It is not possible for a country to have internal circulation.

You must communicate with the outside world before the vitality of the entire economy will arise.

Just like this time, we know that so many viruses are ready to move outside, but why should we open up to a limited extent, including various imports and exports, which are vigorously promoted?

Isn’t it because we cannot exist from this world and we must communicate with each other, so that we can not stay in seclusion and repeat the painful lessons of our Qing Dynasty.

It's sad to say.

The same thing was closed to the country, but Japan, opposite the door, embarked on a completely different path, and even rode on my head.

What exactly is the reason and why there are two different results. There has been debate in later generations, but there is no conclusion.

However, Liu Mingqi is very relieved now. In order to prevent the Japanese pirates from harming us for thousands of years, it is better to let all the people on that island die early.

But this is also difficult.

The Dakang court certainly did not allow this kind of massacre. They only regretted that they did not have a mobile phone or the Internet. Otherwise, they would choose a few videos and some photos for them to see, and I believe they would definitely improve.

Even if there are some left in the end, they can only be used as slaves and workers.

Hey.

To put it this way, it is quite good to use them as contract workers.

Well, my thoughts can no longer spread.

Come back and come.

Whether sweet potatoes can have a bumper harvest this year is no longer a puzzle.

According to observations and reports every now and then, this year's increase in production compared to last year is certain.

It depends on the amount.

The mystery will be revealed next month, just a few days after Liu Mingqi left the clan mansion.

Compared to the sweet potato, which has become a foregone conclusion, Liu Mingqi is more concerned about another product.

Ace products.

cigarette.

Basically everyone knows how charming the cigarette is.

There are not only male smokers, but also female smokers. Especially after 2010, the Internet era came, and many women were fashionable with cigarettes and thought it was very cool. In fact, just like the women who rushed into the Deba and danced wildly a few years ago, they were not allowed to go to the table.

However, they can't get on the table, so they have nothing to do with Liu Mingqi.

He wants to make cigarettes in this life, and even the gods can't stop him.

Just as Taizong told the people below, even if you publish ban on smoking, you can’t help but don’t worry about this matter, otherwise you will give me so much military expenditure?

The tax on cigarettes is much higher than that of salt.

The profit is also much higher.

However, Liu Mingqi is not that pedantic. He must satisfy his interests at the first time before he considers letting the court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs join in the future.

It’s not that he is stupid, he gives up such a huge amount of wealth to others.

But you all know that this is a huge wealth, who are you?

Just a prince, the next generation will be the prince, and at most it can be kept as the duke in the future.

When the Duke's generation was a generation, its relationship with the royal family became much weaker. When you see such a huge wealth, can those ministers resist it? Can the emperor resist it?

Instead of finally breaking up and getting nothing, it is better to wait a decade or two before letting them join in directly.

So this relationship will always be there.

In the end, even if 10% or even 5% of the shares were left in it, it would be too late for Liu Mingqi's descendants to finish them.

Of course, in addition to profits, taxes are also an important part.

Liu Mingqi makes cigarettes, definitely not just for the sake of increasing her wealth.

The first is to be able to sell it abroad and bring back gold, silver, or various precious materials.

The other is to increase the taxes of Dakang.

The same sentence.

He is a clan of Dakang's royal family.

Only when Dakang is better can his descendants be better.

A person who has no power and only wealth is a chicken. The difference is whether you are fat or not, and whether it is useful to others?

Don’t underestimate this tax. Why does the country have the courage to cancel the monopoly of alcohol and salt in the future? Isn’t it because tobacco is being held?

Therefore, according to what Liu Mingqi thought, as long as it is promoted for five years, the cigarette tax can exceed 30 million taels of silver.

If the tax on exporting overseas is also added, it will be easy to exceed 50 million taels of silver.

What is the concept of taxes that Dakang can increase by 50 million taels of silver a year?

It directly increased by 20%!

A single tax can increase by 20%, which is not even a salt tax!

With this money, Dakang's recovery speed is faster, and he naturally has more confidence in the construction of various border defenses and naval forces.

Once you have sufficient military strength as support, Dakang's business will be more smooth.

Isn't there a saying?

Truth is only within the range of the cannon.

The same is true for peace.

Liu Mingqi’s tobacco is grown in Yibin, Sichuan.

This year, the Nanzhao troops were divided into three groups, one of which was attacking Yibin.

Fortunately, Sichuan Governor Zhang Zizhe was very powerful and defeated them from the beginning, and Yibin was not affected by the military disaster.

In addition, Sichuan has good weather this year, so the tobacco cultivation effect is very good.

Liu Mingqi was entrusted to the landlords there to plant it in Yibin, with an area of ​​about twenty acres.

Tobacco is actually very easy to grow, and there are no too much troublesome procedures and harsh growth conditions.

Just as I said before.

Anyone with harsh growth conditions and difficult growth will almost be eliminated by nature and humans.

Those who survive are basically those who are striving to evolve.

Yibin is the most suitable place for growing tobacco. In addition, Liu Mingqi is very polite to the group of landlords, so they took out the best land and sent the most skilled old farmers to take care of them, so the harvest this year went very smoothly.

Tobacco is picked according to the location. If it is finely picked, it will be carried out three times in total, from June to September.

Different tobacco leaves picked in these three times will make cigarettes of different quality.

This is also the origin of high-end, mid-range and low-end cigarettes.

However, in this era, there are not so many considerations. What Liu Mingqi pays first is production.

It’s not too late to wait until the output is all increased.

Through three pickings, the yield of tobacco leaves per mu was about 400 kilograms. This was considered medium-level in Yibin in later generations, but it was already the result of refined production here.

If it is a large-scale planting, it is not impossible to reduce the yield to 300 kilograms.

After baking 100 kilograms of tobacco leaves into tobacco leaves, only ten kilograms of finished products can be obtained.

Basically, the conversion ratio is ten to one.

Therefore, based on the current finished product of 30 kilograms per acre of land, at least 100,000 acres must be attained to the level of 300,000 kilograms of dry tobacco leaves transported by the king of Sulu last year.

But tobacco leaves are not rice, they must be grown on flat ground or terraced fields. They can be planted on the mountains.

In addition, there are many flat land in Yibin, not to mention 100,000 mu, even one million mu is not a problem.

The only thing that is a little troublesome is that planting too many tobacco leaves will inevitably squeeze the space for rice grains, and the surrounding rice prices will rise again.

Of course, it is not the time to consider these things.

For 4,000 kilograms of tobacco leaves harvested from ten acres, when tobacco seeds are planted next year, they can only cultivate between 1,000 and 2,000 acres at most.

If you want to form a scale of one million acres, you have to wait three years later.

In other words, in recent years, a large amount of tobacco leaves are still needed to be imported from Sulu.

The territory of Sulu Kingdom is very large, but they themselves do not grow many tobacco leaves. After all, cigarettes made of tobacco leaves can only be refreshed and cannot be eaten as food.

But because Sulu is in Southeast Asia, their resources are rich in fruits, sago, animals, fish, etc., and there is no need to cultivate them at all, and they can eat enough to fill their stomachs.

So once this wealth effect occurs, if Sulu Kingdom wants to expand the scale of tobacco leaf planting, their doubled yield will be much more than Dakang.

In fact, since the first batch of 300,000 kilograms of dry tobacco were successfully sold to Dakang last year, the king of Sulu began to focus on expanding production and planting tobacco.

It is also convenient for them to plant. If there is no suitable land, set fire to a forest and tens of thousands of acres of land will come out, which is very convenient.
To be continued...