System, help me be an empress

Chapter 217
The results of Jin Yiwei's investigation quickly spread to Xu Youxi. It turned out that the dozen or so men who smoked unscrupulously in the teahouse were basically tobacco merchants around Shangjing.

They gathered together to discuss a big tobacco-related business.

"What big business?"

"It is said that two farmers who came from other places claimed that they had grown a kind of tobacco with medicinal value locally. Smoking this kind of tobacco is not only harmless to the body, but can even cure diseases."

"Can such a good thing happen?"

Xu Youxi reluctantly became interested.

"The man who violently injured people in the prison came out of that village. When we interrogated him, we found a prescription on him. According to the man's confession, his father had lung disease, which suddenly worsened after a cold a year ago. , began to cough all day and all night, and could not sleep at night, and everyone thought there was no hope."

"Unexpectedly, they happened to meet a wandering Jianghu doctor. The doctor saw that his old father looked so pitiful, so he planned to do a good deed and save someone's life."

"Because his father was so weak at that time, he would vomit everything he ate, let alone drink the harsh traditional Chinese medicine, but he was willing to smoke two sips of the tobacco grown by himself. The doctor thought for a long time, and suddenly had an idea, and prescribed A strange prescription, add a small amount of Afulan to tobacco, and when his father has a severe cough, take two puffs to relieve it. Unexpectedly, his father's cough became less that night, and he could sleep for several hours at night. You can eat by yourself."

"You have to know that his old father was so skinny at the time that he almost stepped into the coffin with half of his legs. Later, the village spread the word that this magic medicine has the effect of bringing the dead back to life."

"During that time, as long as someone in the village was sick, I went to their home to try smoking this kind of tobacco, and it was effective for most of the people."

Xu Youxi asked strangely: "Why have I never heard of it before, what is the matter?"

"The man is from Hua Village, Du County, which is one of the poorer villages and counties in Dagan. The imperial court just sent a scholar from 'Xianxiang County' to help the poor this year."

"The scholar who helped the poor heard about the miraculous effects of local tobacco, and tried it himself, and found that it really had the effect of 'clearing the eyes and ears'. He thought this was an excellent opportunity, and he began to lead the villagers to plant a large number of drugs in the local area. , intends to turn this kind of medicinal material into the signboard of Huacun Village, and take this opportunity to try to bring the villagers out of poverty and become rich."

Xu Youxi interrupted Xu Ling, questioning: "Wait a minute, what exactly is A Furong?"

"It seems to be a kind of medicinal material. It is extremely rare. It was used as a royal tribute in the past. It is also called Wuxiang."

"Wuxiang?" Xu Youxi vaguely felt that the name was a little familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before, "Why haven't I heard of this, no affiliated country has paid tribute to Wuxiang in the past ten years, right? What is this for? ?”

Xu Ling looked at the roof in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, you don't need it either."

"Then has anyone used it?"

"...Emperor Huaguang tried it before."

Emperor Huaguang, who had not been in the court for 20 years, was obsessed with refining and producing longevity pills and beauties in the harem all day; he was her father's father, one of the power layers who laid the foundation for the country's subjugation.

"Can this medicine make you live forever?"

"……cannot."

Ok.

Xu Youxi didn't need to ask.

The effect of the drug is already clear at a glance.

"Wuxiang seems to have other names, right?"

Xu Youxi matched all the keywords that appeared one by one, and finally there was only one thing that came to mind.

"It seems to be called... opium."

Xu Ling didn't like this name very much, and always felt it was a bit vulgar. Naturally, things used by the royal family had to use some elegant and noble names.

"..."

The first part of Ganqing was lonely after listening to it.

Xu Youxi only remembers one thing now, Huacun Village grows opium raw materials on a large scale: "I ask you, have the opium in Huacun Village been sold?"

Xu Ling hesitated and said: "Probably not. They came to Shangjing this time to discuss the price of tobacco... The Shangjing tobacco merchant originally planned to ask for a teahouse box, but the two farmers felt that they were not doing something shameful. We have to sit and talk in the lobby."

Xu Youxi sighed, then stopped talking: "Order Meng Zhiqian to mobilize the surrounding troops to go to Huacun Village to pull out all the opium, and confiscate all the opium extracted from the villagers, and bring them back to Shangjing for unified destruction; The outflowing drugs must be traced to each plant, and also, find out where their drug seeds come from."

"By the way, you should inform Lord Yu to immediately issue Jinyiwei's emergency order in Daqian territory. He must investigate and find out in the shortest possible time what other places in Dagan are planting drugs."

Xu Youxi took precautions at the customs, for fear that Great Britain would do the despicable act of secretly sending opium to Dagan in order to retaliate.

But she also never imagined that such a big shock could be hidden in the territory.

"Subordinates obey."

Xu Ling only left for about a stick of incense, and Yu Xue Jing took the initiative to find him.

"Your Majesty, a telegram came from Guangdong. During the patrolling of the sea area last night, the navy found dozens of ships of unknown origin approaching the Dagan sea area. The visitors are not friendly. General He asked if you want to fight?"

Although the Shengong Bureau has developed a telegraph, the transmission distance of the electric signal is very limited. It is completely a dream to go directly from Guangdong to Beijing.

But there must be a way. Jinyiwei has set up points in different locations in Dagan that can receive telegram information. Once there is an urgent message, it will be transmitted to Beijing in the form of a relay.

"Is there any change in the surrounding dependent countries?"

"Most of the 31 subordinate monarchs and the children of the dignitaries in the DPRK are studying in Dagan. There are public schools, middle schools, and Shangjing University. Their monarchs have also made it clear that they will swear to the death to live with Dagan."

"Okay. Send a telegram to He Jiangyi. The battlefield in the Guangdong sea area will be handed over to him and Wang Qizhuang. Find out how many families the opponent has before making a move. At the same time, let the navy near Shanghai prepare for battle or support, strengthen patrols, and contact by telegram if any abnormalities are found."

"For the war, General He and the others are enough. Did Xu Ling tell you, first send Jin Yiwei to deal with the drug issue."

"it is good."

Yu Xuejing has never been curious about Xu Youxi's actions. He has always been ordered by His Majesty to do what He does, so that the court officials often call him "Your Majesty's sharpest knife" in private, and he will be bored wherever His Majesty tells him to point Go ahead and do it.

Watching Yu Xuejing leave, Xu Youxi called the envoy of Xia Yuan of Taiyuan Hospital and Ruan Yuzuo of Xinyi Pavilion over, and asked them if they were taking drugs like Furong, and if they were clear about how addictive this drug was.Some people use it as medicine, will it really have miraculous effects?
"I've never heard of addiction, so it shouldn't have a miraculous effect." The envoy Xia thought about it, "There are very few mentions of this medicine in the medicinal material books."

Xu Youxi looked at Ruan Yuzuo: "The New Medical Pavilion has set up a special team to study the properties of this drug, but it cannot be used on humans."

"Yes."

……

Two days later.

The battle in the Dagan sea area is very stable, and He Jiangyi probably knows something about the opponent's strength.He is now reconsidering whether to use a highly destructive thermal weapon like a 'torpedo'. After all, these unknown ships seem to be rich, and if they can be snatched, they will definitely make a lot of money.

But Xu Youxi sent back a message, asking them to choose the safest way to fight.There are ways to earn money, but you only live once. Don't try things that you will regret.

At the same time, Xu Youxi approached Meng Zhiqian in private and asked him to send more soldiers to keep an eye on the Dagan border.She intends to take this opportunity to test and see how many countries are planning to take advantage of the situation.

Five days later.

"Ganbao" published an article, which briefly described the war situation in the Guangdong sea area. It guided the description of the sea battlefield to be more severe, and informed the people that there might be coalition forces from multiple countries.

However, in fact.

On the battlefield in the Guangdong sea area, He Jiangyi and the others were like 'cats teasing mice', playing with these overseas military ships every day, and never approached them, but as long as they had the idea of ​​moving forward, He Jiangyi would immediately use artillery fire to take them away. They were forced back into place.

In this way, another month and a half of stalemate came down.

These warships from foreign countries thought that they had fought against Dagan no less than fifty times. It was only because Dagan's warships were too cunning that they hadn't found a breakthrough for the time being.

But they are very confident and have exceptional experience in responding to emergencies. This trapped situation will never last long. Dagan must be at the end of his battle now! ! !

They just have to be patient and wait.

After all, if the Dagan warships were really that powerful, why would they hide from XZ every day, instead of directly proposing a one-on-one fight after direct contact?

"General He, you are really good at commanding. This is the only time in my life. I was sleepy in the battle!"

Wang Qizhuang began to hold the loudspeaker in a strange manner, and yelled at He Jiangyi on the boat next door.

He Jiangyi immediately picked up the loudspeaker beside him and replied, "Hehe, you Wang Qizhuang has a lot of things to do, and you can get sleepy during wars! What a shame!"

"..."

At last.

He Jiangyi and Wang Qizhuang agreed to do it tonight after the "peace negotiation".

They laid out ambush mines in advance, used several ships as bait, and made a loud noise in the middle of the night.The generator on board was turned on, and all the lighting tools on board were turned on instantly.

The enemy ship's people have no idea that Dagan has started the "electrical revolution" in the past few years.

They have never heard of things like 'internal combustion engines' and 'generators', so when they saw the lights on the other side's ship suddenly light up, their first reaction was to wonder if it was fire.

Lure the enemy to go deep and attack suddenly.

He Jiangyi's command of the military ship was done in one go. He lured the enemy, and Wang Qizhuang was responsible for leading the ship to outflank it from behind. He absolutely could not let any enemy go.

The quiet moon on the sea was gradually covered by dark clouds, and the sea breeze with salty humidity seemed to be everywhere around me, and the sound of the waves in my ears was getting louder and louder.

Accompanied by the flames soaring into the sky, when the enemy ship found out that there was a conspiracy and wanted to retreat, Wang Qizhuang had already led people and laid a net in advance.

With the crazily sound of explosions and cannons in the night, enemy ships were on the verge of sinking. More and more blood was stained on the not-so-calm sea, and voices calling for help in various languages ​​were everywhere.

"General, are you taking prisoners alive?" The deputy general asked He Jiangyi.

Before He Jiangyi could open his mouth, Wang Qizhuang on the opposite side had already started firing at the struggling enemy in the sea.

"Wang Qizhuang, please calm down! Not all enemies must die!"

He Jiangyi excitedly picked up the trumpet and shouted at Wang Qizhuang who was opposite him.

"Which art of war has taught me to be merciful to the enemy!" Wang Qizhuang also said fiercely, "He Jiangyi, what do you think these bastards are here for? They want to invade my Dagan territory and run amok in Dagan territory. If today We lost, so wouldn't they brutally kill my soldiers and civilians!"

He Jiangyi was speechless for a moment: "At least you should save some time, your Majesty still needs to explain!"

Hearing the word Your Majesty, Wang Qizhuang's shooting action was obviously delayed for several seconds, as if he had a guilty conscience.

He Jiangyi saw that what he said was effective, so he quickly added another sentence: "At that time, Your Majesty can let their country come to redeem people with indemnity!"

Wang Qizhuang stopped, looked at the thumping enemy in the sea, and fell into thinking: "Hurry up and get the fishing net, don't you see that so much gold is about to sink! Quickly fish it!"

After the enemy soldiers who were still struggling in the water were caught, many of them had panicked eyes and trembling all over.Soldiers on board who spoke foreign languages ​​tried to obtain information from these captives, but these people were simply incoherent and unable to provide useful information.

"Tie the captives together, and we can retreat."

It took less than three months for the naval battlefield to go from stalemate to complete defeat.

Xu Youxi took this opportunity to test the loyalty of the surrounding vassal states. Of course, there are also one or two non-vassal states who overestimated themselves and insisted on having small-scale conflicts with Dagan at the border.

Dagan’s rifles, cannons and tanks directly beat the enemy to the point of doubting his life. It took three days to complete the battle, and on the fourth day, the territory of Dagan was rewritten.

For so many years, Dagan has always been quiet.

Except for the one-shot annihilation of the Ming Mi country more than ten years ago, no country has ever understood Dagan's true military strength.

After all, Daqian's outstanding achievements in industry are enough to become the leader of neighboring countries, and everyone has also tasted the sweetness of following Dagan. How can they still think about such things as fighting every day?
In fact, everyone knows that Dagan's firearms must have developed to an unfathomable level, but they never imagined that today's Dagan has made people completely unable to arouse resistance.

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Finally, it was the beginning of Tianyou's 15th year.

Ganbao officially reported the results of several battles.

There are no full-length essays, and no rhetoric.

On the entire newspaper page, there are just a few simple lines, but it makes the blood of all Dagan people excited.

Big dry sea battle... win!

Big dry land battle... win!

Hundreds of people were captured, 20 were slightly injured, and none were sacrificed.

　Happy Dragon Boat Festival( )
　　
　
(End of this chapter)