Chapter 1206 Tobacco
"Arrange the people from the Foreign Intelligence Agency to keep an eye on them." Liu Heng said, "Look at what they plan to do next, a deputy general and an inspector. Even if they join forces, there will not be too many methods to use on us."
"Don't worry, my subordinates have arranged people around Yang Hewei and Yang Guozhu. No matter what they do, the people from the Foreign Intelligence Agency can discover it as soon as possible." Yang Yuan promised.
The tiger-like flag is already a behemoth in Datong.
As the external intelligence department of the Tiger Flag, spy probes were spread throughout the north of the Ming Dynasty. As the place where the Tiger Flag started, the number of spy probes was even greater. It has achieved that there are dark spies with the Tiger Flag in every yamen in Datong.
Liu Heng nodded and turned to Zhao Wu who was standing beside him and said, "Go and find Mr. Zhao."
"Yes." Zhao Wu agreed and turned around and left.
Liu Heng said to Yang Yuan again: "You go and do your business, don't be by my side all the time."
Every day, a lot of intelligence from all over the country gathers in the Foreign Intelligence Bureau. As the director of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, Yang Yuan is not relaxed and is very busy every day.
"Yes, my subordinates took their leave." Yang Yuan bowed and left withdrew.
Liu Heng looked up at the scorching sun above his head, reached out to take out a palm-sized iron box from his pocket, opened it, and took out a roll of dry cigarettes rolled with white paper.
With the other hand, he pulled down the paper tip in front of the dry tobacco roll, then put the end of the dry tobacco roll in his mouth, took out the fire stick and lit it.
Take a deep breath of smoke, turn it around from your lungs, and slowly exhale a smoke ring.
The dry tobacco was sent by Zheng Tie from the sea. The tiger flag was first handed over to old farmers to plant it in the experimental fields and try it out to find land and planting methods suitable for growing dry tobacco.
Drought tobacco is still a fresh item in the north of the Ming Dynasty.
However, this thing is very familiar to Liu Heng, and it has become a very popular thing in later generations.
Liu Heng took another sip of the cigarette in his mouth.
Sighing with expression.
Unfortunately, there was no filter. When I first started to suck, I felt dizzy and my strength was too strong. It was not until I sucked a few more times that I slowly got used to it.
He sucked a cigarette in just a few sips, and he spitted a little white paper without tobacco on the ground.
"I've met my elders." Zhao Yutu came to Liu Heng.
"Give me one!" Liu Heng handed the iron box containing the dry tobacco roll in his hand to Zhao Yutu in front of him.
Zhao Yutu hurriedly shook his head and signaled that he would not suck.
He doesn't like the smell of dry tobacco and can't figure out why his adults like such unpleasant things.
"This is a good thing, but it's a pity that you don't have the blessing." Liu Heng smiled, put away the iron box, and put it in his pocket.
Zhao Yutu frowned and said, "Sir, I really don't understand why such a harsh thing has become a good thing. I even asked our old farmers with the tiger flag to plant this thing."
He doesn't like dry tobacco, and even dislikes it. He doesn't support his adults in his heart to grow these things. Instead of growing dry tobacco in the field, it is better to have a few acres of land.
"You don't understand." Liu Heng shook at Zhao Yutu with a smile, then walked towards his signing room.
Zhao Yutu hurriedly followed and said, "I really can't understand. This thing cannot be eaten or drunk. Planting this thing in the field is a waste of the field."
The signing room was behind him, and Liu Heng walked inside a few steps.
"Sit." Liu Heng pointed to the empty seat beside him, and then returned to the seat behind the table to sit down.
Zhao Yutu came to the empty seat, sat down, looked at Liu Heng, waiting for an explanation.
After smoking, his mouth was easy to dry. Liu Heng picked up the tea jar on the table and took a sip of boiled water inside.
"It doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, you will know the benefits of dry tobacco in the future." Liu Heng put down the tea jar and said to Zhao Yutu with a smile.
Drying tobacco is indeed not eaten or drunk, but he knew that the wealth this thing would bring to the tiger flag in the future is no worse than food and iron tools.
Even if one acre of grain is not as rich as one acre of dry tobacco.
Hearing the explanation given by Liu Heng, Zhao Yutu frowned deeply and said, "Sir, our manpower and material resources are so expensive. If we cannot be sure of bringing more benefits, our subordinates recommend not to plant dry tobacco."
Compared with dry tobacco, which cannot be eaten or drunk, he prefers a variety of food.
Disasters are becoming more and more frequent in various places, and the price of grain has doubled. As the deputy director of the Logistics Bureau of Tiger Banner, he hopes for a variety of grains, such as visible wealth.
"This thing is addictive." Liu Heng took out a dry cigarette roll from the iron box and put it in front of him, saying, "Some places in the south have begun to grow and sell, but it is not yet on the scale."
Zhao Yutu's face suddenly changed and he hurriedly said, "Sir, since this thing is addictive, it cannot be spread. It should be destroyed immediately. Sir, you must not smoke it anymore."
As a scholar, he knew that there was an addictive thing like Wushi San during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It not only caused hallucinations after taking it, but also harmed the body of the taker.
When he heard that dry tobacco was also addictive, his reaction was that dry tobacco was a different name for Wushi San.
"It's not that scary." Liu Heng waved his hand gently and said immediately, "Although dry tobacco is not a good thing, it does not cause much damage to the body. There is a saying that smoking and drinking can make you live with ninety-nine."
Zhao Yutu's face turned black.
He had never heard of such a way that smoking and drinking could make him live to ninety-nine.
Liu Heng put away the dry tobacco roll in his hand, put it back into the iron box, and said in his mouth: "Although dry tobacco is addictive, it is different from the Wushi Powder in the Jin and Tang Dynasties. Mr. Zhao doesn't have to worry. Some people smoke dry tobacco all their lives and live until they are eighty-year-olds."
He is talking about later generations. As for the Ming Dynasty, it is already considered longevity if ordinary people can live to the age of forty.
"The adults also said that dry tobacco will hurt the body. For the sake of the health of the adults, I think the adults should not smoke anymore." Zhao Yutu advised.
Liu Heng is an irreplaceable leader of the Tiger Flag. It can be said that the Tiger Flag can achieve its achievements today, which is completely achieved step by step under the leadership of Liu Heng.
As a member of the tiger flag, he didn't want to watch Liu Heng do something that hurts his body.
"I won't talk about dry tobacco anymore. I'll ask Zhao Wu to find you because there are other things you want to do." Liu Heng didn't want to continue to get involved with Zhao Yutu's affairs.
Chapter completed!