However, Feng Yunshan had confidence in his confidence, he still couldn't rely on the self-restraint of those congregations alone, and said directly to Liu Shengbang: "Pass on my message, let the General Staff control the officers and men of the 14th Division who have frequent contact with Huang Wei and are close to Huang Wei according to the intelligence of the Special Service Department, and isolate and review them one by one. And, just in case, the entire 14th Division was scattered and randomly swapped with other infantry divisions stationed in the country, so as to nip all possible hidden dangers in the bud. In addition, let the Special Service Department and the General Staff Headquarters take joint action to closely monitor all these gang groups, such as the Little Knife Society, the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Twisting Army, and the General Staff will break up and eliminate all these small groups in the army to instill in them the idea that there will be no more gangs, only the army will be captured, and the soldiers will take obedience to orders as their duty. Well, you can just pass these orders to the General Staff, and Zuo Zongtang will know how to do it. ”

After dealing with the affairs of these subordinates, Feng Yunshan dressed up in disguise, and accompanied by Liu Shengbang, walked to the streets of Shanghai with great interest.

Out of the county office, although he had already dressed up as a merchant from the mainland, Liu Shengbang was still not at ease, and sent more than 100 imperial forest soldiers to turn into ordinary people, and spread around Feng Yunshan before letting them go.

There are only a few main streets in the county seat, and there are many alleys and alleys. Not far from the county government, is the Shunji Temple built in the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Zhidong on the side pointed to a somewhat dilapidated temple and said that this is the main hall of Shunji Temple, which was originally called Zhenhai Tower, tall and majestic, but was destroyed by the artillery fire of foreigners in the uprising of the Little Knife Society.

The group continued to walk forward, and then came to a main street, at this time it was noon, the crowd was weaving, the bustling crowd was endless, porters, hawkers, military police, craftsmen, clerks came out one after another, and on both sides of the main street, there were all kinds of shops and workshops.

Walking on the street, Feng Yunshan saw that a large number of liquor stores, green buildings, tobacco houses, gambling halls, cloth shops, and grocery stores entered and exited it, which were mainly places for entertainment and consumption, and small workshops were only mixed in. Regarding Feng Yunshan's doubts, Zhang Zhidong explained that the rent in the city is quite expensive, and it is difficult for small workshops to support, and only those shops that consume entertainment can survive. Feng Yunshan couldn't help but sigh, it's the same in any era, it's difficult to do industry, but consumption is popular. It's just that he didn't expect that this 19th-century Shanghai city would begin to become more expensive.

Zhang Zhidong, who accompanied him on the side, said with some worry: "Your Majesty, these liquor shops, especially tobacco houses and casinos, Weichen is very troublesome, and there are more and more trends recently, which will lead the people to the extravagance of timely pleasure, extravagance, and drunkenness. ”

Feng Yunshan was stunned, he had indeed ignored this part. With the opening of Shanghai's commercial port, the hedonistic lifestyle brought by foreigners and wealthy merchants from all over the world made the style of luxury popular in Shanghai's original concession area, and even spread to the county seat of Shanghai, but Feng Yunshan was also a little helpless, and it was impossible to ban it all. You know, these gloomy things always rise with economic prosperity, and even in the 21st century, these things are still in vogue, either explicitly or secretly, let alone in this era. The only thing I have to do is to use the government's propaganda and the concept of the common people to advocate that you can't smoke a lot, don't gamble, and some can only be operated through the secret service department.

"Shengbang, you write down these things, and go back and let Fan Ruzeng send someone to deal with them. Zhang Aiqing, when you handed over to the new Shanghai county magistrate, you mentioned that in this Shanghai city, including the original concession area, these shops must strengthen management, and in the future, casinos and tobacco houses like this will be cracked down, and the imperial court will introduce policies to support you in due course! Feng Yunshan said as he thought about how the imperial court should treat the opium.

Casinos and green buildings, in this era, are undoubtedly impossible to completely cut off, it is better to allow them to be opened openly, but they must be in designated places, standardize their operations, in order to control the impact, but also collect heavy taxes to increase fiscal taxes. Feng Yunshan considered that now that the finances and taxes of the imperial court have risen, basic industries have risen in various places, and modern education has begun to enlighten, it is time to completely and publicly ban opium. In fact, the key is their own strength and the strength of the foreigners, when the Manchu Qing Lin Xu banned smoking, attracted the retaliation of the British opium dealers, and invaded the Manchu Qing by influencing the British Congress to launch the opium war, so as to legalize the opium trade, so that the opium in the land of China was more flooded, and even many places in the country planted their own, or interests.

Now the Chinese Empire is strong enough to protect its land and customs. As long as we order a complete ban on smoking, not only will the people in the country strictly ban the consumption of large cigarettes, but we will also put an end to the opium that will be investigated and dealt with by the customs and treaty ports in various localities, and we will be able to reduce the number of opiums in terms of consumption and at the source. Yes, you have to do this, at least, as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, you must do your best for the people of the empire, and you can't be worse than the Daoguang Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, Feng Yunshan remembered something. That is tobacco, the cigarette that became popular in later generations. It seems that this thing became popular all over the world at this time, and it played a role in alleviating the pain of those wounded and sick soldiers in the Crimean War, and it became popular all of a sudden. Anyway, even in the 21st century, it is impossible to prohibit it, and it is impossible to stop this trend at this time. It's time to introduce tobacco, which can be more economically viable than these crops as long as it doesn't affect basic food and cotton production. At this time, those large-scale tobacco production companies in Europe and the United States have not yet come out, and they can just seize the market.

At this time, large manufacturers like Philip Morris have just begun to appear, and the implementation is only artificial paper cigarettes, cigarettes have just begun to prevail, but because the production is too low, the price is extremely expensive, just a few rich and powerful aristocratic pastimes, and artificial production needs manpower the most, for this, there is still a country in the world today that has more human resources of the Chinese Empire? As long as the Chinese Empire preemptively develops machine cigarettes, it can greatly increase the production of cigarettes, and then the cost of cigarettes will be reduced and the price will be cheap, and it will dominate the cigarette market in the whole world. Raise customers first, and then gradually slaughter, when the time comes, how to adjust the price is up to yourself, which can be described as the innovative model of Internet + in later generations. Moreover, tobacco and war are often together, is a strategic material, the Chinese Empire now to continue to expand and rise, become a world power, war is unavoidable, the development of tobacco can play a certain role.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan couldn't help laughing: the foreigners invaded China with opium, and he wanted to fight back with tobacco, and the huge profits of tobacco could be compared with opium. Feng Yunshan made up his mind, and as soon as he returned to Shengjing, he instructed the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture to arrange this matter. This ban on smoking and smoking are not contradictory at all, but the fate of the Chinese people is completely different.

The group walked around several streets in the city, and Feng Yunshan was generally satisfied. Just from the faces of the most ordinary people in the city, it can be seen that it is no longer the people Feng Yunshan saw everywhere in the past few years with vegetables on their faces and withered faces.

However, Feng Yunshan still found that the entire inner city of Shanghai was too crowded, and the alleys outside the main streets, especially in the alleys, were difficult to pass at all, and two people had to turn sideways to pass, and there were dense adobe wooden houses on both sides, and if there was really any fire, dozens of families in the entire street would be burned down.

"Zhang Aiqing, it's rare that you haven't noticed, is there any difference between this inner city of Shanghai and that concession area?" Feng Yunshan asked.

Zhang Zhidong was a little puzzled, looked at the dense crowd in front of him, suddenly came to his senses, and replied: "Your Majesty is saying that the streets in the concession area are relatively spacious, and the alleys in this Shanghai city are too narrow?" Seeing that the emperor nodded, Zhang Zhidong explained: "Your Majesty is wise! Wechen also had a headache at first, but fortunately it was just in the alleys. There are too many people in the county, and every month two or three thousand new laborers come to Shanghai County, and they all live in this county for a period of time, and then move out after finding something to do, but in this way, the city of Shanghai is overcrowded. Those people who originally lived in the county town, for the sake of profit, desperately built temporary small shacks and rented them out to the newly relocated laborers to live in to earn rent, causing the originally wide streets and alleys to become narrower and narrower, and finally difficult to pass. ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he couldn't help but think of those basement tenants and group tenants in later generations, and he didn't expect that Shanghai City had already begun to appear at this time. On the one hand, it shows that Shanghai has indeed developed, and it takes a lot of labor to open so many shops and factories, so it has attracted a large number of people to migrate here. On the other hand, with the increase in population, this urban area of Shanghai is indeed too small, and it is time to expand. A large number of things and contradictions and disputes in later generations, such as demolition, urban management, housing prices, etc., are actually caused by urban planning and construction. With the development of Shanghai's current population size, it is time to consider urban planning and how to rationalize construction and urban management.