"These two girls come quickly, but why are they still empty-handed?" Murakami's only old scholar sat in front of the stove, looked up, and smiled and waved his hand, "Go, go, go home to get a basin or bag."

The two girls reached out and slapped the wind hard, but they still coughed because of the smell of smoke.

"Uncle, what are you going to send?" Yingzi stopped coughing and asked.

The old scholar smiled and said, "It's the Chinese New Year, what do you say to send? Send noodles, pork, and eat dumplings!"

"How much do you send?" A Tao's eyes widened and shone.

The old scholar raised his hand and said, "Each family has five kilograms of noodles and ten kilograms of meat."

"Why aren't every family?" A Tao said mischievously with a smile on her face: "I have too many family members, so I won't send too many?"

"There are more than five people in the family, and each one is one more, add one pound." The old scholar stroked his beard and said, "Add two more pounds of meat."

Yingzi looked at A Tao and smiled, "If you count this way, the dumplings you made are enough to eat."

"Go home and get a basin!" A Tao pulled Yingzi and was about to walk out.

The old scholar hurriedly stopped him, sent a note to the two girls, made a record in the book, and said, "If you take the house, go directly to the back room to get the noodles and meat, you won't be choked in this room."

As he said that, the old scholar took out the cigarette pot and filled it with cigarettes. The two girls were so scared that they ran away as if they were running away.

It was not long, so Yingzi rushed back first. When he arrived at the back room, he saw Zhang Zhuzi slicing the meat, and then he carefully praised it with hemp rope to tie it.

"Here you." Zhang Zhuzi saw Yingzi, smiled and nodded, took the basin and weighed it, then put the noodles, pointed to the pork tied with hemp rope, and said, "Pick it yourself, you can't divide the fat and thinness, it's not bad."

Yingzi looked at it, picked a piece of fat and thin, and said with a smile: "It's only delicious to make dumplings with such meat, and it's all oily when you bite."

Zhang Zhuzi smiled and nodded, weighed the noodles and brought them to Yingzi.

Yingzi hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Zhang, it's very troublesome to chop noodles and meat by himself during the Chinese New Year. My father said that if you have time, you'll come to eat dumplings at home."

Zhang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, looked at Yingzi blinking his eyes, turned around and took a piece of meat, handed it to Yingzi, and said with a silly smile: "Then you take my meat first, and the noodles are there, I will send it when I have time."

Yingzi blinked and suddenly burst into laughter, saying happily: "Brother Zhang is a pig? We dare not eat your meat!"

Zhang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, and understood that what he said was ambiguous, so he couldn't help but scratch his head and smiled.

"I'll leave first." Yingzi stopped laughing, put down a piece of meat, and said, "Brother Zhang, you have time to send it together!"

Zhang Zhuzi nodded quickly and agreed to send Yingzi out of the house. When he arrived at the door, he remembered something again and said, "The supply and marketing cooperative in Lushunbao is open, and it sells a lot of goods."

Yingzi smiled and said, "I know this, I want to go and see it tomorrow!"

After pausing, the girl looked at Zhang Zhuzi and asked, "Brother Zhang has time tomorrow. It's more than ten miles away, so it's safe to walk with her companion."

Zhang Zhuzi nodded vigorously and said, "I'll go too, and I'll get the disability retirement fee tomorrow!"

Yingzi smiled and turned around and left the house.

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The smoke in the house was curling, and the pan approached the window and opened a crack. Although it was a little cold, I still thought it was better.

Kong Youde smoked tobacco with great pleasure, very satisfied and said with emotion: "I didn't expect that the court could even deliver this. This New Year is so comfortable!"

As he said that, he looked up at Zhang Pan and smiled and said, "This is a good thing. It refreshes and keeps warm, and can you forget your worries!"

China's tobacco history can be traced back to the third year of Wanli, and tobacco was introduced from Luzon to coastal areas such as Fujian.

At first, people in the Ming Dynasty called it "Danbaigui" according to the transliteration. Later, they called it tobacco and alcohol. Because smoking would feel like it was floating in the air, it was like drinking, so it was also called "dry wine".

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, tobacco was planted on a large scale, and smoking began to become popular in the army. Because the climate in the south was humid, smoking could remove moisture, and there were especially many soldiers in the south.

Later, after the habit of smoking was spread to the Northeast, a new function of "resisting the cold" was developed.

There are also reasons why tobacco is popular in the army. Because, for soldiers who are often in labor, exhausted and stressed, smoking can help relieve pain, relax and refresh the mind.

Under the pressure of tension and fear of war, soldiers need to use smoking to relax and comfort themselves, a phenomenon that continues until World War I and World War II.

Especially during World War II, many countries' armies listed tobacco as official military supplies. Some soldiers even said that it doesn't matter if they eat badly, and if they don't smoke, they can't even fight.

There were also such things in the history of the late Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen issued a ban on smoking, but Hong Chengchou, the Minister of War who fought hard with the Later Jin Dynasty in Liaodong at that time, reported that "the soldiers of Liaodong were fond of this," resulting in the ban on smoking being exhausted.

The reason why Chongzhen wanted to ban smoking was not because he realized that smoking was harmful to health. It was because the increase in the area of ​​private tobacco planting affected the cultivation of grain and the country's fiscal revenue.

Zhu Youxiao has his own analysis and judgment on this. Compared with the casualties of the cruel war and the famine that has lasted for decades, the damage to the health of tobacco to the people and the reduction of lifespan can be ignored.

Therefore, after deforestation and destruction of the environment and killing whales to destroy the ecology, he was preparing to do something to curse - tobacco monopoly.

Since it is difficult to ban it, why not let the country control it, become a source of wealth, and do other causes that benefit the country and the people?

For example, continue to reduce agricultural taxes to make the burden on farmers who dig food in the soil lighter; for example, increase investment in the army and build a world-leading and powerful force.

Of course, the emperor decided to warn the cigarettes produced in the future: "Smoking is harmful to health, and minors are not allowed to smoke."

Although this did not reduce the torture at all for Zhang Pan and others who had to endure second-hand smoke.

Regarding Kong Youde's praise, Zhang Pan smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "I can't bear it, Brother Kong is just casual."

Kong Youde smiled and took a few more sips before knocking off the ashes. He became serious, "If the Donglu wants to launch it, it will be around the New Year. We don't have to worry too much, just because we don't come and give the heads. If it is the headquarters of Dongjiang or western Liaoning, we have to be prepared to attack and restrain."

Zhang Pan nodded and said, "It's mainly field battles. We must be fully prepared. The construction of the van must continue."

"Weather should also be considered." Kong Youde added: "Wind and snowy will have a great impact on the musket."

Zhang Pan said with a slight look in his jaw and said, "There will always be unfavorable weather, and the enemy will also take advantage of this. Melee combat is inevitable, and soldiers cannot develop the habit of not being able to fight without muskets."

Kong Youde smiled and said, "The right-level melee combat is reasonable, and this is the one who focuses on training."

"Brother Kong likes cavalry more?" Zhang Pan said with a smile: "The training is also in order. If you have time, please help me train the Zuo Xie team."

Kong Youde waved his hand and said humbly: "You don't have to be so polite in your own affairs." As he said that, he stood up and said: "Today we will show our faces and give the salary supervisor a favor."

Zhang Pan smiled and said while wearing it: "I used to have money but I didn't have a place to spend it, but this time I have a place to spend it."

"Apart from wine, I bought tobacco." Kong Youde shook the small pipe in his hand and smiled: "This little thing is also exquisitely made, and it is worth buying for a penny."

Zhang Pan smiled and shook his head, walked out of the house with Kong Youde, and took his personal soldiers away.
Chapter completed!