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Xiao Ming, who was playing with his pipe, frowned, "Is this Brandon really stupid or fake stupid?" ”

With the painful historical memory of modern times, Xiao Ming is naturally very wary of opium, and it is difficult to eradicate this thing as long as it is addicted.

If Brandon just sent opium, which is now the so-called "black incense" in Dayu Kingdom, he would still be able to accept it, after all, this thing is also a kind of medicinal herb, which can be used for anesthesia and analgesia.

But what is the intention of this girl to send a big smoking gun directly? Perhaps Asian countries do not understand the dangers of opium smoking because of their low level of education, but Europeans who have been dealing with opium for more than 100 years cannot be unaware.

"Sure enough, there is a needle hidden in the cotton, and a knife is hidden in the smile."

Xiao Ming sneered, if he wasn't from modern times, it was estimated that he would be planted in the hands of this Brandon, and from then on he would live a life of lying in bed and swallowing clouds.

However, thinking of the trend of this era, he is a little unsure, after all, many Asian royals like this thing at this time, maybe Brandon is his favorite.

Shaking his head, Xiao Ming stopped thinking about it for the time being, whether Brandon was intentional or unintentional, this was normal, and the exchanges between countries were originally just smiling on the surface and stabbing knives in the back.

And because he understands the dangers of this black incense, he will not smoke it, but this matter provides him with a way to control Goryeo.

Perhaps he could use casinos and opium to control the officials of the Goryeo court, or even the king of Goryeo.

As far as he knew, the production areas of this black incense were basically in the Ryukyus and Southeast Asia, and the only way to obtain this kind of thing was from these places.

He now not only controlled Goryeo's maritime trade, but also cut off Goryeo's ability to obtain black incense from land.

As long as the important ministers of Goryeo are addicted, they must be obtained from the Dayu Kingdom, and some conditions will be easy to negotiate at that time.

Although this method is somewhat disgraceful, politics is often darker than this, and his methods are already mild compared to the mass murder, and this is only for those Goryeo officials who are not good at stubble in the first place.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming felt the need to expand the cultivation of black incense in the Ryukyus, after all, whether these things would be used as weapons to counter the West or as medicinal herbs in the future.

At the same time, he will issue a ban in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, explicitly prohibiting the people of the Great Chongqing Kingdom from getting involved in this thing.

With a plan in his heart, Xiao Ming picked up the fountain pen at hand, which was made by the craftsmen he had asked the instrument department not long ago.

Overall, this fountain pen already has the appearance of a modern fountain pen, the only drawback is that he has to use it with ink.

Without rubber, the craftsmen of the Instrument Division could not make straws, but even so, he was satisfied.

In recent years, as the number of writing things has increased, he has become more and more aware that the brush cannot meet his requirements when dealing with government affairs, and it has also affected him to turn the knowledge in his mind into books.

Now that he has a fountain pen, his work is much faster, and he plans to use it for a period of time to first promote pen writing in the government system, ending the history of brush characters ruling the Great Chongqing Kingdom, for him, this is also a point in the transformation of the Great Chongqing Kingdom to pragmatism.

Writing down the prohibition clauses, Xiao Ming put away his pen and got up.

Seeing this, Qian Dafu walked in, and he said, "Your Majesty, the carriage has been prepared, and the officials who came to Laiwu this time have also arrived, so it's time to go." ”

Xiao Ming nodded, he called a small eunuch and asked him to give the ban to Pang Yukun, ready to be implemented in the Great Yu Kingdom, and then walked out.

After the successful operation of the steam locomotive, the change was pushed to a climax, and the magical locomotive made the scholars of the Great Chongqing Kingdom realize that a drastic change was taking place.

And for those who have already participated in the change, this is even more of an encouragement, whether it is the glass workshop or the steam engine workshop craftsmen are enthusiastic.

Xiao Ming naturally couldn't sit down at this time, and it was not easy for a big Chongqing country that was a large part behind the West in science and technology to be brought to today by him.

But the success of the steam locomotive not only did not satisfy him, but also gave him a sense of urgency.

Although the feudal dynasties such as the Golden Horde, Goryeo, and Tubo were threats to the Great Chongqing State, these countries were still in a feudal society after all, and it was relatively easy to deal with them.

But it is not so easy to deal with the West, which has made a comprehensive leap in ideology and technology, and because of this, he does not dare to relax in the slightest.

This trip to Laiwu was for one of the most important resources of the Great Chongqing Kingdom - steel.

The construction of the Qingzhou Railway first stretched out two lines, the first of which was the route to the direction of Chang'an, on which were large open-pit coal mines.

These coal mines do not require complex mining techniques, and the coal seams on the surface are enough to support the first industrial revolution.

The second route is south to Laiwu, where the large iron mines are located.

After these two routes, the railway will be extended to other places.

On this trip to Laiwu, his main purpose was to inspect the steel mill here, and when the law change was announced, he was asked to establish a Laiwu steel mill there.

In the future, the steel of Dayu will mainly rely on Laiwu Iron and Steel Mill and Kaiping Iron and Steel Mill.

Outside the door, Xiao Ming saw a four-wheeled carriage parked at the door.

Different from the two-wheeled carriages of the Great Yu Kingdom, he specially asked the Equipment Division to produce this kind of four-wheeled carriage, and installed spring shock absorbers on the wheels.

This carriage was specially ordered to be produced by him, and it was also the first four-wheeled carriage in Dayu, and his purpose was very clear, that is, to let the people of Dayu be familiar with four-wheeled things.

At the same time, this is also to pave the way for the birth of automobiles, and a country that only understands two wheels will not have the idea of producing four-wheeled cars.

After getting into the carriage, Xiao Ming headed south under the protection of the guards, and after four days of traveling, he and the officials of the chief official's mine and workshop arrived in Laiwu.

Different from Qingzhou, on the way to Laiwu, Xiao Ming's eyes were full of poor people, and at this moment he suddenly felt that it would be a very difficult task to govern such a populous country like the West has always been rich, and for this, he needed to occupy more resources in the world.

Just thinking about it, his carriage gradually stopped, when Xiao Ming got down from the carriage and saw an iron ore being mined, and next to the iron ore was the Laiwu Iron and Steel Workshop.

"Your Majesty, this is the Laiwu Iron and Steel Workshop, and it is said that it will be able to be put into production soon." Qian Dafu said with a smile.

Qian Dafu used to be in charge of the mine, but now when he arrived at the mine, he suddenly had a long-lost sense of intimacy, and he talked more.

Xiao Ming was also in a good mood after seeing the hot mine, and he walked to the busy mine, ready to see how the steam engine was used in the mine.