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"Thank you, county lord. After the younger generation enters the academy, I will write a book and send it to my brother, saying that the county lord has taken care of him in many ways, and advised him to make friends with Lantian more, and to protect Lantian's interests as much as possible in Yunnan."

Mu Tianliu cupped his hands and said to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng looked at Mu Tianliu and said with a smile: "Then thank you, that's all, Jiaping and I still have a few words to say, just wait in the living room for a while , when we are done, let Jiaping accompany you to the academy."

"Well, well, we will have a meeting with the county magistrate later."

Mu Tianliu cupped his hands again, followed by pushing the door out, and his own soldiers took him to sit in the living room, watching Mu Tianliu go out, Wang Jiaping said: "This Mu Tianliu is good for everything, just here Mu Wangfu has developed a character with his eyes above his head, even if he talks to the county magistrate, he still..."

Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said, "It's okay, the academy will teach him how to be a human being. Now that Kuangdian has been punished by the academy, he can persist for a while longer, hahaha..."

After hearing this, Wang Jiaping said: "The magistrate's words are true. This group of students is much more nutritious than I was back then. I went to their cafeteria yesterday and found that they have eggs and braised pork for dinner. It was a good thing we could only eat on holidays back then.”

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng also said with emotion: "Yes, the current conditions have really improved a lot compared with those in the past, but the students' ability to endure hardship is much worse than yours at that time. There is no way. When you were studying, your family was poor, and as long as you didn’t go back to school, you would continue to farm and live like old cows for generations, so you worked extra hard.”

"But now the parents of the students, some are in business, and some have made a fortune at home. It is icing on the cake to come to the college one by one, so there is less fighting spirit, and it looks naturally soft and less imposing."

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

"Oh?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Wang Jiaping and was quite curious about what he could bring him. What are the specialties of Yunnan now, flower cakes?
Li Chaosheng was thinking about it, Wang Jiaping said: "Please take a look at the county lord."

Speaking of which, Wang Jiaping took a wooden box from behind him, opened the wooden box, and inside was the crushed tobacco leaves, Li Chaosheng's eyes lit up and said, "Tobacco leaves?"

Wang Jiaping said: "We just planted it this year. You can see the fineness and toughness of the county. This Yunnan is really like what you said. It's not a good place to grow food, but It is absolutely the best to grow this tobacco leaf."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng took out a cigarette bag and pot in the wooden box and said to Gu Zi with a smile, "Give me some decorations and I'll try it."

Gu Zi hesitated for a moment when he heard the words, but he followed Li Chaosheng's order, put on a bit of pretense for Li Chaosheng, and then lit it up.

"Cough cough cough..."

Li Chaosheng took a puff and then coughed. It was really strong, and maybe he didn't know how to smoke, so he choked on the first puff. He waved his hand and asked Guzi to take the pipe away. Li Chaosheng said, "I'm not used to smoking." , I’m not used to smoking, but the sales of this thing are not worrying.”

Tobacco leaf is a new type of species. It should have been introduced to China during the Wanli period. It was originally a niche thing, but its addictive nature made it a very popular 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, the reform of Lantian farmland encouraged the people to grow some cash crops after they had enough ration fields, and sold them to subsidize their families.

It was at this time that a major incident happened in Languan Town, that is, Zhao, a large grain grower in Languan Town, planted all the [-] mu of land contracted by himself into tobacco leaves, and sold tobacco leaves in the second year. Cai, and then began to contract more land to plant tobacco leaves, and other places saw Zhao's hair like this, and immediately prepared to abandon the farmland and switch to tobacco.

This incident was later reported to the local village chiefs by the local people. When the village chiefs heard the news, they immediately felt that this incident was not a trivial matter. According to this expansion speed, I am afraid that there will be no other economic crops in Lantian soon. The tobacco leaves are gone. When the time comes, the common people will still eat melons, 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. Well, tobacco is also a national monopoly, and tobacco can bring trillions of income to the country every year, and this money can be used as part of national tax revenue.

There is a famous saying in later generations, if you don't smoke, I don't smoke, who will build the plane for my family.

Now that the people in Lantian have become rich, if I rashly increase the tax burden at this time, I will definitely be opposed, so I can use another method to harvest, such as tobacco.

Tobacco is harmful to the human body, but it is not as big as imagined. After all, people who smoke and drink in later generations will live to 91. Some people who soak goji berries in their thermos cups every day will die in their forties. Not a few anymore, so this thing works.

But this thing must be controlled by the government, and it must not affect the agriculture of Lantian. To understand this, Li Chaosheng immediately held the first tobacco conference in Lantian. At the conference, Li Chaosheng pointed out a few points. , For this incident, Mr. Zhao will be given an administrative warning and financial punishment.

It must be ensured that no piece of land is allowed to grow tobacco on the land of Lantian. If it is necessary to plant, it must have the government's approval to agree to plant, and the location of this planting cannot affect agriculture or affect the grain output of Lantian.

The second tobacco is to be planted by the government, and Li Chaosheng suggested Yunnan as the planting place. The reason is also very simple. These places in Guizhou will soon be conquered by Lantian, and will soon be included in Lantian territory, so it is not suitable to grow tobacco here.

Henan, Shanxi, and Hubei will be places where Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong want cholera in the future. Soldiers are passing through the border, and no grass will grow, so it is not suitable to plant it here.

Sichuan, not to mention whether Qin Liangyu, the legendary female general, would agree to Lan Tian's claws entering Sichuan's territory, even if Qin Liangyu agreed, Li Chaosheng would not want to go, Zhang Xianzhong is really an old bachelor to Sichuan It has all flowed to the ground, and it is definitely inappropriate for me to plant in Sichuan at this time.

So after much deliberation, Yunnan is a very good place. First of all, this place is far away from the Central Plains and maintains a good relationship with Daming. Food doesn’t grow very much. I went to Yunnan to grow tobacco myself. After I became a scale, I will rule Yunnan by myself in the future, which can be regarded as providing Yunnan with a stable financial income.

Thirdly, after the success of tobacco cultivation, Lantian will also build a tobacco processing factory to make cigarettes, which will be exported to the Jiangnan area in the future. The salt merchants, grain merchants, and cloth merchants there are all rich and powerful. It is also good for them to have a little hobby Very good.

Li Chaosheng still likes to pluck the pig hairs of those rich and elephant-like Jiangnan businessmen.

And Wang Jiaping is one of the managers of the future Tobacco Bureau proposed by Li Chaosheng, and this time Wang Jiaping went to Yunnan to negotiate with the Yunnan forces, and he wanted him to make this way clear, so that the tobacco business in Lantian could go even better 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 his work results this year.

"Xianzun, we have planted more than 1000 mu of this kind of tobacco in Yunnan. Now we have contacted Mu Wang Mansion. In the coming year, our tobacco plantation can be expanded to [-] mu. At that time, the demand of our entire Lantian 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 soldiers on the front line should have demand for this thing." Yes, especially soldiers who are going to the battlefield have a greater demand for cigarettes, but we can't encourage everyone to smoke, after all, it is a behavior that is harmful to our body."

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

"Yes."

Wang Jiaping nodded, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "But those who sell to local tyrants in the south of the Yangtze River should not write these useless slogans, and their packaging must be gorgeous, and the name of the cigarettes must also show their identity, so that they feel that smoking is An aristocratic thing that only they can enjoy, so we can sell this tobacco at an unreasonable price, understand?"

Hearing this, Wang Jiaping grinned and said, "Did the county lord forget that before I studied politics, I studied economics."

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

Li Chaosheng smiled happily, followed by Wang Jiaping and suddenly said mysteriously: "The county lord, I have something to tell the county lord about my trip to Yunnan."

"Oh, what's the matter?"

Wang Jiaping pondered for a while and said: "I found a very unremarkable flower in Yunnan called Dancing Grass. It is said that people will have hallucinations and dance lightly when using this flower, hence the name. Out of curiosity, I investigated this flower, and later I found that this flower is very addictive, and many local people use this flower, they are skinny, I think this thing is used properly, and I am afraid that it will be more profitable than tobacco.”

As Wang Jiaping said, he took out a withered but beautiful flower from a small box with him. Li Chaosheng looked at the flower in the box, frowned slightly, and then picked up his mobile phone to check it secretly. , the next moment Li Chaosheng's complexion immediately became ugly.

"Well, I know, but Wang Jiaping, this dance grass is not allowed to be planted on a large scale, and it is not allowed to be 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 , in the future, it will be specially planted for the medical school for medicinal purposes, and as for the local things, if you see them, you can eradicate them by the roots.”

"Yes."

Wang Jiaping replied, Li Chaosheng also had sweat on his forehead when he heard the words. This dance grass is really a disaster for the country and the people, and it cannot be popular among the people. You must know that the Western conspiracy almost killed the Chinese people. People have become the sick men of East Asia.

Li Chaosheng never dared to forget the century-old history of humiliation.

Li Chaosheng chatted with Wang Jiaping for a while, and then let Wang Jiaping leave. Looking at Wang Jiaping's back, Guzi looked at the withered flower left by Wang Jiaping and said, "Master, this thing is really so beautiful." Is it scary?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "It's scary, it's very scary, remember, no matter what time it is, we can't let them spread in Lantian. Who dares to resell this kind of thing in the future, no matter who it is, seeing a Kill one, no mercy."

"Yes."

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

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

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

"Passing Tongguan."

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

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Well, it's like this, this year's Lantian's top ten advanced figures have been selected, and then you have to spare time to meet with each other, the whole Lantian people are paying attention to this matter Woolen cloth."

"Oh, I should meet with you, who is it?"

"Including workers' representatives, farmers' representatives, representatives of cultural circles, representatives of business circles, representatives of artisans, representatives of science and technology circles, representatives of grassroots government officials, and representatives of doctors."

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

Upon hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Well, this time, two farmers and workers were selected successfully."

"Oh, two?"

Li Chaosheng asked curiously, Guzi heard this and said: "Yes, the farmers have selected two households, one is a large grain grower, and this year they have contracted [-] mu of land in Lantian to plant grain, and actively improve the planting. This technology has increased the grain output, paid [-] dan more taxes for Lantian this year, and solved a big local employment problem. Moreover, this person has a good reputation and a high reputation among the people. Willing to help, he is a well-known benevolent person in ten miles and eight villages, so this year I will give him one."

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Well, it should be, people like this should be encouraged, and the other one is right?"

After hearing Li Chaosheng's words, Gu Zi said: "The other is a rural woman. She has been widowed since she was 20 years old and raised a daughter to make ends meet. Later, when Lantian began to recruit female students, she sent her daughter to the academy to study. In such an era, it is such an enlightened mother who can be ruthless to let her daughter study, and her daughter also strives to become the technical core of Song Yingxing's team at a young age. During the research and development of our Lantian train, she solved the most critical problem For the problem of confidentiality, she should be awarded the award to a technologically advanced individual, but this year's competitor was He Bing, who developed penicillin, so she was not selected. In the end, our organizing committee decided to award the award to his mother. Her mother's affirmation is also an encouragement to her."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Well, you did a good job."