López stood on the deck, his hands on the side of the ship, his eyes calmly looking at the distant glimmer of land. It was the location of the legendary headquarters of the Far Eastern Company, which controlled the entire Eastern Sea.

The Far East Company is a mysterious organization in the eyes of Europeans, and the eight-nation coalition of European countries once gathered hundreds of warships to try to challenge the hegemon of the Eastern Seas, but in the end they were defeated.

In this era, controlling the sea power of the East meant controlling the trade of the East, and the silks, porcelain and spices of the Orient, which were once highly profitable, were now in the hands of the Far Easterners.

With the loss of the sea power of the East, the profits of the Oriental goods such as silk, porcelain and spices also skyrocketed several times in the European market, but the profits of the merchants who operated these goods fell on the contrary. This shows how much profit the Far East makes from it.

Moreover, the Far Easterners did not stick to the traditional oriental goods, and successively developed a variety of sought-after goods, which are currently sold well in Europe. In particular, all kinds of high-end luxury goods have swept the entire European aristocratic circle.

In order to get a big dressing mirror, countless upper-class ladies will mobilize all their lovers, and they will do everything possible to get one. They will even go out of their way to seduce a filthy businessman and kneel and lick their ass.

López has no hope at all for the next negotiations with the top brass in the Far East. In the face of these greedy Orientals, even if an unsatisfactory agreement is reached, the kingdom will suffer heavy losses.

Thinking of this, his heart became irritable. took out a delicate cigarette case from his arms, then took out a cigarette, took out a lighter and lit it, and took a hard breath, the originally irritable mood suddenly calmed down a lot.

Tobacco is a plant that has survived on the earth for many years. It was first wild in Bolivia in South America. The people there found that the plant produced a fragrance when lit, so during religious ceremonies, it was smoked by the priest's clergy to express their devotion to the gods.

In fact, more than ten years after Columbus discovered America, the image of a European smoking a cigarette has appeared in a large number of navigators' journals, the sixteenth century. In Europe, tobacco was used as a medicine for toothache, parasitic diseases, bad breath, tetanus, and some Europeans even thought it could cure the Black Death.

Eton College in England made children smoke every morning to avoid cancer, and the medicinal habit of tobacco continued into the 20th century. But at this stage, the way people smoke is generally to roll the leaves of medicinal plants into cigarettes and light them, by inhaling the smoke emitted by the cigarettes.

The limitations of this way of smoking are destined to fail to spread on a large scale in society, especially among the upper aristocratic society. The frame is too low to form a fashion. Let the noble nobles pretend to be forced everywhere.

During the period of modern society, the Far Eastern Company purchased complete sets of cigarette-making equipment and a complete set of formulas for various high-imitation counterfeit cigarettes from counterfeit cigarette dealers in a certain place in the south.

Because of the huge number of smokers in the company, not long after the company came to this era, the Far East Cigarette Factory couldn't wait to start producing all kinds of filterless cigarettes, although the output was not large, but it was enough to meet the needs of the company's big smokers.

After the Ministry of Intelligence launched the "Sick Man of Europe" program. The company began to work with the Ministry of Commerce to develop a plan to export cigarettes to Europe. The Ministry of Commerce has come up with a publicity and promotion plan, proposing professional design and packaging of cigarettes. And then carry out all-round promotion in the European high society.

Far East Cigarette Factory combined with raw material resources, determined the target of new products, including product type, grade, quality level, tobacco flavor, tobacco specifications, packaging and decoration, and determined the raw materials, including tobacco types, spice types, etc., and developed and produced several series of high, medium and low-grade brands.

The new cigarettes include flue-cured tobacco and mixed cigarettes. As well as the three-grid varieties with mint, cream, cocoa, and rose aromas, the brands are also Huanghelou, Hongtashan, Zhonghua, Yuxi, Liqun, Furong Wang, Baisha, Zhongnanhai, Double Happiness and other well-known brands.

Through the joint promotion and publicity of the company's Ministry of Commerce and Intelligence and several French aristocrats, cigarettes from the East soon became popular in the upper class of Europe. Cigarette cases, lighters and cigarette holders have become luxury items that European aristocrats flaunt to each other.

At various gatherings in aristocratic circles, it has become a new fashion for everyone to sit around and smoke, which also makes the environment of various salons and gatherings full of black miasma. If any nobleman does not have a few cigarette sets that he can handle, he is embarrassed to greet people.

After cigarettes became popular in the circles of royalty and aristocracy, all kinds of rumors about cigarettes spread inexplicably in the streets and alleys of Europe, anyway, about the various benefits of cigarettes.

Far Eastern Company's cigarettes are based on tobacco, and add a variety of oriental precious plant essences, smoking cigarettes can not only cure diseases and fitness, but also refresh, aphrodisiac, delay aging and other advantages, and soon make everyone convinced.

As a result, a variety of mid-range and low-grade cigarettes began to appear in major European cities, and quickly occupied the low-end market in Europe, and it took only a few years to become popular throughout Europe.

In addition to the popularity of cigarettes in Europe, the Far Eastern Company soon began to implement the second plan, and various narcotics in the form of snuff, injections and drugs also appeared in the upper class of Europe.

Because the investment in these products is very small, the price is simply sky-high, so at present, even the European upper class is not affordable for ordinary people.

But in this way, it shows the nobility and luxury of goods even more, and many noble-born royalty and nobles are extremely addicted to these things until they can't extricate themselves, and call them treasures given by God.

Other aristocrats also spent huge sums of money to get some tastes, from curiosity to experimentation, which also made more people fall into it. But the Far East invests less in this type of commodity, so all kinds of narcotics are hard to find in Europe.

At present, cigarettes and various smoking utensils, as well as various narcotics that have been packaged, are the most profitable commodities exported to Europe by the Far East in the future.

Not only to Europe, but also to the Turkish kingdoms of the South Seas, the emirates and tribes of Arabia, the high society of the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Savio Empire, and the princely states of India, brought staggering profits to the Far Eastern companies every year. (To be continued.) )

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