Super Chief

"Boss, this cigarette... well, this cigarette is really a pleasure to smoke, much better than smoking a pipe... The paper you asked me to make before is used to make this Cigarettes, right?" David Adion asked Shi Xiong as he swallowed the clouds and fog, beside him, a group of smokers were holding white paper cigarettes, and they were also swallowing the clouds and fog as the gods.

Shi Xiong took a puff of smoke, narrowed his eyes, and nodded very intoxicated.

Although this kind of home-made cigarette is far from being comparable to later filter cigarettes, it is definitely comparable to cigarettes in the early twentieth century or even at the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. If there is something not so good, it is that the weight of each cigarette is different, and the taste of tobacco leaves is not compared to later cigarettes with various flavors.

But in this era, being able to smoke paper cigarettes is already pretty good. After all, in this era, smokers all over the world can only smoke a pipe if they want to smoke. Perhaps some people have begun to make hand-rolled cigarettes with paper, but there are such mechanically rolled cigarettes in the hand-rolled "big horn". it is good?

In the original historical time and space, the cigarette machine used to make cigarettes was invented by Susini more than a hundred years later. This kind of cigarette machine first rolled cigarette paper into a paper tube, and then filled the inside with shredded tobacco.

Not to mention the slow speed of this kind of cigarette machinery, the weight of the filled tobacco can not be controlled, so this kind of machinery was quickly eliminated.

Then, in 1880, American Bangsack invented a cigarette making machine that was continuously formed into strips and then cut into cigarettes. This kind of cigarette making machine has already had the embryonic form of later modern cigarette making machines.

Compared with the filling cigarette machine invented by Susini, which can only roll 3,600 cigarettes per hour, which is about 60 cigarettes per minute, the cigarette invented by Bonsack is continuously formed into sticks and then cut into sticks. Machine-rolled cigarettes are much faster.

The cigarette machine invented by Bangsak can process 15,000 cigarettes an hour, which is equivalent to rolling 250 cigarettes per minute. This speed is undoubtedly much faster.

After this cigarette maker was invented, it was immediately sought after by many people. The American brothers Benjamin Duke and James Duke decisively adopted this cigarette making machine and invested a lot of money to build a cigarette factory, which allowed the cigarette industry to develop rapidly. As a result, the Duke brothers became kings of the American tobacco industry.

Well, it is worth mentioning that James Duke later became the first chairman of British American Tobacco, the world's largest tobacco company.

There was a famous cigarette factory in the province where Shixiong was in the past. It was the cigarette factory established by British American Tobacco in Daocheng at that time, and it was the earliest cigarette factory in the province where Shixiong's hometown is located. At that time, the "Laodao" cigarettes and "Pinhai" cigarettes produced by this cigarette factory sold well all over the country.

After the liberation, the tobacco factory was also nationalized, and the equipment was rebuilt. Some of the old cigarette making machines were destroyed and some were remodeled. Of course, one set was retained and placed in the stone bear. The Provincial Museum of the People's Republic of China is exhibited as exhibits.

This cigarette making machine is very primitive, far incomparable with the modern cigarette making machines of later generations, and the cigarette speed per minute is only a few hundred cigarettes, but this set of cigarette making machines let Shixiong fully understand the early cigarettes. How it was produced.

Because he understood the working principle of this cigarette maker, Shixiong decided to make cigarettes in this era.

Compared to salt, this spiritual food is more popular in Europe. In this era, Europeans generally smoke pipes. If cigarettes enter the European market, they will get more things in exchange than salt.

Even in later generations, everyone knows how huge tobacco profits are.

And Shixiong himself is also a smoker. When he first came to this world, although he had a pipe to be addicted to cigarettes, he was accustomed to cigarettes in his previous life, and he really didn't catch a cold with pipes.

Therefore, whether it is because of tobacco profiteering or Shixiong's own hobbies, this cigarette must be produced.

The most important thing is that Shixiong also wants to control some people in Europe by controlling this kind of cigarettes, especially if you add some other "materials" to the cigarettes, the effect will be better if you want to use this thing to control people. .

Therefore, before leading the expedition team to take revenge, Stone Bear gave David Adion the cigarette paper needed for how to make cigarettes, and let Momocao be responsible for destemming and shredding the picked tobacco leaves, and then Drying.

In this way, when Stone Bear returned from the Xiaohe tribe, he began to instruct Jack Williams to make the Bangsack cigarette machine.

Of course, this kind of cigarette making machine is manual, that is, it is driven by a leather belt through the principle of stepping on a sewing machine.

The structure of this cigarette making machine is not complicated. The dried shredded tobacco is rolled into long strips, then gathered together and cut together. A long tobacco rod can be cut into four cigarettes. One cigarette machine can make about one hundred cigarettes per minute.

This kind of cigarette is faster than even the most primitive Bangsak cigarette machine, but there is no way, even the most primitive Bangsak cigarette machine is powered by a steam engine, and the stone bear instructs Jack Williams to make it. This kind of cigarette making machine is pure manpower, and the speed is naturally different.

But it doesn't matter. If you want to increase production, just build a few more cigarette making machines. Anyway, this kind of manual cigarette making machine is not complicated, and it is not very laborious to make.

When Williams was making the cigarette maker, Shixiong took Momocao and a few women to teach them how to add their own flavors to tobacco leaves and how to fry shredded tobacco.

The tribe itself grows tobacco leaves, but tobacco leaves are the origin of the American continent. Almost every tribe here grows tobacco leaves.

The quality of tobacco leaves in the Americas is still very good. After removing the stems and shredding, dilute the honey with white wine, and then grind some flowers and plants picked and dried in the spring into powder and add them to the honey, thus making a simple flavor , And then stir with the tobacco.

Naturally, this flavor cannot be compared with later generations that are frequently added with dozens or even hundreds of spices, but in this era, it is much stronger than the dry tobacco leaves used for smoking pipes.

When the flavor is added, the shredded tobacco is fried. When the shredded tobacco is fried, it is no problem as long as the heat is controlled.

When the shredded tobacco is fried, it can be processed.

Although the frying of shredded tobacco is very simple and the cigarette does not have a filter, this cigarette is definitely the first cigarette in the world.

Today is the big day when the first batch of cigarettes were made, and when the first batch of cigarettes were taken off the cigarette maker, Shixiong and the others became the first people to enjoy this kind of cigarettes.