Chapter 23 Tobacco appeared hundreds of years in advance
"Well, I don't think I'm going to face how terrible it is! All I'm missing now is time, and in time, I'm going to make everyone fall in shock! I am not afraid of the plots from the descendants of the family, I am afraid that their elders will force each other to become the prince of the county, and after all, they will be ministers in one dynasty, and it will not be difficult to carefully lay some traps for your father. Li Zhi's words were not worried.
"Then you will give me a rapid growth, as long as we are not at the end of the road, we have a chance to get ahead! And once your rice paper is on the market, if the quality is high, it will definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition, and it is inevitable to attract the attention of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, which will be an excellent opportunity for you to rise suddenly! ”
The communication between them further sublimates the feelings between each other in the seemingly stealing, but it seems to others to be a secret topic between a young couple, but fortunately, the other table in the private room is an ordinary person who cannot pass the rumors to the upper class.
There are a few more delicacies that can be used, and Li Zhi led the group to merge into the crowd of the market.
Not only are there special merchants in the bazaar, but the life of the farmers is also inseparable from the bazaar, and they take the goods obtained from farming to the bazaar to sell, and if they all are replaced, they can often exchange it for a whole year's income.
Therefore, the shopping army is not filled with wholesale vendors from afar, and the more mainstream hard-working rural housewives are also inseparable from the bazaar, they need to go to the bazaar to make a belly pocket for a child, pull a dress for the elderly, and buy a hairpin for themselves.
Children also like the market, they can go to the market under the guidance of adults to choose their favorite toys and snacks for a long time; Older people like the market, where they can chat with their peers, and they get up early in the morning with a cloth bag on their backs to walk to the market, and the day is theirs.
At that time, there were relatives in all ten miles and eight towns, and it would be quite inconvenient to go back and forth with each other without cattle and horses, so they could get together and chat together for a morning. When you are thirsty, you buy a bowl of water to drink, and when you are hungry, you go to the small rice stall to drink a bowl of bean brain, and then chat, talk about the marriage of children and daughters, and talk about the harvest of the year.
People who live nearby can come out of their homes with a basket of neatly bundled vegetables and rush to the market to sell them. These are all self-produced and self-sold good vegetables, no pollution, no too many pests and diseases, some are verdant and gratifying, these bundles of fresh and lovely greens, may be able to exchange for a few catties of fresh eggs.
And those who raise chickens, save dozens of eggs and carry them to the market to sell them, and a few dollars of money from selling eggs can be exchanged for a few catties of steamed buns, a few handfuls of noodles, and weigh a few catties of fruits produced in the south for their children.
The Li family also likes to buy in similar small stalls, and along the way, Li Zhi has seen the subordinates sent by the family wandering around several times.
"Your master Liu is very good at taking care of the logistics affairs at home, and such a piecemeal procurement method is also very admired by the housekeeper of our county palace. Otherwise, a large number of vegetables and poultry eggs sent by the merchant will be wasted due to the backlog of half a month, and the seemingly cumbersome collection of fresh categories is more expensive, but in addition to the waste caused by corruption, it can also effectively inhibit corruption, which is still what our master Feng said! ”
"If you think about it, it's really like this, ordinary people occasionally bring back some ingredients in the kitchen of the big house, it will bring great improvement to the poor family, once you don't buy in large quantities, you can make those greed cause great scruples, this method is really very practical!"
"Therefore, if you can rule out the suspicion of this person, you might as well send him to a greater use, with your healing, his body is no longer an obstacle!"
"It's still the county lord's sister who is delicate, if you don't mention such subtle things, I really can't pay attention to them!"
"Our business is in its infancy, and we urgently need people who can be fully trusted, and ability is secondary! But Master Liu is extremely capable, and he is really a person who keeps his business and secrets, so he might as well be reused! ”
"I didn't expect you to be so familiar with our family!"
"It's not because of you! And Uncle Yang has also mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally before, of course, it will not be so direct, but I am reminded by Master Feng's words! At that time, you were in extreme physical and mental sorrow, and I was also strictly ordered by my family to come and go in the Li family compound at that time, and I didn't come to you less! ”
Master Feng is called Feng Changlu, he is the first master of the Linhuai County Palace, and he is in charge of logistics, Li Zhi nodded, and he felt warm for the concern of someone other than the Li family.
In front of finding a stall selling tobacco leaves, he was suddenly stimulated by the smoking addiction in his previous life, and couldn't help but stop to check, at this time, there should be no tobacco leaves in the Tang Dynasty, but the Song and Ming dynasties six hundred years later, why it appeared here, he was very surprised.
Like apples and watermelons, it was Li Zhi's favorite in the previous life, so there was a search for their knowledge.
It is said that tobacco was brought by Columbus from the Americas, and there is another theory that it was introduced to Taiwan and Fujian from Luzon in a similar era.
Therefore, when he saw it at this moment, he felt extremely surprised, and couldn't help but squat down and talk to the stall owner.
It turned out that this person obtained some of the seeds through the Great Food in Chang'an City, that is, the hands of the Arabs of later generations, but the Arab did not know what this thing was, but obtained it from a group of natives on the American continent who did not have their own writing and liked to be naked on a foreign ship to labor slave labor.
The natives regarded them as treasures, but because no one could understand their squeaky language, they had no way of knowing the origin of the objects.
This man had been given some of the plantations, but he did not know what to do with them, and he came to the bazaar today in the hope that someone would recognize them, so that he could sell them in exchange for a year's hard work.
During the Tang Dynasty, how powerful the country was, it belonged to the existence of the Celestial Empire, a country that was really developed at that time, and the economy at that time was so strong that it accounted for almost 58% of the world's total GDP at that time, which was far from being in the United States today, but all outsiders were full of worship for the Tang Dynasty.
Since the civilized people among the outsiders were not offered to the imperial court, it means that no one in the world has discovered the use of tobacco at this time.
In fact, the origin of related tobacco, there is also a local Chinese theory, according to Li Zhi's current medical cognition, the ancient pharmacopoeia of wild smoke, acacia grass, soul tobacco, benevolence grass, star anise and other different names of tobacco name, I am afraid that it is this kind of legendary in later generations.
This unexpected result suddenly lifted his spirit, and in addition to being used to make cigarettes, dry tobacco, pipe tobacco, cigar smoke, etc., tobacco can also be used for a variety of medical purposes.
Although it has brought a lot of harm to human beings at the same time, and is even called "poisonous weed" in later generations, many countries or regions have expressly restricted its circulation or extraction, but as a medicinal plant with a long history, its medical value cannot be erased because of its harmfulness.
For example, swelling and detoxification, insecticide; It is used for boils, tinea capitis, vitiligo, baldness, poisonous snake bites; exterminate snails, mosquitoes, flies, and rats; It is often used to relieve pain, detoxify and kill insects, treat food stagnation and fullness, qi knot pain, carbuncles, boils, scabies, snake and dog bites, and chase away all yin and evil cold poison, mountain miasma, rheumatism and evil closed intestines, muscle and bone pain, etc.
The main ingredient in tobacco is nicotine, accounting for 93% of the total alkali, which has no broader use in medical treatment, mainly for toxicological significance, and the rapid death of acute poisoning. Chemicals are similar.
The nicotine content in cigarettes in later generations is about 1~2%, and although one cigarette roll can eliminate fatigue and inhibition, and improve work efficiency, in fact, it is only to give the smoker some spiritual satisfaction.
The reason for Li Zhi's excitement is not that he will use it as a cigarette in the future, but that it will actually be used in medicine, and snuff, which should have appeared nearly a thousand years later, is his purpose.
Reborn in another world, since there is no intention of officialdom power, wealth accumulation is another way to strengthen one's own strength, and one more way to make money means that personal power is consolidated and consolidated.
Snuff is to grind high-quality tobacco into a very fine powder, add musk and other precious medicinal materials, or use flowers and other refinement, the production process is very exquisite, although the smell is mellow and spicy, but it can have a very obvious eye, refreshing, epidemic, blood invigorating effect.
Snuff will not cause harm to the human body, nor will it become addictive, it is to call its fragrant breath, so as to awaken the brain and refresh the mind, and drive away the function of avoiding the epidemic.
Because snuff can play a mild anesthetic effect, to relieve the pressure of nervous tension, so that the tired body can get a temporary rest and relaxation.
It has the same effect as cigarettes, not only can relieve smoking addiction but also can refresh and eliminate fatigue, in addition to snuff also has the effect of clearing the brain and eyes, lowering blood pressure, and preventing encephalitis.
More importantly, snuff does not irritate the lungs and trachea like smoking other cigarettes, and later generations of relevant scholars have proved that people who use snuff have few coughs and asthma, and no encephalitis is obtained.
In addition to the above medical effects, Li Zhi pays more attention to its analgesic effect, and in addition to the special effect function of anesthetic, it is sold as an expensive awakening, opening and closing miracle effect, and it will get unimaginably huge benefits.