"Arrange people from the Foreign Intelligence Service to keep an eye on them." Liu Heng said, "Let's see what they plan to do next. A deputy commander in chief and a patrol censor. Even if they join forces, they won't be able to use any means on us. It would be too much.”
"Don't worry, sir. I have arranged people around Yang Hewei and Yang Guozhu. No matter what they do, people from the Foreign Intelligence Agency will find out immediately." Yang Yuan assured.
The Tiger Flag is already a huge thing in Datong.
As the external intelligence department of the Tiger-Character Banner, the Foreign Intelligence Bureau had spies all over the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. As Datong was the place where the Tiger-Character Banner started, the number of spies was even greater. It had already been achieved that every government office in Datong had a Tiger-Character Banner. The existence of secret agents.
Liu Heng nodded, turned to Zhao Wu and said, "Go and find Mr. Zhao."
"Yes." Zhao Wu agreed, turned and left.
Liu Heng said to Yang Yuan again: "You should go and do your own business. You don't have to stay by my side all the time."
Every day, a lot of intelligence from all over the country is gathered into the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. As the director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, Yang Yuan is not relaxed and is very busy every day.
"Yes, I'm resigning." Yang Yuan bowed and stepped back.
Liu Heng looked up at the scorching sun above his head, reached into his pocket and took out a palm-sized iron box, opened it and took out a dry cigarette rolled in white paper.
With the other hand, he pulled off the paper tip in front of the cigarette roll, then put one end of the cigarette into his mouth and held it in his mouth. He took out the fire break and lit the cigarette.
Take a deep breath of smoke, make a circle from your lungs, and slowly exhale a smoke ring.
Dry tobacco was sent by Zheng Tie from the sea. The Tiger Flag was first handed over to veteran farmers to plant in test fields to try to find land and planting methods suitable for growing dry tobacco.
Dry tobacco was still a new item in the north of Ming Dynasty.
However, this thing is very familiar to Liu Heng, and it has become very popular in later generations.
Liu Heng took another puff of the cigarette in his mouth.
With a sigh on his face.
It's a pity that there is no filter. When I first smoked it, I felt dizzy after one sip. It was too strong. It wasn't until I smoked it a few more times that I slowly got used to it.
The cigarette was finished in a few puffs, and the remaining piece of white paper without tobacco was spat on the ground.
"I've met my lord." Zhao Yutu came to Liu Heng.
"Have one!" Liu Heng handed the iron box containing the dry cigarette rolls in his hand to Zhao Yutu in front of him.
Zhao Yutu hurriedly shook his head to indicate that he would not smoke.
He didn't like the smell of dry cigarettes and couldn't understand why his elders liked such unpleasant smells.
"This is a good thing, but it's a pity that you are not so lucky." Liu Heng smiled, put away the iron box, and put it in his pocket.
Zhao Yutu frowned slightly and said: "Sir, I really don't understand how such a choking thing can become a good thing. You even asked us old farmers in Tiger Flag to specially grow this thing."
He doesn't like dry tobacco, and even hates it. He doesn't support his family's planting of these things from the bottom of his heart. Instead of growing dry tobacco in the ground, it would be more cost-effective to plant a few acres of land.
"You don't understand." Liu Heng smiled at Zhao Yutu and shook his head, then walked towards his signing room.
Zhao Yutu hurriedly followed and said, "I really don't understand. This thing cannot be eaten or drank. Growing this thing in the ground is a waste of land."
The signing room was right behind him, and Liu Heng walked inside after a few steps.
"Sit." Liu Heng pointed to the empty seat beside him, then returned to the seat behind the desk and sat down.
Zhao Yutu came to the empty seat, sat down, and looked at Liu Heng, waiting for an explanation.
After smoking, his mouth became dry easily. Liu Heng picked up the teapot on the table and took a sip of the boiled water in it.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. You will know the benefits of dry tobacco later." Liu Heng put down the teapot and said to Zhao Yutu with a smile.
It is true that dry tobacco should not be eaten or drunk, but he knew that the wealth this thing would bring to the Tiger Flag in the future would be no worse than food and ironware.
Even planting an acre of grain will not bring as much wealth as planting an acre of dry tobacco.
Hearing the explanation given by Liu Heng, Zhao Yutu frowned deeply and said: "Sir, we have spent so much manpower and material resources. If we are not sure that it will bring more benefits, I suggest not to plant dry tobacco."
Compared with dry tobacco, which cannot be eaten or drunk, he prefers to grow more food.
Disasters in various places are becoming more and more frequent, and the price of food has doubled and risen. As the deputy director of the Logistics Bureau of Tiger Character Banner, he hopes for the visible wealth of a variety of food.
"This stuff is addictive." Liu Heng took out a dry cigarette from the iron box and put it in front of his eyes and said, "Some people have begun to grow and sell it in some places in the south, but it is not large-scale yet."
Zhao Yutu's face suddenly changed and he said hurriedly: "Sir, since this thing is addictive, it should not be spread out. It should be destroyed immediately. Sir, you must not smoke it again."
As a scholar, he knew that in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was an addictive drug called Wushi Powder. Taking it would not only cause hallucinations, but also harm the body of the user.
When he heard that dry cigarettes are addictive, his first reaction was that dry cigarettes are also called Five Stone Powder.
"It's not that scary." Liu Heng waved his hand gently and said immediately, "Although dry tobacco is not a good thing, it does not cause much damage to the body. There is a saying that smoking and drinking can make you live ninety-nine."
Zhao Yutu's face darkened.
He had never heard of the saying that smoking and drinking could make you live ninety-nine.
Liu Heng put away the dry cigarette rolls in his hand, put them back into the iron box, and said: "Although dry cigarettes can be addictive, they are different from the five-stone powder in the Jin and Tang Dynasties. Mr. Zhao doesn't have to worry. Some people smoke them for a lifetime." There will be no problem for Hanyan to live to seven or eighty-one o'clock."
He was talking about future generations. As for the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people were considered long-lived if they could live to the age of forty.
"Your Excellency also said that dry tobacco can harm the body. For the sake of your health, I think you should stop smoking." Zhao Yutu advised.
Liu Heng is the irreplaceable leader of the Tiger Character Banner. It can be said that the Tiger Character Banner's achievements today are entirely due to Liu Heng's leadership.
As a member of the Tiger Flag, he didn't want to watch Liu Heng do something that would hurt his body.
"Let's not talk about the dry cigarettes. I asked Zhao Wu to find you because I have other things for you to deal with." Liu Heng did not want to continue to be entangled with Zhao Yutu about the dry cigarettes.
Huzi Banner has just started growing dry tobacco. He believes that when the financial path of dry tobacco is opened up, Zhao Yutu will change from hating dry tobacco to having a really good taste of dry tobacco.
