Destiny Only Han

Lin Guanggong.

After Liu Ying's tossing around for so many years, this vast royal summer resort has completely changed its appearance. It not only integrates the high platform buildings of the Qin Dynasty, but also combines the architectural styles of the north and south of the Yangtze River after the Song and Ming Dynasties.

Lin Guanggong is backed by Ganquan Mountain. As the name suggests, there are many springs in the mountain and they are sweet.

Therefore, Liu Ying directly dug a series of artificial lakes in the palace, and used underground canals to draw the clear springs in the mountains to gather here. At the same time, he built rockeries and pavilions.

But Liu Ying was not satisfied with this.

It is very difficult to renovate the original palace complex, so the soft decoration is the main thing, and only water and electricity are needed. He focused on renovating this second-hand house that he got from the old Ying family, focusing on the original military barracks.

After all, when this palace was built, it was still the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

So the palace at that time was not only a place for the monarch to rest and work, but also a fortress, with an arsenal, a granary, and a barracks area covering an extremely large area. Only Lin Guanggong, the monarch of the Qin Dynasty, lived for one or two months every year. A large summer palace is enough to accommodate nearly [-] troops, and there is still plenty of room for training!
But today's Han is different.

For the great Han Empire to be peaceful everywhere, the most important thing is that the enemies on the surface are thousands of miles away from Guanzhong, the center of the empire, or even thousands of miles away!
Therefore, the number of accompanying troops has been reduced from the original [-] to the current [-].

Naturally, the barracks area was left unused.

Based on the principle of not wasting, Liu Ying transformed this relatively flat area into a grassland and a forest farm.

The latter is to increase the green area, and at the same time stock herbivores such as sika deer, which can be used for viewing and hunting in leisure time, while the latter is a racetrack and a golf course.

After all, the emperor was lucky to drive in Lin Guang Palace, and most of the princes and officials accompanied their companions, and they also lived in the manor villa near Lin Guang Palace.

Therefore, it is necessary for the monarch and his ministers to have fun together after work.

At the moment, beside the polo field, Liu Ying came back carrying a cue with her head held high, her face full of the pride of the winner.

He killed the Quartet!

But Liu Bang, who was enjoying the shade under the shed, rolled his eyes, and looked at Cao Shen, Wang Ling, Li Shang and others who were full of flattery and flattery.

Especially Wang Ling.

That guy Cao Shen is a soft-boned and flatterer, and he flatters and flatters in front of Liu Ying. Liu Bang has experienced it several times, but what he never expected is that Wang Ling's thick eyebrows and big eyes are now such a ghost!

When he was in Pei County, Wang Ling relied on his status as a strong man in his hometown. Even when he was older than Wang Ling and served Wang Ling as his elder brother, Wang Ling did not give him any good face...

but now……

"Your Majesty has quick eyesight and quick hands, and looks like a rabbit out of shape. Sure enough, the dragon among men is also..."

"Your Majesty is so heroic, it's a great fortune for a man..."

Liu Ying nodded with a smile on her face, snatched the cigarette stick from Lu Wan's hand, frowned and said: "Smoking is harmful to health, let's just taste it!"

Well, the main reason is that he only has a large pack of tobacco leaves in his hand, less than two catties of tobacco leaves, so he needs to save some smoking.

But more importantly, he is now floating.

Cao Shen Wangling, who is also the third prince, nodded and bowed his beard and flattered his horse. Lu Wan, the Taiwei, made no sense and expressed nothing at all!
But Lu Wan just rolled her eyes, and said slowly: "Your Majesty is so bold now that he dares to snatch something from the old man?"

Well, this old man's feelings for Liu Ying are very complicated.

When Liu Ying was young, he naturally regarded him as his own, and loved and cared for her.

But ever since he got married and started a business, and gave birth to Lu Yu, his precious daughter, and Yu Ji was always blowing pillow wind in his ears, and wanted to marry Lu Yu to Liu Ying, he began to dislike Liu Ying in various ways.

But later Lu Yu married Liu Ying and became emperor, especially when she was pregnant with Liujia, Lu Wan slightly reduced her malice towards Liu Ying...

But the good times didn't last long. A few months later, the old man once again listed Liu Ying at the top of Yan Wang Lu Wan's list of most hated characters. It's okay, it's okay...

So next to Lu Wan, Liu Bang snatched the cigarette stick and took a sip, coughed twice, and said in a cloud of mist: "Beat him, Naigong supports you!"

Lu Wan also rolled her eyes at him.

This old guy who bewitched him to violate the prohibition on alcohol every day, and at the same time blamed him when the Dongchuang incident happened, is naturally also on the list of Yan Wang Lu Wan's most hated characters...

Therefore, apart from his precious grandson, Liu has no good things!

Liu Ying casually threw aside the polo club inlaid with sapphires, and sat beside Liu Bang with her legs crossed.

The scene in front of him of a group of old men sharing tobacco pipes gave him the illusion of traveling through time and space.

But soon a sense of déjà vu arises in his heart.

These old guys are all newbies. When they smoke, they always take a sip with their mouths and then spit it out. What they enjoy is the experience of novelty, not the addiction and harm that tobacco itself brings to people...

But this is also good, when the high-level empire accepts this emerging thing, after two or three years, tobacco can become a tax pillar alongside alcohol!

The most important thing is that with the current level of medical treatment in Han, when tobacco is popular, it can effectively improve the population structure and prevent the problem of old-age care from becoming a social problem...

So Liu Ying said with a smile:

"I plan to set up a tobacco company in the future, which will be dedicated to the cultivation, production, processing and sale of this kind of cigarettes... In the next ten years, the tax revenue contributed by this crop to the empire will be the same as that of potatoes, sugar cane, and barley. equal!"

Cao Shen was shocked when he heard this.

As the prime minister of the empire, he naturally understood what Liu Ying was talking about.

Potato shochu, sugarcane shochu, and malt beer, these are the three most consumed alcohols in Dahan or outside of Dahan. The domestic alcohol tax alone is nearly one billion yuan every year!

If the tariffs charged on the export of alcoholic beverages and the profits handed over to the treasury by some state-owned alcoholic beverage monopoly agencies are included, the total revenue can be more than 30 billion yuan!
Within ten years, the country's income will increase by another 30 billion yuan, which is really unimaginable!

So not only Cao Can, but also Zhang Cang who was drinking an iced drink and playing a folding fan on the other side was also stunned. It wasn't until the ice in his mouth made him shiver that he finally reacted, looked at Liu Ying and asked:

"Your Majesty, are you serious?"

Liu Ying nodded, firmly: "Of course, it will only be more than what I said, not less than this!"

After all, tobacco leaves originated in America, and in today's Eurasian continent, there is one and only a large bag of seeds in Liu Ying's hands!

Therefore, this will be an industry monopolized from the beginning!

Although the best sowing time has been missed, as long as plants are properly taken care of, the planting area can grow exponentially!
The important thing is that Liu Ying is very aware of the prosperous market for tobacco leaves, which is highly addictive, in later generations, so it is a conservative estimate to only make such a small amount of money.

And even if Native Americans join the market competition, he can also use his rich manufacturing experience and sales experience to make the other party a white job for him...

So he looked at Zhang Cang and continued:
"Ten years later, Jixiang will understand that the difficulty in restricting tobacco tax growth will not be sales, but the speed of population growth in the world, and the contradiction between the area planted with tobacco leaves and the area planted with grain..."

"However, the latter is not difficult for today's big men. After all, we have a large number of plantations overseas. When the time comes, let them plant them. The tobacco company will be responsible for purchasing, processing and selling, and it will not affect the self-sufficiency rate of domestic grain."

Cao Shen twisted some shredded tobacco, frowned and asked, "How can such a small thing have such magical power?"

And you don’t know about the one with even greater magic power... Liu Ying took a sip of herbal tea and said: "Smoke is like wine, it can make people let go of the pain of reality for a short time, and reach the Yaochi Heavenly Palace deep in their hearts... The magic power is stronger, and it is also the same as alcohol." It's normal."

So Liu Bang shook his head and put down the cigarette stick in his hand.

Opposite him, Lu Wan had the same expression.

After all, in today's timeline, the two of them have no real pain to escape from. Occasional alcoholism is actually not an addiction, but likes the atmosphere where everyone is equal, there is no superiority or inferiority, only happiness Free drinking, fun-seeking atmosphere.

Therefore, the novelty of cigarettes is not so attractive to them.

But on the other side, Cao Shen and the others looked at each other with the same expression.

So, it makes sense.

So Cao Shen clasped his fists and said first: "Your Majesty seeking benefits for the country is really a blessing for the country!"

The blessing of the country?I hope it's not the eternal infamy... Liu Ying said with a smile: "Don't be so busy flattering, it's such a hot day, you don't stay at home to enjoy the cool, and you run to this Lin Guang Palace, I'm afraid it's not just for a simple smoke. ?”

Well, it's all the Bank of China's fault.

At that time, Liu Ying just got the tobacco leaves, and couldn't help but reward herself once, so after the scene of swallowing clouds and fog was seen by Bank of China and others, it was impossible to hide the fact that he was actually a dragon in human form. ...

Although Liu Ying said no, rumors abounded in the palace at that time, and Xu negative ran over to torture him severely. He used the shackles and whips over and over again, but in the end he just staggered and returned with a full load. He rode, but nothing really happened. Riding a dragon to the sky...

Therefore, the Cigarette Tasting Conference naturally came into being, and the rumors were naturally self-defeating...

No wonder!
absolutely not!

People only want to believe what they want to believe, so they regard Liu Ying's refutation of rumors as a cover-up, and even Liu Bang looks at him in a strange way...

After all, there were rumors in Pei County back then, saying that it was a "meeting of dreams and gods" and "dragons on top of it"...

So Liu Ying's theory of the dragon made Liu Bang feel that his own bastard seemed to be connoting himself again...

Therefore, the old man is keeping his composure now, waiting for Liu Qi or Liu De to come to his side to complain, and then beat the so-called real dragon with the abduction in his hand...

In Liu Bang's expression that it is not too late to take revenge for ten years, Cao Shen and others showed a bit of embarrassment.

Especially Wang Ling.

That son of his is completely a tiger father and dog son, and he is not too young, but he is a flamboyant wanderer who hangs around cages and hangs around brothels and restaurants all day long...

This is definitely not possible.

Therefore, he made the same choice as many people in later generations, sending his useless son to the army, thinking of using the melting pot of the army to completely reform his useless bastard!
Because of this, Wang Ling flattered and flattered Liu Ying for a long time, but he was actually waiting for Liu Ying's question now.

He bowed his body and cupped his hands and asked: "I heard that His Majesty has dispatched thousands of knights from the North to go west to Longyou to fight the rebellion. I wonder if there are any generals at all levels?"

I knew this guy wasn't just here to praise me... Liu Ying puffed her cheeks invisibly, crossed her fingers on her chin, and looked at Wang Ling with a sense of oppression: "Is there anyone to recommend for Marquis An?"

Wang Ling trembled in his heart, but remembering the earnest entrustment of his old wife at home, he boldly replied:
"In the past Jin Pinggong asked Ji Qi Huangyang, saying: "The country has no lieutenant, who can do it?" Confrontation: Wuke. Pinggong said: Wu is not the son of the son? Confrontation: The king asked the can, not the son of the minister. Duke Ping said: "Good. Then he used it. People in the country call him good. Confucius heard of it and said, "It's good! Qi Huangyang's theory is also that if you use it externally, you can't avoid enemies, and if you use it internally, you can't avoid sons. Qi Huangyang can be called a public."

"Although I am not as good as the sages, I am willing to imitate them..."

"I have a son named Wang Ji. Although he has a reputation for being stubborn, he has been reborn in the martial arts hall in recent years. Therefore, I would like to recommend Wang Ji to your Majesty as the commander of the army!"

Before Liu Ying could speak, Lu Wan laughed first: "Wang Ji? Could it be that Wang Ji who disguised himself as a woman and played Cui Yingying in the Chang'an Grand Theater? How can a pack of wolves be ruled by a sheep? "

Well, the conflict between him and Wang Ling has been going on for a long time.

In the early years when Liu Bang traveled abroad, Lu Wan stayed in Fengyi to take care of Liu Taigong and his family’s land. In his spare time, he brewed and sold bootleg wine, but Wang Ling’s family also ran a bootleg wine business, so his colleagues were enemies...

However, the reason for their discord is that Liu Bang treated Wang Ling with brotherly courtesy in the past, but Wang Ling ignored Liu Bang's love.

Liu Bang is Lu Wan's half-brother. Liu Bang can laugh off the humiliation in the past, but Lu Wan can't forget it. Naturally, he won't save too much face for Wang Ling now!
After all, he is a Taiwei, the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the Han Empire. Even Liu Ying needs to seek his opinion on the matter of dispatching troops!
Of course, this is just a process, and it belongs to procedural justice...

But no matter what, Lu Wan still has a lot of weight in this matter, especially Wang Ji has always been known for being stubborn.

Li Shang on the side also nodded secretly.

Although the rebellion of the Qiang people in the Han Dynasty was wiped out in the blink of an eye, it takes all the strength of a lion to fight a rabbit, and it is not uncommon in history that one general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies.

But the most important thing is, with such fat meat, why do you eat it all by yourself?
Liu Ying looked left and right, and said sternly: "Since that's the case, after three days of Changling's martial arts performance, it's the mule or the horse that will come out for a walk!"

ps: "500 Years of Addiction: The History of Tobacco, Alcohol, Coffee, and Opium", a good book recommendation.