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Chapter 251 Come to Eat Dumplings, Tobacco

"These two girls came rather quickly, but why are you still empty-handed?" The only old scholar in the village sat in front of the stove, looked up, smiled and waved, "Go, go, go home and get a basin or Here comes the bag."

The two girls stretched out their hands to fan the wind vigorously, but they still coughed from the smell of smoke.

"Master, what, what are you going to do?" Yingzi stopped coughing with difficulty and asked.

The old scholar chuckled and said, "It's the Chinese New Year, what are you talking about? Noodles, pork, and dumplings!"

"How much?" A Tao's eyes widened and lighted up.

The old scholar raised his hand and said, "Every family has five catties of noodles and ten catties of meat."

"Every family, why not everyone?" A Tao said mischievously with a smile on her face, "I have a lot of family members, so I don't send too much?"

"If there are more than five people in the family, each additional one will add one catty." The old scholar stroked his beard and said, "Add two catties of meat."

Yingzi looked at A Tao and said with a smile: "Based on this calculation, the dumplings made are enough to eat."

"Go home and get a basin!" Atao pulled Yingzi and started to go outside.

The old scholar hurriedly stopped, sent a note to the two girls, and wrote it down in the notebook, saying: "Take the belongings and go directly to the back room to get the meat, so you don't need to be choked in this room."

As he said that, the old scholar took out the cigarette pot again and filled it with cigarettes. The two girls were so frightened that they ran away as if to run away.

Not much time left, Yingzi rushed back first, and when he came to the back room, he saw Zhang Zhuzi cutting up the meat, and then carefully weighed each piece and tied it with hemp rope.

"Here we come." Zhang Zhuzi saw Yingzi, nodded with a smile, took the basin, weighed it, and loaded it with noodles, then pointed to the pork tied with hemp rope, and said, "Choose it yourself, fat and thin can't be subdivided, Two catties is not bad."

Yingzi looked at it, picked a piece that was evenly fat and thin, and said with a smile: "This kind of meat dumpling is delicious, and it's full of oil when you bite."

Zhang Zhuzi nodded with a grin, weighed the noodles and served them to Yingzi.

Yingzi hesitated for a moment, and said, "Brother Zhang, it's quite troublesome to knead noodles and chop meat by yourself during the Chinese New Year. My father said, if you have time, you can come to eat dumplings at home."

Zhang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, looked at Yingzi blinking, turned around and took a piece of meat, handed it to Yingzi, and said with a silly smile: "Then you take my meat first, and the noodles, I will send it when I have time."

Yingzi blinked her eyes, burst out laughing suddenly, and said happily, "Brother Zhang is a pig? We dare not eat your meat!"

Zhang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, and he also understood that what he said was ambiguous, so he scratched his head and laughed.

"I'm going first." Yingzi suppressed his laughter, put down a piece of meat, and said, "Brother Zhang, you have to send it together when you have time!"

Zhang Zhuzi nodded quickly, and promised to send Yingzi out of the house.When he got to the door, he remembered something again, and said, "The supply and marketing agency in Fort Lushun opened, and it sells a lot of goods."

Yingzi smiled and said, "I know that, I want to go and see it tomorrow!"

After a pause, the girl looked at Zhang Zhuzi and asked, "Brother Zhang, are you free tomorrow? It's more than ten miles away. It's safe to go with a companion."

Zhang Zhuzi nodded vigorously, and said, "I'm going too, and the disability pension will be paid tomorrow!"

Yingzi pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and left the house.

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Smoke billowed in the house, and the pan was close to the window with a crack open. Although it was a bit cold, I still felt it was better this way.

Kong Youde smoked tobacco with gusto, very satisfied, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that the imperial court could even send this. This year is really comfortable!"

As he said that, he looked up at Zhang Pan and said with a smile, "This is a good thing. It refreshes you, protects against the cold, and forgets your worries!"

The history of tobacco in China can be traced back to the third year of Wanli. Tobacco was introduced from Luzon to Fujian and other coastal areas.

At first, people in the Ming Dynasty called it "Danbaigui" according to transliteration.Later, it was called tobacco and alcohol, because smoking would give you a feeling of ecstasy, just like drinking, so it was also called "dry alcohol".

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, tobacco was grown on a large scale, and smoking became popular in the army.Because the climate in the south is humid, smoking can remove moisture, especially soldiers in the south smoke.

Later, after the habit of smoking was spread to the Northeast, a new function of "warm protection" was developed.

There are also reasons why tobacco is popular in the army.Because, for soldiers who are often under toil, fatigue, and stress, smoking can play an analgesic, relaxing, and refreshing role.

Under the pressure of tension and fear of war, soldiers needed to use cigarettes to relax and comfort themselves, and this phenomenon continued until World War I and World War II.

Especially during World War II, the armies of many countries listed tobacco as official military supplies.Some soldiers even said that it doesn't matter if they don't eat well. If they don't smoke, they can't even fight the war.

In the history of the late Ming Dynasty, there have been such things.

Chongzhen once issued a ban on smoking, but at that time Hong Chengchou, the Minister of the Ministry of War who fought hard with Houjin in Liaodong, said in a memorial that "soldiers in Liaodong are addicted to this", which led to the end of the smoking ban.

The reason why Chongzhen wanted to ban smoking was not because he realized that smoking was harmful to health.Rather, the increase in the area of ​​private tobacco cultivation has affected the cultivation of food and the fiscal revenue of the country.

Zhu Youxiao has his own analysis and judgment on this. Compared with the casualties of the brutal war and the decades-long famine, the harm of tobacco to the health of the people and the reduction of life expectancy can be simply ignored.

Therefore, following the deforestation and destruction of the environment, and the destruction of the ecology by killing whales, he is going to do another thing that attracts people's scolding-tobacco monopoly.

Since it is difficult to ban it, why not let it be controlled by the state, become a source of income, and do other things that benefit the country and the people?
For example, continue to reduce agricultural taxes, so that the burden on farmers who plan their food in the soil will be lighter; for example, increase investment in the military to build a world-leading and powerful force.

Of course, the emperor decided that there must be a warning on the cigarettes produced in the future: "Smoking is harmful to health, and minors are not allowed to smoke."

Although this did not reduce the torment at all for Zhang Pan and others who had to endure second-hand smoke.

Regarding Kong Youde's praise, Zhang Pan smiled wryly and shook his head, saying: "I can't stand it, brother Kong can do whatever he wants."

Kong Youde chuckled, smoked a few more puffs, knocked off the soot, and became serious, "The Dongjiang captives will be mobilized around the New Year's Eve. We don't have to worry too much here. We are afraid that they will not come to give away the head. If it is the Dongjiang headquarters , or in the case of Liaoxi, we have to be prepared to attack and contain."

Zhang Pan nodded and said, "It's mainly field battles, we must be fully prepared. The building of the van will continue."

"We also need to consider the weather." Kong Youde added: "The wind and snow will have a great impact on the musket."

Zhang Pan nodded slightly, and said: "There will always be unfavorable weather, and the enemy will take advantage of it. Melee combat is inevitable. Soldiers cannot form the habit of not being able to fight without muskets."

Kong Youde chuckled, and said: "The melee combat of the Youxie is still passable, and this is what a certain person focuses on training."

"Brother Kong prefers cavalry, right?" Zhang Pan said with a smile: "The training is also methodical. If you have time, help someone train the troops of the Left Association."

Kong Youde waved his hand, pretending to be modest and said: "You don't have to be so polite about your own affairs." After saying that, he got up and said, "Today we are paying the salary, let's show our face and show off to the pay supervisor."

Zhang Pan chuckled, dressed and said: "I used to have money but no place to spend it, but this time there is a place to spend it."

"In addition to wine, I buy tobacco." Kong Youde shook the small pipe in his hand, and said with a smile, "This little thing is also exquisitely made, and it's worth buying for a penny."

Zhang Pan shook his head with a smile, walked out of the house with Kong Youde, and left with his own soldiers.

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(End of this chapter)