In the crowded casino, Korean merchants and magnates shuttled back and forth, cursing, laughing, and exclamations mingled with each other. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Cheng appeared at Li Kaiyuan's side at this time, he looked at Huang Bing'an and said, "Chairman Lee, this person is Huang Bing'an, the eldest son of Goryeo Yizheng, his father is in a high position in Goryeo, and he is one of the most trusted ministers of the king of Goryeo. ”

"Really? It's a big fish. Li Kaiyuan narrowed his eyes, although Goryeo was defeated, the current control of the Great Yu State was only Haigu City and Beisha City.

The real ruler of this land is still the king of Goryeo, and there are some things that they still need the king of Goryeo to help them.

For example, when it comes to doing business, the merchants of Hai Gucheng seem to be busy, but they haven't touched the core of real trade.

Like the Great Yu Kingdom, Goryeo was a feudal dynasty, and much of the trade required the approval of the imperial court.

Because of this, he was not in a hurry, and in his opinion, it would be easier to participate in the trade of Goryeo as his own official.

Li Cheng basically figured out the purpose of Dayu during this time, that is, to do business, and now Li Kaiyuan is so interested in this Huang Bing'an, it must be for business.

So he said, "The Goryeo maritime trade club needs the approval of this person's father, and as long as Chairman Lee buys him off, this Goryeo trade Chairman Lee can do whatever he wants." ”

Li Kaiyuan asked Li Cheng to come just to confirm the identity of this Huang Bing'an, in fact, when Huang Bing'an entered Haigu City, he was targeted by the secret guards.

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

Seeing this, Li Kaiyuan let Li Chengzai leave, and turned to Wang Xuan and smiled: "The information provided by your secret guards this time is good, this Huang Bing'an is indeed the son of Goryeo Yizheng. ”

Wang Xuan arrived after the ancient city of Hai was conquered, and his purpose was to establish a faction of pro-Yu officials in the Goryeo court.

Before the fall of the Golden Horde, Goryeo was not a vassal state of the Great Yu State, and the Great Yu State could not directly command the king of Goryeo.

But after working hard to defeat Goryeo, this business could not be delayed, so Xiao Ming ordered him and Li Kaiyuan to be the main players, and Ye Qingyun cooperated to buy the Goryeo court in order to maximize the commercial and trade interests of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Wang Xuan had a smile on his face, "My subordinates have always been meticulous, and most of them can't make mistakes, now, how are you going to deal with this Huang Bing'an." ”

"Our real purpose is to control Huang Bing'an's father Huang Zixuan, but this Huang Zixuan is not addicted to women, and he is not greedy for money, which is difficult to deal with, and the only weakness is this son." Li Kaiyuan said.

Wang Xuan nodded, he provided all this information to Li Kaiyuan, and even the businessman who lured Huang Bing'an was also arranged by him.

Sometimes it has to be said that there are always merchants who will take risks under the huge profits, and during this time, the secret guards bought off many Korean merchants.

The price was a promise to prop up the merchants to become the richest people in Goryeo, and to provide them with security.

Now these merchants, who had been carried away by the silver, had moved to live in Haigu City, and they were only waiting for the arrival of the trading ships of the Great Yu Kingdom, so that they could sell these goods all over Goryeo.

"In that case, let him play here for a few days, and then let him lose all his wealth." Wang Xuanxiao is a little bad.

The secret guard is an institution that walks in the dark, and sometimes has to use some shady means in order to buy officials.

Then he showed a hint of amusement and said, "This casino game is indeed novel enough, but I always feel that something is missing, and I am afraid that it is not enough to make the magnates and merchants of Goryeo ponder this." ”

Li Kaiyuan showed a hint of unhappiness, "You, the commander of the secret guard, have found out all the information from me, you are right, there will be no shortage of novelties in this gambling house, and these are all handed over 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, he also had to admire the emperor's whimsy, so he said: "The emperor said, let me select some beautiful women in Goryeo, let these women wear sultry clothes to accompany these gamblers, and build a dining room in the casino, bring the stir-fried vegetables of Dayu Country over, in addition to the most important one, that is, tobacco and opium." ”

"I've heard of tobacco, what is this opium?" Wang Xuan also heard of it for the first time.

"I've never heard of it before, but the emperor told me when he came to tell me that there are tobacco leaves brought by the Dutch from North America on the island of Ryukyu Island now, and there are some Indian pipes......"

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

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

At that time, he didn't ask about these things after Qian Dafu put them away, and he didn't think about it until a few days ago, and he didn't expect to find this thing, which shocked him for a while.

It was then that he remembered the origin of tobacco and opium.

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

During the modern Ming Dynasty, the Dutch first introduced North American Indian pipes to the Ming Dynasty through the Ryukyus.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has had its first smokers, and at that time, the speed and extent of the spread of this tobacco frightened the Ming Emperor Chongzhen at the time, so he ordered a ban on smoking.

At that time, there was no distinction between tobacco and opium, and opium was mixed with tobacco for smoking, causing symptoms of addiction.

However, what Emperor Chongzhen did not expect was that the ban on tobacco allowed opium to spread in the Ming Dynasty, resulting in a large-scale spread of opium.

Officials at the time pointed out the dangers of opium and that it was impossible to stop the addict unless he killed him.

The "Ming Huidian" also records the fact that the Asian vassal states paid opium tribute to the Ming royal family.

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

Siam paid a tribute of 200 catties to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and 100 catties to the empress every time, but this amount could not meet the needs of the royal family, and the emperor even sent eunuchs everywhere to look for and purchase opium.

At that time, the price of opium was basically the same as gold, and one tael of gold was exchanged for one tael of opium.

It can be seen that the royal family of the Ming Dynasty was already suspected of smoking opium at that time, and the Wanli Emperor, the top name of the Ming Dynasty, is said to have opium in the alchemy.

However, at this time, because opium was expensive, it was basically the powerful and wealthy merchants who smoked it, and the spread of opium among the people was very small, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when opium became cheap, which caused large-scale smoking.