"Thank you, County Lord. After this junior enters the academy, I will definitely write a letter and send it to my brother, saying that the County Lord has taken great care of me, and urging him to have more good relations with Lantian, and to ensure Lantian's interests as much as possible in Yunnan."

Mu Tianliu raised his hands and said to Li Chaosheng. Li Chaosheng looked at Mu Tianliu and smiled and said, "Thank you very much. Okay, Jiaping and I still have a few words to say. Please wait in the living room for a moment."

, when we are done, let Jiaping accompany you to the academy."

"Well, okay, we'll see you later, the county magistrate."

Mu Tianliu handed over his hand again, then pushed the door open and went out. His own soldiers took him to the living room to sit. Watching Mu Tianliu go out, Wang Jiaping said: "This Mu Tianliu is good at everything, just here."

Prince Mu has developed a character that puts his eyes higher than his head. Even if he talks to the county magistrate,..."

Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, the academy will teach him how to be a human being. Now Kuangdian can persist for a while after the academy is suppressed, hahaha..."

After hearing this, Wang Jiaping said: "What the county magistrate said is true. These students today are much better nourished than I was at that time. Yesterday I went to their cafeteria and found that they had eggs and braised pork for dinner. This

In those days we could only eat good food on holidays.”

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said with emotion: "Yes, the conditions now have improved a lot compared to those back then, but the ability of students to endure hardships now is much different from what you had back then. There is nothing we can do about it.

When you were studying, your family was very poor. As long as you didn't study, you would continue to farm and live like a cow for generations, so you work extra hard."

"But now students' parents, some of whom are in business, some of whom have made a fortune, come to the college one by one, which is the icing on the cake, so they lose their fighting spirit, and they look naturally soft and lose their momentum."

Li Chaosheng said, and Wang Jiaping nodded in agreement and said, "By the way, County Lord, I brought you a gift when I came back this time."

"oh?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Wang Jiaping and was curious about what he could bring for him. What are the characteristics of Yunnan now, flower cakes?

As Li Chaosheng was thinking about this, Wang Jiaping said: "Your Majesty, please take a look."

As he spoke, Wang Jiaping took a wooden box from behind him and opened it. Inside was crushed tobacco leaves. Li Chaosheng's eyes lit up and he said, "Tobacco leaves?"

Wang Jiaping said: "We just planted them this year. Your Majesty, look at the quality and toughness. They are all top quality. This Yunnan is really like what you said, Mr. County. It is not a quick and easy place to grow food. But,

This tobacco leaf is absolutely the best to grow."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng took out a pipe pot from the wooden box and said to Gu Zi with a smile: "Give it some decoration and I'll have a taste."

After hearing this, Gu Zi hesitated for a moment, but still listened to Li Chaosheng, pretended to be a little bit for Li Chaosheng, and then lit it.

"Cough cough cough..."

Li Chaosheng took a puff and then coughed. It was really strong. Maybe he couldn't smoke, so he choked on the first puff. He waved his hand and asked Gu Zi to take the pipe away. Li Chaosheng said: "I'm not used to smoking."

, I’m not used to smoking, but I don’t have to worry about the sales of this thing.”

Tobacco leaf is a new species. It was introduced to China during the Wanli period. It was originally a niche product, but its addictive nature made it an excellent market among the people.

Where there is a market, there is a demand. When Li Chaosheng discovered tobacco leaves, it was not long before Lantian had enough food to eat. At that time, Lantian farmland reforms encouraged people to grow some cash crops after retaining enough food fields to sell to support their families.

It was at this time that a major incident occurred in Languan Town. Zhao, a large grain farmer in Languan Town, planted all the 100 acres of land he contracted into tobacco leaves. The next year, he made a fortune selling tobacco leaves.

After making money, he began to contract more land to plant tobacco leaves. When other places saw Zhao's condition, they were immediately ready to abandon their farmland and plant tobacco instead.

This matter was later reported to the local chiefs by local people. When the chiefs heard the news, they immediately felt that this matter was no ordinary trivial matter. According to this expansion rate, I am afraid that Lantian will soon have no other cash crops and only the remaining

Now that tobacco leaves are gone, will the people still eat fruits, pears, peaches, and fresh vegetables? Will everyone buy a pack of cigarettes and smoke?

This matter was quickly sent to Li Chaosheng's desk. Li Chaosheng knew that the matter was serious. Tobacco must not be controlled by the people. It is a huge profit and easy to cause harm. You must know that even if future generations

, Tobacco is also a national monopoly, and tobacco can bring trillions of dollars in revenue to the country every year, which can be used as part of the national tax revenue.

There is a famous saying in later generations, if you don't smoke, and I don't smoke, who will build an airplane for my family?

Now that the people of Lantian have become wealthy, if they rashly increase the tax burden, they will definitely encounter resistance, so they can use another method to harvest, such as tobacco.

Tobacco is harmful to the human body, but it is not as harmful as imagined. After all, there are not a few people in later generations who smoke and drink without leaving their hands, and there are not a few who live to ninety-one hundred. Some people soaked wolfberry in a thermos cup every day and died in their forties.

There are no longer a few, so this thing can be used.

But this thing must be controlled by the government and must not affect the agriculture of Lantian. After understanding this, Li Chaosheng immediately held the first tobacco conference in Lantian. At the conference, Li Chaosheng pointed out several points. First, it is forbidden to cultivate tobacco in any form among the people.

, Zhao must be given an administrative warning and financial penalty for this incident.

It must be ensured that tobacco is never allowed to be grown on any piece of land in Lantian. If it must be planted, it must be approved by the government for planting, and the location of the planting must not affect agriculture or affect Lantian's grain output.

Secondly, tobacco needs to be grown by the government, and Li Chaosheng suggested that the planting site should be in Yunnan. The reason is also very simple. The Lantian area in Guizhou will soon be conquered and will be included in the territory of Lantian, so it is not suitable to grow tobacco here.

Henan, Shanxi, and Hubei are places where Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will fight cholera in the future. Soldiers will pass through the border, and not a single blade of grass will grow. It is not suitable for planting here.

Sichuan, not to mention whether Qin Liangyu, the legendary female general, would agree to Lantian's claws extending into Sichuan's territory. Even if Qin Liangyu agreed, Li Chaosheng was unwilling to go. Zhang Xianzhong was so greedy for the old bachelor in Sichuan that he saw the big girl.

They have all flowed all over the ground. It is definitely inappropriate for me to plant them in Sichuan at this time.

So after thinking about it, Yunnan is a very good place. First of all, it is far away from the Central Plains and has a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty. It is a place that cannot be affected by the war in a short time. Moreover, in addition to growing tobacco leaves, the land in Yunnan also grows

Food is not growing very well, so I went to Yunnan to grow tobacco and became a large-scale tobacco planter. In the future, I will rule Yunnan, which can be regarded as providing a stable financial income for Yunnan.

Third, after the success of tobacco planting, Lantian will also build a tobacco processing factory to make cigarettes, which can be exported to the Jiangnan region in the future. The salt merchants, grain merchants, and cloth merchants there are all extremely wealthy. It is also good to engage in some small hobbies for them.

Very good.

Li Chaosheng still likes to pick up the pig hair from those Jiangnan businessmen who are as rich as elephants.

Wang Jiaping is one of the managers of the future tobacco bureau planned by Li Chaosheng, and Wang Jiaping went to Yunnan this time to negotiate with Yunnan forces, just to let him clear this path, so that Lantian's tobacco business can go further in the future.

Far.

Wang Jiaping also knew his responsibility, so the first thing he did when he came back was to show Li Chaosheng the results of his work this year.

"Your Majesty, we have planted more than a thousand acres of tobacco like this in Yunnan. Now we have contacted Prince Mu's Mansion. Our tobacco plantation can be expanded to three thousand acres next year. By then, our entire Lantian demand can be guaranteed."

Li Chaosheng nodded after hearing this and said: "Tobacco is a good thing, but it is also a bad thing. It is harmful to health, but it can help people reduce stress and even relieve pain at critical moments. The frontline soldiers should have a need for this thing.

Yes, especially soldiers going to the battlefield, there is a greater demand for cigarettes, but we cannot encourage everyone to smoke, after all, this is a behavior that is harmful to our health."

Li Chaosheng looked at Wang Jiaping and said: "So when your cigarette factory starts operating, I ask you to write on every cigarette box that leaves the factory that smoking is harmful to health, and to remind smokers not to go too far."

"yes."

Wang Jiaping nodded, and Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said: "But those selling to Jiangnan rich people should not write these useless slogans, and their packaging boxes must be gorgeous, and the names of cigarettes must show their identity, so that they feel that smoking is a

A noble thing that only they can enjoy, so we can sell this tobacco at an unreasonable price, do you understand?"

Wang Jiaping grinned when he heard this and said, "Have you forgotten, the county magistrate, that before I studied politics, I studied economics."

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this: "Well, children can be taught, hahaha..."

Li Chaosheng smiled happily, and then Wang Jiaping suddenly said mysteriously: "Your Majesty, I have something to report to your Majesty when I go to Yunnan."

"Oh, what's the matter?"

Wang Jiaping pondered for a while and said: "I discovered a very inconspicuous flower in Yunnan, called Dancing Grass. It is said that people who use this flower will have hallucinations and dance, hence the name. Out of curiosity, I investigated this flower, and later

I found that this flower has strong addictive properties. Many local people use this flower and are as skinny as a stick. I think if this thing is put to good use, it may be more profitable than tobacco."

As Wang Jiaping spoke, he took out a withered but beautiful flower from a small box he carried with him. Li Chaosheng looked at the flower in the box, frowned slightly, and then picked up his phone to check it secretly.

, Li Chaosheng’s expression immediately turned ugly the next moment.

"Well, I understand, but Wang Jiaping, this dance grass is not allowed to be grown on a large scale or introduced to the people of Lantian. Before you go to Yunnan next time, I will ask the medical school to send medical students to take samples. This thing is too harmful.

, from now on, let it be grown exclusively for medical schools and used for medicinal purposes. As for this kind of local thing, just eradicate it when you see it."

"yes."

Wang Jiaping responded and said that sweat appeared on Li Chaosheng's forehead when he heard this. This dance grass is a real disaster for the country and the people. It cannot be popular among the people. You must know that the conspiracy in the West almost destroyed China.

People have become the sick man of East Asia.

Li Chaosheng will never dare to forget that humiliating century of history.

Li Chaosheng chatted with Wang Jiaping for a while, and then asked Wang Jiaping to leave. Looking at Wang Jiaping's retreating figure, Gu Zi looked at the withered flower path left by Wang Jiaping: "My lord, this thing is really like this."

Is it scary?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "It's terrible, very terrible. Remember, no matter when, we can't let them spread in Lantian. Who dares to resell this kind of thing in the future? No matter who it is, if you see a

Killing one person will not be tolerated."

"yes."

Gu Zi saw that Li Chaosheng was so serious and did not dare to disobey Li Chaosheng's order, so he immediately agreed.

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said: "Take it."

After saying this, Li Chaosheng stretched, looked at Gu Zi and said, "Has Lu Xiang been promoted to Lantian?"

"We've passed Tong Pass."

Li Chaosheng said: "Well, don't worry, I can probably meet him tomorrow. By the way, besides Lu Xiangsheng, who else do I need to meet these days?"

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Well, that's the case. The top ten advanced figures in Lantian this year have been selected. Next, the county minister, you will take time to meet with them one by one. Everyone in Lantian is paying attention to this matter.

Woolen cloth."

"Oh, we should meet here, who are they?"

"They include representatives of workers, farmers, cultural circles, business circles, craftsmen, science and technology circles, grassroots government officials, and doctors."

Gu Zi said to Li Chaosheng. After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Well, all walks of life have been taken care of, but farmers and workers still need to take more care of them."

Hearing this, Gu Zi said: "Well, in this selection of farmers and workers, two of them were successful."

"Oh, two people?"

Li Chaosheng asked curiously. After hearing this, Guzi said: "Yes, the farmers have rated two households. One is a large grain grower. This year, they contracted 20,000 acres of land in Lantian for grain cultivation and actively improved their planting.

This person's technology has increased grain production, paid an additional 10,000 dan of tax for Lantian this year, and solved a major local employment problem. Moreover, this person has a good reputation and a high reputation among the people, and the people will be able to help anyone who has difficulties.

He is willing to help, and he is a well-known good person in eight villages across ten miles, so I will give him one first this year."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Well, it should be encouraged. People like this should be encouraged. By the way, who is the other one?"

After listening to Li Chaosheng's words, Gu Zi said: "The other one is a rural woman. She became a widow at the age of twenty and took a daughter to live. Later, our Lantian began to recruit female students, so she sold the iron and sent her daughter to the academy. You know

In such an era, what an enlightened mother she is who can be so cruel to let her daughter study. And her daughter also strives to do so. At a young age, she has become the technical core of Song Yingxing's team. During the development process of our Lantian train, she solved the most critical problem.

For the problem of air tightness, logically she should award it to an individual with advanced technology. However, this year her competitor was He Bing, who developed penicillin, so he lost the election. In the end, our organizing committee decided to award the award to his mother.

The affirmation of her mother is also an encouragement to her."
Chapter completed!