is promoting the expansion of civilization.
Because the private sector does not have strong force or sufficient motivation to expand automatically, even after expansion, it still has no ambition to annex the local area.
For example, a local force as powerful as Zheng Zhilong in history, although it already had the capital to fight against the imperial court, was still willing to accept the imperial court's recruitment and become a small guerrilla general, and even later gave up its armed forces and surrendered to the Manchus. He even took the initiative to go to Beijing, but ended up with a bad ending.
After Zhu Youxiao talked with Bi Ziyan and left Jiangnan, he issued a new edict. The content of the edict was to require officials in the newly opened territories to continue to use the power of the imperial court to carry out more active civilization expansion and resource plunder.
Undoubtedly, this will allow Ma Xianglin to implement a stricter Sinicization policy in his Mengmi area.
"Sir, our ancestor is seriously ill. You'd better ask the court to allow you to return to Sichuan for a visit. I'll stay here."
But when Ma Xianglin received the latest instructions from the emperor, he also received a letter from home, and his wife Zhang Fengyi said a word by his side.
"good!"
Ma Xianglin nodded, took his wife into his arms, and said: "Remember not to be merciful. Once the disobedient ones are eliminated, those of us in Shidui who have not yet been assigned fields can come here to allocate fields."
"Well, don't worry!"
Zhang Fengyi smiled.
And Ma Xianglin kissed his wife who had a lot of gray hair in front of him.
In the early years of the Apocalypse, when they were still newlyweds, they entered the capital to participate in forming the first powerful force available to the Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
Until now, when they were old and white, they were guarding the new kingdom for the empire. The two of them could be regarded as holding hands together and witnessing the great changes of the Apocalypse Dynasty for more than thirty years.
Ma Xianglin never imagined that one day, he would travel thousands of miles across the battlefield in his life. He endured the severe cold in the far north and fought hand-to-hand with the Cossacks. He also jumped over cliffs in the sweltering jungle and barbarians. He even rode thousands of miles in the northwest desert. , riding alone and chasing until the rising sun turns into sunset.
When he received permission from the court to remove his armor and return to his hometown, he saw that the places he and his relatives and friends had fought in the past had been chopped into pieces by the steel knives in their hands. Many traffic arteries in the Han area had been turned into commercial areas. In the prosperous town, many Han people suddenly appeared here to do business or open various workshops.
Ma Xianglin knew that he had not entered Yunnan yet, but he already felt as if he had returned to China.
And because of this, he couldn't help but smile knowingly, and became even more certain that His Majesty the Emperor was right to let them use the power of the imperial court to promote Chineseization in the newly opened areas.
"Mr. Chengguo is seriously ill! Next, we will change our route to Sichuan and will not return to Beijing for the time being."
Zhu Youxiao, who was on a tour to Huguang, immediately decided to go to Sichuan himself after receiving the news that Qin Liangyu was seriously ill.
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