Iron Dynasty

In the crowded casino, Korean merchants and dignitaries shuttled back and forth, cursing, laughing, and exclaiming were intertwined and extremely noisy. ΩE small Δ said WWW. 1XIAOSHUO. COM

Lee Sung appeared next to Lee Kai-won at this time. He looked at Huang Byeong'an and said, "Chairman Lee, this person is Huang Byeong'an, the eldest son of Goryeo's political affairs. His father is highly regarded in Goryeo and is the most trusted minister of the King of Goryeo one."

"Really? This is a big fish." Li Kaiyuan squinted his eyes. Although Goryeo was defeated, the current Da Yu Kingdom control was only Haigu City and Beisha City.

The real controller of this land is the King of Goryeo, and they still need King of Goryeo to assist them in some things.

For example, in business matters, the merchants in Haigucheng seem to be busy now, but they have not actually touched the core of real trade.

Like the Great Yu Kingdom, Goryeo was also a feudal dynasty, and many trades required the approval of the court.

Because of this, he did not rush or slow down. In his opinion, it would be easier to participate in the Korean trade as an official.

During this period of time, Li Cheng basically figured out the purpose of Dayu, which is to do business. Now Li Kaiyuan is so interested in Huang Bing'an for business.

So he said: "Koryo maritime trade clubs need the approval of this person's father. As long as Chairman Lee buys him, this Korean trade leader Lee will do whatever he wants."

Li Kaiyuan asked Li Cheng to come here just to confirm the identity of Huang Bing'an. In fact, when Huang Bing'an entered Hai Ancient City, he was spotted by the secret guard.

When the two were talking, Wang Xuan got up from a gaming table and walked towards them.

Seeing this, Li Kaiyuan made Li Chengzai leave, and turned to Wang Xuan with a smile: "This time your secret guard provided good information. This Huang Bingan is indeed the son of Goryeo discussing politics."

After the ancient city of Hai was conquered, Wang Xuan arrived here. His goal was to establish a faction of officials pro-Dayu in the court of Korea.

Before the fall of the Golden Horde, Goryeo was not a vassal state of Great Yu, and Great Yu could not directly order King Goryeo.

However, this business cannot be delayed because of the painstaking efforts to lay down Gaoli, so Xiao Ming ordered him and Li Kaiyuan to dominate, and Ye Qingyun cooperated with the acquisition of Gaoli Chaotang in order to maximize the business interests of the country.

Wang Xuan had a smile on his face, "My hands are always meticulous, and most of them can't go wrong. Now, how are you going to deal with this Huang Bing'an."

"Our real purpose is to control Huang Bingan's father, Huang Zixu, but this Huang Zixu is neither indulging in female **** nor greedy for money. It is difficult to deal with. The only weakness is this son." Li Kaiyuan said.

Wang Xuan nodded. He provided this information to Li Kaiyuan, and even the businessman who lured Huang Bingan was arranged by him.

Sometimes I have to say that under the huge profits, there are always merchants who will take the risk. During this time, Secret Guard bought many Korean merchants.

The price is to promise to support these businessmen to become the fortunes of Korea, and to provide them with safety protection.

Now these merchants who have been dazzled by silver have moved to live in the ancient city of Hai. They are only waiting for the arrival of the trading ships from the country of Da Yu, so that they can sell these commodities everywhere in Goryeo.

"If this is the case, let him play here for a few days, and then let him lose all his wealth." Wang Xuanxiao was a little bit bad.

The Secret Guard is an organization that walks in the dark, and sometimes has to use some illegible means to buy off officials.

Then he showed a hint of playfulness and said: "This casino game is indeed novel enough, but I always feel that something is missing. I am afraid that it is not enough to make the dignitaries and businessmen of Korea contemplate this."

Li Kaiyuan showed an uncomfortable look, "You, the commander of the secret guards, all the information has found me. You are right. There are many novelties in this gambling house, and these are all given to me by the emperor. ."

Wang Xuan was now addicted to gossip when he was a secret guard, and asked excitedly, "What is it?"

Li Kaiyuan recalled for a while, he also had to admire the emperor’s bizarre ideas, so he said: "The emperor said, let me choose some beautiful women in Korea, and let these women wear sultry clothes to accompany these gamblers. , And also built a dining room in the casino to bring the stir-fries from Great Yuguo, besides the most important one, that is tobacco and opium."

"I have heard of tobacco, what is this opium." Wang Xuan was also the first time I heard.

"I have never heard of this before. It was told by the emperor when he came up. He said that there are tobacco leaves brought by the Dutch from North America on Ryukyu Island, and there are some Indian pipes..."

When the two were discussing the fun of the casino, Xiao Ming was playing with a pipe and a pack of tobacco leaves in the study of Qingzhou Xingyuan.

These two things are one of the gifts from the Dutch mission last time.

At that time, after Qian Dafu put these things away, he didn't ask about it again. He didn't think about it until a few days ago. He didn't think about it, and it shocked him for a while.

Only then did he remember the origin of tobacco and opium.

This tobacco, like potatoes and sweet potatoes, has never been a native of Asia.

In the contemporary Ming Dynasty, the Dutch first introduced North American Indian pipes and tobacco leaves to Ming Dynasty through Ryukyu.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty began to have the first group of smokers. At that time, the degree and extent of the spread of this kind of tobacco frightened the then Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, so he ordered a smoking ban.

Because no distinction was made between tobacco and opium at that time, opium was mixed into tobacco smoking, causing symptoms of addiction.

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not expect that the prohibition of tobacco allowed the spread of opium during the Ming Dynasty ~www.ltnovel.com~, which caused a large-scale spread of opium.

Officials at the time pointed out the dangers of opium, and unless the addicts were killed, they could not be given up.

The "Da Ming Hui Dian" also records that Asian vassal states paid tribute to the Ming imperial family for opium.

At that time, the kings of Siam, Java, and Bengal regularly sent tribute missions to the Ming Dynasty. Opium was included in the tribute, but at that time the opium was called "wuxiang".

Each time Siam paid two hundred catties to the Ming emperor and one hundred catties to the queen, but this amount could not meet the needs of the royal family. The emperor even sent eunuchs to look for opium everywhere.

At that time, the price of opium was basically equivalent to gold, and one or two gold was exchanged for one or two opium.

It can be seen that the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty had been suspected of taking opium at that time, and the emperor Wanli, the most famous emperor of the Ming Dynasty, said that there was opium in the ingredients of alchemy.

However, at this time, because opium was expensive, it was basically the use of wealthy businessmen, and the spread of opium among the people was minimal. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that opium became cheap, causing large-scale use.