3769 An emerging industry
The three subordinates of Master Qing San just wanted to wake up these Eight Banners playboys who daydream every day, but they didn't expect that this explanation would have become an extremely large smuggling business later!
Absinthe can cause hallucination but is not easy to get addicted. Isn’t this the best alternative to opium?
Why did so many people smoke big cigarettes in the late Qing Dynasty? It cannot be attributed to the fact that foreigners were selling on the market. The deeper reason is that the society at that time was completely rigid!
People have no chance or method to change their destiny, and all channels are closed!
Not to mention the Han people, hundreds of millions of Han people are only competing for hundreds of imperial examination places every year. The cruelty of this competition can be imagined!
Manchus were born without trusting the Han people to join the army, and later they had to let the Han people control military power, which was also restricted everywhere. Except for a very small number of people such as Zeng Guofan who could make a fortune, the rest were just cannon fodder in the eyes of the court!
The Han people are miserable, but in fact, the Manchus are not as good as there!
Xiao Letian once said that Manchus is a big racial concept, and the Eight Banners are just a military group in the Manchus race!
I remember that before the Manchu people entered the pass, although they claimed that the whole nation was a soldier, no regime could have no people without logistics and production!
Like the white mountains and black waters, many Manchu tribes that did not fight and were not infected with human lives were left behind. These people were called Wild Jurchens in history!
What is wild? In fact, they were all ordinary Manchu tribes like Nurhaci’s tribes, with blood tragedy for thousands of years, and no one is more noble than anyone else!
It was just a war that changed the fate of both sides. The robbery group entered the pass and turned into a military group called the Eight Banners!
Without participation, they stayed in their hometown and became a huge group of wild Jurchens. At this moment, under the command of Xiang Shaolong, the Far East King, these wild Jurchens also had a large population proportion!
These wild Jurchens have no chance to be promoted. The Eight Banners Group will not accept them coming in to eat meat together, and they will not even share the soup!
And is the Eight Banners a must-have? In fact, it is not the case!
In the first few years after the Manchus entered the pass, the Central Plains was deserted and the population was sparse. In addition, the Three Feudal Rebellion was to be suppressed, so the Eight Banners military group was still very prosperous!
Because there is a war to fight, life will be depleted, and the soldiers at the bottom also have room for promotion, and they can also gain a wife and a son by accumulating military achievements!
However, from the late Kangxi period to the Qianlong period, there were not too many wars in the world, and the population grew, and the scale of the Eight Banners became larger and larger!
At this time, the court's attitude towards the Eight Banners changed. At first, I felt that this was a reliance on governing the country, but now I feel like a burden!
Eat so much, give birth to so much, and then cause trouble every day! In order to solve the stubborn disease of the Eight Banners, the Kangxi and Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties once evacuated bannermen from the capital to foreign enemies!
There were even a group of people who rewarded silver and land and then returned to resettlement outside the pass. That might be the buyout of the service life during the Qing Dynasty!
Of course, most bannermen are not fooled. They just live in the capital and all over the country, and they will not leave no matter how you drive them away!
Even if you reduce my hardcore crops, I will not leave or go back to my hometown!
These bannermen who were bought out of their service life will naturally leave the Eight Banners, a military-promoted group, from now on, and their lives will be left to fate!
Finally, let’s look at the group of people who died of old age and did not come out of the Eight Banners Group. Is their lives really good? Of course, it is definitely better than the Han people who face the loess and their backs facing the sky, sweat dripping down and falling eight petals!
But there are people there to be content, and idle people will cause trouble!
The court had rules that bannermen could only serve as soldiers or study and become officials, and were not allowed to do business or become doctors, craftsmen, etc.!
Such a ban can be said to have locked down the lives of most bannermen. Not so many people are born to be officials and are the talents of generals.
Many Eight Banners' children have been mediocre throughout their lives!
And even if you are a promising young man, there are only one carrot and one pit in the court, and there are too few official positions and too many people waiting to be officials. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money, do you still want to be an official?
Is Master Qing San very capable? He is known as Little Li Guang. In the end, he also worked as a small leader of the guards in the Qing Xiling Tomb for several years?
If Xiao Letian hadn't opened his own way for him, even if he was a descendant of Fu Kang'an, he would not have wanted to be a powerful official!
Depressed, the entire Qing Dynasty, from Han people to Manchus and even the bannermen, were under high pressure, and faced with this kind of depression that could not be vented.
Some people started a revolution and wanted to rebel, while others were addicted to drinking, sex, money and energy, waiting for death. What should we do if more people could not even enjoy wine, sex, money and energy?
He dared not rebel, and he didn't have much money to enjoy it, so he couldn't vent his pressure... and naturally he became a guest at the opium opium restaurant!
There is no inner ghost in your heart, and you won’t be trapped no matter how you seduce it outside!
Opium was rampant in the late Qing Dynasty, which was due to its deep social reasons, and it was not simply attributed to foreigners' dumping!
But these people in the late Qing Dynasty were not stupid either. They were addicted to opium and were full of examples of scamming offenders. This is something that we really have to be careful about!
Today, the absinthe incident that Cai Bixia accidentally created suddenly opened up a huge market gap!
Too many addicts need this soft poison # product that is not very harmful but can still be enjoyable and hallucinated. This market is unprecedentedly huge. Too many late Qing people need this thing to relieve stress!
It was from now on that many foreigners and Chinese import businesses suddenly had some mysterious people coming to inquire about the details of this absinthe, and many people also expressed their intention to buy it!
Cai Bixia really didn't lie. The Cai family also had a business in import and export trade. Some foreign goods from Europe were sold in Asia by their family!
When I saw that there was a market for this absinthe, several foreign companies mainly composed of the Cai family began a smuggling activity of absinthe!
It was not just smuggling. When the absinthe market was opened in the Qing Dynasty, these people began to set up factories on the Chinese territory to make absinthe themselves!
It is not a product that needs to be kept confidential. With the intelligence and talent of Chinese winemakers and the discovery of a group of European winemakers, the entire set of craftsmanship was soon learned!
A hangover between the four Qing princes was exchanged for the huge absinthe market in the future. This is really an extremely huge joke!
"It's no help, these bannermen are really no help..."
Shishan, Shishui and Cheng Huai looked at the bannermen who were asking questions in a word, and they were so angry that they put on their hats and turned their heads and left the teahouse!
"Let's go! Go to the ** yamen to see the third master... I feel disgusted when I see these people!"
Chapter completed!