Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 406
Zhu Youjian picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea:

"Baihu, sit down!"

The white tiger bowed again and saluted:

"Your Majesty, it's better for me to stand still."

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly:
"Okay, let's just stand there. In the near future, Jiangnan should be more stable. Do the foreigners who come and go to Ming Dynasty obey the rules?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the foreigners are all fine now, they have not done anything disrespectful to Daming, nor have they behaved as domineeringly as before, it's just..."

When Bai Hu said this, he endured it for a while, and Zhu Youjian frowned:
"Just say what you have to say, you are my eyes and ears, and you must speak truthfully in front of me."

"According to the purpose"

"Your Majesty, after receiving the report, I would like to ask, is it against my Chinese ancestral precepts for foreigners to preach in Daming? This humble minister is not sure, and there seems to be some problems with Yantu."

When Zhu Youjian heard these two things, his face gradually turned cold.

He does know a little about foreigners preaching. Those people only believe in the Lord, but not their ancestors. This is actually a kind of sadness.

But what problems could there be with Yantu now? Could it be that Yantu has flowed into Daming?
"Baihu, tell me, what happened to Yantu?"

White Tiger:

"Your Majesty, many wealthy gentry and princes and nobles have the habit of smoking cigarettes. There are already smoking dens in the south. I feel that this is not a good sign for reconciliation."

"what?"

Zhu Youjian was taken aback and jumped up from the dragon chair.

Zhu Youjian knew that during the reign of Dongkuo, the British not only used smoke and soil to drain a large amount of China's silver.

It also caused most of the citizens to get lost in the illusion of smoke and earth, causing serious harm to our Chinese nation.

He didn't expect that smoke and soil had already flowed in at the end of Ming Dynasty. This thing was too harmful to China. In order to ban tobacco and soil, the Opium War even broke out.

It was also from then on that the Eastern Captivity regime and the great powers signed a series of humiliating treaties, causing China to suffer a century of humiliation.

In the entire modern history of Huaxia, Yantu occupies a certain important position.

Especially in the middle and late period of the Qing Dynasty, smoked earth began to slowly become popular in our country.

At that time, especially in some cities along the southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty, almost every town had tracts of smoke dens.

In the smoke den, you can often see ordinary people who are addicted to smoking soil, squatting anywhere, or lying on the bed and gulping.

This kind of very poor craftsmanship, but extremely addictive, has dealt a serious blow to the spiritual will of the people of our ancient nation for a long period of time.

It can be said that there are many continuous relationships between the demise of the Qing Dynasty and the smoke and soil.

In order to understand the relationship between Yantu and Daming, Zhu Youjian quietly exchanged a few words with the system:
"System, check it for me to see if there is smoke and soil in the late Ming Dynasty."

"Ding, the information has been placed in the system warehouse. There has been smoke and soil in Huaxia for a long time, and they are all tribute items from the vassal state..."

Zhu Youjian quietly looked at the document, and then suddenly realized.

In fact, the first time smoke and soil entered our country was not only in the Qing Dynasty.

As early as in our country when Zhang Qian was on a mission to the Western Regions, tobacco was spread to China through the "Silk Road".

During the Three Kingdoms period, Hua Tuo's Mabosan contained smoke and soil.It can be said that smoky soil has always existed along with the historical development of our country.

From this perspective, the history of Yantu can also be said to be very long.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, some small countries in the surrounding area even took the initiative to pay tribute to the Celestial Kingdom with the smoke soil as a tribute.

For quite a period of time, smoked soil was very popular among the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor at that time had a certain degree of experience in smoking tobacco.

During the 30 years when Emperor Wanli did not go to court, he had smoked opium in his own life.

Moreover, during the excavation of Dingling in the last century, experts tested the remains of Emperor Wanli and indeed found morphine.

Even the emperors of the Heavenly Kingdom at that time began to smoke tobacco themselves, which shows that tobacco is very powerful in controlling the minds of the parties involved.

But when it comes to this, many of us must have noticed a problem.

Since opium had already been introduced to our country, even the emperor had smoked it in the Ming Dynasty.

So why didn't the smoke and soil flood and spread wantonly on the land of the Ming Dynasty?

On the contrary, after the Qing Dynasty, it began to bloom everywhere and became the number one weapon to poison the people.

In fact, the reason for this is not a mystery. The core reason is only one word, that is "expensive"!
At that time, whether the tobacco soil was planted or produced, it could not be carried out locally, and it needed to be transported from distant Europe to the east.

And such a large labor cost will naturally be added to its market value, so in the Ming Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty, the smoke and soil were not affordable by ordinary people.

Basically, it is the exclusive enjoyment of dignitaries, and it is naturally impossible for such a precious thing to spread.

By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the price of smoke and soil dropped significantly.

This is not because the quality of tobacco soil has declined, but mainly because Britain has developed India as a new soil plantation area.

Among them, the logistics cost and planting pressure are greatly reduced, so the price of the whole market will naturally come down.

Many ordinary people can also afford to buy things that were relatively expensive before.

If it hadn't been for the British planting tobacco soil in their colonies and then selling it to our country, the tobacco soil would not have spread so profusely in the Qing Dynasty.

This news is really important to Zhu Youjian, and it also made Zhu Youjian feel a little scared, and he couldn't help shouting secretly:

"Holy shit, this thing must not be allowed to spread in Daming, otherwise the people will fall into a catastrophe just as soon as their stomachs are full."

After Zhu Youjian was secretly surprised, he said to Baihu:

"Baihu, once you discover this kind of thing, you must report it to me immediately, otherwise the world will be in chaos. Go and find out the source of the smoke and soil for me."

Seeing the serious expression on the emperor's face, Bai Hu knew that he had neglected his duty, and hurriedly pleaded guilty to Zhu Youjian:

"Abiding by the decree, my minister will die, please be punished by Your Majesty."

"Forget it, it's not an example."

"Thank you, Your Majesty Long En, and I will retire."

There is no doubt about Baihu's loyalty, he is summoned by the system, and he will never be half-hearted, mainly because he doesn't understand how powerful this thing is.

After Baihu left the Qianqing Palace, he immediately sent people to investigate the source of the smoke.

Zhu Youjian had something on his mind, so he wanted to solve it immediately, otherwise he wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

"Come here, tell me that the Sixth Ministry of the Cabinet and the Minister of Honglu Temple will meet me."

"According to the purpose"

So he asked the little eunuch to go to the Sixth Department of the Cabinet and the Minister of Honglu Temple to see him.

This is the first time for Honglu Siqing to enter the Qianqing Palace.

The emperor had never summoned him, a little Honglu temple minister, before.

This is also related to the diplomatic situation in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, there were not many vassal states in the Ming Dynasty.

There is a large team of domestic problems, so how can I care about foreign affairs.

(End of this chapter)